MSE Parent Club - Part 2

keelykat

Elliot hasn't slept in two nights because of his cold and stuffy/snotty nose.....i admit his screaming outbursts are annoying me big time now. Thomas the tank engine came on tv and he shut up though-peace and quiet for 5 minutes!

keely.

ps-so much for romance yesterday, i don't think we even had a quick peck on the lips!

Lu_T

So self-absorbed last night, sorry.

So much so i forgot to say:

Bay - glad you've got some peace of mind and well done for not Googling.

Pink Princess - how frightening. Quite agree about the ambulance if there's a next time. Do they think you're going to look at your watch straight away and then count the minutes?! And if you do manage to wait 5 mins then call, they could take another 3-5 to arrive. Really hope you don't get in this situation again. X

On nursery places, according to my mum (retired 2 years ago as primary dep head) in her area the free nursery place would only be guaranteed for one year before they start school full time (which isn't necessarily the same as starting the term after their 3rd birthday).

It's a bit confusing so I'll use Imogen as an example. She's 3 on Boxing Day this year (where did that go?!). So will start school the term before she's five in September 2011. If she started at a school nursery in Jan 2010 - the term after she's 3 - then her 12.5 hrs funding would apply for about 18 months because of her birthday.

In our area this is actually the case and we'll be upping her days at her private nursery as it isn't practical for us to get her to and from the school. However, mum thought that although they tried to accept every child from the term after they were 3, if the nursey was full they could only definitely offer a place for a year before they started school.

Got it?! Sorry it's a bit complex. And, as mum retired 2 years ago things may have changed, but thought it was worth explaining.

Lu_T

Js_Other_Half wrote: »

http://www.healthybooks.org.uk/category/3/ has a synopsis of various books which may be useful.

hth

Thanks so much for this. There's actually a section dedicated to feelings & moods so I'm just about to decide which one we want and order it to our local Waterstones (via a cashback site of course! :money: )

chocaholic110

Lu_T wrote: »

In our area this is actually the case and we'll be upping her days at her private nursery as it isn't practical for us to get her to and from the school. However, mum thought that although they tried to accept every child from the term after they were 3, if the nursey was full they could only definitely offer a place for a year before they started school.

Got it?! Sorry it's a bit complex. And, as mum retired 2 years ago things may have changed, but thought it was worth explaining.

That's the same where I live. That's state nurseries though - could be different for private nurseries.

Lu_T

I've checked with Imogen's (private) nursery and she can have the 12.5hrs funding from Jan 2010. Local authority has confirmed that as long as she's there for more than 5 hours a day she can have 2 "sessions" (e.g. 2.5hrs free) in a day.

She's currenrtly at MIL's Mon & Weds, and at nursery on Tues. From Jan she will go to nursery all day Tues & Weds plus Thurs am. We will still have something to pay, but it won't be dissimilar to what we're currently paying for her to go 1 day a month.

OH is hoping to slightly reduce his hours and go to 4 days, so he will have both LO's on Mondays and I will be off Thurs & Fris. TJ (baby bump) will go to nursery Tues & Weds.

It's taken a while to come up with the plan, but we're happy with it. And it means she won't be at MIL's around Easter next year to have her rationed Easter eggs. If people want to buy them for her they'll have to give them to us - and we'll donate them to the local children's hospice :rotfl: :rotfl:

chocaholic110

Just been to Asda and they are selling off the boxes of nappies that were £15. You get 3 packs of Huggies nappies (102 nappies), a travel pack of wipes, a Winnie the pooh cardboard box if you want such a thing and it comes with £8.10 of money off vouchers for nappies / wipes / tissues. If you have a tesco that will take money off vouchers for anything, you're laughing.

ladybirdintheuk

This might be a daft question, but what do/did you use to freeze milk in? Tried expressing last week, but she wouldn't take the bottle, so we ended up tipping it away. I'm planning to try again tomorrow but thinking it might be worth freezing if it doesn't work.

SusanC_2

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

This might be a daft question, but what do/did you use to freeze milk in? Tried expressing last week, but she wouldn't take the bottle, so we ended up tipping it away. I'm planning to try again tomorrow but thinking it might be worth freezing if it doesn't work.

You freeze them in breastmilk storage bags (they are special because they are sterile and the right size unlike regular freezer bags). I bought boots own brand ones but you can probably get them other places too. Even if you never manage with the bottle, you can always use expressed milk in food when you wean.

snugglepuss_2

Becles wrote: »

I will try the LEA and see if I can get him tested. Even if they say there is nothing wrong and he is just lazy, it would put my mind at rest. I'll also try the coloured paper at the weekend.

Right - it's taken me a few days to catch up with all the posts over the past 2 weeks, since I handed back my work laptop (took redundancy so I could be a SAHM), so apologies if things have moved on a bit in relation to the post I'm replying to:

Becles: It sounds like your son has something similar to dyslexia called Scotopic Sensitivity or Irlen Syndrome. I have it, as do my brother and my dad. My late paternal grandmother had it too, and we were only all diagnosed after my brother had it picked up by a teacher at junior school - they thought he was being a bit lazy too (they didn't pick it up with me a few years earlier, but I'm not affected as badly and I loved school so worked a lot harder). There are varying levels of sensitivity, and it is most prominent when reading bright, white paper, or working under fluorescent/flickering lights. From what I can remember, when first diagnosed, most people are given a coloured acetate sheet, whichever colour and shade reduces glare best - we all had varying shades of blue, apart from my dad who had a sort of beetroot colour! We were all then had tinted lenses in our glasses, which I used until after I graduated Uni, at which point I went to work in IT, and configured my computer so that the screen had a bluish tinge to it! For me, it also meant that sometimes, my depth perception used to be a bit off - I used to perpetually fall up stairs as a child and teenager!

More information can be found at http://www.irlenuk.com/about-irlen-syndrome.htm and http://www.brilliantnotebooks.co.uk/DYSLEXIA-IRLEN?gclid=CNrWl5uN4pgCFQ4yQgodkk4Ycg .

I would thoroughly recommend trying to get your son tested at an Irlen Centre. We were all fortunate to be tested by the founder - Helen Irlen, when she first started visiting the UK to do testing, back in the late 80's.

HTH

Becles

Thanks for that snugglepuss. I'll read it later as I'm off to work. James is clumsy and often trips up and stuff.

I forgot to say last week that he passed his Cycling Proficiency so he was chuffed to bits with that, especially because Joshua failed it Joshua has a nasty habit of making out he's so superior to James and putting him down all the time, so James had a whale of a time calling him a loser for not being able to pass it :rolleyes:

Posted a while back about being a bit over-protective of Joshua and finding it hard to let him go a bit. Let him get a bus to the next town with a mate yesterday and they went to the swimming baths then had some lunch in a cafe. He came back in one piece and enjoyed himself, so I feel happier about giving him a bit more freedom. Still worried about him while he was gone though