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Had first criticism of parenting style

We went to visit my family in Boston last week. Overall it went better than I expected, but my uncle thinks we are completely spoiling Cole. First, we were sitting at the dining room table eating dinner and Cole was on a blanket on the living room floor - I could see him because it's real...

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Gymnasttics class vent

NAKSo my baby, age 3, adn I used to take a mommy and me gym. class before she turned 2. She LOVES gymnastics and is quite good for her age. However, we keep having class trouble now that she is too old for m&M. In Oct (?about) I pulled her out of a program when the coach physically put her in...

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gymnastics?

my dd is only 20 months, and i'm not wanting to sign her up anytime soon,but i was curious about gymnastics for her later on. she absolutely loves to hang on anything that resembles a bar, and has taught herself to hang on a bar at the side of our house and walk up it and hang herself comp...

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Gymnastics problems update

A couple months ago I posted about my daughter's bad experience trying gymnastics (something she had begged to do) at the Y. I'm too lazy to dredge up the thread but it's in the Parenting Issues forum somewhere. :wink Anyway, she wanted to try it at a different place so a few we...

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Gymboree?

Good? Bad? Have you ever been?...

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Gymboree class/Commercialism

I took ds to Gymboree for the first time today and he absolutely loved it. He doesn't get to see other kids much, and he was just all smiles. So I think I am probably going to join.I guess I just sort of have an issue with the "Gymbo the Clown" thing. They use this clown and puppet during t...

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guns and violent toys

i need some advice about my four year old son being exposed to toy guns etc at friends homes. My husband and i will not allow any guns etc in our home and feel quite stronly about our son not playing with them. I have talked to our son about guns and what they do, hurt, kill and that he does no...

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Guns - toys in playgrounds and/or DPs who have one

How do you deal with weapons?My ds is starting to be very aware of them, mainly bc they are played with by other children in the playground - either toy guns, or toy swords, or weapons with the spiderman or star wars motif on them, or just plain sticks which kids call "guns" or "swords".My son l...

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Guns

How do you talk to your children about guns?DS, 3 1/2, does not know what a gun is. Dh is a police officer. I know we need to explain to ds what guns are and why kids don't touch them but I just don't know where to begin. My personal feelings are that guns are for hurting and killing b...

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Guns

There was a thread awhile back about asking the parents of your dc's friends if they had guns in the house. My dd is only 20 months but she is playing at other toddler's houses now and I always ask. I can't imagine that she would, at this age, be out of sight long enough to find s...

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Gum - when, what kind?

If you let dc have gum, when did you start letting them have it and what kind do they chew? Just curious. It's the artificial sweeteners vs. sugar I'm mostly concerned about....

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GUILT of excess :(

Not sure how I lost countSee we do two from us and two from santa ( please don't lecture me on Santa it is one of the few compromises I made with dh) and one Yule King gift ( next year it will be 1/1/1)and my mother got them three each -they are her only gksI know some of my moms will end u...

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