Welcome to the Lo-Fi, text only version of Essential Baby's forums.

The Essential Baby forums cover all areas of parenting and stages development for babies, toddlers and kids as well as parenting lifestyle areas including Family Travel, Finances, Nutrition & Wellbeing, Recipes and more! If you'd like to post and interact with EB's parenting forums read more articles about conception, pregnancy, babies, toddlers, kids or more please visit Essential Baby for the full site experience.
Home - Become a Member - Login - Forums
Full Version: 8-12 years ( The pre-teen years)
HOME | CONCEPTION | PREGNANCY | BIRTH | BABY | TODDLER | KIDS | LIFESTYLE | TOOLS

Essential Baby > Toddler & Kids > 8-12 years ( The pre-teen years)
Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
  1. 5yo - Problems at school (8 replies)
  2. Toilet accidents (0 replies)
  3. Book Week (15 replies)
  4. Easy Costumes for Book Parade (12 replies)
  5. Books for a 6 year old (8 replies)
  6. Smartass things your older kids do (4 replies)
  7. Head licee (16 replies)
  8. Changing schools late in the year (2 replies)
  9. Anyone have kids at Oakhill College? (8 replies)
  10. Reading at night (18 replies)
  11. Need advice from been there done that parents! (6 replies)
  12. Rep Sport, what age? (10 replies)
  13. Whooping cough booster (17 replies)
  14. Walking to and from school- what age? (22 replies)
  15. New Adult Teeth (2 replies)
  16. Almost 6 year old aroused watching a kiss (16 replies)
  17. What age would you let your child go to the movies (11 replies)
  18. How to get my DD7 to go to sleep at night (22 replies)
  19. Ikea Malm Single Bed (1 reply)
  20. SYD - Inner West - Help with tutor (5 replies)
  21. teaching 6year old about stranger danger (2 replies)
  22. SON SELF HARMED (26 replies)
  23. What the? why are we arguing over this? (16 replies)
  24. Comment here if you have school holiday itis (3 replies)
  25. How to remove Armpit hair for the first time (26 replies)
  26. Karate..... (0 replies)
  27. 6 YO Son Poo'd in Pants @ his fathers... (6 replies)
  28. ZHU ZHU OR MONSTER HIGH? (20 replies)
  29. Bedwetters (13 replies)
  30. School Dentist (4 replies)
  31. Guitar Lessons for 8 yr old (1 reply)
  32. Parents of older teens (15 replies)
  33. books for 6yr old (8 replies)
  34. teasing by a schoolmate (6 replies)
  35. Bottom Front Baby Tooth Missing (6 replies)
  36. How does 9 yr old girl entertain herself? (21 replies)
  37. Night Party for 12 year Old (12 replies)
  38. Nintendo DS (lite, 3DS, XL?) which is best ? (5 replies)
  39. Front baby tooth turning grey on my 5yo. DS (11 replies)
  40. Has your child ever skipped a grade at School? (18 replies)
  41. 7.5 year old with breast bud (9 replies)
  42. 3 days in and it's still working... (4 replies)
  43. Music lessons (7 replies)
  44. Trinity Luthern College & Emmanuel College Gold Coast (1 reply)
  45. Anybody's 8.5yo boy (5 replies)
  46. Too early to run their own bath/shower (27 replies)
  47. Does your 5y/o kindy/prep child actually EAT their lunch? (14 replies)
  48. 6 yr old girl birthday pressie ideas (6 replies)
  49. Party Games for 8 year old birthday party (0 replies)
  50. Reading Eggs (18 replies)
  51. Writing stencil (0 replies)
  52. Angry explosive 9yo (4 replies)
  53. Finally! - high school confirmation letter! (4 replies)
  54. Almost 10 year old DD still playing with soft toys (81 replies)
  55. Big age gap between siblings (16 replies)
  56. taking son out of year one for an appointment each week ? (44 replies)
  57. Not to girly girl clothes for a 11 year old? (7 replies)
  58. Braces and eating advice (11 replies)
  59. Bedtime stories... (9 replies)
  60. 5 yo...over ABC kids.. (25 replies)
  61. Child bored at school (2 replies)
  62. After school (19 replies)
  63. explaining menstruation to 10year old? (38 replies)
  64. Sex (1 reply)
  65. what would you do in this case? (2 replies)
  66. Jealousy, competitiveness, anger management issues (0 replies)
  67. Puberty blues (9 replies)
  68. OMG What is wrong with her (26 replies)
  69. What state is your kids rooms in? (31 replies)
  70. Teenagers and drugs (0 replies)
  71. Upset at extracurricular activity (11 replies)
  72. What's up with her hair? (8 replies)
  73. Quick - need help with 6 year old coughing? (16 replies)
  74. My six year old loses EVERYTHING (8 replies)
  75. NSW Kindergarten (2 replies)
  76. Acne (8 replies)
  77. Year two girls bullying my daughter (4 replies)
  78. what nintendo wii game for 13 yo girl (8 replies)
  79. Bedwetting (6 replies)
  80. the pill for painful periods in teenagers (35 replies)
  81. What gifts for an 11 year old girl? (6 replies)
  82. Discouraging friendships: primary school aged child (9 replies)
  83. My 10 DD is suffering anxiety (4 replies)
  84. URGENT... PLEASE HELP! (22 replies)
  85. 13th Birthday Present for a Girl (13 replies)
  86. Annoyed at what's happening at DD's school (7 replies)
  87. is my child overweight? (30 replies)
  88. Kindergarten traumas (2 replies)
  89. Sleep over For 7 year old? (37 replies)
  90. Paediatric Opthalmologists (10 replies)
  91. How much would you charge, if anything? (22 replies)
  92. If you have a son and daughter share a room- what does it look like? Pics? (14 replies)
  93. Broadening kids' food tastes (5 replies)
  94. 10 yo maths help (22 replies)
  95. My almost 9yo son is not understanding basic maths (8 replies)
  96. . (6 replies)
  97. kids and drugs (1 reply)
  98. how old to 'get' when things won't really happen (5 replies)
  99. Moved: What grade for these spelling words? (-- replies)
  100. Moved: School Reader Question... (-- replies)
  101. Your ratio of niceness is way high mum... (2 replies)
  102. Tooth Fairy (31 replies)
  103. Tubby kids (16 replies)
  104. How tall is your 8yo? (28 replies)
  105. Independence for 8-10yo (10 replies)
  106. Bunk Beds? (6 replies)
  107. School record/keepsake books (1 reply)
  108. Book on puberty etc for 10yr old... (14 replies)
  109. 8 yold and something I inadvertently read in diary "sex" (8 replies)
  110. Update: My prep kid being bullied... (9 replies)
  111. The world hates me, negative 8 yo. (3 replies)
  112. Tell me about your child with ADHD (16 replies)
  113. 8yr old foreskin question (0 replies)
  114. Why are teenage girls so horrible? (9 replies)
  115. Which scooter? (3 replies)
  116. Sleep overs at boyfriends house? (83 replies)
  117. What TV Shows for 12 year olds? (10 replies)
  118. DSD obsessed with appearance (3 replies)
  119. Itchy head (6 replies)
  120. Silly Question (15 replies)
  121. 6yr old girl scratching down below! (20 replies)
  122. 10 1/2 YO DD with period? (13 replies)
  123. NAPLAN Sorry if this has been done (22 replies)
  124. When did your child learn to dry themselves? (30 replies)
  125. Thumb sucking at almost 7 (13 replies)
  126. Flesh/nude colour crop tops (16 replies)
  127. Any School Teachers out there? (5 replies)
  128. Recommended Maths and English textbooks for year 2? (9 replies)
  129. Is this fair? Should I say something? (10 replies)
  130. 8 & 9 year old girls being nasty (30 replies)
  131. Need a Primary teacher's perspective - help! (4 replies)
  132. Insurance for your kids at school (12 replies)
  133. Dressing your 10 - 12 year old daughter (17 replies)
  134. 9 yo with very unpleasant body odour (7 replies)
  135. My year 2 DD has a manipulative friend (3 replies)
  136. Pre Teen Buddy group (18 replies)
  137. Primary School Tours (0 replies)
  138. Children's book on evolution? (6 replies)
  139. kids on buses (5 replies)
  140. Is a Nintendo DS ok for a 6 yr old? (17 replies)
  141. Bedwetting after 18 months being dry....? (6 replies)
  142. When did you let your child sit in the front seat of the car? (50 replies)
  143. bickering siblings (3 replies)
  144. 6 year old keeps messing in his jocks (13 replies)
  145. the role of a teacher in year one ? (23 replies)
  146. Need advice pleeease. (1 reply)
  147. 7 yr old DS mentioning sex? (11 replies)
  148. Has anyone put their children in a private swimming lesson? (7 replies)
  149. Non-religious private schools? (36 replies)
  150. Super Why party for 6yr old (7 replies)
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.
Essential Baby is the place to find parenting information and parenting support relating to conception, pregnancy, birth, babies, toddlers, kids, maternity, family budgeting, family travel, nutrition and wellbeing, family entertainment, tips for the family home, child-friendly recipes and parenting. Try our pregnancy due date calculator to determine your due date, or our ovulation calculator to predict ovulation and your fertile period. Our pregnancy week by week guide shows your baby's stages of development. Access our very active mum's discussion groups in the Essential Baby forums to talk to mums about conception, pregnancy, birth, babies, toddlers, kids and parenting lifestyle. Essential Baby also offers a baby names database of more than 22,000 baby names, popular baby names, boys' names, girls' names and baby names advice in our baby names forum. For the latest baby clothes, maternity clothes, maternity accessories, toddler products, kids toys and kids clothing, breastfeeding and other parenting resources, check out Essential Baby.