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9 Year Old Doesn't "Get" She Is Being Bossy and Talking Back

How do I deal with my 9 year old who is bossy and talks back to me? She doesn't seem to "get" that by insisting that her sister and friends do things how she wants them that she is in the wrong. She is a gifted child academically but socially and "parentally" immature. Scenario: today she was in the swimming pool with her little sister and their mutual friend. My 9 year old wanted to "count down" the others jumping in. They didn't want her to. She hollered at them that they weren't being fair or playing nice. She had just been in...

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Gift for 10 Yo Girl?

I'm struggling to come up with a quality birthday gift for my 10 yo niece. I...

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Enough Is Enough

We have had our son potty trained since July of 2008...The problem is he WON...

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Stay at Home Mom Advice

My husband and I want to have another baby, but with my current salary, child care for 2 kids would be 80 dollars less than my monthly take home, so hardly worth it. I'd like to be a stay at home mom until my kids go to school and I am unsure how to do so. we're trying to work our finances so that he can cover the 550 or so a month I contribute to our bills without giving up things that would make us miserable (cable for me, his online computer games for him). My question then becomes, how do you do it? I know it will be hard, and an...