Posts by elus0814

Quote: Originally Posted by mamazee  My best suggestion is that if you've found you can't trust her to keep herself safe, don't trust her and do what you need to do based on that. You need to get out of the pool to nurse,...

My experience with several Catholic schools in different states is that it is up to the school. We've always quietly turned in an exemption letter and not made a big deal out of it and they've always accepted it.    The...

They're selling them for $70.... planet box sells complete sets for $60. 

Blowing it off is a bad, bad idea. They come an arrest you. They may not seek you out but if you get pulled over while driving with a warrant out they'll arrest you then and take your kids into custody.    If you can be...

Quote: Originally Posted by stik  It looks like someone came up with a list of things that were peanut free and that list has been passed on as a list of acceptable classroom snacks.  It can be handy to have a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Geofizz  My kids haven't struggled with fruit when missing front teeth. Even so, grapes, bananas, berries, clementines, etc are all easy to eat no matter what. I would even send an orange...

My sister has had lots of issues with the public school her kids attend and their peanut allergy policies. Her older child is allergic to dairy. At school peanuts and products made in facilities that manufacture other peanut products...

I enjoy the game of back to school sales. I usually stock up on most everything if it's cheap enough. I keep it to use in during the year then when the big sales start up again I take all of it to a food/grocery pantry (they always...

It might not be too helpful but $30 doesn't sound outrageous. At $50+ I might wonder why it was so expensive but $30 wouldn't bother me if it was needed short term and not as a long term thing. We've never actually used them but I've...

My kids destroy things too. They're getting better about it since we've started immediately boxing things up when they purposely destroy something. They would ruin board games, shred an entire ream of paper, break toys then expect that...