Comments on: Bad From The Past: The Day My Kid Went Punk

By: Lexi Adams

Lexi Adams — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:03:40 +0000

my sister has dyslexia but she can live a very normal life eventhough she can’t read that much:*”

By: John Clark

John Clark — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:59:22 +0000

dyslexia is not that debiliating but it is somewhat limiting to the kind of job that you can get:~*

By: Mary Griffin

Mary Griffin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:39:46 +0000

Tom Cruise have dyslexia and yet he is still a very successful actor.~~~

By: Neen

Neen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:22:56 +0000

Well, there you go, you know what to get him for his birthday! I’m pretty sure there were a couple of seasons, even!
Yup, it was alien life form, and you’re right about his name too, I’d forgotten it until you said it. (typed it, whatev.. snort, I havn’t said whatev… in 20 years!)

By: mamatulip

mamatulip — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:55:49 +0000

My husband would have snapped that box set up in a heartbeat – he *LOVED* ALF. He’d be disappointed that I can’t remember what ALF stands for.
I want to say it stands for Alien Life Form, but I don’t think it’s ‘Form’. Alien Life something…I’m totally Googling it after this comment. Wasn’t ALF’s name Gordon Shumway, or something like that? (Am I even thinking of the right 80s sitcom?!)

By: Neen

Neen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:40:14 +0000

We saw a box set of ALF at BestBuy the other day. (I was replacing my box set of Firefly, long story.) My 17 year old said “We’re not buying ALF.” I said, “No, no were not, it wasn’t actually that good.”
Do you remeber what A.L.F. stood for?

By: mamatulip

mamatulip — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:45:22 +0000

Michelle, I still know the lyrics to the theme song!
Kristin – “If I’d wanted to rebel I would have started asking for brandnames and joined cadets.” <– yup, me too.
Neen – I’m impressed that you recognized the father in that picture! It took me a few minutes to figure it out (at first, I thought it was the father from ALF. Remember ALF?)

By: Neen

Neen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:23:08 +0000

I really love that the Dad is Doc from Love Boat!
My teenagers can wear their hair and dress any way they please. I had a Duran Duran haircut and dressed New Wave. And they’ve seen the pictures. I have no room to judge.
(They listen in the most part to 80′s metal and dress that way anyway. Don’t tell them, but I think it’s really cute!)
As a side-note, my 16 year old was listening to “We’re not gonna take it” by Twisted Sister one day when I walked through the dining room. I told him, “Hey! That song is about your Nanna and Poppa, if you’re listening to it because I told you to get off the computer and do the dishes, cut it out!” He fell off his chair laughing.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:05:09 +0000

First thing first, Jem rocks! I actually have a couple dolls and a VHS tape. Okay, moving on. I was always a freak even in childhood but since my mom was a hippy (the values not the drugs) I was always encouraged to “be an individual.” If I’d wanted to rebel I would have started asking for brandnames and joined cadets. As for my kid, my only concern would be if there was a really sudden and dramatic change of any kind. I would support their decision (so long as it didn’t involve any harm to self or others) but I would want to know if there was anything else going on that spurred the sudden change.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:33:39 +0000

OMG I loved Jem & the Holograms!!