November 2012 - We're ready for Spring... any time now please!

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Well j still hasn't fed since 7am so my plan to feed him less this morning and maybe he'd self regulate the rest of his feeds doesn't seem to be working!

Operation nap has righted itself....45 minutes so far and going strong.

I am also thankful for orange blossom shake n vac which has removed the lingering odour of cat vom from my bedroom.

Izzy as I have nothing clever to suggest.

I didn't mean that to imply I condone swearing at teachers but in my case it really was deserved. I am still angry at the guy over 25 years later. He was vicious, a real bully and just completely in the wrong job. There was a boy in the class with learning difficulties which, I know, back in the early 80s, weren't taken as seriously, and he used to stand over him while he tried to read and shout "just get on with it you stupid lad" and bang his hands down on the table when the kid got it wrong until the poor boy was stuttering in fear.

I was awful. I was 7or 8 and me and another girl ended up helping this other kid with his reading because I felt so bloody sorry for him.

Vile bastard.

Rant over.

I don't think there are many teachers like that left now.

bplp I can only dream of a 45min nap! He's been awake since 6.45am. The wee pest will not nap or feed! Argh!!!!!!

Can I swap my feisty in-to-everything baby who's favourite new noise is a scream for a nice, placid, quiet one please?

I can't bloody wait until nap time

oh god, the scream. O has perfected a high pitched squeal and its awful.

PR wasn't judging at all. Things have, thank god, moved on. Anyone doing that at our school would be sacked. Totally wrong. I was responding to pass. Had just assumed the bastard deserved it in your case. I have been told to fuck off but I have never deserved it because I'm lovely I did once tell a kid to fuck off because he was in year 11 & taking great delight in tormenting a new teacher with his mates, so after hurling stuff at me & trying to get me to react, started the "are you going to cry?" torments, so I quietly told him to do one... Not that I condone that of course!!

We still have gentle coos here. I'm sure screams are just around the corner.

(She's still asleep )

The shrill scream only lasted a few days here. If you do not respond, they find something else to do to get your attention.

Ooh we had a teacher at secondary school and the poor woman had to deal with our class last double period on Friday afternoons three years in a row, and all three years we had just either had sport or cooking or music or art or whatever so were all hyped up.

We were awful to her and we used to play a kind of bingo with how far we could push her. Certain swearwords were a certain number of points, stamping her foot was another. Tings like raising her voice or getting stressed and playing with her hair were just one point but it happened so often we couldn't leave the lesson without getting 50 points. And we were a good class, everyone else loved us, but she was so easy to wind up that we just took advantage

My French teacher OTOH was one of those unflappable teachers hardly ever had to raise her voice she just exuded discipline and the day she swore at us we knew we had gone too far.

Oh happy days. I hated school.

Still no poo since Sunday. A couple of little bits have come out, grape size and green, like play doh. He had a lovely long bath this morning in a hope it might move things along, but no. Nothing.

Shrill screams aplenty here. And that's just me. Ha ha. Joke. I ignore them but DD1 rises to the challenge to match them. Afternoons get very noisy in the raleuse household. Sometimes the dog joins in.

Might be time to get out the prune or apple juice vq

Here our last resort (for dd1 as LO so far has never caused us poo worries) was glycerine suppositories. You just push them up and 15 minutes later out it all comes. Harmless, no need for prescription or anything.

chunky we don't have an official policy re swearing but are encouraged to use our judgement. For example if a child cracks their knee against a table and hurts themselves so says "shit!". I would probably overlook the swearing completely and respond to their pain. If they are frustrated at a task so mutter something they would get the big eyes and I would expect a sorry. In my office when pupils are often in an emotional state there are no rules. Swearing at someone is a total no-no. So in my example has she said "you are a shit" I would have intervened. She was snotty and crying and trying to explain how she felt. He was a shit.

I can happily say I have never been sworn at by a pupil. Some people are astonished by that - it doesn't say much for how people view teenagers.

Swearing was never an issue in my house. It was never mentioned - apart from 'twat' which my mum is mortally offended by. Apparently as a small child if I heard a swear word I would say "don'tsaythatthat'sbad!"

Of course we had poonami just as we were about to leave for airport with both of us needing a full change!!

Catbag I stand by my offer!

A teaspoon of prune juice in 50ml water VQ. And a shit load of leg cycling.

Oh the shrill scream! P happily moved on from that within a fortnight. She now does this sort of gutteral noise. I have been trying to teach her whispering.

pikz Honestly, it's beyond the pale, this.

PR Nice work on the being-approached-by-MN-to-guest-blog-ness. I haven't read it yet; where can I find it? I like reading your posts. You have a clear and engaging writing style, imo. Kudos.

pr any opportunity to give meds pr eh? Your initials are so apt!

We are off to the HV so I will tackle poo when we get home. Thank you for the suggestions. He does not seem bothered, has not been straining, and his tum is nice and soft.

It's third or fourth on here : www.mumsnet.com/Talk/bloggers

It's because of my blog nothing to do with PetiteR :o

You are joking vq ? I hate giving or taking medication. I question the need for every single prescription I or the girls get doctors hate me .

No, I was saying you have been known to recommend the pr route as in 'per rectum', and I have a little giggle as those are your initials.

Ha ha ha I was wondering what the pr was supposed to mean. No offence taken. does everyone think I have a bum fetish now? :o

But as far as babies are concerned over here everything goes up the bum (well, not food, obviously) and it is so much easier. Last week when LO was prescribed the amoxycillin I was horrified to find out she had to driink it. And had no idea how to make that work until one of you lovelies suggested mixing with milk.

DD1 takes everything orally now and has done since about 15 months.

When I moved to Paris to be an au pair in the first family the youngest child was 10. I had to take her temperature one day and couldn't believe it when she expected it to be done rectally. At 10. I was only 18 and didn't even know that it could be done that way. I had to get the housekeeper to do it And the suppository too I was so embarassed. It was baptism by fire into French ways of doing medical stuff.

Arghhh, i've had enough. Can I send her back please?

All she's done today is scream, cry, winge and throw up on me three times, one of them down my neck. She shattered and needs a nap but won't go down.

I feel absolutely exhausted.

Thank God it's Easter and DH is home for four days. I think i'm going to let him look after her for a day (apart from feeding) so I can do exciting things like housework and move a mattress in to the nursery so she can move to her cot. It's a sad state of affairs when you look forward to doing housework uninterrupted

Open any French fridge and you can expect to be confronted with a whole array of up the bum meds :o