Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / October 2004

My DS has taken to climbing on EVERYTHING!  He hasn't climbed out of his
crib yet but I feel it's coming soon.  I don't want him to hurt himself so
should I encourage this stage or stop it?  It's driving me crazy.  Everytime
I turn my back he's on something else.../sigh

I was interviewed for the position of Branch Manager of another store in the
company I already work for.
I'm Assistant Manager at the moment in the branch in the town where I live.
The new position if I get it is in another town a 35 minute drive from here.

As you know I still got the pleasure of being involved with CPS. So I asked at
what age one can leave the kids alone for a while. And I got the answer
The age is .... 15
Couple of years before that might be ok for 10-15 minutes if you are in ear shot

My kids are singing parts of *the* summer hit here in Germany.
Who recognizes the song?
"manno manno ey, manno manno ey"
"pleasha pleash"

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usgoog1009,0,991375.story?coll
=ny-nationalnews-headlines
Google used to ID hit-and-run victim in Wash.
The Associated Press
October 8, 2004, 8:03 AM EDT

I just read this article from Billings Montana and it brought me to tears.
Who would do this to their own child.
http://tinyurl.com/6h6uy
I did not copy and paste the article because I just couldn't make everyone

The first one arrived at my house today.  :-)
(It's really pretty, too.)
Now, have a good laugh at my expense.  Here's what I wrote the gift
donor:

How is your cousin Charlotte doing?

I suspect that a few of you might have heard we've had a bit of a wind
problem here-abouts lately.  Well, I got one of my first real smiles
directly related to that bit of wind today.
During my daily drive to work I pass a good sized citrus groves and packing

I'll try to keep this brief.
I had my daily call from Mum tonight.
They have had to keep increasing his pain relief and yesterday/today he
started reacting to it.  I believe the term is morphine toxicity.

I have a tadpole!
Ty, my little water baby, loved the swimming.  He only had one panic where
he lost his footing and slipped under, forgot to put his feet down and he
could have stood up - it was soooooo easy for me to see how kids can drown

I was out walking with my then 4 year old daughter.
She picked up something off the ground and
started to put it in her mouth. I asked her not to do
that.  

What would you do?
C school wants me to sign a release for them to examine her medical records.
I'm not comfortable with that.  I consider medical records to be a very private
thing.  I'm not even sure why they want them at this point.  I have a TON of

Okay, cause DH is making me stay in bed with a cold (so I get better
faster), we're downloading tv shows like crazy.  I just watched
Desperate Housewives.  I LOVE it!  If you haven't seen it yet, it's on
in the States.  Well written, interesting, and a lot like what I think

This school year we have begun giving DS some added responsibilities.   In
many aspects he is very mature for his age and he is also very independant.
One thing we have started allowing DS to do is to occasionally stay home
*alone*.   Generally this is for things like, walking the ...