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I have never been a stepchild nor have I had any stepchildren yet. So my view on this matter is purely theoretical. However I believe a stepfather should behave just like any other normal biological father. Being a father has very little to do with DNA.

Learning self-defense is a good idea. However, even if you cannot find a place to send your children to learn self-defense, you can still teach them some self-preservation skills. The first thing you can teach them is to avoid potentially fight-positive situations.

Actually I never got the talk from my father and I grew up fine. So I never gave the talk to my own children and they grew up fine, too.

I worry about every single child that I had. No two deliveries are the same. Fortunately all my children were born well. Then I worry about bringing them up properly.

No, I don't take sides. What I do is follow my mother's example. When I was a kid, and I fought with my brother, my mother would spank both of us. She's not interested in who started the fight first. The net result was that my brother and I learned not to fight.

As for complications, it's not exactly an open-and-shut case. I remember reading a report about how people who have children later in life would produce children with problems. Then, not much later, I read another report which says people who have children later would produce smarter children.

No, I have no faith in that kind of rating. What they consider to be appropriate for children is not always what I consider to be appropriate for my own children. So I do my own rating.

Maybe we should be taking a good look at ourselves in the mirror. We may be the ones who need to go on a weight loss program. However, don't do it all of a sudden. Some women are always ready to suspect something fishy when their husbands start trying to look better.

We definitely need sugar because that's where we get our energy from. However, most of the time, we are consuming more sugar than we are burning off as energy. So our bodies keep the sugar. As fat.

I always believe in having children early. It's kind of like something that has to be done. Then when all the children have grown up, it's my own time. I don't owe anyone a living anymore. What I do with my time is my own business.

You are assuming that a door can be knocked on just because it is there. A door is not exactly public property. Neither is the front doorstep public thoroughfare.

The way I understand how children react, I think they can sense any conflicts between their parents even if they don't hear any shouting matches, awake or asleep. There is a lot in the body language of the parents that the children can read very easily.

No, not me. I have no reason to. My children are the treasures of my life. They are my hope for the future. If they do better than me, then my dreams are fulfilled. No, I don't resent my children.

Sad that it happened like this. Maybe you should be asking yourself what you have been teaching your daughter all this while. Little girls do not really turn into grown-up girls overnight.

No, your son is not going to grow up any faster than he will. Just relish each moment you have with him. This is a one-time one-way trip. Once it's past, it's gone forever.

This is a very difficult time indeed. When I first broke up with the old lady, my children wouldn't talk to me. And they were all adults already. However, after a couple of years, they realized that there are two sides to every story and now I am accepted by my children again. So in your case...

Ah, time flies, my friend, time flies. Before you know it, those little kids would be grown up and leaving the home. Then you will be wondering where they have all gone to. Now is the only time you have with the little kids.

I can't quite agree with that. Discouraging unwanted visitors is a long way from isolating ourselves. Just because we don't like to have strangers knocking on our doors doesn't mean that we cannot go out and meet people whom we want to meet. As for new ideas, there are lots of sources for new...

From the way you put it, it sounds like a marriage is all about money then. Inheritance and insurance are all about money, right? In that case, we might as well have a business contract to replace the marriage certificate.

Please let your friend know that I am praying that God will guide him on the right path. True, they say that it's the duty of the soldier to do and die and not to question why but I still pray that he will have enough strength to do what is right and not just what he is told to do.