MSE Parents Club Part 9

SugarSpun

They start at 6 here, Susan, but are normally in kindergarten for a couple of years before that so they get used to school-type hours and learn elementary skills.

Home education is against the law here, mostly because supervision of home-educated children would itself be illegal because of other complicated laws :rolleyes:

Mazcabs

SusanC wrote: »

_pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale__pale_ That is so gross that words cannot communicate how grossed out I am by it.

I agree!!

We have Granny and Granpa, Nanna and Grandad then Grandad Tony and Nana Chris as my OHs parents are divorced and both remarried

Sami_Bee

OMG the woman that was killed by a car thief nicking her car is just round (a few) corner from me and her car was found abandonded near my mums - I live in such a nice area!!

Jillie here you can't report your bin as not being emptied uintil after 4pm - when all the bin lorries are back in the depot and the bin men f off home so won't come and empty it :rolleyes:

Pink_Princess_1

Sami - what on earth did you google to get that story??:eek:

Krystal - The letter Oh receives from CSA state that he has to pay Ms **** **** ( her maiden name) £x amount for ***** **** ( his sons real name although he goes by the name of something else now) Iv no idea if shes remarried altho has 2 more children to the bloke she is with now. So although his son goes by his step dads name we wouldnt have been aware of this thru the CSA ( just good old FB)

Sami_Bee

Weezl - cous cous, make it a bit 'wrong' for Fergie so its clumpy and therefore easy to pick up? a la sticky rice

Glamazon

was just reading that Sami

SusanC_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

She has my married name at school and swimming and anything else I put her name down for now... I haven't changed it officially, we're going to get round to hubby adopting her sooner or later now we've done our 12months married and her name will be changed then... Although I did try and change it with the Drs after I changed my name and they wouldn't... Stoopids... I expect he'll come crawling out of the woodwork for five minutes though as soon as we get the ball rolling... :rolleyes:

Although presumably if your husband adopts her then he won't have to pay child support any more which might make him more agreeable to it?

weezl74 wrote: »

I have a question about BLW, thanks loads for all the recent posts about it especially to susan for sharing Alice's first tastes diary

If like us, some of your meals are not suitable finger food (shepherdless pie, lasagne, cous cous, soup etc etc...) would a true BLWer not give those flavours yet? I tried smearing it on toast or a rice cake, but I then don't feel fergie is experiencing eating the normal diet, and also toast and rice cakes are worse for his perennial constipation issues than sloppier meals IYSWIM?

Earlier on when Alice wasn't really eating anything of significance, I just used to do either bread which had been dipped in the meal or do something else for her like some sticks of veg (which were also sometimes dipped in the meal). By the time she was eating stuff, she was actually fairly good at managing with her hands - she even used to eat porridge with her hands although obviously we deliberately made it thick so that she could. My lasagne is actually fairly easy to eat with hands although earlier on we tended to deliberately cut out the least fallen apart bits which were easiest to eat. Something like bolognaise I tended to make it thicker and/or use a slotted spoon to dish hers out so that she got the bigger lumps. (We made lasagne and bolognaise when we were on holiday when she was 13 months though and I don't remember needing to do anything particular then.) Soup if it was a runny soup with lumps of food I would do the slotted spoon trick and then some bread dipped in the sauce, if it was a blended soup, I did bread dipped in it and then supplemented with other bits and pieces such as sticks of cheese and salad or pickles. Anything else we just gave her a small amount and if she struggled we would supplement and if not then we would give her more of the same. At some point (can't remember exactly when) she started using a spoon which made it much easier. (We always put cutlery out for her whenever we were using cutlery from almost the beginning and she just started using it.) We've never particularly had constipation issues though so other than dried fruit, I don't really have any ideas to get around that issue.

Sami_Bee

Pink_Princess_1 wrote: »

Sami - what on earth did you google to get that story??:eek:

it was on the weekly email from http://www.holymoly.com/

SusanC_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Weezl - cous cous, make it a bit 'wrong' for Fergie so its clumpy and therefore easy to pick up? a la sticky rice

:rotfl: Clearly Chris is unimpressed.

weezl74

thank you everyone for the BLW tips

Sami, was that Christopher's birthday tea?

You look gorgeous BTW!