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Welcome, Kelly!
So happy to see you contributing here. (And you look SMASHING!)
I really don't understand this whole lice business. When I was a kid, we didn't have lice, but, geez, we played in sewage, dirt, mud, abandoned houses . . . How did we avoid lice, much less tetanus, lockjaw, and death?
Sounds like you handled the sitch very well tho.
Kelly is awesome!
I don't even live in Detroit, but I will be tuning in to read her blog. She's a fantastic writer and always comes up with thought-provoking ideas interlaced with a unique sense of humor.
So happy to see she's joined your team!
Toy Shopping Lists
One other list you need to compile; the educational games and toys that will help you make a child's learning journey fun. They learn at phenomenal rate if it is made enjoyable, and the greatest factor in learning retention is through practice. Make it fun, not just when they are toddlers, join in and suddenly when they go to school their learning is so much easier.
No new concept - Plato first thought of it ""Do not, my friend, keep children to their studies by compulsion, but by play."
Punch Face
It's the movie that they go to see in the New Moon movie. Funny!
the village
keep in mind that eventhough you are benefitting from the help of the village, it's the village who ultimatley wins.
Teen gifts
Jo50: great idea on teen gifts! They are so difficult (pricey) to gift, especially boys.
Teen gifts
I find the hardest gifts to budget on are the ones for younger teens. Teens are into electronics and anything like a video game is WAY outside this year's budget. So I was forced to get creative. Neither my teen son or daughter have cell phones yet though they've been after me to get them cell phones for a while. I shopped around and found a Motorola W260-4 from Tracfone for only $14.88 at Walmart. At $14.88, I can easily afford two phones and they come with free double minutes which means I get 400 minutes for the price of 200 which is only $20. And in a sense these phones are a gift to me too. They're prepaid so I can use buying more minutes as leverage to make sure everybody gets good grades.
Teachers and New Grads should Get out of Mich
When you see a headline, "thousands head to lansing to save education" it's time to go.
Michigan with it's entitlement culture and government as solution to all problems is not a place serious professionals want to live.
On Friday Gov. Granholm launched a program to "lure" teachers to teach in the urban areas. Moreover the state has actively predicted all sorts of calamity in the past 2 years over the extortionist auto industry unless governemt "saved" the state.
Imagine your son or daughter graduating from college and stepping off the platform diploma in hand. "Mom, Dad I'm know what I'm going to do with my life!!!" "I'm moving to Michigan to seek my fortune and fulfill my destiny!
Just shoot me right then and there!
Dad turns daughter in for growing pot in closet
Yes, I would absolutely turn my son or daughter in. I'd also turn their friends in if I knew they had this set-up. (after talking with them and their parents) They know the law and if you break it there are consequences which apply to everyone...well, that's how it's supposed to be.
Drugs
My error on previous post...substitue "Dad" for where I used "Mom"...although both are probably equally oblivious.
Man up "Dad."
Drugs
Great. Mom dumps parenting work on the cops. As for how the kidlet learned how to do this, if she has computer access she needed no other advice...it's all there. Mom allowed the wee precious one to lock her closet? Mom's a Dwarwin Award candidate perhaps?
We must not traumatize the kidlets now, heaven forbid, why just let the cops do it. I would call "Mom" stupid, but that'd be too much a compliment.
Drugs
By the looks of this elaborate set-up, this teen looks as if she has some experience in this arena or is hanging out with people who have guided her on proper care of "plants."
Parents need to pay attention to what their kids are doing and have a better relationship with them. Ask them questions, find out who their friends are and meet their parents. Too many parents are passive and allow their teens to do whatever they want.
Would I call the cops? I could not say unless I were in that situation. But, certainly, I am doing my best to make sure that my child does not walk down that path.
Despite illness, grandmother's special gift
A fine story by an excellent writer! She gets to the heart of the three relationships quickly, and her stories reinforce the core themes.
halloween/christening
In regards to Halloween-I say a couple cute pics and that is about it. She is too young to understand anything about Halloween. My daughter's first Halloween we dressed her up and took her to the grandparents houses. She sampled some apple pie and a piece of soft candy. And took her first steps. That was it!
Christening...the gown doesnt fit so the child can go in the car seat? HUh? And please don't have too many expectations for your child in church...mine feel asleep during mass after she fussed a bit...others cried. The priest wont care and neither will anyone else. Keep the party simple and don't kill yourself with details-it will go by so fast.
Moms should stop judging, start supporting each other
I still feel like I'm being judged for choices I made during my pregnancy, and my daughter is 4! I was what society would call a "bad" mom - I work full-time and I didn't breastfeed AT ALL. I can deal with the people who think I'm a bad mom for sending my daughter to daycare, because I feel by being the bread-winner of the family (I'm an engineer, and my husband is a journalist), I'm setting a good example for my daughter that she can do/be anything she wants. What I can't deal with is the people who always look down on me for not breastfeeding, so I find the complaints of nursing moms to be hysterical. Sure, you may get a few dirty looks, but do people really come up to you and tell you that your method for feeding your kid is unnatural? I didn't think so. The other hot button topic I find among mom's is the number of kids they choose to have. My daughter is going to be an only child (add this to my list of sins), and I've had numerous people tell me that I'm depriving her of family bonds. I'd be depriving her more if I had more kids because I wouldn't have the time, energy, and let's face it, finances to provide for her the way I do now. As long as you can support all of the kids you have, I don't care how many you have.
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