Before embarking on a journey, most travellers will prepare for it either physically or mentally. Since Ramadan is just around the corner, here is a quick checklist to better prepare ourselves for this journey of test…..Let’s start from head to toe:-

1. Head (Brain)
Are our minds clear on what are we expected or required to do and why?

a. YES. (it’s the third pillar of ISLAM and to seek ALLAH’s mercy and love).
b. NO.. (check again..!! This is not a joke!).

2. Eyes
Are we ready to even lower our gazes further?..

a. YES.. (Hopefully, our eyes will be “shut” to anything “haram” even more than our normal days)…
b. NO… (please get hold of a blindfold!)..

3. Ears
Are we ready not to listen to anything but only good such AL QURAN recital, religious speeches etc.?

a. YES.. (All radio and television programmes are tuned to ISLAMIC channels).
b. NO… (Earplug anybody?).

4. Mouth
Are we going to blabber unnecessarily?

a. YES.. (Silence is golden applied here).
b. NO… (Allhumdulilah, only Quranic verses will come out from the mouth this Ramadan!..SURE?..TRY no harm trying, Insha’Allah).

5. Heart
Are we doing it for the sake of ALLAH SWT alone or are we doing it to loose weight?..

a. YES… (Only ALLAH will know our true “niat” (our intentions) and feeling).
b. NO…. (Throw that weighing scale, diet manual, exercise machine…clean your heart and focus)..

6. Hands
Are we going to give alms, zakat and be helpful (lending a hand)..?

a. YES.. (Allhumdulilah, make sure what the right hand gives the left hand does not know).
b) NO… (Cut your hand..(KIDDING)..ISLAM is not cruel! Just do not do any harm to others with your hands).

7. Private Part (Sex)
Lets keep this very private..however for those who are married please exercise restrain? Those who are not married …DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT (period!)..

a. YES.. (Allhumdulilah fasting is not only avoiding eating or drinking but to curb our other lusts too).
b. NO… (I do not know what to say….will chastity belts for both men and women do?)..

8. Legs
Are we going an extra mile to make sure our legs are going to ferry us to and fro the mosque?

a. YES.. (Every step to the mosque is a blessing for us).
b. NO… (get ready the chain..?).

Now if your answers are all YES (except for question 4) then you are ready to embark on this “tough” 30 days journey…..If not please go to your nearest convenient store and do a restocking fast!!

I wish all Muslims the best of IMAN and happy travelling. Rasulullah saw ever mentioned that there are some who fast but gain nothing, only hunger and thirst..we do not want to
be in these category.

my neightbor’s dog barks non-stop, it is so annoying it echoes in my bedroom. I tried earplugs and they are so uncomfortable in my ears when I’m trying to sleep & they don’t even block out the barks really even if I put them in deep which makes it more uncomfortable. I was thinking of talking to them about it & they are out of town. I have to get some sleep, I wake up exhausted with dark circles under my eyes because of that dog. I am not perticularly fond of them because one time when our phone line bled, you could overhear her talking on the phone saying about how her 1 year old baby is sick and you can hear the baby crying in the background and they neglect their dog & leave it outside with a doghouse. She talks on the phone all day. We know this because the work my mom does is medical transcription that goes via phone and she’ll be yacking away for the whole day. Not kidding, obviously the dog has simmilar genes. How do I get some shut eye or get this mutt to shut up meanwhile?

My neighbors blast their stereo really loud throughout the day and night. It is so loud that even if I use earplugs I can hear it. Their music even causes my door to rumble (literally). They do this in a constant basis and most of the time throughout the entire night. I can’t get any sleep because when I lay down on my bed I can feel vibrations of the music. What should I do about this situation? I can’t move out right now because I am just a college kid and I can barely pay my tuition and any job I get will be low pay and I won’t be able to work full time because I have to attend school. We live in a public housing right now because my parents became disabled. My neighbors seems to be the violent type, I have talked to them about this and they just deny putting on any music at late hours. I’m afraid that if I call the police they will get violent. I can’t get a roommate to move out with either because I have to move out with my parents because they are disabled and I need to take of them. Please help… Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.

So, it is too late to switch rooms at this time and I am living in a dorm with someone whose sleep schedule is the absolute opposite of mine. Basically, the kid himiself is not a bad person; he seems very calm, low key, and reserved. He stays up until 8 or so in the morning typing away instant message and the typical useless stuff. He is certainly not doing homework or anything constructive, which bemuses me. The main issue is that he will sometimes do laundry at 3 am, eat greasy meals in the room at 2 am, and bang drawers/ make ordinary noises like opening a door. These thing wouldn’t normally bother me as I always sleep with earplugs, but he woke me up– and that is beginning to be a daily nuisance. I have class at 8 am and work out five days a week, so it is very important that I get reste. What should I do? What is the best way to deal with this? I am very tolerant but he i think he is being inconsiderate. Yet, he is not outright disrespectful…
Thanks Liz, very insightful recommendation. And yes, I was beginning to become resentful towards him and expressing my anger through other channels like slamming the door, etc.

I am pretty sure he might not know he is bothering me and is just bored of surfing the web. I was somewhat hesitant of talking to him because he is rarely in the room and I do not want to seem authoritative or unfair, but it is also not my fault that he has an abnormal “sleep” schedule.

Well you see,a few weeks or months ago me and my friends were talking about bm (bloody mary) and one of my friends went into the bathroom and said her name three times with the lights out and she got slashed.She has a scar now.I don’t believe them.Well my friends are no afraid to go to the bathroom and I said is it about bm (bloody mary)? And they said no I’m just afraid to go in the bath room.I think it was because of bm (bloody mary) I heard about this on line.

September 24, 2007
My own story finally comes out:)

I feel like it’s time to talk about my own “Bloody Mary” experience. It almost seems like too much of a build up, but here goes: I was ten years old and my friend and I were having a sleep over. After gossiping about every boy in school, we got bored, and we started talking about our favorite horror movies. When that got us thoroughly freaked, we tried to come up with things we could do that would freak us out more. I would pretend I could hear someone knocking on the door on my back patio. (my whole back yard was forest, so this was particularly creepy) My friend kept on pretending she’d hear someone coming down the stairs (my bedroom was on the bottom floor of my house, so being in the basement, pretending someone was coming down the stairs, was really scary even if it sounds silly) Then I remembered Bloody Mary and we both squealed appropriately and I got the candles. Of course, the candles were actually fake, my parents wouldn’t trust me with real fire in my room, but even the fake ones served their purpose. We went into the bathroom and switched on the candles. I decided to be the brave one and I spun in circles a little more than three times, but we were giggling at this point, so the dizzier the better. We both went to the mirror, and I said, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. I couldn’t focus, I was so dizzy, so I asked my friend if she saw anything. She said no. And then…in the reflection of the mirror we both saw the window that faced my backyard, and there, staring at us from outside, was a girl with her hands plastered on the window, her mouth was open like she was screaming. We screamed and ran as fast as we could up the stairs to my parent’s room, waking them up and quite frankly, pissing them off. But we wanted my dad to go check it out. When he went down there, there was no girl, no nothing. We didn’t sleep a wink that night and to be honest I didn’t sleep for a week after, I kept the curtains down and put earplugs in my ears. But that moment has stuck with me forever.
Posted by rubloodymary at 11:56 AM 9 comments
Friday, September 14, 2007
More juicy stories…

Okay, I found another link to more stories. Some of these are pretty tough to swallow, but some of them I have to wonder… The Newport, MI story is just sad. Bloody Mary or not, the kid died. How many others have had similar experiences? Maybe getting yourself all worked up about something can freak you out to the point of death. I think people can scare themselves to death. It just shows how powerful of a weapon fear is. If Bloody Mary does exist all she’d have to do is show up in the mirror, that would be enough for most to make them run screaming. I would think it might even be a little fun for her : ) Enjoy the stories, I did! Check them out via the links page on rubloodymmary.com

www.halloween-website.com/bloody_mary_stories.html

Posted by rubloodymary at 10:55 AM 1 comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bloody Mary’s bloody history…

Some cool extra info that will most definitely be in my paper: A couple of namesakes, one being the most obvious, Queen Mary Tudor (or Mary Queen of Scots, most commonly known), who had almost 300 religious dissenters executed after she changed England’s religion to Roman Catholicism (this didn’t last btw Queen Elizabeth (her successor immediately reversed this once she came into power) But history lesson aside, this is how she got the name, Bloody Mary. There is a DC comic superhero called Bloody Mary, she was pretty bad ass, she was a vampire that used a flying disk ala Green Goblin and can manipulate her enemies by projecting rays from her eyes, and telekinesis to boot. And who can forget Bloody Mary from the musical South Pacific (I can) I hated that movie, but she was a character all the same. But most importantly (to college students anyway) is the drink, V-8 and vodka, yuck. So, just finding the roots of the name Bloody Mary has been interesting. What I still need to find out is how it became a game girls play at slumber parties? From Mary Queen of Scots to mirrors in the dark, quite a leap. The name that comes up the most for the “slumber party” version and the topic of my paper, is Mary Worth. Most of the legends say she was accused of killing her kids and anyone that says her name she thinks of as her accuser and will scratch your face off. How lovely. Some say she was a young girl who was killed by being buried alive and is now out fo

I am not a people person? and for some reason i thought it was a good idea to go to a university where alot a fake christians go. i cant stand this kind of person. for a while i wouldnt admit i was a christian because of these people.

you know like when they try to talk to you they get this bs look in thier face like i know whats right and you dont. but jesus still loves you.

i wanna transfer but i like the track program im in…
ive had 2 roomate conflicts becuase the girls just kept being stupid fake poufs and i eventually snapped at them…
the first would cry about anything and everything (missed her parents for 2 damn weeks straight. cried every. day.
the second two (three person room) harassed my friend to the point where her mom asked her to put a restraining order on these fake ass church attending girls for harassing her kid.

i have a restraining order on a guy who used to beat the fuck out of me so i have NO desire to be around these people. i HATE them.

my hall moniter who is also a pouf made me stay in there.
one of the things she said to me was:

*Kelly, what are you going to do when you and your husband are sleeping in the same bed, and he wants to read late at night?

(i hate them. i keep quiet but when they leave both of their study lamps on at 1am and i have practice at 6 30 it pissesme off.) i ahve a facemask and earplugs now…

kick him the heck out? id buy him a chair. big nice one? cost my monthly earnings just so he wouldnt have a light on when im sleeping.

thats an ex though of how crazy they are… seriously. they are so “loving and open minded” yet backstabbing harassing, overly weepy assholes? ugh.. they call their moms and cry when theyr sick.

i need to go to a public instition..

this school also kicked a girl out for cutting herself.. didnt offer her any help, no warnings, just kicked her out.

So my ipod headphones broke a year ago after like three years. I got these $10 philips headphones at bestbuy, the sound was really good, but they broke. So I bought these riduculous SKULLCANDY in-ear bud things…they are so dumb. They are uncomfortable, feels like I’m wearing earplugs, but the SOUND IS HORRIBLE. They sound like the treble is too high, no bass, only vocals with an echo, just a really bad sound. Like they ruin the music. I tried playing with the equalizer settings on the iPod, but nothing helps. What kid of headphones do you recommend, apple doesn’t seem to sell the same headphones that came with my ipod like 3 yrs ago. Any suggestions?

One of my twins has taken to yelling at dinner time. She just makes loud yelping or whining noises. She self-feeds and eats pretty fast and when she runs out of something she makes a very loud whining noise. When she’s happy she yelps. She’s very very loud.

It makes my husband angry and the other day he put on a baby DVD and wheeled her high chair into the livingroom and put her about 2 feet in front of the TV so that she would stop making noise.

I did not undermine him, but I made it clear to him after dinner that I think that was mean and unacceptable and that she’s also learning that she can watch TV at dinnertime by yelling. Not cool at all. He hasn’t done that since but last night she was yelling again at dinnertime and he started getting angry with her for it again. I suggested that he eat somewhere else if it bothers him because she’s only 14 months old and it’s hard for her to control her voice.

We basically have 2 choices for dinner. We all eat together and she whines when her tray is empty or yelps from happiness or they eat before he gets home and they completely FREAK OUT when we try to eat at the table. They either stand on the other side of the gate and scream at the top of their lungs or they stand by the table reaching up and grabbing at our plates (they’re really tall) or they scream at our feet. We give them snacks but they still scream and cry because we’re not playing with them.

I need HELP!!!!

I need to either find a way to teach one of my girls to use an inside voice at dinner time and not whine for food, without taking her away from the table because she’s going to be making even more noise which is going to upset my husband further- or I need to find a way to get my husband to calm down and understand that she’s a noisy kid and that if it truly hurts his sensitive ears as he says it does, that he needs to wear earplugs or something because she’s going to be loud at the table and away from the table!

I know she needs to learn manners at some point but she’s still a pretty young toddler. I need a way to teach her that won’t result in her being even more noisy by crying because it’s the noise that angers her dad. Putting her in her crib is out of the question because that is not a punishment zone. I don’t want her to associate her crib with punishment. I am so lost!

I agree with you guys that this is normal behavior and that my husband is more of the problem than anything.

Eeeek.

My fiancee SNORS LOUDLY. He has a deviated septum and has this terrible habit of putting his tongue to the roof of his mouth minimizing the already restricted amount of airflow. He is so loud that with the door closed I can hear him from the other side of our house,I’m not even kidding. I was always a very light sleeper but have gotten more sensitive to noise once I became a mother. He always snored but in the last 3 years it has gotten so bad that I mostly refuse to sleep in our bedroom now.

I am tired of waking up EVERY single night and moving to the guest bedroom. This daily interruption of sleep has really taken a toll of me physically and emotionally. I am a full time stay at home mom/part time student so I am up early with my toddler and am busy with the household and my academic responsibilities. Sleep is crucial to my daily functioning and losing sleep every night is really affecting me in a negative way. I am at my wits end with this and do not know what to do! I already spoke to him and we have tried over the counter treatments (nose strips etc) so I suggested the operation to lessen the snoring and he refuses to do it saying I should wear ear plugs. The problem is that I can still hear him through the earplugs and I need to be able to clearly hear the baby monitor for our daughter. We are engaged to be married but if this continues, I truly believe sleep deprivation will ruin our marriage. Anyone had this issue with their spouse? Suggestions? Please only serious answers.
Sathya..we tried me going to bed earlier but he is so loud and I am such a light sleeper that he wakes me up out of a sound sleep with his snoring in the middle of the night.
I know he needs to see a doctor but he outright refuses to.

I have super sensitive hearing, and I am extremely sensitive to the sound of bass from stereos. It annoys me worse than any other sound in the world. I literally get boiling mad when I hear it coming from a neighbor’s house or car. Sometimes it’s not even that loud, but even if I can hear it a little, it bothers me…sometimes to the point of tears depending on if I’m already in a bad/agitated mood - I’m not kidding. I can’t focus on anything else - TV, my own music, etc. as long as I can still hear it. People think I’m nuts because half the time, they don’t even hear it until I point it out. Then they’re like, “oh yeah, I guess I hear it….but it’s not really bothering me…” which makes me a thousand times more irritated. Other sounds don’t really bother me, but stereo bass has always driven me insane. Why does it bother me so badly? I really just want to get past it. I know that listening to music on headphones helps, and so do earplugs, but honestly I don’t want to have to always use those things. I want to be able to sit in my #%$*@ house and just ignore the sound like other people. Any suggestions?? Would hypnosis work?
In the past when a neighbor’s music has been very loud, I have called the cops. But I can’t do that every day to every single person that makes this noise. Half the time the cops are too busy to respond to a noise complaint anyway.

I put headphones on, and a kid coughed into his microphone. It was a loud sound, and I immediately pulled off the headphones. I don’t know if it was just startling, because it was a complete surprise, or it damaged my hearing. I am obsessive compulsive and I freak out about everything (I once thought I had a tumor and appendicitis at the same time!). Since then, I’ve been scared and it feels as though i can’t hear as sharp. I always use earplugs at concerts, and I am scared. Isn’t it true that the high frequency sounds go first? Is this possible? Did it do ANY damage? Or does it take repeated abuse?

I am at a university campus. I’m 20 and have the decency to say hi to the next person and smile at them and say something polite if necessary. I live in a dorm yet the rules of convention seem to be far broken down. The people I am surrounded by just do not know how to behave properly. They are not unruly, just rude and curt. I try to be as nice as I can yet they spit in my face. I was woken up at 2:45 AM by a noise in the hall and was asked to “invest in a pair of earplugs” or “be knocked unconscious” in order to go to sleep. The person said he was kidding. Who in the right mind would ever say something like that or be kidding? This frustrates me so much.
No one seems to smile a lot around here. I am feeling unhappy, that’s why I hate going to college.

we live on a top floor apartment floor, but our nieghboors below us have a kid who needs oxygen at night to sleep. His machines makes noise.

this noise sounds like a car idleing, and it comes up through the floor. I can’t tell them “sorry, but your kid’s oxygen machine keeps me up at night”, but does anyone have a suggestion for drowing out the noise?

earplugs make the noise worse due to the low vibrating pitch, & I’ve also tried a fan in my room to cover the noise (as long as it’s MY noise, it seems it’s o.k.)

Having established MY Noise (sound terrible I know) is accetable to me, what other things can I use?

I was think a humidifyer, t.v./ radio, or somthing else, anyone sleep with somting noisey, and how do you cope?

-Thanks

My neighbors kid constantly screams and throws tantrums. I do not know the family so I do not feel comfortable approaching them about this. I live in an apartment complex and these neighbors live right next door. The child is clearly doing this for attention because I can hear the parents tell her to shut up and she screams louder. I feel bad for the kid, but at the same time I am sick of hearing her screaming. I have called the police at midnight before because I didn’t know if maybe she was being abused or neglected. After that incident the family went away (on a trip I guess) and were gone for 2 or 3 days. It was nice having the peace and quiet, but now they are back again and the kid is screaming again. I am going to report this to the manager of the complex too but I don’t think there is anything more they can do about it either. Anyone have any suggestions? BTW, I am single and do not have children of my own. This is extremely annoying. I also must sleep with earplugs.
Even though I am single and childless does not mean I do not like children. I love kids. I just feel like my rights as a tenant and my right for some peace and quiet is being infinged upon. This is crazy. A kid should not scream so much. Its constant from the time I get home in the evening around 5 or 6pm up until around midnight or so…every night. I am not joking and this has been going on now for atleast 4 months.
Ooops I mispelled infringed…sorry.

Hey! You clicked!

Happy (late) new years!
So,i’ll get straight to the point.
Today as i was reaching school i saw some of my classmates hanging out.
There was this girl we are sitting together and she was waving at me to go there.
I was wearing my earplugs but i am a good lip reader.
As i approached i heard-saw one guy that said :Yeah, don’t bother she won’t come.
and then when he turned and saw that i was actually coming he said ; Well,she never comes when i am alone and then,obviously ignoring that i have heard him he smiled at me.

I felt kind of bad i have to say.
I never thought he WANTED me to go or something.I mean okay,he’s being always polite (even though a little sarcastic but he’s like that with anyone).

Three years ago i changed schools and i got familiar with the place in about 1 year and now after three i have friends (no bff anyways).So i think that doesn’t makes me a social person.
And i am withn this kids from this summer (summerschool,don’t ask)

I never know when people ask me to hang out with them because they actually want to or they are just being polite.
I don’t have a problem with not being the centre of attention.
But i dunno,it felt kind of bad because he probably thought i was a snob or i didn’t like him.
Anyways,what’ your opinion?

Survey time! : D

*Ice cream or Chocolate Bars?
*Mars or Snickers?
*Lays or Doritos?
*Being sad and everyone else being happy or being happy and everyone else feeling cranky?
*Facebook or Y!A (where do you spend more time)
*Laptop or Desktop?
*Books or tv?

My neighbors who live a house down across the street are always honking their car horn! It happens at least once a day (if not more than once) where the mother of the house will honk her horn repeatedly to make her kids hurry or get someone inside the house to open the garage door. The only problem is that she just doesn’t honk her horn once or twice, but at least 8-10 times! To top it off, she slams her horn real hard so that it blares for at least a minute! It’s so loud and so rude! I wouldn’t mind it if she honked her horn once on a few occasions, but this is every day for at least 5-10 minutes! I can’t take it anymore! Sometimes, when I get out of work or school real tired, I like to come home and take a nap for half an hour or so, but no matter where I sleep in my house, I can still hear that woman blare her horn everyday! I do put on earplugs, but it’s still extremely rude even when I’m not taking a nap! What do I do about this inconsiderate neighbor of mine that I have never even spoken to before?!

I’m a freshman in college, having been here 3 weeks, and I love my roommate dearly. However, she has this obnoxious cough that can keep everybody in our suite awake, but mostly me. She either claims to get it every winter or that it’s a smokers cough. I smoke more and have smoked for longer than her, so I call BS. If it was just giving me a little trouble getting to sleep, I would not be complaining. But every night, for the last 3 weeks, I have gotten an average of 4 hours of sleep a night because she is up hacking for several hours. And a fair amount of the time, when she hacks, she pukes. In her bed. I can also come home and she will be asleep with her headphones not plugged in and music full volume, occasionally singing in her sleep. I have come home from trips, needing sleep really badly, to find drunk people passed out in my bed, with ridiculous amounts of alcohol on my desk. I have had to wait 4 or 5 hours for the plastered kids to leave my room. I have now missed 4 classes (although one is attendance optional) and a meeting with a professor because I haven’t gotten to sleep until soon before class. Also, last night, she had the nerve to get a bit annoyed at me because I kept her up for an hour the previous night DOING A PAPER.

I’ve tried talking about it to her, but she’ll say sorry and that’s that. She’s taken over the counter meds, and nothing changes. Earplugs or headphones do absolutely nothing to block the noise. How can I get some sleep?
We don’t have a couch. We have a building-wide common room downstairs, but that’s not really somewhere you can sleep.

my son who is 18 and going to college would like his friend to sleep over on weekdays. we already have three kids and our house is not that big. we both get up early to go to work and he and his friend do not go to bed early. they watch tv and play video games. i am a light sleeper and earplugs are not always the answer. it is not for one day sometimes it is two or three nights, taking a bath each day, and even washing his clothes. there is also the food part. I am not stingy but we are already a family of 5 so you can imagine. i am okay with one day on the weekend sometimes but it seems a bit much to me especially on the weekday. What do you think?

Hi. So about 2 weeks ago i got diagnosed with Hyperprolactemia. Long story short, im 21, i have no kids and i have NEVER been pregnant. I got diagnosed with Hyperprolactemia through some blood work. I guess the doctor thinks i might have a pituitary adenoma because i have to go get an MRI done this coming monday.
The problem is that i just realized that im SCARED of getting the MRI. I saw how they put you in that tube machine thingy and omg it just totally freaked me out. My friend told me that they put headphones and earplugs so you cant hear the noises and you can ask them to put something over your eyes so you cant see. But that freaked me out even more. I cant stay still for 40-60 minutes! i dont know what to do now, i HAVE to go get the MRI done. But is there anything that i can do to make myself more comfortable? I tried to relax about it but i just think about it and i feel like i cant breathe! Cant they give me some medication or something?
I dont know what to do! help!
i have only talked to the lady over the phone when i made the appointment. i told her i wasnt scared..but i guess i am.
Im planning to drive there. should i have someone drive me instead?

Hello again, I have posted a question before but I’d like some solid advice.

My daughter does not like anyone touching her, does not like to be bothered and spends all of her time alone even when we have company. It is as if she lives in her own little world. Amongst other things, I’ve found quite disturbing images on her computer.

Today, I was looking at her calendar on her iPod to check out when her driver’s ed appointment was, and I saw written “kill self” as a task for yesterday. Of course she didn’t, but I found that a bit odd to place on a calendar.

Last night she, my husband and I were having an argument over dinner. It lasted around two hours, she was in bed the entire time because when my husband started trying to reason with her over dinner, she was already in bed. This was around 10:30. It ended shortly before 1 AM, and my husband and I went to bed around half an hour later. As I passed by her room, I could hear her crying violently (yet not loud enough to be heard except right outside her door) and whispering what sounded like “please kill me,” to herself. I don’t know how long this went on but I went into her room before I went to work in the morning and she was not crying.

She argues constantly and is constantly belittling me. It really takes a toll on my self-esteem. I am a bit sensitive and she knows that, yet she never stops arguing, she has even said on a few occasions that she hates me. She wakes me up when I’m meant to go to work, claiming that she feels sick but can’t talk loud enough for me to hear (I wear earplugs in the morning) explaining it, so when I tell her to speak up she just leaves. She does this multiple times and after a while, I admit I get very angry. I have said things about her being worthless, lazy, trashy, sl*tty and that I hate living with her but it was always after an argument. When I do get physical with her it rarely leaves bruises, if it does they are usually not even very large. I’ve played mind games with her and manipulated memories she has but the reason I am saying this is because I am a changed person. I am getting help and have been in therapy for two months.

Anyway, I have no idea what to do with my daughter. I’ve been logging her chats for the past few weeks and she’s still talking to the older men, I’ve even found some disgusting personal pictures of theirs on her Received Files folder. I have no idea if she sends them anything, but I don’t know how to stop all of this. Kids need the internet, they need their internet, if not for fun for school.

My daughter is 16 now, almost an adult. Any advice appreciated. If you want more information, here is my older question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApSRz3YrXOb2RAIpxGU3TELty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090622083613AAtYlcN