Parenting - December 2006

just wondering how much the dad has to pay for one infant child in child support?

2006-12-27 15:10:13 · 5 answers · asked by flyer 3

Scenario: You have a child from a previous marriage. Your spouse's family gave your child some very nice and very thoughtul Christmas gifts. You in turn had not given the relatives gifts from your child. You take your child to Dave and Busters Christmas evening. As the child is cashing in his or her coupons for items, your child decides to spend coupons on the people that gave him or her Christmas gifts. The child decides to do so because it was mentioned to the child that the family had gifts for him or her.
Do you let your child gift them the cheesy gifts from the Dave and Busters award case or do you tell your child that you think it is very thoughtful of him or her to want to give them gifts and encourage your child to allow you to take them to the mall so they can purchase something more appropriate for the spouses family (i.e gift cards music, etc)
Is it tacky to allow your child to give whatever they see fit or do you think children need to be taught how to give gifts?

2006-12-27 15:07:16 · 4 answers · asked by femmenoire@sbcglobal.net 4

ok my daughter dad is put away for some time and i wanted to know is there is any way to get help with the bills as he can't work and all right now. i am trying to get food stamps but nothing yet i just dont know hoe i ma going to pay the rent and all the bills

2006-12-27 15:02:04 · 9 answers · asked by jlw78418 2

2006-12-27 14:59:45 · 8 answers · asked by JUSS 4

I am deaf.. I have 2 daughters. I love them with all my heart. One problem... they are both hearing.. how can i communicate with them well enough when they get older into teengage years when they use more verbal communication than sign language? Will it create problem between us as deaf parents and hearing children?

2006-12-27 14:51:47 · 2 answers · asked by Roger S 1

How did you feel when your kids did the same crap you did at that age? Sex, drugs, drinking, criminal stuff? Mine about put me in the nut house. Mostly my girls staying the night with boyfriends.

2006-12-27 13:41:41 · 11 answers · asked by Jim C 5

i have bothe of them but my parents dont know...i just wanna know why they are so against it. i mean im only friends with ppl i know.... :(

2006-12-27 12:53:25 · 10 answers · asked by ♥brunette babe♥ 1

This is coming from someone who has neither had children or really been around them, so I'm just curious.

It seems like most people refer to young children's ages in months, rather than years, calling them an 18 month old or a 22 month old, for example.

I understand the need to differentiate between, say, a 13 month old and a 20 month old, because of the vast amount of mental and physical development that would occur during that time period. But, I've known people to carry it out quite a bit further than that, and refer to their children as 40 month olds. To me, figuring out how old a 40 month old would be is like trying to figure out military time. (Although I suppose to someone used to military time, it would be easy. Am I just an outsider?)

Wouldn't it be just as logical to say that your child is two and a half, rather than 30 months? I wouldn't say I'd worked at a job for 30 months, I'd say I'd been there two and a half years. It just seems less awkward.

Insight?

2006-12-27 12:43:00 · 11 answers · asked by xxandra 5

2006-12-27 12:30:45 · 32 answers · asked by snooteriffic 1

...for their little girls?? I work at a daycare and all day long I am surrounded by girls playing with these scantly clad, over sexualized dolls. I've seen the movies and their message isn't terribly bad but they don't have to look like prostitutes to say the little bit of nothing they say. The appearance of the doll is way to mature for children...the heavy make up, full lips, tiny and often exposed waist (which is so small that the pants/shorts they wear tend to fall off) and large full hips and breast.

Why would parents buy this doll and validate to their children that her appearance is acceptable. I'm 21 and to me they look like whores. If you are a parent would you or have you bought one for you child and what's your feelings about its appearance?

2006-12-27 12:22:02 · 22 answers · asked by Sparkle 3

2006-12-27 12:12:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

my daughter is 11 and she is dating a 16 year old man! NOW WHAT! she said she loves him and he came over one time and hes VERY nice and she said "if u really loved me you would let me be with the one that i love!" and he even said he loved her! NOW WHAT!

2006-12-27 12:02:21 · 38 answers · asked by greendayfan12006 1

What is so bad with a person like this??(see description in add'l details)

2006-12-27 11:11:45 · 9 answers · asked by Hott Gymnast 1

like at social events at school. ?

2006-12-27 10:27:32 · 20 answers · asked by forest lover 2

I have three children 9, 8 and 2. My 9 year old daughter is very young at heart but I just found out that she is the last child in her class to..... "believe". She evidentaly got into a dispute with her friends in class about it and told them that she was going to get up at 5:30 to prove it. I found all of this out the day after Christmas when my mother told me that she had relayed this information to her. Well I had told her that she couldn't set her alarm for 5:30 Christmas morning because the baby needed to be able to sleep later than that.... (obvioulsy not knowing she was trying to be a detective).

What should I do say to smooth things out with her? I don't want her to loose her innocence, yet I don't want her to get into it with her classmates. Another thing is that we are strong Christians and I don't want her to question her beliefs in God (if you catch my meaning)

Please let me know what you have experienced with your children or how your parents handled this.

2006-12-27 10:23:45 · 10 answers · asked by AmyDMomOf3 2

my son will be 11 months feb 3rd and i used to heat his formula in the microwave to 50 secongs now i decreased it to 25 seconds...can i just now...give it to him cold???? will it upset his stomach? I am trying to prepeare him when he turns 1 in feb to colds cows milk!!!

2006-12-27 09:58:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

My son just turned 1 on Friday and we had him completely bottle broke and on a sippy cup by 9 months ( doctors orders, because he was bitin the nipple off and choking) he went to my fathers house for 3 days and my father thought he was to young to be on a sippy and he put him back on a bottle. My doctor wants him back on a sippy. I am having a terrible time doin this. The first time it was so easy, we just gave him a sippy and he took it. Know he screams until he gets a bottle. Anyone with suggestions please. I really need help on this if all he is goin to do is scream i will go insane lol .

2006-12-27 09:58:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do u explain this to a 7 year old. We watched World Trade Center together. She was asking a lot of questions and as I tried to explain it to her she seemed more confused. Words like war and terrorist she don't really understand. I know it's complicated anyway, but is there a simple way to put it? Thanks....only helpful answers please....I'm not asking your opinion about letting my daughter watch this.

2006-12-27 09:56:31 · 16 answers · asked by [un]bro/ken 3

My present girlfriend has a nine year old boy. He's a great kid, however sometimes he behaves like a spoiled brat and treats his mother with absolute disrespect. I've been keeping my mouth shut...should I say something to the child or is that out of line?

2006-12-27 09:48:36 · 28 answers · asked by radarjet67 1

when my son who is almost 11 months gets off of his bottle...and my goal is to get him off by a year and train him to use a sippy...do i just give him cows milk at that time???? right now, he is on formula and i have pleanty to last til he is a year.

2006-12-27 09:46:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-27 09:42:51 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

my son will be 11 months old on jan 3rd and now he is slowly taking 3rd foods and not throwing up and gagging like he was before. I can not give him any people food yet as he really gags and throws up. have you ever heard of a baby who is almost 11 months and cannot eat the simplest people food???

2006-12-27 09:38:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was watching the news with my 5 year old and my ex husband's father in law to be ( not sure if there married or not) was on the news charged with two felony counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and my daughter was like that's her ( ex's new wife or wife to be) daddy's mom

Do I have the right to petition the courts for my ex husband not to bring her anywhere where he will be, my ex says I have no right to or to be upset..

Any helpful suggestions would be wonderful and thanks

2006-12-27 09:30:57 · 12 answers · asked by twistedsingle 4

Have 1 kindergartener, a 3 yr old and a 4 month old. My sister in law lives with us, watches the kids while we work. Need to figure out a reasonable rate to pay her. She's lived with us since 3/06, she had a bed in our kids playroom and paid $300 rent. We moved, she has her own room. She started watching our kids 10/06. Our house bills (rent, pg&e, water, cable, etc) total $2665. I say since she has her own room, her rent should be 1/4 of the cost, let's say $650. We've been paying her $400 cash. So I say we've been paying her $1050 per month. She's on SSI, $850 a month, which she keeps because it's under the table. If she worked, SSI would take 1/2 of her check so I think she should count that $425 into what we pay her since she gets to keep it all. And she can't hold a job. We want to put the 3 yr old in part time daycare to get some social skills, she keeps him in the playroom, no interaction, same with baby. Daycare for all 3 is $1800, part time is $360. We can't afford daycare.

2006-12-27 09:00:15 · 10 answers · asked by kmamamoo 2

I have a 10 year old who is hearing impaired and I was just interested if anybody had any parenting tips?

2006-12-27 08:47:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-27 08:45:22 · 14 answers · asked by icebuilderjon 1

I got pregnancy at 16 so it haven't been easy but I really love my daughter and I will do anything to raise her good life and displine her. When my mom raise me that it hasn't been easy either because she suffer mental illness and she tried her best to raise me with a lot of love but sometime she don't raise me like she should because she was more like my friend than parent, she never punish me or anything, spoil a lot. I am deaf too but I can hear some and speak well. I behave better when im around with my dad than my mom. Now i notice my daughter behave better around with my dad than she is with me. I tried to keep her fun like taking her to park, chunk e cheese, i tried my best to teach her more education and give her love. I was behind with everything so my step mom had to teach me with manner and displine, clean up after myself when i was 7. I do teach my daughter to displine and clean up and good manner and let her have fun. But i feel like something is missing, Any advice to add

2006-12-27 08:14:25 · 11 answers · asked by jessibee2 1

2006-12-27 08:06:46 · 17 answers · asked by ritu r 1

my husband is against santa b/c he feels he detracts from the real reason for the season...the birth of christ.
now, i feel that we can encompass everything into the holiday and it's all in how we raise our son. he's only 3 months so we still have some time to get the details ironed out.

i feel that we can take him to church and bake jesus a birthday cake and we can have santa come, but not idolize him.

is there anything you do to remind yourself and your family of the real reason for the season that we can adopt into our christmas traditions???

thanks!

2006-12-27 08:04:04 · 7 answers · asked by joey322 6

I hate children! Why would anyone ever want to have one?

2006-12-27 07:17:08 · 32 answers · asked by Wilds 1