It's show time!

The way our kids have been acting lately, I hope she's open to a return visit!

After last night's fight over a shower before bed....I'm SOOO in on that with you!

There is no fight over a shower. The only other option is a cold bucket of water dumped on the child while they sleep during the night. Usually only takes one of these to cure them.

I considered that, but didn't want my neighbors calling the police on me again because of the way she screams. It was bad enough last night when all I was doing was tickling her to keep her awake and irritate her into the shower.

Slightly related to S-Nanny...rumor is that a Dial commercial is/was being filmed at McChesney's today...true?

I can't see anything other than old spice and aqua net being filmed there...

I think I need Supernanny.

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Slightly related to S-Nanny...rumor is that a Dial commercial is/was being filmed at McChesney's today...true?

That is true.

I'm a little confused here - assuming it was a serious post, police were called because neighbors heard a screaming child...isn't it a good thing to have concerned neighbors? I thought that was a good thing about GE?

Yoss, you always post the same pic of her!

Darl, it is a good thing that my neighbors are concerned. However, I'm obviously not doing anything to harm her if she's screaming words back at me instead of "OUCH" or "STOP" or "THAT HURTS" or "NO". She's a pre-teen and with that comes attitude. Unfortunately, she's a precocious pre-teen, so it also comes with intelligence and an innate desire to manipulate adults to get what she wants. Which is exactly what happened when the police knocked on my door after she kicked her sister in the shins and I was yelling at her for it.

I also find it amusing that no one even bothers to knock on my other neighbors door when their son kicks the walls at unGodly hours of the night. They happen to be on the other side of my building and one floor below us, but he kicks so hard my Partylite almost falls off the wall. EVERY night. No one bothers with anything over there, though.

Set your DVR's - Nov. 5th is Friday!

Oy . . . once again, if you are a high school girl, what good can come from this kind of "celebrity?"

Poor kid.

I don't know why I expect this online journalism to be any different than so much other material I read these days, but the Patch really needs to start proofing stories better. This piece alone has a missing apostrophe in what should read won't; uses the incorrect it's as a possessive; and skipped the letter d when describing the "show's most trouble(d) teen."

That was just a quick skim, not a close reading. Come on, Patch, you can do better!

I was a copyeditor a long, long time ago and I can't help but proofread as I read. It's a blessing and a curse.

Repeated use of "council" rather than "counsel" is still the best. America the Stupid. Get used to it.

Thanks for the heads up, guys. We changed the Council/ counsel problem a while back and I just made the changes to the Atkinson Family story.

You're right, mistakes like that shouldn't stand and we do our best to fix them as soon as we find them and to not have them there in the first place.

Still, come on, a little compassion please. I'm running a 24 hr news site all by myself. It's gonna happen from time to time. I think we're doing a great job posting quality content on the site on a regular basis and covering Glen Ellyn better than any other publication serving this community right now.

Thanks everyone!

We are, for the most part, *******s. How did you not know that before you took that job?

BTW, I wasn't calling you stupid, Patch. I was saying that we, the good and chubby people of the U.S. of A., no longer give a poop about grammar. Which is sad, don't you think? People constantly using "your" for "you're", incapable of getting their there/they're/theirs straight . . . the art of the English language is dying. I'm wondering how half of the population conducts business on a daily basis. What an unpleasant situation.

I blame part of the demise on texting...

Actually, I'd put the blame on spell check. It causes people to read less carefully (I'm at fault here) and it decreases the need to actually know how to spell. I was in 7th Grade when we got our first computer. I think I was a freshman in high school the last time I took a spelling test.

Death of the English language might be a little extreme, but that's how it goes. Maybe in the future the written word will be out the window and we'll all just beam our thoughts back and forth, and they'll be stored in a cloud...

Dont worry, Clamato, I didn't take it personally. The people on this board are great! It's too bad other communities don't have something like this.

I think it's a lovely combination of texting, spell check, and a general acceptance of below-standard behaviors.

Yes, everyone makes mistakes sometimes....yes, sometimes people don't like to admit it....but it is NEVER ok to accept laziness, and that's what we've done. Specifically with the language arts.

How many times did you proof that before you hit "Post Now?"