My son's Catholic school periodically has fundraisers where he can sell $X worth of goods (calendars, cookies etc.) or his parents can just write a check for some slightly lesser amount. I don't mind just paying, since the overall costs are still pretty low. I wonder, though, if kids can pick up...

Am I left to resort to scream-it-out? DD is 20 months, and though she went through a few months of 9-11 hour sleep stretches, for the past few months she's back to waking up 1-2x night. Always around 4am, and sometimes around 1am. It's getting wearing on the whole household, although DH deals with...

DS's b-day is coming up in June. I'm thinking ahead. His preschool is different from others I know. He starts the day in one room with the entire preschool, they go to their regular classes, they take naps in the nap room and end the day with the afternoon staff, sometimes mixed with all the...

When I'm out shopping with my 16 mos. old I generally try to keep him from touching store windows and display cases by distracting him and telling him if necessary that someone just spent time cleaning that window and we mustn't "undo" their hard work. When my husband saw me doing that...

Anyone willing to email me their monthly budget. I cannot imagine I cannot make these numbers work. Here is mine with a column for current, and a column for what I think could be workable. All the ins are just ins. I have them categorized funky. In the "wishful thinking" category, I would be a...

Now that charges of a conspiracy against truth have been lodged against the Scientific Establishment regarding its hokus-pokus theory of the evolution of man, it's time to hammer a few more nails into its coffin for its lack of integrity in another serious matter. This business of death. Same...

My daughter walks or rides her scooter or bike to her elementary school every day. Because the route goes on a footpath, it's only a quarter mile; the route by motor vehicle is four times longer. The biggest problem right now the kids walking is all the other parents who drive. She only has...

The time has snuck up on me that I should start looking around at the preschools in my area to pick one for Julie to go to next fall (how can it be?!?). So I'm interested in hearing others' experiences with preschools. How did you select one? Was there anything about the school you found out...

Hi all, I have watched 2 episodes of the Supernanny and have to tell you I have learned a lot. No, I do not have a screaming out of control biting kicking backtalking temper throwing kid. (well, yeah, occasionally) ;-) Lately I've had 2 problems with out 2 year old DS. Won't eat the dinner...

Just curious what the big name gifts are this year - for the kids, yourself, etc.. Kaylie wants the Winter Wonderland Bratz dolls. I got her Dana and Cloe. And Neopets are really big for her too which I got her 2 of. And clothes, already! From Limited too (ack!) Noah wants a Game boy advance (got...

The Final Word: Maybe it's time to let boys be boys - outside http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/finalword/2007-05-01-final- word_N.htm http://tinyurl.com/ythtr3 By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY May 1, 2007 An Englishman is in the States this week with a plan to rescue the All-

I hope I'm not being a fearmonger, but I just wanted to share something that was news to me. An old schoolmate's baby girl, about 7 months old, had a choking incident last week. Apparently the baby swallowed one of her older sister's stickers. She's fine, but they had to go to emergency. The ER...

Can anyone tell me if it is harmful for babies to watch tv alot? My baby is 9.5 mo old and he watches teletubbies alot. he doesnt acually sit there and stre at the tv, but i put it on in his bedroom and he just crawls around and climbs and plays while its on. is this a bad thing to do? i play...

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:01:55 -0800, Doan wrote: On 4 Dec 2003, Kane wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:38:43 -0800, Doan wrote: And others may disagree with you! ;-) But then what happens to that "standard" in "reasonable standard," eh?

Hi everyone! We had a bit of a scare yesterday -- another one! -- and I'm about to do some research online to figure out exactly how upset I should really be, and whether I should make a complaint to the hospital; I know there are some medical types reading here, and a lot of parents who've been...

"rynak" wrote in message ... Hello, My 3rd grader had a project due today, Tuesday the 2nd. He received it last Monday, Feb. 23rd and didn't take it out of his backpack until last night. I ask...

Or, actually, for grownups who have parents, and remember how THEIR parents handled this. For those of you who have kids who are appropriately sexually active (and if, for you, that means married -- well, then, kids who are married), how do you handle the noise issue? My daughter is old enough to...

Due to our need to get out of the house for a week or so, we are taking a short trip interstate to visit family. However no-one was able to organise a highchair where we are going. I've been keeping my eye out for a booster chair on ebay but wasn't organised enough and now there's hardly...

I'm posting for a friend of mine who is at her wit's end with a family situation and desperately needs some advice. Three years ago, Kate married a wonderful man--a widower with a young son. His first wife had been an only child, and was killed in a car accident just 2 months after their son was...

Here's part of an email I got from my SS's teacher this afternoon. ____________________________________ It has been pretty rough here with him and it seems I am his primary target. He is telling the other kids that I am a 'bitch,' which is probably to be expected, so I let that one go. We were...