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31 Aug 2014, 1:19 pm
I just had a thought 
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.
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31 Aug 2014, 1:34 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
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31 Aug 2014, 1:44 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
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31 Aug 2014, 1:59 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
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31 Aug 2014, 2:04 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
most people failed the marshmallow test.
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31 Aug 2014, 2:11 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
most people failed the marshmallow test.
I concede I do not know what that is.
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31 Aug 2014, 2:13 pm
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31 Aug 2014, 2:31 pm
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31 Aug 2014, 4:27 pm
31 Aug 2014, 5:38 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
It's invasive with plenty of room for state abuse is what it is. Very few parents are anywhere near as bad as those two douchebags in the article so why punish everyone?
31 Aug 2014, 5:59 pm
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31 Aug 2014, 6:12 pm
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31 Aug 2014, 6:49 pm
My parents had absolutely no problem when I played with action figures as a kid, which technically are dolls, they just call them that because most people are still very set in what's considered gender-appropriate . But girls get away with doing boy things more because society thinks they're superior to girl stuff. 
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31 Aug 2014, 6:52 pm
31 Aug 2014, 7:11 pm
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31 Aug 2014, 7:25 pm
- I know that is sometimes a dangerous thing - but, maybe if prospective parents all were required to go through a "dress rehearsal" or practice parenting session or sessions using animatronic dolls and computer simulations of various parenting scenarios, it might open more than a few eyes as to what parenthood fully entails and what prospective parents would be getting themselves into. just a thought. I have long thought that parenthood should be licensed along with marriage. if something as mundane as cars should need to be licensed, so too should something as critical as parenthood, for the good of society.People would b***h that they had to pay taxes to support the program.
it needs to be patiently yet forcefully imparted upon short-term-thinking people that "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later, with interest." IOW taxes NOW to support prophylactic measures to maintain the integrity of the social contract, or eventual societal breakdown and chaos later on which is much tougher and costlier to fix if it even is not too late to fix. I am pejoristic in this regard because americans historically have been so short-sighted.
Most people can't see beyond their pocketbooks.
It's invasive with plenty of room for state abuse is what it is. Very few parents are anywhere near as bad as those two douchebags in the article so why punish everyone?
C'mon, Blabby and I weren't seriously talking about taxing people to pay for robotic surrogate children before they can have the real thing!
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