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I'm here about my eldest, who's 8, 9 next month. She's always been very stubborn and set in getting her own way, but recently... she's got a load of attitude! When we tell her to stop doing something because she has to eat/sleep/go somewhere, she'll ask to finish what she's doing. We give her 5...

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Congratulations! Can't wait to hear more about them!

Thanks for that advice, I did that today when we got home. I got her away from her sisters and asked her, but she said that school was 'ok' and that she had 'some' friends. She didn't really want to talk to me about it. Which is pretty weird as usually she is very talkative, so I think she is...

This is tricky. You could get a film and play it in Spanish with English subtitles, also there are some special learning programmes for young children to learn Spanish, which require some effort. Also, do you speak Spanish? If you don't, you could learn too. I know a family who is very...

This has been going on quite a while now, only recently it's seemed to get a lot worse... My eldest daughter is in Year Three at primary school. She seems to enjoy school and has a lot of friends even though she can be cheeky and mess around sometimes. But I have noticed a lot of the times she...

Thought I would give you an update on how everything's going... She no longer wants to ride in the buggy so now we have a single buggy for my youngest daughter, she has a thing on the back to stand on (it was DD2's but she grew out of it) but she wants to walk, run, jump or skip along next to...

Oh and also I think the legal age (in the UK) for staying home alone for a long period of time with younger children is something like 14/16.

As a lot of people have been saying, it depends on the maturity of a child and whether or not they would be happy with staying home alone. For anything under half an hour, I would say probably a seven or eight year old, provided it was during the day and the child knew how to contact someone if...

Hi! Welcome to the forum! My name is Emma and I am a mum of 4 daughters- aged 8, 5, 4 and 1. At the minute I am kind of a part-time single mum as my partner went to America with a work promotion and we decided to give eachother some space due to the girls' behaviour... :(

I've seen that Supernanny! Ages ago though. I did that with the bottles and everything and things have been fine! Much smoother than I thought. She was a bit moany the first day but I occupied her doing lots of fun activities and by the third day she had forgotten about milk completely. Her...

I take it that you're Welsh then? I have some relatives in Wales and they have a set of love spoons- getting smaller and smaller. We saw the really big one outside Cardiff Castle and then it was taken away.

I've had a think, I'm going to give the older ones pocket money, £1 per year of their age. My 3yo might feel a bit left out but I'll say that she can have it when she's five- so she can feel more 'grown-up'. Thank you all for your help.

That's actually quite a good idea, I might look into these. I would have to put four on for all my girls, and I have no idea in the world of how to put these on.

You see, I don't really want to give them money for chores. I might make them a reward chart for chores but I don't really want them thinking chores are only done for money, I want them to learn that chores need to be done, whether or not you get rewarded for doing them. I like your bank...

Well, when she was born, of course I gave her all the baby stuff. But then Polly was born when she was 2/3ish, and by this time she still wasn't as independant as Ally+Soph were. She had started to be weaned off the baby stuff, then the baby came, and yeah, I guess all we did was undone because...

I'm thinking of giving my girls pocket money. At the minute they don't get any, but they have a limit on what they can spend on magazines/sweets/toys each week. But they just think that if they want something, mommy will buy it. They don't understand that things cost money. They expect...

My daughter, Patty (who will be four in April and will be starting school in September) acts like a baby! She doesn't talk properly, just baby-talk; she only eats baby food; only drinks from a sippy cup or bottle; breastfeeds; wears nappies; sleeps in a cot; is constantly sucking dummies...

Thank you. I'm sure everyone will give me support, it's nice to talk to some other mums rather than be the woman that everyone avoids. You should see some of the dirty looks people give me when I'm walking down the street or dragging the brood around the supermarket!

My hubby is in America, but it was so sweet, first thing this morning, postman comes while we were having breakfast, and there was this cute little hamper. I put it in the living room and the girls helped me unpack it. It had a card, some red roses, a box of chocolates and some other Valentimesy...