1140075733

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United States • Age 74

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Do you use your real name on MyLot?

legbamel @legbamel (179) • United States 27 May 07

I use the same nickname everywhere I write on-line. To me, it means that I can be completely honest about my feelings and opinions without worrying about someone I know accidentally finding it and getting angry or hurt. I like to...

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1140075733 On my blogs I use both a screen name and my first name, interchangeably, but should have stuck with one, like developing a brand. I have used my first name in them, so cannot discuss certain subjects, such as a child we took in, because of their need for...

27 May 07

How much authority do you give your parents over your life?

bindishah @bindishah (2062) • India 25 May 07

In India, parents make a lot of decisions for their children - like who they will marry, where they will work, etc. But the trend has changed in recent years with children making more of their own decisions. But parents do...

parentschildrenrelationshipslife

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1140075733 I did not feel it is an obligation to listen to my parents once I became an adult. I judged their advice as I would the advice of anyone else, if I felt it had merit I adopted it, if not, I didn't. Our son is well into adulthood, I do not expect him to follow...

25 May 07

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Does/Did your child(ren) suck their thumb? How did they stop?

babygurl850406 @babygurl850406 (1322) • United States 24 May 07

My daughter will be 3 years in July she is a thumbsucker. She will suck her thumb if she gets hurt, when she is tired. But I am worried about letting her suck her thumb very much longer. I know she does it for comfort reasons, her...

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1140075733 I sucked my thumb well into childhood, as did our son. As we grew we booth sucked our thumbs less and less unless we were sick or extremely tired or upset. I never dreamed of trying to make him stop. It is soothing, it is a way of self-soothing and we all need...

25 May 07

Study Says More and More Couples Sleeping in Seperate Beds

Jshean20 @Jshean20 (14349) • Canada 24 May 07

Recently on the news I've heard that studies have shown that more and more couples are choosing to sleep in seperate beds. I have to admit that quite often my boyfriend and I don't sleep together, we fall asleep at different times...

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1140075733 I think sleeping separately for the right reasons would help rather than harm a relationship. The only way I could see it harming would be if one person saw it as being neglected or unloved, but, even then, that is another problem entirely and hurt at...

24 May 07

in life, the only one can pay most of attention to you is yourself .

sallyxu126 @sallyxu126 (1184) • China 24 May 07

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. so you should pay more attention to yourself and take good care of yourself. as no one can treat you better than yourself, even your mother, she might love you...

in life

the only one can pay most of attention to you is y

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1140075733 I agree we know ourselves better than anyone else knows us, but sometimes others can recognize needs we have that we either refuse to recognize or just have not yet identified. So, yes - and - no.

24 May 07

I don't know how much longer I can handle this bipolar issue.

nelly5 @nelly5 (1424) • United States 9 May 07

Okay, so I come home from the grocery store, after working in a hot and sweaty factory today..I am tired and just feeling exhausted. I walk into my youngest (who is 8) saying that his brother (who is 12) had grabbed him by the...

parenting

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1140075733 We raised a relative's child from the age of 5 1/2 to 10 1/2. Support groups were few and far between, we both worked full time and we had a teenage son. The child had full blown ODD. Therapists did not really help in that case, the psychiatrists seem to just...

24 May 07

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Do you think having a rough life entitles you to get away with things?

breepeace @breepeace (3014) • Canada 23 May 07

Let's just go to an extreme and say you were abandoned as a child, beaten up, sodomized several times, in and out of bad foster homes, were eventually thrown out when you came of age, forced to live on the streets due to lack of...

criminals

hard knocks

hard life

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1140075733 There is no justification for being criminal, it is a choice made.

24 May 07

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A test to get your learners permit????

TriciaW @TriciaW (2441) • United States 24 May 07

I am shocked that now to get a learners permit a youth has to take the written test. I asked the gentleman I spoke to if it was like the ones we take to get our license and he said it is the same one. Now I am all for them...

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1140075733 I took my written test in 1970 for my learners permit. I am surprised any state would ever allow someone to drive without learning the rules first. Your daughter is taking drivers ed and you are pointing out things to her, but there are many others who do not...

24 May 07

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Do you prefer a own house or a Rented House ?

senthil2k @senthil2k (1500) • India 23 May 07

Hello, House is the basic need for everyone. And everyone of us like their house to be most peaceful and enjoyable place. Now the question is , you prefer to OWN a house or RENT a house ? The question is simple, but there are...

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1140075733 I prefer to own, primarily so I can change the locks, and then make the inside work for us.

24 May 07

DO you agree with this?......

lynpreety @lynboobsy11 (11343) • Philippines 21 May 07

Money is the source of more argument than any other topic in a family.That the most fight of a couple is because of money. Or I just say most common mis-understanding of a husband and wife is because they are lack of money,or the...

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1140075733 Money arguments are prevalent because they are many times just a smoke screen for other issues: control (power), insecurity, or fear. If those issues are not solved, money will always be a problem. One way around some actual money issues is to set aside a...

24 May 07

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How do you write the beginning

aboutpaula @aboutpaula (85) 20 May 07

OK, I think I have some good ideas for stories and try my hardest to write as much as possible in them but I get so far and start to re-read the beginning only to find out that it is extremely rubbish. Now, the actual idea is...

beginnings

novel

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1140075733 I have read some authors do not do their opening scene until the very end, whether they "started" with one or not. One reason that works is that many writers need to warm up their brain and or give their muse a moment to kick in. So, they use their draft...

24 May 07