Toddler & Preschooler - November 2007

Hes at that point were its his baby hair is falling out and I just want to shave it so it all comes back at the same time and is healthier but i first want to know if I should?

2007-11-12 03:15:13 · 16 answers · asked by CR346 1

Has anyone got any meals ideas, that are quick to make for a 1 year old baby. He like to feed himself.
Thank you

2007-11-12 02:34:28 · 10 answers · asked by smile2082uk 2

My daughter is turning 1 this week and I would like a few opinions on the following:

a) how many naps should she have?
b) how many bottles of formula / day should she have or should I be moving onto growing-up milks?
c) when can we stop giving formula / growing-up milks altogether?
d) when will her poo's become less gooey and more like stools?

Her routine at the moment:
7.30/8am - breakfast
10am - formula bottle then nap
1pm - lunch
3pm - bottle then nap
6.30 - dinner
7pm - bottle then sleep
Breakfast is iron fortified baby cereal, rest of meals are whatever we eat. She is not fussy, has a good appetite. She has between 2 & 4 250ml sippy cups of juice/ day. Past week she seems to play with her bottles rather than drink them as usual. And either the morning or afternoon nap has been a fight to get her to sleep. She does eat some sweets etc on weekends as a treat.

2007-11-12 01:50:46 · 4 answers · asked by r0gu3_69 1

2007-11-12 01:07:42 · 18 answers · asked by oompagirl96 1

Ok, we moved 7 miles from my parents a little over a year ago and since then our son has been visiting them every weekend. And sometimes on weekdays. They have a lot of money to throw around so naturally it goes on him. He already has a real running packard, a 75 or 76 stingray and a gas powered four wheeler he got on his 4th bday! My husband and I are thankful that he is getting all the things we never had but I think my mom and step dad are way over doing it. I am already paying $3500 a yr for the private school they put him in, which in my opinion isnt any better than public preschool. They just over do everything when it comes to him! I cant even buy him clothes without them putting their 2 cents in! And dont get me started when it comes to punishment, I am wrong all of the time. My parents rough house alot with each other, so now we have a problem with him hitting other kids and adults. He back talks, and ignores everything I say! It is worst when i get him back after the wkend.

2007-11-11 17:35:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am very concerned she may be autistic, I have read some things and see some similarities, but then again not all, I am a little cofused but mostly worried.

Thanks

2007-11-11 17:20:44 · 18 answers · asked by wow p 1

2007-11-11 15:19:51 · 3 answers · asked by shipcollector1 1

My 2 yr old has been sleeping with me for far too long. I've tried putting him to bed in his room, and I've tried waiting til he went to sleep and putting him in his bed. He wakes up crying and comes to my bed. When he's in my bed, he never wakes in the night. I have tried to lay with him in his bed but he ends up crying until he throws up. I don't want him to feel like I don't want him but it would be nice to sleep next to my husband again.

2007-11-11 14:07:59 · 29 answers · asked by shelly 2

I have a 13 month old who knows where the toilet is and knows how to flush it. When should I start potty training him, and what methods should I use? I have heard that it is harder to potty train boys then girls...HELP PLEASE

2007-11-11 13:26:09 · 27 answers · asked by A.J.'s Mommy! 3

Points will be awarded for the 'awww factor.' Here's an example: When my older son was 16 months and learning to identify his letters, he had trouble pronouncing 'W,' and would say 'duggledoo.' We made the mistake of laughing too hard because we thought it sounded so cute. So when we would play with his magnetic or foam letters, and I'd point to a W and ask him what it was, he would get embarassed about not being able to say it. So then he would flip over the letter, point to it and announce 'M!'

2007-11-11 12:41:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My husband and I have a 2 year old boy and a 4 year old girl. I am pregnant with our third and last child. Right now, they each have their own room...we are planning to have the baby in a bassinet in our bedroom until it is too big (not sure of the sex yet). Do you think it is wrong for us to put our 2 and 4 year old in the same room using bunkbeds, and let the baby have its own room until he/she sleeps through the night and can share a room with our son/daughter?

2007-11-11 11:57:32 · 10 answers · asked by Jenny51980 2

2007-11-11 11:31:41 · 2 answers · asked by maddy 1

I just had a big scene with my 4 year old at her day care center. My twins always stand at the fence to say good bye. When I got out there one of them had climbed up on the fence and the teacher was asking her to hop down. My daughter was yelling at her "no i'm staying right here". The teacher really wasn't doing much about it just kept asking her to hop down and tried to pick her up then my daughter started screaming at her. I was pretty angry that she was behaving so badly telling her if she didn't hop down I would take her home. When she didn't get down I told her I was coming back in to the center and if she wasn't down by the time I got there I was taking her home. When I got in there she was still on the fence so I made her say goodbye to her twin sister and say sorry to her teacher then I marched her out of the center. Once we got down the street a bit I got down on her level and explained that the rules are there to keep he safe and she can not behave like that or yell

2007-11-11 10:43:15 · 14 answers · asked by the_little_one_said 3

How much do you spend on your child(ren) for Christmas/Hanukkah/Yule/Kwanzaa? Thoughts/reasons? Do you think most people overspend? What is your definition of "too much"?

2007-11-11 10:09:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

my twin girls are starting school and I'm really teary about it,just wondered if anyone else feels the same.

2007-11-11 10:08:04 · 4 answers · asked by cherub 3

He is 3 1/2 and loves spiderman, but he already has a lot of toys. any ideas?

p.s. im 13, so nothing too expensive or anything....

2007-11-11 09:54:04 · 8 answers · asked by Eat. Sleep. Run. ☼ 4

He eats puree, mashed up vegetables with potatoes, sometimes rice, slices of bread and biscuits. As soon as there is something where he has to use his teeth, he refuses to eat it, or spits it out.

We've tried encouraging him, giving him less on his plate, making it look pretty, but it doesn't work. Today, we gave him potatoes and carrots cooked, and cut into chips. It took him half an hour to eat THREE potatoes, which were about the size of his finger, and the last, he kept it in his mouth and didn't want to swallow....even when he had left the table he was walking around with it in his mouth.

He is also a very late speaker -40 word vocabulary and no associations between the words. He seems to have a problem pronouncing words where you move your tongue a lot, so I wonder if that has anything to do with his refusal to eat. Also... he has not yet got his last molars.

Anyone had the same problem? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

2007-11-11 09:37:44 · 5 answers · asked by Lisa L 1

He's only a baby.... (8 month old) Hes very vocal. I think I've her him say "HI". But nothing more.

2007-11-11 09:22:47 · 2 answers · asked by I want my two dollars? 3

2007-11-11 09:16:54 · 4 answers · asked by coty_2010 1

My son is only 8 months old but already he is too big for his baby bathtub (he has fisher price aquarium bathtub) http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/5145Q0SY1XL.jpg
anyways in the middle of this bathtub is a separator so the infant can sit in the tub but it gives the older baby less room for legs when they can sit upright by themselves. Anyway my baby is too big so I was wondering how old should he be when I start bathing him elsewhere? And when I do stop using the tub how do I bathe him ? In shower with me or in normal bath tub or should I purchase a new bath tub?

2007-11-11 08:46:46 · 9 answers · asked by Betrayed and Insane 5

My husband and I are at odds on when our son, who is 2 1/2, is ready for a regular drinking cup. I think he does very well for his age when drinking out of his small, lidless cups, and I really don't want to start back with the sippy cups. My husband hates that our son spills his cups once in a while because of the messes. He usually knocks them over, but he drinks just fine with one or both hands. He spills it a few times a week, maybe 3 to 4 times a week. We have hardwood floors, so I'm not too worried about it because it's easy to clean up but it drives my husband crazy. I've already thrown out all of his sippy cups (did it before my husband came home from deployment because I didn't think he'd have a problem with it) and I really don't want to get my son back on them.
Your opinion?

2007-11-11 08:41:52 · 9 answers · asked by Miss Informed 5

baby #1 is our son and #2 is the mommy close to the same age and #3 is the daddy close to the same age. does he look absolutely like his own little self or does he look anything like either of us? they aren't the best pics but we all have very blue eyes. just curious : )
#1 http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa92/flipflopfairy/gavin.jpg
#2 http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa92/flipflopfairy/babyjaime.jpg
#3 http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa92/flipflopfairy/babynoah.jpg

2007-11-11 08:37:38 · 14 answers · asked by ? 2

we live far from everyone. what should i do for my daughter's birthday. it has to be perfect. she is looking forward to it and i don't want to let her down. it is just my husband and i and a little brother.

2007-11-11 08:12:15 · 9 answers · asked by justmyopinion 4

I work with toddlers on a daycare centre and I have my practicum coming up and if the kids does not want to listen to me then I am afraid I will fail it. the problem is they just do not want to listen to me like i do not take them seriously> help! i cannot control because of that.

2007-11-11 06:31:21 · 6 answers · asked by marsh 1

My Daughter feels really hot so i took her temperature from her armpit but i dont know what the average temperature for a toddler is.
Does anyone know?

2007-11-11 05:54:14 · 13 answers · asked by Kylie 1

My 3-year-old nephew just screams at the top of his lungs at times for no reason -- no one's calling him or touching his shoulder whatsoever. He screams and then lies down on the floor and cries whenever he hears high-pitched tunes from the tv or the sound of opera singing. My sister and her husband are extremely worried and the child specialist has been scaring them by saying that it is indeed autism and that my nephew will have to attend a special school for autistic children and can't go to a regular school. '

Is the info regarding autism on the wikipedia website accurate? His current behavior is causing my whole family and his parents tremedous distress as my elderly parents can't keep up with his sudden outbursts. Are the so-called child specialists reliable? I've heard from people that some of these medical professionals haven't heard about autism till quite recently as it wasn't part of their medical syllabus. How reliable are they, or could this condition be something else?

2007-11-11 05:43:14 · 16 answers · asked by feels_hopeless 1

2007-11-11 05:34:01 · 6 answers · asked by aaron z 1

I just read the question from Pep'sMum and now I'm worried. Her baby is 17 months and can say all kinds of words. Everyone who answered (besides me) said their baby can say all kinds of words. Should my son be talking more? He communicates with me-pointing, babbling, pulling up on his chair when hungry, bringing me toys to play , etc. He understands me - understands commands, "Do this, do that". Is there anyone else out there whose son dosen't hardly say any clear words yet? Should I be worried? He is 16 months.

2007-11-11 02:59:30 · 12 answers · asked by sali s 4

2007-11-11 02:47:26 · 3 answers · asked by babydoll67005 1

I've tried pinching her cheeks together like the nurses to at the hospital, but she still manages to spit most of it out. Any Suggestions?

2007-11-11 02:37:23 · 5 answers · asked by mama817 2