Parenting - October 2006

My son is 6 and in 1st grade. He has been coming home over the last 2 months with a stomach ache. I took him to the doc, they ran test and they cannot find anything wrong with him. He has been having some trouble in school. He cannot read as well as the other students. I am working with him and he is getting better, but it will take some time. I do not know what to do for him. I thought about changing his teacher because he asked if he could. I have talked to his teacher and she is working with him as well. He said she yells at him but, I raise my voice to him to when he gets in trouble, so I don't understand why that would be such a problem. I just do not know what to do for him. I am worried that he is going to fail 1st grade. Please help me. I called the school today to schedule a another conference with his teacher. I am really worried.

2006-10-30 06:56:48 · 15 answers · asked by just me and my crew 2

I am black and my bf is italian. I was wondering if other biracial parents had problems raising their kids?

2006-10-30 06:50:15 · 15 answers · asked by megdbrown10304 2

2006-10-30 06:38:42 · 9 answers · asked by Oh Tami !! 2

She started to read Jacqueline Wilsons' "Vicky Angel" a couple of months ago but got very upset as a character of a similar age dies at the beginning. She goes to bed ok but within half an hour she comes downstairs in tears, saying that dying is all she can think about. We have a cuddle and a chat but she often ends up in bed with me. Any advise? Should she see a doctor?

2006-10-30 06:35:44 · 18 answers · asked by glitter girl 3

2006-10-30 05:58:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 16 and I have a son he is only a weeks old. But I want to start going to a night school but i dont know were any are. i live in new carlisle. Can anybody tell me about any night schools they know about?

2006-10-30 05:52:09 · 6 answers · asked by me 1

I'm a stay at home mother. I recently just had a newborn & have a 3yr old. I feel like I do all the work, and my husband doesnt help as much as he thinks! He complains that being in the military and workin 60hrs a week makes him tired. So at night he doesnt wake up for the baby. Even on his days off. Is it fair?

2006-10-30 05:50:58 · 28 answers · asked by Island girl 2

dont get me wrong i love then all but they need to stop they are getting to old to handle them and it seems like the two kids they have right now are MINE but they arent i feel like the mom and i am not even a mom yet what do i do

2006-10-30 05:29:53 · 7 answers · asked by *MiSsInG hIm* 1

Sometimes I think we do some of the same things we did as children...but now we hide them better.

What happened:

This past summer I was sitting in a park near my home and watching these kids practicing Karate. They must have been 5 or 6 years old. There were about 10 of them with a instructor working with them, they were so cute in their white robes. All of a sudden these older boy's rode up on their bikes and they started to mock them and making fun of these children, they were yelling out noises like: yaaaahh, woaaa etc.
The little kids were embarrassed and it disrupted their practice...it was very ugly.

What's your response to why they did this?

2006-10-30 05:28:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

My fiancee and I both love children, and want them very much. He is sterile, so we would have to use artificial insemenation or in-vitro fertilization. Adoption is also a possibility, though I'd like to be pregnant someday.

One complication keeps arising- I don't think I want any male children. I don't understand boys; I have no idea where they're coming from. They're not cute, they're messy, they get in far more trouble, etc. I love girl children, and can hardly wait to have my own little girl. Girls are cute, and far more easily understood. Being a girl, I think I could raise a girl better than I could raise a boy. I find nothing appealling in boy children, and wouldn't like to have to suffer for nine months to produce one. My fiancee wants boys as well as girls, and I just don't know how to tell him about my feelings. It's not fair for me to doom him to a lifetime of no boy children, but I don't know how I would deal with a son.

2006-10-30 04:32:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know from personal experience! There is this old man he sexually abused his 4 daughters for many years, he claims to be a christian and he was physically abusive as well. well, as the story goes on his children had children and now he's a grandfather and one of his teenage grand daughter came to live with him and their grand mother. To make a long story short, he was having sex with his grand daughter and his mentally disabled daughter, he was heavily medicating them so they will be zombies and under his control, antway, the mother let her daughter go to stay with him, assuming he has changed, eventhough nothing legally was done to him in the past. His grand daughter took him to court and found him guilty and he spent 5 years in prison, anyway, he is out and have to register as a sex offender. He might have got help, but, his mentally ill daughter still lives with them and the grand mother's in denial. he has grand children now! I want to know if a sex offender can change. Ithinknot!

2006-10-30 04:14:49 · 13 answers · asked by ? 4

because the links arent working for some reason... But I understand where he (and most of you) are coming from.. We dont tolerate any attitude or rudeness in our house because its just not right to talk to people that way.. Especially a child to an adult... The way these kids acts drives me insane too, but when I say something to my neice about her attitude, she tells my sister I was mean to her... And if my husband says anything to any of the other kids, they do basicly the same thing, and we look like these evil strict people because their parents wont discipline them. Like for example, my little brother (who is 7... my mom did that late in life thing) was kicking the couch with his heels, and my husband asked him to stop.. He asked him like 4 times, and my mom just stood there looking at him. Finally he got so upset he raised his voice and said "EXCUSE ME BUT I ASKED YOU TO STOP!!" My whole family looked at me like I was the devil and he and I wound up in an argument.....

2006-10-30 04:07:40 · 6 answers · asked by getting large with baby 2

i have 2 kids- 4 yr old and 14 mth old

2006-10-30 03:57:38 · 13 answers · asked by curious mom 1

2006-10-30 03:46:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

He doesn't actually "discipline" them, so much as raise his voice when they dont do what he says. My son listens very well and doesnt really have any major attitude problems, so when my husband gets around children that do, he feels he has the right to correct them. I don't think he does, I feel like people are getting upset with us because he is telling their kids what to do. I mean, I dont think it's right the way alot of the kids in my extended family act, a lot of them would blow you away with their attitudes, but I dont feel it's my business to tell them about it.
I've asked him to please not raise his voice to other peoples children, and he gets really defensive and we wind up in an argument.. How can I talk to him without offending him?

2006-10-30 03:30:59 · 14 answers · asked by getting large with baby 2

he was seen with a old g/f and he gave my daughter a std and she not mad

2006-10-30 03:19:05 · 22 answers · asked by lettyhrrr 1

I am doing a piece of work on sex education for university....just needed some help with this question. I have looked into teenage pregnancy etc which to me suggests that sex education doesn't help children as they choose whether to have sex anyway.
When I say 'impact' are children scared by it when they are introduced to it? Do they ask more questions etc?!?!

2006-10-30 03:03:17 · 12 answers · asked by staci o 1

2006-10-30 02:40:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a lot of picts of my son and I want to make a calendar, I've looked on walmart.com and walgreens.com and they can do it but it is the same old same old calendar, I want something with some different backgrounds for my picts. Any good websites that do that? Thanks

2006-10-30 02:38:39 · 4 answers · asked by p_a_m_i_e 1

My daughter's biolagical father refuse to meet her,i've tried everything to convince him that it is his daughter.Am i triying too hard?i've simply put myself down when he agrees to meet her for the first time.But he don't show up.MY little sunshine deserves a father.I am taking him to court for child support,but there are only two laywers in the whole reagion of nunvut.What should i say or do?Should i just leave him alone and let him get away with it.ia m all out of answers.She is already five and a half months old and he has missed everything!I tried avoiding that to happen but he don't call back.One look at her and he'll know that he fatherd her.
I know (we both) it was a one night stand but we should not take it out on one innocent child who was born to this cruel world!She did not ask to be here.What shold i do?Plz help me out.

2006-10-30 02:35:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 4 months pregnant with twins, and starting to get alot bigger. My fiancee has a 4 year old son with another women and he comes round every second weekend. The ex wife seems a bit upset about the hole thing although she does feel it will be good for their son to have brothers or sisters. She is worried he will be left out during this time. How do you deal with such a situation?

2006-10-30 01:28:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-30 01:22:16 · 22 answers · asked by beagle 1

writing a paper on compare and contrast need help finding a few ideas

2006-10-30 01:09:29 · 11 answers · asked by nina 1

for hitting a student in the head, this happen at the special school i am volunteering at and i did report it . The boy started crying after the teacher did that to him, this class is a moderate mental handicap class, i seen this happen, and they teacher did this because the boy said i said i wanted chicken to the teacher aide and the teacher went over to the boy and said she didn't hear you and don't be talking to her like that. It was not bad how he was talking and felt so sorry for the boy and this class are all kinds that are ages 13 and up.
I am changing classes and going to help in a class with kids that all are in wheelchairs. I am going to try this out.

by the way you do not know what all goes on in a school and you don't know if the child is being teated good or bad or what is happening there.

2006-10-30 00:51:31 · 23 answers · asked by Rainbow kid 2

I like kids and always get along with them. But to a couple they end up stopping doing anything, or taking risks. Why don't they want to be more adventurous?

2006-10-30 00:49:06 · 38 answers · asked by Bob M 1

I brought it I feel so hurt

2006-10-30 00:11:47 · 20 answers · asked by Daniela 2

I'm 15, and my bedtime is 10:00.
I'm trying to convince my parents that this is unreasonable, and that no one even HAS bedtimes once they turn 12 or so!
What's your opinion?

2006-10-29 23:50:15 · 17 answers · asked by sarahg 3

how many years of gap should maintain between the two childrens
and why

2006-10-29 23:28:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-29 23:05:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is this lady that lives in the same small town as me, I think shes fairly lonely so when I saw her I would just smile and say hello, just being nice. Next minute shes talking to my kids and asking questions about them, which then progressed to playing with them when we saw her in the supermarket and now shes found out where I live and coming around knocking on my door! I'm really sick of it and just want her to leave me and my kids alone. I realise shes lonely but why me???!!!! Any ideas how to get her to leave me and my poor kids alone in a nice way??

2006-10-29 21:50:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous