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They're better in the wild. Like I wouldn't have a pet bird or squirrel.

No, you can't play with them unfortunately. She really didn't have a choice of pet. It was given to her by a neighbor who moved away and couldn't take care of it anymore. The Chinchilla just runs all around its cage. Can't even take it out of the cage because it's difficult to catch again...

When my 8 yr old daughter had her first Chinchilla, her personality changed (my daughter, not the Chinchilla). She became more responsible, caring and have more empathy to her brothers/sister. Maybe it kindled some sort of maternal instinct in her?

After doing mostly mediocre work, he was able to do something good... his teacher praised him... and it seemed to work as a stimulus for him to do more excellent school work... Sometimes, it just takes a word of praise to stimulate a kid's need to achieve and change his life from one of...

Yes, I wish you would recommend what works. You're saying that when timeout doesn't work, spanking is bad, just leave the behavior alone, perhaps it will disappear? I think that the reason many youths of today are unmanageable and fear nothing is because their parents did not teach them the...

On rare times I spank my kid, it is not out of anger but as a negative reinforcement to what he does. Is there something wrong with it? And after I spank him and he calms down, I tell him lovingly about what he did wrong, and why he should never do it again so he wouldn't be spanked. I tried...