Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / November 2007

I'll state right off that I am not a pet lover.  But, my kids are
now pre-teens and still desparately want a pet.  We were at first
thinking about fish, but they aren't particularly cuddly.  It is
also complicated by the fact that dogs and cats make me sneeze.

It has been 2 weeks that my 3 year old daughter first got cold. It was
just cough - the hoarse barky kind but no running nose. Even now she
is having the same cough an kind of wheezing stuuffy nose. Visited her
doc two times..doc said no medications just Mucinex..but daughter

My 16 MO DS started exclusively on table foods (no more baby food) last
week.  Since he started, his pooping has been out of this world!  He's going
at least 3 times per day with the consistency mostly runny.  The colors are
pretty psychedelic too!  This didn't happen with my DD. ...

If people really want to hold onto a 1950's family model to base there child
support laws on, we could always go back to those days:
This was taken from a 50's home economics text book:
How to be a good wife.

DW and I bought a fisher price tub but i didn't care for it. We used
it once.
Ever since I've been in the tub with our son. For the first 3 or 4
months he was small enough where I would lay him on top of my legs and

My gran has asked if there is anywhere online she can deposit money, so
that we can then choose some gifts for the kids. I'm guessing that the
only mechanism for doing something like this would be to purchase a gift
card to an online store, which is something we're unfamiliar ...

We have a son 5 years old. He has been in school since he was two
years. His first school was a traditional one. Although he has had
good relation with his classmates, he always found it boring.
Everytime we had to drop him off at the school, he threw a big

Background:
State of California
Married almost 12 years, have 5 kids (12, 10, 7, 5, 5 yrs old).
Spouse

Georgia Justices Overturn a Curb on Sex Offenders
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/us/22offender.html?ref=us
The law was challenged by Anthony E. Mann, 44, of Hampton, Ga., who
pleaded no contest in 2002 to a North Carolina charge of taking

Does anyone know what that is?
Some teenage black kid wanted me to buy one for him.  He told me it
wasn't alcohol, but he didn't have his ID.

Three boys, ages eight and nine, are in custody in the United States,
charged with kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl near a suburban
Georgia apartment complex.
The alleged attack happened on Thursday and the girl's mother reported

Press Release Source: Sorenson Genomics
Sorenson Genomics to Bring the First-Ever Retail DNA Test to Market
Monday November 26, 7:01 am ET
New DNA Paternity Test Kit Allows Customers to Purchase Quality DNA Test and

Has anyone been reading about what Ron Paul has to say?  He has a book
online that I took this from.
    Free choice means that the incentive to produce is maximized,
since it's assumed that we can keep the fruits of our labor. In a free

Does anyone know of any good articles/studies on how well IQ scores in
childhood correlate with success in adulthood, given all the inherent
inaccuracies of the tests?  I realise this is a pretty broad topic, but
I know there are some well-informed people here, and the subject ...

Hi - we'll be flying into Boston's Logan Airport with our 2 year old
daughter and 4 year old son.  Our son has a booster seat, which is
rarely a problem in a taxi, but we are concerned about our daughter's
car seat.  I've been in a lot of taxi cabs where they are not equipped