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Competition starts: 7 April 2008 Closing date: 5 May 2008 We're giving away a family day out at Drayton Manor Theme Park including the latest attraction - Thomas Land! Link: http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/comp/drayton.asp

We have a 9 week old son (3 weeks corrected age) who weighs just under 13 lbs. He always puts on quite a show when pushing a BM or gas. It looks pretty painful!! He grunts, flails, and cries sometimes. This typically occurs within an hour of eating and will last 5-20 minutes. After he seems...

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DD is 4yo and walks almost exclusively on her toes. I've read that needs to be evaluated. I mentioned it once to her ped a while back and he said she didn't have cerebral palsy, but I know there are other concerns besides that. I am messaging her ped again, since it's been some time since our...

1. If your kids hate the home work. Get them to eat 1 spoon butter 1 spoon sugar and 1 glass room- temperature water in the morning followed by rotating both-arms anti- bowling (like cricket but opposite direction). This will give them more strength, they will concentrate more easily, and become...

You can inhale GHEE or better still DURVA grass GHEE by putting it in the nose. It will make you feel instantly better. Like an anti-depressant. DURVA GHEE has lots of essential organic oils in it ----- if you are manic-depressive do not eat durva ghee. It will trigger mania. If you are merely...

Suzanne, loving mother of 3 bright kids, is an astronomer and mathematician. When she had her first baby, she thought long & hard about what kind of breastpump would fill her needs the best, and then she invented and patented her comfortable, simple, inexpensive, system! It's a Purple-Pedal...

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This fabulous children's card making kit is packed full of arts and crafts stuff for kids - and adults too. It's got everything from glitter, stickers, feathers and glue to holographic card. So you'll never be stuck for a creative way to say thanks for a treat you or your kids receive. Closing...

National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2008 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080401-8.html A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 1, 2008

I thought this article was amusing. Of course raising children costs money, but I don't think parents should be discouraged from having more than two, unless they are on welfare. One of my wife's sisters even suggested abortion when my wife was pregnant with her 3rd child, just because three...

Has Kevin W. Concannon retrieved the missing MILLIONS? Then Governor Vilsack hired him to bring Iowa DHS more federal dollars. That's what Vilsack's press release said when he hired Concannon. Did Vilsack know about the mess Concannon left behind in Maine? NOW the former CIETC CEO Cunningham is...

Why not start posting some websites with lists of these books http://www.kathrynlasky.com/Books2.html http://bccb.lis.uiuc.edu/blue06.html (includes fiction and picture books, but has a list of award winning non-fiction children's...

My 4yr9mo son often flaps his hands when he is excited. Although flapping hands is a symptom of autism, we don't think he is autistic, since he does not exhibit other symptoms. We would like the reduce the frequency of his hand flapping over time. Any suggestions?

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I am very sad to report that the laboratory I am affiliated with shows that their conclusion is a massive understatement. Although well intentioned, this study was most likely forced to downsize or soft- peddle their conclusions. The fact is AT LEAST 2 MILLION CHILDREN a year are harmed by drug...

Randy Principles First Grade outrage. By Mark Steyn Is American public education a form of child abuse? A week ago, the Washington Post's Brigid Schulte reported on a student named Randy Castro who attends school in Woodbridge, Va. Last November at recess he slapped a classmate on her bottom. The...

Rape is rape. Sex is sex. Age doesn't matter. The state doesn't have to recognize marriage until it wants to. All the girls should be given birth control options, and information on a way out, to call a number, that they will have room and board off the compound so they can get an education and...

Born to be wild: 15 outdoor activities for the family http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080414/ LIFE/804140314/ http://tinyurl.com/4m96cb April 14, 2008 DAWN SAGARIO REGISTER STAFF WRITER