Maybe you’ve not met any aliens in your lifetime but hey, they could be anybody nowadays. If Chicken Little were among us today (or had been in the car with me this afternoon), his cry would’ve resounded again, only this time it would’ve been "Their Pants are Falling!!"

Women who’d normally give a good-looking guy the eye curl their nose up in disgust at the sagg look. When a man wears his pants this way, he is labeling and proclaiming himself to be wanting and willing for sexual action from another male. If you’re reading this post and you’re one of the many across the country that think it’s a hip-hop fashion statement, think again.

You may argue that all that’s showing is underwear … but it’s called underwear for a reason – you wear it UNDER other clothing! And take a look at THIS picture! I do believe this is the next "step" in this rude and deliberately rebellious fad; how else could this photo been taken? Those pants are barely hanging on! And their butt cheeks have to be bare as well! If I saw these two walking down a street in my town, would I look? Of course…and I’d laugh until I cried at how stupid they looked – while I called the cops on my cellphone. Why should I be subjected to seeing these two idiots? It would be an invasion of my privacy and a definite example of indecent exposure. If there were children walking nearby, I’d seek to add child endangerment to the indecent exposure charge, as well. Actually, the court would count the i.e. charge as a felony in this case as opposed to just a misdemeanor.

• jail time
• probation
• fines
• restitution
• registration as a sexual offender
• mandatory court ordered classes
• community service

So fellas, do you think your saggy pants are so cool, now?

• Mysterious $0.25 Charges Appearing on Credit Cards in the United States A couple of years ago there was a criminal ring based out of Los Angeles that put relatively small charges on credit cards of over 2 million consumers account. They stole hundreds of millions of dollars by the time they were caught. They got away with it for so long......
• 8 Step Recipe for Good Corporate Blogging Regardless of whether you already have a corporate blog, or if you are planning on starting one, if you want to turn your blog into a successful endeavor for your business, you need to have a recipe for success. Blogs that work well at attracting new clients and readers have......
• Simple Tips for Buying Ski Pants Women's and men's ski and snowboard pants are essentially designed to provide the maximum amount of comfort while simultaneously insulating your legs and keeping them warm and dry. There are a number of different choices available to you when it comes to ski pants, including bib styled ski pants and......

The Peter Pan Syndrome in America, Today

Times have really changed.

 In my day, (in 1968) age 18 and out of the house and on your own couldn’t come at a swift enough pace.  I couldn’t wait to become an independent young woman, making my own decisions, living free of parental “guidance” and becoming my own person.  Today, there are more adult children living at home in reliance on their aging parents than you can shake a stick at.  The fact that I just used such an old-timey cliche proves that I’m too old for all of this nonsense…and that is exactly what it is.   BUT…I’m still in the fray and drama of it all.  The question is, WHY???

Unfortunately the vote has been tallied and the grim results are in: there are tons of young people in their twenties and thirties that simply ”refuse to grow up” and accept the responsibilities of adult living.   Yes, those same adult children who so unanimously cry out “I’m an adult” every chance they get to anyone and everyone within earshot are the very ones who continually look to their parents for support, both emotional and financial.  Thus we baby boomers find ourselves in a precarious position – that of re-raising our children and many times THEIR CHILDREN also!  I speak from experience, here.

The percentage of young adults  living with parents as opposed to on their own would astound you;  nearly 25 million adult children are living with their parents… most of whom have come back home after failing to make it on their own!  <<this stat can be found in various places online, but I took it from notes I’d taken while watching a YouTube presentation on this very subject that highlighted the book “Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents” by Allison Bottke. >> (We struggling parents search high and wide for answers; Bottke’s website, http://www.settingboundaries.com is a great resource which I highly recommend.  Matter of fact, I should probably get this book!)

My personal issues and the myriad of dramatic details aside, I am one of those perplexed parents who happen to have an adult child who has come back to live at home.  While I’m thinking to be helpful, I’m beginning to see that my offers of “help” have been well-intentioned hand-outs, instead of the hand-up I thought I was offering.  There’s a difference between helping and enabling…and I’m just beginning to see the VAST differences.  Stuck at what to do, I sought out others who’d been in my situation.  It was the first of many wise steps I’m going to take.

If you’re among the thousands of parents struggling to survive your adult child/children who have come back home to roost (or who haven’t even made it out of the nest, yet) hope is at hand.  You can achieve S.A.N.I.T.Y. in an otherwise totally chaotic and insane situation!

Let me ask: Does this sound a little familiar?

S.A.N.I.T.Y. is an acronym from Allison Bottke’s bestseller “Setting Boundaries”

• Women's Healthy Hair Tips Most women are actually better off without a hair dresser, because there are plenty of healthy hair tips that you can employ at home in order to take care of your hair. When you visit a hair dresser, you undergo chemical treatments while your stylist up sells you into hair......
• Parenting transracial (TR) children If you are parenting TR children (a child with a different race than your own), it is especially important to give them a sense of themselves. But no matter what children you parented or are parenting, it's a truism that they are their own selves. There's only so much that......
• Ca" title="dogblueyes src="http://agingparentsauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dogblueyes.jpg" width=300/>Ca" border=0>Caregiving Children Paying Parents' Bills Caregivers paying the bills is a hard subject for children of aging parents to realize. Many children who find themselves in care giving roles do not really know how they will be paying for their parents' care over the next five years. That's from a report by aging expert David......

You find them everywhere – at strip malls, in parking lots, grocery and video stores, the corner newsstand -  people who cheat other people on a daily basis without so much as a second thought.  Nice enough folks; people who smile at other people, maybe even open a car door for an old lady.  But cheats nonetheless.

There I was, standing in line with my A & W rootbeer in-hand.  I don’t usually buy pop but it was on sale for just $.99 at the corner convenience store where I usually get my cappachino every morning.  I smiled up at Earl, the clerk that was always so friendly, courteous and helpful, as I plunked down my dollar bill.  “One dollar” he said, smiling back at me.  Into the register went my dollar bill.

For a split second I did one of those infernal inner debates we gals tend to have with ourselves on occaisions such as this one.  No, I’ll not say it; I decided against correcting him and went out the door to my car.  As I buckled my seatbelt, it hit me; I’d allowed him to cheat me.  The  little devil on my left shoulder argued with a “It’s only $.99.”

The horned dude in red sitting smugly there was correct, but right and wrong were what you gott from eating the “other tree” in the Garden of Eden … the Tree of the Knowledge of Good AND Evil.  So while he insinuated the insidious fact into my left ear, the other invisible guy  – the one tsitting  on my right shoulder (we’ll dress him in white – how novel) whispered “That’s right;  but how many times a day on how many items a day, EVERY DAY of the year, does this happen?” 

It occurred to me that the possibility of monetary gain that little corner store made on just that small, one cent cheat could be a very big deal.  Think about it. That soft drink was only one of many items in that store priced at just 99 cents.

I’m conservative, so I quickly figured it up:  three, 99 cent items sold in an hour = $.03/hour stolen change (I know it’s got to be lots more than that in a busy store like this one) … the store opens at 6:30 am and closes at 10 pm (that’s 15.5 hours/day) = about $.47/day, and this place is open all 365 days/year, which comes to about $169.72/year STOLEN FROM THE COMMUNITY that patronizes this place!  If they’d done it all in one day, it would make the 6 o’clock news!

You can do the math from here on in; take all the convenience stores in just your neck of the woods PLUS the grocery stores (some of which are open 24/7/365).  It’s a lot, trust me.

Just by counting up the stores right around where I live, say in a 2-mile radius (just off the top of my head it was a dozen or more…but I used 12 as my figure for this example), if this were just all that was finaggled from the unsuspecting, albeit allowing public, the theft amount would surpass $2036.70 a year!

You could get a little fanatical about it I suppose and then think about all the $1.99 items that the very same little sneaky trick is done with, but that boggles the mind and scrambles the little brains most of have left at the end of a busy day.
A measly 99 cents isn’t so measly when it comes to something like this …
so don’t you let it happen, again (I’m just sayin’).

• Make Money on Ebay Is it really possible to make money on Ebay? [/caption] Ninety-nine percent of the time that I hear, "make money on Ebay" it turns out that the person is simply getting rid of stuff they no longer want. I don't consider that making money, because you lose the possession -......
• Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought [/caption] The human mind is a wonderful thing. Cognition, the act or process of thinking, enables us to process vast amounts of information quickly. For example, every time your eyes are open, you brain is constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You may be consciously thinking about one specific thing, but......
• How To Choose A Reliable Forex Robot Forex trading has always been a great way to earn money and invest online. For years people have been making thousands of dollars in this lucrative market, but things have changed recently. Traders used to spend hours a day analyzing the complicated graphs, charts, news headlines and applications, but now......