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We did it. We finally found a reasonably priced and reasonable nice looking set of bunkbeds for our girls' room. We opted for standard bunkbeds (I posted a while back about loft beds and L shaped sets), but low ones considering their age. We got them set up and the older one is thrilled with her...

Sigh. it was bound to happen. I knew it would. Now it is. Our wonderful next door neighbors are in their early 80's. He is starting to get a bit forgetful and is very hard of hearing. She has had a few odd spells and been hospitalized with them twice in a year.

My daughter is 9 and is getting to a point where she wants to pick clothes for herself. We were in a hurry yesterday and she needed a few new tops and pants, so my husband and I took her down to Sears with express purpose of looking at the Lands' End stuff. Well, it's between seasons, and there...

Since I seem to have the special ed folks attention (thankyou for all the great help so far!), and at least one has mentioned speech therapy, I have a question about that too. My daughter (6yo) might need speech therapy. She pronounces all sounds right but has a fluency issue where she pauses in...

I don't understand why I'm having so much trouble locating answers to my questions online! My son's father recently purchased a booster seat for my son to use in his car. My son is 3 years old and about 32 pounds. His dad says his shoulders were higher than the straps on the old car seat, and...

Kevin Karplus wrote: In fact, if my child were going to a private school, I would be embarassed to ask the public schools to provide any services at all. If you are taking the child out of the public school system, and removing the per-child allotment from the...

Hello all... DH started back to Uni today. I am also doing a short business course for the next 5 weeks. With both DH and I back at school, DD is really excited by the idea of school. On the way home from taking DH to the train, the idea of DD having school at home. DD will be 3 in June. I...

Hi, Thankyou to every one who has posted a reply to my bedwetting questions. (Please keep any suggestions you have comeing.) This post is about my three year old son. Well, he's not 3 yet but will be turning 3 soon. He is in early intervention for a mild gross motor delay. When he turns 3 he...

Hi everyone! I realize this is probably not a topic most of you are thinking about at this time of year, but I recently got a job as head coach of a summer swim team. I was an assistant coach last year but have never been a head coach before. The children on my team range from four to sixteen; I...

"Sandi Jones" wrote in message ... Many patients are given a Dx with FAR less testing that it sounds like you have gone through. Again, please provide citations for this specific claim. I know people who have gotten the...

I'm afraid that would be me today. Today before going to the bus stop to see DS off to school, I told DD I'm come back and walk her to school. And then after DS got on the bus, I biked into work. When I got in, I looked at the clock, exclaimed to myself at how early I was, and then D'oh! It...

Friends and families, Is there interest in helping to start a summer camp program in Northern California for kids who sleepwet? A camp in New England and one in eastern Canada offering such programs, but none do on the west coast that I know of outside of programs for kids with...

I have a third-grade daughter. A classmate's mother is pushing me to buy training bras for my daughter, which apparently her daughter already wears. While it's true my daughter is starting to "bloom," she's still young and hasn't shown an interest herself. (I offered a while back.) My daughter...

I'm not sexist, I hope. My 3 year old daughter wants a spiderman birthday. If this was my older daughter, I wouldn't be worried at all. Unfortunately, it is my younger daughter who loves to wear dresses and have her hair curled. We have actually asked a number of questions to find out why it is...

I know, I know. I should just get a real newsreader. Anyway, I've noticed that us Googlers can't see our own posts through...well...Google. There is a thread out there that was started by a Googler and I can't see the original, plus I've posted myself, had the post accepted and I can't see the...

Yesterday I finally threw out the remains of my kids' Halloween candy (Well, I ate the peanut M&Ms, which neither of them like). They protested very little. I figure it was past time. DD is now afraid of being kidnapped. Too many abduction stories in the paper, I'm afraid. I wonder how long...

Our family is tentatively planning a trip that will involve flying out to the west coast (of the US) and then doing some driving around visiting various different areas (including the Canadian Rockies). There are 5 of us and we don't travel light, particularly for a trip that will involve a good...

My 8-year-old son, who's uncircumcised, has been complaining that his glans (the head of his penis under the foreskin) is too sensitive to be washed. It doesn't *look* irritated, and he's able to retract his foreskin OK, but he claims that touching it, even gently, hurts. His 11-year-old brother,...

I have a 10yo son who struggles with bedwetting all his life. Until a couple of years ago, he wet every night and wore GoodNites, and didn't mind. Then he starts saying they wasn't comfortable and he wants to quit wearing them. So we got one of those bedwetting alarms, and it helped. He was dry...

Hi, My dd is having a Maisy/Gymnastics birthday party for her 4th birthday. We only have 1/2 hour for the actual party (refreshments) and then an hour for the gym part so the party/activities parts are taken care of. I'm drawing a blank on the party favours, though. I do have one idea -...