Her description of the father screaming is quite odd. I would guess that since she was already trying to control her kids, her adrenaline was up and she was already feeling vulnerable and outnumbered. So when the father spoke in a forceful manner, her brain interpreted it as screaming, immediately casting this father as an out of control jerk, thus justifying the non-flattering POV.

It’s nice that she at least recognizes that there is another side to the story, but as the Vorlons would say (dork alert): “Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth”.

The boy wasn’t getting attention from his mom, so your negative attention was better than none. Tell the boy you are playing with Izzy and he should play with his mom then ignore his reply, guard her with your body between her and him, get her down the slide, tell Izzy what a great time you had and go home.

Tell Izzy she can come stay with Aunt Tara while she works through some of her “issues.” We don’t move very fast, either.

I should probably take vitamins. If only I can remember…

Try Nature’s Sunshine, but do your best to avoid the feel of the pyramid scheme-iness. You have to sign up for a membership, which is often too much commitment for me, but it might suit you.

Or I could give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you wrote your “holier than though” post when you saw the title of the article and didn’t bother to actually read it or the other posts I’ve made about Alcor. But I’m not exactly in a gracious mood today, so I’m going with explanation #1.

For the record, I fully support cryonics and other sensible life-extension technologies (although I think the whole “singularity” prediction is a bunch of hippie crap). But, at the end of the day, cryonics is still freezing a dead person. If you can’t laugh at that, then you need someone to pull that stick out of your ass a little.