Sister Bear

Thanks APushetaYid I need to paste those words to my bedroom door, right now. They are really inspiring!

We have geni and I love it! It lets you know everyone’s brithday’s and all and also let’s you know family that you never knew existed, frum, secular and all.

2morecents –

– first of all payphones are becoming less and less common because having cell phones is becoming the norm (and yes that does include school too.)

– second of all, if it gives them a sense of security, why do you want to take that away? If it gives someone a sense of security to hold a gun (or on the iphone they have this app that you could get that sounds like you are cocking [is that the right word?] to scare people off) or whatever, then why take that away?

Yes unfortunately we live in a world that is more unsafe than it used to be. Let them. And no, kids aren’t always only doing bad things. If I feel safer walking the streets of NYC with a cell, why not? It’s not bad, or whatever.

– thirdly, yeah its not a necessity to own a cell phone but its a major plus and help.

As for parents…well if you feel you don’t need a cell phone then kol hakavod but it’s not practical for many others. And no, parents don’t need to have a cell phone with internet.

You seem very against cell phones for whatever reason. I’m sorry you don’t see the good also. And I’m sorry you don’t trust kids (or even adults) While many kids adults may do bad things on their phone, a lot don’t.

noitallmr – I think we have standard. It seems to block the bad things. But sometimes it’s annoying and blocks google.com because of open image/media. 🙁 Also if there is a video from youtube on a different site (like YWN) it just won’t show anything where the video is, which is kinda annoying but okay.

I just googled download K9 web protection and their site came up.

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/getk9/download-software

Try it out. Hope it works! Good Luck!!

When my younger siblings come over to me when they have a problem or just to watch what I’m doing. I like knowing that they look up to me (and I’m a good older sister.)

That I could help out my family at home while my mother is away for an extended period of time.

When I clean my room!! 😉

Call them up or check online. I hope its a good amount of money!!! 🙂

mbachur – no offense and all, but is that a joke? cuz I didn’t see a punch line. 😉

Maybe Rebbeim may love their students but that doesn’t mean the students feel the same way back or even see the love. (I had a principal whom all the teachers said truly loved every student but we never felt it, so what was the point of the love?)

But anyway, if a parent hits their kid (rarely and all) the kid automatically goes back crying to the parent. But if a teacher hits a kid, the kid could very well become resentful of the teacher, school…

Ma Rabu Maashecha Hashem and all but freaky!!!!!!! Take this to all the atheists out there and ask them how these things created themselves!!!

This isn’t true!!!

YU decided to start a rowing team but for some reason they could never win the others. So they send one man to Harvard to learn from them, because they kept on winning competitions. The man goes, observes, and comes back. They ask him what he saw. He said, “In Harvard they have ten men rowing and one man shouting directions, instead of one man rowing and ten men shout directions.”

I guess you guys are right, you really should watch your children. Although in my mother’s defense, there are normally other older kids outside or she just told me (my sister) that she goes outside with my neighbors, whose mother goes out with them too.

It’s not always so simple. If the kid knows not to run into the street, then why can’t they play outside? My siblings play outside the whole day with our neighbors, and no parent watching outside and we live on a busy street. The oldest kids are normally 9. My mother lets my 4 year old sister play outside and I don’t think anyone would say that my mother doesn’t watch her children.

If they know not to do something irresponsible, then why not?

Guess I should rephrase, how could something that helps people get healthier be dangerous at the same time?

I think that walking across niagra falls without a net is extremely exhilarating because there is that factor that you could die. It’s a rush people get from doing something stupid. There was an article on aish.com about it.

Thanks, Mod. Seems like all I’ve been doing is bad 🙂

When I get an eye infection I put it on and it helps. Guess I shouldn’t do that anymore.

How could something be so bad and at the same time so good?

Wow, don’t take my advice then. 🙂 I take Silver when I start to get sick and it really helps. We got it from the local health food store, and they seem to know what they are talking about. But that’s scary!

Help!!!! I just tried to check my gmail and it’s not letting me in. It said my account is temporarily unavailable!!! Does anyone know why??????

Good luck d a. I think my account did that but it should continue as normal soon. Go on google help http://mail.google.com/support/ and ask them about it. Good luck!

When I first heard the song I thought someone wrote an amazing song for Camp Simcha but now that I realize that it was a World Cup song, its not so amazing…

I think it’s still amazing. Many of the words don’t even fit in with the World Cup song i.e. when I get older???? But for Camp Simcha it fits perfectly. So their must be something to it.

Yeah, they add in Camp Simcha’s Flag

Way back when wigs started becoming acceptable I don’t think they looked like hair at all ;)Did you ever see a synthetic sheital?? 🙂

I’m just speculating here and could totally be wrong (probably am) but many women in the olden days didn’t cover their hair, the Rabbanim could’ve thought that it’s better that the women cover their hair even with other hair than not cover it at all. I’m just guessing.

Also, I don’t know a lot of non-Jewish women that cover their hair. If you think about it this way, all other religions that forbid womens hair to be uncovered cover it with cloth. So maybe wearing a tichel or other cloth covering is considered chukas hagoyim. 😉

I don’t know if this is really a prank but way back when, many many years ago…

This school sent home papers saying that 3rd grade was going on a field trip and classes were canceled for the day. As luck would have it, it started raining so the field trip was canceled. The administration told everyone to get back to class, one boy lets call Bob, said hey wait we can’t go back to class, classes are canceled and organized a strike against the school. Only a few people listened and didn’t go to class. He got suspended and a few years later got expelled.

The Kedushas Shoshanim says perek 17 seif 4 that yur not aloud to look at yur wife undressed even when tahor. This is from Avrohom Avinu who never looked at Soroh so that we didnt know how beautiful she was until he acidently looked at her reflection in the river. This isnot a chumra but actual halachah. So swimming with yur wife is 100% assur. Theres nothing to talk about.

I know this is off topic but I head very differently. Of course Avraham looked at Sarah but he saw her as a whole person, inside and out. Think of your good friends, if someone asked if they were good-looking based only on their looks, it’s hard because you see them as a person, not as just what they look like. So then when they were going to Mitzrayim, he saw her reflection in the water which was pure gashmiyus, he realized how pretty she was. (I think this was a Rashi)

The weddings I’ve been to, with the separate seating, I don’t remember ever seeing men on the womens side, maybe an odd one to two. I’m going to a wedding this week, I’ll check it out.

As for the weddings with mixed seating, not that the men come and to the women’s side but they just stand around by their seats talking and yes watching the women dance.

On the issue of separate seating by davening – what is the exact issur? Is it that you just can’t sit together but nothing in the middle, except an aisle is fine? That the men can’t see the women davening? Is a women allowed to daven in a shul where there is a see thru mechitza? Is a man?