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My son (about to turn 16) finished up 9th grade with homeschooling due to anxiety issues, and he'll be starting 10th grade at home as well. Though our goal is to get him back to school, we don't know how long it will be, and he deeply misses his friends and feels socially isolated now. I'd love...

I've been absent from CF for a while now, for several reasons. I hate the new format, many other long-standing members are leaving, and after learning that staff now has access to your personal email addresses, IP addresses, and private messages (yup, they're "private" no more), I've had enough...

Why you shouldn't sleep with two pillows | AOL Features OK, this story irks me, because it assumes way too much. It assumes that everyone sleeps on their back all night long, which NOBODY does. Try laying on your side with one measly pillow. Your head is bent downwards and your neck will be...

Sanjay Gupta: Using Your Hands to Heal Your Head - Depression - Everyday Health As someone who's dealt with depression for most of my life, I thought this article was both fascinating and spot-on. I can't think of a time when I did something creative or crafty with my hands and didn't feel at...

I'd never heard of this before. Agents Target Industry Helping Chinese Have U.S. Babies - DailyFinance I think the problem is this law that allows the child of an illegal to automatically be a US citizen. If you're here illegally, so is your child, and you both need to be deported.

This honestly made me LOL. Pastor's wife fined for praying too loudly - AOL.com She believes her "faith is being tested". No, sweetie, this is God telling you to be quiet and stop disrespecting your neighbors as well as local authorities. NOTE* She is a pastor's wife, not a pastor herself.

Attackers hack American blogger to death in Bangladesh - AOL.com So sad.. with his poor wife witnessing the whole thing :(

I love watching the realization in the audiences' faces. No One Applauds This Woman Because They're Too Creeped Out At Themselves To Put Their Hands Together Thoughts?

I know we've got some people here who've gone back to college later in life, and now I get to join the ranks!! Share your stories, advice, struggles, etc, here in this thread :) How old were you when you returned to school? If you already have a degree, what is it? What degree are you...

Puerto Rico might start fining the parents of obese children - AOL.com Is this the government overstepping it bounds? Trying to capitalize and make money off pudgy preteens? Will parents start depriving their kids of food out of fear of being punished? Will kids start sneaking or stealing food...

So we're in the midst of a pretty rough flu season right now. The current strain is especially virulent, and the flu shot this season is not as highly effective (less than 50%) as usual. I work for the state health department, and while flu shots are always encouraged for all staff, we...

Hero cat saves baby from freezing to death | New York Post Way to go, Masha! <3

I figured it'd be nice to have one of these threads where we can all share stuff :) I know there's an IJWTS thread in the women's private forum, but hey, some of the guys here are my friends, too! IJWTS that you just never know when things will explode around here! One of our nurses just about...

Ermaghersh!!! So, the hubster and I are big, big fans of an organization called "Playing For Change", that brings together local musicians from around the world, and has them each record a piece of a track, and then blends them all together into one song. If nobody knows what I'm talking...

'Kill the Jew!': Knife-wielding madman gunned down by NYPD after Brooklyn synagogue attack - AOL.com Amazing how compassionate the onlookers were, begging the police officers to spare the man's life multiple times. Sounds like a suicide-by-cop scenario... so sad.

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me one bit. Kirk Cameron's 'Saving Christmas' is IMDB's worst ranked movie - AOL.com

Thoughts? Charles Barkley Joins Mikey Miss - Check Out The Interview | 97.5 The Fanatic | Sixers

This thread stems from the "Farrakhan" thread over in News & Current Events. I hope he won't mind me mentioning him, but Dgiharris and I were discussing how many people have active, in-depth acquaintances with people of other races and ethnicities. Do we stick to our own color and culture by...

Organs of brain-dead girl won&#39;t be donated | Fox News Has anyone seen a reason of WHY the father didn't want the girls' organs donated? Obviously, having never been in this situation (and God forbid any of us ever are), I can't say how I'd react, either.

The fact that everyone seems more concerned about the football team losing its playing season, and the poor cheerleaders having no one to cheer for, and the homecoming being cancelled, MORE than the fact that 14 year old boys are being sexually molested, is what's most disturbing to me about...