Housekeeping: Child

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5 Year Old Becoming VERY Defiant...

My girls, ages 5 and 6, are good kids, REALLY good kids, until recently... and I'm a tough love mom. If the girls both get in trouble for something, my 6 year old immediately says 'Sorry mom, I won't do it again' and then she'll correct the problem. The 5 year old will just STARE at me with this ATTITUDE. If I ask her 'Did you hear what I just said??' and she'll kind of shrug her shoulders with the same defiant 'I don't care' attitude. I'll say 'MADISON! What do you say?!' and she'll finally roll her eyes and mumble 'yes ma'am'... WHAT IS...

Accepting a Messier Home

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6 Year Old Asking for Money

Hello Moms, I am not sure if this has happened to any one of you. So my son started kindergarten this year and they have treat sale once every week and have vending machine in school. Everyday my son ask for a $1 to buy something. I told him I can not give you everyday but some days are ok (am I being unreasonable?). It is not that I can't afford to give him every day $1 but I want him to understand you can't get it everyday. He says he buys icecream with it. I told him we have so much ice cream at home or I will take him out to eat ice...

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6 Year Old Chores

I was reading what you guys had suggested to Shawn and her 11 yr old as far...

Stain Removal

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Stain Removal Woes

I am having a huge problem trying to get stains out of my kids clothing. For a few years I have sworn by the Dawn dish soap and Oxyclean paste on a stain and that worked wonders! Now it seems that it doesn't work at all! I use Melaluca laundry soap and I tried using their stain removal product but I am so disappointed with it I am going to send it back! I have also tried Sol-u-Mel with the same results. Does anyone have a tried and true remedy that gets out dirt, spaghetti sauce, berry stains and all those other hard to dissolve stains...

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Ink Stain Removal

Hello Ladies, We just installed new carpet in our home, so you can...

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Cheap Stain Removal

Anyone have a stain remover (homemade or store bought) that is effective on...