Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / November 2003

Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving weekend! Please
drive carefully if you travel this holiday weekend.
Is everyone leaving town? I'm staying put.
Mary

Unleash the Bill Collectors on Deadbeat Dads
By Gary S. Becker
July 18, 1994
BusinessWeek

My 6 month old son has frequent "moments" where he pulls a silly face,  his
faces all screws up  and his eyes are rolling back into his head. This may
last about 5-10 secs. I;ve only noticed it when he is lying on his back.
Same old question, has a anyone else experience this with ...

Just to let you all know my *baby* is 1 today - I feel quite choked! He's
actually still asleep but I am all excited.
It's the big party tomorrow (v. stressed) and then another one next weekend
(not on such a grand scale though).

When are these idiots going to learn that when you stack everything in favor
of one group, another looses?  W.T.F. where these fools thinking...
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My toddler son is 33 months old and is still taking milk from the
bottle in the morning and before bed.
We have tried (not very hard) in the past year to get him to take milk
from the same cup from which he takes his juice. But when he sees that

My son turns 3 next Feb. We've been potty training him at home. He
goes to day care full time. The teacher asked us to practice at home
first. We've put underwear on him and set up regular potty time to let
him get used to it. He did it a few times but accidents most of the

Evan sleeps off and on during the day but mostly only goes to sleep after
feeding or after a period of rocking/cuddling. He then stays with us until
we go to bed at about 11pm.
He sleeps in the bed with Mum (Dads in the spare bed still) and wakes about

One part salt, one part water, two parts flour. Makes a pliable easy
to mould dough that you can make ornaments, jewellry, napkin rings,
you name it out of - and it obviously wouldn't hurt any kid who
happened to try a nibble while you were making something out of it.

I have a good friend in PA who got into deep trouble with CS a few
weeks ago. So one thing is I found this group and read a lot of your
stuff.
I want to tell you that my friend is a woman, the mother. Women might

So: today Matthew and I met up in Cambridge with Portia and her DS,
Natalie and her DS, and Anne Rogers and her DH and DS! We had a nice
lunch and a great chat and it was amazing to see all the different
things the babies do and the different ways they are developing,

..few days without the resident feminazi hate-monger around.
Nice, ain't it?

My daughter's day care is decorating a tree for the local Festival of
Trees (an event that
benifits the Children's Hospital). This year's theme is "The wonder's of
Toyland".

I am a SAHM and up until just recently my husband worked 9 to 5. Now he has
a new job which is excellent money, but he is working shifts.
I am finding hard to cope with the change in routine. The thing I find most
difficult are the evenings alone. DD goes to bed around 7.30 and then ...

Every day brings us additional evidence that low IQ,
disproportionately found in DAFNz, is *GENETIC*.  No amount
of money spent on "improving" schoolz will change this reality.
Today'z newz bringz detailz on Aicardi'z Syndrome - another *GENETIC*