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Matthew got his casts off Tuesday afternoon. (yay!) He's as good as new. Wednesday I was volunteering in the boys' school. I got to work with Matthew on his reading, and after he read to me he had to add something to his reading journal. I noticed that he picked up the pencil the correct...

I guess this is an age-old problem. Here's our version of it: My 8 YO loves "trouble". He is extremely bright and curious and has always sought knowledge of all kinds, including and especially that of the forbidden sort. He is utterly fascinated by sex, curses, and the like. He has just started...

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I've never dealt with this before, and have no idea where else to go to ask, so I'm asking here! A baby squirrel seems to be doing it's best to adopt my 18 year old as it's mommie. It came out last night and climbed onto the laptop (she'd taken it outside to watch a DVD in relative coolness) then...

Just wanted to let everyone know I was just curious about this thing, that's all... that's why I turned to this newsgroup, purely out of *my* curiosity. I'm definitely minding my own business as the parents would never know I'm even doing this. I understand that kids develop at their own stages,...

We're buying my son a gameboy for his birthday. I tried the "Zelda" game beforehand and I think it will frustrate him with all the text messages interrupting the game. He'll be 6 and doesn't read more than a few words and phrases. Any experience with titles for the gameboy advance that have...

Background: Henry was previously a notoriously bad speller. A typical weekly score would be single digits out of 20 words. This year, he's done a complete 180 and spells quite well. I'm still kind of stunned by the turnaround. So tonight, as he and his dad were studying, I found myself hanging...

My in-laws have come to visit, and I was walking around the Pike Place Market with my kids and a collection of their cousins. A shopkeeper asked me, "are all of those yours?" I nodded, and answered, "yes, Spencer here is the oldest, at 13, and Alicia here is the youngest at 7." "Wow, you must be...

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...

Hello, I'm a writer preparing an article on how to talk to your child when they are in an emotional state, such as during a bad argument or any other emotional crisis. The article will be mainly focused on children between 8-13, but anything close is fine. If you are a parent who has difficulty...

My kids were having a lively discussion about what the fate of Saddam Hussein should be. Their verdict: to be sentenced to serve as the Bennett Elementary School lunchroom volunteer for Life. I guess they consider this worse than the death penalty. Warm Regards, Claire Petersky

I have no idea if this was an original joke or something he heard somewhere, but Henry cracked me up this morning when he was watching news coverage on CNN and asked me how Howard Dean's campaign is doing ever since the "I have a scream" speech... -Dawn Mom to Henry, 11

I'm doing some work involving children who have asthma, and have come to develop great respect for those of you who live with this challenge day to day. One of the things I'm finding is that most of the materials are aimed at the parents, rather than the children themselves. This does make sense,...

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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...

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...

My 10 yr old daughter who lives with her dad and i only see her 3 days a week in the summer and 1 night during school jus told me before i dropped her off at her dads house that she did not want to come over next week and told me husband (her step-dad) who she adores very much ...that she did not...

In general, I prefer -- and am lucky enough to still have the privilege of -- face-to-face communication with my son. But today, after he started middle school and handled his first night of homework, getting organized, etc -- all on just a couple of hours sleep because he was so excited last...

Does anyone have any suggestions for car seats. We have a two-year-old and we're expecting twins soon. We drive a Subaru Outback wagon. We'd like to put the toddler seat and two infant seats in the back seat, but we don't know which seats might fit in this arrangement. We'd prefer to find small...

Having a little one at my advanced age has been very different from having a little one in my youth. I was much more carefree when I was younger. I'm still not going to freak if he drops a piece of candy then eats it. But this time I have two major sources of anxiety that I had never thought...