CaptainTux

Do not fly Southwest. You are too crammed in like sardines. I would suggest first class, but I know that can be a huge financial expense. I would suggest flying something like Frontier or America West since they are inexpensive and use mostly Air Buses which are roomy planes with comfortable seating. I would also suggest flying a red eye. The kids are accustomed to being tired at night...well, maybe the 5 month old is not sleeping through the night. The trip in the airport may bother them, but once on board, they may sleep through the flight. Another advantage to a red eye is that they tend to have more available seats. Might be good to have room to let a little one sprawl out and have the luxury of changing a diaper on the seats as opposed to the head. Very cramped facilities in airplane washrooms.

The only way you could take advantage of the Heavenly Father was if He was a genie in a lamp, that if rubbed just right, would do our bidding. If I am praying for something frivolous, like a washboard stomach, I am sure the request will be filed in the appropriate backlog. however, when praying for wisdom on being better parent....the answer will be more immediate. Don't be too hard on yourself. You can only be the best you that you can be. In the eyes of a loving father, that is probably pretty precious.

I am not LDS. I am here to satisfy my curiosities and questions about the LDS. This place is a fascinating amalgamation of those who practice the faith and those who do not. I do more reading of threads than I do posting on threads. I am a little out of my element here. I am usually pretty blunt. People here tend to be more diplomatic. I like the polite approach and am learning through observation.

I think Erma Bombeck once said that with your first child you call the ER at the smallest cough, but by the time you have your third child, you let them juggle knives. Be the one who makes the pede earn the hot rod and the better tee times at the better golf clubs. I sure was the first three years of my little one's life.

Woohoo! Yay hydration! Seriously, I am glad to hear your little one has found thirst. Sounds like you have a downhill ride to recovery now!

Keep doing what you are doing. You are on the right track. An ice chip here and there may not be what the body needs, but it is showing the door is open. I would also start bugging your pediatrician a touch and ask him/her when you should consider more extreme measures. If you DO have to do the IV route for proper hydration, do not beat yourself up with guilt over it. You have not failed...you just got a stubborn little one. At that age, they can be stubborn little dudes and dudettes. I had to take my little on to the ER in April of '05 for two bags of fluid. It happens sometimes.

24, My Name is Earl, Battlestar Galactica, sports, documentaries.

I would like to pipe in if I may. I only purchase my online music from MP3tunes.com. The reason? Not only is it legitimate and inexpensive, but they document how much goes to the artists. I used to buy from iTunes alot, but I do not like the DRM restrictions. If I buy the song for my personal use, I should be allowed to have the song on every computer in my house, my iPOD, a cd player for the car, and my entertainment server. iTunes restricts what I can do with something I have purchased. Within reason, I feel it is okay to do that. There are artists that do offer their music for free on the web and that is legit. They are the owners of the property and can distribute is as they with. When you download free music that is not approved by the owner...you are stealing, case closed, end of story. Legally, you are stealing, morally you are stealing. You may call the RIAA Machiavellian crooks and you may be right to do so. If I steal from the old lady down the street from me, I am a thief. If I steal from a crime bosses home, I am a thief. Either way, I have taken something that is not mine. The moral position of the person I stole from does not change my act. Now, DRM is beginning to bug me. Under the fair use provisions on the DMCA, you are allowed to make a backup copy of your media. That includes back up cd's, dvd's etc. Sony recently put measures to prevent you from copying their cd's that inadvertently harmed computers running the Windows Operating system. It installed a rootkit that you could not remove easily until they released a patch...after denying they did anything wrong. Anyway, other measures that they do is to copy protect the cd's in such a way that the fault tolerance on the CD is reduces. This produces a cd with s shorter life span. So you are now better off breaking the DRM and copying it so you have a copy with acceptable fault tolerances. That action is defensible due to fair use. At the end of the day it is kind of like having a car. You can drive places with it and use it as a utility. You could also murder and commit crimes with a car. The device is not more or immoral. The person behind the wheel is. We have choices when we go online and listen to music. We can make the right choices or the wrong choices, but it is not up to sony to restrict my ability to use the technology in a correct manner just in case I decide to use it in an incorrect manner.

It is more than men simply hitting on women, sadly. I am friends with a local police officer in an Internet task force. He pretends to be a teenage boy or girl on the web and he has stories that will alarm any parent. I do free seminars in my area to parents about Internet safety. Letting your kids on the Internet unattended is as safe as letting them play stick ball on the freeway during rush hour.

***Deep Breath**** Hi, What to say. About me: I live near Chicago. I have been married for 11 years. I have a five year old daughter. I am self employed in the computer world. More specifically around Linux and FOSS. Why am I here?: Back in 97 I ha some missionaries visit my wife and I in our apartment. Then in 2001 we had some visit us in our home. Life has changed the last few years. In some ways it all blew up, in other ways it became more clear. There is a lot more to that last sentence. So anyway, here I am. May as well lead this bit on the table....I believe I want to get baptized, but there is one major hurdle I got. Not sure if I am ready to discuss it in the public forum, but I will poke around a bit and build the old comfort level. Cheers!