They will figure it out on their own eventually anyway. Speaking with my 18 year old last summer about difficult family members I was really surprised how much of their behavior she had picked up on and figured out on her own.

I had a friend in high school whose mom would ground her for the silliest reasons. Her mom was single though and I think she got lonely and wanted wanted my friend to just stay home with her.

Sick!! Completely innapropriate! I do wonder though just what was the schools idea verses parents or the kids taking it to far. I could see something like this where it is just intended to be a peck but it gets taken way overboard. Kudos to the principal though for stepping up accepting responsibility for what happens at his school.

I had older DD pick up the panda pillow pet she spotted at wal-mart for younger Dd, the panda nut, but that is it we're closing on the sale of our house and moving next week so Christmas will be last minute this year.

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Most vegetables. Like others here growing most of the veggies my mom fixed were either canned, boiled to mush, or both. She also made salads with only iceberg lettuce. I've discovered I really like a good green salad, I just don't like iceberg lettuce.

:iagree: I resisted for a long time, but I come from a family that isn't so great about staying in touch and everybody had face book so I got one just to be able to keep up with siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews. Otherwise I would never hear any thing. I like my cell phone and texting for the same reasons. People who would rarely pick up a phone and call are more then happy to text on a regular basis.

The things I didn't do. I didn't always make the best decisions in the past but, the mistakes I made helped shape who I am today.

:lol: I really dislike unexpected visitors because the never come whe I'm dressed and the house is clean. Nope, somehow they know which days to catch me completely unprepared.

We traded carpet for laminate after we bought this house and I hate it. It scratches easily and to me only really looks nice whe its just been mopped. I've heard bamboo is a good option but, i havent looked into cost. Have you looked into Berber carpeting? I've heard it's really easy to keep clean and stain free.

:iagree: time and place are the big issues with me. Very poor taste and his preface made it worse. The wordplay would have gone right over the heads of most of the younger audience members.

We got this question from DH's grandparents, but they were the only ones. Homeschooling is mainstream enough here that it rarely even raises an eyebrow.

:iagree:It really is a challenging game involving physics and a lot fun too.

:iagree: I think barring other factors this is true in general, but not always. With my oldest my water spontaneously ruptured at 39 weeks with no other signs of labor and we ultimately had to make the decision to induce so, there's no way to tell when labor would have began naturally, but she was 7lbs 4oz at birth. Although she was a very well developed newborn and I've always wondered if they were wrong about her due date. I had been pretty sick shortly before she was conceived and it had thrown off my normal cycle. Younger DD at 41 weeks was 8lbs 9 ozs, but I think genetics can play a big part because DH was also an 8 plus pounder. Then DS was born weighing in at 7lbs 6ozs.

My oldest was born at 39 weeks. The middle at 41 weeks and the youngest at 40 weeks and 4 days.

Definitely would have set of warning bells in my head. If the man had no children with him he should not be hanging around the children's section. My DH understands how taking too much interest in children he doesn't know can look to an outsider and avoids putting himself in that position. As another poster said there are a number of great places and programs where adults can mentor kids if their interest is genuine. I'm sure many Boys and Girls Clubs would love to have someone volunteer to teach chess.

That's sweet! When my kids my little before they ever really had any money of their own to spend they would wrap up a little toy or stuffed animal and present them to me. So sweet.

Same here. My parents never pushed Santa on us or told us he was real. They just allowed us to believe. Not hard to do with all the mall santas, Christmas songs, specials and everything. The presents that magically appeared Christmas eve didn't have anything written in the from colum so we just assumed they came from Santa until we no longer believed and then we knew they came from our parents. I don't wether or not my brothers ever asked them about it or not. This is pretty much the approach DH and I took with our kiddies and it doesn't seemed to have caused them any big trauma. That's just awful. One part of the Santa myth I never liked was the whole naughty or nice thing. The idea that he can see you all the time is just creepy. We avoided that idea.

My oldest DD was 8 months old and had an allergic reaction to Ceclor. She was miserable with hives.

Is there a chance this person could be an aspiring chef and need a set of knives to get a job. Years ago my DH worked as a prep cook and even as a prep cook was expected to have his own set of knives. Just a thought.

:iagree: I voted other

I don't like chain posts period and don't participate in them. I have a step sister who frequenly shares articles from religious sources and these don't usually bother me and often I look them over mainly to better understand where she's coming from as we are very different, but if they don't interest me I just ignore it. Sometimes they can be obnoxious. Other then that it's just the random verse and again I just ignore and move on.

Yes, I would and i am pretty certain if needed they'd be there for me and they have been in the past. The middle brother is a bit different story because he has some problems that would make me cautious in how I help him, but I would try to find a way as long as it did not put my family at risk.

Much ado about nothing if you ask me. I call the thing that stands in my living room every Dec. a Christmas Tree and I'm pretty agnostic these days. I don't really care what anybody else calls theirs. Maybe governments should call it a holiday tree or just not decorate at all for anything other than Patriotic holidays. I think there are way too many people in this country looking for things to be offended over on all sides. Well, at least on the atheist and Christian sides, anyway. I haven't heard of many Buddhists out there complaining about stuff that in the grand scheme of things seem so very unimportant. I could be wrong, but I think the Pennsylvania Colony was also founded with the idea of religious Freedom.

:iagree: wise words. Been there, done that, have the T-shirt.