Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / January 2007

I figured www.parentingbanter.com could use a little humor.
Diary
DEAR DIARY
Day 1.

Warning:  if you have a need to believe in vaccination do not read this
thread, or go to message--block sender.
Dr. med. G. Buchwald
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/buchwald.html

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you mean to say that CSEAs will lie to a person by omission in order to
get a fatter paycheck?  Why they're government ...

My daughters (7th & 9th grades) live with me in our home.  Their mother
left to continue an affair that she had while I was traveling for work
in 2005.  The girls had ring side seats to the affair since it was
carried on in our house (not to mention the marital bed).

We're expecting guests tomorrow. They have an 8 year old daughter and 5
year old son. They are a bit of studious type and they like books. I
don't know what to get the kids as a gift. My kids are much younger. I
want to give them one single gift that's appropriate for both of them.

Does anyone in the US have an IKEA diaper changing table? Do you use
the inflatable IKEA pad or have you found another?
I ask specifically for the US because I've recently learned the
standard US diaper changing table/pad is of course bigger than the

My son is 6 and in first grade.  He's a bright energetic kid, outgoing
and very friendly. He's doing well in school, but he can be a little
overly sensitive.  He's having a problem with a kid in his class who
constantly makes fun of his curly hair.  My son is pretty bothered by

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/050930140708.k6bnuj54.html
Maybe young men are listening and figuring out that relations are too
costly.
The damage that family courts have reeked over the years is being noticed by

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070116/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleuswomen
Just as in Britain, more people in America are choosing to be single!
More like men are getting Smarter and staying out of the marriage trap! LOL

Would you give a 9 year old a laptop computer?  Well, I wouldn't, but
my son's school thinks it's perfectly sane to hand out Apple ibooks to
fourth graders and expect them not to ever make a mistake.
My son has been known to trip over his own feet, as many growing kids

My 5-year-old is in pre-school 3 days per week, and her teacher asked
if we could give another child a ride.  This other child is the
daughter of the folks who run the local Chinese restaurant, which is
about 3 blocks from my house, and preschool runs from 11:45 to 2:15,

I am having a bit of trouble establishing a routine for my almost 6 mo DS.
Up until a few days ago, I was putting him down for a nap whenever he
displayed signs of being tired.  Now, I would like him on a more predictable
schedule.  Today I was hoping to get him down at 10 then 2 ...

I'm about a week away from getting a final order on specific parenting
time. The mother of my daughter has made it pretty obvious that she
plans to have the child throwing a fit. She keeps asking if I'll take
our daughter out "kicking and screaming" if she doesn't want to go.

I don't think I've posted much about ds' kindy experiences  so far
here.  He's had a pretty good experience so far, thanks in large part
to lots of parent-teacher communication.  Ds (for those who aren't
familiar with him) is quite intense, creative, and impulsive.  His

My oldest son just turned 5 today (happy birthday J).  He's been "trained"
since about 3 1/2 but still has many accidents and I'm really starting to
get frustrated.
He started out with just peeing in his pants but lately has even been