Last year, Tide aired a commercial that showed a teenage girl asking her mother if she has seen her green blouse. The Mom flashbacks to wearing the blouse while out partying and had spilled something on it that left a stain. The Mom then lies to her daughter and says she has not seen it. The commercial goes on to show the Mom wash that bad stain out of the nice green blouse with the great TIDE detergent. The ending has the daughter being asked by the Mom “oh, I see you found your top” Daughter “Yes, must have been hiding in my closet somewhere”. So basically they are saying it’s O.k. to lie to your children yet you raise your children not to lie to you? The message is ridiculous and totally misguided.

I think whoever came up with the idea for these Tide commercials had a really horrible mother/daughter experience.

Woot!

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL — “I’ve got legos at home”. At home, it’s playtime for three year-old Joey. But at school this week he learned an important lesson. His teacher, Jessica Parr, at Saint Juliana Catholic School saved his life.

On Wednesday, Joey and his classmates were outside. “We were on the playground and I noticed that Joey had popped something into his mouth, when I went over to ask him he showed me one of the seeds”. Parr was able to get one of the seeds she found and take it to the school’s health clinic to see if it was from a poisonous plant. Her suspicions were confirmed. She saw it on the list as a seed from a poisonous plant.

Parr says, “I saw it was the rosary seed and that’s when I called Poison Control and informed them what the seed was and they questioned whether he had chewed it or swallowed because it’s worse when he chews it”.

Joey was rushed to the hospital and remained there for eight hours for observation. Doctors say Joey will be fine. But if untreated, it could have been fatal. “I am lucky because I have 19 kids in my class, so thank God I happened to be standing close by”. Joey’s mother says Parr is his guardian angel. “In the middle of the night I woke up two or three times and just kissed him and gave him a big hug”.

Coincidentally, today was teacher appreciation day. Joey gave his guardian angel her own angel to watch over her. “You don’t know how precious it is. I am so thankful”.

Joey’s mother says she plans to hand out information about the rosary pea seed to parents in his school.

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I found this great site last night after I got her email about poisonous plants and their parts. Very scary!

I don’t have the time right now needed to maintain the blog portion of BabyTalkers the way it should be. I wish I could update several times a week. I’d post about interesting and relevant tidbits of news, product reviews and information, and the (notso) exciting adventures of my life. I Just can’t at this point. I’m looking for someone….or several someones…..to temporarily take over, or at least share the responsibility of posting for me.

The last thing I want is for this site (my 3rd baby) to go down the drain. I love it and it’s so important to me, but clearly my lack of participation is having a negative affect on the forums and site in general. We have such a great community here. One of the biggest and most unique and interactive parts of this site are the journals. People here have the option to create a public or a private journal. The private ones are only available for paid subscribers (who also have access to “The Spot”). Some of our greatest and most lively conversations happen over there and not many people get to see that.

For the people that lurk or find the board through a search, it probably looks pretty dead around here. If you are a newbie, check out this post. Introduce yourself, join in the conversations, invite your friends.

Some bottles could include metal fragments that were generated during the manufacturing process. The potential for serious injury is low, and any effects are expected to be temporary and resolved without medical treatment.

Consumers who have purchased Mylicon drops with lot numbers SMF007 or SMF008 should immediately stop using the product and contact the company at 1-800-222-9435. Parents who have given the product to their infants and are concerned should contact their health care provider immediately, the companies said.

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If you know anyone in the following states, the following applies to them. These are the fifteen states that offer STV (straight ticket voting, also sometimes known as SPV, straight party voting):

1. Alabama

2. Indiana

3. Iowa

4. Kentucky

5. Michigan

6. New Mexico

7. North Carolina

8. Oklahoma

9. Pennsylvania

10. Rhode Island

11. South Carolina

12. Texas

13. Utah

14. West Virginia

15. Wisconsin

I am not sure how any of you plan to vote, but please beware. This was forwarded to me and it was checked on snopes, see below.

Regarding the voting process on Nov 4, 2008!

In the event that any of you are planning to vote democrat on November 4, I thought I’d share the following info I received today from a
registered voter. When we go into the voting booths, if we first select the button “all democrats”, Barack Obama will be excluded from the vote.
However, if we choose ‘Barack Obama’ first and then select all democrats’, he will earn our votes. It’s likely you will not be told this information when you go to vote.

THIS IS TRUE, see the link below from snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/straightticket.asp

*Now I’m not saying that this is going to happen in ALL of those states, but just BEWARE!!!

Check this out!