Its amazing how we all dont want our kids to grow up too fast but they are before our eyes. We always say "seems like yesterday we brought you home from the hospital." And now look they are almost teenagers. Scary!

I think I am gonna need to go down and get my daughter a training bra soon.  Funny cause she is bigger then my MIL ever was in the past. LOL. That is until she got a boob job.

Ya know one minute they are learning to walk and the next we are looking for Bra's. Gosh!

Soon it will be real boyfriends and not the ones she is chasing after. I can really tell this year she is changing alot. Both mentally and physically. Now she is looking more at the boys and so forth. Told her no actual dating until she is 16.

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Dang straight!

LOL.

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Welcome Jenn!

Nice to have you here! Im Keri and I live in AZ with my two kids. One is 13 and the other is 11.

Keri

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Hi all!

I created a new AVON website for my business. Please have a looksie and maybe there is something there youd like to buy! REMEMBER!!!! Christmas is coming and coming fast!

http://bsweeney.avonrepresentative.com/ ...

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They say that the day after Thanksiving is a good time to go. Everyone is too fat from eating. LOL

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Well I dont want him to be on Adderall but it seemed to really help him when he was. Right now he just isnt doing what he is supposed to be doing. His grades are suffering and its not for the fact that he doesnt know it cause he does. He just doesnt care. He breaks the rules that we have set forth and its not hard to follow them. Total common sense stuff like cleaning his room or giving his $2 lunch money to the lunch lady but he likes to spend it on junk food and soda. We have given him a few chances to eat a regular lunch but he buys soda and candy. Then he lies about it. So now I am writing a check for the lunch money for the both of my kids. He just lies all the time and I just dont know what else to do. He is on a total electronic ban until his grades improve. It happened last year too. It like he just doesnt care about anything except his yugioh stuff and grandma.

Im to the point that I want to strangle him BUT I wont.  I have asked his teachers what I can do to help him and I do those things but its like he just doesnt care. I feel like Im going through the terrible 2s again. This time he just plays stupid and Im getting frustrated.

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Well trying to find a tongan language cd is very hard.  Id love to learn and would practice it esp since Im in the medical field and there are alot of tongans here. So I figure that would help me.

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AH! Thats the problem! You took a sharp left turn and I got lost. LOL.

Nutin new there. They dont offer anything like that there. They are a charter school.  I will figure something out.

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I saw this on Project parenting tonight on Channel 14 (in AZ) about  this Allowance card. http://www.allowcard.com/program.asp ...

I guess it teaches your teenagers how to manage money appropriate and you can put money on the card and the kids can spend it like a debit card.

Anyone ever tried something like this before??? Might be something I would try with my Daughter. I dont trust my son any farther then I can throw him.

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Totally off topic..... What bank did you use to work for??

My Dad worked for First Interstate Bank and he wrote the ATM programs that we use today.

Look into all the aspects of the cards and see what is behind them and how they work.

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Wow. Sorry about your experience! Do you suppose that what caused the itchiness and swelling is an allergy? Might be highly allergic to something. What? Dont know.

Hope the vision comes back normally.

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I havent done mine but will start this Friday. Thankfully I have a small family.

Solamente el fuertes sobreviven - Only the Strong Survive!

My Family has the standard traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, Mash potatoes, bisquits and the like.

After I got married We would go to my Inlaws cause they always had dinner around 1pm then we would go over to my parents for dinner. Now my parents are in New Mexico so we just go to my mother inlaw's house. This year I dont get to go. Gotta work.

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You also have to worry about student safety in your schools. I know that if I had my kids in public schools, my son would have gone to Fremont Jr High and it is a very violent school. There are alot of gang activity there and the police are there alot. I know of this cause I use to be a public school bus driver and I drove for that school sometimes. Bad enough when the bus has to have a monitor watchin the children on the buses. I know that there is alot of Meth usage at Red Mountain High school. Im sure this goes on at alot of schools and its a parents responsiblity to take care of this.

But I dont want to put my kids in that enviroment.

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