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Help with aggressive 4 year old
I need help. I have a 4 (nearly 5) year old girl and a 2 (almost) 3 year old boy. DD is very demanding and has been since birth, where as DS is a happy go lucky type. They constantly fight and DD can get quite aggressive, to the point where I have to step in almost everytime for fear of DS getting hurt. She has trouble expressing herself and even though I try to teach her "if DS does something you dont like, come and see me and I will help to sort it out". She says ok and then will tell me "she forgot" next time they get in a squabble. I am at my wits end. They cannont be around each other, in the car, at home, the shops. I am going mad. Seperately they are both angels. I dont want DD's attitude rubbing off on DS. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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gum disease
Hello, l have just be told by my dentist that l have gum disease and it can never be cured but can be treated. My question is does anyone know what the treatment is and how often it has to be done?...l feel bad as l am only young and l should have looked after my teeth and gums. Is it common and does anyone else have it? Thanks heaps for your help.
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pregnacy test
hi all i am on the pill and wasnt trying to get pregnant (although i would love another baby) however its been about a month since my last period (sometimes i skip them) but anyway i have been sooooo tired lately and peeing alot so i decided to do a test and got a faint line BUT the line is going horizontaly across the window but all the postive results pics show it going vertically... what does this mean?
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Minti sign
Doe's anyone know how to get rid of the join minti now sign from coming up on the screen every time you log in
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12 year old boy looking for books
hi all,
my 12year old son has recently discovered the joys of reading novels. he has read all the "tomorrow when the war began" series by john marsden, just finished "the hunger games" trilogy and is now so desperate for reading material he has even cracked open my "twilight" books (poor lad lol). my question is, other than harry potter, does anybody know of any decent novels/series that i could get him into? i dont want him to go backwards to things like "captain underpants" or "diary of a wimpy kid" type books, but they are the ones marketed for his age group - i know he has gone way past them. all other teenage novels seem to be aimed at girls. the last thing i want to do is let his enthusiasm for reading wane, as it was hard enough to fire up in the first place! any suggestions appreciated!! =)
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Very CONCERNED friend...please help
I have a friend who has a beautiful baby girl. The baby is now 8 months old. There baby was diagnosed with a hole in her heart. i understand that so many babys are born with this condition and grow up perfectly fine!! My concerned now is that the parents are very alternative parents, what worrys me is that they are refusing surgery which the surgeons recommened. The test results show that she is doing really well and they want to still go ahead with the surgery to correct everything while she is still young. The parents argument is they do not want them doing the surgery because she is fine at the moment, so why do it?? i am just so worried as they do not want to listen to all the doctors and surgeons that are taking care of him, and also at the last routine check, they insisted they DO NOT sedate there baby and had a huge argument with the surgoens and specialist and then they took there child and have not been in contact with any doctors etc since. We saw the family a few weeks ago, and there baby looked very malnutricianed and weak and even a little jaundiced. They do not feed her properly, the baby is 8 months old now and they only feed her one serve of veiges a day and the rest is just a few bottles of home made formula which they concoct themselves out of probiotics and ground up nuts. The poor bubs has very low muscle tone and cant hold her bottles, or even sit up etc. I am just so worried, but am too scared to say anything as they run away and get very defensive over eveything anyone says about there parenting. Im just not sure how to approach them with my concerns. It worries me that because she isnt getting immunised they do not have any contact with doctors or midwifes or nurses. They do not take there child to get regular weight in etc so nobody is there to tell them there baby needs more food etc. How do i approach them? i do not want them to walk away from us? i am just so worried they are doing so much harm to there baby. DO i report them?? Please help!!!
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Terrible Two's??
Okay so i'm having a lot of trouble with my two year old son right now!!! He is super independent (which is great!) and I do encourage his independence however of course there are still things that I need to do for him and he screams and has a tantrum if I try to do anything for him. He's also a terrible eater...Hates most foods. Dinner time is the worst. I try to make meals with at least one food that I know he likes but then a lot of the time he'll only have one bite and then want to leave the table. If I tell him to have a couple more bites first, he starts screaming and crying and throwing a fit and will sometimes throw his plate on the floor. He has a tantrum if his 9 month old brother plays with any toys, even if their not his toys. He'll yank the toy out of his brother's hands and of course then my 9 month old cries. He throws a tantrum at bath time when it's time to get out of the bath because he wants to stay in there. I can't really think of anything that he doesn't have a tantrum about! Of course he always has one when he doesn't get his way.
Also bedtime is terrible!! He makes excuse after excuse to stay awake. Banging on his door and yelling "Mommy! Mommy!" Saying he needs to go potty...I take him to the potty and he doesn't go, he just ends up wanting to play with the toilet paper roll. (Toilet training is another issue!). He cries for some milk, or another story, or another song, more hugs, more kisses...etc. Sometimes bedtime can take a couple of hours because he just fights it!
Also lately he has stopped saying "I love you Mommy" back to me when I tell him that I love him. Seriously he could go days without saying it. Sometimes I ask him to say it to me because I miss him saying it back! Haha. Sometimes I feel like he really doesn't love me any more because I spend most of my time dealing with his tantrums. I do get frustrated at times because I am a single mother of him and his 9 month old brother. Obviously my 9 month old needs a lot of attention too.
I just don't know what to do! Is this normal behaviour for a two year old? Any advice? HELP!
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potty training
can I get tips on potty training ?
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4 year old constantly crying.
My little girl is 4 constantly crying over everything and anything throughout the day. She whales and screams when I tell her we have to go to the store, when I try to dress her, when we leave a park, friends house, preschool, when she doesn't like something I made for dinner, when we go to church, when she needs a bath, if I correct her in front of her friends, etc....it's constant and it's driving me crazy! She'll cry and cry at least five times during one day. She doesn't go on many play dates w/o me but a few times my close girlfriend has watched her for me and as soon as I walk in the door she starts crying saying she doesn't want me and doesn't want to leave. She is an only child but I try to take her to as many play dates as I can, usually 3 times a week. Plus she goes to preschool twice a week and loves to play with our front neighbors daily. It's never enough though. After playing at the park or in the front yard for hours she will still come in the house crying and asking who will play with her inside. Both my husband and I try to play with her but she wants constant attention and cries if she doesn't have it. Is this normal? WHat can I do to minimize the crying?
Also, she has this thing where she doesn't like it when people say nice things about her, like what she's wearing. If they do, for example, say "I like your shirt" she'll want to tuck it away and never wear it again. She's not really shy, but she doesn't like compliments I guess. If we go somewhere to meet a friend she'll ask, "What are they gonna say?" She's always so worried about who will be there and what people will say about her or to her. Is this normal?
ANother thing I'm worried about is that she likes to copy what people are wearing and doing. For example, if we go to the park and her friend is wearing a skirt and she is wearing shorts, she'll cry and want to go back home and change into a skirt. Or if she has on a sweater and a friend takes off her sweater she'll automatically want to take hers off too and if I tell her to be herself she'll just cry. Once we were at a park and as soon as she saw that her friend wasn't wearing tights with her skirt she immediately stated taking off her skit (it was one that had shorts sown on) in order to take off her tights. When I turned around all she had on was her underwear and was trying to put on her skirt...in the middle of the park with people around! How can I encourage her to be unique and just be herself? I don't know how to explain this to a four year old. Has anyone else had this experience before? She's only 4!
Between the crying, the copying and the not sharing I am at my whits end. Today she cried over going to the store to buy medicine for my cough, putting on a shirt, b/c I moved her dolls from the kitchen to the living room, cried b/c a friend told me she was being notty, cried b/c her friend gave another fried a bracelet that she thought she shouldn't have given away...oh my! That was what did it for me today. I marched her right to the car and drove home so annoyed and angry. I couldn't believe she was crying over something that had nothing to do with her. I couldn't even drive home. She was crying so much in the car! I had to pull over and give myself a brief time out before going in again. I lost my patience. I told her that if she didn't stop crying I'd drop her off on the side of the road. I'm so ashamed of that, not that I would ever in a million years do that but I couldn't take it anymore. I've noticed I lose my patience with her so much more often. I don't know what to do. Please, any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. I love my little girl. She is a blessing and is a joy....when she's NOT crying! :( what can I do?
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A food question
Hi,
I have been told that my 6.5 year old is underweight. He is tall for his age (not sure of his height) and weighs 18kg. His sibling who is 2 years younger weighs 2 kg more than him and i am told she is "healthy but not over weight"
My problem is i need healthy recipe ideas that will suit our family. Our 6.5 year old has a wide range of food allergies which includes a lot of veggies, eggs, peanuts, colours and preservatives. He refuses to eat any meats, he actually gags if i try and hide them in his food. At the moment he lives on plain pasta and plain rice, wholemeal bread and not much else. Even with all the carbs he just can't put on weight. We have had him checked over and had some bloods taken by his doctor and apart from the allergies he is an extreamly healthy boy.
Just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some websites that have recipes suited to allergy families? I will add that he loves kidney beans and chick peas and basically any bean that vegaterians like.lol
hope someone can help me............
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6YO Being Stubborn
Hi, I am having this challenge with my 6YO boy. He likes to draw a lot and he only wants to use clean A4 paper with a pen. When he gets mistakes he would dump the paper and get a new piece. I became concerned that he is using up too much clean paper and offered him used paper so he can use the unused side but he refused. I explained to him about being environmentally friendly but he just did not buy the idea. He refused to draw if I force him to use these 'rough' paper. Sometimes it ends up in frustration and tears cos he just wanted clean paper every time. I hate it when he makes mistakes and dump the paper out of frustration. I dont know what I should do. He is stubborn but in many areas he is able to give in but not with paper. Do you have any kid in similar situation and what would you do? I dont want to be so heavy-handed I dont want to stifle his creativity or end his hobby but I am going nuts trying to get him to use used paper instead of clean paper. Thanks.
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implanon & side effects
hello i am hoping someone can help me...
i have noticed that since i have had my implanon in that i have lost a lot of hair and wanted to know if it has happened to anyone else?
hoping someone can help me...
thank you :)
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trying to be a stay at home mom
after losing my job and going more than a year without a single interview, ive been forced to pull my daughter out of day care and im going to be a stay at home mom. im not really taking to it well though. all my 4 year old wants to do is watch tv or play computer games, she throws tantrums when i ask her to clean up her mess, she wont sit down with me to read a book or draw or look at flash cards or any kind of learning activity, and she wont play outside. she was the complete opposite at day care. my mother in law told me i should stop trying to teach her things and concentrate on keeping my house clean, if i teach her too much she'll get bored at school and start acting out. that doesn't sound right to me, and not to bash her methods but none of her kids including my husband even finished 10th grade. i tried mothers groups for a while, theres 2 in my area and both church run, and i found them to be very judgemental at my anti religion, even though i didnt voice my opinions and tried to avoid all talk of religion where possible. also my daughter kept getting head lice. i guess what i want to know is what does every one else do? do you think its important for a child to learn to read and write before starting school? what activities do your children do during the day? how do you encourage a child to pick up after themselves? should i just get rid of all of her movies, let her go cold turkey?
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Vitamin C overdose
My 11 month old seems to be having very yellow and loose bowel movements for the past week. I am wondering what the cause may be. Could it be too much Vitamin C? My husband said he saw him eat 2 Vitamin chewable tablets.
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autism
Hi all. I know its been long time no see, but I was wondering if anyone could help me with something. I went to an education day today on child development which included info on autism spectrum. As i was sitting there listening to the signs, i was realising that my 7 year old son has been exhibiting most of the signs at mild degree since he was a baby. The developmental asessment doctor was there today and she will be emailing me the assessment form.......but I know there are a few mums on this site who have autistic children, so Im wanting to know- where to next if Lachlan is diagnosed? what helped with management? anything else that could be helpful...... thanks in advance,
Josie
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Knocked Knees
Was wondering if anyone has advice/exercises to push knocked knees out. Apparently there are exercises. There is a bone in the knee that fuses as a teenager and my sons hasnt fused. So the doctor said if i can get these exercises into place it will help before the bone fuses.
Hope that makes sense!!!!
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Wind - newborn
Asking on behalf of my SIL Sh has a 4 week old baby girl constant wind and not sleeping any ideas on how to help
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5 year old with ear pain
My Grandaughter is 5 and since she was small complained about the noise being too loud.She doesnt do that now but about three or four times a week starts cryng and says her ears hurt inside.It lasts for about 5 minutes and then she seems ok again.She has just started school but this started well before then.She also has had some anger issues and cries a lot but not much now.
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