Toddler & Preschooler - October 2007

this place has been slow all night...well it is 3am..maybe that's why.

2007-10-10 19:57:40 · 9 answers · asked by less 6

sorry i know i asked a similar question earlier today. but this is a little different. my son will be 3 in a few weeks. for the past year i have been trying to potty train him on and off. if i take him to the potty he will go. and this afternoon i was more motivated than ever and had him in shorts, no diaper. i washed 7 pair of shorts. but i took him to the potty every 20 minutes and he almost always peed in the potty. he has no problem peeing in the potty. my goal it to get him to tell me when he needs to go. all day i kept telling him "tell me if you need to go pee pee in the potty" he told me a couple of times. but mostly it was all me taking him. he even knows that he gets a piece of candy if he tells me he needs to go and pees in the potty. and he likes candy but even that hasn't motivated him much. ok so here is my question: how can i get him to start telling me when he needs to go?

2007-10-10 19:23:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My family is on an odd schedule. My husband works nights 5pm-2am and it is quite a drive for him to get to work. So he has to leave an hour early and arrives an hour late. I am a stay at home mom and have a newborn and a toddler. (My toddler isn't old enough for preschool yet, so she has no reason to get up early.) I put her to bed at 11pm each night. She wakes up at 10am and has a nap at 4pm. We arranged her schedule so that she can see her dad when he is home. He sleeps until 1 in the afternoon and has to leave at 4 so he likes to have those three hours with her. When she would get up earlier she would want to take a nap at noon and would be down until 4 and he would miss her. So now we put her to bed late. My mom thinks I am a bad mother because I put her to bed so late. But the only reason I do it is so she can have quality time with her dad. Does this make me a bad mother?

2007-10-10 19:19:21 · 35 answers · asked by SarahW 2

Is this some kind of potty fear, or is it just the water spashing on his bottom??? I really hope to have him potty trained soon but it's not gonna happen if he won't poo.... Help!

2007-10-10 19:07:18 · 6 answers · asked by babyangeleyez17 2

My little boy is 4.

I have 4 kids and over the years they have all suffered the odd head cold or winter flu, or cough. But this one we have never seen before. My little one has really stinky, squirty pooh yesterday and today - he suddenly says- more poo is coming - but we don't get to the toilet in time - he says his tummy hurts and he has a slight fever.

Could he have eaten something bad? No-one else is sick - or did he not wash his hands properly? We are very strict with hand washing and even have a "pump" bottle of antiseptic hand wash gel at the kitchen bench. He is so miserable.

2007-10-10 19:01:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My son constantly has horribly chapped lips - they almost look like blisters sometimes and the skin peels off them quite a bit. We do apply lip balm often but if we go a day or two and forget, they get chapped again. I'd like to do something about preventing it in the first place. Could it be from not drinking enough water or milk? He really doesn't drink enough of either, even though his diet is very healthy in every other respect - he eats tonnes of fruit and vegetables and everything else, but we are always after him to drink more. Any thoughts???

2007-10-10 18:33:26 · 6 answers · asked by Jenm 3

Should i get my 1 year old this shot? Is it safe? What are your opinions on this subject?

2007-10-10 18:03:09 · 7 answers · asked by one_hot_mama 1

I am renting a house and have heard footstep and experienced things being moved over and over again. I have never seen them move but my little statues are always facing a different direction, I move them back and within a few days they are moved again. I thought that I was just being silly or someone was messing with me because I do not really believe in ghost. Tonight my 2 year old was telling me that there was a little boy under our table (I did not see anything) and he wanted her sippy cup. She continued on and on about him.... she said he was scary and wanted new pajamas because his are yucky. She then ran into the kitchen and pressed herself against the wall saying that the scary boy wanted her sippy and was following her. I left and am now at my mothers. She told her all about the boys clothes, hair color, said that the little boy lives at her house too... Needless to say I am really freaked out, what would you do?

2007-10-10 17:27:46 · 29 answers · asked by sara123 3

Our son is 16 months..He is quite a picker eater...For dinner for several months, all he will eat is lamb chops, mashed pototoes, or pasta and peas or a little broccoli...Chicken seems to be too dry for him...any suggestions??? thanks alot!

2007-10-10 13:55:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My daughter decided to paint peanut butter all over herself any ideas on what to use to wash it off?

2007-10-10 13:53:34 · 11 answers · asked by pharfly1 5

2007-10-10 12:55:28 · 38 answers · asked by zai_707 1

Everytime i tell my daughter "no" she laughs at me. She will hit me and i will grab her hand and tell her "that hurts mommy, dont hit" and she laughs and continues to hit, or do whatever shes not suppose to be doing. It gets me so angry that i cant control her. She used to listen so well, now everything is just a joke. What can i do???

2007-10-10 10:27:47 · 14 answers · asked by Butterfly86 2

My 1 year old daughter was just prescribed singular for her allergies. I decided to look up some information on the drug before I give it to her and have read some things that trouble me, some parents report their children having severe mood swings, tantrums, uncontrolable crying, nightmares. Has anyone had their children taking this medication and what was the outcome? Any of these side effects? Any info will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

2007-10-10 08:26:14 · 11 answers · asked by ktbblb 3

Ok so i have a 3.5yr old who has a fetish for dumping stuff out. I mean anything from shower gel to milk. Its like the second i'm taking a break or having to use the bathroom he is dumping something out. I have no help here at home because my oldest son is at school all day and the hubby works. I think he does it to lash out at daddy cause daddy is never home, daddy works 14hr days then comes home and sleeps and is gone before my 3yr old wakes up. I have tried over and over again the dumping this stuff out causes a big mess and its not nice and he shouldn't do it. Then to top it all off he dumped my hand lotion into his brothers playstation2 and i have no idea how to tell him. I need a remedy for this situation because i can't take it anymore. Sometimes when he goes pee in the bathroom he'll tell me he is going poop when really he is dumping out another bottle of shampoo.

2007-10-10 05:20:19 · 17 answers · asked by Wishmaster 6

My 2 year old sister started talking to a boy named "Cala" about a month ago. It's the weirdest thing, and everyone I've told says that usually 2 year olds don't have imaginary friends. That's what I thought also, that was more of a 5 year old thing. But it gets weirder.
My mother had an abortion in early September due to complications, I can usually tell if someones having a girl or a boy and I was SURE my mother's was a boy. It was the day after the procedure my sister started talking to "Cala".
She was sitting on the floor with her toys and she turned her head to the side and started talking, a complete conversation. I asked who she was talking to and she said "I talkin' a Cala". I was a little confused so I asked who Cala was and she said "Calas a lil baby boy".
Since then, she talks to him ALL the time. She'll be talking to me and stop to answer someone who's not there.

What are your thoughts on this?

2007-10-10 05:10:16 · 14 answers · asked by coeurdouxmignon 2

First of all I don't have kids but I was wondering what's the effective way to discipline a 2 1/2yr old child when she hits kicks strangles her dog and cat?

And spanking doesn't work let's say and she/he keeps doing it?

2007-10-10 04:52:19 · 8 answers · asked by Butterfly 1

my grandaughter is 3 years will be 4 in january and her speech is still not clear. we in the house speak english and spanish. all my kids was raised the same way never had a problem. Instead of she saying dora,she sz dola, and i noticed that sometimes she speaks like when a person has water in his ears or can hear good. the doctor said that she is just spoild and that she will talk o.k. in her time. But it worries me because her mother and my youngest daughter in her age will talk whole conversation, not slang or there is the blablablalalala.

2007-10-10 04:49:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am checking out carseats for my son and I'm trying to get an estimate on where he might be in a few years. That way I can invest in a good seat that will hold him for a while. So, what is the average weight and height of a 4 year old boy? How about a 5 year old boy? I want to keep him harnessed as long as possible and also rearfacing for as long as possible...which is to about 30-35 lbs. rearfacing and 50-55 lbs. forward facing. Any suggestions on seats while we're on subject?

2007-10-10 04:43:22 · 6 answers · asked by Chelle 1

he can say words very clearly but when it comes to putting sentences together he does not do it. We have been to a specialist and they could not give us an exact answer until he has been to speech therapy can you halp in any way?

2007-10-10 04:37:19 · 6 answers · asked by mandy h 1

Im a mother of 3 boys 5,3,1...My 3 yr old is the one who worries me with his antisocial behavior. He is 80% angry about I dont know what? The other 20% he is sweet as a cuddle bear or sleeping. I've tried everything from time out, talking to him, bribing him, to spaking him. Nothing seems to work. When we go out either shopping, visit family, or out to eat, he will at one point start to cry his butt off. Sometimes I will ignore him (like if Im shopping far from my home) or sometimes I will go straight home where he can cry without everyone looking at me like Im the worst mother in the world. When he starts crying nothing will stop him, Not candy, not hugs, not screaming, not singing, not spanking,nothing! And he can go for like 2hrs straight. He is also antisocial with other kids... He will not play outside...not even when he got his first new bike, or dog. And he wants to be indoors at home only. I love my son and I try to protect him from strangers comments. Help!

2007-10-10 02:40:12 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do art with my 3 year old while my son is at school, we read books, we take a walk but then that's about it besides her nap and lunch, what else could we do?

I don't like going out alone because I have been raped and it's scary to be alone anymore.

Help would be greatly appreciated, and any rude remarks will be ignored and reported. Thanks

2007-10-10 02:34:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

my 2.5 year old never has tantrums in public.It is usually only when i go to the kitchen that it starts. I swear he can hear the fridge open from 20 metres!
It's as if every time i go to the kitchen he decides he wants something to eat. He can finish breakfast and 10 minutes later be looking for food when i go to the kitchen.

Does anyone have any idea as to what is going on in his little head and how to deal with the situation. He does not speak many words - only yes, no, all gone, bye, hi. (am going to speech pathology again next month).

2007-10-10 02:33:04 · 11 answers · asked by cybachic2000 2

as long as she is drinking liquids she is fine. I am begining to get worried and so is my mom because my 2 year old daughter just doesn't want to eat...she will pick here and there and eat junk like chips, popsicles, and fruit snacks (does take vitamins daily and I do make her eat fruits and vegi's in place of her junk snacks). I wasn't too worried before because she drank her milk/tolddler milk every morning and night but that has slowly stopped. She weighs 25lbs and they say that is fine...How can I get my little girl to eat?!?!?!?!!?!?!!?

2007-10-10 00:49:22 · 17 answers · asked by LosersSuck 3

hia, does ne1 no of ne1 fun reciepes me n my daughter can make 2getha, she gets very bord and im sick of her watching tv. I no she'd love to make sum food but i dont no where to start. Plz include measurements for the ingrediants if u have a reciepe. Thnx xx

2007-10-10 00:38:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My daughter is 18 months old now. When she was 8 months old..due to some unavoidable circumstances I left her with her granny and shez back now to be with me when she was 11months old. But she wantz to be with me only during the daytime and during nite time she wantz to go back to her granny and shez not coming to me. She cries if I try to keep her with me. I donno how to make her tobe with me. It has become a real problem for me. I donno how to get her back?Can some one plz help

2007-10-10 00:36:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anna 1

can u give me some advice on how to disapline my 4year old? he is the perfect child at nursery and always does as the teacher tells him.but soon as he gets home es compeletly the opposite.he doesnt listen,hes always arguing and fighting with his little brother (who is starting to follow in his big brothers steps)i hate aving to shout at him n dont want to hit him or send him to bed, so wat other options do i have?i av tried the naughty step it worked 4awhile, but doesnt do owt now,e knows wen es dun wrong and does apologise wen i tell him to.is it jst me?or is this just how they grow up?

2007-10-10 00:10:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

can u give me some advice on how to disapline my 4year old? he is the perfect child at nursery and always does as the teacher tells him.but soon as he gets home es compeletly the opposite.he doesnt listen,hes always arguing and fighting with his little brother (who is starting to follow in his big brothers steps)i hate aving to shout at him n dont want to hit him or send him to bed, so wat other options do i have?i av tried the naughty step it worked 4awhile, but doesnt do owt now,e knows wen es dun wrong and does apologise wen i tell him to.is it jst me?or is this just how they grow up?

2007-10-10 00:09:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have 2-1/2 year old son whose temper tantrums drive me nuts! Usually this is a result of not getting what he wants - bikkies, my stuff etc.

I try to be consistent - if I say no and he starts to whine, i will either relent immediately (like within say 15 seconds) or else continue to say no until he stops or ends up in T/O.

When saying no until the bitter end, i will not relent. If i get to putting him in T/O i warn him that he will go and count to 3 to let him know it's coming and give him an opportunity to stop.

He NEVER stops before getting to 3 and so i think that he doesn't understand. Also if i put him in T/O for 2-3 minutes he is still SCREAMING after that time frame so i leave him there for longer until he is quieter. But, if i say are you going to be a good boy now? he nods yes but upon coming out of T/O will then start up again for the same reason that he went in.

He isn't talking yet. His hearing's been checked ok.& he's not autistic.

Please help!

2007-10-09 23:51:54 · 4 answers · asked by cybachic2000 2

Children often misbehave.. how do you handle him/her

2007-10-09 21:48:30 · 20 answers · asked by WILLS 2

IHere is what we are seeing: He uses three words regularly, one of the words he uses we don't think he knows what it means. He doesn't identify any common words or objects. He doesn't follow any simple verbal instructions. He doesn't bring us things to show us. He often doesn't look when we point. He doesn't point. He repeatedly throws objects onto the floor especially if he becomes frustrated with them. He takes toys from other children at childcare and throws them on the floor. He does some repetitive but not very pronounced movements (flapping hands, shaking head, walking on toes). He often won't make eye contact and often doesn't respond to his name. However, I have been working with him and got him to wave three times and clap with the tv. He is also engaging in a tiny amount of pretend play. He often brings me objects like a telephone and wants me to pretend to answer it but won't do it himself. Could he have autism or does the pretend play exclude him?

2007-10-09 21:06:51 · 12 answers · asked by way2busy 2