Tonights meal.

@Erica Frady's request, I will share vast random things here, mostly because if the complaints I received on facebook for mass networking.

1. The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator - http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html (nothing but a

2. Top 8 Terrifying Child Safety Illustrations From The 70s

   Tuesday July 7, 2009 12:00 PM

   
   You know us. We love old-fashioned things that make us smile. But we also love old-fashioned things that make us cringe!

   So, we were going through a bunch of our old books, and we came across a 1970s masterpiece called A Sigh Of Relief: The First-Aid Handbook For Childhood Emergencies by Martin I. Green. Our lives have never been the same. Sure this book could be helpful if we were babysitting, but really what A Sigh of Relief has done for us, is haunt our dreams and give us night terrors for the rest of our time on earth.

   Here are our favorite illustrations from A Sigh Of Relief (most ironic title for a book ever) along with the nightmares they have induced.
   

   8. Eyes
   Kids love to Play Clockwork Orange!

   

   7. Butt
   Do not let your kid sit bare-assed on a communicability sign. That’s just gross.
   

   

   6. Vampire Bites
   If your child has been bitten by the undead
   1) Check to see if he is also undead.
   2) Get drunk by the fire and threaten him with a small knife.
   3) Get him addicted to heroin.
   4) Wash way the evidence.

   

   5. Immunization Schedule
   What are those kids doing? What kind of position is that to be sitting in? There is no way that that is comfortable.

   

   4.Campfire
   It’s OK to be a third wheel. Just let Daddy and Mommy stare sexily at each other and ignore you.
   

   

   3. Kiss
   If a ghost is trying to make out with your child, touch his soul with two fingers and hope for the best.

   

   2. Date Rape
   Make sure your date is completely passed out before removing their clothing.

   

   1. Pinata
   1) Collect fuse buttons.
   1A) Stuff buttons into a child using a stick, and tie the child up with a rope.
   1C) Use child as a Pinata.

   

3. The Marshmallow Test: Psychological Experiments in Self-Control

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/09/psychological-experiments-in-self-control-the-marshmallow-test/

In this reprise of a now-classic Stanford psychological experiment from the 1960s, kids are put in a room with a marshmallow and told they can either eat it immediately or wait until the researcher gets back, and they'll be given a second marshmallow. Hilarity ensues as the kids suffer marshmallow temptation!

But the consequences go deeper: In the New Yorker article "Don’t!" from May that detailed the very same experiment, it turned out that the ones who passed the marshmallow test enjoyed greater success as adults. Said Walter Mischel, the Stanford professor of psychology in charge of the experiment, "What we’re really measuring with the marshmallows isn’t will power or self-control... It’s much more important than that. This task forces kids to find a way to make the situation work for them. They want the second marshmallow, but how can they get it? We can’t control the world, but we can control how we think about it.”