My son sometimes snaps and start telling me or my wife that he hate me or her. It usually happens when he does not follow our orders, such as take a bath or get out of the bathroom because it is time to sleep, or he wants something we are not willing to give him, such as toy. We usually try to...

I'm looking for some ideas/suggestions, if anyone has the time or inclination. We've just tallied our annual parent surveys from the preschool and are looking for some creative ways to address the usual parent concerns, and I was thinking that perhaps some of you have some ideas. Two of the...

We are spending Christmas with my husband's family this year, so we had an early Christmas with my family last weekend. My mother had called earlier to ask if it would be OK to give my 9 ½ yo a BB gun. He's very mature and responsible and always very safety conscience, so we agreed that would be...

Here's part of an email I got from my SS's teacher this afternoon. ____________________________________ It has been pretty rough here with him and it seems I am his primary target. He is telling the other kids that I am a 'bitch,' which is probably to be expected, so I let that one go. We were...

I saw a film that was made in 1976 and in it teachers were able to fully hit HS kids with no consequences. Was this Hollywood, or could teachers actually hit kids in these days? Thanks, John

I'm itching to go abroad and for the first time post-bambino it can happen. In March we'd like to take our daughter who will be a bit over 2 and a half on a trip from the West Coast of the US for about a week. I don't want to go somewhere cold and I don't want to go somewhere where we can't drink...

I wonder at what age kids "need" to have their own bedrooms. With 4yo and 2yo boys and a 1yo girl, if we buy a 4 bedroom house and use one room as an office, and if we give the girl her own room, the eldest boy will never have his own room. I think the boys will just have to live with that, as...

"Ignoramus22857" wrote in message ... In article , Doan wrote: If this is true as you claimed why is the crime rate so in the 50's? Why is it so low in...

I'm a little embarrased to ask this, but can anyone share with me what exactly a "congregational " church is? We're moving to a small town and that is the only church in town. Is it a protestant denomination, or for anyone christian, or for anyone at all? Forgive me if I'm being dumb but I'm...

and not Fridays? Apparently, this is a very common practice. They do it at DS's school. The teacher was sending DS homework on Fridays until he could get with the program, but is there any reason not to give a kid more time to do it, more flexibility to build in extracurricular activities? ...

We're working on a list of possible places to move to. I'm trying to come up with important specific attributes for Futureville, such as climate, a nearby university, etc. One quality we want is "good public schools," but how can they be judged? We're talking kindergarten, first grade -- things...

We just found out it's a girl. :D All this evening, I've been sitting here going through all kinds of baby name sites online, and at this particular moment, I'm kind of stuck on one name (this is probably just for now) I'm trying to find a middle name that fits certain criteria for me... Can anyone...

On 16 Dec 2003 20:27:08 -0800, (Greg Hanson) wrote: parentinginjesusfootsteps Giving up on your ATHEISM, Kane? Would you assume that relious people and I are not on speaking terms? Or could not cooperate on some issue we agreed upon? I'm sooooooo glad you aren't in Iraq...

We decided to "Ferberize" our 5 months old son but after 3 days we are questioning our choice. Our baby had some issues going to sleep before which is why we decided to do the method - I realized I was essentially nursing him to sleep or one of us had to sing or rock him to sleep most of the time....

My daughter is nearly 13 and has her own laptop with DSL access to the internet and her own email account and website on NeoPets. Today I tried to use her computer to do something with the iPod that I share with her and I wasn't able to log in. She has a password at login. She also has passwords...

As the most recent step in the saga of trying to get my three-year-old into a good preschool for him, our school system is thinking of placing him in a preschool that sounds great -- but there's a catch. He could take a school bus there (hooray!) but the ride could be up to an hour each way. Do...

If you don't mind, I'd appreciate some input on this issue. If you had a two year old in a preschool class (2 half days a week, developmentally oriented program) and there was a child in the class who was speech delayed and tended to act out as a result (some hitting and hair pulling, but no...

My daughter (4yo) is driving me bananas with her insistence that her brothers may NOT play with her dolls/Barbies because they are not girls. If she sees Vernon, in particular, pick up one of her dolls, she practically leaps on him to get it away from him. I have tried repeatedly to explain to her...

Cell Phone Said Linked to Fatal N.C. Crash January 13, 2004 09:52 PM EST RALEIGH, N.C. - A truck driver fumbling for a cell phone plowed his tractor-trailer into a stopped school bus Tuesday in rural North Carolina, killing a 5-year-old girl as she boarded the bus, troopers said. Her mother and...

I think one of the problems with PE is that the people that teach it are usually those who enjoy it (which is logical after all) and are good at it. So they sometimes have little empathy for those who are not so good. Not all people who can do various skills are those who can also teach them. They...