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Hello, My son is a HS sophomore who is capable of doing better than his 3.2 GPA indicates. I've been considering rewarding him with money if his report card GPA is higher than 3.20, but I'm not sure if that would help. Then I think that if he doesn't improve his grades, I'll cut back his TV time,...

My children's dentist just told me not to ever let my kids have any carbonated drinks because carbonation is "pure evil" because the carbonic acid produced by carbonation erodes teeth. I find this hard to believe. I can see that sugary carbonated drinks would have the same issues as other sugary...

When preschool started this fall, I wasn't terribly thrilled about keeping my daughter in gymnastics. She wanted to continue, so we kept going. In the meantime, she has had some changes in teachers and has become less and less interested in paying attention and following directions. She has also...

Henry is busily decorating his new room in our soon-to-be occupied new home in Texas. His color scheme is denim-like blue and lime green. The influences of Trading Spaces are showing -- he is insistent that we can make anything we can't find, and doesn't seem to realize that the folks on Trading...

Hi guys, I'm a little worried about the flu. I live in NC, which isn't one of the states currently designated an "epidemic" state, but it does have heavy regional outbreaks in some areas. Last year, the kids got something which I assume was the flu, and I've never seen them so knocked out. They...

Hi folks I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. I am writing on behalf of a friend who has a son that has not yet started to say any words at 2.5yrs. As I understand it he is being tested for hearing difficulties, but she says he does hear music etc from the TV as he dances to it. He also...

I saw that Rose's sock drawer was hanging out too far, and I could see something under the drawer itself, that must have somehow fallen in behind the dresser drawers and was now resting under all the drawers inside the dresser. So I pulled out the drawer completely, and I found two clean...

It's so hard to find anything an 11 year old wants that doesn't cost $500, and even harder to get an 11 year old boy to be specific about clothing he might want... so I was thrilled when Henry mentioned he would like a certain kind of shirt. It sounds vaguely familiar to me, but I can't identify...

I'd like to get my 7yo a wris****ch for the holidays, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding a basic watch in a child's size. I've found children's watches, but they all have cartoon characters or other kid-like decorations on them, or they're really huge and have a zillion dingbats and buttons...

My 10yo got a chuckle out of parents and grandparents as he and his brother opened Chanukah gifts last night. On getting a glimpse of the board game under the wrapping paper: "Hey, now I've got a Life!" Looking over at his brother: "And Roger's got a Clue!" I'd like to say this was totally...

Hi folks, For those of you who were around in misc.kids back before misc.kids.moderated was formed, I had posted a few times about commercialism at Christmas. This post is not about that, but I would like to do a little prefacing here for anyone who might wonder why I, of all people (given my...

We get up in the morning and it takes her 10 minutes to decide what she wants to wear. Add the 10 minutes of her getting angry at her sister for wearing the clothes that she was considering and it takes 20 minutes just to get our of her room. Then we start the breakfast routine. It takes her...

I bought my youngest niece a Groovy Girls doll this week, and afterwards decided that she wasn't warmly enough dressed. So I knitted her a long purple scarf and a sweater-coat sort of thing. It reminded me of other Christmases and birthdays over the years, making clothes to augment the wardrobes...

I posted this question in the financial aid thread, but I'd really like to discuss it further. Could anyone please give me some input on this? If one can (potentially, maybe) pay for instate, public university education *OR* private school (especially at the critical middle-school level), how...

Hi folks, I'm thinking of Hypatia (after Hypatia of Alexandria) for my daughter's first name, and Artemis (after the Greek Goddess of the Hunt) for a second name. My parents are horrified, and think she'll be teased. I thought if she doesn't like Hypatia, she can use "Patty" for short. For...

Following are some of the acronyms, subject tags (abbreviations that appear in brackets in some subject headers) and Usenet terms you may see in misc.kids.moderated. SUBJECT TAGS misc.kids.moderated currently uses a few subject tags to helps readers navigate the newsgroup more easily. These tags...

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I just got email from CSU's pre-vet advisor. She said "I emailed one of the Associate Deans in the Veterinary Department. He has access to records dating back to the late 60's and told me that based on those records - we have admitted students from outside of CSU and Colorado. So, if it ever...

"Mary Hewitt" wrote in message ... Has anyone here let there baby cry it out at night? Does it really work, and what are any suggestions on the "right" way to do it...part of me wants to do it to my 7 month...