Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / July 2004

I love the idea of a slow cooker. But I do not really like my slow cooker
recipes. For one thing, I need recipes that take 10 plus hours to cook on
low. Also, I get a bit sick of stews after a while. When I DO make stews, I
will make up the recipe for 2 or 3 times the recipe, ...

just posted my first photo....
Hopefully it is the start of something more...
Heres a pic if anyone wants to look
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v312/nmiles/Picture_410.jpg

I have 2 DD's. 3 and almost 5 and a dog that is happiest and quietest after
a nice walk.
My question is what do you do when your kids just want to stay home but you
really need/want to get out? DH works 24 hour shifts 3 days per week with a

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What's the going rate these days for a 18y.o. babysitter to look after 2
boys under the age of 5 during the day? We only expect the sitter to watch
and prepare snacks for the kids.

I have a friend, father.  His ex has custody of the two children.  He is
ordered to take a parenting class, and upon completion is elligible for
visitation.  Divorce was in Portland, Or.  He is moving to Medford and plans
to take class within next 6 weeks.  She is contemplating ...

I am taking DS for his MMR tomorrow and wondered will he get any side
effects from it? I'm thinking things that may effect him for the day or two
after?
thanks

Are We Over-Parenting Our Children?
In 2003, the UN Special rapporteur on the Right to Education, Prof.
Katarina Tomasevski, claimed that the testing regime in English schools
breaches the UN Convention on Children’s Rights. Current estimates in the

How has everyone been?  I have had a bad, then good then bad month.
Dr says Sam has asthma and now has skin disorder (do not know how to spell
proper name) and she has put me onto Zoloft to help with my PND.  And yet I
keep asking her isn't Sam too old for me to have PND but ...

Stupid builders next dorr got a delivery of timber this morning...where did
they dump it??? Opposite MY driveway on the very narrow road....dickheads.
Rang them and they've got till noon to move it or I call the council and get
it moved and them fined....grrrr

Being that I've butted on in to two different posts now I thought I'd
better say hi. :)
I was using OE until the other day for NG's but with Agent I can spend
a bit more time reading and what not so hopefully I'll get to post a

Trying to cut a long story short - just after Easter I interviewed for a
children's librarians position at a public library as arranged by a locum
placement service I am registered with. It was to be a short term contract
appointment. In the end I wasn't offered the job as I ...

Just a quick question - how much do the parent & toddler groups you attend
cost.
I help run two and we are just looking at things to see whether we charge
too little. We charge £1.50 per family include drinks and biscuits in that

How many more weirdoes are left. I have blocked and it seems the people just
keep coming back. Is Leo just the new name of john wolf or am I just getting
paranoid?

I was in the bookstore today when it hit me that even though I've had years
of college classes on what to do with children once they hit the age of 3 or
so-and even though I've done tons of reading on pregnancy over the last
three years, I've only got 6 months to prepare for a ...