Wednesday on Today 8/29

Today's Style featured Back To School Fashion with Laurie Gelman of iVillage. I'm pretty sure she is the wife of Michael Gelman from Live with Regis and Kelly. Anyway, there was a kid fashion show which was too funny because a lot of these little kids tried to escape the runway. Today it was a run-a-way. She had to keep calling them back to show the audience what they were wearing. And speaking of back to school fashion, I've just added several new kids items to my store at http://cafepress.com/karmicbulldog. Come and check out my new designs on Tees and sweatshirts.

Today Throws A Martha Stewart Wedding featured Martha Stewart herself showing how to pick out flowers for that special day. My advice is to let someone else handle that. You're going to be too busy trying to fit into your dress and picking colors for the bride's maids to worry about whether the flower arrangements are the right height for the tables. The flower tip of the day: If you're on a budget, pick flowers that are in season.

Where Are They Today? This segment had Minnesota school bus hero Jeremy Hernandez, who saved 52 kids during the bridge collapse. So, where is he now? On The Today Show, not too shabby for a 20 year-old summer coordinator for a youth gym. Obviously, he cares about kids. He says his life is changed and I'm sure that's a good thing.

Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley wrote a revealing look at teens and sex in their new book "Restless Virgins," about a sex scandal at the upscale Milton Academy in Connecticut. Roni Cohen-Sandler is a psychotherapist who discussed the draw-backs of kids' casual attitudes toward sex, especially oral sex, which some kids as are treating as if it's nothing more than a handshake. This is quite scary. Boys have come to expect it from girls and girls feel pressured to perform. The moral of this story is that parents really need to talk to their kids about sex and get beyond the facts. We especially need to address the problem with boys since they seem to think it's cool and girls end up destroying their self-esteem. They must learn that sex is anything but casual and can be extremely dangerous--even deadly. You know, there are various diseases that nobody ever seems to talk about anymore like cervical cancer (which can be caused by an STD), AIDS, not to mention Herpes which isn't deadly but permanent. You may wish you were dead if you caught it--put fear into the kids. Sex should be feared at that age.

Another Vacation From Hell with Peter Greenberg showed a family who went from Philadelphia to Orlando by train because one of the kids had a fear of flying. The train was disabled with no air conditioning, lights and even the toilets had shut down. They flew back and the kid's fear miraculously disappeared. Moral of this story: Don't let your kids have the power to make you change your travel plans--unless they're sick as in yesterday's story. Only those parents didn't care and went anyway. But they paid a hefty price.

Kevin Nealon was a guest talking about an upcoming show he's hosting, World's Funniest Commercials. He actually went to school for advertising. I wonder how he ended up on SNL instead. Anyway, most of the commercials I saw in the clips didn't look that funny. Don't we see enough commercials as it is? Why do we need to see entire shows comprised of nothing but ads? Then they have commercials in between the commercials. When does it end? This post ends here.

And that's a wrap.