Best Friends at the YMCA Spash pool. Gwendolyn and Miriam.

Grocery Store Wars

I should search out as many parodies as I can . . .but that's too much like work. Instead I'll just link them as I find them.

The following piece is brought to you by the Organic Trade Association

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Long, but funny

"Sexy" Cheerleading bill won't see the light

A while back I introduced you to HB-146. A bill that passed the Texas House to limit sexy moves in public schools. It came down to a "We'll know it when we see it and then we'll stop it" kind of thing.

The Senate has a little more sense I guess.

"We have some very important work to do in the next two weeks, and that's
not one of them," Republican state Sen. Florence Shapiro, who chairs the education committee, said Friday.

The fact is that parents can put a stop to bad behavior in a number of ways. But you'll have to spend time with your child and attend a rehearsal or two

1. Tell the sponsor you don't like the move.
2. Tell the other parents that you think the moves are inappropriate for your child's age.
   You may become unpopular with tea parents that don't care or don't want to stifle their child's creativity.
3. Tell your child they are not allowed to be part of the group.
   They may hate you again.

Being a parent that cares is not easy. I've got four daughters, ages 18, 16, five, and two. And there are lots of days when it would be so much easier to give in and let bad behavior go.

I want my children to be better people than me. So I make hard choices hoping they will learn from them.