Anyone else out there heard of "native reading"? I was interested in starting to teach my oldest to read early, and was googling around and found a website called nativereading.com. It has two chapters of a book online where the author makes a pretty compelling argument that kids should begin...

"dr_jeff" wrote in message ... On 12/1/10 10:49 AM, john wrote: http://whale.to/vaccines/smallpox.html The cool thing is that smallpox vaccination is no longer needed thanks to fact that vaccination wiped the disease from...

"Mary E" wrote in message ... Where do I go for statistics about schools in my area? I've got 8 private grade schools (son will be starting kindergarten next year) that would work for me as far as location and...

The homosexual activist group Stonewall has launched a campaign to indoctrinate British schoolkids under the guise of combatting "homophobic bullying"; for the truth about this perversion check out: http://www.islamicparty.com/commonsense/36movement.htm

Five animals die needlessly because someone can't control their brat. They should have made the brat's parents pay for the euthanization and replacement of the animals. This is totally ridiculous. Nine years old is old enough to know...

As the most recent step in the saga of trying to get my three-year-old into a good preschool for him, our school system is thinking of placing him in a preschool that sounds great -- but there's a catch. He could take a school bus there (hooray!) but the ride could be up to an hour each way. Do...

On 08 Sep 2003 13:22:36 GMT, (Fern5827) wrote: The brother who did the actual murder says his parents spanked him APPROPRIATELY. Please post a referance to the incident you apparently are stupidly failing to cite properly...or are you dreaming again? By the way, the Streeter...

"Doug" wrote in message ... Dan Sullivan wrote: Every fosterchild with disabilities in NYC who hasn't been checked on in the last four weeks should IMMEDIATELY be visited by the supervising agency...

So we have this probable move hanging over our heads. It's been over 2 months since DH's interview, and it looks like it's going to happen, but it's not signed and sealed yet. I'm not very good at this waiting thing -- to say nothing of the fact that I'm not all THAT good at big moves. (And I...

On 12 Jul 2003 16:46:25 GMT, (Fern5827) demonstrated Toadstool ignorance once again: The recent debacle in NYC regarding ACS and its monitoring (or non-monitoring) of *high risk- special needs* children within the Foster Care system should alert the auditors to target and...

I am seriously considering reporting this couple to cps. I will discuss it with friends and family, but I have gotten good advice here in the past, and want to run it by you too. Let me relate a story I heard this week. Friends of mine (an older husband and wife couple) were visited by their...

A couple of questions on etiquette... I am just sitting down to write thank you notes for the gifts that my toddler had for Christmas and want to make sure that I get this right. He had presents from family members, our friends, his friends. We saw some close family members on Christmas Day and...

I saw that someone had asked for books about NIH in another post, but I was wondering if anyone has tried it out. I am a first time mother of a one month old baby boy. I've been using disposables, and have managed to "catch" a poop here and there but I want to go completely diaper free. Any...

I just had my fourth baby a little more than a month ago. The other three, youngest to oldest are 13 months old, two years old and three years and two months old. The oldest, Sarah, was potty trained about six months ago and had been doing really well until Rachel first came home. With Rachel...

Hi everyone, I know that one of the cardinal rules of parenting is that you never contradict your spouse in front of your kids. But what do you do when your spouse is being mean, or patently unfair to your child? When, "Can I talk to you for a minute?" doesn't work? Here is what happened today:

so they have a rule that snacks must be nut free, fair enough, I can see that when you've got children all sitting down together, even with the best supervision etc. you can't always stop a child reaching over and sampling someone elses. But, pretty much everything you buy says something like...

Okay, so I have a question.... Does me being a divorced mom equate me to the devil? No, I am not still a divorced mom... I was remarried a couple of months ago... and no I did not marry another deadbeat. I married an amazing, loving, caring man who loves my children like they were his own while...

Cell Phone Said Linked to Fatal N.C. Crash January 13, 2004 09:52 PM EST RALEIGH, N.C. - A truck driver fumbling for a cell phone plowed his tractor-trailer into a stopped school bus Tuesday in rural North Carolina, killing a 5-year-old girl as she boarded the bus, troopers said. Her mother and...

Some of you may remember a while ago there was some discussion of having a group in which parents and childfree could talk to each other. Parents are not welcome at alt.support.childfree so there is no opportunity for constructive (or civil) dialogue there. It turns out there is a dead...

Yikes! Where do I start?? Anyone have any tips or ideas? I have this urge (that I've had for sooo long) to just clean, clean, clean and get rid of ALL the clutter. This place is a disaster, not because it's so dirty, but because there's just way too much stuff... Toys, clothes, you name it, we...