Dennis Prager looks at how America has deteriorated. From the story: When I was a boy, I ran after girls during recess, played dodgeball, climbed monkey bars and sat on seesaws. Today, more and more schools have no recess; have canceled dodgeball lest someone feel bad about being removed from the game; and call the police in to interrogate, even sometimes arrest, elementary school boys who playfully touch a girl. And monkey bars and seesaws are largely gone, for fear of lawsuits should a child be injured.
TownhallThe girl, who has been fed on a strict meat and dairy-free diet from birth, is said to have a severe form of rickets and to have suffered a number of fractured bones. The condition is caused by a lack of vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium and is found in liver, oily fish and dairy produce. Decalcification leads to the bones becoming brittle and can cause curvature of the spine.
FOX NewsIt dawned on me that this story is an analogy for our role in parenting. How often we feel compelled to intervene and “do the fishing” for our kids! We see their struggles! We have the answers! We’ve fished these waters before! We know the fish by name and we know exactly how to navigate the murky water that seems so foreign to our children. We hate to see their frustration. We hate to see their failure. After all, we know how to catch the fish!
The problem is, as frustrated as they are, they don’t really want us to catch the fish for them. What they really want and need is for us to help them see the fish for themselves so they can catch them on their own! Crosswalk Article
Sure is a lot of “money” resting inside of Northern California, as contributions to presidential candidates have surged so much during the current campaign that if it were a state, the area would rank fourth in the nation. Erin McCormick in the San Francisco Chronicle
When same-sex marriages start at 5 p.m. June 16, San Francisco will stage a repeat of the ceremony that started the 2004 Winter of Love, when thousands of gay and lesbian couples married at City Hall. Wyatt Buchanan in the San Francisco Chronicle
Kern County supervisors may have little say about whether the county offers civil marriages to the public after Friday. Last week, Supervisor Don Maben said he’d like another county department to perform weddings now that Auditor-Controller-County Clerk Ann Barnett has announced hers won’t after June 13. Bakersfield Californian
It is likely to take election officials longer to finalize results of last week's mayoral election than it took the famed Rancho Cordova road builder to resurface a downtown section of Interstate 5. Then again, Myers probably never encountered election bureaucracy. Terri Hardy in the Sacramento Bee
Presidential candidate Barack Obama will travel to San Diego next month to join opponent John McCain in speaking at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization. Leslie Berestein in the San Diego Union-Trib
