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44 votes
6 answers
9k views

The school has assigned reading I feel is inappropriate for my son to read. How do I approach this problem with the school and with my son?

30 votes
1 answer
2k views

What should I consider when deciding whether to homeschool my child?

24 votes
5 answers
2k views

How does one address Christianity with their children in a mixed faith marriage?

20 votes
4 answers
1k views

What exactly is the problem with the Television?

18 votes
5 answers
873 views

Finding Great Books at the Right Level

15 votes
4 answers
7k views

When should a child begin to learn knife skills for use in the Kitchen?

15 votes
4 answers
5k views

Parent's in law who can't be trusted to baby-sit want to - how do we figure this one out without hurting them?

14 votes
2 answers
2k views

When you don't think (grand)children are getting the care they need

13 votes
3 answers
1k views

What do you do when a relative heaps presents on her children at Christmas and Your kid's pile always looks paltry in comparison?

11 votes
4 answers
756 views

Kids and Cell Phones? What limits should be set along with giving the first phone?

11 votes
2 answers
870 views

What do you do when your child's Christmas Wishlist is full of things you cannot get her?

11 votes
3 answers
31k views

At What age does a child generally recognize their shadow is their shadow and will do what they do?

11 votes
2 answers
373 views

To Socks or not to socks?

10 votes
3 answers
2k views

Explaining Teen Pregnancy to Young Child

10 votes
3 answers
16k views

When and for how long should a baby and one-year-olds be allowed to cry?

10 votes
1 answer
634 views

How to help a precocsious child understand her opinion was not requested

10 votes
2 answers
294 views

Are cloth diapers really more environmentally minded than disposables?

9 votes
4 answers
2k views

What do you do with the cousins who, at birthday parties insist on opening the presents when they are not the guest of honor?

9 votes
1 answer
452 views

When the three year old tells two unmarried, unrelated adults to hug and kiss goodbye - What then?

9 votes
3 answers
800 views

What to tell the child that says, "Mom, is Santa really real?"

9 votes
2 answers
506 views

How does one go about determining if a child, adolescent or teen is capable of understanding a given book?

8 votes
3 answers
14k views

When do girls usually start shaving?

8 votes
4 answers
468 views

How do you encourage your primary-school-aged child to eat new foods?

8 votes
2 answers
220 views

Considering Fostering - How would this effect the child I already have?

8 votes
6 answers
19k views

How to teach my daughter to get the shampoo rinsed out of her hair throughly?

7 votes
3 answers
8k views

My child is constantly hungry. How do I keep her feeling fuller?

7 votes
2 answers
2k views

How to teach a child about eavesdropping

7 votes
2 answers
279 views

How to cope with GERD in an infant

7 votes
1 answer
4k views

Boy Crazy at Seven

7 votes
2 answers
1k views

What are healthy ways to help my 7-year-old in developing a thicker skin?