My son is in 4th grade(skipped a grade so only 8). There are a ton of Aiden/Aidan/Ayden/Aydan/Aydon and every other spelling imaginable in his school. They all get called by Aidan Last Initial. Its like all the Jennifers when I was a kid. He's got 3 in his Cub Scout pack alone. And they all spell it differently.…

I don't think I could run without my iPod/iPhone. I danced for years as a kid. I have a hard time exercising without music. Plus I do long distance interval training and can't afford a Garmin. I need the free interval timer app and the free MapMyWalk app to keep track of my run/walk intervals and how far I've run.

My midwife was awesome about it, but she couldn't fit me, one of the docs in the practice had to, and she kept trying to convince me to go with pills or Mirena. No way! I gained 40 pounds on the pill the first time, and 15 on it after my first kid, before i had a chance to lose any pregnancy weight. I switched to…

No worries. Being a second time mom after 7 and a half years, and working in an infant room at a daycare center for 4 years before I had any of my own, have made me very much NOT a paranoid parent. Plus there's all kinds of logistical issues when you' have an infant/toddler and a gradeschooler who's in multiple…

My kids could/can walk around with a sippy of water anytime they want, especially in the summer. I don't want them to get dehydrated, and they tend to only drink the water if they are actually thirsty. Milk and juice are only allowed at the table or sometimes in the stroller or, in my daughter's case, at some event of…

D. None of the above. C. is not an option as an atheist and someone who strongly opposes school vouchers of any type, primarily because they benefit kids who don't actually need it the most anyway, and religious schools. Kids in rural areas with failing public schools literally have no choices. My son's elementary…

This exactly! And where I live, add in the effect of a high mobility rate of a largely English as a second language population of children of immigrant migrant farm workers and you get "failing" schools. If you look at the actual school report card, its only the special ed and ESL students that are actually "failing".

Every kid is different, that's for sure. My kids would've been starving if they waited that long to eat. I figured when a 4 month old was downing 9 oz bottles every 2 hours it was time to introduce solids. They are both bottomless pits. The 9 year old eats non-stop, but still sometimes loses weight because of his ADHD…

Mine too. I've danced from 2nd grade through Junior year of college and then life got in the way. My son has been dancing at the studio I went to as a kid for 5 years now. Two years ago was a big 40th anniversary for the studio and they recruited a bunch of us back to do an alumni number. So many of us begged her for…

My SIL doesn't have any kids. My kids are the only grandchildren, so that has something to do with it. The kids only see her at large family events. We like my husband's extended family. I love one of his aunts to pieces. His mom just can't be alone with them, and we never go to her house anymore. I refuse to. Its too…

We could get her to latch just fine. She just wouldn't drink. She'd take a few sips and then let go, and turn away. I think(I could be wrong) it was a temperature and speed thing. We had to switch her to a fast flow nipple at about a month, because she would get frustrated that it wasn't coming out fast enough, and…

I'm realizing that I'm going to have to start watching what I say about my own body more closely. My son is almost 9, and I never worried about it with him, but now I have a 16 month old daughter. I am currently 5'6", 219lbs, size 16/18. I'm running now, and dancing, but I find myself complaining that its still not…

And that is exactly why the concept of heaven should NEVER be introduced to a child before the age of 7 at the very earliest. My son was 5 when his beloved Papa(my dad) died. My dad's friend, a priest and monk at the local Benedictine Abbey, agreed with me and didn't mention heaven in the entire funeral service. He…

My MIL is like that. She was physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive to my husband and his siblings, and still won't admit that she was, let alone apologize for it. She has not been left alone with either of my children since my oldest was 2. She never would have been had I known about the abuse earlier. The…

Try 3 days old for self-weaning. With around the clock help from lactation consultants, my daughter refused the breast. She would drink it pumped out of a bottle, but she would not take my breast. I've known a lot of other babies who sel-wean much younger than a year old. It takes longer to drink a full meal from the…

I was a C cup before I got pregnant the first time. I went up to a DD during that pregnancy and was a D after my milk dried up(I only breastfed 10 days). 7 years later I started pregnancy as a D cup. I went up to an E, almost an F cup during pregnancy(I only gained 12 pounds, I think it was all in my boobs lol). I…

That is a huge 3. I would bet he's just shy of his 4th birthday.

Same but fearing a repeat of 2000

For some of us, it was the very first presidential election we could vote in. Made for lots of disenfranchised young voters.

LOL. My 9 year old grows a mohawk every year and then raises money to shave it off for St. Baldrick's. I hope this means I'll be safe from hipster too when he gets older.