Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / July 2004

Visited DS's new daycare this morning.  DH came too -- poor man has a pinched
nerve, so a short day at work seemed advisable for him.
The centre is a 52-space one, and thus quite large, but is plainly nowhere
near capacity (the director implied that it filled up in the middle of ...

Has anyone been there?  How long did it take to do it?  I was supposed to go
there tomorrow, but the people we were meeting canceled.  I'm trying to
decide if we can still go.   I'm wondering if I'll be able to manage my 2.4
year old while I'm nursing my baby without another adult ...

going on a holiday to FNQ.  try not to miss me too much!
play nicely together while i am gone......................
christine
and steve and jeremy and sam

What was the name of that Tony Attwood book? Just looking at his site again
and I cant see the wood for the treees
--
Melissa

Our son is 2 years + 5 months old.
My wife and I are disagreeing a little on ideas for discipline - I
think my child can begin *now* to understand that no means no, that
stop means STOP!, come here means come here within 10 minutes, and so

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My 9 month old son still sleeps with us in the bed and wakes up to
nurse at least once during the night. He does not want to stay in the
crib. He especially does not want to stay in the car seat, swing, or
anything with belts. It is making us hard to travel. Please help!

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What can I do now ?

Me again
Morgan got a spot / bite on his back on Wednesday that had turned into a
blister by Friday morning.
I spoke ( on the phone) to my doctor who recommmended that I put a plaster

I am a Mum to an 8 yr old only. She is the light of my life and I wouldn't
be without her for the world. For a LONG time I never wanted another as I
found the toddler stage particularly difficult and I did not want to have to
do that again, having to watch them every second of the ...

Our 16 month son has just started to wriggle and scream on any car
journey longer than ten minutes. The car seat seems big enough, soft
enough, and 5 year old daughter had no problems with it during her
tenure with it. We have a wedding coming up at the end of the month with

My daughter had a brief bout with being overweight, which we finally
solved, much to her delight, with old fashioned eating, exercise,
etc.
The problem is that she has a fat friend whose mother is also fat, and

   Ooops...I ordered some stuff form the USA last week without telling
hubby...expecting it to arrive today and guess who took the day off??
--
Melissa

in the car?
DS at the ripe old age of 22mths has happily gone to no naps. (scary!). it's
been a couple of weeks, so it looks like it's going to stick. so now we have
2 scenarios: