Day: August 3, 2011

I'm pretty sure the best age to start having children is 0, also known as the moment of conception.

This way, you don't have the retraining/deprogramming problems you get when you start out with an older child.

It's like dogs – you think getting them after their already housetrained is a good thing, but you wind up spending a lot more time just creating a strong parent-puppy bond than you otherwise would have, and you'll still need to learn how to parent "in situ", without the advantages of starting to do so with a youngling that cannot just run away.

What is the ideal age to start having children?

Ask questions, instead of making statements.

What's the best parenting advice?

No one else has said it yet, so I gotta go with the obligatory "Photos", and for iPad 2, "Camera" apps.

Those two apps alone will keep 'em busy a very long time, especially once they start recognizing people and places.

What are the best iPad apps for toddlers, under 2?

Hold your wedding in an adult cabaret, and let the bouncers take care of the issue on your behalf.

I want my wedding to be an adults-only affair. How can I make sure that people don't bring their kids?

When it comes to marriage, or engagement, or even long term relationships, there are no "shoulds". Only "wills" based on needs and desires effectively communicated, negotiated, and agreed upon. Whatever works for both of you, works. The rest can be chucked out a big fat window.

That said, there are various legal and tax implications of getting married, some of which may prove long-term detrimental to one or both of you if the marriage doesn't last. Younger people are more prone to having poor credit at some point before becoming more established in a career, for example – and credit histories become entangled by marriage.

I guess the simplest answer I can give to this question is this: if you haven't figured out what you want in life yet, then marriage is much more likely to expose you to many things you don't want in your life. And, more to the point: knowing what you don't want in life doesn't get you any closer to a happy and contented one.

Should a teen mother be engaged?