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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...

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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...

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,...

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...

So DS is sitting at the kitchen table, and out of nowhere pops "And now for 10 seconds of sex" Well not nowhere, actually... We've been watching Monty Python with him. He really does laugh at some of the skits, but I hope he doesn't go quoting all of it in school! ;) Scott DD 12 and DS 9

The 8yo has worked out that lots of films that Mummy watches with them were originally books - eg Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc. Currently the new "Doctor Who" has started showing. We were watching it together, and the Doctor was being deliberately obtruse about his home planet. The 8yo...

I am looking fo parents who have toddlers is there anyone out there?

hi all, my 9 year old son has over the last couple of years become EXTREMLY private to the point where i don't think he likes to be naked even when he's alone in the shower. so i have a battle with him every morning (on schooldays only -- i have backed off on the weekends) about him getting into...

I have an almost-7-YO who still believes in the Easter Bunny. I'm half-inclined to let the truth slip out. her older brother stopped believing in the EB when he was in preschool and asked about Santa (not just those early questions, but real questions to which he definitely wanted real answers) in...

My 7 yr. old was eating a taco salad at school during lunch, and choked on one of the chips. It was stuck in this throat for a few seconds, then he choked it out. It scared the heck out of him. I happened to have be there with him when it happened, although I didn't realize it was happening until...

One of the summer assignments (from me) for my 11 year old son going into 7th grade next year is that he learn to keyboard. It would help him with assignments, now that some can be turned in typed (his handwriting is atrocious), and he's falling into a hunt-and-peck two-finger habit when he...

Have any of you tracked down narrow shoes for kids recently? My preschooler is almost 5 and wears a 11 1/2 N shoe. I have been able to get a few styles from Ked's and Nordstrom's carries a few styles. All of them cost a small fortune though. Any suggestions? For the record, the Narrow shoes...

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone can advise re my DH's parents - grandparents to the baby girl I have just recently had. I find them incredibly interfering - they keep offering unwanted advice like their word is gospel, and seem to delight when I do something wrong. My DH is always on the phone...

I was wondering if anyone has any good tips for a HS graduation party. It's the first time I do this, so any advice or URLs are welcome. We alredy sent out the invitations, but we are still in the planning stages as far as food (it's going to be mainly a barbecue), activities, decorations, setup...

My 9 YO has been invited to go about 12 hours away for an entire week with the family of a friend of his. This friend is a good friend, but not someone he spends a ton of time with. Two overnight get-togethers have gone well. My son is very sociable but also gets cranky and needs alone time on a...

x-no-archive: yes There's a private school locally that I wouldn't mind supporting, and they've listed that they need volunteers, including committee members for a committee I'd be interested in. I wouldn't mind volunteering the time, but it is true that we're likely to want to apply to the school...

AOL now doesn't have newsgroup access, but I wanted to come back to misc.kids once more; I frequented it years ago when there was no need to moderate it. I'm using the name I rarely use but that is used for IM'ing and such right now. The reason I post is because I have begun a campaign to get...

Are you the child of a military parent, who turned out great because of your father's or mother's unique or novel child-rearing techniques? Are you an Army, Navy, Marine or Air Force NCO or officer, active duty or retired, who successfully raised your children while serving your country? If you...

It's hard to let go of one's children after taking care of them from conception and then on through their schooling. Our offspring learn from a variety of sources which become more varied as they grow older. For parents it has to be a case of allowing the independence while maintaining the love. It...