Parenting - December 2006

For moms who work full-time: what are some of your secrets to running a household while bringing home the bacon? How do you keep organized? How do you spend quality time with the family?

2006-12-30 07:36:57 · 11 answers · asked by dansaremm 4

2006-12-30 07:20:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi, my 10 year old boy (has a sister age 12) is really a great kid. He is quite smart, has a gennerally pleasent personnality, but has a short fuse when he gets upset or confused about something. I know he is ten, but otherwise he is almost the ideal son so to see him become so agressive, even lash out at times when he is just confused or upset by small things concerns me? Any advise?

2006-12-30 07:19:18 · 14 answers · asked by MtnManInMT 4

I am 23 years old and a new mother. My father is dictating when I should or should not bring my 5 month old baby outside, when and what I should feed her at each specific stage, etc. I am an educated person with a bachelor's degree, I have read several "Baby's First Year" books from cover to cover, and I believe that I am credible enough to make my own decisions about being a mother. Of course I go by the book on most things, but my instincts on many others.
Delimma: I was outside today with my 5 month old (it's 60 degrees out today--comfortable if bundled up), and let her swing for her first time today. I took pictures of her smiling while on the swing and sent the pictures to my dad. He sent a phone text back saying, "Too young! Bring her back inside!"
I just sent him this text message saying: "I promise I am saying this with heart and all-do respect to you. Mothers are given motherly instincts about their children's fun, health, and safety. We tend to go for it too. I would never want to hurt my daughter. It is 60 degrees outside. I need space and respect from you to raise my child the way I see fit. She has had all shots, she was warm, and she also had fun. Thank you for being overprotective though, that makes two of us! Love you!"
Then he replied: "Whatever." Now he's mad at me for taking her outside.

I would like to have some opinions on how to tastefully deal with someone like this. He lives nearly next door so I can't really nod my head at him and let this go, because I feel that his "advice" will snowball into much more than JUST advice later. Also, if I talk to him in person, he constantly "shoots" my opinions as well as my justifications down. I am willing to talk to him and come to terms with him like two adults, but I feel as if I can't. Any advice? Thank you!

2006-12-30 07:18:52 · 11 answers · asked by Tasha 2

I need to buy 2 baby gates as my son is slowly starting to crawl...he should be at full speed in a week...lol..I wantto put one in the kitchen and one in the hallway...I want one that either it opens by your foot or it opens easily by a push of the hand and i have a 8 yr old daughter and she needs to be able to access these gates easily. Do you have any of these types. If so, i need the names of these gates so i do not go crazy when i am at the store. thanks in advance

2006-12-30 06:53:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-30 06:37:33 · 11 answers · asked by smokinblusi 1

But on a more serious note! Why is it only me who truly believes its the parents fault.If one of my children was to act like most kids of today I`d tell the police to lock them up.Im so gratefull that they are well educated and respectfull and Im a working class lone parent.

2006-12-30 06:32:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Now, obviosuly this may not work for everyone. But this has worked for my son, and I wanted to share this with all of you.

My son is is eight months old. He has been using a pacifer since he was born. He had gotten horrible the past couple of months. Not only could he not sleep without his pacifer he spent all day sucking on it too. One day we decided to just take it away. Yeah, that didn't work. He just screamed and screamed until we gave it back, and we waited all day to give it back. So.. We went and bought him some new ones because his old one needed replaced Up to this point we had always given him really soft ones. But he now has all four of his front eeth and had been putting holes in his pacifers, which is why we had tried to take it away. So we bought him a harder one, hoping he wouldn't break that. Well, when we gave it to him he freaked out because he couldn't bite it like his old one. After he a few days he simply stopped trying to bite it.

2006-12-30 06:06:12 · 5 answers · asked by Wiccan~Momma 3

I am a mother of five kids ranging from 14 to 1 and my husband has three kids from a previous marriage they are 17 20 and 21. During the holidays the 17yr old came and stayed with us and she brought her boyfriend(18) with her.I get on really well with her and it was lovely to have them to stay especially for my husband but he thought it was normal for them to stay in the same room.They stayed for four nights and i know for a fact that they had sex under our roof which makes me feel uncomfortable.When I approached my husband he said that I was being too conservative and failed to see the difference between us having sex with the kids in the house and my step daughter and her boyfriend having sex.I just felt we were setting a bad example for the younger kids especially the 12&14yr old who are at extremely impressionable ages.It is also a respect issue for me.Was I being too conservative?Do you think my kids even noticed an unmarried couple sleeping in the same room is strange?

2006-12-30 06:05:05 · 12 answers · asked by strictmom 3

I have a 3 year old son and 18 month old daughter. My husband and I don't parade around the house naked but we don't make a big deal out of it when we are getting dressed or in the shower. We want our kids to feel comfortable with their bodies .

2006-12-30 05:41:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-30 05:13:34 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

My daughter (18 yr.) mentioned to me; a month ago, that she wanted to get a Tattoo and was told NOT to. Today, she mentioned to me that she got a Tattoo and was highly shocked! and highly mad. What should be the proper punishment?

Thanking you all in advance

2006-12-30 05:10:15 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can you help prepare a list for me?

Do gooders But OUT!!

2006-12-30 04:50:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does it affect the child in anyway if you spank them?

2006-12-30 04:30:26 · 26 answers · asked by lilbeaver67 1

I mean, how often does one get to see the level of human of idiocy and self-absorbtion at that level?

The mothers themselves will naturally have no clue what I'm talking about, because they're caught up in the permanent trance of motherhood and self-preservation.

But surely anyone else looking from the outside in can testify to this.

How often have you seen a bunch of white mothers sitting together during their "brag orgies," pretending to listen to each other's "my kid did this stories?"

Or how often have you purposely wanted to rear-end some crappy American-made SUV with a "My kid is an Honor Student..." sticker?

There is nothing more fanatic than a white woman with children.

It's almost obscene.

2006-12-30 04:28:39 · 24 answers · asked by Samuel 1

I have two children, my 7-year-old daughter Lily and my 5-year-old son Tom. One day during before Christmas, we finished dinner and left the dishes stacked up at the kitchen sink. I decided to train my son Tom to clean the dishes, but just as I started my wife stopped me. My wife is Christian and because the bible states that women must serve men she therefore believes Tom cannot be exposed to dishwashing, which was, as she said, "a woman's job." Instead, my little girl Lily had to do the dishes, and she wasn't happy with that.

I don't mind if my wife does the dishes. The problem is that she almost never does them and expects Lily to do them. She doesn't even accept help from me or Tom.

One night I spoke to my wife. She told me that not only were these gender rules important for religion but they were also important for Tom's future. She claims that when Tom grows up he will never be able to get a girlfriend if he serves her.

Is this true? Is there evidence that women want this?

2006-12-30 04:17:23 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

should i tell them the truth or play the whole " they are from the store" thing! HELP!

2006-12-30 03:49:21 · 17 answers · asked by hollabak_at_me 4

2006-12-30 03:25:36 · 9 answers · asked by golfer 1

My daughter, 10, wants to be mature. She's getting better and better. can you give me some examples of how to be mature?
Sometimes, when I see her doing somthing that I don't expect her to do, she's like, "Wasn't that mature. mom?" I'm having trouble answering. Please give some examples of being mature that a 10-13 year old should do.

2006-12-30 03:22:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-30 03:20:25 · 34 answers · asked by nicey 1

My husband and I have agreed to never have children. Has anybody else made this decision? Have you also experienced hostility from people? What types of reactions to you get? What do your parents, friends, co-workers, etc. say? Have you had to hide your decision to keep the peace?

2006-12-30 02:58:15 · 9 answers · asked by heathen 4

What if you came home early and saw your son and his g/f sleeping in each other's arms?? She was in these victoria's secret little panties and bra set, and he was in boxers. The both looked as tho they meant for what they were wearing to be seen by the other. Should I wake them b4 my husband gets home?? Should I wait until tom morning when they realize we came home early?? What if my husband instead of getting mad asks my son "how was it"?? Are the chances pretty high they had sex?? Do I wake them?? Do I send her home and call her parents or let her stay??

2006-12-30 01:14:41 · 13 answers · asked by Kiah 1

recently posted a question about how I was worried about my son and I had some responses saying he may be masturbating in the bathroom.Is this normal to do in there? Have any other mothers known their sons to do this?

2006-12-30 00:20:55 · 14 answers · asked by Samantha M 1

I know of several of my compatriots who adopted children born to unwed mothers in their churches, but my wife and I would like to adopt a child from an orphanage. The problem is, we are in Korea, an we could be here for many more years. I am fully aware of the requirements of getting citizenship for my adopted child, but the actual adopting is the problem. Does anyone know where I can start?

2006-12-29 23:40:27 · 2 answers · asked by Big Blair 4

MY 13 year old son has the dryest skin EVER, since winter his skin is just like sandpaper. His dry skin is everywhere on his body, and I got him Nivea body lotion for dry skin, and I said he MUST apply it on his body after his baths and showers.

I do his back because its hard for him to get the lotion on there, he does the rest. I Felt the bottle of lotion a couple days later and its still full besides when I do his back.

I do not even think he is using the lotion, I tried bribing him, did not work, and I applied lotion MYSELF on his body head to toe once to tell him a message that if he does not do it himself, I will.

I still do not know for sure for what I am supposed to do.

His skin is TOO ROUGH AND DRY to be ignored.

2006-12-29 19:34:50 · 11 answers · asked by xstevie1993 1

please only genuine positive answers

2006-12-29 18:53:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not above spanking, but latley nothing is getting through to my four year old. I have recently scared her by saying I'm going to hit her with a belt but never have. Is she too young for that?

2006-12-29 18:21:09 · 46 answers · asked by valerier925 1

i asked a question earlier and someone said my parents were trying to buy me love. they don't really spend time wit me or my brothers but they always buy us stuff. are they really buying me love like someone said.

2006-12-29 18:04:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

My sister works a full time job and sends her kids to day care. When she has a day off she sends her kids there anyway. On the weekends, she's always going out and leaving them with a sitter, or her hubby, yet she always says she doesn't spend enough time with them. It really bugs me to hear her whine and do nothing about it. It's at a point that when she does have her kids she can't handle them by herself. Do I say something or keep my mouth shut?

2006-12-29 17:56:41 · 8 answers · asked by Christy 2

I am a single parent for my 12 year old daughter. I was called at her school the last day of class before Christmas and the school counselor asked me if she had been problems at home. I said no and she asked if it was possible that my daughter was being molested. I said no and left. But everything started to make sense. Her grades dropped drastically, she´s been quieter than normal, we barely spend some quality time together (she doesn´t even complain that I work too much anymore). She just closed herself. And sometimes, she tells me she doesn´t want to go to her dad´s. He has the legal right of taking her every other weekend, so, I never did anything to stop it. Once she actually cried and when I asked why, she said it was really lonely there and she got bored. I don´t know what to do... How do I ask her if something is going on?

2006-12-29 17:18:08 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous