Posts by Cyllya

Quote: Originally Posted by elizabeth67  Just wondering- how successful can the "pull out" method be? I really want a baby, waiting on financial readiness, but I'm scared I won't be able to conceive because I've...

I don't have any advice for handling this, but I'm with you in spirit. I don't want to lie to my kids about these things. I'll tell them about Santa, Fairy, etc, but it'll just be a fun story.   It seems like many kids think...

Yeah, that sounds like the "old normal" to me. The first famous school shooting happened in 1999, and I know that wasn't the first one--it's just the one that sparked a massive moral panic, in addition to a higher death count than...

Wowzer, where do you hear this crazy stuff? I think the closest I've ever come to hearing this is a few moms on this site expressing a sentiment along the lines of, "I don't know why there's a term for 'terrible twos.' Age two was...

Quote: Originally Posted by tonttu  One argument for circumsition I heard is , that it is easier to keep yourself clean as a man , since " stuff " cannot collect under the ( missing ) foreskin and cause infections ,...

I liked Animorphs when I was at that age. (It is violent, but it's a kids' series.)

Your body gets used to caffeine pretty quickly, at which point you're just staving off the withdrawal effects and not getting any of the good effects. I don't think it'd be useful for more than about three consecutive days.

I just figured no body had anything to say about the fact that they're not mamas yet.

Are you sure she's not just an introvert? At first I thought your description seemed too extreme(?) for just introversion, since I'm the introvertiest introvert I know and even I sometimes asked other kids to play when I was little....

Get him a bigass gift card to art store?