Olive- How did the Drs go? Is the rash just viral, nothing more?
Ellie- thats great to hear things are going well. Even some days here still it takes alot to get out of the house, Df doesn't seem to realise this tho he decieds lets go somewhere and expects to leave in a couple mins!
OP- ooh hope that all continues! I used to do that all the time with my phone, still do in the day when I'm having a coffee, but yeah is a pita trying to reply!
Det- I was so happy to see on FB when you got your dog back. Bet she's staying close to home now!
Kaz- How everything going with J? Sleep issues improving?
My mum babysits the girls each week when I work and she says she notices in just week huge changes, I think Em is, she has been way more chatty, trying to have conversations, more involved in things, must be developmental spurt or something.
Eating slightly improving, still not a vegie eater tho!
I know I'm going to forget things but will do my best...
Malyna - hope you can find someone to talk to soon Hun. You shouldn't be suffering on your own. Thanks for the congrats
Kaz - for you too hun, good luck with sleep school. Really hope it can provide some answers or different techniques for you to try.
Shell - I think miss J needs to give all our kids lessons on eating - Miss I sounds similar to Miss E! I'm finding this age tiring too... I keep telling people that DD is giving us more trouble than the baby!
Olive - how you doing darl?? I will try and get some photos on fb soon!!
Nai - very cute pic of J with her pigtails. I need to try and so something with I's hair, she has such a long fringe it's getting in her eyes all the time!
Yep and now I have forgotten what else...
Hi to all!
AFU: we are travelling well, DS has started to have more awake time but still sleeps well once he is finally asleep... DD is the one who is causing us stress, as I said above! She just pushes every possible boundary - she knows certain things are not allowed but does them anyway. We've started having tantrums when she doesn't get her own way, with real tears and screaming. So frustrating!
What can I try to discipline her? When she does something she knows is wrong, what can I do as punishment?? I take her toys away if she is misusing then, put them somewhere she can see but not reach, tell her why she has lost the toy. But when it is something like hitting me or her brother, what can I try??
Just wrote a long post and the purple reply button ate it!!! Why does it have to be so prominent!!!!! Arrrrrrhhh!
The main things was
OP- I am at wits end too and now even more so that I lost my post but we are in a worl of ignore everything mummy says and chuck a tantrum when she loses it. I wrote heaps more but bascially we have tried EVERYTHING!!! I dont know what to do but I dont want her to turn into a naughty girl.
Miss E chucks tanties too, but I just ignore her,. Sometimes she follows me around and throws herself on the floor in front of me, then I walk off, her following me, and throws herself on the floor in front of me again!
I just don't have time to cter to her tanties, and I think being the second, I am used to it.
Her eating has improved this week, but who knows what next week will bring. I find that I jjust cut her food up, give her a fork and she feeds herself. She does a really good job actually.
Her fave thing at the moment is when we stop at the traffic lights, she starts saying "go - stop!!"
I ignore tanties too, I just go on and do something else. Emily is funny tho she usually gets over something very fast, goes from screaming to laughing in seconds, Ashleigh on the other hand her bad moods and cracking it can go on and on.
Ali, hopefully she will just grow out of it, I think at this age its more about frustration than being naughty? Just cause they can't communicate so easily what they want and they don't know their limitations on what they can do. Doesn't make it any easier tho does it!
OP- when Ash got rough with Emily after she was born, I used to always take her hand and show her gentle and say it over to sort teach her. Emily is at a stage of hitting us now she even says "ow ow" while she is doing it but I say "no" firmly than do the gentle thing.
Malyna- I hope things look up for you, its good you have a supportive GP. I'm glad you've got your writing too to help you along.
Kaz- Good luck with the sleep school. You never know you may get some good tips out of it.
Emily has been making us laugh, more and more the personality is coming thru and the 2 girls start playing together alot more.
im a bad buddy sorry been around but not really posting!
dont have the energy tbh would help if i ate properly during the day.. i might actually have some!
girls are ok, its constant illness here, seriously were lucky to go a week with out something in this house! over it!
OP i hope things are gettng better with DD, its a hard age, they dont understand etc... tanties....fun NOT!
shell DD hits too.... she gives me greasies at the same time oh and pouts its actually cute!
kaz sleep school...... you nervous? how are things currently?
malyna how you my dear?
lilma DD loves the fork too, is also quiet good at it
ali grrr to losing your post!
Alex chucks good tanties - he throws his face on the floor and then does a body wave - he's learnt that it hurts to faceplant the ground, so he doens't do them that often. Mostly he chucks them when he can't see what I'm doing, so I spend a lot of my dinner time, chopping stuff up on the floor, or sitting him in the highchair showing him every stage of what I cook.
He threw a tantrum in the pool last week - faceplant inthe water. his little face was priceless - a baby version of WTF. Have decided to stop taking him to swim classes - he doesn't enjoy it, spends all of his time sitting on my hip, not joining in on the activities. I'll try him later.
If he's cracking it for something, I don't give it to him, ignore him. i don't have the sharing problem - he gives things to everyone - but that's today.
Sorry selfish post.
Girls thanks for your suggestions and sympathies... So nice to know I'm not alone!!
I walk away from the tantrums and I frequently do... It's the hitting and biting I can't stand.
I do the gentle thing with DD with X and she is getting so much better with him... but with DH and me, and with some of the other kids at our playgroups she is way too rough and hits and even bites.
I have turned into the mother of the terrible kid at Playgroup who terrorizes the other kids...
I know it is probably just a phase but I really wish it was over...
Lilima - we have tried giving
DD her own knife and fork (plastic) but she just smashes them into her food.
Hey ladies, where is everyone? Hope everyone is well...
We aren't doing so well ATM - DS cluster feeds from about 6 or 7pm thru til midnight or thereabouts... Totally normal behaviour for his age I know, but so hard when DD is waking frequently, or in the case of last night, she only really slept from 2am - 6am... The rest of the night she was coughing and crying
Poor love is so miserable... Breaks my heart... I know she'll get better soon but it's just tough with DS as well...
Kaz - thinking of you this week... I think it was this week you were at sleep school?
Olive, how are your lovelies? Any reprieve from the illnesses??
Shell - can't remember what was going on in your world sorry hun
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hope you can find someone to talk to soon Hun. You shouldn't be suffering on your own. Thanks for the congrats
sorry been around but not really posting!
would help if i ate properly during the day.. i might actually have some!
its actually cute!
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