Recurring Expenses: Older Child, Videos & Books

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Stay at Home Mom Advice

My husband and I want to have another baby, but with my current salary, child care for 2 kids would be 80 dollars less than my monthly take home, so hardly worth it. I'd like to be a stay at home mom until my kids go to school and I am unsure how to do so. we're trying to work our finances so that he can cover the 550 or so a month I contribute to our bills without giving up things that would make us miserable (cable for me, his online computer games for him). My question then becomes, how do you do it? I know it will be hard, and an...

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7 Year Old Having Night Terrors

About 4 years ago my son began having these aweful episodes, which I assumed were nightmares, where we can't calm him down. He sees things and yells at us to watch out and his body is shaking so badly that I literally need to wrap myself around him, and he still shakes. It's almost like sleep talking but this child is in a panic and so scarred he almost vomits. Our doctor says what my son has are night terrors, a mild form of night terrors. I eliminated a lot of television and video games, yet they continue. Not as often but they do. ...

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Gift for 10 Yo Girl?

I'm struggling to come up with a quality birthday gift for my 10 yo niece. I...