Lina wrote: How many people in here have spouses that help out with housework? If so, how did you enlist their help? If you can't tell, I get no housework help, and am starting to be exhausted from the baby, the dog and cleaning up after three grown adults. (Myself included.) My husband...

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For about a year, my 7 year old son has been ****ting himself. He'll walk around with his pants full all day. He just will not go to the toilet unless ordered to go. He denies knowledge of when he needs to go and claims "it just comes out". He'll complain if we tell him to go and sit on the toilet...

We're not planning to do this, but someone asked this question on another board and I was surprised how every single response was along the lines of "How could one even think of such a thing?! That's no place for a baby!"" Now, it'd probably be better for the parents without the baby (less hassle,...

Does the child welfare profession and agencies under report child homicide? A gallup poll of parents found them admitting to far more abuse of their children than USDHHS has recorded. Does it follow, logically, that though they would not admit to murder of their child, that more child deaths have...

I was invited to an educational foundation leadership circle for our local elementary school district. Already the educational foundation provides money to pay for class size reductions in grades K-3 and junior high english and math, and provide PE programs, art docents, and vocal and...

Alright, here's the scoop... It's 11:50pm over here. DS, 5yo, was earlier complaining that his ear hurt, around 730-8pm. He was even holding his ear and crying while we walked home from the store (5 min max walk from home) After telling him there's nothing I can do about it until we got home,...

I need some good ol' fashioned advice. My son is 31 months old. Last year he attended a very lovely 2 yr. old nursery school class where the emphasis is not an academics but just socializing, taking instruction from others, group play, story time, art work. He went at first two days (9:00 -...

What's the tooth fairy bringing for a tooth these days? DS is going to be putting one under his pillow tonight. This whole child rearing thing is going too darned fast. Where is my little baby? Thanks Stephaine

My 2yo DD grasps things very quickly. She can recite lot of rhymes and loves books. She also knows the alphabet song. I want to start teaching her alphabet but I'll freely admit I don't know the quick and smart way to teach her alphabet. Could anyone give me any tips at all? Thank you!

My fourth grade daughter blathers on and on about Tamagotchis. Seems like "everyone" (her words) in her class has one, generally more than one, and anyone not having one is a social outcast at recess. I object to her having one on several grounds: 1. She's whining about wanting one. I've never...

Charlotte (age 5, in kindergarten) came home from school last Wednesday with what turned out to be Fifth Disease. Apparently it's going around all the elementary schools here on base. So far Patrick (4) and Lewis (2) are fine. Even though the Dr said absolutely positively both boys would get it. ...

This is getting to be a big problem. baby turned 5 months old. she doesn't sleep much during the day (only an hour or so total) and she doesn't sleep at night. We cosleep. At nights she likes to comfort-suck all the time and keeps moving and turning. But I noticed that when I get off the bed at...

I've been a bit busy lately, and haven't come across anything that makes me think, "Yes!! DS would love that!!" His birthday is next Sunday. Anyone got any ideas for a good present? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is...

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We've been working really hard in the "please," "thank you," department and DS has caught on very well. I'm not working on tone, just yet. I just want "please," and "thank you" to be a habit. Okay, so now, I think it's becoming ingrained. DS tries very hard to be polite. He does have...

At what age can my baby start having water or milk (cow's milk) that hasn't been boiled first? BTW - I know all the general cautions about using water or whole cow's milk in babies. What I'd like to do, once he's about six months, is give him a bit of water with his meals, and maybe sometimes use...

For those of you who participate in or read the misc.kids.family-life test group, this is just a heads up to let you know that it's not just you--the server it runs on is currently down. We're hoping that the server will be back up and running by the end of the day, as the server's owner...

My 2.5 year old DS has an issue.... He is bright, and functions at the level of 3-3.5 year olds in every level. He is also big for his age, so most folks are surprised to learn he is younger. His problem is colors. He always gets yellow, and orange, but other colors are an issue. Red, blue,...

We are going to change Pillbug's pediatric neurologist. I want to write a pretty harsh critique of the current neurologist and let him know why we are changing. Is there any downside to doing this? My specific issues are that he is unwilling to give an autism diagnosis before age 5, he...