Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / February 2005

Thought this might be an interesting thread to start: what strategies
do you employ at home to encourage a life-long love of learning in your
kids?
One strategy we use is to play this game every night at dinner. We each

Just been reading all the old posts that I've missed - not really had time
to look lately.
Anyway, ds is now 27mths and for the last 2 months he has been 'introduced'
to the potty and/or trainer seat on the toilet.

By DOUG THOMPSON
Feb 25, 2005, 08:2
Screw it. I?m not waiting until March 1. Too much crap out there. Too much
malfeasance. Too many scum suckers living large off the backs of taxpayers.

Hey Eggs, I'm not sure if I got this right, but did you live in the states?
Now if you did I want to ask a question, when you left, what things did you
miss?
I'm a bit worried now I've been here for 5+ years that I take some stuff for

Before I start in with my questions, let me to introduce myself.  My
name is trish, I've been lurking @ this newsgroup for years.  I really
appreciate all the knowledge sharing that happens everyday on this
group.

Would you attend your children's weddings even if they wanted it low
key?
Not that I'm thinking of a specific example at all..

My childminder brought up a point today which is quite valid and has me
wondering.
My ds is just over 2 1/2.  He is large for his age - tall and solid.  She,
like us, has been travelling with him in the car in a Britax child seat  -

About a year ago, alt.aus parents was created, It has become popular,
but only carried on the 2 big isps and individual.net
It has often been said, that an australian parenting group is missing
from the aus heirarchy.  With individual.net about to be made user

Ok, you guys are absolute geniuses! In the article about the woman that gave
a guy a bl.wj.b then impregnated herself with the sperm, someone suggested
doing this to the creatures in black robes. This is a winner! What if we
paid a bunch of women to do this to as many Mike Cox's ...

http://www.indystar.com/articles/8/224961-2408-010.html
Damn.  I was just joking about something like this.  
That's creepy.

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the bigpond server :)
can you see meeee!?

ok, DH has gone off at me for teaching DS a silly song. he thinks it's
really inappropriate. i think it's funny (but i have a strange sense of
humour). he says i should never sing it again to DS, but DS *loves* singing
it with me.

How does this work? Fill in the form at the real estate when making an
offer? Pre-qualification? Differ by state?
Nic H

She's complaining abour being bored.  She has Austar to watch, DVD's, new bike and scooter to ride,
PC games to play kids on all sides of the house to play with and she says she is too bored to do
any of it.
I can't get her to make anything, she's "too bored" At the moment, she's ...