It’s that time again – when Guerilla Parent readers get to chime in with solutions, advice and support – this email comes from a mother concerned about mothering tactics of another woman online:
My child’s friends mom likes to instant message other peoples kids and talk to them. She also talks to both girls and boys. [...]

The guys in my family – which consists of every other being in my household besides me – just doesn’t get the whole “mother’s intuition” thing.
I’ve done a great deal of thinking on this lately and I’m not sure we can call it psychic intuitiveness or if it’s just that mother’s seem to be SO [...]

Since moving into the new house, I’ve had the great pleasure of enjoying a bathroom all to myself.
I love that the seat is always down – the tub is always clean and with the rules I have in place, the boys don’t want to go near it.
Am I being too demanding to ask that [...]

Employers are specifically instructing managers to not send them World of Warcraft players. It’s believed, and with good cause, that WoW players cannot give 100 percent to their job because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great and varied other factors that play into diminished performance abilities.
I can’t say I blame [...]

By way of FactCheck.org – you know, that site that everyone on the “right” side of the Mississippi wanted us to read and monitor during the Bush/Kerry election.
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So much for a slow news month. August feels like campaign season, with claims on health care coming at us daily. Does the House bill call for mandatory [...]

Teenagers who pledged to avoid sex until marriage were as likely to have intercourse as other U.S. adolescents, according to a survey of conduct mostly in 1990s.
Teens who took the pledge were less likely to use birth control pills or condoms than those making no promise. Essentially, the results show that teens need information on [...]

On Straight Talk – a woman writes in with concerns over her boyfriend who wants to permit his son’s to throw an overnight party complete with alcohol. The boyfriend rationalizes his position in that he’d be providing a safe place to drink. To the contrary, the boyfriend believes if the kids don’t have a [...]

The Obesity Society strongly opposes the current billboard campaign from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) promoting vegetarianism at the expense of stigmatizing overweight and obese persons. The PETA billboard ad displays an image of an overweight woman in a bikini, with the text "Save the Whales – Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian." [...]

Career Expert Provides DOs and DON’Ts for Job Seekers on Social Networking
CHICAGO, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ — As social networking grows increasingly pervasive, more employers are utilizing these sites to screen potential employees. Forty-five percent of employers reported in a recent CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to research job candidates, a big jump [...]

Religion may be the key factor to keep teens in the U.S. abstaining from sexual intercourse until they are older.
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which looked data gathered from nearly 1,000 teens.
It was found that teens who took the virginity pledge varied little from from teens who did not when it came to [...]