Is it okay to raise a child bi-lingual if your partner can't speak the other language?

I think its something that would be beneficial to the child, but also fear that it could become a block where one's partner feels left out.

Thoughts?

My 2nd grader's friends already have cell phones. I refuse to get her one yet, but this year seemed like the right time to get my 6th grader one. It wasn't even a week before she needed a lesson on texting etiquette. She was constantly texting at places like the dinner table.

It was amazing how quickly this obsession took hold of her but I also use my phone like a mad woman so at least I "get it". With a couple exceptions, most of my friends just a few years older don't use theirs nearly as much as I do. Most of the older generations in my family still have no idea how to even send a text and hate how the younger generation constantly has phones going off during family gatherings. The "generation y" line has been drawn. I can't wait for stories of how people had to walk uphill barefoot both ways in the snow to get to a library for a book report....

Kindergarten teacher giving kindergartners candy/sugary sweets on nearly a daily basis.
Yay or nay?

Imagine your pregnant. Now imagine that instead of a nice neat bump you have a huge one. When people you don't know or barely know come up to you in the street and say things like "Wow, that's a big one!" or "Who ate all the pies? Hahahaha." would you just put up with it or would you tell them where to go? Is it offensive to say such things to a pregnant woman or is it just friendliness? Is it wrong if the woman gets offended?...

i am currently 18, and have moved in with my grandmother,72, to get to know her more.
i go to college full time, and work two part-time jobs (somehow my life isnt very busy)

my grandmother is an interior designer and has her own business. she was also married at 16 (she had a tough home situation) and moved a lot due to the army. because of this she is very demanding and controlling. which in my view is completely understandable- i am young and able to change, while her life is set in stone....

I am new to posting and this site.  I found this site only after trying to find a site I could cut and paste a story I started writing over 10 years ago, and did not want to take a chance in ever losing it.  I am glad to see a site with questioning parents!  So here is mine. 
Does it seem crazy to anyone else that when your child comes home from school, you look at their homework and notice that they are not correcting spelling errors anymore?  They tell me that as long as they can understand what is written it will not be marked wrong.  I have one child that will be graduating soon and another entering 2nd grade, I have been fighting the school for my older daughter for years and hoped and prayed that things would improve when my youngest started.  Should we not expect or better yet demand our kids learn the fundamentals of our language? ...

My son is only two months old but already says: " Mama " , " Dada ", " No " , and " Hungry " , is that normal?

We are re-locating our (military) family from California to Georgia. For the move, I've made arrangements to leave our 15 month old with my mother-in-law in WV. I'll be flying out to CA for a week to pack everything up and the husband and I will be driving cross-country, picking up our son, and continuing on to GA.
My side of the family insists that I am being selfish and not thinking of my child, and that I should stay in WV while my husband makes the cross-country drive alone....

A friend of mine recently posted on her facebook something like "This morning I caught my 5 year old killing bugs in the garden and had to have a talk with him. Please teach your children to respect life!"

I was surprised how much of a debate this comment caused! Some people told her killing bugs was an excellent way to teach "cause and effect," others just laughed it off and said "They're only bugs. It's not like he was abusing a dog." and yet others completely agreed with her - unless a creature poses a threat, you should teach children to respect it and leave it be, particularly outside....

Hey I am new to this post and I wanted your opinion on this.
 
I have recently turned 20 and as a gift from my boyfriend he is taking me to a six flags out of town. So it will be an overnight trip. My parents believe that I shouldn't go because I shouldn't be sharing a room with a male that isn't my husband. I have decided that I am going, but my parents are mad and lately have hardly spoken to me. And I still live with them.  My parents are old fashioned and very conservative. I am not, I do have some conservative values but at the same time I am like the other people my age. How can I get my parents to understand that I am growing up and that I need to be able to do things on my own? ...

Hi, I'm new to the group but I wanted to get involved and meet people who are either planning to have a baby, expecting or already have them maybe. Basically my situation is a bit weird because legally I'm male but I was born in the wrong body, several years ago I realised that I was in the wrong body and since changing into a man I feel a lot better about who I am and where I am in life. Being legally recognised as male was the final achievable goal as it were in my journey. There are still other steps for me to take on the long road ahead, it would have been a lot easier if I'd have been born as a boy but some people are born with all sorts of defects and issues from the mundane to the insane and that's how the world is....

*shy wave*

I'm 19 years old, and I have grown up with babies being born left and right on both sides of my family. My younger brother is 18, and my sister is 13. Our cousins on our dad's side are 14 (well, 13, but she'll be 14 in 19 days), 12, 5, and 4. On our mother's side, we have a 12 year old, a 10 year old, a 9 year old, a 4 year old, a 3 (at least, I think he's 3) year old, a 2 year old, and a 10-month-old. (the 4 year old and 10-month-old baby courtesy of my 24 year old cousin, and my mom has 2 sisters and 3 brothers)...

Hello to everyone and welcome to spot light week!  As a reminder, we have opened this community to all subjects, not just parenting related.  This community is not meant to be taken serious and to be fun and light.  But a post about topics like circumcision, racism, and abortion always bring out passionate opinions and trolls.  They never end well so I have deleted one post before it gets any more out of control, and ask that everyone please move along.  In the future, please approach subjects carefully because it's spotlight week and there will be a lot of trolls milling about with all the attention.  ...

Teenagers don't like being compared to other people. We don't like it when our parents go,"Well, if everybody else jumped off a bridge, would you do that too?"
Probably not. But this isn't about jumping off a bridge. This is about going to a party on Saturday.
For anyone who's ever gotten that speech, I understand how you feel.

Congratulations! Your daughter is marrying her live-in boyfriend of several years.

However-they have decided that while they will have a full ceremony and vows, they will not sign any marriage certificates and thus not be legally recognized as a married couple in anything other than their church/religious beliefs/etc. Your state doesn't recognize common-law marriage, and there are no legal hurdles to them getting a civil marriage-they just don't want it and do not have any intention of changing this....