A North Carolina middle school teacher said that a comment on a student’s paper was just his way of relating to his students.
On the homework assignment, he wrote, “-20% for being a LOSER.” KSFY-TV reports that the comment was made twice, and even after the student’s mother complained to the school that the teacher was “bullying” her daughter.
Some parents …

You’ve probably heard by now that a commercial scheduled to air during CBS’s coverage of the Super Bowl is coming under fire. In that ad, paid for by Focus on the Family, Florida Quarterback Tim Tebow appears with his mother in a “pro-life” message.
When Tebow’s mother was pregnant with her now-famous son, she developed a life-threatening infection and doctors …

The other day, I mentioned the asinine comments made by my state’s lieutenant governor, remarks that compared providing free and reduced lunches to underprivileged children to feeding stray animals.
The remarks made by Andre Bauer, predictably, have caused a political firestorm here in South Carolina, where our current governor’s affair with a woman in Argentina should have been more than enough …

There’s a major update to the sketchy details of a crucification crisis in a Massachusetts school.
The story began when the father of an eight-year-old special needs student approached local media claiming that his son was sent home from school and ordered to undergo psychological testing over his answer to a simple question: “What did you do over Thanksgiving break?” …

I guess missing the so-called “good old days” is just a part of getting older. Nothing you can do about it.
But for some reason, this year more than others, Christmastime doesn’t really feel like Christmastime. Maybe it’s the bad economy that we keep hearing is slowly starting to improve. Maybe it’s my having realized, later than I …

As TV Land left me with absolutely nothing worth watching, choosing to fill their weekend schedule with marathons of Roseanne, Married…With Children, Third Rock From the Sun and The Beverly Hillbillies; and since TruTV decided to leave me stuck with a reality show about some biker bar fighting to stay afloat from a wrecked economy, I found myself spending a …

On Monday afternoon, a North Charleston mother learned a lesson that too many parents have had to learn the hard way: that tragedy can occur in just seconds.
A 26-year-old mom pulled into the parking lot of a North Charleston Post Office at about 5:00pm with her one-month-old infant secured in his car seat. She parked near the door, …

This is probably the kind of news every parent would love to hear as the Christmas shopping season is about to officially kick off.
A new video game for the Xbox features a secret scene in which two characters have sex. To make it even more of a potential concern, both characters are male.

Just days before it celebrates its 40th birthday, Sesame Street has angered some of its obviously-conservative viewers with a sketch that parodies cable news.
In the sketch, Oscar the Grouch is trying to cover a story for “GNN,” his “Grouchy News Network.”  After his interview, an angry viewer calls to complain and pulls the classic (and badly-thought-out) Angry Viewer Strategy™: telling …

If you’ve browsed over at Google over the past few days, you’ve seen that the search engine’s giant is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street (on November 10th) by featuring characters from the Emmy Award-winning show in its logo.
There’s something disturbing about the thought of Sesame Street hitting its 40th birthday.  That’s probably because that the show made its …

One of the things I’ve learned through having a blog for more than five years is that there are certain things I’m always going to get a lot of reaction about. One of those things is the subject of parenting. People who are parents sometimes get upset when I suggest examples of parenting that I find questionable, and …

If you ever find yourself alone in the privacy of your own home, be advised: walking around naked could still get you in trouble.
Just ask a 29-year-old man in Springfield, Virginia, whose roommates were not at home when he decided to walk in to his kitchen in the buff to brew some morning java, and who now faces an indecent …

A 17-year-old Mississippi senior is fighting her school and its district leaders over her yearbook photo.
She wants to toss tradition to the wind and wear a tuxedo instead of a gown-like drape. Because she’s a lesbian and makes no bones about her sexual orientation.
Mississippi’s American Civil Liberties Union has gotten involved, and has issued a letter of demand to …

So we all know that a certain character named Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and had a great fall. Those of us who are no longer of nursery rhyme age know that this did not bode well for Humpty Dumpty.
All of the king’s horses and all of the king’s men certainly gave him their all, but in the …

Facebook is a nice way to stay connected and communicate with friends, acquaintances and co-workers.  If you’re of school age, it’s a nice way to stay connected with classmates, which is how the whole thing began.
If you’ve got kids on it, you might want to spy over their shoulder to see what kind of game applications they’re playing.  It used …

“Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.”
—President Barack Obama
The text of Barack Obama’s planned speech to the nation’s school children, in which he tells them that he has “something …

Conservative parents’ opposition to President Obama’s plan to address the nation’s school children leave two critical unanswered questions.

President Obama’s plan to address the nation’s school children is drawing ire from parents, most of whom are convinced that the speech will be hardcore propaganda about the health care debate.
Clearly, these are parents who don’t want their own propaganda challenged in their own home.
Parents are appalled by Obama’s plan.  They seem to have developed selective amnesia, allowing themselves to …