How should my friend convince her parents to let her go on the school trip?
My school is organizing a spanish trip to costa rica for 9th through 12th graders and my parents will let me go. I really want one of my friends to come along but her parents wont let her. (were both in 9th grade, she’ll be 15 at the time of the trip) I don’t think [...]
In: Travel · Tagged with: Costa Rica, Friends, Organizing, Parents, passport, School Trip, spanish trip
How to make new baby gift basket?
My sister is due to give birth in a few months and my brother and I are planning on making up a gift basket for when he is born. Any parents have suggestions what would be useful to put in? We already have baby powder, shampoo, lotion etc, bibs, nappy rash cream, cotton buds and [...]
In: Pregnancy & Parenting · Tagged with: Baby Basket, Baby Gift Basket, baby powder, Baby Shampoo, Baby Sister, brother, clothes, cotton buds, gift basket, New Baby Gift Basket, Parents, rash cream, shampoo
How to get algae stains off of the glass?
My tank is an old 46 gallon bowfront that my parents used to have set up, but decided to take fdown and told me I could have it to put whatever I want into it. The problem is there are some algae stains on the glass. I mean stains, not just algae. There is no [...]
In: Pets · Tagged with: algae, Parents, stains, tank, Water Tank
How old must one be to get a passport without their parents accompanying them?
I am 17 and I live in the US. I am planning a trip to Canada and I need to get a passport.But my parents dont know. Do I have to have a parent with me to get my passport. Or can I get it on my own? If you are 17 will a written [...]
In: Politics & Government · Tagged with: canada, parental consent, Parents, passport, planning a trip
How to determine the parent cross of heterozygous?
My homework is to determine the parent crosses of "Heterozygous green pod color X yellow pod". How do I figure out the phenotype and genotype? I know how to use punnett squares, I’m just not sure which letters to use. Does heterozygous mean BOTH parents have heterozygous allele?
In: Science & Mathematics · Tagged with: allele, Crosses, homework, Parents, phenotype and genotype, pod color, punnett squares
What does abortion actually do to a fetus?
I’ve been having a big debate about the moral right/wrongness of abortion with my parents and they say all kinds of horrible things that happen to it. The problem is they are so inconsistent about what it actually does or how it’s done that I’m not sure I can trust anything they say on the [...]
In: Pregnancy & Parenting · Tagged with: Abortion, Debate, fetus, Parents, wrongness
How to deal with loneliness and misanthropy?
I feel incredibly lonely and sad. I live in a rural area with my parents and have no real friends off the Internet. But I find that, when I have the opportunity, I despise interacting with others and just want to be alone. So when I’m alone, I long for companionship, but when I have [...]
In: Social Science · Tagged with: bores, companionship, How To Deal With Loneliness, interacting with others, Lonely, Parents, real friends, rural area, Sad, sleep, verge, woes.
Is it shallow or wrong for childfree people to avoid dating parents?
If you don’t want kids of your own, why would you want to deal with someone else’s? On the other hand, could you be missing out on a really great guy/girl by limiting yourself to other childfree people only? If you are childfree, would you date a parent? If you’re a parent, would you date [...]
In: Social Science · Tagged with: Heck, Parents, People Dating
Need a good explanation to my parents why a senior trip is important?
Me and a friend are planning a trip to europe this next summer after we graduate and before we go to college and are parents are kinda open to the idea but we need convincing. I know I’m going out of state and she might be, so I think a good argument is that its [...]
In: Travel · Tagged with: finding time, milestones, Parents, planning a trip, planning a trip to europe, poor college students, Senior Trip, trip to europe
how to deal with a 4 yrs old female child addicted to masturbation?
my 4 yr old cousin is addicted to masturbation and does it very often. even in front of guests. which is very embarrassing for her parents and guests too. her parents are not stopping her because they think she’ll grow out of it. and stopping her might embarras her to the point that she’d get [...]
In: Social Science · Tagged with: Child Masturbation, cousin, Female Child, female masturbation, Parents, sexuality