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Oct 1	comment	Should I expose them to cartoons of the past? Cartoons have always been 'bloated and dangerous'. That's why kids (and adults) love them!
Sep 25	comment	I suspect my teenager is using illegal drugs; what should I do? Hard to say if that behavior is a result of a drug or just teen angst. It's hard to say not knowing the kind of relationship you have, but I'd start by just asking.
Sep 20	comment	Kids Website, is it a good idea? This is an interesting topic in and of itself! The internet came along in my college years and I was lucky to have a professor that scolded me for something I said on a mailing list that made the rounds all the way back to her (nothing offensive, but it was 'jumping rank' in a way that would rile the university). So I was able to learn that lesson early. But it's definitely something parents need to clearly explain to their kids. We now live in an age where everything you say and do will stick around a lot longer that it ever did before.
Sep 20	comment	How do you get a teenager to take shorter showers? +1 for a timer. I like the idea of timing showers in the AM and if people want to take a longer shower at another time, go for it.
Sep 20	comment	How do you get a teenager to take shorter showers? teenager in the shower isn't always 'hygiene' wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Sep 13	comment	My 5 year- old daughter is constantly defiant! if he 'refuses to be the bad guy' then you are both definitely NOT on the same page. It's not always easy, but it's important. The fact that he's blaming you for her defiance is a sign that the two of you need to come together on how to handle this as a team, IMHO.
Sep 13	comment	My 5 year- old daughter is constantly defiant! "I am mainly the one disciplining her" that's an issue right there. You both have to be on the same page with all of this.
Sep 12	comment	Installing car seat base…how tight is good enough? @TorbenGundtofte-Bruun it very well could be a difference of regions. The US isn't known for pushing safety standards above profits. ;) AFAIK, though, the tensioner on the lap-belt end isn't a common thing here.
Sep 12	comment	Installing car seat base…how tight is good enough? @TorbenGundtofte-Bruun not sure 'most people' have the 'most modern' cars out there. Ours is only a few years old and has the same old shoulder belts I've always had (tensioned only at shoulder end). So I think it's good policy to educate people that it needs to be tight rather than rely on the seat belt system itself.
Sep 12	comment	Installing car seat base…how tight is good enough? this SHOULDER part locks, but if it's loose, then the lap part will be loose as well in the case of an accident.
Sep 12	comment	Installing car seat base…how tight is good enough? +1 for the knee option. We'd have to do the same in our old Subaru. Basically, I'd climb on top of the seat. If the angle is off, a few (not many--just a few) towels strategically placed underneath can help.
Sep 12	comment	Installing car seat base…how tight is good enough? "generally how tight should the car seat base be" = as tight as possible. I'm sure it varies from locale to locale, but when we had car seats, you could take them to any firestation and they'd come out and show you how to have it properly installed (as a bonus, if people came with inadequate seats, they would actually give them a new one...which was great for those that couldn't afford new ones)
Sep 10	comment	What should children call a step-grandparent? "that doesn't necessarily imply he's grampa" but he is, isn't he? Sounds like you are trying to give a title to biological grandparents vs. grandparents via marriage. The kids don't care about that at all. Hopefully both you and your mom can agree on that.
Sep 10	comment	Kids Website, is it a good idea? "The kid might not enjoy having that dug up when the teenage years come around" true, though a bigger concern would be having the teenage years' of posts on Facebook be dug up when they're adults. ;)
Sep 10	comment	Kids Website, is it a good idea? While protecting privacy is important, I don't think children's web sites disappeared due to that as much as it is that it's simply easier to use other social media today to handle that task much easier...facebook, instagram, flickr, etc are all a lot easier to set up and share your kids photos and the like with friends and family.
Sep 10	comment	Kindergarten Teacher teaching in Spanish, should I be concerned? Perhaps, but if the school is primarily latino, and primarily speaks Spanish, I don't think it's fair to tell the school to stop using Spanish. (Also, I have a hunch the school isn't teaching solely in Spanish...hard to say as we don't have enough info)
Sep 10	comment	Kids Website, is it a good idea? Not sure if this is really a parenting question as much as it is a web design question.
Sep 10	comment	Kindergarten Teacher teaching in Spanish, should I be concerned? Not sure why you got a downvote for this. It's a valid answer.
Sep 10	comment	Kindergarten Teacher teaching in Spanish, should I be concerned? 15% seems like a completely arbitrary number. We have schools that are 100% non-english in the US and the children are getting an education as good as anyone else. Yes, children should learn English in the US, and it sounds like they are at home, and of course will in English classes in the schools as they go through the system.
Sep 10	comment	Kindergarten Teacher teaching in Spanish, should I be concerned? @TorbenGundtofte-Bruun lots of parents in the US explicitly look for schools that teach in other languages than English. This is a good thing. Children's minds can adapt to multiple languages incredibly easily.