Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / April 2005

just when I thought DH had this thunderbird thing all set up correctly
when he shut it down it lost all the newsgroups I subbed to but kept all
the emails...so I had to start again!
Alissa

I came across the following ad the other day for a Robert Allen home
business, visited the website, and received a number of excellent
reports from him for FREE.  Sounds like a great opportunity for
stay-at-home mothers who want the flexibility to take care of their

anyone remember the name of the show that was similar to cold case that
was on ABC last year. It had the woman out of the Braithwaites in it.
Alissa

We have light in our kitchen again...only been 4 weeks since it packed it
in!

can you guess i am bored & am waiting for dinner to cook?
DH just told me that his ordinary train is not happening, so he will be home
at 8.45pm instead of 7.15pm. so much for me going to bed at 9.30!
great. anyone wanna come over & keep me company?

   My memory of the early days with #1 has faded, so a quick
question for #2.
   2.5 month old, supposedly, should be nearing 2-3 naps per day.
I've been tracking his naps, and he's still going like a cat -- lots more

Does / has anyone got a toddler who says NO to everything??!!
DS who is 2 next month is going through a stage of saying NO to pretty much
any question I ask him, and quite often with real conviction.
Is it an age thing???

Over spring break, the students in our daughter's third grade class were tasked
with writing a report on a country. The Kid has been to Mexico several times,
so she chose to do hers on Mexico. The report consists of about 20 pages of
worksheets asking for information such as ...

I go out for the morning and come back and there are 55 messages..
What are you all doing??

Any ideas to help her deal with this?
From a director-teacher I know who is excellent at dealing
with most problems in her school:
I have a three year old boy in my care that is very tactile.  

Ever seen the inside of your kids ear with an ear infection? Blergh. Angus
has been up half the night and we went to the new clinic here this morning.
Must say i was very impressed the doctor took the time to show me the inside
of angus ears and it's no wonder it's sore. Poor kid is ...

Things are much better this week. The low point came last Thurs after a
pretty bad couple of weeks. I wasn't functioning well at work or home. I was
really tired, we were getting ready to go away for Easter and I had been
asked to fill in at another branch about 20 mins drive away ...

Have you decided what areas/townsyou are going to look at next week? and
how much land do you want, are you going for semi rural or small town
population. We just sold a block (standard 680sq)in Old Barr, it's
lovely there but they turned the new estate into duplex city for

Well it's been a while but finally back into the newsgroups again. We moved
house about 3 weeks ago and I'm slowly adjusting from a 1 br apartment to a
4 br house. DS is doing pretty well with adjusting but is being a pain with
lunch and dinner mostly ending up on the floor. Aah ...

how you feeling?