Are you supplementing your toddler/child with vitamins?
I have a diploma in nutrition which I obtained about 6 years ago. The Information I learnt back then though has changed somewhat in regards to B12. I thought that b12 deficiency in vegetarians who consumed eggs and dairy was uncommon however now there are studies and reports stating that most (?) vegetarians do have low levels of b12. Even a slight deficiency causes elevated homocysteine putting you at risk of stroke, heart attack and apparently an increase risk of cancers such as breast cancer. I have been raising my son vegetarian since he was 18 months, ensuring he has good vegetarian sources of iron and trying to ensure that he obtains enough zinc. He is still breastfed so I was confident that the breast milk in conjunction with eggs & dairy would meet his b12 needs. However now I have learnt that yoghurt contains almost no b12 because of the fermentation process. That milk, when pasturised, loses 10% of it’s b12 content and that the b12 from eggs is absorbed poorly. As I was not taking a b12 supplement until recently, I am concerned that the B12 levels in my milk are very low. What steps do you take to ensure that your child gets enough B12, zinc and iron? Do you use fortifed foods and/or supplements. What supplements? And does this concern your or question whether you are putting your child’s health at risk by raising them vegetarian? Any links etc would be appreciated.
Please just answer if you are a vegetarian mother. Thanks.
Edit: versantly, there are numerous health benefits to being a vegetarian. I asked for vegetarian mothers ONLY to reply.

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I’ve just got a electrical & Amp. from my friend, I wonder how should I start learning it? which chord or so? or what technique should I be using? Any Tips??
I would want ot learn it by myself thou, i’ve got those chord poster in my room…but…where should i start?
Lessons are a bit expensive, and I dont always have time for that.

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I’m pregnant and I’m dating another female. She’s a stud && I’m a fem. And we’re gonna raise the baby together. We’re both very excited and have talked bout names and everything. She’s going to be an amazing parent. But how would you feel if you saw two females raising a child?

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I do not have any kids as of yet, but me and my GF (soon to be fiance, soon to be wife) plan on having them in the next couple years.

I was raised Baptist, she was raised Methodist.

I have since become Deist (although im not sure why I have to have a label)

My GF is still christian (although we never go to church)

I want to raise my children to understand that religion is a choice of opinions & beliefs. My parents (whether they meant to or not) made christianity sound like the only option (the only truth). Until I was about 10 I didn’t really understand what another religion was (and even then I thought of them as the "Bad Religions") When I was 15 or so I started realizing that all religions are convinced they are right (and my logic tells me, not everyone can be right).

I am now 24 and I think religion is a load of BS, but I want my children to have every option whether they choose to be Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist, Deist.

Any suggestions on how to approach this with them? (when their old enough to understand of course)

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I recently had twin boys and our family is moving out to Arizona. We have visited a few times different places and loved them, but you never really know a place until you live there for awhile. What areas are best for children & to raise children in? Jobs have to be available also. I know in these days those two do not go hand in hand together, but if I could have some specific cities/towns that would great. Thank you!!

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My son’s father and I split up one month ago.He left the state of MI and took my 3yr old son to Alabama last week without contacting me.I am very shocked and honestly need a good attorney that is willing to understand my child and I were torn apart over this.I can’t imagine what my son is thinking at this giving minute of life.I believe that my son’s best interest; is to be with his mother because I have the opportunity to provide him with sufficient, permanent and loving care.I do believe in continuing a parent-child relationship with the other party.Truthfully, I do not know how "we" are going to share our son because he did leave state without a notice or even consideration of our child continuing a relationship with his biological mother (myself).I am willing to give up everything right now to hold him and I am so young that I have to find help as soon as possible before my son’s father ruin’s medown with jurisdiction from another state.My son’s mental & physical environment is undetected from myself because it happened so fast that I feel like this is my fault.I hope and pray everyday that there is peace and sanity for the sake of him; at the same time I am very distressed and holding myself together from a mother’s Instinct.Thank you so very much for reading my message today and if I don’t find an attorney can you please pray that I will get somewhere with my situation?
Sincerely,
Laura

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My son (Chris) is 14 and has Asperger’s&Tourette’s, our insurance company has decided to no longer carry his psychiatrist in their network.
In looking for a new psychiatrist, there aren’t any.
All of them in our area only see adults.
So…I call the insurance company and ask them who I’m supposed to take my child to, and get the run around.
"Let me transfer you to so and so"
So and so transfers me to someone else, they transfer me to someone else, and so on and so on. At the end of it, I’m still no closer to getting him help.
With his previous doctor no longer in network, he is no longer on his medication. His tics are becoming very intrusive to his daily functioning. He can’t even carry his lunch tray across the cafeteria. (His current tic is a jerking of his right shoulder)
Anyone have any suggestions? Advice? Knowledge? Anything would be much appreciated.
No Shriner’s anywhere close.

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My oldest child will be 23 in February. She is married & lives on her own.
My middle child is 17 & a senior in high school. She will turn 18 in March & graduate in May. She already knows what she wants to be & has been getting college credit in high school. After graduation, she has a summer & one year of college left. She will go to the local JC here with a grant.

My youngest child will be 16 in Dec. & is a sophomore. Due to some poor choices she was making here, she now lives with her father & step mother. We are still very close.

My middle child has told me for literally years that as soon as she turns 18, she is moving out. I have always told her she can’t move out until she graduates.

It just occured to me that for the first time, since I found out I was pregnant when I was 17, that I will have no children & can do something for myself. So I’ve been looking into going to culinary school. (see additional info)
There are no schools any where close to where I live and I will probably have to move.
Now my middle daughter is having a fit and acting like I am abandoning her. She will still have her older sister, a grand mother and two Aunt’s living in the same town and I will only be a phone call away. She will be living in the dorms anyway.
Now I feel guilty and I have been thinking about staying until she graduates from college. But I am afraid that if I don’t leave now, I will miss my opportunity.

What should I do?
I am afraid that my oldest daughter may have a baby and my mother is getting elderly and I am afraid she will get ill and then I will never get to leave.

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FAFSA app has 7 criterions one must meet in order to claim independent status. Most students parents raise them to be independent to handle their own college costs so the parent(s) can save for their retirement. It is so easy for the government to say its the parent’s responsibility to pay their child’s education; but the schools & the govt have a business relationship with each other in order to stick parents with even more debt for the sake of educating their children. As a parent, I taught my child to be financially responsible and independent because I have to also save for my retirement. At 18 years old, a child can apply for credit, rent apartments and apply for car loans. Why can’t the same child apply for school loans under FAFSA? Esp. under the circumstances the parent(s)saving for their retirement& not be dependent on their kids in their elder years. The DOE is such a joke because it appears to give grants to schools to help students only to issue $$$ loans and a grant!

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I am going through a REALLY bad divorce. My wife has taken advantage of my love for her and the children. I have signed every paper, and belived her words of "trust me". Then I found out she was having an affair, the true reason for the divorce. Since then she has kept my children from me and has used them as wepons. He Mother and Step-father have encouraged and supported her actions, and told me several times they will keep th kids away from me. I have always been the most loving father a father can be. I have treated my kids the way my father did not treat me. Now I have nothing and am alone. She filed a temp restraining order based on lies & now I have no contact with my kids untill the court date and maby not after that if the judge grants the order. Everyone is telling me to trust God and pray that he is breaking me and I need to wait and that God will fix or restore eveything.

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