I thought I would start this thread for parents who have had children with non-traditional sleep patterns, or who have them with non-traditional.

I am the Mom of a 17yr old, and we learned the hard way how to keep him safe.

I am also someone who has non-traditional sleep patterns...so am likely more tolerant of it.

The 'It Gets Better' project, a resource for LGBT teenagers, set up by Dan Savage: http://YouTube.com/itgetsbetterproject

We're pretty lucky in Canada to (also) have KidsHelpPhone: 1-800-668-6868 or KidsHelpPhone.ca.

Okay, so I finally made the minimum goal for my cancer ride, thanks to some people here, the rainbow community, and total youtube and Facebook strangers. Wanted to extend my thanks.

This coming weekend, the 12th and 13th of June I'll be keeping a promise to my brother Jerry and riding 200 miles from Toronto to Niagara falls, the long, crazy route, for cancer research at the Princess Margaret. He was treated there. I beat cancer twice. He didn't make it.

I picked my daughter (age 3 1/2) up from daycare last week and she'd had a rough day.  Normally we only hear good stuff but that day, whoosh, she'd whacked one kid and thrown food, tried to induce a coo against another child...the works.  It was, as I said, a rough day and we talked a lot about what had happened that day.  Part of it that seemed to contribute to it was two of her boy daycare friends suddenly deciding to turn on the girls, chase them with pretend guns while yelling that they were going to kill them.

I have a problem with this.

Somegirl's thread "On Fear" brought up personal fears I have about walking alone.  I don't know if the fear is rational or not.  I live alone, and so there wouldn't be anyone to miss me if I didn't arrive home in a reasonable time.  Also, I'm not as fit as I once was and worry that I wouldn't be able to run away if I felt unsafe.  

I'd love to be able to walk on nature trails, but am too afraid to go it alone.