Stay Safe: Check out Sex Offender Registry
October 22, 2009 by Jennifer Walker-Journey
Filed under Parenting
I woke to a news report that a body found in a Georgia landfill was likely that of missing Orange Park, Fla., girl Somer Thompson, who went missing Monday while walking home from school. I watched the anchor pitch to a package that showed the mother in full grief, sobbing to a group hugging her shoulders and burning candles. The mother sang, “You are my Sunshine” through heaves of emotion, and it was all I could bear. I changed the channel.
At some point over these past six years, sometime after I became a mother, my heart became frail. I cannot …read more
Missing Daughter: Daddy’s Deploying Soon
July 15, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Family, Parenting
What would you do if your daughter turned up missing? This has become a reality and nightmare for Scott Baum who is due to deploy back to Iraq very soon. The big question at the moment, besides
the fact of where is she or who took her is….will she be found before he has to go back? Now I know in the military you do as you are told, but what if it were your child? I think this would be a very hard time right now, it is hard enough when they have to tell their loved ones goodbye when …read more
Dysfunctional Parenting (or lack thereof): Casey Anthony
August 23, 2008 by Lara Kulpa
Filed under Parenting
What much can be said about Casey Anthony, and the disappearance of little Caylee Anthony?
The mother, Casey, while in jail seemed more concerned with getting her boyfriend’s phone number than talking to her family about the case or what was going on with anything. See “A big fat waste of time.”
There’s no trace of this so-called “nanny”.
Casey barely has shed a tear in court, on the phone, in the media, to detectives…
and she was purportedly out partying only 2 nights after Caylee’s disappearance was reported by the girl’s grandmother, Casey’s mother, Cindy.
So far since the investigation started back in July, …read more




