Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / September 2007

DD's 2 3/4, and has been potty trained for several months. She is
comfortable on a toilet with an insert, with assistance to get on it, or
with a potty chair, which she can manage independently. She has motor skills
issues, and we have yet to find a footstool which doesn't slide ...

I will be returining to work in two weeks and started sending my 15
mth DD to daycare as of last week.  The first 2 days i was with her at
the center and she was fine but on the 3rd, 4th and 5th day when i had
to leave her alone (1/2 day) she cried when i left and when i picked

Just wanted to let every know that a new animated version of The 10
Commandments is coming to theaters in October.
Christian Slater is the voice of Moses.
Has anyone else on this group list heard about it?

a friend just suggested that being overtired could be contributing to
DDs sudden potty training problem. We moved her from a cot to a bed
about a week after she potty trained, initially she was reasonably ok,
but she's getting less and less sleep and as she's never been a child

Confusion around Pumpkin case
Ian Munro in New York
September 20, 2007 - 10:48AM
Confusion surrounds the international murder hunt for Nai Yin Xue, the

I said yesterday DD hadn't had accidents whilst out during the recent
blip, but I'd forgotten a poo accident last Tuesday whilst in childcare
at church. Since I posted yesterday she's been accident free, so I was
pretty confident leaving her today. She obligingly went before drop ...

The German royalty used a disciplinary technique that would straighten
out any modern kid. A prince would be raised along with another child.
If the prince misbehaved, it was the other child, not the prince who
was punished. A child might be willing to risk a spanking for

I just wanted to share that I finally got my website of stories
together. Check them out at www.zupho.com
What better place to share them, than a great parenting site. Hope you
enjoy!

My name is Kathy and I am a 20 year old female from NJ.  Due to a
recent tragedy, I am now the sole guardian of my 10 year old sister.
I am not sure what I am doing or even how to find support to not lose
the house or how to raise someone.

hi there,did anyone want to share some of your fav recipe for your
baby.I have few you can simply go to my blog http://gobabygrow.blogspot.com.feel
free to share with me

How I became a deadbeat dad.  You would think if you pay your child support
as ordered by the court, you shouldn't have any problems -- wrong.  I have
been taken to court several times, arrearage ordered to be garnished by my
employer, etc. over the period of several years (~10). ...

Everyone tells you it's so much better having health insurance than
having to rely on the NHS and how you don't have to wait for surgery etc
etc etc.
I'm really not finding this to be the case and I just wanted to see if

My wife and I thought this was an interesting article. Here are some
excerpts. Other research supporting academic acceleration of gifted
student is at http://www.nationdeceived.org/ .
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html

My DD is currently in a 2 day a week program for older 2s/young 3s. Her
program has asked us to do a survey on which options we'd prefer for next
fall. The options are:
2 day a week, 9:00-2:30, including a nap time (this is what she's on now,

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