MSE Parent Club - Part 2

purplepatch

heather38 wrote: »

does anyone know how i register for preschool? as kennedy will be 3 next october :eek: am i right in thinking she'll need to be registered soon? she'll be going to the preschool attatched to the local primary i hope.

Different preschools do things different ways - they will have their own admissions procedure. Give them a ring to check. I'm sending Izzy to the same one I sent Olivia to, I've had her name down for about 6 months now, to start in September 2009 when she'll be a couple of months off 3 - they take them anytime from 2.5 years, free government funded sessions kick in the first term after their third bday.

It's always best to get their names down as early as poss as the good ones do tend to get full up. Same applies for primary school, get their names down when they are little - it doesn't guarantee you a place when the time comes to apply, but the school will have your details and will contact you to invite you to open days etc and probably alert you to when you should be sending in your application.

SusanC_2

Extra birth certificates are cheaper if you get them at the time you register.

Baybee1984

Lu_T wrote: »

Baybee1984 - you okay? Hope you are keeping your chin up. I come from a broken home and it hasn't done me any harm. I know it must seem hard for both you and DS right now, but I'm sure you can work out a way of doing what's best for DS and this will just become his normality. My parents separated when I was 5 and I'd like to think I'm a perfectly normal, stable kind of person!

Hey hun, Im not too bad thanks. Ah I know DS will be fine, its just hard right now when hes all 'I want to see my daddy today!' and doesnt understand why hes not always there. I know it'll get easier and that we'll still work together to give him the happiest possible life its just all a bit strange right now. Thanks tho!!

And do you know the silliest thing, which I know is going to sound really daft, but we were planning to try for another next year. And altho its silly to think, I dont want DS to suffer from a big age gap with siblings or to be an only child. I know he'll be fine and people who are only children or have large age gaps between siblings are fine, no big deal, but ykno when you've been almost planning it and then it something changes and you just feel a bit grr. Its silly I know but I do over think things!

On another note, just need to rant! lol DS has packed lunches at school and I bought a couple of little pots at the beginning of term to put fruit or whatever in. I dont like using too many plastic food bags [with the whole environment/plastic bag thing..] and I wrap his sandwiches in a foodbag so things like fruit, scotch eggs, cakes etc.. I put in one of these little pots in his lunchbag. Well, hes been at school 2 and a half weeks now and he's lost the lids of THREE of the pots already, so was thinking of looking into alternatives with attached lids [like flip lids..] but yesterday he'd lost the whole pot! Clearly hes in too much of a rush to get out and play after lunch and doesnt take much notice to putting everything back into his lunchbag ahh! Any suggestions?

Becles

I was in a similar situation Baybee1984. We were trying for a third baby but hadn't managed to concieve. I'd had a laparoscopy to rule out problems and we had other tests booked when I discovered my ex was messing around. I confronted him and he upped and left saying he was never cut out to be a Dad!

My boys were two and four then, so we had the "where's Daddy?" thing and my eldest didn't like him much anyway and often told him to leave in anger, so he thought when he did leave that it was all his fault. Time is a great healer though and they've managed just fine.

Don't worry about the age gap either. I met someone else and remarried and Charlotte came along last year when my boys were 10 and 8. They love her to bits and she gets spoiled rottern! None of their friends have tiny brothers or sisters so she's a bit of a novelty - a come round mine and see my baby sister type thing

Js_Other_Half

Baybee1984 wrote: »

Any suggestions?

I label drink bottles, etc for DS at nursery with some vinyl labels from www.labels4kids.com. The labels are dishwasher proof, etc so stay put.
If you label pot AND lid, maybe the staff at your child's school would return them to him?

Curious_George_2

we have the cold here too.. well Daniel does, poor baby has the most disgusting runny nose
just in time for a trip to the other side of the country for his cousins 1st birthday and christening this weekend...typical!
no doubt i will get the sniffles too before we leave

oh and just to butt in... we have a bit of an age gap, my daughter was born June 2000, split with ex bf in 2005, and now have Danny born November 2007 with the man im going to marry
2 dads and over 7 years between the kids, and weirdly enough we all couldnt be happier!

Curious_George_2

new thread, new updates, new photos...
my babies xXx

Baybee1984

Becles wrote: »

I was in a similar situation Baybee1984. We were trying for a third baby but hadn't managed to concieve. I'd had a laparoscopy to rule out problems and we had other tests booked when I discovered my ex was messing around. I confronted him and he upped and left saying he was never cut out to be a Dad!

My boys were two and four then, so we had the "where's Daddy?" thing and my eldest didn't like him much anyway and often told him to leave in anger, so he thought when he did leave that it was all his fault. Time is a great healer though and they've managed just fine.

Don't worry about the age gap either. I met someone else and remarried and Charlotte came along last year when my boys were 10 and 8. They love her to bits and she gets spoiled rottern! None of their friends have tiny brothers or sisters so she's a bit of a novelty - a come round mine and see my baby sister type thing

Aw thanks hun, and glad its all worked out great for you!

Baybee1984

Js_Other_Half wrote: »

I label drink bottles, etc for DS at nursery with some vinyl labels from www.labels4kids.com. The labels are dishwasher proof, etc so stay put.
If you label pot AND lid, maybe the staff at your child's school would return them to him?

I didnt label them before as they were really small pots, but think I might have to start now . The dinnerlady recognised one when cleaning and gave it him back yesterday which is good!

purplepatch

Another one here who labels lids now, after losing too many of my lovely lock & lock box lids! :mad: