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HOw do you keep from wasting formula?

  • Posted on October 11, 2010 at 11:24 am

Let’s face it. Formula is expensive! My daughter recently started drinking more than 3 oz at a time. At night before bed she drinks 7-8 oz. So the problem is, she never drinks the same amount! Sometimes I think she will be hungry since she hasnt eaten in 4 hours and I make 6 oz and she only drinks 4 and refuses the rest. I’d rather make too much and have her not finish it than make too little and have her still be hungry. But still, I feel like I keep dumping the rest of the formula and I am literally throwing money down the drain.

Does any one else have this problem? Any tips on how I can cut down on the waste? What do you do?

And I know I will get a couple “you should be breastfeeding” or something like that. She was breastfed til she was 6.5 mo. I stopped because my milk was drying up.

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How can I keep a mother from getting her kids she abused back?

  • Posted on October 5, 2010 at 10:20 am

My cousin called my Mom last May (the 19th) and asked her to take her 2 small children. She just showed up today, almost a year later with cops and her “lawyer” to get her kids. She had called my Mom because she was arrested in a meth lab with her 2 month old and she thought OCS was going to take them from her. My Mom had her sign a paper granting temperary custody, not to exceed 6 months, just long enough to go through her court appointed rehab. Well, she went once, but never completed it. She is now 7 months pregnant with another baby and still on crystal meth. When we got her 4 year old son, he was malnurished and had 4 abcessed teeth that my Mom had removed by a dentist. Her 8 month old daughter could not sit up and weighed more than her brother. Their “egg donor” had been feeding her bottles just to keep her quiet while she got high and then slept it off. Our family is devastated. Is there anything legal that can be done besides calling OCS to watch her like a hawk? Please Pray!

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should i keep seeing my therapist?

  • Posted on October 3, 2010 at 11:17 pm

i am a 21 yr old female. i am depressed, i binge eat and have very low self esteem. a doctor at a health clinic referred me to a psychiatrist who later referred me to a therapist. today was our first meeting. i told her a little about my past and we spoke for a while. basically she told me to get out of bed and stop feeling sorry for my self the past is the past. i have to help myself or she can’t help me. she said that i should go to a church she then took me around the hospital to meet a girl that goes to the church and had me standing there like some charity case with the girl looking at me and saying that her “daughter was around my age and that maybe she could pick me up”, all the while patients are waiting in line looking at me. to make a long story short i feel like crap today. i just really realized how sad my life is, what a looser i feel like. i am so tired of it. i also binged today. so should i keep seing my therapist or should i stop. i feel like doing the latter.

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How do you keep your teenage son from eating and drinking EVERYTHING in the house?

  • Posted on October 3, 2010 at 5:24 am

I do not like withholding food from anyone, but this is just overboard. The dude eats dry jello out the packs. He drinks all the juices, all the tea, eats all the cereal, all the snacks. Tried buying individual stuff for his sister and for me but he ate our stuff too. Tried hiding stuff but he found it all and ate it. He even ate a whole jar of gummi vitamins. He eats anything! Even the friggin powdered sugar, brown sugar, my danactive yogurts. Everything. My daughter and I never get any of the ready to eat or drink stuff!

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Can and do you keep an open mind about Obama and McCain?

  • Posted on September 25, 2010 at 8:22 pm

Are you stilll open to ideas about the candidate of your choice? Or, do you shut out opinions about the “other candidate?”

Check this out:

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track; you’re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council, 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, and 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.

If your husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

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What is the best way to lose weight and keep it off?

  • Posted on September 24, 2010 at 11:17 am

I just had my second baby 3 weeks ago and I am determined to lose some weight. I wanted to lose weight before I got pregnant but that didn’t happen. I used to weigh 120 after my daughter was born and then over the years I gained 20 lbs. I alread lost all the pregnancy weight but I need some tips for losing the extra 20 lbs. I breast feed and I know that helps and I go to the gym almost everyday but my problem is the eating. Anyone have any diet tips to help me out. Also my biggest problem is I eat healthy most all day long but then around 2 in the afternoon I always binge on junk food and I don’t know what to do to stop myself lol. Any tips would be appreciated

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How Do I keep My Teenaged Daughter Away From the Drug Scene?

  • Posted on September 21, 2010 at 1:21 pm

My 15 year old daughter got into drugs at school, and had a near fatal overdose 7 months ago. She will be leaving her rehab center in a matter of weeks and I am scared to death she will fall back in with the same crowd. I can’t afford to move away, and private school is also not an option, because of the costs. Do I lock her in her room? Do I follow her around everywhere? She is clean and sober and cries to me to help her stay that way, but I was totally blindsided by her drug use once and I dont want to go through that again. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks! Also, if it makes any difference, her drug of choice was cocaine.

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Is any one else here a good son/ daughter yet keep getting put down?

  • Posted on September 18, 2010 at 1:23 pm

So I won’t explain my whole story, but basically I’m a good kid. I don’t smoke, drink, do rather good in school, have realistic dreams, have a basic plan for my future and try to be the best 18 yo I can be…

Yet nothing is ever good for my parents. Everything can be fine for a week and then BAM I forget to take the trash out. And it’s like the freaking world has ended. I get threaten about being kicked out, my dad stops doing my laundry (yet we don’t have a dryer/washer at home and I don’t drive..) and my mom totally ignores me.

I get the same 10 minute speech every time about how things keep piling up (that I don’t do) and how I only have so little to do around the house yet can’t manage to do them.

I experience some depression around this time (SAD) and the whole going/not going to college thing is also taking a toll on me. I work daily for 7/8 hours, weekends & train for cycling almost every day. I get no support from my parents for that when I have a chance at actually going somewhere with it.

Do you think I’m just a disrespectful kid who can’t get his sh!t together and has random mood swings everyday, or are my parent being too hard on me? I try talking to them but I’m always wrong, their right and it always end with the same freakin speech.

I have a problem apologizing (for all the small crap I do) because I heard them a few times talking about it and how pathetic I sounded, so it comes really hard to do it.

Sorry for ranting, Yahoo please don’t take this down for “chatting” because there are some questions in there. You don’t have to answer this really.. I’ll just take it down in a few minutes lol.

sigh
See I’ve tried “doing everything right” I tried being f***ing perfect for them and ended up missing one thing or forgetting something and then it all went down the drain so I gave up. I don’t even get a thankyou yet get reprimanded much more harshly then is necessary (by any ones standards)

Moving out is not an option because Insurace/ cycling is eating up my money, and with the possibility I will have to fork another 10k a year for college it seems impossible to get an apartment here in nyc.

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What can I do to keep my daughter away from her dad? CPS went in on June 6, 2005 and removed my daughter from?

  • Posted on September 14, 2010 at 8:20 am

her fathers house due to neglect and drugs. He and his wife tested possitive for meth and admitted to cooking it in the house with my daughter home!! His wife was 5mths pregnant at the time!!! I went to court and got new custody papers, the papers state that untill CPS gives me, (it specifically states my name) written notice her father may only have supervised visation. Well on October 11, 2005 CPS sent me a letter stating that due to their non-corroperation CPS was closing the case and that her father should not ever recieve unsupervised visitation. Last year he picked her up from school, (they have copies of all the paper work!!) the police went and got her. All summer long he has tried to go places where she was and take her. The police were called everytime and he was unsuccesful. Well yesterday he picked her up from school again, the police in his town have let him keep her this time because they say the CPS case is closed. I feel hopeless, what do I do? I can’t pay for a lawyer

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I have the worst mother in law ever. It is really effecting my marriage. Is it wrong to keep my kids from her?

  • Posted on September 3, 2010 at 9:20 pm

My mother in law was a prison guard and had an affiar with an inmate. She is planning to live with his parents until he gets out of prison in a year. She dropped this news on us at my daughter’s 1st birthday party. She lets her drug addicted daughter crash at her house and has found drug needles in her home. Am i wrong for keeping my daughter away from her. It is really taking a toll on my marriage. My hubby is a mama’s boy! The lifestyles are just too different! There is always drama in her life and it really brings everyone around her down. I love my other in-laws, she just gets under my skin every chance she gets!! I am truly concerned about the effect her life will have on my kids. She has not seen my 1 yr old in 2mths because she will not call ahead of time because she feels like i am making her make an appointment if i ask her to give me some notice before visiting. (Hello, maybe sometimes I try to sneak a few private moments with my hubby when the kiddos are asleep!) HELP!

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