Parenting - February 2007

2007-02-01 11:29:31 · 7 answers · asked by strawberry 4

ok i need to restate my questions cuz there seems to be some confusion. i am young but not as young as people are thinking. I am 22 years old and want a child. I know that childeren are a big responsibility and they do need all of my attention all of the time. I have worked in a daycare since i was 16 and i absolutly love children so i do have childeren experience. I do want a child for selfish reasons such as i want someone to be responsible for i want to guid a child and teach them right from wrong and want the love of a child that i cant get from anyone or anything else. when i am seeing someone i do think about what kind of father they will be and what they have to offer me and my child. So i guess my question really is, is it stupid that i want a child so bad at a young age? and is it wrong to date guys and think "hey are they gonna be a good father to my future kids"?

2007-02-01 11:22:01 · 11 answers · asked by breezy 1

Here is what happened. My kids were at the playground having snowball fights with a bunch of other kids. One of my sons(We will call him Tony) threw a snowball and hit another kid in the face( We will call this kid James) the other kid laughed and threw a snowball in my sons face. My other son(We will call him Tom) was also laughing and threw a snowball at James and got him in the face. James quit laughing and said "Hell you don't" and punched Tom in the face and then ran off. We called the police and all the kids said the same thing about what happened. I am seriously thinking about Pressing Charges against this kid. He is 13 and about 6 feet tall. My son is 11 and 5'3 tall. I do not think that James should have hit him in the face. I think he should have had better control. He was throwing snowballs and getting other kids in the face. Would you Press Charges and hope you scare James enough so that he does not do this again? Or leave him alone and let him go unpunished!

2007-02-01 11:10:32 · 9 answers · asked by JJ 2

he gets bullyed really bad he's in mainstream school should i move him to a school for the visually impared

2007-02-01 10:45:57 · 4 answers · asked by alexlamb@btinternet.com 1

2007-02-01 10:42:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-01 10:03:56 · 42 answers · asked by T T 1

I have just moved to Australia with my family. My little girl has started a new school. This school is very keen on playing cricket and sports. As we are from the UK, we are getting a lot of grief about having lost the cricket, and my little girl is very upset about the other children always putting her down about 'her Country' losing the cricket. Now, she doesn't want to join in any sports, especially the cricket. She has tried to pretend that she is injured and has also been crying about it.

My husband thinks I should go and see her new teacher, but the thing is that even the teachers rub it in about cricket, it seems to be an Australian past-time. So far I have comforted her and said that playing sports is fun and that it will help her to make new friends at her new school, that she should give it a chance.

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.

2007-02-01 09:55:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are some pros and cons?

2007-02-01 09:46:31 · 26 answers · asked by MCB 2

My husband is trying to convince me to have a baby. I told him I would have a baby on the condition that he go to a lactation specialist and learn to express milk from his nipples. I know it can be done, as I've already done some research on it. I just feel it's only fair if I'm going to carry the baby for 9 months, then it's his job to feed it, but I don't want our baby to be on formula and I don't want to be bothered with pumping my breast. How can I convince him to do it? He fears that he will be looked at weird. I assured him he wouldn't be.

2007-02-01 09:41:07 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am not a nudist and i firmly believe in clothes but my son is a nudist and he wants me to allow him to walk around naked and go to nude places and have nude friends. What do i do

2007-02-01 09:08:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It puzzles me.

2007-02-01 09:02:51 · 11 answers · asked by The Part Truth Xades 2

2007-02-01 09:01:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

to have other children?

I only have one and I don't plan on having another one !

2007-02-01 08:48:11 · 27 answers · asked by bye bye 5

Or are there some things a parent just can't accept? I'm not referring to murder or suicide, but things such as who their child has decided to date, what the child plans on doing with their life, if he/she is on drugs, etc. Should a parent always possess unconditional love and support for their children? I'd like to get some parents' answers on this.

2007-02-01 08:47:24 · 21 answers · asked by forever.devoted 2

unmarried couple with child. mother attempting suicide, put in hospital. getting out tomorrow. how does father keep mother from moving baby to another state? what rights does the father have?? what are the steps he should take to have rights.

2007-02-01 08:22:05 · 5 answers · asked by All_Dreamss 1

I am looking for the white thermal simpson socks from the1990's that has them printed on the bottom new or used condition also ninja turtles slipper socks, aligator slipper socks and thermal socks with the colored toes & heels. New or used condition. These are for my 8 year old son who has asked me for them after seeing them before.

2007-02-01 08:16:13 · 1 answers · asked by spike377 1

2007-02-01 07:57:48 · 21 answers · asked by musclenbone 2

I had been recieving child support from both my children fathers for two years. Everthing was going well until the judge allowed both fathers to stop paying suddenly in June w/o explanation. B/c of child support I was able to move my children out of a bad neighborhood into a bigger home, better schools, and provide extracurricular activites. I was able to work less and be home with my children, and work full time at finishing my bachlors degree. Since the stop of child support I have had to drop out of school, and take only one class at a time, discontinue extracurriclar activites b/c I had to return to work full time at two jobs and my kids spend a majority of their time with an unsafe sitter that I can afford. I have e-maild, written, and called everyone in the state to get some answers and try to continue with the child support, but find myself at a dead end. I am not allowed to contact the judge directly, and both their fathers are reluctant to pay and spend time with kids. Help?

2007-02-01 07:54:35 · 9 answers · asked by nene 3

my son was diagnosed about a year ago with add and i dont give him his meds on weekends or when he isnt in school. but there r das that he drives me absoulutly bonkers. is this normal? do u think i should give him the meds all the time just to make it through a normal day?

2007-02-01 07:49:12 · 7 answers · asked by want a princess baby 4

My eight-year old daughter, "Marti", took a test to be accepted into her school's gifted program. However, a few minutes ago, I received a phone call informing me she had not passed the test. This didn't really make me upset or anything, as I expected it to be an extremely difficult test, so I didn't get my hopes up. However, I do expect Marti to be very disappointed. My little girl wanted this very much, and was hoping to do well. I love her very much, and do not wish for her to be hurt. I was told I can sign her up for the test again, if a teacher of hers recommends it, and I would LOVE her to give it another shot, but I don't know if she will be afraid of rejection. However, there is something inside of me that says she can do it. I know Marti, and she will do WHATEVER it takes to get something she wants, so I'm at least HOPING with is the same way. Is there anyone who could give me some advice on how to not only deal with the situation but tell my daughter this?

2007-02-01 07:43:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Anyone know of a creative way to ask someone to be a GOD parent? Thanks!

2007-02-01 07:39:01 · 5 answers · asked by Kara 2

It said that shared custody simply makes the parents feel better but the kids feel terrible because there is mom's home and there is dad's home but no kids' home.

2007-02-01 07:38:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

she's mostly a good kid. has had some trouble attending school, lots of unexcused absences (cuts) she has been known to drink. please let me know what you think. thanks.

2007-02-01 07:31:33 · 36 answers · asked by Flowerchild 3

2007-02-01 07:28:45 · 24 answers · asked by tulip 4

Her mom gave up her rights and is 1000's of miles away. My husband works 3rds and before we were married I worked full time and he would wake and take care of her when she got home from school. Well I quit my job to go back to school for dental assisting and now my husband wakes up at about 6:00 eats dinner and goes back to bed until he has to leave for work. I bring his daughter to sports practices and events while he sleeps. I have also had a few job offers that he wouldnt let me take because he wants me to be a "housewife" right now. He pays for everything for me but I also have an income from an insurance policy that my parents left me. I put the downpayment on our house that we just purchased but he pays the payment. My question is I want a child of my own but he wants to wait. I feel that if I can care for his child then I should have my own. I love my stepdaughter like my own but I want a baby of my own is this selfish. I have also quit taking my bc without his knowledge.

2007-02-01 07:23:39 · 11 answers · asked by karen s 1

My fellow accountant came in and said that she was sorry for being so hard to work with last week but it was the first week that her daughter stayed with her ex all week. She has a half half sharing arrangement. Her daugher is three. I see this as typical in white divorces, that the fathers fight the wives for custody of the kids. Don't you think that small children need their mothers more and seeing them part of every weekend and maybe early dinner once a week would be good? I am not trying to be racist here, just curious. Also, I am middle class so it is not class we are talking about. Thanks for the discussion.

2007-02-01 07:22:23 · 11 answers · asked by black sun 1

Do you find that when you constantly help your children financially, it undermines their ability to be self reliant?

2007-02-01 07:11:33 · 9 answers · asked by Cloudy 5

I just read my local paper and a 2nd grade male teacher at my childrens previous school was discovered to be a child molester. My children may have come in contact with this person as they were 1st and 2nd grade at the time (My friend still has a 3rd grade child in the school). The district is only counseling the children who told, and mailed out letters to the parents who are currently in the school who were students of his. Does the district owe us more than that? Is it suffient to think that he did nothing and that my children were safe? The teacher went to the after school program and asked children to do chores in the class (my children were in the program). Should I bring this to my childrens attention about the teacher? I have talked witih my children about inappropite behavior and touching but just disccused this subject this past summer (after things could have happened). My children are 8 and 9 years of age? What to do?

2007-02-01 07:11:01 · 10 answers · asked by nene 3

My kids spend a week at my house and then a week at my husband's. My husband wants me to call the kids when he has them. I prefer not to because when I do, they start crying and say that they want to come to my house. I asked him about this and he says that they are fine after. The woman who helps him with the kids says that they cry themselves to sleep after they talk to me. When his parents kept them for a week and his parents said that they cried after I called. It seems better to just love them alot when I see them.

2007-02-01 06:35:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't understand where alot of these women get off judging others because if the choices they make in their life? I am a proud single mom who does not receive ANY child support because her father "disapperared" and the state could not "find" him.
I have no choice BUT to work. Why am I crtitized? why are women critized for supporting their family and not taking off?
Where is all this judgement for the fathers they aren't around?
I don't get it.
Why does a working mother have it any harder than a stay at home mother? They don't. I would give ANYTHING to be there for my kid when she gets off at school but I do make sure she is taken care of. What gives ANYONE the right to jude another without even knowing what happened to get them there in the 1st place?

2007-02-01 06:20:19 · 13 answers · asked by Willow 5