Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / April 2007

We had no trouble tightening our son's child seat in the rear-seat
center position, but now we cannot get it tight in the either of the
outboard (left or right) positions.  Our rear seat has a lap belt in
the center position, and lap+shoulder belts in the outside positions.

Is girls' clothing getting ... tighter + shorter + more revealing?
And what do teens themselves have to say about the clothes, music and
online habits of their own generation?
By Cassie Costantini - Horizon Charter School

Since it's in STYLE to put deadbeat dad's (or what some people claim
are deadbeat) on Pizza Boxes...aka...those who cannot/do not pay the
outrageous amounts of child support that a court has ordered...
I thought maybe a campaig should be started to put DEABEAT MOMS on

I know of a single mom, who has full custody of her 2 year old child.
Her exhusband has not been making child support payments for over six
months. He remarried when the child was only 9 months old, and has
left the USA and has been living in Europe ever since. He does place

Skip Middleton of www.shadowcatcherimagery.com is a child-molester.
Do not let him photograph your children.
--
Lionel

My 4 yr old still wets the bed at night. He NEVER wakes up dry (he
wears pull-ups). We've tried not letting him drink after 6 pm and
waking him up around 12 or 1am to go potty, but he STILL wakes up wet.
Do you think this is emotional or he'll grow out of it? I'm totally

I'm a dad to a nine week old boy,alec, who is fixated with his mother. Its
to the extent that my wife tried to go out for a well deserved meal and I
was looking after alec, and he screamed bloody murder till I called Liz up
and she had to come home and settle him.

A MOTHER-of-two is behind bars for defying court orders in a tug-of-love
fight with her ex-partner.
In what family law experts said was a rare case, the woman, 31, was given a
heartbreaking choice by the Federal Magistrates' Court - let the father to

My wife had a child when she was very young, before I ever even knew her.
She was fourteen at the time and she wanted to give the child up for
adoption but the fathers family would not allow it and kept the child ( this
was in 1996). Her and the father were never together after ...

In Western lands, most families consist of a father, a mother, and
children. Grandparents may live in their own households as long as they
can. While contact is kept up with more-distant relatives, duties toward
these are limited.

I have heard that you are meant to limit fluids late pm/ eves to try
to get them dry at night but how much does this mean?
We have cut down on his nighttime fluids and generally give one glass
of juice with tea at 5ish and beaker of milk at 6ish and he goes for

Without starting a debate on whether it's right or wrong to allow your child
to watch dvds in the car....
Can anybody recommend a portable dvd/car kit (that straps around the
passenger headrest) that stays in place? Do these straps really work?

My first grader is doing ballet (45 mins/wk), tap (45 mins/wk),
classical vocal music (1 hr/wk), girls scout brownies (45 mins/wk),
swimming (2 hrs/wk), violin (45 mins/wk), soccer (1 hr/wk), kumon math
and reading (4 hrs/wk), painting (30 mins/wk) and bible school (2 hrs/

Why bother with educating them at all.  When they're born, simply
fill-out a birth certificate and a PhD "diploma" in any discipline
their mammy desires.
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We don't get the flu vaccine, by choice, for several reasons, firstly, for a
healthy person, flu is usually unpleasant, not dangerous, secondly, it's
only 70-80% effective and thirdly it just hasn't been around long enough for
anyone to have evaluated any long term consequences ...