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It's horrible! It has amazed me how strong they are.
Considering she gets a paper cut and won't use her hand for days and cries every time she looks at it 😂

Asked me if I wanted to go call anyone.
Was no point because I just kept crying 😂
ahhhI’d be the same. Big hugs for you both xx
 

imtakingabath

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Not sure if this is the best thread for this but couldn’t see any others suitable - inspired by Lily Pebbles’ thread, I wanted to ask if anyone had any good suggestions for questions to ask when we look round primary schools soon 😅 I feel like I might forget something obvious/important!
 

Definitelyme

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Anyone on here got any tips for a medicine refuser :ROFLMAO:

I've posted on here before but my daughter really does not like taking medicine, even Calpol. She used to be fab, would let you give it to her, or would take it herself. But now she flat out refuses and if we try to make her take it, she just vomits. She's been saying for the last night or two that her ear is sore. She's recently had a cold so we were thinking maybe an ear infection? But she just refuses to take Calpol, yet is in so much pain as she just whines and cries all day. It's breaking my heart. I can try and hide it in juices and things during the day, but she could really do with a dose just before bed, but she just won't take it. When she sees the syringe she just starts gagging and making herself sick. 😬 Will it get better?
Have you tried it on a spoon? And tried different flavours of calpol/nurofen?

My kids hate medicine until about age 6 🙄🙄🙄
 

Buzzybee43

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I use the Tommee Tippee groclock and find it good. She knows she's not allowed get out of bed until the clock goes yellow and I come in!
Gro clock is what we used 😊 100% recommend

Thank you both for the same recommendation! Maybe I’m missing a trick here but I thought the gro clock was for early risers, as in don’t get up until 7am etc. rather than stay in bed now at 8.45pm (and still going strong!) did it work for both going to and getting up from bed??
 

Definitelyme

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Triggerword - Poo!

Does anyones 2.8 year old poo so much? Some days my daughter can poo 2,3 times a day and I’m like Wtf???? She eats lots of fibre and fruit and doesn’t eat junk food, but I’m wondering if she has too much fibre. For instance she has brown seeded toast for breakfast and fruit, or weetabix/shreddies, she won’t have white bread (I don’t even buy it in), and I worry slightly she goes to the toilet more than she should. It’s not watery or anything either and she’s got no allergies/intolerances to food. She does eat ALOT of food though 😂 so I guess it’s got to go somewhere lol.

Also- talking of bowel movements I’m starting potty training this week. I’m so like wtf but i think she’s showing signs for sure, I’ve got a potty and I’ve bought some knickers so nursery will start tomorrow then I’ve got her all week and weekend to focus on it. I hope it goes well… but no pressure for either of us 😂it just seems like a HUGE milestone but I think once she gets the jist of being dry during the day it’ll be fine. She picks things up really easily.

So another thing- sorry I’m on one this morning 😂 can anyone else’s child open the front door? So for instance if I give my keys to her, (there’s 3 on my keyring) she can pick the key it is and turn it the right way into the lock, and open the door. She hasn’t mastered locking it but she’s nearly there. This is only from her watching me open and close the door and she just wanted to copy. (I keep all keys high up at nighttime / during the day, doors are lockers when we are in the house too obviously for safety) but I showed my friend and her daughter is 4 and she can’t do that. She was like oh my god? I haven’t pushed her to learn it or anything she’s just got the hang of it randomly lol.
My eldest son can pop two times most days. He eats a lot of fruit and veg so I’ve always put it down to that.

Our door isn’t locked when we are in the house so I don’t know if my 3yo could unlock it tbh.
 

Rlaw1978

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Mines 18 months and still doesn’t sleep. Health visitor said to replace his night wakings milk with water and he’d sleep through. No such luck, he loves the water.
At a loss now 😂. Falls asleep fine but wakes regular to comfort water.
 
Does anyone know how to go about a hearing test for a three year old. I’ve tried looking on my doctors booking app but it says there isn’t any in my area… but there must be??🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
 

al255

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Hi all

just wanting a little bit of advice..

So mini A has been waking up early (5:45am) and she’s stopped napping.. she’s going to bed at 7.30pm and she’s tired. Would putting her to bed abit earlier work when she’s up early? I’m just at a loss😳xxx
 

WhatABore

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Can anyone recommend any games for my daughter who is nearly 3 on App Store? She likes CBeebies and number blocks but some I’ve downloaded for her you have to pay to get the full version and it’s such a con 😂 she’s claimed my iPad that I got from me to me 😂
My 4yo loves all the talking Tom games
 
Oh yeah I mean she hasn't napped regularly since she was 18m but I thought having been up since 3am that she would have crashed this afternoon!

We all look forward to bedtime sometimes, in fact most days I do, even if I've had a brilliant day with them I just want a couple of hours where no one is saying "Mum, mum, mummy, mummy, mummy, MUM!"
God that must be hard going. He dropped his naps around 2 and. A half I think. It’s sooo much better cos he goes to bed earlier and really quick. But it makes the day long ! Especially cos he gets up almost every day before 7!! 🙈
 

Jellybean093

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Does anyone know how to go about a hearing test for a three year old. I’ve tried looking on my doctors booking app but it says there isn’t any in my area… but there must be??🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
Are you concerned about his hearing? My 3 year old had hearing tests from 1ish twice a year. He had glue ear, but he grew out of it at the beginning of this year. I can’t remember why we were concerned and how we were referred, but his speech was very delayed, only just getting much better
 

WhatABore

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Oh good it must just be that then! It caught me off guard because it was on his Willy. I’m waiting for a call back from the doctors now 😊
I had absolutely no idea what it was and didn't even know their foreskin separating was a thing tbh!
My partner had no idea either 😂
 

watermelon sugar

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Can anyone recommend any games for my daughter who is nearly 3 on App Store? She likes CBeebies and number blocks but some I’ve downloaded for her you have to pay to get the full version and it’s such a con 😂 she’s claimed my iPad that I got from me to me 😂
has she got CBeebies playtime island on it? There’s loads on there! I like the go explore app and story app too, the CBeebies ones
 

WhatABore

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How do I get a 2.5yr old to stay in their own bed?! No problems going to bed, never had a problem before, but every single night for the past month we are woken up by little footsteps and ends up spending the night in with OH and me. We get no bed and i’m waking up up so achey 😅

I’ve said we can choose new bedding which doesn’t work. I’ve said father christmas is watching through the monitor and that doesn’t work. He reckons his bed is broke (it isn’t) and today when I said I fixed it he went crazy lol. If we take him back to his bed during the night he just screams for mummy and daddy’s bed and it really isn’t worth the fight but I don’t know what to do 😔😴
Gro clock 😊