momof3040708 started a new discussion called What do you let your kids do in the kitchen? in cooking.
2 weeks ago
I have let mine (5 and 2 1/2) --Use a butter knife to cut soft stuff, like bananas, avocado. --snap beans --my 2 year old likes to sit and collect my peeled stuff and put it in a 'garbage bowl" if I've got nothing else for her to do. --once, after a MAJOR handwashing and NO EATING lecture, I let them help roll meatballs. --pour pre-measured ingredients and stir. I have told my 5 yea...

momof3040708 started a new discussion called WHINING I've GOT to stop the WHINING! in parenting.
2 weeks ago
My 5 year old. It's the screeching and whining he does when his sister does something to him. I love him, but he's got this TONE that just makes me want to SLAP him sometimes, just to make it STOP! (I never have!! And I wouldn't! but that is the intensity of what it's doing to my eardrums. "SOOOOOOOPHHHHHEEEEE, STOOOPP IIIIITTT! MOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! SOPHIE HIIIITTTT MEEEEEE!!! OOOOOWWWWW!!!!!) ...

momof3040708 responded to a discussion called Who has the right to discipline a child ... in life.
2 weeks ago
I live in these townhouse apartments and I constantly have other people's kids over in our yard. If the other parent is around, parents discipline their own children. I will ask other people's kids to do/not do something just the same as I ask my own. (encouraging to share and that kind of thing) If somebody is hurting other people or taking all the toys or whatever, I tell them to go h...

momof3040708 responded to a discussion called how can i make tasty pasta? in cooking.
2 weeks ago
first of all, don't put too much pasta and not enough water. I use the big pot that came with a pot and pan set, pretty standard. 3/4 full. Seems to be enough water for any pasta I do. Boil it. Salt it. Add a little oil to it. Keeps your pasta from sticking together. Add pasta after the water boils, let it boil about 8 minutes. Taste one. Drain immediately, otherwise it can continue to ...

momof3040708 responded to a discussion called Do you push your kids at age 3-5 years old to be able reading and writing? in parenting.
2 weeks ago
I have a son who just turned 5 a month ago who CAN read. He attends a preschool that is mostly play, but they do talk about letters and sounds and have them try to trace letters and stuff. I have never really done anything special, but I've always read to him. When I found out he could read and write all his letters, knew all the letter sounds, and he started writing everyone's names he kne...

momof3040708 responded to a discussion called how do you discipline your child? in questions & answers.
2 weeks ago
My kids are 5, 2 1/2, and 12 months. The baby, I distract him, hubby rigged up a babyproofing with tape and a lid from something so he can't turn the TV off and on. I do tell him 'no' he can't do things, but I give him something else to do too. The older two, I'll tell them what I want them to do (or ask them to do it, depends on what we're talking about). If they don't move, I tell them wha...

momof3040708 commented in a discussion called WHINING I've GOT to stop the WHINING! in parenting.
1 week ago
The little sister is 2 1/2. She's often told hurting her brother is not nice. She will apologize and (at least try to) hug him. She 'gets it'. She will ask if somebody's OK and try to help them if they're hurt. But she LOVES LOVES LOVES to get his reaction. And I can't seem to get him to understand that she'd stop a lot of her stuff if he stopped REACTING.... Not that it's not OK to be hu...

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2 weeks ago
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momof3040708 received a best response in the discussion Trying to keep up with the laundry... by caragh2608.
1 day ago
I have found the laundry is NEVER EVER done. I have quit trying to have a goal of empty laundry baskets. There are 6 people in my house, 3 are kids, oldest is 5. I start with whatever is "emergency" on any given day. (to me, in your house, that would be wet bedsheets...In my house it would be any clothes the 2 year old has peed in.) So if there's wet bedsheets that day, I'd do them first, alo...