Parenting - February 2007

What age is the right age to teach people about sex?
i hear alot of people say that sex shouldnt be taught in school or that some people are too young for it.... what age do you think is the age to teach kids about sex?

i was taught about sex at the age of 10 in school. but i already knew alittle about it when i was 7. if you want to know my answer to my question

2007-02-13 15:58:09 · 3 answers · asked by Dont get Infected 7

2007-02-13 15:44:20 · 26 answers · asked by TheyCallMeMom 3

2007-02-13 15:43:15 · 17 answers · asked by TheyCallMeMom 3

2007-02-13 15:41:48 · 46 answers · asked by TheyCallMeMom 3

What symptoms do you get when you get your period. When I first got mine, I would get really bad cramps. I no longer get cramps, but I get dizzy and really bad headache during that time of the month. How do you feel with your period?

2007-02-13 15:37:55 · 5 answers · asked by Peanut Butter 5

which is more damaging to a child? ignoring, violence, or neglect?

2007-02-13 15:34:00 · 11 answers · asked by gratzie 1

I Seriously need financial support and his daughter deserves his help. his name is Joseph Michael Rodriguez and he lives in Houston, TX. The only thing I know about him is that he married a woman named Rosa, he is in his early 30's and needs to report to the Child Support office in McAllen, TX.

2007-02-13 15:03:47 · 4 answers · asked by Darcy G 1

What if the argument gets physical? Should I step in?

2007-02-13 14:34:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The child is thankful and never whines or pouts for stuff and asks for things within resonable price ranges and items. For example she woulden't ask for a PS3 one week and be given it. Then ask for a room make-over the next week and whine for it until she gets it. She is also respectful and well mannered.

Is this child spolied?

2007-02-13 14:22:53 · 14 answers · asked by Mysterious 2

No, the biological mother wont sign over rights, and yes she has been ordered to pay child support for three years now and hasn't paid a dime, she is a drug addict and dont have a job, so they cant garnish wages from her. She has 4 kids and dont have custody of any of them, she never contacts me and shows no interest in any of her children, so it seeems to me that there is a way around this to make it simple, since she shows no concern for any rights, some one out there knows something, please fill me in and I wish to have known facts rather than opinions, (I have enough of them on my own) Thanks and God Bless

2007-02-13 14:11:04 · 9 answers · asked by Big Daddy 2

2007-02-13 14:07:45 · 14 answers · asked by Baby Julie due 5/12 3

2007-02-13 13:58:16 · 25 answers · asked by get it 1

From his daughter????

2007-02-13 13:57:15 · 2 answers · asked by miasophia 3

2007-02-13 13:55:04 · 16 answers · asked by tostosh 1

Age:____Male:____Female:____Married?_____Divorced?____
Do you have Children?____ #_____
Age when parents divorced?____
Custodial Parent? Father?____Mother?____
# of Siblings?____Younger?____Older?____
Your Highest Level Of Education?____
As A Child/Teen/Young Adult Did You:
Use Drugs?____Alcohol?____Have Behavior Problems?____
Did your parents have the same rules?____
Were you asked questions regarding the other parent?____
Did your parents frequently fight in front of you?____
Did your parents speak negatively about one another?____
Did parents ask you to keep secrets from the other?____
Did your parent allow things the other parent would not?____
Did both parents attend your school/sports functions?____
Did you feel pulled into adult problems?____
Regular Visits w/ Non-Custodial Parent?____
Did you feel forced to take sides?____
Did either parent blame the other for financial problems?____
Did you feel like the mediator?____
Were you raised in any religion?____

2007-02-13 13:45:33 · 14 answers · asked by Jenna W 1

Age:____Male:____Female:____Married?_____Divorced?____
Do you have Children?____ #_____
Age when parents divorced?____
Custodial Parent? Father?____Mother?____
# of Siblings?____Younger?____Older?____
Your Highest Level Of Education?____
As A Child/Teen/Young Adult Did You:
Use Drugs?____Alcohol?____Have Behavior Problems?____
Did your parents have the same rules?____
Were you asked questions regarding the other parent?____
Did your parents frequently fight in front of you?____
Did your parents speak negatively about one another?____
Did parents ask you to keep secrets from the other?____
Did your parent allow things the other parent would not?____
Did both parents attend your school/sports functions?____
Did you feel pulled into adult problems?____
Regular Visits w/ Non-Custodial Parent?____
Did you feel forced to take sides?____
Did either parent blame the other for financial problems?____
Did you feel like the mediator?____
Were you raised in any religion?____

2007-02-13 13:43:45 · 6 answers · asked by Jenna W 1

my 11 year old neice has a homework assignmint and she needs to know how much she weighs. She is 4 foot 11 and not chubby. How much????

2007-02-13 13:13:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-13 12:59:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dearest Sexy Hunk,

Thank you for your thoughtful and comprehensive reply. I am very pleased to hear you want to go forward with this plan. Also happy to hear about your update regarding the store.

In fact, I already have mostly cleared out the room upstairs that will go to you. It sure looks a lot bigger without all that stuff in there. I wanted to see if there really was enough space for my baby and I to share one room. Well, my baby and my clothes fit in the same closet without any problem. I moved my computer downstairs, and once that was out of the way, pretty much all mine and my baby's bedroom stuff fit without any undue effort. Still have some organizing work to do, and a few more trips to Goodwill & the trashcan.

On a different note, I have not yet gotten my tax refund, which was going to fund my travel to your house. My baby 's birthday broke my budget this month plus I overpaid on my loan, not thinking about things like gas money. Although, it is still possible I will get that refund tomorrow (Tuesday). I will let you know how that turns out.

If we don't chat tonight, have a nice sleep, interesting dreams, and I will get in touch w/you tomorrow.

Always Your Sweet,

Pumpkin

2007-02-13 12:51:25 · 6 answers · asked by xxx_death_kiss_xxx 1

He wants to dress and act like a gang member and I am scared. How do I steer him away from this? We live in a full size house and safe nieborhood and he gets mostly anything he needs or wants. Financially we are stable.

2007-02-13 12:25:49 · 13 answers · asked by mistyhayze 1

Okay, my midwife suggested I start taking lots of vitamins and herbs. So, in addition to my prenatal, I'm taking Vitamin C, folic acid, garlic, and eccanesia. My urine is very yellow and strong. So is my discharge, which is also staining my underwear, and even a few hours after bathing I can smell my - you know- vagaga...-and its really strong. Can anyone tell me if its normal, and if there's anything I can do about it?

I am wearing pantyliners to prevent stains (and to catch the pee that leaks out) but anything would help!

Thank you!!

2007-02-13 12:15:58 · 1 answers · asked by thezookeeper 4

Better teachers? Better values tought? Better learning environment?
The little man's going off to kindergarten next year so we're debating.
Money's not an issue here so don't answer regarding finances

2007-02-13 12:09:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

My friend who also has a son aged 5 born in April but goes to another school has given her son private tutoring on a weekend with a group. I don't want my son to feel Upset there are 2 others in his class who need read recovery. Should I get a private tutor in a group or he does it at school 30 mins individually M-F for 6 months. Need advice. Reader recovery is optional

2007-02-13 12:06:36 · 7 answers · asked by princess ana j 3

it's a ten year old boy's b-day party. we want to put valuable stuff in the goody bag that kids will keep, in additon to the candy, bubbles, etc. most Espeically if you have younger kids lik age 2-5, age 6-8 and ages 9-11. PLease and thanx!!

2007-02-13 12:05:21 · 9 answers · asked by PrincessKK 3

How much per week and should it be linked to household chores or as an "entitlement"?

2007-02-13 11:31:39 · 12 answers · asked by africanviolet 2

2007-02-13 11:31:29 · 5 answers · asked by Luke 2

If so, did you find what you wanted? Do you think it's an invasion of privacy if you don't tell em or a homeowner's right?

2007-02-13 11:27:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-13 11:27:48 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

My daughter and I were watching her Wiggles DVD and I was like 'hey not bad, maybe I can stand this' (not so) But he was a welcome diversion. I'd do him

2007-02-13 11:26:10 · 6 answers · asked by Baby 3

'Mommy's going away'

On Thursday, the hospice nurse said Carolynne would likely die within 48 hours. Her respirations had fallen to six per minute. It was nearly impossible to rouse her from sleep. The nurse said she probably wouldn't regain consciousness. Carolynne's family hurried back to New Hampshire.

That night, Brian sat by his mother's bed as visitors gathered around her. He often had asked questions about her condition - whether she felt pain, whether something could be done to help her breathe easier, who they would call when she died. Tonight he asked Rich why her muscles were twitching.

"Mom's dying, Brian," he said.

"Oh, yeah, yeah," Brian said and turned away.

When Rich tried to tell him again, Brian plugged his ears.

"Brian, take your fingers out of your ears, you're embarrassing yourself," Rich said.

After a long pause, Carolynne's sister Laura Cummins, 36, said, "It's okay Brian. I don't want to hear it either."

Even before Carolynne's illness, Rich's relationship with Brian was strained. Lately, Brian had been getting in trouble at school, where he's in the sixth grade. In recent weeks, Rich received daily calls from his principal.

Brian and Melissa have limited contact with their biological father. Rich said he knows that Brian feels as though he has lost both parents. "He's got a bum deal," he said.

Carolynne's sisters and cousin Anna had already assured her that they would help care for Brian. Rich said he is unsure how to move the family forward when he and Brian are battling each other.

One night last week, Rich told Brian that if he didn't change his behavior toward adults, he could be sent to boarding school. Brian protested. He said he didn't want to leave home.

Rich told him he didn't know what else to do. "I'm doing everything that people tell me I should do to help you," he said.

Later on Thursday, Rich placed Elijah down in the bed next to his mom. Elijah draped his arm across her chest. "Mom? Mommy? Mom's not waking up," he said to Rich. "Mom doesn't hear me."

Rich reminded him of the books they had read about people's bodies breaking.

"Mommy's going away," Rich said, starting to cry. "Mommy's dying."

When Elijah said she would never wake up "because she doesn't like me," Rich showed him the surgical scars on Carolynne's stomach and tried to explain what was happening to her body.

The normally boisterous boy would later tiptoe quietly down the stairs at about 6 a.m. on the day Carolynne died to listen at the doorway of the room where his dad dozed next to his mom. Then he walked slowly back to the stairs in the blue darkness of near-dawn and kneeled, peering between the rungs of the railing at people sprawled sleeping on the couches.

On Friday, Carolynne's pulse was weaker, her temples caved in from dehydration. In the afternoon, she opened her eyes for a few moments. Melissa sat at the computer in the kitchen. Rich asked her to join him beside her mom.

"Your mother's eyes are open, and I want her to see you," he said.

At first, Melissa refused. When Carolynne was in the hospital, Melissa had said she sometimes felt as if her mom was already gone. Since Carolynne had come home, she had kept her distance. After Rich prodded her again, she conceded.

"Melissa's here," Rich said to Carolynne. "She's watching you."

The next morning, Melissa stood at the end of her mother's bed quietly, her hair in two braids, and dressed for the state gymnastics meet. The adults in her family had explained to her that her mother would likely die that day. She chose to go to the meet anyway, and they let her. This was her own way of coping, they said.

Through the morning, Carolynne's hands turned blue and her breath became fast and shallow. At about 1:30 p.m., Ellie Duhaime and Melody Cooper-Mishkit, longtime friends from The Family Place, turned Carolynne on her side to give her some medicine. When they returned her to her back, her breathing changed immediately. They called for Rich. The family ran to Carolynne's bedside.

They held on to Carolynne and to each other until she died.

Brian hugged Rich tight around the waist.

"I love you," he said.

"I love you, too," Rich said.

Rich sobbed as he removed her wedding ring and his own and placed them on her chest. He fetched Elijah and sat with him next to Carolynne's body.

"Mom's gone," he said. He touched his son's chest. "She stays in here, with you now."

When Melissa came home hours later, she walked immediately upstairs to her room. She came down after prodding from the family's longtime baby sitter to go see her mom's body.

Later, Carolynne's cousin Anna said she thinks that Melissa and Brian will be proud to have shown such courage in watching their mother's long fight and in experiencing her eventual death.

"It will give them tremendous strength and take away - or at least diminish - the fear that they might have . . . of what happened," she said.

In the days immediately following Carolynne's death, they were already showing strength: Melissa went to another gymnastics meet on Sunday. Brian has talked to his mom, if only in spirit, each night and each morning before he and Anna fall asleep on the couch together. Both kids were back at school yesterday.

But Saturday night, when people from the funeral home came to take Carolynne's body, Brian sat with Ellie in the basement while Elijah ran around throwing toys.

"Where do they have her sleep? Are they going to put her in a bed?" Brian asked, as the stretcher that carried his mom's body was wheeled across the floor above his head. "She's going to be lonely."

Ellie told him that his mom's spirit is in heaven now, not in her body.

Rich called down to say they could come up. Carolynne's body was gone. Elijah ran up the stairs, calling for his mom.

2007-02-13 10:34:54 · 12 answers · asked by erinjl123456 6