I personally don't think its stressful to gift people with presents. I like giving and receiving gifts. Most of all I really like http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dmthesie/sending-flowers.html to my girlfriends workplace. It doesn't cost that much and she is always positively surprised. But hey maybe she's easy to gift.

You’re right its really a personal decision that you should make. First of course i suggest that you should start by being honest with your kid, after all, it not a uncommon thing having a single parent nowadays and it better that he knows since he is already in the stage where he would start asking a lot of things, lying would only make him hate you in the end. Secondly, if you feel that you are doing just fine without a partner then maybe you’d just be messing it up when you force yourself to get one just cause of peer pressure. As long as you know you are doing the right thing for you child, giving him enough love and support, then you should be ok.

Since your niece is only 14 she shouldn’t really be worrying much about her height since she is still in her growing years up until 16 or 18 when er bone plates close up. Having artificial hormones will only have side effect or may have possible bad drawbacks to her so i suggest that she should avoid getting such. proper diet and exercise should continue stimulating her growth hormones. After her growing years and she reaches her maximum height, that’s really about her genetic make-up.

I think that it is better if you secure a job first before quitting your current job especially if you really need to work for you family since that way you know you won’t be left hanging waiting for another job to come by which may have a great effect on your financial status.Though sometimes, if you are already very sure of your plans, it is more ethical if you at least inform your superior if you feel that he/she is cool with it, at least they have an idea about the possible job vacancy and you can bid farewells properly.

Personally i believe that parent’s nowadays should be able to motivate their children early on as there are already a lot of factors that may distract children nowadays, probably early on in their kindergarten years at least parents should be able to gear their children toward their hobbies or strengths that they may develop them well since these talents maybe handy in their future chosen career though some parents may come off as dictating or pushy which i believe in a bad way of handling children, right motivation and full support is the key.