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Chain Gang

July 24, 2010 By Colleen Stout 4 Comments

I bought David, my five year old, toy handcuffs.

He went with me to take his his little brother Wade to the doctor. It was a long morning. David behaved really well, but started to get bored by the time we arrived at the drug store to pick up a prescription.

We had more stops to make, so when David asked for a pair of cheap, toy handcuffs I gave in. I figured they would keep him entertained while I finished up errands.

When we got out of the mini-van at the mall David asked if he could bring the handcuffs in. I said yes. How much damage could they do?

Inside the mall I pushed Wade in the stroller, and David walked along side it.

David was still behaving well. In fact he was staying unusually close to me. Normally I need to keep a tight reign on him in public.

I noticed that people passing by us were doing double-takes, and turning back around to look.

Then I saw something shiny catch the light on the side of the stroller.

David’s handcuffs. [Read more...]

Mom Blog Security

July 20, 2010 By Colleen Stout 16 Comments

I read two stories this week about women who were detained at the border when they told officials they were entering the country on business related to blogging. One was  an American going into Canada, the other a Canadian coming to the US.

It seems that Mom Blogging got red-flagged by The Department of Homeland Security. They don’t think it’s a legitimate profession. Didn’t they get the memo from the FTC?

I mean if the FTC can regulate you, and fine you, then you must be legitimate, right?

I guess we can take comfort in the fact that border officials were doing their jobs, watching out for all of us, and attempting to stop nefarious activity.

But are we Mom Bloggers really so dangerous that they’re profiling us now?

Well, there was that incident last year when someone in our community threatened extortion over a pair of free Crocs.

So, yeah, maybe some of us could make the jump to international terrorism more easily than others. [Read more...]