pastigger

@pastigger (612)

United States • Age 47

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Cell phones and facebook for 10 year olds?

thotalot @thotalot (18) • United States 4 May 11

What do you think about young kids having cell phones, texting, and facebook pages? I have a 10 yr old, and she is feeling left out and isolated because I do not allow any of those things for her right now. I was told that you are...

age appropriate cell phone usage

cell phone and kids

kids and texting

kids on facebook

social networking for kids

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pastigger This is something that I am not looking forward to with my daughter. She is almost 4 and already her little friends in daycare know who has a tv in their room and who doesn't. She does not have one and right now she is ok with this. I made the decision because...

5 May 11

How do you balance it all???

karinxaaa @karinxaaa (31) 30 Apr 11

Kids, school, childcare, activities, appointments, work, relationships, self... How do you balance at all? Do you use some kind of planner, like a calender or phone app? Do you wing it? Post-it notes? Dry erase board? How do...

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pastigger I do a lot of lists and someday I will complete them all. I have one kids, one daycare that I run another 5 kids there, appointments all I can do on Saturday we have the chiropractor once a month a teeth cleaning every 6 months. If I have a doctors appointment...

3 May 11

If You Have Had Children do You Get 'Phantom Symptoms' for the REST OF YOUR LIFE

dismalgrin @dismalgrin (2604) • United States 1 May 11

I am so annoyed. I've had three beautiful children that I love very much and I would not trade the joy of having them for anything. Strangely enough I had wonderful pregnancies, even when stuff went wrong, it was still a really...

phantom

pregnancy

symptoms

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pastigger I say go to the doctor also. There is a chance that it would not show up on a pee stick sometimes a blood test has to be done. I have had the kicking feeling and it freaks me out as I know that I am not pregnant. It does not help that I lost stomach muscle...

3 May 11

Mother's Day and Etiquette

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 3 May 11

Maybe I'm just too literal minded here, but isn't Mother's day for the purpose of honoring your mother? OK, this might be expanded a little bit to include a mother-in-law, step-mother, grandmother, even an aunt, or an older...

etiquette

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pastigger We had a little mother's day melt down from me this year. Every year we have been married which is 12 now we have done something special for his mother and I just sent my mom a card since she was out of state. Well now I have a three year old and the honest...

3 May 11

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That time of the month?

katsmeow1213 @katsmeow1213 (28716) • United States 3 May 11

I was just having a conversation with my mother and she mentioned that these days girls start their periods earlier than they used to. She said she believed the average age that girls start having their periods is closer to 9...

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pastigger I was thirteen I believe and then years later discovered that I have PCOS and I never had a regular cycle every. My daughter is turning 4 here soon and I can't image at 9 she would have to face that. I am also fearful that she will have PCOS as well and that...

3 May 11

Parent-The Enemy!

SViswan @SViswan (12051) • India 2 May 11

Parenting isn't an easy job and at some point or the other, a child does feel that the parent is against them and we have the regular tantrums. "You don't let me do anything"; "you don't like my friends"; YOU...blah blah....of...

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pastigger My daughter is going to be 4 in a few short weeks but I stay home with her so it seems like I am always the bad guy. We have had problems already when she doesn't want to listen to daddy and I back him up, even if I don't always agree. I just wish that he...

3 May 11

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Made me laugh

natnickeep @natnickeep (2336) • United States 25 Apr 11

Kids say the funniest things sometimes as we all know. Like how my little one used to call a sandwhich a swandwich. She is 5 now so she learned to say it right. But the other day she came up to me with a real funny one. She was...

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pastigger Last summer my daughter decided that grasshoppers were bughoppers. It was just so cute. She is always coming up with something that makes me laugh. She is so funny she likes to learn how to say words. She can say chiropractor, pistachio, yellow (she get upset...

25 Apr 11

i felt my heart crumble the other night

kristinad @kristinad (185) • United States 15 Apr 11

the other night i put my 5yr to bed. then latter on i went to go and cheack on him and he was sleeping so i go over to him and cover him with his blanket. he wakes up and says mommy why am i so stupid i go what did you say? he go...

i felt my heart crumble the other night

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pastigger There is a video that helped my daughter that helped her learn her alphabet it is the leapfrog Letter Factory. It is great she loved watching it over and over and now she know all her letters by site and the sound that they make. We also play the letter game...

15 Apr 11

Way Past Patience for Potty Training

DawnDeanne @DawnDeanne (8) • United States 13 Apr 11

Ok, so here's the deal. I have a 3 year old daughter who has low muscle tone and has been developmental delayed in almost every area. Now she has almost completely caught up and even surpassed kids her age in some areas. The...

parenting

potty training

todders

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pastigger I bought into the whole pull ups road and then one day my daughter tells me she wants her princess diaper and I understood that it was never going to happen with the pull ups. I put her in regular panties from then on. It was a week of accidents and going...

14 Apr 11

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Oldier parents are happier than younger parents...(truth)

kwylima @kwylima (451) • United States 11 Apr 11

Hello mylotters.. First of all.. I know I know..there are a lot young parents that are happy and having a good life with your kids.. I just read a article about that and it shows that parents who wait a little more to...

happier

parents

young

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pastigger I know that we were better prepared to handle having a preemie being a bit older. I was 28 years old when my daughter was born. I am not sure we could have handled such a thing at a younger age. It was hard even being older. I am happy that I got married and...

13 Apr 11

Our children's goals in life...

OpinionatedLady @OpinionatedLady (5965) • United States 1 Apr 11

Our kids say some of the funniest things. Then there are the serious conversations and yes some of them are hard not to laugh at too. Over the last year myhusband lost a job, started college to be able to get a better job, got a...

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pastigger I think the one may have something with the tattoo cakes! How fun it is to be a kid. I know that all I ever wanted was to be a mom. And after a lot of waiting now I am my daughter is already three she cracks me what when I ask her what she wants to be I...

4 Apr 11

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How helpful is your spouse?

tlb0822 @tlb0822 (1410) • United States 30 Mar 11

I started this discussion to see how helpful other peoples spouses are. My husband works about 14 days out of the month, because he works shift work. He works all nights from 6 at night till 6 in the morning. He has an hour drive...

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pastigger I would say talk to him about it. I have one daughter and I know when she was little my husband told me, she's boring, I told him I know but we are her parents and we both need to have time with her. She is three now and she can interact with him more so it is...

31 Mar 11

Potty training... Boys vs. Girls

tlb0822 @tlb0822 (1410) • United States 28 Mar 11

I have always been told that girls are much easier to potty train then boys are. I have two girls. My oldest just turned three in December. She potty trained her self in june of last year when she was two. She literally just...

children

potty training

tricks to potty training

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pastigger My daughter was potty trained a few months before her third birthday I could have done it earlier but I was dreading it. My daughter started staying dry all night at about one and a half, used to freak me out wasn't sure what was going on. At two I was able to...

31 Mar 11

What's your babies first uttered word?

dheckerz @dheckerz (473) • Philippines 16 Mar 11

Yes. I hear yah, I bet you would answer Mommy,daddy, mamma,muchin and yes that's very common but aside from that can you still remember what was his/her first uttered word? I saw my niece grew up from the moment she was born and...

baby

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pastigger My daughters fist word was MAMA!! Yeah and it was funny she said Mommy before daddy but I have already become Mom where as Daddy is still Daddy! She talks so much now at three it is hard to remember when she didn't talk at all. Now she can just say some crazy...

17 Mar 11

I thought the entertainment would be a waste of money...

mermaidivy @mermaidivy (15394) • United States 17 Mar 11

I am thinking about the entertainment for the babies like the bouncer. When I was doing the register at babiserus, I was supried to see all those equiment that the babies can have these days. I think I only got a walker back when...

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pastigger The hardest part of all the entertainment they have for babies is that is all pretty big and pretty soon you are out of room it seems. Until they get a little older all toys are so big. My daughter is three almost 4 now and I feel like that I have finally...

17 Mar 11

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$30,000 For Your Kid's Birthday...Woud You Do It?

jameygc @jameygc (452) • United States 15 Mar 11

Last night I was watching tv, and I saw this show about parents spending $30,000 or more in a birthday party for a 6 years old kid! It was incredible to me! The mother actually let her little daughter make all decisions for the...

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pastigger I would not spend that kind of money on a birthday party this is crazy. I love my daughter more than anything and I always make her birthdays special for her. I thought I was crazy one year for spending $70 on a cake. But I also put old things we weren't using...

15 Mar 11