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My oldest (8.5 years) daughter has a unibrow that is both prominently bushy and will soon be dark. My husband thinks emphatically that I need to start waxing/shaving/whatever immediately. He thinks she will be laughed at and made fun of and she already has a lot of problems being sociable and...

I'm agnostic and my fiance is atheist. Why would we want to speak about a nation built under a God we don't necessarily believe in? Not very fair to us. I would like to pledge my allegiance to my nation without speaking of a God.

Firstly, thank you all for your comments. I've read and do appreciate them. :) Sooo... This is what I got: Get a hobby, socialize, exercise, learn new things, relax, and create new things. I agree with you that all those things would help me keep down this irritation and frustration. But my...

But how do we deal? Her dad and I are both just throwing our hands up right now in defeat. What do we do when she deliberately disobeys the calm patient, yet forceful tone? She ignores that and ignores when we yell. She takes a spanking like it's nothing and just goes back to what she was doing...

So my previously fairly well behaved 4 yr old has turned monster... Before she would be kinda zoned out and non responsive. NOW she has taken to not listening at all, looking me in the eye and openly defying me, lying to me, saying she's doing something just because she wants to, and saying she...

Help! I need some de-stressing tips! Quick low down on my story: I'm a new step mom to a 4 and 7 yr old for the past 5 months. Lately I've become way too easily irritated and frustrated. Since this is my first time parenting, I haven't gotten to learn by doing over the years. I'm wondering if...

Don't rush it just for that reason, Jennifer. Take your time and plan your wedding. This only happens once (hopefully!) so make the best of it. I'm in the same boat as you, being the girlfriend to the guy with 2 children. It seems that boyfriend and child have accepted you, so it's really up to...

We went with Music by Mar. She's pretty good but she's clearly supposed to be for in classroom learning. I'd like to find a different bunch. Matakilli - The list under the link I provided has some of the songs that you can sample.

Thanks everyone! I'm in the midst of wedding planning but am still grinning ear to ear!

No it should not be in the pledge. We don't have a national religion.

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I've seen Obie Leff and Jack Hartmann and then I also found this site: http://www.songsforteaching.com/index.html so if anyone can recommend any of the above, that'd be great! Other suggestions would be appreciated as well.

So I've decided that the children remember their "silly" songs really well and that would be extra cool if those songs were actually educational. So I came in here to the computer and typed in educational song CDs in hopes of finding a couple of good ones. I have been bombarded with a million...

There's wonderful suggestions from all here and I appreciate it! :) Parentastic and MJCorr, the dad doesn't think that therapy will help with kids so young. He doesn't have much faith in therapists. The children's mom suffered pretty badly from mental illnesses and was in and out of treatment...

Thanks, Mike! :)

Well thank you! :) When I mentioned progress reports from the chess teacher, I'm not really concerned with how well she's picking up the game so much as whether or not she's being disruptive or paying attention. I teach chess once a week with my fiance and there's a few disruptive kids in my...

Thanks, Everyone! :D

Thank you for both book suggestions! The oldest one wants to learn chess because her father is a chess teacher so we have her enrolled in her chess club at her school. She also learns once a week with her father. We don't get progress reports from her chess coach so I'm not sure how she's doing...

Well we do the theme nights almost every night. I just made a detailed schedule for every day with a reward system for doing their chores. I could add eating to the list that they need to complete every day and see how well that works in the long run. Piano, thank you for the book suggestion. I...

Alter Ego, thanks for the advice! :) Unfortunately, they will refuse to eat those 3 bites. We've tried that before. They'd rather go to bed hungry than do what we ask them to do... lol The chats are getting shorter and shorter, recently. I gave her the permission to always tell me if she doesn't...