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Kids like (and are are like) wild animals  Reasons to Agree : 2 Animals are cool . Seeing wild animals connects people to millions of years of hunting: which has historically included risk and adrenalin. It seems almost natural to start chasing wild animals.  Seeing wild animals connects kids to another world, and so it is eye-opening, which can be fun and interesting.. Videos that agree : James and Geese on the Payette Lake Images that agree Big Horn Sheep, Rocky Mountain National Park, 2014 Phil looking at an Elk in Estes Park, 2014 A bare we saw in Estes Park, 2014. Megan kept saying all the guys were trying to get closer, but the women were protecting the kids. Big Horn Sheep, Rocky Mountain National Park, 2014   This is a photo of a mother "merganser" with its baby riding on its back. My kids and I watched it on the Payette Lake which is in Northern Idaho (2012). A photo of a Stellar's jay, on the railing of my cousin's cab...

Best Videos that agree : + Best reasons to agree : + Kids come into this world knowing nothing. Without knowing any rules, just hearing other people speak, they are able to learn perhaps one of the most complex things they will ever do, in only a few years... Watching kids learn to speak, can remind you of your kids when they were doing that.  Just because you understand how mankind was able to learn how to speak, doesn't mean that it is less amazing, interesting, or that you should appreciate the miracle of life, and knowledge, and the ability to communicate less.  in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court Mark Twain spoke of the "darling mispronunciations of childhood". Best reasons to disagree : - Animals don't have really complex words, but they are able to make noises, and have the begining of languages... Give them a few million years, and this could develop in non-spectacular ways, if you watched the slow progress.   ...

Best Videos that agree : +2   Best reasons to agree : + Kids eat things they should not eat.  Kids lick bird poop off sliding glass windows.  When you find brown stuff in their bed, and say it looks like poop, they just might tell you, "Don't worry, it doesn't taste like poop." When you ask why they tested it, they might say, "don't worry I didn't eat it, I just put my teeth on it". PS: it was, against all assurances, poop. We told her she needs to wash her hands, because she might get sick, she tells us, "I'm already sick" (she had a runny nose). Kids eat dirt. Kids eat rolly pollies (not ours, yet) Kids eat things that shouldn't be eaten, but won't eat anything you try to feed them.  It is funny seeing a little brain that has not yet learned that it is impolite to suck your toes in public... Score: # of reasons to agree: +3 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with re...

Best reasons to agree : +4 Kids remind you what it was like when you were a kid. Kids connect you to the future. Kids get to know what you are really like Kids give you excuses to do stupid stuff. If you didn't have kids, it might be hard to: go sledding.  go swimming. Its hard to play Marco Polo as an adult. Best reasons to disagree : -4  Throw up, crying, and whining are not fun When you go to the museums with kids, you can't take your time, because they have short attention spans.  It is hard to go back-packing in Europe with kids. It is hard to try new food with kids. All they eat is McDonald's.  Score: # of reasons to agree: +4 # of reasons to disagree: -4 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +2 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +4-4+2/2=1 Videos that agree: Beliefs that support this post: You should back-up family videos to YouTube...

Background  Megan took James to his yearly doctors appointment. James was cute, and asked many time: "what are you doing to me". He didn't try to stop the nurse when she gave him the nasal inhaler flu shot. James is tall and growing fast (+1, unresolved) Best reasons to agree : +3 He is in the 95.72 percentile. This means of 100 kids, 4.28 of them would be taller.  He gained 7 lbs, and 3" this year.  We could say that we are using the McDonald's systems of measurement: small, medium, and large. Using these categories we could sort of "grade on a curve" and decide 33% of people are small, 33% of people are average, and 33% of people are tall. James, at 95.72 percentile, would be in the "tall" category as long as the sample population is limited to people born in O4.  James has doubled his size in just a few years. The universe will take billions of years to double its size. Therefore, James is growing fast.  ...

Poems that agree: + An Easy-Going Weekend  by Gerald Locklin With my wife and daughter away at My daughter's college for four days, It has been a bachelor's weekend For my fifteen-year old son and me. We get along easily because we Like a number of the Same few basic things: eating, Reading, writing, music. his social Life is different from my current One: he visits with his friends, Girls and boys, while I swim at The YMCA pool. Then he watched Videos—a compromise between The ones that he picks out— Empire Records, Strange Brew— And the ones I think he ought to Be exposed to—Citizen Kane, La Strada, Dr. Strangelove. He Plays his amplified guitar; I switch A game on when the Yankees are At bat. I give him In Our Time To read; finish up a Flann O'Brien for my class. We both Like Italian one day, Mexican the Next. He feeds the cats and does The dishes for his mother. At night, he works late on A story at the MAC...

Reasons to disagree: Kids can have more unsupervised play in back yards than a city park.  Reasons to disagree: The fact that kids have fun in their back yards does not negate the criticisms of suburban sprawl. The question is if back yards have features that can not be obtained in a city park. Sure kids can have more unsupervised time in a back yard, but they get to meet more people at a suburban park. Everything has trade offs, and you can raise good kids in most environment.  Images that agree : Videos that agree :

Images that agree : On a hike in mountains of Idaho (above McCall, off Lick Crick Road) my son found a flower that had 1 stem but 2 different types of flowers stuck together. Reasons to agree : Laub is German for leaves or foliage . I'm not exactly sure how that ended up being our last name, but plants have to be pretty dang interesting to name yourselves after them. Websites that agree:: Laub Life: Parsley

Images that agree : Ali watching fire works with Cousins in McCall, Idaho. 2012.  It seems that we watch fire works at the Bolingbrook end of summer fire work show each year. But the best fire works are on the beach of the Payette Lake in Idaho. They bring a barge to the middle of the lake, and freak out the local wildlife. You can hear the explosions from the fireworks bounce off the mountains. They usually have a great show. Fire works are hard to capture on Camera, so sorry it is sort of a lame post...

Photos that agree: The bubble is a photo I took of my wife when we were trying to have kids, but couldn't. We bought an outfit for a cousin, for their baby, and I came in on her when she was holding it like a baby, and a little bit of a tear in her eye.