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    Do you do well baby visits?

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    My niece wasn't vaccinated until she went into kindergarten. They had to go to the hospital urgent care when she was really sick one time and they made her dad sign a paper that said they would refuse to treat her if she came in again without being current on her shots.

     

    The local medical center will not accept patients that have not been vaccinated. You have to make a meeting with the doctor to discuss how you will catch the child up on the vaccines. (I don't know from personal experience, but my MIL works there).

     

    So the claim that you will be kicked out for not obeying the doctor's wishes is probably over-exaggerated, but, in our area at least, it isn't that far from the truth when it comes to immunizations.

    Re-introduce yourself, no matter how long or short you've been here

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    I'm Kat. I've been married to my web developer husband for 5 years. We have a 3 year old son. He'll probably be our one and only. We are planning to begin homeschooling in 2015. . It sounds funny to say that like we're super planners or something... I'm just here soaking in information.

     

    I started staying home with my son last year. I take it a day at a time, I start thinking I need to plan our days better but then I end up feeling overwhelmed. We just read and spend time outside. But right now he has a stomach bug so he's cuddled next to me watching Oswald.

    How to handle a meltdown...

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    Well after he pee'd on the floor, he was walking around naked. I did the two underwear choice and he wanted neither, so I picked one and he suddenly wanted the other. And he helped me put it on.

     

    I don't think he's not ready and I don't think I'm pushing it. I put him in cloth underwear so he could feel pee and I could talk about what we do with pee. He never seems to be bothered with pee or even poop in his diaper. I've noticed in the past few days when I've put diapers on him for sleep, he'll tell me more frequently that he wants his diaper changed when he wakes up. And like I said, he sits on the toilet by himself, but when he's doing something fun and I have to transition quickly (like I know a pee is coming), I use chocolate.

     

    The general question was how to handle meltdowns, maybe meltdown was too strong of a word. They're very loud tantrums. He does this with other things as well, when my husband tried to wash shampoo out of his hair. I can see it might be a control thing, he wants to do his thing and us parents are ruining his fun. So I'll try to give him a little more independence with his personal care.

     

    Also, I do rely on my instincts with my child, but sometimes I don't think of everything. I'm perfectly content with dressing him, bathing him, doing stuff for him because it speeds up the process. Obviously that has to change. So I appreciate someone else's opinion and advice.

    How to handle a meltdown...

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    It is a control issue. What if you hold up two different pair of underwear and let him choose which one he likes?

     

    As far as the meltdown part, my now 5yo was the king of meltdowns (still is sometimes). I find if you remove the audience once they figure out that no one is listening they usually cut it out fairly quickly. Although mine could go on for quite a while they are getting less frequent.

     

    I'll try the different underwear the next time. He's so stubborn, I can see him not wanting either. :glare: I put him in his room with the baby gate up, and he sat there screaming and then pee'd on the floor. Sigh...

    How to handle a meltdown...

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    So I'm new to this whole parenting gig. My son has been an easy kid the first few years. But now we're getting to an age where he seems to melting down more.

     

    For instance: I'm trying to potty train. I don't know what I'm doing. I bought some training pants and put them on while we're at home, then every 15-30 mins, I bring him to the bathroom. I bribe him with chocolate.

     

    However, when it comes to putting on his training pants, he freaks out. Freaks out. I usually put it on and distract him with the promised chocolate. But as of right now, he's screaming at the top of his lungs. I just put him in his room to let him cool down but he's still screaming. So how do I handle this? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Should I not push the toilet training? It's not the sitting on the toilet, he sits down willingly. But he needs to wear the underwear eventually (same thing happened with regular underwear). This is after a nap and snack, so it's not the usual things. Is he just resistant to change? If so, how do I handle this... Thanks in advance.

    Montessori for Dummies

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    I usually lurk in the main board, but I just came over to this and saw your thread. I have a couple of Montessori at home books: this and this.

     

    I really like the first one, it makes it idiot proof for me. I also bought this e-book. Which I like as well. I'm sure there is free resources, but I could never find them, and these 3 are easy to understand.

    Help figuring out my 6year old dd attitude

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    Um, that would be me growing up and I'm still a little like that. I'm not sure you ever get over it, you just learn to deal with it. It might be for different reasons, but for me it was the idea of having to be social, having to initiate conversations in a new environment, small talk, etc. I would want to do the activity, I would even want to make new friends, but just the 'getting there' part was a huge wall for me to climb.

     

    I think it's finding a balance between pushing and not pushing too much. My mom seemed to have that balance down most of the time. There were times she made me go and I got over it, and there were times she let me stay home. I never resented her when she did push me either, because I did end up having fun.

     

    I don't know how to handle it personally from a parents level, but from my view, it's part of my personality. I had to learn how to work around it.

    does your 2-3 year old still nap?

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    We're a nap-schedule family. My son has always taken a nap, never faltered, never fought it. Not even when we switched to the big boy bed. He sleeps from 8:30 (sometimes we hear him talking until 9:30) and wakes up at 7.

     

    I know a few people who have kids that dropped naps at a younger age. My mom actually expressed concern when he was a year that he slept too much.

     

    Eh. Each kid has his or her own sleep rhythm. I have no great mommy wisdom, but it seems if she's doing good without a nap and sleeping so well at night, I wouldn't be concerned. (But I don't know how I would live without the sweet, blessed afternoon break.) Maybe a quiet time if you're concerned about her resting her body?

     

    For us now it is a solid 2 hour nap. FTR, he just turned 3 in May.

    In desperate need of cheap, sturdy book storage ideas!

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    http://ana-white.com/2011/03/ikea-lack-inspired-bookcase

     

    I know you said you have limited carpentry skills, but I have below limited carpentry skills. I built some montessori type shelves using this plan as a guide (I only made it 2 feet high). It cost about $40 total: screws, finishing oil and wood. I bought a kreg-jig because I plan on making a built in bookshelf in the living room. (I'm gonna have to convince dh on that one) I had the wood cut at Home Depot and made it in about 30 minutes.

     

    So that might not be helpful since I don't know your limited funds. But it's solid wood and will hold the weight. I doubt that's your miracle solution :tongue_smilie: but I just thought I'd share what worked for us.

    Advice on building a website

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    My husband's a developer, so this is second hand information I've picked up from him over the years. Is it a e-commerce store or just a brochure/information site? I just asked him and he said that if you're starting an e-commerce He would recommend using Magento or Big Commerce. From what he was saying, they're like an assisted DIY commerce solution.

     

    If its just a info store, find a content management solution you like (Wordpress is the only one that comes to mind) and google "Wordpress template" you can spend about $100 on a nice one. But you'd need to learn how wordpress works. You could find some wordpress tutorials online. (Google Wordpress tutorial and you get 2,000,000 results... I think you'll find something helpful) And you need to find someone to host your site. Blue Gator is not expensive.

     

    PM me if you want more information, he is always happy to talk about his knowledge. Zzzz.... :tongue_smilie:

     

    ETA: I switched over to my laptop because it's a pain to write on the iphone. I agree that it's a steep learning curve, but you can do it. My husband learned everything from scratch. He learned design principles and development by hands on projects and reading everything. And he's been doing it for 7 years. You aren't going to learn everything this weekend. Or even in a few weeks. I can be done with a little time.

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