We are somewhat new to this neighborhood. This will be our second year here. Last year for my son’s birthday party we invited a few of the kids that he had met for a backyard party and water balloon fight. We welcomed older and younger siblings since it wouldn’t cost any extra. This year for his fifth birthday we’re having it at the go-cart track. We have 40 tickets already purchased. I don’t know if it will cause any problems if we only invite the friends and not the siblings this year. I’m afraid they may show up with the siblings anyway (yes they can be that tacky) and I don’t want to provide ride tickets for them because it takes away from the invited kids. I also don’t want to cause any hard feelings. Is there a tactful way to possibly let parents know that we will only be providing tickets to the invited guests maybe by listing the price of the rides?

…its cold outside, you are by yourself and you need a shopping cart to put them in? Do you try and park close to the basket return to grab a basket, do your best to carry them in yourself, or leave the car running and run in to get a basket real quick?

I’ve had this dilemma a few times because hubby is too lazy to go with me or watch the kids and was wondering what other parents do with multiple children. I do my best to park near a basket return and if I can’t I drive around until I can, or do my best to carry my children in. My oldest is 2 and youngest is 7 mo. The little one is too big for a car seat so I have to carry her and my 2 yr old walks well but wants to run off if I don’t keep a hold of him. What do you do?
I never leave my children in the car, Ive seen people do that and it makes me sick!
Double stroller would be ok but then where would you put the groceries? the basket underneath sure isnt big enough and i cannot leave my kids with my hubby for the main fact he is on call all the time and may have to leave and a babysitter is not an option and i HAVE to go to the store

I was at a grocery store the other day, and my one and a half year old was sitting in the shopping cart seat. I went to the front of the cart to put my groceries up on the conveyor (I’m 9 months pregnant, I can barely lean over the side of the cart, much less lean over my daughter as well) and while I was doing this, the older woman in line behind me got extremely close to my daughter while putting her own groceries up on the conveyor. I’m not talking about coming within a four-foot radius, I’m talking about this woman being right up against the shopping cart handle. Her arm was literally inches from my daughter’s hands, and her hip was brushing against my daughter’s shoes. It made me very angry, so I said to my daughter (who was staring at the buckle on the lady’s purse strap) "No, you can’t grab the lady’s purse even if she is too close to you." Obviously this was for the lady, not for my daughter. Then the woman started moving her groceries up on the conveyor because it hadn’t moved yet, putting them within reach of my daughter, and I had to tell her not to touch. When the person in front of me finally finished, I moved the cart away saying "Let’s get you away from the obnoxious old lady now."

Now I know that that might have been a bit of a hormonal moment there. But it seriously bothers me when people invade my daughter’s personal space. I don’t like strangers touching her or getting close to her, or even talking to her without talking to me first. Do any of you feel the same way, or is this just my pregnancy making me irritable?
There’s a question about a 12-year-old selling drugs to a guy who drugs his dog, but I’m accused of trolling because I’m curious if other parents dislike strangers invading their kids’ personal space? Okay..

Like I said, this woman was literally brushing up against my daughter. While I might not have been exactly tactful, it blows my mind that people think it’s okay to get that close to others, even if (especially if) it’s a child.
Leigh: I was raised to respect people’s personal space. I grew up being taught that it was never okay to push, touch, or bump people if there was a way not to. It’s just disrespectful, my whole family is like that. I don’t think that this woman was obnoxious because she *got* that close to my daughter, I think she was obnoxious for *staying* that close to her, especially after I had already commented on it. And I feel like it was just stupid of her to move her groceries even closer to a toddler than they already were.

None of you first few answerers actually answered my question; does that mean you’d be okay with some strange woman rubbing against your kid in a checkout line, rather than waiting two minutes for the line to move?

I have a 9 month old Blue Heeler that I adore. She chews up everything: blankets, chair cushions, plants, shoes, golf cart seats. etc. My dad says if she destroys one more thing, he is going to kill her. I don’t know how I can make her stop. I know it’s just a phase all young dogs go through, but she needs to stop now. If not… I won’t have my dog anymore.

Please help me save my dog?
Also, she is an outside dog. She runs around the yard constantly, and we play everyday when I get home. I have bought her rawhides, pig ears, cow hooves, and chew toys. And I have NEVER seen her chew on anything. My parents just assume she is the culprit, and nothing I say can convince them otherwise. I can not punish my dog when I never see her doing anything wrong.

I’m a young adult, and just found out that you can get diabetes type 1 at my age, 16, well to start it all off, I AM a hypochodriac and worry about many diseases but I’m pretty sure of this one. First of all I was a the store yesterday and I got very confused and was kind of waltzing around trying to get my stuff and return to my mom’s cart and half the time I couldn’t even remember what I had just said, I’m pretty sure this is all hypoglycemia then I came home and told my parents I was feeling REALLY funny and told them what had happened and they just told me to relax so I had a glass of juice and tryed to calm down. Today it’s easter and I had a big breakfast and dinner a few hours after and ended up being really really thirsty after I ate a lot, I had beans, a roll and falafel which are chickpea patties, and more water. I didn’t have increased urination which I know is one of the symptoms… but I did have increased thrist after I ate all of that and after I had desert I felt funny as well. And right now my vision is kind of blurred not to the point that I can’t see but to the point where long distant things are a bit blurry. How blurry is the diabetic symtoms supposed to be? I’m so scared I have type one diabetes! I am going to have a doctors appointment either tomorrow, or tonight if I get to scared and it gets worse I may go to urgent care. My dad says that your ankles would be swollen if you seriously had diabetes, and mine aren’t at all but that isn’t on any of the symptom sites. Anyway, please tell me if these sound like serious symtoms of type 1. I’m so scared that I might have it, I just need some reassurence that everythings going to b e okay. Please!! :[[
Also my arm has been tingly on and off for the past few days, this worries me even more because I know its a symtomp as well!

I am married, and have no children by choice. It’s not that I don’t like kids, I just don’t feel the need to reproduce. I like it quiet. I like things to be calm so I don’t have any kids. Two legged anyway. (7 dogs)

Why should I be expected to deal with bratty kids in public?
My husband and I went to a PG-13 movie and behind us were kids under the age of 4 making so much noise it ruined the movie. I complained to the manager and the parents called me names…I paid to watch the movie, not deal with their kids. Doesn’t matter where I go, kids running around and parents seem oblivious to it. I have walked away from grocery carts full just cause I didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Nobody says anything, why not?

Am I the only one who feels this way? How do others deal?

Okay, my sister went off and married this guy (after becoming pregnant) that she met at Dillons like, 5 years ago. She was 17ish. Her whole life, she messed up. She chose to. Her parents (my mom) were divorced. Everytime she didn’t get her way, she’d be like "Okay, I’m gonna go to Dad’s then!" so she’d get her way. Through her childhood AND teenage years. Now as an "adult" she has left him with me and my mom. HE IS TERRIBLE. He is rediculously smart. He knows how to do something and get away with it, just like his mom. Like, he can fake trip. Or fake laugh. Or barge into conversations. Or lie. Or act like he knows everything. He is adorable, I’ll admit, but his personality, my GOD. And hes like, 4. He will scream just so people think I hurt him. he makes me want to HURT HIM. I can’t even describe the way he acts. Normally, I love kids. I think they are soo sweet and angelic. But he isn’t. If hate wasn’t so frowned upon, I would hate him.

My mom? She is BLIND to this. My family that has seen this side of him, think he is awful. My mom is really close with her sister, and I talked to her, and she thinks my nephew is going to be a really good criminal. She wasn’t joking. They would agree to every word of this. My mom sees him as a perfect child. I don’t even know what to do anymore. Today, I went grocery shopping with him, my Mom and my friend. He would take random things, plop them in the cart, and my mom wouldn’t care. Sometimes she’d be like " no, put it back." but he’d be like "NOOOOO I WANT IT!!" and she’d be like *sigh* okay…
I hate it sooooo much.. even my friend thought it was rediculous. He gets everything he wants. Anything. I try telling my mom about my feelings, and she thinks I’m talking back. I can’t even talk to her without getting in trouble. My dad screams at me about everything.. so I can’t talk to him. One time when I did, he told me "I know, but we just have to ignore it."

I.Am.Done.Ignoring.This.
I need some serious advice..

p.s. My mom wants family counceling. THATS FUNNY, maybe if she wouldn’t be doing this, we wouldn’t have a problem. I feel like she loves him more than me. I’m told that isn’t possible, but my Lord, she acts like it….

Okay, I have been through hell over the last year and a half. First, my Uncle died in February 2009. Then my Gran died in May in the same year. I was bullied for three years in Primary School, and one year in High School. I have been in love with my teacher for three years, which I stupidly went and told my guidance teacher about it as I thought it was confidential (she never told me it wasn’t until she told me that she was phoning my parents and telling the teacher I am in love with, about everything). She completely overreacted and now about five other members of staff know about it now. My life has just been one huge humiliation and I have planned my nearby suicide, which has come from self harming, which I can’t even do that any more because my mum and dad confiscated my needles as my guidance teacher also phoned them about that, so now, instead of cutting, I only eat one meal a day. This progressed and I have a four page suicide letter ready, which my parents also know about because guess what? My guidance teacher told them! I am currently speaking to a counsellor once a week and I sometimes speak to the nurse as I am trying to get help. But to be quite honest I am sick of trying to get help and I feel like my life has been one huge roller coaster on which wont stop unless I jump out the cart. I always am crying at nights until I fall asleep, and I just feel like I have no one to talk to because as far as I am concerned, I do not have a guidance teacher. She has ruined my life. I don’t go a day without walking past a set of stairs or a car and thinking about how I could use them to kill myself. I just want everything to be over. One of my friends found my suicide note and went and spread it around the school saying I was being pathetic, stupid and immature when she really doesn’t know how I am feeling. And on top of all that, the teacher that I am in love with has been told to ignore me, and pay no attention to me, when it was him in the first place that said if there was anything I wanted to speak to him about, I could just go and find him. Now he wont even look at me and you just don’t understand how hard that is unless you have been through it. I just want for him to be happy, and I have ruined everything! I should never have opened my trap! Whoever says that speaking to an adult is a good thing, is talking rubbish! I just need some advice, and was wondering if it sounds like I am depressed, as my counsellor says that I am showing strong signs, but I am not sure. And if you are wondering, it is more than just a crush. He is the most wonderful person I have ever met and I would gladly give my life for him, he means more to me that I do. I would really appreciate some advice, nothing abusive. Thanks.

i am 19 and am expecting a baby in 5 weeks. my then-fiance recentley walked out a few weeks ago leaving me w/ a whole load of bills at my house, which i am renting. my rent is 0 and then theres utilities w/ a seperate water bill and seperate electric. i have a cell phone to pay for too. i cannot work until 6 to 8 weeks post partum. my fiance had been paying for all of this until he walked out. my mom told me if i can get money to pay the landlord (which is my aunt) she will pay my utilities. my other aunt and friend have decided to split my phone bill. my mom has been wanting me to move back in w/ her, which is right next door. she has a husband (my step dad) who lives there too along w/ our adult cousin and my 2 sisters ten and 13. the house is only 2 bedroom so my parents have a room, my sisters have another room and my cousin sleeps on the couch or floor downstairs. i got my friend to loan me 200 and another friend to loan me 100. i just needed 80 more and was working on getting that from my grandma for doing work around her home. (cleaning, ect)

i gave the 300 to my mom for her to pay her sister a rent payment and tell her i will have the remaining $$ the next week. my mom says theres no point in having me be in debt to people and having to borrow $ for the next 3-4 months. my bills are already low b/c my shower head is broken so i shower and mostly eat on my moms side. (our houses are in a double) i have the food card and medical card so i can get food my bills are just a problem b/c i have 0 income. i am an stna and have a job lined up to start in april making 10 an hour, so paying ppl back will be done in the next 6-8 months.

my mother, however has her own ideas. she took it upon herself to call up my aunt and tell her i’m going to move back in with her b/c i couldn’t come up w/ the money in time. my aunt gave me till feb first but my mom told her thats ok i’m willing to move right now asap. then my mom spent 50 of my rent money on her and my dad to eat at outback and 40 to buy my sisters and cousins pizza and the another 30 to get my sisters haircuts.and of course now has no reason to pay utilities. so i’m going to use the $ i get from my grandmother and whats left of what my mom did not spend to cover the utilities.

i asked my mom about this and she said oh i will pay you back but i know thats not going to happen. she never pays any1 back unless its small things like borrowing a dollar or two until my dad gets home or something. my mom babysits and make a few hundred a week and my dad is a roofer which is seasonal work. my grown cousin doesn’t work either.

so now i am forced to move back next door-which i really don’t want to do. i will sleep down stairs in the corner of the living room in my bed w/ my baby in her crib or bassinett next to me. i have a care cart from walmart for her that will hold her diapers and such but that has to get stuck in the bathroom b/c there isn’t room in the living room. my stuff and my babys stuff like clothes and toys and any extra anything will be in tubs in an upstairs "play room" that is only about 11 by 4 feet.

i just got a bunch of new house things for christmas and they now must go into storage. i know i should be grateful for my mom being so generous when shew doesn’t have too, but honestly if you knew my mom. she is pushy and only wants me to live w/ her b/c she wants me to stay dependant on her and not be independant or have my own things. and also so i can clean the house and cook for her like i did in my teen years. i will have to work 2nd shift when i start my job which means sleeping late into the a/m. like i said my mom babysits a lot of toddlers who don’t go to school yet so w/ my bed in the living room i won’t be able to sleep past 6 am.
to top it all off, i got put on the chore chart w/ my sisters. my mom says i can help out if i am staying there and i said yea but i don’t need to be on a stupid chart for babies. i can already tell the chart is a way for me to be made to do plenty of work and not have any reason to not do what my mom wants me to do. what would you do here?

hello i am not veronica that owns this profile but her friend, lydia. i just want to ask a quick ? of you guys.

i am 19 and am expecting a baby in 5 weeks. my then-fiance recentley walked out a few weeks ago leaving me w/ a whole load of bills at my house, which i am renting. my rent is 0 and then theres utilities w/ a seperate water bill and seperate electric. i have a cell phone to pay for too. i cannot work until 6 to 8 weeks post partum. my fiance had been paying for all of this until he walked out. my mom told me if i can get money to pay the landlord (which is my aunt) she will pay my utilities. my other aunt and friend have decided to split my phone bill. my mom has been wanting me to move back in w/ her, which is right next door. she has a husband (my step dad) who lives there too along w/ our adult cousin and my 2 sisters ten and 13. the house is only 2 bedroom so my parents have a room, my sisters have another room and my cousin sleeps on the couch or floor downstairs. i got my friend to loan me 200 and another friend to loan me 100. i just needed 80 more and was working on getting that from my grandma for doing work around her home. (cleaning, ect)

i gave the 300 to my mom for her to pay her sister a rent payment and tell her i will have the remaining $$ the next week. my mom says theres no point in having me be in debt to people and having to borrow $ for the next 3-4 months. my bills are already low b/c my shower head is broken so i shower and mostly eat on my moms side. (our houses are in a double) i have the food card and medical card so i can get food my bills are just a problem b/c i have 0 income. i am an stna and have a job lined up to start in april making 10 an hour, so paying ppl back will be done in the next 6-8 months.

my mother, however has her own ideas. she took it upon herself to call up my aunt and tell her i’m going to move back in with her b/c i couldn’t come up w/ the money in time. my aunt gave me till feb first but my mom told her thats ok i’m willing to move right now asap. then my mom spent 50 of my rent money on her and my dad to eat at outback and 40 to buy my sisters and cousins pizza and the another 30 to get my sisters haircuts.and of course now has no reason to pay utilities. so i’m going to use the $ i get from my grandmother and whats left of what my mom did not spend to cover the utilities.

i asked my mom about this and she said oh i will pay you back but i know thats not going to happen. she never pays any1 back unless its small things like borrowing a dollar or two until my dad gets home or something. my mom babysits and make a few hundred a week and my dad is a roofer which is seasonal work. my grown cousin doesn’t work either.

so now i am forced to move back next door-which i really don’t want to do. i will sleep down stairs in the corner of the living room in my bed w/ my baby in her crib or bassinett next to me. i have a care cart from walmart for her that will hold her diapers and such but that has to get stuck in the bathroom b/c there isn’t room in the living room. my stuff and my babys stuff like clothes and toys and any extra anything will be in tubs in an upstairs "play room" that is only about 11 by 4 feet.

i just got a bunch of new house things for christmas and they now must go into storage. i know i should be grateful for my mom being so generous when shew doesn’t have too, but honestly if you knew my mom. she is pushy and only wants me to live w/ her b/c she wants me to stay dependant on her and not be independant or have my own things. and also so i can clean the house and cook for her like i did in my teen years. i will have to work 2nd shift when i start my job which means sleeping late into the a/m. like i said my mom babysits a lot of toddlers who don’t go to school yet so w/ my bed in the living room i won’t be able to sleep past 6 am.
to top it all off, i got put on the chore chart w/ my sisters. my mom says i can help out if i am staying there and i said yea but i don’t need to be on a stupid chart for babies. i can already tell the chart is a way for me to be made to do plenty of work and not have any reason to not do what my mom wants me to do. what would you do here?

I have actually been to Gatlinburg several times, but it is usually a girls only (myself, my best friend, mom, aunt) shopping type trips. But this July, we are taking a big family trip there for a week. My, hubby and our two kids (ages 13, and 6 months) as well as my parents and aunt and uncle will be going. We have a cabin rented and that’s all taken care of. But, since I’ve never been with my family before, what are some good things to do, espcially with a six month old. My thirteen year old will be happy with arcades, go carts, mini-golf etc., but what about my six month old. Any ideas?

I baby sat a young boy from the age of 16 mos to three years of age. He was with me an awful lot. At times more the 40 hours a week. "appointments" that lasted over five hours at a time. Don’t get me wrong, Christopher was a joy.

I wanted to ask other parents what they thought of this. I went to the store one evening with Christopher and his mother before they could drop me off at home. The mother let Christopher run wild down the aisles of this gigantic grocery store. At first I tried to blow it off. Reminding myself. "Hey your not babysitting right now. Mommy dearest is right there." But as we went to check out, toddler finally in tow (Because I called him over), he broke loose and went running down the aisles and out of sight. This time I went to go get him, and I brought him back. His mother freaked on me. "He’s okay, you’re not his mother." I’m sorry, letting your kid run around in the grocery store when your not paying attention is one heck of a way for you child to go missing. I was always taught when you have small children you don’t turn away from them to browse, you don’t walk away from the cart when their in it and you definitely don’t let them run around while you shop!

I don’t know maybe because she was there I should have just let it go, but it really pissed me off. I don’t have any children myself, but I am an adult and I still felt responsible. Should I have step back? or was Mom out of line?

im 26 years old and ive been disabled since i was 21. used to be mobile and able to be athletic and do gymnastics and then i got injured and had to leave college and now i can barely walk and have chronic pain every day.
i have trouble moving or bending or getting up and down steps.i have pain all of the day
i have trouble managing and i havent moved out yet because of it and i havent been able to work. i didnt have a job before i got hurt because i was at school
i cant clean a home or hold shopping bags,push a shopping cart, walk more then a block, drive,do laundry or hold a frying pan.i am barely able to get out of bed some days.
i dont know if i will recover.but my life expectancy is about 98 years old before i got hurt. its genetics where my relatives live long.they dont age very fast so i have 85 yr old relatives that are very youthful and still active and walk much faster then me
i have trouble walking
i am crying in pain all day and im hoembound some days i cant get out of bed. i have trouble using the toilet, showing and dressing but i manage on my own, i want to keep my dignity and try to do things on my own. im afraid ill end up in a wheelchair, a doctor told me in a few years ill be in a wheelchair confined to one

how do i live life like this? go out into the world and start my adult life as a handicapped girl whos is pain all day crying? i live with my parents still and have never been independant and i still need to finish college but i cannot do that.i cant hold a book or walk without losing my balance or wobbling and walking very slow. it takes me a half hour to get up a few steps sometimes.i cant concentrate on schoolwork if im in pain, so theres no way im going back to college in this condition
school used to be rigorous, i would have to run down hallways and race up steps carring heavy books….

thats out of the question

my parents want me out, they will throw me onto the street if they have to and i dont belong at an institution, im a smart girl who was in an accident, but i didnt get any money because i could not sue
i dont want to spend 70 years in a nursing home
i am thinking i could get disability and move to a bad neighborhood where the rent is cheap in the projects where there are many drugdealers and men with guns and gangs and grafitti and rats. i can move in and be aquainted with my gangster neighbors who will think its odd that im the only upperclass white jewish girl in the entire building comples or projects. i live in nyc bronx so the projects here are very dangerous theres so many driveby shootings and drug infested bulidings in the projects, id be terrified and there robbingd snd muggings. id get raped or something, if they saw a pretty white girl in the building who cant run if they are in danger. id be subject to a mugging
ive had racist attacks on me in the past for being white, ive been beaten by african american men, yelled at by a few african american women a few times calling me a dirty white girl and other racist names
so i would not feel safe in a bad neighborhood thats drug and crime infested being the only white and non hispanic one there
i come from a family of all college and graduate school educated relatives and my parents are millionares , they have a pool and a housekeeper and a few cars. no one in my family has lived in poor conditions
so id be scared to go into that. my family wont give me any money, not even for food. so i need money. if i get food stamps thats 100 dollars a month since i have no children. disability checks would be about 700 dollars and rent could be about 500 dollars for a section 8 housing or projects
normally a regular one bedroom apartment here costs 2000 a month. but in the projects it might be 500-800

i need clothing too, toiletries,medicine,extra spending cash for transportation.id have to take taxis because i cannot ride a bus or subway because of crowds and its not safe im at risk for being mugged
if i had a job and wasnt disabled id have a college career and id like to make 3-10 thousand dollars a month supporting myself but i cant do that right now
i come from a rich upbrining in a nice neighborhood that is like beverly hills, alot of spoiled kids grow up here with expensive stuff, pools in their backyard, rich people who are doctors live on my block
but theres no section 8 housing here, thats all down by the bad neighborhoods with drug infestings
i know that i need 400-600 dollars a month for food and groceries. the 100 dollar food stamps wont pay for anything. food pantries dont give out more then 10 items a week. usually its canned stuff
i need vitamins daily for my osteopenia,insnunrance does not cover vitamins.i need to shop for clothes about 5 times a year. id need about 10 thousand dollars a year to spend on clothes and shoes and accesories. if i shop and spend 2000 dollars ea time, i wear plus size clothes so they add up and are more expensive then skinny sized clothes
then i need extr
i cant walk with a cane. i have pain if i lean on anything with my arm. i am probably more severely disabled then you are.

i could not possibly get through even a class of college. who will carry my books for me? how do i make sure no students bump into me in a crowded hall. how will i get to a class
what if theres a fire
how will i study if i have pain

hello i am not veronica that owns this profile but her friend, lydia. i just want to ask a quick ? of you guys.

i am 19 and am expecting a baby in 5 weeks. my then-fiance recentley walked out a few weeks ago leaving me w/ a whole load of bills at my house, which i am renting. my rent is 0 and then theres utilities w/ a seperate water bill and seperate electric. i have a cell phone to pay for too. i cannot work until 6 to 8 weeks post partum. my fiance had been paying for all of this until he walked out. my mom told me if i can get money to pay the landlord (which is my aunt) she will pay my utilities. my other aunt and friend have decided to split my phone bill. my mom has been wanting me to move back in w/ her, which is right next door. she has a husband (my step dad) who lives there too along w/ our adult cousin and my 2 sisters ten and 13. the house is only 2 bedroom so my parents have a room, my sisters have another room and my cousin sleeps on the couch or floor downstairs. i got my friend to loan me 200 and another friend to loan me 100. i just needed 80 more and was working on getting that from my grandma for doing work around her home. (cleaning, ect)

i gave the 300 to my mom for her to pay her sister a rent payment and tell her i will have the remaining $$ the next week. my mom says theres no point in having me be in debt to people and having to borrow $ for the next 3-4 months. my bills are already low b/c my shower head is broken so i shower and mostly eat on my moms side. (our houses are in a double) i have the food card and medical card so i can get food my bills are just a problem b/c i have 0 income. i am an stna and have a job lined up to start in april making 10 an hour, so paying ppl back will be done in the next 6-8 months.

my mother, however has her own ideas. she took it upon herself to call up my aunt and tell her i’m going to move back in with her b/c i couldn’t come up w/ the money in time. my aunt gave me till feb first but my mom told her thats ok i’m willing to move right now asap. then my mom spent 50 of my rent money on her and my dad to eat at outback and 40 to buy my sisters and cousins pizza and the another 30 to get my sisters haircuts.and of course now has no reason to pay utilities. so i’m going to use the $ i get from my grandmother and whats left of what my mom did not spend to cover the utilities.

i asked my mom about this and she said oh i will pay you back but i know thats not going to happen. she never pays any1 back unless its small things like borrowing a dollar or two until my dad gets home or something. my mom babysits and make a few hundred a week and my dad is a roofer which is seasonal work. my grown cousin doesn’t work either.

so now i am forced to move back next door-which i really don’t want to do. i will sleep down stairs in the corner of the living room in my bed w/ my baby in her crib or bassinett next to me. i have a care cart from walmart for her that will hold her diapers and such but that has to get stuck in the bathroom b/c there isn’t room in the living room. my stuff and my babys stuff like clothes and toys and any extra anything will be in tubs in an upstairs "play room" that is only about 11 by 4 feet.

i just got a bunch of new house things for christmas and they now must go into storage. i know i should be grateful for my mom being so generous when shew doesn’t have too, but honestly if you knew my mom. she is pushy and only wants me to live w/ her b/c she wants me to stay dependant on her and not be independant or have my own things. and also so i can clean the house and cook for her like i did in my teen years. i will have to work 2nd shift when i start my job which means sleeping late into the a/m. like i said my mom babysits a lot of toddlers who don’t go to school yet so w/ my bed in the living room i won’t be able to sleep past 6 am.
to top it all off, i got put on the chore chart w/ my sisters. my mom says i can help out if i am staying there and i said yea but i don’t need to be on a stupid chart for babies. i can already tell the chart is a way for me to be made to do plenty of work and not have any reason to not do what my mom wants me to do. what would you do here?

(She’s 13 now)

I’m wondering because she sorta used to hate me. When I was little, I’d tie her to my mini shopping cart (Not too tight, just tight enough that she couldn’t get out) and push her in it, and stick her in cloth bags and carry her around. I mean, she got revenge on me by hiding beneath the slotted stairs and swiping at my feet (Claws out >.<), and my feet only, when I’d go up or down!

Now she sleeps cuddled next to me, follows me around alot, lets me pet her tummy, and pick her up and carry her around.

Is this normal for a senior?
She’s been this way for two years but my parents wouldn’t let her sleep in my room because I had a loft bed. But my mum just tells my dad to let my cat sleep in here because she’s old. ^.^
It’s old for an indoor/outdoor cat (Well, she was for most of her life) who was poisoned seven years ago. xD

i got a go cart and there are kids asking me if they can ride on it with me.my dad told me the only way the can is if their parents sign a release form saying that if any thing happens to their kid while they are on it,they wont hold us accountable for it

My daughter just turned 2 in November and she misbehaves so badly! She makes me so mad but nothing I do seems to work!! She is extremely AD HD so talking to her about something she did or shouldn’t do is close to impossible. Her mind is already on something else by the time you can get her to look at you and listen to what you have to say. Then she has no idea what you are talking about! She is also extremely bright. She is Very advanced and can talk Very clear. Right now when she doses something wrong I raise my voice and then she knows that mommy is mad! When she troughs fits when are at home I try to ignore her but that has never worked and Always makes it much worse! It always ends up in her getting a spanking and sent to her room for time out. (I’m a big believer in spanking your kids!! Not beating your kids but spankings! I grew up with 2 sisters and we wore spanked regularly! I am also severely AD HD.I was diagnosed in Kindergarten. Now being an adult I can see how my mind works is different than people who don’t have AD HD! Spanking always worked! I turned out great and have a wonderful relationship with my parents and my sisters!). She dose not take anything i say seriously, noting seems to scare her into listening to me! When we are in public it is so bad! She will scream and yell like she is dyeing, flail her arms around and kick her legs! It embarrasses me so bad and makes me so mad! Its getting to the point where we aren’t being invited to play groups and my friends don’t want to hang out when I have to bring Sam! Don’t really know what to do! Her Father lets her do what ever she wants and that drives me absolutely crazy! When we all go grocery shopping he lets her go from being carried, sitting in the cart, standing in the back of the cart, walking, riding under the cart!! AAAHHHH I just want a well mannered child that listens and respects me! Any one knows how to get through to an AD HD child? What is the best way to discipline in public? Are we even allowed to swat our kids hands? My aunt got DEFAX called on her at Kroger for telling my cousin that she was going to leave her if she didn’t stop having a fit in the toy isle and allow my aunt to pick her up! She didn’t even lay a hand on her! She didn’t even threaten to hit her!! I can’t stand it when nosy people do that! What they fail to realize is that the kids that are being abused and mistreated are so quiet and shy that they are often time over looked! What can we do in public? What’s crossing the law where you are at risk of getting into trouble with DEFAX?

this halloween i wanted to take our golfcart out & im 14 years old and about to turn 15 which means im getting my permit soon.
im going around in a high class neighborhood and she wont let me go without an adult.
she thinks that if one of the people that are coming with me are gonna fall off the golf cart and hurt & break their leg or something and that since shes "in charge" of the kids then that their parents are gonna blame her and sue her?!
im getting so f***ing maadd. & im NOT gonna go around a high class neighborhood with my MOM in the golf cart. im basically 15. thats just sad.
plus if me& my friends walked, it would take almost 5 minutes to go to ONE house.
what can i say to her thatll convince her to let me go ALONE WITH HER!? or an adult. she knows im a good driver and wouldnt let anyone else drive it.
yeah please dont make fun of me..
im not over weight. im a level 4 gymnast & in good health. im not snobby either. soo thanks.
the houses are fun in this neighborhood, im a kid at heart. i do still trick or treat but not like the way you would when you were like 10.

my parents have decided to let me race gocarts.
ive been wanting to for a while but they dont really know where to get started. whats the steps in which we need to take in order to start?
i know we need to buy a go cart. i need to know what kind is best, whats the costs and what all needs to be bought. thanks. -cheyenne.<3

To answer this question one would do well to look at Charlote, NC
No Big Yellow Monsters there carting kids around from school to school. So the majority of kids go to the school nearest their homes, and behold, school violence is almost non-existant because the kids go to school with the same kids they play with after school. No roudiness in the classrooms because quite often the teacher socializes with most of the mothers…..don’t dare misbehave. But the BEST difference is the absence of police. No cops in the schools in Charlotte, N.C. Of course any child (or parent) can choose any public school they wish but if transportation is required, the parents must arrange transportation or take them themselves. And in addition to better, safe, and well ordered students, Charlotte officials are ahead 0,000.00 in Big Yellow Monsters fuel they no longer have to pay. Compare all that with cities where the Big Yellow Monsters still roam…are the Big Yellow Monsters destroying America?

Hello today i was at the go carts adult and they were fun except for a coupla guys who were bumping cars all the time, All The Time. They ruined the fun for me and my family! They were two teenagers with their parents/guardians and they were generally disruptive whenever they had the chance. I.e. budging in line more than once, loudmouthed but never any more than they could get away with.

I will be on the look out the next time i come to this establishment with my 3 children and my wife, for such behavior, i do not want to tolerate this kind of disrespectful behavior again as it ruined my afternoon to see such flagrant rude behavior.

What , if anything are they willing to implement or do to prevent this situation from occuring in the future?

My only sister fell off a golf cart and went into a coma. Things were not going well so we had a family meeting and the pastor from my parents and my church came to give his support and pray. My fav.brother didn’t approve of all the praying that we were doing. My sister got better and now is a functioning adult with some difficulties. He returned the Christmas presents from 4 years ago on my parents front porch. He has not talked with us since my sister got better. He has changed his answering machine so it is not his voice on it anymore. He was always there for me when my other family members weren’t. I miss him so much. I have gone to his house with my niece and no one would come to the door but we could hear someone moving around inside. I have called, written, and visited but no response. I love him and I want him to meet my husband and my stepson.

I decided before I even met my boyfriend that I did NOT want kids at my wedding. I’ve watched funniest home videos too many times…. I don’t like how parents just don’t watch their kids. I don’t want kids running on to the floor during out first dance, I don’t want the picking at the food or, I don’t want them running around or screaming….

I love my boyfriend’s family. I love his sister’s kids, but I don’t want them at our wedding. his sister is very stubborn and I KNOW this is goingo t be a problem. how do I explain to her that it’s not just for me, I want her to be able to have fun and relax… quite honestly her kids are the perfect example of why I don’t want kids at my wedding. they’re very sweet but she doesn’t watch them! we were at breakfast and they were across the room digging in a janirots cart and she said "oh, it’s okay, I can see them"

another option I was thinking is having the kids in a separate room or area, supervised. maybe with crafts of entertainment? I know this would still be a problem for some, but maybe better because parents can easily go check on their kids it would be better?

as a parent, how would you feel? which option is better?
I was thinking no kids under 13, so how would I word that on invites? Adult Only Reception (13 and up)?
no, I really won’t feel different. I don’t feel children need to be at a reception. the atmosphere is not for children.
I think it’s funny all of you assume I hate children. I actually can’t wait to have children.

but would you take your kids to a night club? a cocktail party? this is the atmosphere of my wedding reception. there will be an open bar. it is an ADULT event, it is not child appropriate.

and it is NOT rude to want an adult only reception, it’s rude to assume everyone wants your children everywhere. just because you think it’s cute when they are a little naughty does NOT mean everyone else thinks so.

This is getting out of hand. When I go to Walmart or even the grocery store I see parents that have their 8 to 10 year olds sitting down in shopping carts. What kind of stupid parent does this? Who is in charge? The kid or the parent? Let me hear from some parents that do this. I would like to know what you have to say. Don’t you realize how that looks?

When you go to the grocery store, you can get the shopping cart with a racecar in the front for 2 kids to sit in. Go to Target or Walmart, they have the 2 seater kids carts too. Almost everywhere you can shop, you can find these fun shopping carts.

Go to Toys R Us and/or Babies R Us – the stores that are meant more than anything for parents. They DO NOT have the fun shopping carts that you can place two kids in. I just can’t understand this, why wouldn’t they have them??