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Parent’s Just Don’t Understand… Yet?
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Our parents are great, for the most part. When we are too small to defend or feed ourselves, they take care of us. As we grow and mature, they guide and nurture us so that we can become fully functional human beings, and not the equivalent of lower primates, sitting in trees flinging our own crap at each other (thank you Red Forman). But one area where most parents don’t quite have the ability to be the all-knowing influence they would like to be: video games.
When I was growing up playing tag and hide-and-seek, my parents totally understood. They would ask how the game went, where I was hiding, what kind of tag rules I played with – they were very involved, because they could relate my experience to their own. However, when I picked up my first Genesis game, they watched Sonic the Hedgehog like he was an alien from outer space (wait, was he?), shook their heads, and left the room. Thus ended my parent’s ability to fully understand me – from that day forward, there would always be that barrier between us – the invisible yet impassable wall made of 1-ups and gold coins. READ MORE »
There have been countless rumours surrounding the paternity of Michael Jackson’s three kids, but one has been shot down. During his appearance on “Good Morning America,” Dr. Arnold Klein addressed the rumour of being the biological father of Jackson’s kids.
“I can’t say anything about it, but, to the best of my knowledge, I am not the father of these children,” he said to Diane Sawyer. “I can’t answer it in any other way. I don’t want to feed any of this insanity that is going around.”
During his appearance, Klein also insisted he isn’t being investigated in regards to the king of pop’s death.
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After what seems like endless breakdowns, Britney Spears is getting her life back on track and sharing her good fortune.
Spears taught a free dance class to eight children aged 4-9 last night, at the Millennium Dance Studio in North Hollywood, reports OK! Magazine.
Though some of the kids were a little too young to know, the extent of Spears’ fame, they were still starstruck. Said one parent of her son’s reaction, “He didn’t really know who Britney was, though he dances to all of her music. So when I told him ‘this is the lady who makes all the songs you like,’ he got very excited.”
Interacting with the kids may be therapeutic for Spears, as she recently lost custody of her two young sons.
