Family Forum / Parenting / Single Parents / January 2006

Your life is short, your love-life shorter still.
How many of us have enough time to express to our soul mates the depth of
our feelings, the breadth of our concerns? Yet, what is more important in
our lives than those we love? Money? Our jobs? Our social standing? Surely,

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Each month, my five-year-old son's kindergarten class compiles a "book of
days" in which the children share their daily home experiences with one

Alright, Amie is just about 6 months old now.  She's currently on baby food
(she's had stuff like peas, carrots, green beans, wax beans, applesauce,
bananas, etc)  I give her some pablum in the morning - sometimes with a bit
of bananas or whatever mixed in, but not always, some ...

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I was doing my US federal taxes and I found out the following. I already knew
I could not get the Child Tax Credit (as the child must live with you 50% of
the time). But I also learned I cannot deduct any child care expenses (I have
to pay a portion of all child care) as I am the ...

he is too lovely, he is almost making two, but the mom is never out of
the streets, never out of other company, what can a man do?

So, now on to my question. Has anyone had (or currently have) any experience
with potty training issues at 5? My son still has accidents all the time. I
have heard this can sometimes happen with boys. I wasn't too worried until
the recent development of using the floor as a bathroom ...

As I have mentioned before I babysit my 3 year old grandson. On several
occasions , while he and my grandaughter are playing they play
dress-up. One day my step daughter arrived to pick him up and he had
little pony tails and baretts all over his head. She asked what is

Just goes to show, you gotta be young. My daughter and I spent five
hours walking around the George R. Brown Convention Center yesterday at
the Houston Bridal Extravaganza. It was way too warm inside the center.
There were hundreds of people. Parking was three blocks away for $10.

Yesterday was the 7th year anniversary of my dads death, which has made
New Years kinda a drag for the past 7 years. I get a call from my
stepdaughter she is crying asking me to go to her house cause her 14
year old son and 3 year old son are there and her mom's(Gayle) cat just

I had to have our dog put down tonight, of all nights. We had a wonderful
day out at the lake with my Dad's side of the family, and brought our
Weimaraner with us, as she absolutely loved it out there. Unfortunately, she
became very ill after dinner and I thought perhaps she'd ...

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