Parenting and Family Life: May 2008 Archives

Time Magazine this week (pdf. article) has examples of food prices that have gone up since 2003:

Wonder Bread up 74%
Boneless center-cut pork chop up 124%
Farmland Skim Plus milk up 38%
Arnold Stone-Ground wheat bread up 36%
Rib-eye steak up 64%
Carr's water crackers up 39%
Bird's Eye frozen sweet corn up 28%
Bananas up 41%
Bird's Eye frozen baby peas up 21%
Diet Coke up 10%

Notice the crap on the list-the Diet Coke- is the price that has inflated the least. I am too tired to speculate about the meaning because I am too busy trying to feed a family of eight nutritious and palatable real food on a budget.

I am running out of all those bright ideas I used to have.

I think like many a parent, I am semi-outraged by the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photos.I have a 15-year old and I'll be damned before I let her take pictures implying she is naked... with a bed sheet making people wonder why she is naked with a bed sheet...and 15. Never mind, grossed out. However, I am even more annoyed that Hollywood is telling me why I shouldn't be outraged:

The frenzy over Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair cover shots was inescapable earlier this week -- everyone seemed to have an opinion on the snaps, and most of them were critical of the tween star and her parents. But that's starting to change, as some familiar names -- like Sally Field and Rosie O'Donnell -- have come out in her defense.

Hollywood never gets that the world they live in is not the same one we poor shmoes are raising our children in. We do not have the benefit of the money and fame to save them after failed marriages and drug addictions. Whatever.

So here I am reading these dopey celebrity quotes from the likes of Rosie O'Donnell and Nick Cannon when the last one came up. I could not have written anything better myself to back my point up:

"I think it's hot. When I was 15, I was doing the same thing except I bared it all ... She's just showing her back. She's growing up. I don't think she's doing anything harmful ... I think she's hot!" -- Tila Tequila