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any moms of older kids on?
Like preteen/teens? I have two random questions. Ian is 11 and I am kind of struggling with this "in between" stage. He's not a little kid, but he's not a teenager either, so I kind of don't know what to do with him.
1. Do you get any parenting magazines that are for moms of older kids or include older kids? I get Parents, Parenting, and Cookie, but there is very little that addresses kids over age 7 or 8.
2. Where do you shop for their clothes? Ian is getting too old for Gap Kids, crewcuts, etc. even though some of it still fits. We shop Old Navy, Target, and department stores, but I don't have a place I love. There is an H&M Kids near our new house but I haven't checked it out yet.
Since I can only think of a few of you with older kids I probably typed this for no reason, but any help is appreciated! 
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Re: any moms of older kids on?
the teen gets a lot of her stuff from hollister and abercrombie. ?and she likes a lot of stuff from pac sun, too.
i get those parenting magazines too, but you're right - they don't really address the tween/teen ages. ?although i really just take it day by day with her. ?we have a really great, open relationship, and she knows she can talk to me about anything.
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what exactly is it that you "don't know what to do with him"??
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oh honey, that won't happen, ever. ?
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in regards to the other stuff, she does have a myspace account that she uses to talk to her friends. ?it's set to "private" and she's not allowed to add anyone unless she actually knows them. ?she picks out her own clothes, and thankfully, she's pretty conservative in what she wears. ?tees, skinny jeans, and hoodies every day. ?she's got a cell phone (mostly because i only have her every other week and i hate calling her dad's house, ha) and she's not allowed to talk or text after 9pm. ?and as for tv, she still loves disney channel shows.
i love when she does things that prove she's still just a kid.?
Thanks!
DS hasn't been interested in MySpace, etc yet, but he does go on Club Penguin. I just try to monitor and make sure he knows I'm watching.
He does have a cell phone too because he walks to and from school and has it for emergencies.
DS has zero interest in clothes which I'm sure is a boy thing. It just seems there is no in between for boys clothes, it's either super little kid looking or it is the same stuff the guys on the CW are wearing. LOL.
My SS is about to turn 14, so I've been there but he's past all traces of boyhood now and is very much a teen
. We never got any magazines, so no help there. We buy him clothes mostly at Old Navy and have for several years. His mom buys him clothes mostly at Walmart. He does not care about his clothes at all. Long jean shorts and t-shirts with "cool" designs or smart-alec sayings on them are what he wears. When he was a few years younger he loved his Spong Bob t-shirt, and a couple shirts with dragon graphics on them, that sort of thing.
Pack his lunch and backpack? Yes, he can. As long as someone tells him specifically what to pack.... put the sandwich in a sandwich bag not the first ziploc bag you find because that's a gallon size, no you can't have that many cookies in your lunch, don't put the lunch at the bottom of your backpack under the heavy books, do not sigh like that at me, yes please pack it now before you forget, no you can't do it later, what about this stuff don't forget to pack it too, put it by the door so you won't leave it....
Anyway, starting with 6th grade we taught him to do laundry so he can help more with that, he's been unloading the dishwasher since before then (though we used to take the knives out before he started). For stuff like cleaning his room, I find it's best to give very specific directions - put your clothes in the laundry basket, pick up the toys and put them on the shelves, put the magazines in the magazine boxes, clear the floor so that you can vaccuum.
Oh, and he bought his own laptop when he was 11 - he had saved all his gift money and allowance for 2 years to buy it. He didn't go online much back then except to one of those virtual pet sites. He knows we check what he's been doing online.