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[ - ] If you had a MIL who was visiting you out of boredom, what would you do?? 2 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:27 PM Flag
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Go out and leave her with the grandchildren. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:28 PM Flag
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yes -- that would be a sure cure for her boredom! LOL [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:33 PM Flag
[ - ] Are you nice about sharing pool toys with other children if you goto a country club pool like setting? 1 Reply [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:19 PM Flag
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Yes. My kids take their toys with the understanding that if they don't share them, we leave [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:21 PM Flag
[ - ] piano teach mom here. ask any questions. 11 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:17 PM Flag
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teacher^%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:18 PM Flag
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My 6yo took piano this year for the first time and loved it. I will sign up again. This is a good age for this, right? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:20 PM Flag
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of course. i actually start much earlier. but the main thing is that you said that he loves it. try to keep out of the practice/nagging, etc. and he will continue to love it. kids go through stages with practice and the enjoyment. just let him figure it out on his own, and the battles for practice will never start. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:23 PM Flag
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We don't "practice" in the sense that I make her sit down and do the lesson. We just bang on the piano. She eventually showed me some of what she learned from the lessons at her own choosing, not my asking. She is excited to be able to play scales [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:25 PM Flag
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that sounds perfect. i hope you weren;t thinking that i was accusing you of getting poverly involved, just mentioning what i have learned helps keep kids in class for years and years. (excited to play scales? really? that is certainly different!) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:28 PM Flag
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lol. She is! She's all like "mom, this is C scale" and then plays it. I act all impressed. I can play, so I know how fun this can be to a newbie [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:29 PM Flag
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my 8-y-o ds has been complaining for some time. and the truth is, he is not very good. he's been taking lessons for two years and has made very little progress (compared with his older brother and my nieces). finally he started refusing to go to his lessons so i let him quit. is this a mistake? i am trying to think of a new instrument for him--he has some fine motor issues (gets OT) so I feel like the piano was just too hard. Is that wrong? Can everyone play? I remember his grandmother saying she was awful and her piano teacher quit. Perhaps he's like her (god forbid)? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:40 PM Flag
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you should find another teacher. i have taught kids where they have not touched the piano for 6 months at a time for different reasons (fear, neurologicao disorders, etc.) it should always be fun. yes, everyohne can play, at least for fun. hope you have watched this over night. i had to go to bed last night. will look at this again later. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 07:21 AM Flag
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Thanks. I did come back b/c I had to go to bed, too!! As for my DS, we're giving him the summer off. My husband is v. opposed to him going back to piano--don't know why--and DS himself has dug his heels in. He is a stubborn child and it is better to back off and come back later than to argue. His teacher was v. kind and flexible. Don't think that is the problem. But thanks for the input that all can succeed. It inspires me to try again. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 07:49 PM Flag
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If we can't fit a piano in our apt, what kind of electronic keyboard can we get for our dd to practice on? Can we use an inexpensive one for the beginning until we know she's taken to it? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 07:51 PM Flag
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my 3.5 yo ds really likes music, and I think has a lot of talent (good hearing for music, etc). What would you recommend to do to foster it? seems too young to learn an instrument right? (he has tons of toy instruments which he likes, and good attention span, but still I can't imagine him enjoying a formal piano (or other instrument) lesson. When to start? what to do now? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 07:54 PM Flag
[ - ] i am sick of all these stay at home moms who play tennis. its like peer pressure at age 40. 9 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:15 PM Flag
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I succumbed to that pressure - bought all the skirts, took lessons, played with a group - but felt like a fraud. After a year I begged out and now hide from them [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:19 PM Flag
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my mom did that in the 70s. Joined and club and everything. Then she got tennis elbow - or so she says [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 05:08 AM Flag
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It seems so retro. Like something from the 1970's, very stepford wife. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:23 PM Flag
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my best friend recently started playing again and she loves it -- she plays every day and says it's the only thing that makes her really happy nowadays.. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:35 PM Flag
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Why feel peer pressure? I have neighbors who play and I feel no pressure at all - it's just something we don't have in common. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:44 PM Flag
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I'd kill to be a tennis chic. Whats wrong with that?? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 11:53 PM Flag
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what is tennis chic? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 05:09 AM Flag
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WOHM and tennis-lover. Would kill to play tennis on a regular basis again. Why not organize a bowling league instead? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 01:36 AM Flag
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I hate tennis- will never happen to me. I'd rather have long lunches with wine [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.06.08, 05:07 AM Flag
[ - ] If my MIL stays over at my house one more time, I am going to have really loud sex with my DH in hopes that she will finally get a clue and give us some privacy. I have outright told her that we are working on having another baby but she still wants to come and see all the time 3 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:15 PM Flag
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weird to outright and tell her you want another baby. what kind of passive aggressive attempt is that? plus, why would you even want her to know your private affairs like that? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:20 PM Flag
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I get sick of her staying overnight at our house, she is ruining my mojo!! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:21 PM Flag
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be direct and tell her that you are happy to have her come visit once a month, or something. i couldn't take that and hence, i wouldn't. i just tell mil what i think. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:26 PM Flag
[ - ] OK, I think I am the only one on here anymore. 1 Reply [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:11 PM Flag
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no i am here too. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:12 PM Flag
[ - ] We have a huge extended family living on the east coast (CT and RI), and parents in Los Angeles and Carmel. We would really like to be near family but are having a hard time settling on one location. Where would you live? 4 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:11 PM Flag
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such a stupid post! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:15 PM Flag
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why stupid? not op. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:16 PM Flag
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CA. I think it would be good to be close to the parents, although they are pretty far apart. Plus, the weather rocks. Can you get the parents to relocate> [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:15 PM Flag
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Parents are set for now - it's 6 hours from LA to Carmel [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:19 PM Flag
[ - ] I find myself in this cycle of having to completely clean the house from top to bottom at least every 9 weeks and it ends up taking me two weeks to get done well enough to my standards. MIL comes to stay with us about once every 3 mths but if she can, the visits are closer together. I seriously think all this housecleaning is affecting my fertility. Do you think I am crazy to feel this way?? 7 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:11 PM Flag
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sounds like it is stressing you and that could affect your fertility. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:12 PM Flag
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Not so much stress but it is just a pain in the butt to do housework. It's the summer I want to have fun with my two DDs. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:13 PM Flag
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either ease up or hire someone - life is too short to be cleaning so much [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:14 PM Flag
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I did get a maid service but they only do the bathrooms and kitchen. For houseguests, I have to clean up every room. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:15 PM Flag
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are they your standards or her standards? if they are yours, i'd say you have an ocd and i would see a doctor about it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:16 PM Flag
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They are her standards. I personally like a slightly messy house and would rather spend time with my kids. She gives everything the white glove test and then gossips about us to SILs [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:18 PM Flag
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then you need to either not accept her as a guest or not worry about the gossip. make it as dirty as hell, keep the sheets on from her last visit and she'll stop visiting. you are kowtowing to her and she knows it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:21 PM Flag
[ - ] Anyone leave NYC for a little beach town? How did it work out? That is my dream. This beach talking is getting to me. I am hoping one day DH can work anywhere. 4 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:10 PM Flag
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yes, and we love it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:12 PM Flag
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where? DH is freaked out about the idea but I love it. What about education? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:13 PM Flag
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Barrington, RI - Great schools [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:16 PM Flag
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^^Wickford is also really nice [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:20 PM Flag
[ - ] Where the F is my husband 1 Reply [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:07 PM Flag
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good question, it's late. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:10 PM Flag
[ - ] latest celebrity sightings? 0 Replies [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:06 PM Flag
[ - ] Global warming/New York times monkey bars 1 Reply [ Reply | Watch | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:02 PM Flag
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you can't call them monkey bars anymore...don't you know that. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.05.08, 08:04 PM Flag
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