MSE Parents Club Part 16

jennynoo

I just thought, there are a couple of 'one o'clock' clubs in London and hopefully elsewhere in the country which are good for toddlers although not sure how good they are for meeting other mums.

Becles

Morning

Just pottering around at home today catching up on housework and laundry. Need to pop to the shops as James is having a sleepover and Josh's girlfriend is coming round this afternoon and I said I'd feed them all.

Charlotte is playing on my phone and managed to download and install a new app all by herself It's a series of talking animals and they repeat what you say and stuff. She's busy talking to a dog at the moment.

gizmodo_2

I'm impressed with those that dare go to the Next Sale. My idea of hell. I hate clothes shopping at the best of times, but fighting over rails of clothes with mad shoppers is not my idea of fun.

We were given some outdoor toys buy a friend of a friend. Really kind of them. Got a lawnmower, wheelbarrow, gardening and cleaning set, a 3 trike and a slide

We also bought a paddling pool from Tesco yesterday as they seemed cheap.

An update on DD...she's 5.5 months now and we gave her some broccoli about a week ago and she just stared at it then tenderly squashed it between her fingers! Not once did she put her hands in her mouth, so she's nowhere near ready yet. I just wanted to prove to my mum that she's not...

Sleep wise...it's been very mixed over the last couple of weeks. But the last 3 nights we made a decision not to feed her in the night. I think she was getting in the habit of being fed whenever she woke and it was getting ridiculous. So we've just been settling her instead and fingers crossed it wasn't a fluke, but last night she slept from 6:30 - 6:30 waking only at 10:30pm for her last feed :T

Oh and she now sleeps on her front. It worried me the first night or 2, but she seems to like it. Within minutes she's rolled over and sleeping. She still can't roll from front to back though. But she's no longer freaking which is good.

@becles, it's funny when you consider that we are quite a lot more advanced in technology than our parents in general, but it baffles me to think what DD will be capable of at such a young age. I suppose in my day at least I didn't have a computer in the home until I was 12. Got my first mobile when I was 18. It all seems weird to me how quick technology is moving.

Becles

We had a computer when I was about 7-ish, but that was only because my Dad was a teacher and he got it cheap through school.

I was thinking they are clever now as Charlotte can turn on the computer, find her websites in the bookmarks, and she plays games or watches iPlayer. However there was no user interfaces on PC's in the olden days, so as a child I was used to seeing a prompt then having to type commands in to run games so it was a lot harder to do and I wouldn't have been able to do that at Charlotte's age.

Our idea of fun was getting program listing books out the library and then spending hours typing in the program, more hours looking for typing errors that caused the game to crash, then about five minutes playing the game because it was pants :rotfl:

I was on about play phones to the boys the other day made with a bit of string and two tin cans. They looked at me as if I was mad and said why would you want to do that when everyone has a mobile. Errrr not then they didn't so we had to improvise. So although technology has moved on, they've lost the skill of making tin can phones in the process

It's the online stuff and social interaction between the boys and their friends that fascinates me. When we came in on a night, you never saw anyone again until the next day and in the school holidays when we were shipped off to grandparents, we felt isolated from our friends. Now they've got a combination of Facebook, MSN, texting, xbox live and so on, and they're constantly in touch with their friends, even when they're at my parents house and stuff. They seem to have much deeper friendships, but spats are worse as everyone can see the written word for much longer compared to an argument in the playground that is only witnessed by those who were there.

lwcus78

Great news Giz re sleep. I'll have to try that with my DD also 6 months as I'm stil feeding her loads in the night. Its just so tempting to feed her as it gets her back to sleep so quick!

aless02

Morning!

Not a lot to say, just popping in for a hello.

pigpen

Hello Aless..

#nothing of any interest to add here either..

Mazcabs

Morning all,

OH was at work yesterday and Henry had 2 parties to go to:eek: that child has a better social life than me. First one was a princess and pirates one so made the pair of them outfits - it was an awful party,....they had a kids entertainer who called the kids girlyswurlys and boyswursys...she played 2 games which including the mummy game (toilet rolls) and then spent the rest of the time doing cheerleading and dancing...not my idea of a 4yo's party!!!

2nd was for a boy who was leaving nursery, there was hardly anyone there but sure the boys had more fun, they had a bouncy castle in the garden....what happened to pass the parcel!!

Was going to Horticultural Hut today but OH gone on his own with Henry as William is knackered and having a sleep already...

Not much else on here except the usual washing of bedding and tidying up but at least its not raining at the moment!!

Becles

Be prepared for party madness once they get into the infants/primary school. They don't really have a close friendship group, so everyone tends to invited the whole class to a party and it feels like you are at a party every weekend.

Definitely worth getting a present box and picking up odds and ends of toys that you see cheap when you are out and about And you can always recycle duplicate/unwanted gifts from any parties that you host making sure they don't go back to the sender of course

It settles down once they hit junior school age, as they tend of to have smaller parties with their friendship group.

Just pottering about at home today, catching up on housework and stuff. I've got a big to do list that I'm slowly working through.

delain

Hi :hello:

Hope everyone is ok

seem to have been cooking all day today! Not much on today apart from that. Dinner was nice though, whoopsie'd lamb