First of all, I hope you will forgive me for using this forum for business purposes, but I simply can't keep this to myself. It would be selfish. My 11 year old was diagnosed at age 7 with bipolar disorder. For the past 4 years it has been a constant battle to get him stabilized. He would have rages that lasted for hours and I would have to send the little ones to lock themselves in their rooms and ask the teenagers to help me restrain him... and spackle the walls when it was over. In Octo...

I found a box of kitchen matches in my 6yo son's bedroom. We've had the fire safety talk, so I figured that this infraction calls for a punishment. I believe the punishment shoud fit the crime, logical consequences, all that stuff we learned at Mommy school. I have heard of some parents who touch there children with a burnt match to teach them that fire hurts. They argue that it is better to have a little burn than to be engulfed in flames. This teaches children that big people have permis...