Why ban over the counter meds from children?

http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/infant-cough-cold-meds-focus-of-fda-hearing/124301.htm

Well another thing the government is taking away from us parents. The right to medicate our sick children without having to go to the doctor. As a mother myself I wonder why do they keep doing this to us, its like they enjoy letting parents suffer b/c a few families can't read the back of the bottle and give their kids the correct dose! I'm sorry but when my son has a slight cold and cought, I would rather give him over-the-counter cought medicine to help him through the night. Now yes I know that you should let their immune system fight off the virus/cold, but the medicine does let the immune system do that and helps the child be comfortable til then. I know you probably should take them to the doctor, but I'm sorry half the time the doctor tells you to get the available meds instead of writting out a prescription if your child isn't seriously sick. And if your child is sick they usually right out a cought syrup that has a highly addictive and dangerous drug called Codine. How is that safer for our children then the over the counter formulas?????!!!!!

Most of us parents are responisble enought to know how much to give a child and well we were given the same doses when we were kids and they didn't ban it back then so why now? What happens if our child is sick late at night(like cought and lowgrade fever), no doctors offices are open and going to the ER is just too expensive and a bunch of hassle what are we to do then?

I would seriously like the government and company officials, and many mothers here at work state the same thing, who placed this ban should come to our house when our kids sick and let them deal with our sick children without the children's tylenol and cough syrup. And see how they like it.

Now my rant is done now read and discuss if you want!

Top 10 Horror Movies

Since Halloween is right around the corner I've decided just for fun of it to put out my top 10 Horror movies. Now in comments if you want to place your top 10 then go right ahead, hey you might know of a couple of horror movies I haven't seen before, but since I LOVE horror movies I might doubt it LOL!

1. The Grudge (still can't watch it all the way through)
2. Evil Dead (Come on my favorite movie ever!)
3. Saw
4. The Exorcist
5. House on Haunted Hill (the newer version)
6. Blair Witch Project
7. Pet Cemetery
8. Rosemary's Baby
9. Night of the Living Dead (original)
10. Halloween (the original)

A Beloved Harry Potter character outed!

I was on IMDB tonight and notice a bunch of threads stating that Dumbledore, a popular wizard from the Harry Potter series, was outed by the author JK Rowlings! Of course, at first, I thought it was just a rumor spread around by the over zealous fan and decided to dig a little deeper and discovered it to be true after finding this article on yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_en_ot/books_harry_potter

Of course I have no problem with one of the lead characters being gay for the simple reason is I have no problem with homosexuals and their lifestyles. For goodness sakes I'm for gay marriage and gay rights! Anyway I enjoy the series and from what some groups that I shall not name, have already stated they will try and boycott the books once again now that there is a gay character in its series. I will not stop reading the books, since I have been reading them since 97' and love them and will continue to read them to my son who loves the movies and books just as much as I do. I know after this little release of information that certain groups will have more reasons to hate the book and try to ban it from schools even more. Even thought the books themselves never mention the lovable wizard ever to be gay in them, so unless someone tells the child then they will never know.

I say good for JK Rowlings, she is doing something that might open up the world to younger children in a way, showing them that its ok to be different, which of course she has already shown with Harry Potter and his plight in the world of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Showing a character that is gay and showing that this person is a strong character, with excellent traits, well loved, and normal, might show children that even thought people choose to have a different sexual preference still makes them like everyone else. I like how this was done and will continue to enjoy the books no matter what! Oh and now if you want please check out the poll I put up to see what your views are.