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Pick Up the Pigsty

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:53:00 GMT

When I can’t control the havoc inside my head, it’s time to pick up the house.

If anyone had told me before I had a child that laundry took nine steps, I would have laughed. But it’s true.

Put dirty clothes in basket
Take basket to laundry room
Run load of wash
Transfer to dryer and dry clothes
Put clothes in basket
Take clean basket of clothes to bedroom
Sort into piles for each family member
Fold and hang up clothes
Put clothes in closet or bureau

And you know what? It is nearly impossible for me to get all nine steps done in one day. Often, it doesn’t get done in one week. The ridiculous thing is that each action takes very little time. It’s just doing so many in a row that causes me trouble. More Here...

Should Every Child in the Family Receive Gifts for One Child's Birthday?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:28:00 GMT

When you have more than one young child how do you do birthdays? I have seen families who give more presents to the child whose birthday it actually is but the other young children in the family will still receive gifts so that they are not upset or jealous.

Recently, I had a little cousin who had a birthday and I thought about bringing his younger sister a present too in order to avoid any jealousy that might occur. Sharing is something we are all trying to teach my little cousins but I began to think that bringing presents for everyone may not be the best idea. I mean it is one thing to share your toys with your sibling but should you have to share your birthday simply to prevent the other child from whining? More Here...

Parents Believe in Faith Healing, Son Dies...How Far Do You Go?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:19:00 GMT

An Oregon couple was convicted on criminally negligent homicide. The Oregon couple are believers in faith healing. So, when their 16 year old son developed a urinary tract infection they had prayed instead of taking their son to the doctors for modern medicine to take care of the problem.

The son had a complication, he was suffering from a serious kidney disease resulting from a constriction in his bladder that was present at birth. A catheter could have saved his life. An a side note they previously had lost their granddaughter due to pneumonia and a blood infection because their granddaughters parents had believed the same way. Here is the link to that article.

I am kind of split on this situation. More Here...

Holding Duckie Hostage

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:07:00 GMT

Post from Glamorous Insanity

Dora the Duckie here is Little Miss Sugar’s favorite toy. She has had it since birth, and likes to play with her pretty often. She sometimes even brings Dora to the table to have lunch with her while “they” watch cartoons.

Yesterday when the living room floor looked like Hurricane Katrina ran through it, I asked the girls to clean it up. As usual, their reaction was as though they had to clean poo off the toilet.

I understand first hand how much cleaning sucks sometimes. But if I continue to clean up after them, they learn nothing, and I am a maid for the next 16 + years. Yea, that's not going to happen. More Here...

Making Children Apologize...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:32:00 GMT

Since I was a child, I have been the type of person that refuses to apologize for something if I'm not sorry that I did or said it. I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong, but I'm not going to say sorry if I'm not.

However, you see so many parents automatically do that when their child has said or done something wrong to someone else. More Here...

Being There For Your Kids

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:13:00 GMT

Me and my fiance have been discussing kids lately. One of the main things we talked about is taking interest in what our future kids do.

I think it is important to be involved in my kids' lives because believe it or not, being there for them is extremely vital in their maturity process. I mean, you can help them make healthy choices about sex, school, drugs, or things of that nature. Being there also doesn't have to mean scolding them all the time. We can just listen to them and encourage them whenever they need our support.

Having said that, those tools I mentioned in my last sentence will help your kids to succeed later in life and will also show them how to lead a fruitful and happy life. I'm so glad I had a mother who was so encouraging and supportive of all the things I have done or am going to do.

Some parents may not realize this but you guys are a big influence on how your kids think and what they do. More Here...

CHD Awareness Week

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:26:00 GMT

Yes, it is that time of year again where we start to see the hearts and flowers out at the stores. For the past few years, Valentine's Day has always meant a little something different around the Pig household.

As many of you know, Emily was born with a congenital heart defect and the week leading into Valentine's Day is CHD Awareness week. What many people do not realize (myself included) is that nearly twice as many children in the United States will die this year as a result of a Congenital Heart Defect than all forms of childhood cancers combined. Oddly, research funding for pediatric cancers is five times higher.

Until Emily was born I had never even given this issue any thought. More Here...

Family: What Is It Really?

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:15:00 GMT

Opster25's children

I was taking a break turned my chair around to see 4 happy kids and a happy puppy. They where playing together and having a blast. And it occurs to me I have a GREAT family.

I have been with Dan for 10 years now, and we have 4 great kids, a great dog, then there is Ace the cat and the snake -we all have an outcast in families (just kidding we love them too). I have spent the better part of the last 10 years trying to "fix" my family.

Dan and I are both foster kids. More Here...

I'm Not in a Hurry....

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:48:00 GMT

It is so exciting to watch my little one discover the world. He will be eight months old in five days and these past eight months have flown by. I should have known from the two and a half hour labor that he was going to be headstrong, fast and busy. I think the only time he has stopped moving is while he is sleeping. And even then he moves all over the place in his sleep.

That being said, I'm not in a hurry for him to grow up. More Here...

She Walked Away

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:27:00 GMT

Today my brother was watching cable tv in the front room while on the computer. No problem, but he didn't change it back. There's no tv/video button on the tv, so I couldn't change it back to the DVD player. I didn't know where the remote is, so I asked my mom for help (as always). Eventually she makes him come inside during his turn shoveling and he says "ask her where the remote is". I said "I don't know where it is you used it last." He used the remote to turn it to cable in the first place he did use it last.

Then I have them both yelling at me! Now I don't yell unless being yelled at first, so why is she yelling at me?

He slams the door and leaves to finish the driveway, she opens the door and yells at him for slamming the door. She only yells at him for slamming the door? Then proceeds to yell at me when the whole time I was trying to tell her he used it last.

A couple months ago my brother pushed me hard during a fight, I was lucky that the arm of the couch was behind me and caught me. My mom saw this and just talked away. I later asked her why is it okay for him to touch me? She said "oh I talked to him about it". But she walked away, she was right there.

My brother's anger is getting worse. I'm honestly scared he's going to hit me, and I can't defend myself. More Here...