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10 Year Old Defiant Son

I am so desperate for any advice from other parents of 10 year old boys. My son is not at all respectful of my discipling him, he doesn't care what I threaten him with. He is afraid if I say I am going to go get dad though. I just don't know what to do to get him to understand that what I say goes. He also says he doesn't care if he fails his classes, although we have treatened punishment and offered incentives to doing well. He will do good one week and the next doesn't care. I guess I would just like to know that there are other moms out...

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12 Year Molars Coming up in My 8 Year Old.

Does anyone have experience with this? My 8 year old told me she was having pain in her mouth before bedtime last night, so I took a flashlight and took a peek and sure enough her 12 year molars are getting ready to poke through. My concern is not so much that she's an early bloomer in this area but that she's only lost 5 baby teeth so far and some of them had to be pulled because there was no room for the adult tooth that was coming in. She is little thing with tiny features and I'm concerned that the dentist is going to want to start...