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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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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...

Just a few random thoughts on Halloween: ======================================== My son just turned 2 this week, and if *he* can remember to say "Thank you" to people giving him candy, then the older kids should be able to remember. ========================================

Richard wrote: Bear in mind that there are alternatives for financing education, loans and work-study, for example, that do not exist for retirement. Also bear in mind that if you sock money aside for retirement, your child may not be able to qualify for needs-based aid or work study or a...

I'm working out the holiday book list for my kids, and I could use some advice on a chess book for my 7yo. Roger's in second grade, and he has been playing chess with a school club since last year. It's definitely more recreational than instructional; the kids get together and play games with one...

In article , jsteam wrote: Need some help on parental alientation syndrome; it seems all my parenting efforts have been relegated to vapor. Without some info about the issues involved, your parenting style or practices, ages of children, etc....

Need some help on parental alientation syndrome; it seems all my parenting efforts have been relegated to vapor.

I have been meaning to post this for a few weeks. Better late than never. We had two separate conversations with E 10YO on the same weekend. The first had to do with the age-old question. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear the sound, does it make a noise? Which led to the...

First, I want to say that describing our middle school as "inner city" is an overstatement...our city doesn't have an "inner city" as you might visualize one. The school is urban, it does have related drawbacks, and I do have concerns relative to this. But it's not as bad as all that, and I'm sorry...

Hello all, I'm interested in hearing good and bad opinions on the now 40 year old "teach your baby to read" book. I've heard a lot of "bad science" claims about Doman et al, and if anyone has anything good to say long-term about his programs for well children, it certainly doesn't appear they do so...

Hi everyone, Thanks for your input on baby naming. I've tentatively decided to switch the names around (Artemis for the first name; Hypatia for the middle). This weekend I was having brunch with a vegetarian friend of mine-- he, of course, raised his eyebrows (but didn't comment) when...

Last night Henry (11 yo) was studying spelling with my husband. He was having a harder time than usual with it. Out of nowhere, he began removing most of his clothing, saying that he was very hot. Then he began vigorously scratching himself all over his body, saying he itched. He became...

I am a parent of 2 little girls and I started finding and using free content on the Internet about 2 years ago, when the eldest was then 2 yrs. Of course, this was in a mediated format were my wife or myself came between the content and our children. I then posted a message to a mailing list that...

To: Subject: CTTS: Toddler pronoun use and counting Like many toddlers, my 2.5yo has some confusion over the use of pronouns. He started out referring to himself exclusively as "you", but he now uses a combination of "I", "you" and "we" (perhaps he thinks he's royalty) in...

I recently checked out the web page of a private school where I am, and was surprised to discover that they make a difference in how they calculate family income for financial aid purposes if there is a stay-at-home parent. Essentially they use a figure for what the parent could in theory be making...

On 18 Nov 2003 22:03:01 GMT, H. P. MacVicar-Taylor wrote: Rethink the Cool + the Shoe phil knight had a dream. he'd sell shoes. he'd sell dreams. he'd get rich. he'd use sweatshops if he had to. then along came a new shoe. plain. simple. cheap. fair. designed for only one...