Parenting - August 2007

Do many other mums do this. I work from home and it is the only way I can get things done even though I feel guilty and feel like I should be spending more time with my son.

2007-08-13 21:23:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have 2 children a 10 year old and a 3 year old, and I want 2 more. I just turned 28 and I am wondering how long i should wait. I want to switch my career, and to do that I need to go back to school for a couple years, and I would like to move into a bigger house.
What would you do, have another baby while i go to school (i will be working at the same time)?
forget about any more kids?
wait until finish school and have my next child at 31

2007-08-13 17:24:12 · 21 answers · asked by anessa 3

He's 43 & a single parent. He has 4 kids. 2 are grown & the others are rebellious & ruthless teens. His wife died a few years ago because she was very ill. He was born & raised in church & carried his church morals through with his children. His oldest daughter is very successful & is working on her Master's degree, the 2nd child is transgendered, the 15-yr. old son & 13-yr. old daughter are sexually active & do drugs. The daughter was pregnant & lost her baby. They talk back to him & try to fight him, & no type of discipline works. He cries every night because he feels like he's not doing a good enough job as a father. The more he punishes him, the more they rebel, & they're very sneaky. He feels that he looks bad in the church because of what his kids do.

He asked me to post this problem on here for advice.

2007-08-13 15:58:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is a straight out honest question, I'm not trying to be a smart *** or anything. I am only looking for honest answers not insulting crap or people trying to push religion on me. All who try to need to, at least TRY to grow up. Please?

Anyways. What do you (an atheist parent) tell your child, when they ask what happens when they die? Obviously you are not going to say heaven but you cant tell a 3 year old that they are done and rotting in the ground.

2007-08-13 15:24:30 · 10 answers · asked by J. 4

If a 7 year old child is adopted will the parent or in this case the mother have to pay anything what so-ever for the child? Will there be any sort of money that the state make the mother pay for her child to anyone??? She is going to try to adopt her for her well being her mother is not able to give the child the proper care that she needs..

2007-08-13 15:23:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just curious they asked me for it, to me its private issue

2007-08-13 14:07:35 · 16 answers · asked by thessbach 2

I have watched a programme just now, about breasefeeding.
Don't get me wrong i am 100% for breastfeeding as i fed all four of my children, but you have to know when to stop!!!
if you can do it for about 6 months, you're a star, but to go on till the age of 8, to me thats just creepy......

2007-08-13 12:04:12 · 39 answers · asked by BUTTERFLY 3

please answer one of these, and in your answer, indicate which one you are answering.
1)what is something/an opportunity that you didnt have when u were young, but hope that your child will have?
OR
2)what are your hopes for your child's future?

whichever question gets more answers, will be the one that I put in my blog. Thanks!
my blog: http://www.brightideasofateenager.blogspot.com

2007-08-13 05:29:21 · 9 answers · asked by Lauren 5

Mr. and Mrs. Whoever, I realize that the children will be in my care for 5 1/2 hours instead of 12 but I do not feel my duties are decreasing. I will have to feed and ready the children for school in the morning, and I will have to transport them there. I will have to be on call, should one of them get sick, or in trouble and need to be picked up. There will also be half days, and holidays. And you would like me to do their homework with them, correct? I don't feel that a $300 pay cut is fair. I feel that $_____ is a more reasonable number.

Okay-- I watch 3 kids aged 4, 4, and 7. They would like to go from paying me $1000, to paying me $700.
How does what I wrote sound? And what would YOU say is a reasonable number? Thanks for all the input.

2007-08-13 03:55:23 · 3 answers · asked by mrs.v 4

im dead bored of sitting indoors, is there any work i can do at home????
just wondering also what other mothers do all day, its got to be more fun than this lol

2007-08-13 03:23:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

She had a fling with the nite manager at the Walmart and he was fired, so she quit. She is extremely immature and I am totally infuriated with her because this leaves me making her car payments. She already missed the last payment due.
I gave her my cell phone because I was worried about her driving around in the rural area's here with no way to call anyone. Now when I call it, she never answers and makes the excuse she "accidentally had it on silence" I figure if you dont answer your cell phone you will never get a job. How long should I give her to find a job before I confiscate the cell phone and even the car which is in both our names?

2007-08-13 02:53:32 · 15 answers · asked by happydawg 6

My daughters' names are Elaynne (12), Alayna (9), Elayna (7) and Alaynne(3).Recently Elaynne compains about that.She says the 4 names are too similar and she wants to have a different name so she isa different person.How can I explain her she is a different person,no matter what her name is?

2007-08-13 01:54:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it that family members who have no children are constantly telling the ones who do have children what they need to be doing and what they are doing wrong?

2007-08-13 00:37:03 · 14 answers · asked by Mrs.Blessed 7

i am concered about my 16 year old daughter dating this guy he seems fishy to me what should i do

2007-08-12 22:56:50 · 16 answers · asked by OS the Radicalz KST 3

I just want to get a rough idea as to how much I would pay in daycare if I decided to find a job. I would need fulltime daycare for my 3yr old and part time for my 6 yr old (about 3 hours a day). I am not looking for exact amounts.... just an idea of what to expect.

2007-08-12 20:04:56 · 6 answers · asked by Me 6

You have a son. He is 16, almost 17(girlfriend 16) He wants to go see his girlfriend saturdays and sundays and maybe once during the week after football practice for a couple hours. You see him every day. Would you tell him he needs to be home on Sundays because you never see him on weekends?

situation 2

Your son's girlfriend is very depressed because you yell and fight with eachother all the time(parents) and you yell at your son. You try to keep him away from her much as possible because you don't like her? Because she takes your son away from you on weekends. She gets very depressed and starts thinking thoughts of suicide. She has had a very bad past. If she told your son she was going to kill herself and didn't answer her phones, her parents didn't know where she was, would you let him go see her and try to find her?
I am his FRIEND not his PARENTS and the girlfriend has been raped and abused that's why she can't handle stress. His parents are alcoholics.

2007-08-12 16:14:37 · 16 answers · asked by anjelfromyournightmare21 2

What do you think is an appropriate bed time for three kids ages 8, 9, 12? They have to go to bed about the same time because their rooms are VERY close together! They share a downstairs "apt" that has a playroom, bathroom, bedrooms, etc. Their bedtime is at 10 o'clock and my step daughter (12 year old) was giving me a VERY hard time tonight about going to bed. She wanted to "stay up and watch tv". I told her no and we had a big blow out. I just want to make sure I am not being too much of a "dud". School starts in less than two weeks here and these are kids who DO NOT sleep in! They are up at 7:30 in the morning regardless of what time they get to bed. Any opinions would be a help!

2007-08-12 16:08:19 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay, this is a touchy issue. The media is completely corrupting your children. They encourage them to be violent, disruptive, and dissuades them from studying. However, the main issue I am concerned about is the promotion of promiscuity. It seems as though American girls have too much sex, at too young an age. It is as though they are treated as peice of trash rather than human beings with emotions. I don't understand why the American parents don't try to change that. What do you think?

2007-08-12 15:51:51 · 10 answers · asked by dosahyd f 2

imagine yourself in this situation.
a ninteen year old girl. three months pregnant by a man who is fighting in Iraq. he doesnt know about the baby. she's affraid to tell him and upset him. her parents are willing to take her in. she wants to support herself and the baby. abortion is not even a question. she works with animals and can make a nice living. does the baby need more then a mother? should the man be told? he is loved and loves her but he doesnt want children yet...or so he said last time it was brought up. will he be more mad if i tell him now or just go about it as if he isnt the father and he may find out somehow later......? what would you do??????????

i really need y'all's advice! Please!!!!!!!

2007-08-12 15:09:58 · 17 answers · asked by quest4life_2020 1

my little girl loves to watch tv, is this safe?

2007-08-12 14:51:32 · 15 answers · asked by photographybycourtney 1

would you let your 12 year old daughter go to the mall by herslef IF she was with her friends?

2007-08-12 14:48:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example he is saying to him that the child support he is sending me I spending it with boyfriends, (I remarried ) and that it was my fault he was born, and that he was a mistake, how cruel is that!

2007-08-12 14:43:05 · 9 answers · asked by claire 1

Her parents have taken her to the doctor and there is nothing physically wrong with her. They have tried giving her attention and not giving her attention. At this point they just don't know what to do. Since she is so young they want to stop this behavior now before it becomes a habit. right now it has been going on daily for 2 weeks.

2007-08-12 14:01:57 · 8 answers · asked by Granny D 1

i dont know what to do. my mom is making me take honors english but i know i wont do well in that class. and i am taking all the other hard classes, but my thing just isnt english. my thing is math and science. she just doesnt understand that i cant do everything.
so i started reading one of the books and i literally dont understand it. i have to read every page twice just to barely get whats going on. every time i try to read i just get soooo frustrated and mad and i just dont know what to do. i think my moms being really unfair.

2007-08-12 13:45:54 · 7 answers · asked by wakeupcall4 3

2007-08-12 13:17:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm mainly looking for substitutions for oh f*ck or oh sh*t

i don't want it to sounds similar or anything childish like OH FUDGE! something along the lines of oh sugar or oh how lovely. something classy. any ideas?? i don't like cursing, but sometimes ihave no better alternative haha!!

2007-08-12 13:15:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

He used to call me mama when he started to talk now that my husand's daughter moved in with us the problem started. She would call me by my first name and my son follows her. I get so mad and annoyed coz i feel im not respected. What should I do?

2007-08-12 12:44:25 · 16 answers · asked by tricia_c07 1

They are 3 and 6...

2007-08-12 11:55:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-12 10:38:51 · 29 answers · asked by sayrahmic 1

The other night I found that my 9 year old had again wasted almost a whole bottle of something to clean her stuffed toy, she has wasted a lot of soap and shampoo doing this, as punishment I grounded her to her room for the night, this was on Friday and on Friday nights I let them sleep downstairs with me as a treat, I had ment for her to stay up there all night but about an hour later it started storming and I was worried about her being up there alone so I let her come down, I admit I did'nt do anything about the punishment after that, should I have continued it another way?

2007-08-12 08:01:59 · 8 answers · asked by pumpkin2 1