Toddler & Preschooler - May 2007

My son is 14 months old, and he just sorted his blocks by color (green from red) for the first time! I am so proud of him!

2007-05-18 07:52:52 · 19 answers · asked by SharShar 2

my son is 4yrs old, and am trying to discipline him but with no results. he is very naughty and basically never listens to me and is very naughty at nursary school too. i don't know what to do. i also have a baby that is 4 months, so i thought maybe that's also at fault, he's not jealous and he's very good with the baby but i'm wondering if his behaviour is worse nowadays because of the baby, i give him, my older child, a lot of attention, so i don't know. i also punish him when he's naughty but he's not scared of anything. any help would be useful thank you.

2007-05-18 06:35:13 · 9 answers · asked by Tiara 6

Does anyone have any sugestions on how to stop this or controll it a little bit. I try to keep belts on him and at night I put him in a sleeper that I have to put on him backwards to keep him away from it. At first I figured it was normal and now its been about 1 1/2 years. Nothing works.

2007-05-18 06:30:04 · 10 answers · asked by angelklly5 2

About a week ago, my husband and I started potty training our three year old son (He turned 3 on March 2.). We bought regular toddler briefs (not padded) and rubber pants (to catch the urine/poop). I soon found out that rubber pants are horrible--definitely more hassle than they're worth because when you take them off, the urine comes pouring out, lol. Anyway, he loves wearing underwear, but REFUSES to pee in the potty. He'll wait until he's peed (or has started to pee) in his underwear THEN tell me he needs clean undies. We put him on his potty seat every 30 minutes (regardless of whether or not he's peed recently) and make him sit for about 5 minutes. Normally he starts screaming the minute we suggest the potty. We've tried giving him candy as a reward, and that's not working. He'll sit on the potty for 10 minutes, not pee, then STILL expect candy. When he doesn't get it, that leads to a tantrum. Any advice? I thought of a sticker chart, but he has no interest in stickers.

2007-05-18 05:25:07 · 15 answers · asked by brevejunkie 7

I'm an Aunt and I can not understand why my newphew's parents never want to take him places!!

I would take him anywhere!!
He is very good!!
He is 2 years old almost 3!!

His parents do not take him to go shopping or to go out to dinner!!

Just the other day they needed someone to watch him because they were going to look at new trucks!!

So I took him and I had plans but he went with me and we had fun!!

I was just woundering why parents do not want to take their children anywhere!!

2007-05-18 04:51:16 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

areas around where the tooth is coming out. Is this common, or has anyone else seen something this? It doesn't look good.

2007-05-18 03:30:01 · 5 answers · asked by sithgreg 1

I have been to a few stores so far looking for anywhere between 24 and 36 month onesies. I don't want to have to keep on going from store to store. Does anyone have any ideas where I can get these? I prefer short sleeve and Gerber...but I am not sure if Gerber makes them that big...thanks!!!

2007-05-18 03:29:58 · 11 answers · asked by deez0477 3

We've had this planned for quite a while now, my friend Gretchen and I are going to a flea market this weekend. The downside is my babysitter just had a situation for school that came up for the weekend and nobody else is free. Should I just take him, he's never been to one

2007-05-18 02:34:22 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a six month old son and yesterday I fed him apple sauce for the first time. After he ate the apples he refused his bottle and just wanted to sleep. about a half an hour or so later he threw up everything he ate. This continued throughout the night until he was dry heaving. This morning however he seemed perfectly fine and ate his entire bottle. Could it have been an allergic reaction to the apple sauce or did he just have a 12 hour flu?

2007-05-18 00:38:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

LOL and I cant wait to see some of the ones I get. I see so many folks on here truely looking for answers for example I just read a post about a mom needing some help with her recently diagnosed 2 year old autistic son. Someone said maybe he is jealous of his sister and someone else said beat him, someone else said give him up for adoption. We see idiots like this on the parenting boards daily but I would think if people are getting 10 or more thumbs down because of their stupid rude disrespectful answers then theyshould get their account with yahoo answers suspended. Do you agree? I wish something like this was more accesible 13 years ago when I had my first child. I prefer experienced advice opposed to books. It is annoying to weed through the rude answers when people are just looking for help. I wonder if any of you rude people realize that you may need advice some day and if you are like this in real life off the net then you are going to have few friends and have horrible kids.

2007-05-18 00:28:08 · 20 answers · asked by Ladybugs77 6

my age is 41 and my wife is 37 yrs

2007-05-17 19:12:34 · 23 answers · asked by aksoni707 1

has anyone ever had there childs skin turn a purply blue color and their feet and hands swell up

(but it comes and goes stays around for bout 1-2 hours a day)

it happens mostly when the child eats and after bathing

yes my child has been to a dr. i just wanted to know if this happened to anyone else cuz i dont like the answer i got from my doctor

2007-05-17 18:22:49 · 10 answers · asked by Tink 4

My daughter is turning 3 in August...I know it seems a long way away but I want to start thinking of ideas for her birthday. If we do it at the house it will have to be outside and more than likely be pretty hot. The kids that would be invited would range in age from 1.5 to 9 years old (neighborhood kids) and there would probably be around 8 -10 kids (if everyone showed up) plus adults. Bouncys are neat...but I am afraid of the age difference being in a bouncy.

If we did it someplace else...it would probably just be immediate family. I was thinking maybe an amusement park or something like that.

What do you all think??? Any input????

2007-05-17 15:09:04 · 5 answers · asked by aziahh30 2

How do you get spray paint off of your skin?
My adventurous 3 year old thought it would neat to spray black paint all over himself. I have given him 2 baths and it still won't come off.
Anyone have any tips?

2007-05-17 14:30:38 · 10 answers · asked by GeorgiaGurl 3

I'm looking at a mini-crib to go with our mine-home, but am concerned it won't last until baby's ready to go to a toddler bed. So, was your child 6, months, 9 months, 1 year? I just can't remember what's average. Thanks in advance.

2007-05-17 11:01:43 · 17 answers · asked by MelissaAnn 2

My son just turned one last week. He crawls all over the place and he is average height/weight but he has absolutley NO interest in standing up by himself or walking. In his playgroup, all of the other kids his age are walking and he can't keep up with them by crawling so he sits and screams and crys until I pick him up. Do you think this is normal? Is there anything I can do to help him? He stands holding onto things but will not let go or move from that spot.

2007-05-17 10:13:51 · 23 answers · asked by femina_lala 2

told me the doctor called another no in because he had pnemonia. They gave me a breathing machine and 3meds. He still sounds kinda bad and it has been three day.. Just curious, do they normally hospalize babies this young. any advice would be great. thanks

2007-05-17 10:09:15 · 10 answers · asked by lrios1229 1

My son (3 1/2) was fully potty trained...until recently:(
He is peeing everywhere...in toy boxes...in the basement...even in my daughters shoe!!! He uses the bathroom everywhere eles (school ect.) but at home...he pee's all over!!

2007-05-17 10:01:39 · 14 answers · asked by jennifer 1

He is 3 years old. Will he grow out of it or does he need some other help?

2007-05-17 09:36:13 · 15 answers · asked by Bien Chula 5

2007-05-17 09:22:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

my 3 year old girl has to have doll every where all the time i have tried lots of way to stop it but i can't
she will not eat at a meal she just sits there with here doll
she has to have it at bed time or she will not sleep

2007-05-17 09:11:50 · 10 answers · asked by josh z 1

My daughter-in-law has angrily told me she won't allow me to babysit my two year old grandaughter, yet she wanted me to stay standing with the baby outside her house, for two hours so she could sleep. I was to bring the baby back up stairs at lunchtime but then I was not allowed to eat with them. How am I supposed to respond to this manipulative, exploitive, abusive, attitude?

2007-05-17 08:33:12 · 17 answers · asked by goldsteinj 1

My son who just turned 3 in March, has no desire to even sit on the toilet. He still wakes up in the middle of the night for milk or water. Then he wakes up with a wet diaper every morning. I am a single mom who works 2 jobs and I know that isn't an excuse, but my sisters daugther who is the the same age is so more advanced then my son. I know you shouldn't compare kids,but I can't help but feel that maybe I am a bad mom. Please give me real tips on how to get my son to actually sleep through the whole night and how to get him interested in potty training

2007-05-17 08:27:43 · 19 answers · asked by ***ME*** 3

I need some help on potty trainng my 2 year old son, he has just turned 2 ...I tried to prep him early by just doing little things , around 18 monhs old , when changing his diaper i would verbaly tell him what each diaper had in to let him reconize what he was doing in the diaper , for example if he peed i would say "pee pee " you went pee pee " if he pooped i would tell him "poopoo" you went poo poo ..I even let him watch me go pee before to help understand what the big toilet was for ,I tried yesterday to put him on the big toilette and he was fearful of it and cried , so i bought him a kiddy potty cahit and put it in the bath room , when i have to go to the bathroom , i say mommy has to go potty lets go potty , i sit on the toilette so he can watch me , then i put him on his mini potty chair and he will NOT go in it...He then walks around the hoosue clapping his hands saying eww gross peepoo, but when i check him he is clean , and when i put him on his potty chair he still wont go

2007-05-17 08:19:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-17 08:17:27 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

My son is nearly 2, and he's a happy boy, but he suffer's with really bad ear infection's, which he's had for about 6 month's, the doctor says he had a perforated ear drum at one stage,he really suffer's from them, and he's going to see a specialist on june the 1st about his ear's.But we are worried, that he say's only mumma sometimes,and cannot speak, i only hope it's not autism, as some people might say. But i wonder if he's so frustrated with his hearing he's gone in tunnel vision mode and switched off, as his hearing is maybe muffled? He can hear a horn on the bike, and loud noise's, so maybe he's on the mend,but im worried,are these the sign's of autism also? or just a child who can hardly hear?

2007-05-17 08:09:51 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am looking to buy an attachment for my husband's bicycle so he can bring our daughter out for rides. This is going to be a gift, so i can't ask him for advice. I have been leaning toward the front attachment (attaches to the bike frame in front of my hubby's seat) b/c it is supposed to have a better center of gravity. Plus, he would be able to see what she is looking at. We live in a pretty busy area, so i was thinking that the trailer kind would not be as practical for us.....Anyway, i was wondering what kind of bike attachments other people had, and if they were happy with them. Would you recommend the seat you bought? why or why not? I would like to hear about any types of seats....front or rear mounting, and the trailer kind. Thank you!!!

Oh, the one i have really been thinking about is the ibert safe-t-seat. Has anyone used this seat? I have included a link

http://www.ibertinc.com/

2007-05-17 07:57:36 · 4 answers · asked by Kirsten 5

2007-05-17 07:31:32 · 10 answers · asked by Christine L 1

my son is 20 months old, he doesn't talk,only just started eating and gets angry all the time. He's got a 3 year old sister that talks and plays with him but he just gets angry and starts grinding his teeth and lately has started banging his head againist the floor. im just getting worried cause i done know what to do about it? should i take him to the doctors? im just scared cause everyone keeps saying its the symtomes of ADHD. please if you have any suggestions for me it will help alot

2007-05-17 07:24:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

My boyfriend and I have been living together for 6 months. I have a 2 year old and he has a 4 year old. Both are boys and they share a room. We are both single parents. My boyfriends son's"Mother" moved 3000 miles away and doesnt call so I have very comfortably become a role model for Dyllan. My son's "Father" is also not involved and my son looks up to my boyfriend. The problem is me establishing a routine for the boys during the day that we can all stick too. I stay at home with the boys during the day while my boyfriend works in the military. We get up around 7 and nap time is at 1 and my boyfriend gets home around 3. I need to implement some structure during the day so our time together goes a lot smoother and we can't seem to find our niche. Anyone have any suggestions pertaining to a schedule? Nap time is becoming difficult. I like to do a lot of hands on activities with the boys. They really like art projects that we do. Im having a hard time with a schedule. Suggestions?

2007-05-17 07:17:32 · 3 answers · asked by justsittingaround 2