Help us make our (at this time indefinite) stay in the hospital with our 18 month old son more pleasant, homelike, less exhausting.
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posted by purenitrous
on Mar 20, 2011 -
21 answers
Pacific Northwest parents of small children: how do you survive the long rainy winters with your sanity intact?
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posted by gottabefunky
on Mar 18, 2011 -
13 answers
Looking for tips on teaching/discussing reproduction to kindergarten age children.
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posted by dan g.
on Mar 16, 2011 -
16 answers
My daughter wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy tonight asking her what she did with all of the teeth she collected. What should the Tooth Fairy tell her in response?
posted by ColdChef
on Mar 15, 2011 -
81 answers
Help me out with some recently erupting separation anxiety in my five year old kindergartering daughter.
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posted by RajahKing
on Mar 15, 2011 -
23 answers
I'm looking for some kind of activity that will keep a group of roughly 15 kids, ages 3 to 12, entertained and interacting. I'm helping to provide child care for a monthly 'parent's night' at my church. Basically, the parents can drop their kids off, and we'll take care of the kids for 4 or 5 hours, freeing the adults to go out and have dinner, see a movie, have an adult conversation, etc. The problem is in the wide range of ages and the restrictions the parents have put on us ...
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posted by Myca
on Mar 14, 2011 -
30 answers
San Francisco RentFilter: Just had a kid and now me and wifey want to upgrade to a 2 bedroom. I'm worried a little about housing discrimination - it seems there's a financial incentive for landlords to avoid renting to new families. Is it legal for a landlord to ask a prospective tenant about kids? If so, how bad is it if the prospective tenant lied about it? Baby is a couple months old fyi.
posted by mcgordonliddy
on Mar 14, 2011 -
8 answers
[NYC Visit Filter]Recommendations for a 3-day NYC visit with an 11-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl (besides the usual).
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posted by kuanes
on Mar 5, 2011 -
25 answers
I am looking for recommendations for a relevant short story to read to children on Take Your Child to Work day. Our activity theme is "mapping your future."
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posted by WeekendJen
on Mar 1, 2011 -
2 answers
I'd like to limit my daughter's time on the computer, not only by hours (as Windows offers in its parental control system), but also by session (so she could use it for, say, only an hour at a time, with a break between sessions). Ideas? Suggestions?
posted by dw
on Feb 28, 2011 -
8 answers
If you know you aren't going to have kids, what would you do to make your life awesome in other ways? Looking back, what would you recommend someone do in your 20s, 30s, and 40s, to happy later on in life (50s, 60s, and 70s) without having a family?
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posted by 3491again
on Feb 16, 2011 -
55 answers
Help me find the name/author of a short story with the following plot:
human children are the work slaves of gremlins (goblins?), and made to do manual labor underground. Those with good behavior and who are getting older are "graduated" and told that they're being freed, but after a gremlin-only "ceremony," are killed for food instead.
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posted by NucleophilicAttack
on Feb 12, 2011 -
3 answers
I'm wondering how often people cook dinner from scratch versus prepared foods.
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posted by dublin
on Feb 11, 2011 -
79 answers
Can you think of any children's books in which palm-reading is a plot point? I'm looking for books for kids about 7-12, so not primers, but not young adult, either.
posted by pipti
on Feb 10, 2011 -
7 answers
Please recommend small, pretty gift ideas (preferably personalized!) that I can hand-make as new-baby, birthday or Christmas presents for small children.
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posted by Bardolph
on Feb 7, 2011 -
21 answers
Need a book recommendation for my middle schooler. She just finished reading
The Gadget by Paul Zindel, and is interested in other books or movies, for that matter, that involve betrayal by a friend.
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posted by kbar1
on Feb 6, 2011 -
10 answers
I am looking for inexpensive, multicultural, childrens crafts to use with the summer reading program at our library. Any suggestions?
posted by haikuku
on Feb 3, 2011 -
10 answers
What are some practical ways to implement classical and operant conditioning in the real world to change people's behaviour?
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posted by Knigel
on Feb 2, 2011 -
23 answers
I need help finding information about a (possibly) children's song from (possibly) New England in the (possibly) 70s...
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posted by bendy
on Jan 20, 2011 -
5 answers
My husband and I are only children, and we're now expecting our second child. We're very excited, but we are also a little nervous. We'd love advice from only child parents of multiple kids, suggestions about books and websites, etc.
posted by mrstrotsky
on Jan 20, 2011 -
12 answers
I had an abortion a five years ago, and I want to completely let it go and forget it ever happened.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 20, 2011 -
39 answers
Parent-filter: In our household we expect our toddler to eat the same food as we eat, or at least eat a certain number of bites before leaving the table. This is rewarded with dessert. For new or exotic things, we also expect them to 'try' the food before opting out. A close friend considers the above expectations to be 'forcing' a child to eat, and that it 'makes her sick to her stomach.' She instead suggests that the proper approach is to always have on hand foods that the child is known to like, and to provide these upon prompting.
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posted by leotrotsky
on Jan 19, 2011 -
130 answers
Can you please recommend some children's book titles featuring father/child interaction instead of mother/child interaction?
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posted by sciurus
on Jan 18, 2011 -
45 answers
What is a good age for a child to watch Star Wars for the first time?
posted by Artw
on Jan 7, 2011 -
48 answers
Help me make a list of nursery must haves (books and nursery rhyme CDs) that any english speaking toddler should have!
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posted by Omnomnom
on Jan 5, 2011 -
30 answers
I'm trying to remember a children's book. There is an explosive so powerful that a single grain of it would cause a huge blast. It is in the possession of a sinister person. Our tiny hero rides a bird, steals the explosive, and (spoiler) drops it in the ocean, where it detonates relatively harmlessly.
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posted by Eater
on Jan 4, 2011 -
5 answers
Which town in Norway is the setting for the start of Jostein Gardner's book "The Christmas Mystery"? We'd love to take our children to visit...
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posted by monster max
on Jan 3, 2011 -
3 answers
Is there any ground breaking hope for a pre-teen who was born with mental retardation due to the umbilical cord wrapped tight around the neck while in the womb (restricting blood flow to the brain)?
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posted by gttommy
on Jan 3, 2011 -
5 answers
Doc says my 2 yr. old needs strong (+4.5-5.5) glasses. Doc #2 says +1.5 glasses. Kid sees perfectly fine... random MeFi strangers, help!
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posted by Izzmeister
on Dec 29, 2010 -
32 answers
Husband and I were at a Farmer's Market for breakfast today, and thought we noticed an older man taking photos of children as they passed by. In the hustle and bustle of December 24th no one else seems to have caught it, and we felt kind of sick about the situation - there's no way of knowing the full details of why someone is taking pictures. But we notified a security guard, who said he'd keep an eye on it. The question is, in these kinds of scenarios is it always better to tell someone and risk making some innocent person's life miserable? We're a bit shaken up about it.
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posted by Tequila Mockingbird
on Dec 24, 2010 -
77 answers
Is there a way for me to post videos of my toddler online - which include some of her in the bathtub - without worrying about being investigated as a paedophile?
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 24, 2010 -
15 answers
Is there an iPhone app that can be shared across multiple users/phones to manage kids' allowances?
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posted by cocoagirl
on Dec 15, 2010 -
10 answers
