Ah! Fab news! Hopefully this is the start of sleeping through again!
Oh god, the days for ‘free’ childcare is the best. Although I always manage to spend the money elsewhere!!We have an idea where we want but I could be dreaming. Looking around Hampton Hill or thereabouts. We used to live close to Richmond so would love to go back to that area-ish
you are so right kids always surprise us. Also would love not to have to pay for nursery fees for any longer than I have to
I don't have much advice personally but Autism Speaks have a few bits/helpful advice regarding toilet trainingHi everyone! I’ve never posted here before but have read all your posts and the advice you all give out is so helpful, I’m just looking for a bit of advice and was wondering if any of you lovely lady’s could help.
So I have a 3 year old son, he’s autistic and non verbal and really limited understanding. He is currently still in nappies and can not tell me when he has filled them so I am really trying to start toilet training. I’m just wondering if anyone knows the best way to go about this with a child like mine? I’ve ordered a little potty training pack with stickers and stuff in his favourite characters, I’ve got a potty and a seat and steps for the toilet and I’ve got him little underpants too. I just don’t know where to start when I know he might not be able to understand
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Personally I would be moving her asap. Whatever the issue is there, it is clearly affecting her if she’s worrying about it when not there. You won’t know if it will be any better but it’s worth a try. I know how tough it is when your child struggles with their childcare setting. It really takes a toll on you both. I did move mine and it was the best decision I ever made.Hi everyone
A few weeks ago I posted about my daughter not eating at childminder etc. Well unfortunately we are still in the same boat, if not WORSE
She still doesn't eat all day there, yet when I pick her up she is ravenous and eats her lunchbox in the car! Someone asked previously if she had had a choking incident and she did, but this was months ago. It did affect her and she wouldn't eat properly for a few days, but then she went back to normal and ate there fine over the summer months. Now she's refusing to eat there again. She does have sore throats a lot (we have a pending ENT referral) but she eats fine at home still, almost back to normal.
She's been going to this childminder for 18 months, and suddenly in the last 2/3 weeks she's been SCREAMING and crying at drop off and it apparently lasts most of the day. On the days she doesn't go, she constantly talks about not wanting to go back, she spends the weekend begging me not to send her. When I ask her why, she just says she doesn't want to see the lady who runs it or see her friends. Yet when I suggested a playdate with her best friend from there, she got so excited and keeps asking me when the playdate is.
I just don't know what to do. It's breaking my heart seeing her so upset at the idea of going, and I can't stand another 11 months of this before she goes to school! But I also don't want to pull her out and put her in a new setting for it to still happen?
Her nana is still in the hospice so this may all still be affecting her. But if that's the case, how do I help her?
Yep!!! Literally exact the same here, we have a toddler, 2 spaniels and I’m pregnant. Road walks are stressful with the pram/walking toddler, plus the dogs don’t actually get a lot out of them, so I take them to a huge field with a tennis racket and tennis balls, lob the balls for the dogs, or let them go sniff (to be fair their recall is good and the field is quiet so no danger of them running off), then the toddler can potter around at her own pace. Alternatively if she’s napping in the car I reverse the car to the back of the field, sit in the boot and lob the balls from there. Some days we don’t get out so me/OH road walk them so they’ve had something and on the weekend we try and get them out for a proper walk and sniff without the toddler too. It’s actually really tough haha, they’re much harder work than the toddler for sure! Hoping once she has a bike or something it’ll get a little easier
Yes! We had two dogs when our eldest was born, and over the 10 years until the second was put down in January, we found it very hard to meet everyone’s needs. Dog walks were done by one adult twice a day (or once as the dogs got old) because it was just not easy doing it with toddlers and young kids. The kids even at 5/6 couldn’t walk far enough for a “proper” dog walk - we had labs so they needed a good few miles.
You might find this site helpful:Hi everyone! I’ve never posted here before but have read all your posts and the advice you all give out is so helpful, I’m just looking for a bit of advice and was wondering if any of you lovely lady’s could help.
So I have a 3 year old son, he’s autistic and non verbal and really limited understanding. He is currently still in nappies and can not tell me when he has filled them so I am really trying to start toilet training. I’m just wondering if anyone knows the best way to go about this with a child like mine? I’ve ordered a little potty training pack with stickers and stuff in his favourite characters, I’ve got a potty and a seat and steps for the toilet and I’ve got him little underpants too. I just don’t know where to start when I know he might not be able to understand
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Hello, I don’t have any direct experience but i recommend looking into a neurodiverse specific approach . My sister has a boy with Down’s syndrome and it is a slower process for sure. But like any child patience from the parent is probably one of the biggest tips. Sorry I can’t be more helpHi everyone! I’ve never posted here before but have read all your posts and the advice you all give out is so helpful, I’m just looking for a bit of advice and was wondering if any of you lovely lady’s could help.
So I have a 3 year old son, he’s autistic and non verbal and really limited understanding. He is currently still in nappies and can not tell me when he has filled them so I am really trying to start toilet training. I’m just wondering if anyone knows the best way to go about this with a child like mine? I’ve ordered a little potty training pack with stickers and stuff in his favourite characters, I’ve got a potty and a seat and steps for the toilet and I’ve got him little underpants too. I just don’t know where to start when I know he might not be able to understand
Thank you for reading 🩷
Viewing primary and secondary schools with my eldest was honestly the most stressful thing ever
we moved when she started secondary, which was also when my son started primary, but I knew the school and we were in catchment so we didn’t view it. The younger ones will all follow suit with himPancakes... porridge... fried egg/scrambled egg on toast. Omlette. Baked oats
Our go to breakfast are:
he generally eats ok ish but isn’t great at trying new things (guess this is normal) how do I try and expand his diet - is it best to focus on say a couple of new foods and offer them all the time or just be a bit more relaxed / normal and just offer a range of stuff eg fruit with breakfast, different veg at dinner etc. he just refuses so much and won’t even try stuff. Snacks are difficult as he gets hungry but I don’t want to give him crisps and biscuits all day obviously ! The was I work is to always offer something he likes, and then you can offer new or non-preferred foods alongside it.Mine will only eat porridge
Would you just offer different things and if he refuses leave it and wait to offer something again at next meal / snack?
I don’t want him going hungry but I know it’s unlikely he’d allow himself to starve !
Present wise we did with our second for our eldest, but tbh she wasn’t really fussed at all. So we never did it again with the others. People always bring them bits and bobs when they visit so they end up with loads anyway.
We had a very similar age gap, she'd just turned 3. We got a buggy board for the pushchair instead. Would that be a better option than spending out on a double?
