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If my kids made a video like that, getting suspended would be the least of their worries.

Oh, good heavens. They have invented a word for the "dance" move in which people hump the air. 33 kids were suspended for making a "twerking video" on school grounds. I saw a friend "like" this story on Facebook and was shocked to see parents writing things like, "I would fight for my kids' right to make a video like this! The school is overracting." Seriously?! I was going to post the link to an article, but they contain links to the video, which has not only nasty "dancing", but nasty lyrics that degrade women. I can't stand to hear parents defending this! How could any parents be OK with their kids behaving like that?

When I'm famous, I'm going to announce that I love having sex with my husband! I hope the president calls me.

I don't think that phrase means to treat hear like she is higher than you, but like you are valuable and equal to each other. You should be king and queen together. :)

If it's not a sin, then why should the practice be avoided? If it is a sin, why should a spouse be able to give consent for the other to do so?

I think there's a difference though between a person who physically can't have sex and a person who won't, just like there's a difference between a person who has their larynx removed and a person who gives you the cold shoulder and refuses to talk to you. I think any woman who can have sex should make it a priority and if there's a medical or psychological problem, she should do everything she can to fix it. I have a relative who has severe OCD that affects many areas of her life, including that. She became ten times worse after marriage and was grossed out by the messiness of sex. She can't even handle finding a Band-Aid on the ground or a pile of dirty laundry on the floor because she's that terrified of germs. She knows logically that it's not rational, but she just can't get it under control. I'm not sure if things ever got better, but she has always been affectionate and loving. That is a major stumbling block for her and her husband is a saint! You just never know what's going to happen. When my husband and I were getting married, our bishop said, "You should only get married if you know you would still want to be together if sex were impossible." I think it's an important lesson to teach that sex and masturbation shouldn't be used as an escape. If you don't have proper coping devices before marriage, you're not going to have it during or after.

Yes, it's still a sin, just like it was a sin before you got married. We have to learn self-control no matter what situation we're in - husbands deployed overseas, death, disability, divorce, etc.

I can see why that would make it more tempting, but that's actually a myth. Porn addicts often turn their wives down and don't initiate sex, choosing the porn over them. Quite the slap in the face because the woman has grown up hearing husbands will want sex constantly, then they don't want to have it with them.

I think it would be OK to roll up a Friend magazine and beat them with it. Wouldn't it?

That's very hard. My son asked for a while to play with this boy, but I just had to tell him repeatedly that he would have to play with other children because he wasn't safe playing with him and nothing was being done to change his behavior. I feel so bad for kids in these situations, especially the ones who aren't being disciplined and run out of playmates because of it.

I consider it to be sacreligious.

Wow. I most likely would have given them a butt chewing and told them to make out in a backseat like normal people.

There was a nice kid I liked to play with when I was little. The problem was, his mom was insane and it was impossible for my mom to deal with her. I definitely wasn't going over there and having the boy over to our place wasn't going to happen either. My parents bought a living Christmas tree and after they planted it in the yard, it died. So they cut it down and when the neighbor saw them do it, she called the police on them. With my own kids, there was a boy who misbehaved so badly, they just couldn't handle it anymore. He was always throwing stuff at them, hitting, kicking, biting, etc. When we got together with the family, he was just told to stop it and nothing more, so there was crying every few minutes from one of my kids. I finally told my kids that getting together with friends is supposed to be fun and I wasn't going to bring them over there to be abused. I told them I expected them to be nice to him, but he wasn't being discplined and it wasn't going to change. When he decided to attempt to cause bodily harm to my oldest, my son pinned him to the floor and told him to knock if off. The boy wailed like he had been wronged. The mom told me, "They just need to get used to each other." She said, "Do you know about bullying? It starts when you teach kids not to like each other." So my kids are the bullies because I'm not going to make them play with him? I told my kids, "No, you don't have to 'get used to' people hurting you. You can tell them 'Let's get together when you're ready to be nice.'" Sorry you're in such a lame situation!

So she told you from the beginning that she only liked you as a friend? And you thought time time would change it? When you asked her out, she probably thought you understood it would be as two friends hanging out, but then it became apparent that you wanted more, so she avoided you because she was uncomfortable and didn't want to have that conversation again.

No, I think we need to try our best to help them, but let's not give the parents an out with flowery language about how their children belong to the community. We need more forceful language when it comes to people who don't care about the children they are making with their irresponsible behavior. The message is, "Keep putting your sexual urges above the needs of children and we'll be here to enable you." As a community, we do have obligations to report things to the parents that they aren't aware of, like their kid was seen driving wrecklessly, doing drugs, etc. And we can have all sorts of extra programs at the schools, but the parents have to get the children there and home.

Sometimes they have scholarships, but it's hard for low income families to afford the extra gas getting kids to their games and practices or maybe Mom and Dad work so late, they just don't have the time. It's $100 for my son to play sports at middle school and they said there was a scholarship, but then I teach piano in the afternoons and it would be a scheduling nightmare. He took one look at the fee and said, "What a rip off!" He was slightly interested in playing tennis.

I know of two situations where the exact same thing happened and both times it was in my brother's ward with people he and his wife were close to. With the most recent situation, his wife was best friends with the cheating wife and she lives next door. Being disloyal is the worst thing you could ever do to my brother, so he could hardly stand to look at his wife's friend anymore. I'm sorry you're going through this.

But every child will need some help at home and they can't bring that teacher home with them. The teacher isn't going to pick them up for before and after school programs when extra help is needed. A teacher might make them care more, which is good, but I can't imagine how I would have made it through school without my parents. And when they couldn't explain things anymore, they hired a tutor for me.

But the schooling isn't effective without an involved parent unless the child has the drive to excel on their own.

Rather than expect more responsibility from parents, the answer is to make everyone else responsible? Lame.

Does he seem to know who you are? Does he address you by name? That is really bizarre. I agree you should keep ignoring. When this woman was obsessing over me, I talked to a counselor and discussed whether I should sit her down and explain things in very blunt terms. She said no because she won't get it and it will just teach her that after six months of ignoring her, she finally got me to respond, so next time she would try six months and then some. I knew she was correct because after several people had explained how inappropriate her behavior was, she continued to push people's boundaries in a major way. She had learned nothing by me telling her I didn't want any contact. Maybe you should change your phone number? It's a pain, but maybe worth it.

Do put it mildly, I think these theories are ridiculous.

"I've never held onto that bottom part of the helicopter."

It's like an orange on a toothpack!

OK, first of all, the title. What movie is that quote from? Second, who can best sum up this article in one word? This "man" with the uterus is concerned about how it's going to affect his children that he was refused a divorce because his marriage is considered invalid. Wouldn't it be a bigger concern to the kids that Dad has a uterus? Just thinking out loud here. My brain hurts.