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I'm a younger single dad (27), whose recently acquired sole custody of my beautiful 19m.o. son. (he has been in my care for past 7 months). His mother has essentially abandoned any attempt at contact with him or I, since I got court order custody. What led to court: she had attempted to...

Over spring break, the students in our daughter's third grade class were tasked with writing a report on a country. The Kid has been to Mexico several times, so she chose to do hers on Mexico. The report consists of about 20 pages of worksheets asking for information such as population details,...

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I'm furious with my neighbors who seem to think the streets in our subdivision are for playing. Several women who have nothing better to do petitioned the county to put speed bumps in to slow cars down, yet the speed limit of 25 mph is still fast enough to kill or injure a child. When the sun is...

Sounds like your dd is doing awesomely for speech developement. My ds is 19mo, and nowhere near as verbose as your dd - nowhere near saying his own name.. ..he doesn't get the "me/you" thing yet. From what I've read, you haven't anything to worry about, but should be very proud of her for...

Hi We've got a 14 months old baby boy that periodically turns his left eye in. He has been doing this since birth and most people told us he would outgrow it. He was born premature and for the first few hours of each day, the eye does not turn(or turns very little). I took him to the eye doctor...

I'm just curious if anyone knows of a brand/model of umbrella stroller that has longer handles (to accomodate a taller person) than normal? Or even whether or not such an object exists? I currently have a more deluxe stroller with jumbo oversized tires (that don't turn - great for winter, and...

I'm just posting my thoughts, see what some other parents think about my situation. I'm the single father of my 19mo son. I'm currently finishing off a year of study in University (have finals coming up at end of month), so I'm now off student loans and need to settle into a working for the...

My wife and I have an 8-year-old son, and a 5-year-old daughter. My wife would like a third. There are times when my wife accepts not having a third, but she'll frequently find herself wanting another. She is worried she'll regret not having another one, and the ones we have are growing some...

What's the age record for not being able to tie shoelaces? I'm just wondering if DS is going to set it :) It's really interesting to watch -- DD had a friend who *had* to be able to tie her shoes, and she accomplished it at age 2. DS could not care less about this skill. So his shoes are all...

My niece, Chloe, who lives with me, is 3.5 years old. We've been working slowly on potty training for awhile. About two months ago, she asked to wear "big girl" underpants to church. We let her, and after an accident on the second day, she's been doing great. She still wears a pullup to sleep,...

There apparently is a lot of teasing going on on DD's bus ride home from middle school. I'm uneasily sure that DD isn't teasing, but she's not doing anything to stop it either, which I realize is a very difficult thing to do. The chief teasers I think are casual friends of DD -- people DD *could*...

My 12 year old son has attention deficit. He has never had an IEP and up until now has been able to be successful in school. When he began having difficulty at the beginning of middle school last fall, I visited the assistant principal to talk about an IEP but was discouraged from doing that...

I am very concerned about my son and have expressed this concern with teachers over the last year or so. His anger and tolerance ability is getting bad. He is getting to where he is unable to control his emotions and anger as well as he used to when being harrassed or picked on or bullied by other...

My son is 7 and has always walked on his toes. He had been seen twice by an orthopedic Dr. and once by a neurologist in the past and they all said he had OK range of motion and to wait for him to outgrow it. Last week we had to visit the ortho dr. because he broke his arm and I had them look at...

I am starting to do some research on Preschools for my 2 year old and would like to hear where other San Francisco parents have send thier kids to what the pros and cons of the Preschools they are attending.

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My son is 7 years old, and has recently developed a strange habit. He'll say something, and then immediately afterwards he'll repeat what he just said in a whisper. Actually, I haven't heard him do it yet, but my daugther (10) was telling me about it in the car today. She says when she asks...