If you are here to read a post by Venice this Monday, I'm sorry to report that she's been replaced by a guest blogger this week: her daughter. She and I set forth to David's Bridal this weekend to try on my very first (and second, and tenth) wedding dress. There were laughs, lots of children running around, and of course the obligatory bad photos.
All in all, a success, except now she doesn't have time to write this. So here's my tale of satin and lace.
I didn't need to read this letter on Planetfeedback to understand that giving your kid a cell phone is risky business. I know first hand how hard it is to get your child to follow the rules and live within the limits set by the bill-paying parents once that phone is in their hands. And as we also see from some of the letters, even an otherwise responsible kid can have trouble with self-control when access to a cell phone is so easy and temptation just a ring tone away.
It's not only a problem with teenagers either. Some adult children seem to have no qualm about feeding off a parent's cell phone account. And when something goes wrong, some parents have the audacity to blame the company for not being on top of things.
As astonishing as that is, I don't think anything can beat this.
There is one thing Sarah Palin and I agree on.
It's that you had best not mess with Mama Bear's cub. Bad things happen when you do. We all know that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but having been a woman scorned and being a Mama Bear, I know that da bear part of my psyche is truly a relentless killing machine.
I read with absolute horror about the story of Virginia Graeme Baker, who basically had her intestines sucked out of her body because of a pool with a faulty drain cover. I can't imagine the sheer terror and panic of that mother trying to pry her baby girl up off the pool floor, having to fight against hundreds pounds of force. And then lifting up a dead child and viewing the severity of her injuries. What about the panic and pain of the child who in her last moments of life struggled to free herself in vain.
So I took a deep breath when I spotted thisletter on PlanetFeedback about a missing child at the Kalahari Resort water park.
