MSE Parent Club - Part 2

chocaholic110

Lu_T wrote: »

Now whenever it happens (and it still does, a few months on) one of us will just say that it makes us very sad when she's mean to daddy. She completely gets it and often gives him a cuddle & a kiss to say sorry.

That's the phrase I use at school. With the little ones we say "Oh, it makes me very sad when children don't share / say things that upset other children / don't tidy up etc etc" On the other hand we also make a big deal over children behaving nicely - "I love the way Katie always lines up nicely / It always make me so happy when I hear David saying Thank you / Hasn't Peter hung up his apron neatly / Lucy, you're sitting beautifully"

It usually leads to whoever ISN'T doing the good behaviour to immediately copy the ones who are eg "Lucy, you're sitting beautifully" suddenly makes the whole class sit nicely - aren't children easy to manipulate? Plus a sticker goes a long way to encourage good behaviour!

As to poo...Tom pooed pretty much every time he had a clean nappy to do it in. None of this once a week business for him! He's still pretty regular and does at least one a day. (The depths my conversational skills have sunk to!!)

Sami_Bee

Thanks Mel & Lu those are the answers I was hoping for!
I was being a bit irrational I think I'll blame hormones

I wish Chris only pooped once a week!! since about 6 weeks he was 2 or 3 times a day until pretty recently when it has gone to 1 or 2 a day and they always stink!_pale_ I'm not liking the fact that one of his favourite pastimes at the moment is to jump in the air and land on his bum - even a poop doesn't stop him - nice!!

For those with bubba's past 12weeks I recommend fennel tea for sore tummies and one of my friends swears by her HVs suggestion of onion water (put a quarter of an onion in a bottle/cup pour on boiling water, let it sit until cool enough to drink, fish out the piece of onion and give to bubba)

Lu_T

Am feeling a little left out of the poo conversation, so will just add my 2p. Imogen poos regularly once a day and they are big enough to rival our old Staffie's!! Honestly, I have no idea how something so HUGE comes out of something so small. And they stink too!

Have just had a lovely meal and are now back watching Ashes to ashes and eating Ben & Jerries - yum! I've also won some regnancy leggings on ebay while we were out - hurrah!

Becles

Charlotte still does three poo's a day and they stink!

Normally get one just after breakfast, around lunchtime (but my Mam gets that one when I'm at work!) and then around bath time. Luckily she does them before the bath now as she went through a phase of doing it in the bath - yuk!

She's going through a "no" and "mine" phase too, but I just ignore her when she does it. She hates being ignored and loves being told she's good/clever/pretty etc., so I use that to my advantage

purplepatch

We had a hideous, gooey, stinky, MASSIVE pooh in our big girl peppa pig knickers today, that was nice!!!

Sami, most of the squabbles in our house between Olivia (6) and Izzy (2) are to do with ownership. "It's MINE!!!!!" can be heard several times a day and not just from the little one lol. Today Izzy came running into me and said very earnestly, "Olivia's taken all the toys and she's not sharing nicely" which cracked me up from such a little person.

Olivia's favourite thing at the moment is to grass Izzy up for smacking her. Not something I've actually caught her doing yet, but I don't suppose she's totally innocent :rolleyes:

I guess the arguments are only just beginning!!

Sami_Bee

ooh PP I hope your girls aren't like me and my older sister; She used to hit me so I'd hit her back and then she'd run to mum saying I'd hit her :mad: as I was a rather 'challenging' child Mum always seamed to believe my sister and not me

ladybirdintheuk

I'm trying to draft me letter about going back to work... cue me finding all kinds of other things I simply must do today. Why can't someone give me a winning lottery ticket so I can stay at home? (I would share some of it with you lot too, I promise!)

My_Fathers_Daughter

It's down the back of the sofa ladybird


...I just don't know who the sofa belongs to :rolleyes:



On an MSE note for a change - bio-oil is currently £11.95 for 200ml from Amazon (free delivery)...kelkoo tells me that this is a good deal, although I know sometimes you can get it cheap from Home Bargains.

I got some...it is working wonders on my stretch marks...I think

Becles

Charlotte is 2 today :j

We're still not very well though, so we're not doing anything special. She had her presents last night so Daddy could see her opening them. She was most impressed with a pink flower hula hula necklace I got her which was a £1 off a party stand in a shop I was in :rotfl:

Parents brought her presents round. My Dad has made her a lovely wooden cot and my Mam made the bedding for it. They bought her other bits including a pair of sunglasses that my Mam wrapped in bubble wrap before she wrapped them up just to keep them safe. Charlotte got really excited about the bubble wrap and ignored the rest of her presents while she popped it :rotfl:

SusanC_2

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

I'm trying to draft me letter about going back to work... cue me finding all kinds of other things I simply must do today. Why can't someone give me a winning lottery ticket so I can stay at home? (I would share some of it with you lot too, I promise!)

Presumably you've already reconsidered your finances and there's no way you could arrange things so you could stay at home? Did you do a job which could be done partly or mainly from home? I know someone who when she gave her notice after maternity leave her employer told her to say what she would be willing to do and they would consider it. She asked for 10 hrs a week and a laptop so she could work from home. She has to go in for meetings once a month but they pretty much agreed to what she said. Obviously that wouldn't work with all jobs or with all employers but if it was possible it could be worth sounding out your employers to see if they would be agreeable.