ROFL!!! Literally my son...newly potty trained....is asking what is wrong with me...thanks for the laugh and the reminder to enjoy the little boy potty training stage.

We do believe she has anxiety and probably ODD and some of her issues stemmed from undiagnosed seizures because once we figure out that some of the violent disruptive behavior disappeared.

Why is it that when I hit new posts I am only getting like 5 pages or today it was 2. I know I haven't been on since last night but the new posts only show things since like 5 am this morning...is anyone else having this problem?

Dance academy not a lot of hanky panky.

Disclaimer: I am pro-adoption, jury still out on my opinion of abortion.... I think the best thing you can do as her friend is to find a counselor who is not related to an abortion center or an adoption center (but who is willing to talk about all 3 options) who is willing to talk with your friend about her choices. Preferably someone who has worked with women who have had abortions and has knowledge of the emotions that can happen as the result of an abortion and work with birth mothers who have placed for adoption (preferably open adoption) and has a knowledge of the emotions that can happen as the result of adoption, and worked with women who have parented and the emotions that can happen as result of parenting in the situation she is in. I personally think she really should research open adoption. From my understanding (albeit pro-adoption literature/blog mostly) abortion can have emotional effects regarding the permanent loss of their child for SOME women that hit much later after the abortion and can be very difficult. At least with open adoption the birth family can be involved in the child's life and watch him/her grow without the responsibility of raising the child. This option also allows her the option of parenting if they find that that is a better choice for them than they think....it also buys them 8-9 extra months to make a permanent decision.

I really like what they have so far! I really hope the home management is just as great then it will be the perfect program!

I do think if you are doing something that is a class like/organized playgroup thing it might be best to explain to the leader (not all the other moms) the situation and what would work best with your child. My child has special needs and doesn't handle when other people talk to her, when we do things like sports (so far all mommy and me stuff) I tell the coaches that I will be the one to communicate the expectations with my daughter (after they are done explaining) and correcting her...if they have something to say to her they need to go through me...the soccer coach who did this had a BRILLIANT season with her, the sports coach who did not caused a complete meltdown and resulted in me having to remove her before the end of the first lesson. By letting the leaders know you are giving the ability to create accommodations that will help your son...but you do not need to tell every other mother in sight, its not their business.

I do it case by case....I do not like Stellaluna or Are You My Mother (which my dd preschool is doing a bunch of stuff about right now) because I hate the idea that mother's have to match their babies. My dd and I don't "match" but that doesn't change the fact that I am her mother. I don't have issues with orphanage stories because my dd was not in an orphanage and doesn't understand that but if I had adopted a child from an orphanage those books would probably be left for either read together or till much later. I think it is case by case as long as it is not an outright negative portrayal of adoption/adopted children being bad (that bit in Anne about the orphans who killed their families...might skip that part). I also make sure we have lots of positive books about adoption like A Mother for Coco...and then talk talk talk talk talk.

Sweet and sour sauce

Have you checked all your resources? In one area I lived there was a transracial play group, where we have a local university whose black student association does a play group every week and hair day quarterly. There may be things like this hidden in your area if not maybe you could start one.

hyenacart?

The worst part of all of that is that I can see how many a desperate parent would read that article and see how "happy" it was (it was written in a very gentle sounding way, not preachy, but like how perfect it all turned out everyone learned to tell the truth when the stakes were small) and how it appears to have changed the family and WOW how wonderful if they could do the same thing...and either miss the spanking part or think hey one spanking a day that is not very much (or is much less than what is going on right now at the end of their wits) and want to learn more and be slowly pulled into the idyllic picture of a perfect family and not see what is truly happening.

Do you want your children to be religiously Jewish or just culturally Jewish? Right now it appears according to your post that you are culturally Catholic (with Grandparents who are trying to teach your children religious Catholism). If you seek to teach your children cultural Judiasm then I think you should just do it, you don't need any sort of permission because it is teaching them a part of your culture. If you desire the religious part of Judiasm then I would talk to your husband about your feelings and see what works best for your family. As for your IL's they may have their thoughts and opinions about religion but this is your family and you and your spouse are in charge of the religious (or lack of religious) education.

Ask Please! As the mom of a food allergic child it is so important to be asked before my child is fed food that I did not give her. Many things have her allergen hidden (some brands of pretzels while others are safe). Please please please ask even children that are older may not be totally proficient in identifying foods that may have hidden allergens.

I know you have probably already checked but just in case Have you gone to an ENT? I just found out my son who talks like he is underwater does that because he hears everything like it is underwater...we are going in today to get tubes in hopes it will help. He will be 3 in 1 month and there was no history of ear infection (the normal way to diagnosis). The only reason we even got in to the ENT is because his sister helped him shove a piece of styrofoam in his ear and when it was removed the ENT noticed fluid and said that was not normal. So if you haven't already (and I am sure you have) make sure he has seen an ENT, our regular doctors never even noticed the fluid its just not in their normal checking routine.

It is not entitlement....I didn't fill out the original survey expecting to get selected, that is entitlement, I also did not expect to receive the game not do anything and get a gift card again entitlement. But when I am told that I was selected and then told to E-sign a statement with a follow up that says the game is on its way that is what I expect to have happen...And if it could not happen I would expect to receive information in an appropriate time frame that was more than a generic email like I had never really been selected to begin with. I don't expect to get something free but I do expect a company to communicate appropriately its not entitlement it is good customer service.

I vote for the forum too...because each child is different and has different needs. I joined when dd was 3 and had just been diagnosed with the first of several special needs. I was hoping to find a place to talk about how to teach my child things like HOW to play with toys or how to read a book with her at all. Or how to teach discipline and while some of those things were answered in the Special Needs forum it was not the same because many of them are parents of much older children dealing with much older things. Now I have my son who will be 3 in a month and he has different sets of needs. For example now I need to do more enriching play that I never did with my daughter, art and such and I have forgotten all I thought to do but couldn't so I feel back at the beginning but k-8 isn't the place for that. So I would love a forum for mama's who still have littles and doesn't have to be about academic book learning but it could be about support and thoughts on what to do to help each of our individual children to be the best they can through mommy schooling (which for me means mommy and child spending time together playing with possible learning outcomes).

Technically MealBoard does not let you set up different stores....but you could customize the setting so that instead of it saying Produce or Meat as the header to that section, it would say Trader Joe Produce, Costco Produce ect. But you would have to set it up that way and divide it up that ways in your ingredients list that you do with each recipe, because that is where you put it in at... MealBoard does move a checked item off your list...so if you get something at Trader Joes it won't show up when you go to your next store. HTH

Well I just got an uninvited email from them :( Kinda frustrates me to get an email I was selected, sign the online thing, and then hear nothing for a few weeks, and now get this uninvited letter....I haven't ever tried to bananagrams and this kinda gives me a bad taste in my mouth...I know I should feel this way but it like being told I could go to the popular kids party and then told right before that they didn't really like me and that I was uninvited :(

Zyrtec and Claritin caused my daughter to be crazy basically adHHHHHHHd over the top behavior. We just switched to Nasonex which is way more expensive but has worked AMAZINGLY well for this season and we are in moderate grass and tree pollen time which are some of her worst allergies.

On Tuesday I was diagnosed with an ear infection, the first one in my adult life. They gave me antibiotics and I have been on them since them. The problem is my ear is still super stuffed up (very occasionally it still hurts)...I can't hear out of it and it is driving me crazy. Should I be concerned that the antibiotic isn't working? If I don't contact the Dr tomorrow then I have wait until Monday. Has anyone else had this problem?

My dd was diagnoses with epilepsy in sept...we had no idea we did the EEG to rule out epilepsy and then the results said seizures increasing during sleep...there were no signs other than violent behavior that would turn on and off in instants....all that to say I think the common understanding of epilepsy is common but does not mean every single person with epilepsy does the common and there are outliers like my dd and possibly your son...the meds have changed my dd's life for the better and mine too

Don't have mine yet either.

So I talked to dad and if he doesn't bring formula tomorrow my dh is ready to go buy it for her. He did bring solids for her to eat but I just feel like babies should have bottles and those bottles should be formula. So that is what we will do. I assume his mother who is older probably recommended the watered down milk but I will not do it...it didn't fill her up! She is chunky and wants a lot of food and formula is part of that food and calorie count. So here's hoping he shows up with formula tomorrow.

She is a very chunky baby at 8 months she weighs too much for a bucket carseat. Dad said something about milk formula doing something to her poop and it didn't work so they are doing the watered down milk. It sounded off but I was doing so much paperwork stuff with him I didn't push it. He is trying to get wic but there is legal stuff and time stuff that he is dealing with from what I gathered. I did not plan to do day care I just took a friends little boy till she could get him in a real daycare...he's on the waiting list, and this baby is a friend of the friend. So I figured I would give it a try. I am going to tell him she must have formula of some sort.