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I'm working with my daughter's school to put together some information for parents about helping kids with their homework - things like how to motivate them, how to help without doing it for them, good work environments, organization, etc. I'm looking specifically at kindergarten to grade 8...

Our 3-year-old has always hated having her hair washed, cut or even brushed. The one time we tried taking her to the hair-dresser's, we had to hold her in place, screaming, while she tried to wriggle free. It's not easy to cut someone's hair when their dad has them in a headlock! It was a...

I got a private message from someone called Buddha. They haven't made any posts, but said "Hi I'm new here, just trying to meet new people". Their signature included a link (which I didn't follow). Anyone know who this person is? Spammer, presumably?

I just read this news report about some kids getting severely sunburned at school. They'd brought sunblock but weren't allowed to put it on. Apparently the school policies said no hats and no sunblock, unless you have a doctor's note. That's crazy. What's even more crazy, to me, is that the...

I'm trying to put photos in a post in the 'bragging' section, but I can't seem to get it to work. Here's the url for one of the photos... http://carolinelightowlersphotos.shutterfly.com/pictures/54[/url] I clicked on the image button, then put in the url, but couldn't get it to show. Any...

I'm so proud of my girls! They were in a triathlon last weekend, and did really well. Erika (age 2): 15 m swim; 500 m cycle; 100 m run Jadzia (age 5): 25 m swim; 1500 m cycle; 500 m run Erika had Mummy helping in the pool and Daddy helping with the cycle (i.e. pushing and helping to steer)...

I was busy working in my garden, today, teaching my 2 year old daughter how to mix concrete and set fence posts. Being an environmentalist, I was working on my latest project of building a raised platform for a 175 gallon rainwater tank for my vegetable garden. In our house, we don't follow...

I needed to dig some post holes in the garden, and realized that I needed them in about the same spot where the cockatiel is buried :eek:. I was so worried that I was going to find it, while I was digging. I don't think Jadzia would ever have forgiven me. Anyone else have pets buried in the...

I know that this forum is not for spamming or promoting issues, etc, but this is an issue that I would like to think affects many parents and children. I'm not intending to start a crusade, but I would ask that parents think about these issues before taking their children to a circus that uses...

My 5 year old loves to watch nature documentaries, and has seen animals mating. She's never asked questions, so I've not commented. (Actually, I tried to comment, once, but the scene was already onto something else, and she said "Mommy. Shhh. I'm trying to listen to David Attenborough!")...

Jadzia was just telling her little sister: "Erika, you'd better behave, or when I go back to my own planet, I'm leaving you here on Earth!" Sigh. What else can I expect for naming her after a character from Star Trek!

My 5 year old was very excited the other day, in a store. "Mummy! I just saw someone over there that was only about as tall as me but it was an adult! She was so tiny. It's just like in that book you were telling me about yesterday. Hobbits DO really exist!" :o Obviously, we had a chat about...

I just found out that my 2 year old knows most of the sounds the letters make. I knew she could recognize them all, but today she started singing the annoying-but-effective Leap Frog song "The A says 'a'", so I decided to test her. She definitely knows the sounds that more than half the...

My daughter can never remember which way around Fiction and Non-Fiction are. Does anyone know any 'tricks' to remember which way round they are - mnemonics or anything like that? Thanks!

Ok - I just need to vent because I'm angry. This morning I was at a playgroup with my 2 kids. There's a small table at one side of the room, with some puzzles on it, and three chairs around it. My oldest had been using the table as a stable for a toy horse, and had put the horse on one of...

My rep power is currently '0', but I've been repping people anyway :). I've just found out that in another thread I repped someone but it came through as negative. Maybe I just clicked the wrong button, but I just wanted to check that the other rep I've given hasn't come through as negative...

I'm registering my kids in a triathlon and want to raise some extra sponsorship. The triathlon has a printable sponsorship form, but some of the people who I think would like to sponsor them do not live close-by. I'd like to set up on-line sponsorship, where people can go to the website and...

My 2.5 year old is becoming a mischievous little monkey. She doesn't seem to 'get' the idea of consequences yet, and I'm trying to find new ways to guide her behaviour. Until recently, we've simply used 'redirection' to deal with unwanted behaviours (i.e. just ignored what she was doing and...

I'm a member of another parenting forum, where I've done something to seriously piss people off. I posted a thread entitled "What age do you plan to tell your kids that Santa isn't real?" A lot of people got very mad with me because there could be kids walking by the computer that might read...

I was reading some of the old posts and wanted to comment, but I remember reading something in the "Read this before you post" section (yes, I did actually read that bit!) about not bumping old threads, so I thought I'd better start a new one. Just wanted to share a facebook post I saw about...