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In the backseat are my 5 yo, my 7 yo and his 8 yo best friend. We drive by the house of the 5 yo's best friend, that happens to be a girl.

The girl and her mum just stepped outside. So the 7 yo and the 8 yo started teasing my little one. Ohh there she is, [kids name] is in love with [kids name], and so on.

5 yo looks unphased. And then says: 'No. I'm in love with my money, bitches'.

I pretented not to head the swearing ;). The older boys actually shut up after that!

His tummy hurt after he drank way too much lemonade (he usually doesn't get any, we brought some to the pool as a treat, so he chugged it first chance he got). Went to lay on top of me for cuddles.

"mum, you know why cuddles help when my tummy hurts?" "no?" "because there can only be one thing in my tummy, pain or love. When we cuddle my tummy gets filled with love".

He's got a flair for the dramatic but my hearth melted a little <3

This concerns one of my kids' friends and I'll try to keep the details a bit vague to avoid recognition while still being concrete enough to ask for some advice. The kid is 7 yo.

The kid never has clothes that fit (could be lack of funding on the parents part). He doesn't interact with adults well. He either tries to avoid you, doesn't look us in the eyes, doesn't want to chat. OR is very explosive. For example, he was over at our house the other week, and hit our youngest. I pulled him aside and said something like we don't tolerate hitting in our house. He had a complete melt down over that. He's known in school for having (violent) behavioural problems. Whenever his parents interact with

My garden is pretty abundant this year, especially the herbs. I'd like to store some for winter. What would be the best method? Drying or freezing? And when freezing, whole? Pureed? With oil or water?

I'd like to store some: bay leaves, mint, lavas, sage, dille, chives and chervil. I'd love to hear some suggestions/experiences!

So ever since my kids were born, I've been PMSsing pretty hard for the 2-3 weeks leading up to my period (my menstrual cycle is not normal, usually 6-7 weeks). No physical symptoms, just the mood swings and anxiety are driving me nuts. I've got a high stress job and this isn't helping, I'm obsessing over all the little nonsense. It's actively interfering with my ability to do my job properly, I need to be able to keep a level head in high stress conditions. Which I'm normally very able to do, but not when I'm PMSsing.

I've tried hormonal birth control before I had kids, but even on the mini pill I get terrible mood swings, so I'm hesitant to try those again. Guess I'm just extremely sensit

I am just so sick of people pressuring me or my kids to perform in everything within normal parameters instead of being allowed to suck or to exceed their peers. It seems to me that the tendency to give all kids an equal shot at live (I do think that's a very good thing) has let to the unrealistic expectation that all kids get the same results in life. Some kids will be plumbers, some kids will be doctors, some will be atlethes, some will be rocket scientists, some will be cleaners or janitors. And that is all fine. We as a society assigned a different value to those jobs, but they all are necessary and valuable, just like every human life is equally valuable while not the same.

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Our (public, European, primary) school uses tablets as an educational tool. I'm having mixed feelings about that, but this is not what this post is about (I probably agree with most of your objections).

The problem is our oldest has broken the screen of his tablet 4 times now in the past two years. He just turned 7 yo. The incidents happen during transport. From school to after-school daycare, daycare to home. Last time it happened because he put the tablet in his lunch bag instead of the small laptop bag we purchased for this purpose, the time before because he was too rough in handling that laptop bag (swung it around and it hit something).

The costs of replacement/repairs aren't a big

7 yo: if you had all the money in the world what would you do?

dad: first I would make sure our family has everything they need, and then I'll use the rest to try to make the world a better place..

5 yo: yeah like we could bring back slaves! So everybody has to do what we say!

He's trying to enlist my husbands help.

The idea is to drive over to her house, ring the door and when she opens they'll say there's something on her chin. When she scratches they'll call 'muppet-lollypop'. Then they'll say 'bye bye poopie' and run to the gettaway car.

Dad should race away, but be mindful of the speed limit.

My incredibly smart almost 7 yo always has has the odds in his favor. Everything comes easy for him. For school, he doesn't even have to try. He skipped a grade last year, but this hasn't made things better, he's still flying through all the school work and even all the extra work load he's getting.

I'd be happy for him if it wasn't that this seems to have a terrible effect on his character. He has no grit, like at all.

In the beginning of the school year (he's in 2nd grade of primary school) he was assigned homework, two work sheets of writing every night in order to improve his hand writing. He was behind in this area, well behind compared to the class he's in now, which is only logica