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• Settle Down and Use Your Indoor Voice

  Tantrums get attention. So do screaming, sobbing and hand gestures that proclaim, "he did it first!" Those sorts of actions don't give caregivers and innocent bystanders the warm-fuzzies. Instead, they make everyone in the room shake their heads, utter lame excuses and leave.   So it goes with politicians who move into the realm of ... Read More... Posted Dec 10 2007, 07:02 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Hillary Clinton, candidates, Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, survey, Huckabee, John Edwards, tantrums

• Survey Says Parents Not Satisfied. Are You?

  Parents magazine recently survey 1,000 moms and dads about the issues they’re facing as a family and whether they think the government is responding to any of it. We already brought you their candidates-as-babysitters results. Now let’s look at what else they found out. Parents are most concerned about ... Read More... Posted Nov 14 2007, 11:37 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: survey, problems facing families, government, parents, parents magazine

• Madame/Mr. President, Can You Babysit This Saturday?

  Parents magazine surveyed 1,000 parents on issues facing families today. We’ll get to that later.  What interests us now is their poll asking which candidate they would most trust to babysit. First, let me weigh in because my candidate-sitter didn’t even make the list! Read More... Posted Nov 12 2007, 05:35 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Hillary Clinton, candidates, Giuliani, Barack Obama, babysitter, survey, Huckabee