On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, J Craig wrote: Drink This, Instead: Strawberry Citrus Fruit Blast (small) snip Eat This, Instead: Pepper Pals Grilled Chicken Platter with Cinnamon Apples Who ever wrote this list has never had a kid, or never had a kid that liked junk food and tried to make them eat...

We are attending my husband's grandmother's funeral tomorrow. Of course DH and I are wearing black. Is it proper etiquette to also dress our son in black or dark colors? He's 17 months old. I was thinking of nice khaki pants and a button-up collared shirt. Dress up clothes, not play clothes. ...

Situation: Large lost and found barrels are placed in middle school cafeteria for a couple of weeks. Principal gets on loudspeaker every morning and tells kids that the lost and found is overflowing and to "take take take" what's in there. Kid reports to you, the parent, that the lost and found is...

Jaden is growing like a weed and I'm going to have to stop using the infant carseat/carrier this week. I haven't switched to the convertible carseat yet mainly because I can't figure out how to do a couple of things without the carrier, like grocery shopping. He's only three months old, and no...

Given that circumcision is nonreversible body modification, it should not be performed on minors under the age of 18, except for true medical reasons just as any other operation. Non-medically necessary circumcision on minors under age 18 should maybe be prosecuted as mayhem. And since...

Hi all. Looking for advise or comments on this topic... Okay, there is a a daughter almost two years older than the son. She's almost 4, he's almost 2. They sleep in separate areas, always have, except for vacations or travel. Otherwise, they are together quite often. So, several questions...

DS's preschool starts at 8:45am. Parents can drop off until then and all the kids congregate in one room. At 8:45am, they go into their classrooms. After lunch, some of the kids go home and the rest go to the nap room. His teacher goes home during naptime. There is an afternoon teacher(s)...

Rice drink tied to rare disease in 2 infants By Virginia A. Smith Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer It's sold as Rice Dream, but doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia call it "rice nightmare." That's because they've seen two youngsters in two years with

I was brought up to address adults by Mr or Mrs. So I am trying to have my son address adults in the same manner. The other day my son addressed a friend by Mr .... and my friend said what the heck!. What is this Mr stuff !. He said ( joking ) don't ever call me that again. Just say "Bob". How...

When I was on bedrest, DS started saying "shut up". I gave it neither positive nor negative attention and he stopped. At the time, DH was working lots and I had DS most of the time, so he did not do it to his dad. I haven't heard "shut up" for 8 months. Now, DS does this squinty eye, pointing...

Do you think this teacher should have been fired? Teacher fired after lowering grade of sleeping athlete The Associated Press - ATLANTA A Gwinnett County teacher was fired early Friday after refusing to raise a student athlete's grade he lowered because the student appeared to be sleeping in...

How would you have handled this scenario? Child is 10 yrs old. Child had speech/paper due this morning. Child worked on it and asked if mother would type the report. Mother typed report. However, mom changed some wording around to make sense, helped with spelling and grammar. Child reads...

Can anyone give me some consequences for a child, when asked to help out with chores or getting ready for school, bed, etc when she doesn't listen. I start out giving the usual warnings and making sure I am not interrupting something important for her to help out. Then, I end up getting really...

I was reading about the Montessori philosophy and while it all made a lot of sense, I didn't understand why they avoid praising a child when it successfully completes an exercise. Can anyone explain this? Thanks!

This weekend my husband and I were having the discussion of whether to have another child and his view was no. His points were that financially, its tough; emotionally, its hard to split the love and attention and all that baloney; and socially, our son can make friends to keep himself happy and...

Is it appropriate to mention that you prefer/do not prefer certain kinds of gifts in a birthday party? For example, is it okay to say in the birthday invite something like "please bring only a small book as a present"? In fact I would love to say "please donot bring anything related to barbie" but...

Over the last few months, my wife and I have become more and more aware of the fact that our daughter (age 19 1/2 months) has a speech delay. She mostly says "ah-MAH!" or "AAH!" for just about everything, though she says "dah" when pointing to the dogs, "bah" in reference to balls and balloons, and...

I know this will be a very unscientific survey, but I'm curious about how common Erika's school's grouping system (see below) is these days. Our school doesn't officially do ability grouping -- there is *no* expectation that the work the kids're doing in reading or math will be pegged to their...

"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...

From everything I've heard here military school is not a good option for my SS. That conversation was evolving into a whole different conversation, so I decided to start a new thread on a different subject. We don't know what to do anymore. I've tried to write the whole story below. It's going...