MSE Parents Club Part 12

tiamai_d

And also, I need an AMAZING gift for Christopher lovely key worker at nursery. Gave bath stuff last year, but I want something a bit special to try and show just haw grateful we are for everything she has done for Christopher (I'm welling up) and she has done a LOT.

tiamai_d

what do you think of this?

Sami_Bee

yes WM its just registering interest, the proper form will come around october IIRC and deadline is Jan/feb next year - see I know this bit is super important so I'm not messing about with it - despite the fact that I had the following convo with Chris
C: I don't want to go to church
Me: you have to or you won't get in the school with the good teachers
C: I don't care I don't want good teachers I want rubbish ones.

:rotfl:

got-it-spend-it

BeenieCat wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oooh i have a perfect excuse to wriggle out of the Brat basbysitting here... I've just had a text "hi thanks for getting Brat tomorrow really appreciate it, i can take DS on Fri if you're free?"

Well... we're not free, we have Beavers. And i don't really want to mention Beavers in case she joins him up (:eek:).

Can anyone tell me how to word it so i'm basically saying i can't do it, don't want to be tied into it every week... Without being arsey and still keeping things friendly?! Or is it not possible?

I would say that now Amber is more mobile you cannot cope with the two boys, plus her and maybe mention you have to walk the dog too.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

nah just saw it on tv and thought 'ooh I've never had south african'

I read that as never had a South African. I have and he was good. Maybe why I read it that way .

Nicki

Weezl, both my children were referred to SALT at around the age of two because of delayed speech. With DS it was just a case of him being slower than usual to start talking, and he had two lots of group therapy with some other kids his age, and was then discharged. He's now ten and talks for England with a fantastic vocabulary. With DD it was immediately picked up by the SALT that there was a more serious problem, she got into the system fast, and started to get weekly 1:1 SALT in blocks of 8 weeks on, 8 weeks off due to waiting lists which went on until she started school, and she now gets weekly SALT at school.

The sessions aren't horrible, they involve the SALT playing with the child and helping them to acquire both language and comprehension. They certainly can't do any harm. The thing about adopting a wait and see approach is that if there is a problem, the best time for the sessions to take place are in the first five years of a child's life as this is when the brain is most receptive to language development. So if your child did have a serious problem, and you waited until the age of 3 to raise it, given waiting lists and the rest you'd really cut down on the amount of help they got. My experience is that SALTs will quickly discharge children who don't need their input, so I would say you have nothing to lose by accepting a referral and letting the professional decide whether it is needed or not. I certainly don't regret taking my son along, even though it turned out that it was wholly unnecessary for him to go and he learned to talk under his own steam, because if he had turned out to have the same communication issues as his sister, I'd always have regretted not taking up the offer of help when it was there.

weezl74

tiamai_d wrote: »

And also, I need an AMAZING gift for Christopher lovely key worker at nursery. Gave bath stuff last year, but I want something a bit special to try and show just haw grateful we are for everything she has done for Christopher (I'm welling up) and she has done a LOT.

to be honest tia, the thing that would thrill me to bits would be the immense job satisfaction of knowing that little boy and his mum were mega impressed with the input I'd given IYSWIM? So something which says to her really clearly how much he's thrived from her input, does that make any sense?

My friends little boy is autistic and his teacher helped him to cope with his hands in paint. We made her a card of his hands and feet dipped in paint and printed, and we wrote 'because of you I did this!'. Anyway, she was VERY thrilled.

I dunno, but I know I always valued cards from clients saying specifically what I'd done more than the expensive choccies!

But you know her so she may be a pricey choccies girl

Mazcabs

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Ah Sami - that reminds me - has anyone looked into the costs involved in buying a roof-rack or top-box? Would that be cheaper than hiring a car?

We managed to find one like this a while back on Ebay for £150 and should have been that for both bits... we can get quite a bit in it as well

http://www.thuleonline.co.uk/product/193/Thule-949-Easy-Base--Back-Up-900-Box-Combo

Jakesmummy

weezl74 wrote: »

Fergie's lovely. The HV is rather worried about his development though and has talked about referral to SALT due to lack of words/comprehension.

So that's sad

Aw jasmine was born the same month as fergie and she has not many words, mama, dada, yeh and who-dat (i think in my attempt to get her to say jake, by pointing at him and asking whos that, she now thinks hes called who-dat lol!!), i was always under the impression they didnt worry about speech until 2 years, ive not seen a HV for months! Also my sis didnt walk until nearly 2 years old! It does sound as though he's understanding you though with him clapping ect on demand.

aless02

emlou2009 wrote: »

I think theres something wrong with me, the NSPCC advert was on and it didnt touch me, then the RSPCA Home For Life advert came on and I welled up at the thought of the poor kitty being abandoned by the owner dying

I'm always like this - before and after having a baby! Animals get me, I can't watch any of those ads/shows. :o:o

Sami_Bee

3 - are you still here? I forgot to ask; how did you attach the reins harness to the antilop? When I brought Ed his breakkie this morning I found him stod up in his! :eek:

Just been across to the Drs for clinic to find a sign saying from 7th June baby clinic is mondays and thursdays and the health centre down the road :mad: How very dare they move from a 1min walk to a 15min walk to the other side of town, what's the point in that!! now I have to make an effort to get my baby weighed instead of nipping across the road I'm lazy