Parenting
How to step down in girl scouts?
This is my first year, I got asked to replace the last from last year. I agreed because my daughter needed a new leader and i thought it d be fun. The other 3 leaders are way more ...
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What would you do if your child said something mean to another kid?
Ok so I've seen movies and tv shows where a child or teenager ( usually a female) would call one of their peers a loser and I've even heard of kids being told to commit suicide. I'...
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How would you feel about having a teenage kid who is different and doesn't fit in?
View detailsTruth or falsehood: Kids should be seen and not heard.?
View detailsHow can a man be a dead beat dad if he pays his child support?
I never wanted children so I always used protection with this woman. We had a condom mishap and she got pregnant, and I pleaded with her to have an abortion but she refused. My fat...
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Do parents ever stop whining about the stupid kids they pooped out?
What's wrong with a nice, clean, dependable robot? BUILD A ROBOT DON'T HAVE KIDS, TRUST ME!...
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What happens to a childs state of mind...?
(...) when the child is forced to hold back their tears and not cry because either they don't wanna piss off their parent or because the parent angrily yelled at them to stop cryin...
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How do you explain your 5 year old why you separated from her mother without bringing up the real issue?
I have a five year old daughter which is asking me why I left her mom and married someone else, She likes my wife which is a really weird question coming from a 5 year old. She cau...
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What Would You Do of three teenage boys were constantly playing their music on full blaat?
I don't mind the music but my neighbors get annoyed and always wants me to day something to thwm. I feel I should go to the parents and not the kids which a few neighbors dis and t...
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Survey for parents of 11-13 year olds?
1. Do they like hugs?
2. As far as you know, do most kids their age like hugs?
3. Do they ever go outside?
4. How often do they cry?
5. Do they ever hear voices/have weird mental c...
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Should parents be able to spank their children yes or no? I want I want to hear others opinions is that a form of abusive?
“No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving in a abusive way to their children”....
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Bad parents?
Anyone else hate parents who control their kids to the point where they dictate wether their hair should be long or short? Parents that decide what their kids hair should look like...
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My child said Skinny Jeans are for H😮mos...should I make him wear to Teach him Better Manners?
View detailsWould you show your kids The Little Mermaid or leave it as a relic of the past?
as it has outdated gender roles and a surprising amount of nudity for a kids movie...
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22 year old girl dating 17 year old guy??? Is it weird?
Well he told me he was 20 when we met but he just told me he’s actually 17. But I really like him and he looks and acts older than 17.. he’s like a foot taller than me and is r...
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How much should I charge for babysitting per kid?
View details10 kids for 1 adult at Home Daycare Center?
I'm considering enrolling my child in a home day care center and the young women who not only owns her home at the age of 32, runs her center as well. She seems very likable, compe...
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American Parents: Are you saving up for your children's college education?
It seems to me that even though college is quite expensive in the US, parents don't save much money for their child's college education and the children have to work minimum wage j...
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What would you do if your husband/the other parent did this?
Your 16 year old daughter and her father are walking on a tourist street. A few people are carrying paper signs that say “free hugs” and give free hugs to strangers. These peop...
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Is it weird that the parents of children i nanny have cameras in all rooms, including facing their bed when I sleep during overnights?
So I have been nannying for a pretty great family for about a year now. However one thing always bothers me when I’m house sitting or doing overnights with the kids. They have se...
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What happens to the babies less than 1 year old after C.P.S takes them away?
I have been reading/watching stories about children being taken away from Cps and its been bothering me that they may never be seen again. Do most of these parents get there childr...
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If there are kids you are baby sitting and they shoplift are you responsible?
Or just shrug it off, as what can a shop to a 8 year old?? Older kid wasn't there. Don't even know what shop they got the toy from. So guess he got away with it as I wasn't watchi...
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What do you do if a child loves their step-parent more than their biological parents?
one of my friends has a problem where her son loves and confides in his stepmother instead of his biological mother. the child is extremely obedient to the stepmother despite just ...
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What's the point in having only one or two kids, why not 20? What's the point? BORING?
View detailsAnyone ever dealt with CPS/DHS? Would like to hear from you & your experience?
My children were placed temporarily with a family member. Have so many questions & my caseworker is tough to get in touch with. Wanted to know your experience & any advice or info ...
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Why do parents send their sick kids to school?
Some details...im a young teen, currently sick. I have just recalled many times when I was nauseous and still was forced to go to school. I ended up throwing up. I also remember ti...
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Do you think that someone is a bad parent when they don't love their kid?
View detailsMy 3-year old is not vaccinated & there's a measles outbreak in my state. Any suggestions or precautions I can take to protect her?
No vaccination! Your a sociopath if you think I'll let the government force me how to raise my kids. That's some communist bullshit....
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Does parenting come naturally, or is it something that you really need to learn a lot about through reading/experience?
View detailsWhich parent is in the wrong?
Background:
-Parent A pays 450 a month child support. Has the child Thursday night to Sunday morning.
-Parent B receives child support & recently lost a job. Has the child Sunday...
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Why would people have kids when their kids are going to be so stressed out when they get older?
The first 18 years of a person's life are great. Sure, there may be times of stress if they get a lot of homework or hard school projects and they may get bullied sometimes, but it...
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Can parents kicked out you out the day you graduate high school. Or is the day after you graduated high school.?
View detailsI'm a 18 year old senior in High school I'm rude and disrespectful . I just don't understand why my parents haven't kick me out yet. I?
Thought parents obligation end on a child 18th birthday. I'm no longer a minor so why do they not kick me out. You see i want to be kick out because i want to drop out High school...
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Why doesn’t my family care about me?
I live at home with my 4 year old child. I broke up with my abusive ex boyfriend, however, we are co parenting. When her father comes to pick her up from my house, my family acts n...
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I'm a 17 year old junior in High school. My parents don't allow me to do or have anything. They don't allowed me to go out by myself. They?
Don't allowed me to have a phobe laptop or tablet or i pod or even a flip phone. They don't allowed me to have friends. They go i will allow when I'm 18. But because I'm a minor ...
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What should I do before having a child?
What financial and other things should be in place before having kids? Like where to live, how much to be earning, etc?...
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Do fathers dislike having daughters?
View detailsWould you still love your autistic adult child?
View detailsHow would you feel if you had a socially awkward and very quiet teenage kid?
View detailsHow can i convince my dad to let me buy a Kawasaki Ninja 500r?
View detailsWhat do your kids call their grandparents if they are divorced and one remarried?
My boyfriend and I are planning on having kids sometime. His parents are divorced and his mom remarried. When we have kids what do they call his parents and step dad?...
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Can I talk to my mother about this?
I'm a 16 year old guy, I live with my mom, older sister and little brother. My mom has always been a single mother, I have no trouble whatsoever for her to have a boyfriend. But he...
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Do you agree with punishing children for something that they did by accident?
I've heard of parents disciplining kids or yelling at them for doing things by accident and this has even happened to me before when I was a kid. For example there was this one inc...
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Question for future parenting?
On my last few questions I asked if I should let my daughter go through with kicking my son in his testicles for his constant groping her while they rough-housed. Of the serious an...
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Would you let your kids watch The Little Mermaid now?
it has outdated gender roles and also a surprising amount of nudity for a Disney movie...
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Um is this normal?
My parents never talked to me about anything. My mom never talked me about periods, sex, std's, drugs.. nothing. She shamed me a few times when I entered high school I wanted to we...
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Do you think it's important to invest in children's lives so they can have a good adult life?
Some parents make their kids feel they owe them for everything and have to pay back everything they do for them even if it's not a lot. But wouldn't you want to invest into your ch...
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What do your kids get more of, hugs or spankings?
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Mother's with parenting agreements or visitation. Me and my son father are trying to be civil adults and come up with a parenting plan but we are stuck. our son is 16 months and I ...
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Do you think only dumb people prefer to be a single parent?
It's because they just want to have kids other than getting married with their spouse.....
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Should I wait until my parents are in a bad mood to tell them?
got a 40% on a test because I didn't even read the book so I'm surprised I got that. My parents are always arguing so I think I should use that to my advantage and tell therm the...
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