Parenting - July 2007

she will not let me go to the movies with friends alone, go to the mall with bunch of friends without a parent, not letting me have a myspace, not letting me have contacts... i am 12 years old. what do you think?

2007-07-18 12:03:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

How much should you pay a13 year old girl for an hour to pass out flyers.

2007-07-18 11:21:07 · 11 answers · asked by »-(¯`v´¯)--»katery 2

I don't like children very much, but someday I hope to have a family with children.. have any of you not liked children before you had children but did afterward? I don't want to dislike my children when/if I have them.

2007-07-18 10:23:50 · 12 answers · asked by Lemonada 3

Everyone always says that sugar makes kids hyper. But is that true? I let my kids have candy and other sugary deserts, and I don't notice a change in behavior. What do you think?

2007-07-18 09:33:00 · 23 answers · asked by stmotherer 1

daughter just turned 18 - she's got a car, a little part time job, and has the filthiest mouth towards me, her dad and sister. she comes and goes when she wants and if she doesn't get what she wants, she breaks our stuff. we're tempted to change the locks but are afraid of what damage she'll do to our house and cars. she has stolen money from my purse, taken things of her sisters, and my husband thinks she may have taken some of his tool from the garage. pawn shop? who knows. Any advice' suggestions are appreciated -

2007-07-18 07:52:01 · 39 answers · asked by fosmom 3

I don't. Growing up I got spanked when needed. I could have used more. My parents also showered me with praise when I deserved it. Would anyone say their grandparents were child abusers? That's what they did in the old days. Gave a kid a swat on the hind end when needed.

2007-07-18 07:24:27 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a 7 month old daughter, who is crawling and starting to pull up on EVERYTHING. A few days ago she bumped her face when she toppled over and had a small bruise on her cheek. The next day i was taking my daughter for a walk around the neighborhood and stopped to talk to my neighbor. She commented on the bruise on Rosie's cheek, i told her what happened. The next afternoon, CPS came knocking on my door, wanting to inspect my home and child, because there had been a call about possible child abuse. The CPS investigators decided that my home was perfectly safe and that I wasn't abusing my daughter. I am so freaking angry at my neighbor and would love to confront her about it. Any advice about what I should do?

2007-07-18 06:39:58 · 19 answers · asked by Sarah J 2

I have a 8 yr old daughter that just lost my mom,her grandma in Aug of 06'. She is still not dealing with it well. She cries alot about missing grandma and wont sleep without my moms robe at night. It is definatly fair to say that I am not handling things so great either, and I guess I dont know how to help her when I havent been able to help myself. I have never been through this pain before and I need advice on how to help her out of this, before it ruins her life at such a young age. I try to talk to her, but when I do I cry which just gets her upset more. She is acting out more and last year in school she was real withdrawn. I want to help her before school starts again. I have had her see a concelor, but they said it is normal greiving. I see what they dont. The crying at night, withdrawling herself, and anger fits. Please help. Any advice would be great. But please be serious, my daughter is hurting and I cant seem to help her.

2007-07-18 06:30:19 · 8 answers · asked by How can I help? 3

My neighbor's daughter (5 yrs) keeps pushing children or hitting them. I am not sure about why she does this. Yesterday, she pushed my 4 yr daughter down as they were playing after hitting her on her head. My daughter has minor bruises. This is ths first time this is happening. I told my daughter to let my neighbor's kid know that this is not right and also that she ( my daughter) would not play with the other kid until she behaves. But I am very upset with this and am not sure how to deal with this issue.

2007-07-18 06:22:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anu I 1

Like, would you do it if they did something absolutely positively horrid, like stealing an iPod from Walmart, or calling the cops to a church for no reason whatsoever. Would you do it?


My personal opinion is that you should never, ever, EVER hit your own child, or someone elses kid for that matter. There is no excuse for hitting a child. EVER. People say, "Oh its to make sure they won't do it again, so they'll be afraid." WHAT!?! You want your own child to be afraid of you? Yea that real great.


But I want to hear your opinions.

2007-07-18 05:49:42 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 05:39:07 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not only does it contain sorcery, implications that HP is the antichrist...have any of you picked up on the homosexual man-boy love undertones between Harry and Dumbledore?

2007-07-18 05:31:37 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous

I met a no manner's kid at supermarket last Sunday.

It's really crowded, the boy's father push the shopping cart and stop behind me as there's too many people and I can't move forward anymore, when I am waiting others to move forward, I heard the boy yelled:"Why she stop there?Knock her down if she won't move forward!" I was shocked to hear that as he's only about six-year-old! And his father, shocked me again as he didn't scold his kid for being no manners.

I also met a well-mannered kid that day in front of a food stall, the boy accidentally hits my arm and he said sorry immediately after that.He's also about six-year-old.

Both of them are kids, but they are very different.

What's your opinion? Do you think it's parents responsibilities if kids have bad manners?

2007-07-18 04:58:58 · 13 answers · asked by Tbe 1

My first child will be 3 when my next child is born. What are some thoughts on single vs double strollers? I use my stoller on a weekly basis. Not sure what I would do without it. But wonder if I will get much use out of a double stoller to make it worth it.

2007-07-18 04:54:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

construction sites, so that they learn a STRONG sense of responsibility at an early age?! i think they should be working a minimum of 15 hours per week doing such jobs.

2007-07-18 04:13:58 · 17 answers · asked by stank ho 2

If taking a test were mandatory, like drivers ed/driving tests, before you could give birth or adopt a child, what questions would you put on the test? What criteria would have to be met?

2007-07-18 04:02:46 · 9 answers · asked by momatad 4

This story makes me really wish that we could steralize people and lock them up and throw the key away!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289745,00.html

2007-07-18 03:58:48 · 12 answers · asked by tll 6

In general terms: You are in a public place. There are unsupervised children. They are misbehaving... something more than simple mischief but less than blatant criminal behavior. What would you do? What should you NOT do? Would you have them tell you where they live and take them there? Would you call the police? Would you locate other adults to help you? Would you mind your own business? A generation or two ago this wouldn't be an issue... all adults were regarded as parental figures for all children. But today?

[My recent scenario: I came across three siblings (age estimate: 6-14) in a public playground that was adjacent to a jogging track I was using. The older brothers were aggressively bullying the younger sister. There were no parents or other adults supervising these kids. I did intervene, but as a grown adult MALE (with no children of my own) I had concerns about getting to close to strange kids in this sexual-pervert predator-fearing world that we live in.]

2007-07-18 03:16:41 · 21 answers · asked by goshawk 2

My dh has a son by a previous relationship, he is seven years old and lives with his mother. He stays with us whenever he wants and My dh picks him up from school everyday and takes very good care of him....actually he spoils him extremely bad. He has a room at our house. Okay there's the thing....when I found out I was pregnant everyone was happy. Now that the kids will have to share a room things are not going as smoothly. My dh is making me feel like I am taking this room away from his son. That is the only room other than our room. I also feel like our son will never be as important or loved by his father like his first son. His has made comments about NOT getting excited and attached to our son because of what happened with his other son (his mother leaving with him). He hasn't even bought our child anything yet and I am 8 months preg. I just feel like our son should be treated just as fair and loved just as much as his first son. By the way this is my fist child!!

2007-07-18 03:11:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anthony's_mom 1

(If you directly want the question, its at the end)
I am currently 14.

At 16 I get my moms car (an SUV), at 17 I move out with the support of my mom, my dads child support, my nana and my job of course (whatever that may be), at 18 I move to either Brooklyn or LA for college for acting, and improv I get a side job either working at some comic store, or waitressing.
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It's not like I just randomly think of these things, now of course, not everything is thought out, I will likely take more classes than just acting and improv, and i don't know what my job will be, or exactly where im moving, but I have plenty of time to work that out. I'm only worried that in time I will change these plans, which is bound to happen, but that kinda makes me sad because I just have it perfectly in-visioned in my mind. lol (:

I want to know if my "plan" is a good one, and does anyone else do this? (plan ahead)

2007-07-18 02:38:01 · 5 answers · asked by kate A 1

My 12.5 year old daughter was watching TV and asked my why some people give their babies up for adoption. I'm pregnant with my 3rd child and she's excited to be a big sister again, but couldn't understand how someone could give up their baby. I tried to explain to her that sometimes girls/women get pregnant and can't raise their babies and give them to families that can. She thought that was cruel and couldn't understand how a mommy couldn't want her baby. How would you have answered this question so I sounded like it was the best thing for the baby? It really seems to be bothering her now. Any ideas on how to best explain this to her would be greatly appreciated.

2007-07-18 02:19:42 · 12 answers · asked by Lostlove 5

I am a firm believer in spanking little butts when needed. I've heard a lot of people and opinions about it and I'm kind of curious what response I'll get on here from this... I think that our generation has lightened up on our children and pushed way too much with the opinion: positive reinforcement instead of negative... I think we've pushed it to a fault... I mean, look at all of the crap teenagers are getting away with in schools... if kids had done a fraction of what they do now back in the mid 20'th century, they would have been whipped to a pulp!!! I'm not advocating abuse in any way, but I do believe our society could be suffering from our lack of discipline as children... maybe I'm way off base here?

Please, comment away...

2007-07-17 18:06:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Been pregnant and not know untill you were more than three months preggo, or have a period and be pregnant and so you didn't know or any type of situation similar. If so how and when did you find out?

2007-07-17 14:48:33 · 11 answers · asked by Christian 1

I asked this in the health section too, but I'm not getting many answers. My 9 y/o daughter has severe asthma. This time of year it gets really bad. She is on Advair 2 times a day, Singulair once a day, Claritin once a day, Albuterol inhaler when needed, and an Albuterol Nebulizer 2 times a day. After all that she still has a lot of trouble off and on. Does anyone know any home remedies like I know coffee is supposed to help but it's hard to get her to drink it while it's hot like she's supposed to. I know obviously to take her to the ER when it's really bad, but if I can take care of it at home I want to try, b/c we have no insurance and her meds alone are 400.00 per month. Thanks for any ideas that work!

2007-07-17 13:08:40 · 13 answers · asked by . 4

of course for them not to get pg but instead of you trying to prevent them to get pg than prevent them from having sex! i mean if my mother would tell me that she was going to put me on birth control or tell me to use condoms in others words she telling me "go ahead sweetie open your legs to your boyfriend or whaterver boy you mess with and have sex BUT JUST DONT GET PG B/C IT WOULD RUIN your life life or you can get a disease! come on people give your children morals for them to be descent and for them to have respect for thier bodies! if you think they are to young to have a child will then how come no one says thier too young to have sex! thats why parents should not let thier kids have boyfriend at early age b/c when they do they think about that stuff even when they dont have a boyfriend then they get curious about how sex feels and stuff so they try it, RIGHT!

2007-07-17 12:56:57 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a 2 year old daughter. She was a rape baby but I call her my miracle child. I gave up custody because I cant take care of her right now. She hates me and says that I gave her up beacuse I was ashamed of her. But I am not. I would give my life for me daughter. Should I feel bad for giving her up?

2007-07-17 11:13:02 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

i wouldn't cuz he/she couldn't help it...who would choose to be gay with all this debate stuff going on about gay marriage and stuff???

2007-07-17 10:14:23 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

... timewise yet have *NO* say in how they are raised should you refuse to care for them at all (however hard that would be because you love them)and let *her* pick them up from school and so on even though she says she *must* work to pay the mortgage etc. yet my son says they *could* get by without her going to work.
And generally - should parents of primary school-aged children (and secondary come to that and *especially* pre-school) be working hours that don't allow them to take and fetch the children to school or be home to talk about their day afterwards anyway?

2007-07-17 09:59:10 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 07:46:12 · 15 answers · asked by gerh s 1

Sometimes I watch my 3 yr old and my 9 months secretly to see how my son acts towards her when I'm not around. Iwas wondering if anyone else does and if so what do you witness usually?

2007-07-17 07:41:39 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous