hey Bron, Whats up?
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hey Bron, Whats up?
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Nothing hun..not much to say and its so darn quiet in here *L how you doing?
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hi bron.. ar eyou going to be online much longer.. have a day car question for you if that's ok...
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hun.. poopy's carer was saying yesterday that he grabs other children, not to harm them or anything but just goes and hugs them and they get scared and cry. he's done this before too. she reckons maybe he's frustrated fr teething so he's letting go off that extra energy. he's also been like playing w his toys and throwing them. he's done that at home but not from anger/frustration. he lifts up his blocks etc and gets excited and throws them up fast, and does it over and over again quickly. i think he enjoys throwing them up and seeing them fall and make a big noise and he laughs and does it again. he wants to do it all too quick.
should i be worried about him grabbing/hugging other children? is this normal?
thanks hun... xoxox
appreciate your expert opinion!
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Poopy is doing all the normal stuff hun. He doesnt have the language to tell his friends he is excited to see them and really enjoys their company. WIll does the same thing. We use the word "gentle" all the time and guide his hand to our face softly or to another childs face or body. Are the kids at day care younger than him or the same age? We have a lot of soft toys at home and try to encourage WIll to give them *hugs* and kisses maybe something else for Lakshman to hug onto.
The throwing is also normal too but not what you really want is it. A firm UH UH and show him how to roll them on the floor or stack the blocks instead. Its a hard one becasue WIll like to throw his balls to which really is what they are meant for arent they.
We found WIll was slapping our faces in excitment and we were always touching his hands and moving it away now just give a really sad face and say Poor mummy poor daddy and shake our heads it really affects him and his face gets sad. The tone and body language can help with the behaviour greatly.
It really is all very normal stuff though hun
It sounds like he really loves being with his friends at care though and its all very exciting
Last edited by india44; March 18th, 2009 at 08:55 AM.
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thanks bron!! makes me feel heaps better!!
maybe i should tell his carers if he does that, we tell him at home to be gentle. that's what we do, cos he doesnt know he can hurt someone unintentionally.
poopy doesnt like soft toys for some reason.. he seems humphrey at day care and says appa.. stve does look like a bear!
my mum did teach him the sad face thing and poor mummy/daddy/granny thing. we usually tell him no and tell him to be gentle and that it hurts. we'll start the sad face thing too.
he does love his dc now, he gets so excited as soon as i pullover. and often there's so much happening he doesnt even realise im saying good bye. he's such a sticky beak.
thansk so much hun!!
oh most of the kids his room are younger i think.
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Lol, Prama, Jesse is doing the same. 'Cept he's not in care, so I didn't think much about it. Til I thought about it.
I'll have to do a bit more to stop his pinching! Its cruel! He grabs us with his nails. I guess cutting his nails would be a good start, lol.
He was slapping our faces, but he's switched it for the clawing us! He's brought tears to my eyes a few times. Getting hold of my nose & lip. Nasty!
He's walking everywhere now, & carrying things around with him.
He's yelling Mum at me all the time now. Mainly when he wants to be picked up.
He's a bit sick with a chest infection atm, but he's coming good. He's finally starting to sleep through til around 5 in the morning too. This morning it was 6. YAY!!!!!!!
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH! He just wee'd on my clean clothes!!!! CRAP!!
He just got out of the shower & has nothing on & he wee'd on my basket full of clean clothes!!!!!!!!
GGGGGGGRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
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sorry skye but jesse was just too funny!! so typical of boys, huh!!
poopy still has a cold and ear infection. he finishes his anti-biotics today and we go back to his gp next week. poor darling.
i'm so impressed jesse's sleeping thru!! wow!! some real sleep huh!!
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I got the FDC lady to try Jazz on lactose free milk yesterday and I made her eat more at dinner time and she actually went down at 8:15pm! She sort of woke up at 1am though and I gave her a bottle and she went back to sleep. Then she woke at 6am when Matt was leaving for work so I brought her into bed with me for an hour.
At least we didn't have to drive her around last night to get her to sleep!
I'm going to get some Brauers Calm to see if that helps her sleep better.
Jazz hugs everyone at daycare too.
One of the kids got annoyed with her yesterday though because Jazz wanted to play with the same thing she was playing with. The girl pulled her hair and hit her on the head a few times and the FDC lady had to physically separate them and put the other girl in the naughty corner. Aparently she has a brother that is similar in age to Jazz and she does the same thing to him. The parents are going to be more strict with her now.
Jazz has started laughing at everything. Not a full on belly laugh though. She'll stand or sit there looking and pointing to something going Ha Haaa. Ha Haaa. I said to her in the car on the way to daycare this morning "I guess the world is kind of funny to a one year old" she just said "yeah" (who knows if she understood.
She's started shaking her head too. Usually when I'm trying to tell her to do something, she'll shake her head, so I say "yes" and she'll laugh and shake her head and in a laughing tone say "no" She's not doing it in a serious way thankfully, it seems to be a game she made up.
She now says "cat" and will call our white cat by name (Buddy). She usually says "uddy at" (because I call him Buddy Cat (Buddy is his name and I want her to remember that he's a cat).
Buddy was sitting on the side of the bath last night and Jazz thought that was funny. She kept trying to grab him and pull him into the bath.
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thats so cute danni!!
i forgot to say, this morning i gave poopy his antibiotics and he likes the taste. he kept wanting to lick the syringe and i said it's finished. and he went 'more, more'. i told them that's medicine, you cant have anymore. and then he goes 'more, more' lol.
they are so cute at this age arent they!!
oh, our daycare doesnt have a naughty corner policy
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Yeah Prama, they like ABs.
The girls always ask for a taste of them if one of them has them.
Jesse isn't on them atm. His is only a viral infection, so they won't help.
I like your new Av Danni.
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Thanks. I just noticed it and it caught me by surprise. I saw it and thought someone new had posted, then I realised it was me...bit blond huh!
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Morning!!!
how is everyone?
I hope Jesse is doing better now Skye - so have you decided to get some MCN's yet or still tossing up? Good on you for considering it!
Prama - when you were saying what Lakshman does at daycare, well i reckon that you could be writing about any baby at this age, seems pretty normal to me
Skye - re the pincing, MJ graps my lip and nose too, its really painful and despite clipping nails, she still manages to hurt. i am not an advocate of smacking, especially at this young age when they dont understand... how do you manage it, we are doing the sad face thing and moving her away, but she thinks that its a game.
Um, gotta go, my boss is looking like she is about to head iver here!
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thanks sj
lakshman grabs too and boy is it painful!! esp the lips. and then sticks his finger into my mouth to feel my teeth. well, at least it's not as bad as it for steve, poopy just grabs a fistful of chest hair!!
when poopy scratched my cornea, i was crying and he thought it was a game and he laughed. then he wasnt sure, it alternated between laughing and being confused and worried..
meeting now..
yaay! steve comes home today
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I was just pulling back & saying no, but that was amusing for him. So I'm thinking about doing the only thing that stopped the biting - doing it back.
I'm not so sure though. A gentle bite on the hand with out hurting him at all was enough. He just didn't like the feeling. Pinching doesn't seem to bother him. I don't want to hurt him, but I have no idea what to do.
When Anth pretends to cry, Jesse will start crying, so maybe the sad face will work with him.
I agree that I don't see the point in smacking. I did smack him on the hand at 2am this morning when he was up playing & pinching etc. Out of desperation, but he didn't even feel it, so it didn't phase him at all!
Boys are so different! Neither of the girls were amused by biting, pinching, or punching (something he does to the boys - Dad, Anth & some mates.)
He doesn't punch at girls, or other kids, only adult males. He knows it gets their attention & they think its neat coz he's a boy, lol.
All I can hope is that he grows out of the pinching! I think its just something they forget about. Whereas biting is hard. Jaz was a biter when she got excited. She'd come running at you all excited & give you a cuddle & sink the teeth in. Fun!
Dad got her out of it. She did it to him & he looked at her, said 'no, don't you bite poppy' & put her down & walked away from her. She loved her poppy, so that shocked her & she never bit again.
Prama - ALL my kids have swung off my Dad's chest & back hair, lol! They hold onto it for security, so they know they won't fall, & they grip on even tighter if they don't want him to put them down.
Jaz used to go off in her own little world, staring off into space & pull them out!
Funny to watch! Doesn't help that my dad never wears a shirt!
Its so cool watching him walk everywhere now. He hardly ever crawls. I miss it, but he looks so tiny & cute walking!
He's getting better. Still sounding crackly in the chest & has a green runny nose now, but he's happier & is coughing all the crap up now. No fever's, ear aches, sore throat & no more vomitting. They were what I had to watch for.
He had a bit of trouble breathing on Monday night. Thats why I took him into the hossy on Tuesday morning. At one stage I counted 57 breaths per minute. Way too fast, but at that stage all I could do was try & slow it at home myself. Anth was away for the night & I had the girls in bed.
If I hadn't been able to slow it I would've rang mum, but I didn't want to do that at 3am. Not when I wasn't too worried yet.
The doc was worried about his vomitting. There is no explanation for it. He was sick & vomitting just before his birthday too. Because he was vomitting milk & not mucous, or after coughing attacks he wanted to keep an eye on him.
Hopefully that was the last of it & it doesn't happen again. The doc actually rang a specialist in Coffs about it. Kinda scary all these things happening that they have no explanation for.
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Jazz pinches a little and shoved her finger up Matt's nose the other week and gave him a blood nose. She's almost broken my nose a couple of times by headbutting it (accidentally) and I've had a bruised cheek bone from a headbutt
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