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Encouraging Constructive Activities Without Creating an Aversion to Them
Asked by J.T. from Chicago
on March 12, 2012
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I need your help. All my five-year-old son wants to do is watch superhero shows, play superheroes or transformers, or play the Batman Lego game on the Wii. I have no...
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- you are very wise to realize that over-structuring and enforcing 'creative' activities sucks all the juice right out of 'em. and i totally get your concern about him n...
- Leave him be! I have three boys and all differed widely in their interest in doing sedentary, creative things. My middle boy - who so far looks to be the one with the ...
- I am going to focus on ideas for you to get your son interested in "branching out" without so much resistance. 1. Play-Doh..... When he's not there, make an impres...
Thank You to Everyone for Your Great Suggestions!
Asked by S.D. from Nashville
on March 3, 2008
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Thank you to everyone who sent me great suggestions!
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- 2 things to try - 1st, a baby wipe (I don't know why, but they somehow take out the most "mysterious" things). If that's unsuccessful, a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works ...
- My first thought would be Mr. Clean Eraser. I have never taken permanent marker off a hard wood floor but i have taken it off of almost everything else. Just recently ...
- My 3 yr old did that last week - majic eraser got it right up
Obsession with Drawing
Asked by R.M. from Los Angeles
on November 27, 2011
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My 6 year old daughter seems to be obsessed with drawing. She probably draws about 15 or more pictures a day when we are home all day. They are usually pics of a combi...
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- My brother was like this, and still is. My mother encouraged and supported him and now he is a very successful tattooist.
- That's a GOOD thing!!! Please don't stop this very healthy habit! You have an artist on your hands! (And don't worry that she'll grow up to be a starving artist --...
- Does your daughter have OCD symptoms about anything else right now? If she does, you might talk with her doctor. But this may also be a symptom of a love for dra...
Creative & Inexpensive Gift Ideas for Mom's 80Th Birthday and Bro's 30Th Anniv
Asked by C.K. from Canton
on June 25, 2009
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Help! My Mom celebrates her 80th B-Day next wk and lives 5hrs away.
Normally not a huge problem but we're experiencing a MAJOR life change: my husband began red...
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- Hopefully I am not repeating......... For my Grandmother's 80th b-day celebration last year, I started taking pictures in the morning and continued all day long. I w...
- Snapfish.com and Walmart both have the ability to make magnets out of pictures. We made magnets for the grandparents out of digital pictures and they really liked it....
- One of the best gifts I ever got was from a friend of mine it was a porcelian clock that I had admired for years, she cleaned it up and put new clock works in it and w...
Sahm's - How Long Did You Stay Home?
Asked by J.S. from Minneapolis
on February 13, 2013
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I've been home since 2004. My son was born in 2005 (March) but my husband took a one year assignment in D.C. while I was first pregnant, and I decided after the first...
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- I work in an elementary school so I have the same vacations as my kids! I stayed home till the oldest was in school, put my daughter in daycare, (I didnt have a choic...
- I've been home for nearly 4 years, and just signed myself up for another 5 years (expecting a baby later this year.) I don't want to go back to teaching, because I ...
- I have been home for 16 years now. I love to study what interests me. I have taken some classes here and there. Believe me, teens need just as much supervision as t...
When and Why Did YOU Decide Not to Work Outside of the Home?
Asked by M.W. from San Francisco
on February 18, 2011
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Recently I have casually bumped into a few women in passing and then I have also learned from several neighbors their stories..and they are all very differents stories...
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- Well, I had every intention of going back to work, after maternity, after my 1st child. Then, I couldn't find a suitable child care provider for my child. Then, me a...
- I knew very early in life (when I was in junior high - yes thats crazy early) that I always wanted to be a stay at home mom. Being that both my parents worked I barely...
- When my husband and I bought our first house we bought it based on one income. We both made the same amount of money then. I think in the back of our minds we knew w...
What to Do with "Art" from Preschool?!
Asked by N.A. from Cleveland
on January 30, 2008
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My son comes home with plenty of "artwork" from preschool. What should I do with it??? Im starting to get quite the collection. Any ideas mommys??
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- You have received lots of good advice. Something to think about. You're going to have 13-14 YEARS of papers unless you put a method in place now. When my stepsons wer...
- It is so easy to want to keep everything!! i would hang them on a bare wall, until it was full and then take a picture of it!! If there was something that you can't ...
- I have 2 older daughters (13 & 9)and I started out saving the majority of their artwork, but soon realized that just wasn't gonna work. My solution was too save it on...
