Thanksgiving

I love Christmas, but I think I like Thanksgiving the best. It makes you stop and think about everything you have in your life and appreciate everything you have received. I am so very thankful for my children. They are a blessing to me and the most important thing in my life. I love and appreciate my grandmother very much. She has been very supportive and helpful to me over the years. I also have a boyfriend for which I am very thankful. He is a wonderful caring and supportive man. He cares very deeply for my children.

Families

I think families are both. Mine certainly was. I viewed my family as a functional dysfunctional family. I think mine now could be viewed the same. I think every family has a certian amount of dysfunctionality within it. I don't think being dysfunctional is neccessarily bad. I think some dysfunctionality is healthy.

Barbie Doll

I love this reading. I can apply it to my oldest daughter. She started out liking barbies, I think because she felt she was supposed to because she was a girl. As she got older I think she realized the fallacie of barbie. She took a different approach to them. She did not dress them up or comb their hair. She would instead cut off all their hair, draw tattoos on them and alter their clothing. I think she felt vindiated in the end because she is not a blue eyed blonde.

Logical fallacies

You see the ad hominem argument in political ads all the time. The attack of character of the opponet. It plants doubt in your mind about that person. This is a position I wish candidates would not use because it is detrimentaly to the person's campaign who is doing the attacking. I don't vote for someone who uses this method. It is irrelavent to the campaign.

The Case against College

I can totally relate to this essay. I have a son in the same position. He is a very smart kid but college is not in his plans right now. He is holding down a job and is very responsible. College at somepoint may be in his plans, but whatever he does I know it will be the right decision for him.

Teenagers and tattoos

My daughter got her firs tat when she was 18. It was a compromise. I let her get that instead of getting her lip pierced. For my daughter it is a form of self-expression. She is a wonderful girl who has a job and goes to college. She just likes to push the envelope a bit. All of her tatoos are able to be covered up. I can think of worse things. She has never been in trouble. I figure if this makes her happy then she should do it. I also think if when she gets older and regrets it she can always get them removed.

Glass Castle

I am really enjoying the book so far. The kids really don't know any other life. If they did I think they would see what a deprived life they live. The mother is so in her own little world . The kids practically raise themselves. They are however very creative thinkers. In some ways I am surprised they  have faired as well as they have.