Toddler & Preschooler - December 2006

I post this question for my sister...
I am a mother of 3, 3 month old boy and 2 & 4 year old girls. My husband works midnights all week and can't help me with our new born, so i'm on my own. (I'm tired!!) Anyways, my girls share a room together and they both seem to wake up in the middle of the night everytime I wake up to nurse my son. Either from him crying or sometimes they just wake up to see were i went cause I go downstairs to feed and change him. How do I get them to stay asleep and stay in their beds? Any advice out there?

2006-12-19 14:37:13 · 9 answers · asked by Mrs B 3

2006-12-19 14:17:09 · 9 answers · asked by Luckystar25 3

My friend invited my son and I to the movie Charlottes Web with her and her 3 year old son tomorrow night. My son is only one and a half, and I'm weary of bringing him to his first movie, I'm really not sure what to expect! Since it's a weeknight I don't think there will be many people there, and being a kids movie I'm sure there will be other little ones running around. What were your experiences?

2006-12-19 13:31:24 · 17 answers · asked by dolly 6

I have a 3 and a 1yr old when i put them to bed at night my 1yr figured out how to climb out of bed so he wanders about the house at night I keep getting up and telling him its bedtime put him ans bed and long and behold he is back out of bed he refuses to stay in bed. My 3yr old same thing they just don't wanna go to bed they are up until 10 sometimes 11pm what can I do?

2006-12-19 13:22:29 · 5 answers · asked by ompie 3

Can anyone please help me, my one year old son won't eat dinner when he gets home from Day Care, he only ever wants to nibble on little things, I make him tea and he just plays with it and then later he is hungry again and will only nibble again. Help any advice please.

2006-12-19 12:48:44 · 1 answers · asked by Jess B 2

I need to think of something small to get each of the kids in my daughter's class at daycare. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

2006-12-19 12:35:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Our 3 year old daughter is deathly afraid of drains we dont know why or how we have never told her she will be sucked down one or anything like that. But due to her fear of drains potty training so far is going on in the living room which for now I dont mind but we will need her to use the toilet and being so afraid to go because it drains. We have touched the bathtub drain and sink drains in front of her empty, full, and while draining to show her its safe but she screams like she is going to die.

2006-12-19 12:32:29 · 7 answers · asked by girlie1921 3

Ty you all for reading this my 6 years old son has a rash all over I don't know if it is chickenpox can anyone give me some web site to read and stuff thanks I am calling the Dr. tommorrow .

2006-12-19 12:06:39 · 1 answers · asked by purpal2002002 4

His mother is going out of state with her boyfriend for Christmas. He is not allowed to celebrate Christmas. Normally he lasts about 44 hours before he starts asking to go home. This weekend he will be here from 4pm Thursday until 6pm Tuesday. He does not color, watch tv, or do anything else that requires him to be still more than 15 seconds. What can I do that is fun to keep him from crying to go home for 4 days straight?

Keep in mind I also have a 5yo, 4yo, and 8month-old of my own- with the baby I cannot be in the middle of football games and things- and that it cannot be expensive. We do not all fit in the vehicle at once so taking them anywhere is also out of the question.

HELP PLEASE!!!

2006-12-19 12:06:18 · 11 answers · asked by imjustasteph 4

2006-12-19 12:01:38 · 13 answers · asked by laura m 3

2006-12-19 11:56:19 · 7 answers · asked by manuel 1

Is their a trick to keeping a 15 month old in his carseat? My son some how gets his arms out of his car seat straps. I push the little black piece up under his neck but he still gets it down to losen the straps and then trys to get himself out of the carseat. Is their another type of seat I should buy???????? Any suggestions welcome!!

2006-12-19 11:53:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-19 11:16:04 · 9 answers · asked by tolentino03@sbcglobal.net 1

She mostly acts up when she doesn't get her way. They send her to time out and she screams, takes her clothes off(even her hair pieces), and sometimes uses the bathroom on herself(she been potty trained for almost a year). NONE OF THIS SHE EVEN THINKS OF DOING AT HOME. I know part of the problem is that they cannot spank her there. I hardly ever have to spank her at home cause she's gotten to the point where she knows her boundaries. So I figured if I no longer spanked her at home and just talked to her then their method would work on her but it only back fired on me. She started to treat me like them. On top of that when she had gotten to the point when she started taking of her clothes they questioned me as if it wasn't normal and something had to be going on at home. I do reward her when she is good with stickers and cookies. They moved her with the kids a year older because she was always the leader and seemed to outgrow the ones her age. It seemed to work but now she is back at it

2006-12-19 11:15:19 · 15 answers · asked by chelly7483 1

2006-12-19 10:45:04 · 4 answers · asked by caprice3131 1

I am 12 1/2 years old and i just started a baby sitting job but the problem is i am not sure how much to charge.I am baby sitting 1 family that has 3 kids that are 9,7,4.i need to no how much per kid tho.And then another family that has 2 kids that are 18 mos. and 4.so i am really confused help!!!

2006-12-19 10:10:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

My son is 27 months old and is very frustrating. He doesn't say more than 10 words and when he writes his letters he will scribble over them when you tell him that was a good job. He has been evaluated by speech therapy and they just said he was delayed in expressive speech and advanced in receptive speech. And yet he ignores me all the time. How do I get him to talk more and accept compliments. He is very smart, I just wish he would talk more. I am afraid that people will not see what he can do because he doesn't talk. I have tried with-holding what he wants until he at least makes a sound in order to get it (except for food or essentials) and he just gives up trying and cries. Right now his vocabulary is shrinking because he has stopped saying words he used to. His words include: mom, amma, cat, om (some), ball, book, tad (leapfrog), lay (clay). He can say his alphabet phonetically but not actual letter, he knows his numbers and can read the words he says. Please help.

2006-12-19 09:49:03 · 5 answers · asked by operaphantom2003 4

2006-12-19 09:47:16 · 16 answers · asked by pokerpro_82 1

I have a 2 yead old and i really want her to use a potty she sits on it when she wakes up and before bed but she does nothing even if she sits for a resanable amount of time.she actually did something the first 2 times but then nothing.

I have been trying for a week

2006-12-19 09:46:15 · 20 answers · asked by grugrupingpong 2

Since school as started in August, my son has wet his pants about 10 times now. He goes to another school on Mondays and Wednesday mornings until 12:00 then he goes to another 5 days a week in the afternoons. We thought something was going on at the morning preschool but there isnot. So when I take him to the afternoon preschool I make sure he goes to the bathroom before I leave but sometimes that does not work because he will still wet in his pants. Today I went to his class party and I told him I was going to leave to go to his brothers party and asked him if he wanted to go and he said no he would stay. I asked him before I left if he had to go to the bathroom and he said no. When I picked him up from school they had changed his clothes because he wetted in them. I asked him if he likes the afternoon preschool and he says he loves it. He doesn't wet in his pants at home or the morning preschool. So that is why I'm asking somebody to please please give me some advice.

2006-12-19 09:37:50 · 5 answers · asked by mom2boys 2

He refuses to to poop on the potty chair. As soon as i get his diaper back on him, he goes.

2006-12-19 09:32:55 · 16 answers · asked by wwpmom 1

My niece is a 3 year old. Every time I give her some puzzlez she plays and makes a good mess. Now when it is time to clean up she doesn't want to. she tells me her hands hurts! What should I do? If I put her in time out she just gets out and starts playing with the puzzlez! Help! :(

2006-12-19 08:44:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

She does it playfully and doesn't understand it hurts. Does anyone have any good suggestions besides the naughty corner that have worked for you?

2006-12-19 08:41:50 · 12 answers · asked by Johnny Johnny 2

2006-12-19 08:36:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

we have even tried giving him a new hotwheels car when he uses the potty HELP!!!

2006-12-19 08:30:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

whenever i tell her no she has a tantrum so loud i'm sure everyone in the place can hear her. she does things like dump her bath water on the floor just to see what i'll do! she gets into everything and has it all over the place! i can't keep up with her! she whines constantly about everything it drives me crazy! are there any other parents out there dealing with difficult children and what do you do?

2006-12-19 08:25:53 · 8 answers · asked by onyx maiden 4

My daughter is 20 months old and fights going to bed. She sleeps w/ me and my husband or rather I lie w/ her in our bed till she falls asleep then I move her into her own room. But the challenge is getting her to sleep. She'll be drifting off to sleep, eyes closing. Then she jump up saying 'no..no.. up.. up'. And we fight all over again. Putting her to bed at night and at nap time takes sometimes an HOUR.
I've been waking her up ealier in the morning hoping that it'll make her more tired for nap time and I've woken her up at nap time earlier too in the hope that she'll fall asleep better at night time. But that doesn't seem to be working... though I've just started doing this. It's only been a couple days....
Any suggestions??

2006-12-19 08:18:23 · 10 answers · asked by second time around 2

I am looking for poems to parents from toddlers. I am a daycare provider and I want to do something like the handprints poem only use the child's artwork instead. Any suggestions will be apprecited.

Thanks!

2006-12-19 08:10:30 · 5 answers · asked by Nancy C 1

My 2 year old son has been diagnosed with behavoir problems. I have know idea what to do. I have heard of children having this problem but have never heard anyone talk about what they do about it. My son has a really bad temper to and has a really hard time controling his anger and with a boy his size that isn't a good thing. He is on a screaming kick right now where he will scream at the top of his lungs as if someone is beating him. He was screaming so bad one night he scare his baby sister and she is only 2 months old. I am just looking for suggestions. Lets keep in mind he has specialists confused on what to do with him.

And please only serious answers

2006-12-19 07:56:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-19 07:42:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous