@dimples76 im sorry you are unwell. I absolutely hate this period of sep to Xmas as we are always, without fail, unwell with one thing or another. Sometimes I wonder if a particular vitamin concoction may help but I’m not sure. We survived the first 2 weeks of term and I was getting complacent but then true to form it all started… I know people say oh, it’s only a heavy cold etc etc but when you have a DC who cannot say that their throat/ stomach etc hurts it is invariably reflected in behaviour and generally just a shitty horrible time at home. I was on a Teams with multiple clients on Weds morning which I knew was about a 2 hour meeting, literally 7 mins in my mobile (on silent) is flashing with schools number. They then called Dh who text me… can I get DS, he’s hot, coughing, hysterically crying etc. that’s then a huge distraction and I can’t just cut off the call. DH was in work I was wfh so it had to be me.
what are school moaning about @dimples76 particularly? I would have thought that a child who ms have kept throughout the whole primary school life can’t be behaving that badly surely (given that I know how desperate/ quick DSs school were to get him out, they would have had him gone in under a year had they had their way.)
re times for calls and content of calls I’ve had to be quite firm about this. We now have a scheduled 10 min catch up every other Fri at a pre arranged time. I’ve made it clear I don’t want to hear in between! Sometimes I actually wonder about the intelligence of these people (I know Danni used to say about this) as if a client said to me don’t call at x told I wouldn’t call at x time, it’s not rocket science. You are probably going to have to be firmer and then if it’s just moaning for moaning sake and not life or death don’t answer.
schools current theme (on which I’d appreciate views) is DSs level of mouthing non edibles. They want him to have chews in school and I don’t. He doesn’t have them at home and from my observations at home it’s almost like a habit/ go to, as it even if he’s sitting happily chilled and I hand him something, I can see him raise it to his mouth almost without thinking. Often he does similar things without mouthing, eg he may tap a pencil or whatever on his lips (or a toy), almost like he’s doing it without thought. I say erm, DS?? (In a jokey way) and he grins at me and puts it down. Nevertheless without wanting a barrage of criticism can I actually stop him doing this? Would you be happy to just give blanket approval for your child to be sat with chews all day????!!!! I just feel it’s such a step back from what and where I thought they were trying to move him to.
re the diets I’m a bit sceptical tbh. Long before I wrote on here we tried for a very long period gf df with DS and have tried it intermittently at times since then too. I have not found it makes any difference at all to him. Of course there will be children/ people with food intolerances and so on and a diet change would affect them massively but otherwise I haven’t seen it. Subject to the caveat that I try and feed them healthy stuff that we all know we should be eating even if it’s masked in something. For eg both love pesto pasta which they will eat in abundance even with an array of veg and salmon mixed in with a shed load of cheese. Both love cheese and I’ve worked out they will eat most things if a bit is sprinkled on so that’s an easy win. Though I do like books like that @dimples76 as they can have some good recipes/ suggestions generally. I freely admit I’m a rubbish cook so do need ‘thread through the needle’ sometimes with recipes/ new ideas! 🤣🤣