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We will have Cambridge English final exam this Friday. I will review it this week.

Quote: Originally Posted by May Till now I have learned the freestyle, backstroke,breaststroke and butter fly stroke. I love swimming. It's good for me. Instead of "Till now" I'd use "So far" or "Up til now" Neither of which I believe, is technically correct (i.e. they sound good colloquially, but not properl "Till now" is really just a shortened version of...

I knew I should have kept my mouth shut! lol Oh well, I tried.

Our foster children both had dummies they occasionally use, they came with them you could say, by which time taking them away would be too stressful as they were small babies. Our oldest doesn't anymore, if you celebrate christmas (with santa), you can leave the dummy for santa, that way a little baby can have the dummy and santa will leave a special present to say thank you for the dummy. We sent Jade's off the fairy's, we got...

Quote: Originally Posted by IADad well, i don't think hitting and teaching martial arts are one in the same. In teaching martial arts, you're also teaching when not to hit. Our 7 yo would never dream of hitting anyone, the 3 yo likes to, whenever he can. So, i think it's a different skill to train for any given kid Exactly! For example, my son last year was tasked with being the bodyguard of a friend of his on the school ground...

My daughter had a pacifier for a while. She really wanted a Build-A-Bear. We convinced her that if she gave up her pacifier then she could have a bear. We took her to Build-A-Bear and told her that if she put her paci in the bear then she would always have it with her. It worked. She hasn't even asked for her paci since then and she is not even that attached to the bear.

Actually it should be capitalized, but only if you are using it in the form of a name. Used as a title, it should not. For example: My mom gave me a ride to school today. (a title) Or Mom gave me a ride to school today. (a name, the way you would talk about your mom to a sibling for instance) Could you ask Mom to help me find my shoes? (another example) Or like "Go help Daddy clean up your toys" Yep.

At four you could make it an event, he is more then capable of understanding. The baby fairy, santa....all of those could exchange the paci for a surprise. The days following won't be easy but they shouldn't be to bad. Try structuring those days so there is very little down time...that's how all of mine broke thier need for them, I didn't do it intentionally it just worked out that way. Good luck, it requires a bit of...

where were ya'll 3 yrs ago???? we could have used these ideas then. they're great!!! something to keep in mind when grandkids come along in aobut 20 yrs.. anyway, we did it the tough way. started tossing the binkies in the trash every time we saw one and hiding them too. explained to chloe about being a big girl and how she'd have to give them up. if she really wanted one then she'd have to find one herself at nap time and...

Not your fault dude. He was trying to be independent and do it himself without your knowledge...not your fault at all. I'm glad that he's ok now... did you end up going to the hospital? Or did pumping him full of sugar solve the issue?