Member Since: June 25, 2004
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I am a 31-year-old divorcee with a 4-year-old son. I also am charged with caring for my developmentally disabled 33-year-old brother, who has the mental capacity of 8-year-old. My son's father is moving next week, and taking my child with him. I will not see my son again until Christmas, and then after that not until April. I am devastated that the family courts here in Seattle have allowed this to happen (no, there's nothing wrong with me...my ex just won), and I am now at a loss as to how to handle this. I can't stop crying, I can't take the time off my new job to go to therapy, and I have to be careful falling apart at home because it scared my brother.
HELP? (link)
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hey i am very sorry to hear what you are going through. i don't think that there is really anything that you can do to get your kid back. i'm sure that the court gave your son to him because you have to care for your brother. so the only real thing that you can do to try and get your son back is to put your brother in a home and ask the courts to give you back your son. it just might work. if not then i don't know what you can do.
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Every time my husband and I go anywhere with our 4-year old daughter, she wines and cries in the car, or babbles and sings constantly. Although I prefer the latter, sometimes I just want QUIET!There is no escape in a car, and sound echoes. I don't want to be forced to play kiddie music for her constantly either. How can I get her to behave? (link)
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the best thing to do is just just smack her and tell her not to yell in the car. DO NOT GIVE HER A TREAT FOR BEING GOOD!!!! this only makes her thing that she can get that stuff all of the time. i did like the idea of giving her an apple though. but playing kiddy music is a good way to take care of the whinning but for the yelling there is only one way to fix that, a nice back hand.
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Let's say you are in a store or some other public place and you see a kid running around, maybe doing something dangerous, like climbing on something unstable. Is it ok to say something to the kid if you happen to be nearby? I would tell the kid "That is dangerous. Don't do that." And then, ask the child, "Where is your mommy or daddy?" Then find them, and tell them what their child was doing. Some parents get really pissed off and might tell me to mind my own business, but I can't in all good conciousness stand by and do nothing when there is a child at risk. My husband was in a situation like this when we were in a thrift store and he saw a bunch of kids running around unsupervised, taking all the toys out of some bins, and climbing on things. He said one child almost fell. I said he should have said something to her. He said that there was also a baby in a stroller sleeping that the mom was not watching. The baby was in a corner while the mom shopped in the middle of the store. That is so stupid. It makes me so angry to see this kind of thing. If my child was running around and doing something dangerous, I would not be in the least offended if another adult helped to make me aware of the situation as long as they were polite. But then again, I keep a good eye on my daughter because she is precious to me. I remember panicing when I couldn't find her for a few minutes at a park. A parent found her playing with another child. Does anyone have any insight on this, or have been involved in a situation like this? What would you do? (link)
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hey i work at a grocery store and i know just what you mean. i wish so much that i could just smack those little f*ckers. but i can't because i will be sewed. so to answer that i just say do what my mom would do you tell then to get the hell off of it of to calm down. my mom would thank anybody who said that to me.
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my mate keeps sayin she wants a kid and she wants it at a young age. wot can i do to change her mind (link)
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if you are married then i think that haveing a kid would be a great idea. if you aren't (which i am gessing take you aren't) then i would tell her to wait untill then if that day ever comes.
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MY daughter is 3 yrs old and she goes to Day-Care. Last week-end i asked her best friends mum if her daughter cld come ansd spend the week-end at our house and she agreed with condition that the next coming week-end my dauhter goes over to her place. now as the week-End draws nearer i tend to wish i had'nt agreed to the condition. I know it is not fair as her daughter did come to my place. I have never once been apart from my baby and if i was going out i always left her with family+My daughter is very personal. What sld i do!!!!THE WEEK-END IS GETTING NEARER (link)
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let your daughter go. you can't keep them locked up for ever. if you try to let them go now it will be easyer when the time comes to let then go when the leave the house.
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