Letters to the Editor
I'd rather not say
Published Letters: 150 Editor's Choice: 22
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Even kids find it dull
[Read the article: Is parenthood boring?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My 14-year-old son just spent some time babysitting his 3 year-old cousin during the afternoons. His job was to play with and watch him, no TV or videos. My son enjoys his cousin, who speaks well and is generally well-behaved and pleasant, but after the third time my son said, "It's pretty boring playing with him all afternoon." I told him, "Welcome to parenting."
I can remember when this same son was a few months old, I would sit on the floor with him and "play" etc. Then I would look at my watch, and wonder how only 5 minutes had elapsed. How on earth was I going to fill a whole day?
I love my three kids, and when they were small I spent plenty of time playing blocks, cars, animals, etc. I happen to enjoy Nintendo, so that is a shared interest, and I think I like amusement parks even more than they do. And I always read bedtime stories (still do).
But as they grow, they need to develop the skill of amusing themselves. Go outside, read a book, draw, blah, blah, blah. Mom is not the entertainment committee. We enjoy each others' company and share a lot of laughs (I'm a Spongebob and Strongbad fan), but I am their mother, not their pal, and if they can't amuse themselves by the ages of 10, 12 and 14, well then there's a bathroom that needs cleaning, dishes in the sink....the old "I'll find you something to do." That takes care of them.
I love being their mother, I love watching them grow, and I try hard to lead them toward independence and self reliance. And when they are out on their own, I will try my best to hold myself to that same standard, having a life of my own and not looking to my children to "play" with me all the time, either.
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Are you sure this article isn't a joke?
[Read the article: How to marry a Forbes man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe online it is missing some context that would clearly mark it as humor? Because if this is serious, I can't imagine how it got past an editor. The author actually calls women "career girls."
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NO
[Read the article: When life gives you lemons ... empower women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, weddings are not fundraisers. They are to celebrate the marriage of the couple. If the guests want to bring gifts, wonderful. It is not acceptable to shake them down for cash, even for the most worthy cause in the world, although I do believe the jilted bride was trying to do a good thing.
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More macaca
[Read the article: Race to the bottom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems Allen is just like Stephen Colbert -- he doesn't see color! Plus, he's already held the campaign rally in which he showed that some of his best friends are "ethnic."
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Damned if she does....
[Read the article: Matthews on Hillary: Good point, then a weird point]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Political wives have been standing behind their man on stage looking like Stepford wives since forever. Now that Hillary is the candidate, people are finding it strange that the man has to look as useless as the wives always have. I know it's Bill Clinton, but still. Hillary's problem is that she really gets to people's reluctance and even fear of having a woman compete equally. She freaks them out no matter what she does.
If she runs for president I am looking forward to learning Bill's chocolate chip cookie recipe.
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Fox math
[Read the article: Fox: Just "a standard election"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I checked in on Fox from time to time throughout last night. My favorite thing was that when CNN and MSNBC were projecting that the Democrats would pick up 23 seats, Fox was projecting 9. This was at a point late enough in the evening that everyone had concluded that the Dems would take the house.
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Drapes
[Read the article: Curtains for Pelosi?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think Bush necessarily meant to be sexist with the drapes comment. In the last week or so out campaigning in the places that would still have him, he frequently referred to the Dems as prematurely celebrating in the endzone and measuring for drapes for their new offices. Keith Olbermann put together a bunch of clips of Bush saying it over and over (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiXTDepZarI&mode=related&search=). So really, today's reference was more of a self-deprecating joke on Bush, since it turns out they will be measuring for new drapes. Watch the Olbermann clip -- it's funny.
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is this on purpose?
[Read the article: What else we're reading]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I clicked over to the NYT anorexia article and the banner ad on top was for Lane Bryant, the women's plus-size store.
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Ugh
[Read the article: The Bush plan gets some love -- and you can guess from whom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a weenie.
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no problem
[Read the article: Penalty Boxer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since she included herself in the statement, I think Boxer was just pointing out that all these warmongers have no one to lose in actual battle. Not Cheney, not Rumsfeld, not Bush, not Rice, not most of Congress, not any of these decision makers who so blithely started this huge sucking quagmire.
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Ruff!
[Read the article: They should look in the grocery bag under Judy Miller's desk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps their dog ate the DVD.
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Jaworski for Theismann: Good trade AMEN!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here I had blamed my hatred of the ESPN team all on Paul "Suck-up-to-Joe" Maguire ("I'ma tell ya what"). I was so happy when he got dumped. Then I tune in last year and realize that no, it was all of them, and that Theismann was tolerable only in comparison to Maguire. His voice is just so grating, and they never shut up. Another season with my finger on the mute button.
So bring on Jaws! Can't possibly be worse. Beszides, he's an E-A-G-L-E Eagle! And when they are reheasing in the off season, I hope they make them practice allowing more than 3 seconds of silence to go by while we all actually watch the game.
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#2
[Read the article: I'm a small-town girl dreaming of the big-city lights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you think you feel bad now, wait til you have some kids and your husband is still in his same job and you REALLY can't leave. Alone beats trapped any day.
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Also...
[Read the article: I'm a small-town girl dreaming of the big-city lights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]how do you think he would feel if he knew you "settled" for him. I'd consider it an insult. Free him to find someone who wants him for who he really is, not who you'd (unrealistically) like him to become.
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Optimist
[Read the article: Something to believe in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe Salon did write about/interview Collins:
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/07/collins/index.html
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Ugh
[Read the article: "That was, in essence, sort of, a talking point"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Only 2 ways to view this: either he is grossly incompetent and uninvolved in his job, or he is a huge liar (and a grossly incompetent liar at that!).