October 08 - Got ourselves some crying, talking, sleeping (sometimes!) walking, living dolls.

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Well somebody better start the new thread, so might as well be me!

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for your ds, 50ft! That's awful Definitely talk to the teacher - but make sure she knows that last bit - what your ds said about not wanting you to because of what the other boy said... so she can do something about it without him knowing that your ds said something iyswim??

Where is this happening? Why is no one seeing it?? If someone in my class was physically hurt by another child or even had a huge plaster over their hand, I will have known about it, when it happened, where and what happened... even if it was on recess (like they are now) with another teacher looking after them! I would have emailed the parents immediately to let them know. Or at least told them or emailed them at the end of the day.

DS does a lot of "telling" so they MUST know that it's happening. I wonder if they dismiss it as they are friends. The other boy gets 'golden time' taken away from him EVERY day because he's always fighting. DS tells me that the boy doesn't like the boys with "brown skin" so he fights them. Lovely up-bringing that child must be having! I know that DS sometimes retaliates so maybe the teachers are seeing it as 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other IYSWIM. We can only put our side of it to the teacher an see what happens. DS will be in junior school next year so the class are split up. We're going to request that he is NOT in the same class as that boy and hope they drift apart. I'm sure DS will come across him again in the future. Maybe DS will be defending him in court one day or possibly will have designed the prison he finds himself in.

Oh poor ds. It starts so young these days .
I trust that if you are certain then you have shopped the benefit cheat mother?

That's a loooooot of milk hmm! Does she eat lots of solids too?

Share, pistachio!

Ughhhh I could tell you loads of cliquey girly stories about girls age 5-8.... hang on to the dear moments of hte earlier days...

That's absurd. "pop down to london" from Scotland?! Idiots.

You popping down to London sounds like a bloody good idea to me.

I used to pop up for a day or two when I was working pistachio!
But I barely fit in a plane seat when not pregnant, never mind when I am (aside from the fact that I hate flying)! And if you popped down then you could see lots of us, not just boring old me!

That does sound like madness, Pistachio. Do you have to pay all the transport costs yourself? You'd think that everyone could meet somewhere in the middle or alternate to make it fairer.

Happy belated birthday Ekka!

Pepper - for yet more illness in your house. Also, the camera thing sounds horrible but I really hope this helps them to sort it out for you.

I'm a fan of bottom butter too Star. It's never gone anywhere near S's bottom though - I've always used it for me.

for your ds 50ft. Definitely talk to the school. I've just had a boy moved out of my class because of his behaviour towards another child. That's pretty unusual, but they should be addressing the issue somehow.

I'm SO glad it's the end of term!!

Oh yes - my dh has driven to brussels and back in a day before now!! He was a bit tired by the end of the day .

Do we know what date in Sept you're down - best if I get it in my diary now I think?

It's in the diary! I can't for the life of me remember where you were staying, even though I know you linked it before, so you'll have to remind me. Just blame my pregnancy brain .

Arghhhh
I know you're all sick of my moaning.... but...
Was reading the MN 18 months email today and just so frustrated and
Yes, Q speaks uggle buggle.... mostly now he just points and nods or shakes his head depending on whether he wants it to be yes or no and a lot of "uuuhhh uhhhh uuuhhhh" ahhhh! His receptive language is excellent. He understands what we say, can follow a 1 or 2 step instruction...etc.
He looks at the cow in "Moo, Baa, LALALA" (fav book) and sort of half-raspberries with a "oooooo" sort of sound but not exactly iyswim. He puts his fingers in his ears a LOT.
There have been a few mornings recently (past few weeks) where there has been crusty stuff all around the opening to his inner ear in the morning and yucky stuff on the ear, too, which I've cleaned off. GP says this is quite normal sometimes...
I just wonder if perhaps he can't properly hear??? Is it possible?
Horrid cough still and has had so many throat infections. Maybe I@m jsut grasping at straws. sorry. It just doesn't feel right to me.

ANyway, DH is out with his friend for the evening, playing snooker. So I have a rare evening to myself... I am so enjoying being alone, Q asleep, doing whatever I want to do...etc. It's nice having him here of course and cuddling with him... etc., but I think once per week (or maybe every few weeks if that's not possible), we should each be able to have an evening to ourselves at home... it is sooooooooooooooooooooooo nice!

I haven't had the 18 month email yet star, but he sounds just the same as D. I am honestly not in the least bit worried about it.

This part:
How he speaks: He has a vocabulary of 5-20 words that by the end of the year will grow to around 200 words. These are mostly nouns such as car, juice, dog. He may repeat words over and over, like ball, ball, ball, which probably means he'd be quite grateful if you passed it to him. He'll understand, and if he's in the mood follow, simple commands, but you'll have more luck with 'come and get an ice-cream' than 'let's go upstairs to bed'. Words like in, on, and me are just registering with him. He can name parts of his body after a brief pause for dramatic effect, (particularly if you ask him in front of your friends) although lots of what he says may be indistinct. Resist the temptation to embellish what he says when translating for other people. He'll like pointing and naming things and it's good to praise him. Gradually he will progress from saying 'more' (this is something children tend to say a lot) to 'all gone' and other two word sentences.

He doesn't even name parts of his body. And basically laughs at us when we ask him to point to them... though will at times do it for other people who ask him.

I wish I wasn't worried about it. I know it's normal for kids to develop at different rates.

How many times have I had this frustrating conversation with parents of kids in my class about reading?!?! "children develop at different rates.. you cannot compare your child's reading to another child's reading at this age... in a few years time s/he is very likely to be on level with those who are miles ahead at the moment..." etc etc etc!!! But for some reason I just cannot stop worrying about this. Maybe I'm crazy.

It didn't help that I watched a little boy the other day, waiting to cross the street on the same side as us, much smaller than Q, definitely younger, too... walking with a harness/reins held by the mother... he said "car mummy car mummy car mummy". Q was going "uuuuuhhh uuuuhhh uuuhh" while nodding his head vigorously and pointing to the button that you push for the green man to come on. He didn't stop until I lifted him up to press the button. By that time, the other boy had moved on to "go go go go". And I know it's wrong, but I just started wondering, wtf am I doing wrong??? I know the answer is that I'm not doing anything wrong... I just can't feel that - it's hard to explain.

star - move away from the emails/books/unknown children!
Q is absolutely fine. He's been walking 6 months, understands and interacts with you constantly, and has more one to one attention than any of my many children.
There is a 3 year old foster child next door to us. He can barely speak, is not potty trained but is equally normal, he's just been ignored and mainly raised by his 5 year old brother .
Q probably has his language skill already.