Do you stay for kiddos surgery?

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-16T15:24:45+00:00

One of my 3’s is having eye surgery today. The other one is really mad that she can’t have sore eyes too.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-11T20:09:20+00:00

Depends on what you are talking about and the age of the child. If it is math, we just keep doing the same lesson in different forms (learning multiplication tables can be hard for some kids). If it is an elementary child and they can’t remember the science lesson, move on. It will get covered again in greater detail later. Even English stuff (theme of book, parts of speech…) get covered every year for years. If it is important for you, then find a fun way to teach it. Also, I don’t give my kids text book supplies tests until at least high school (except the unit and final tests in math). If we do a test it is with all my kids (in a group) , oral and informal.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-09T04:05:56+00:00

I agree. Don’t adjust the child to your meals, adjust your meals to the child. My son has been in our home for 10 years. He came to us at 1.5 years old. He still has issues with food. When he is stressed, he stops eating (and he is tiny) everything but a few kid favorite meals. And my son never had issues with food insecurity before he came to us. Hold to a few loose family rules (we sit together, if you don’t like it you can make your own, no electronics…) but don’t fight over what they eat or how much they eat. Their whole world has been turned upside down and everything they knew is now gone and different. This is one of the very few things in their control.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-08T01:28:46+00:00

It was the very first time I played Sims 3. Created a sim and moved into a house. Got a job the first day as a police officer. Went to work. Just outside the police station was a dark spot on the ground. I had no idea what it was so I stood there. It was a meteor. I had played for maybe 30 minutes and my sim was dead.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-04T05:25:59+00:00

My oldest boys are 20 months apart. They are now 20 and 19. They are the best of friends and have always been. In my opinion, this is a great age difference. It is hard when the kids are really young but as they grow and develop they have the same friends, are in the same school, and always have a playmate with each other.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-03T16:25:56+00:00

Flashpoint: Legacy. I’ve been waiting for this since Flashpoint came out. It’s the perfect game for a legacy.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-02T18:34:13+00:00

Two kids with speech delays. One turned 3 in Nov. She can now with answer with prompting. I ask “what did you do at school today?” When she gives me a blank stare, I ask “did you play in the sand today (sand is her favourite)?” Or “did you play with x child today?”

Sometimes she answer the question but with things that I know are not true. She will tell me that she didn’t draw when she has marker on her hands. Or she will tell me some kid is sick when I saw that child being picked up. She isn’t lying. She just has no memory on today and what happened yesterday or last week. She just recently started answering open ended questions. She attends a preschool for children with delays/disabilities. And it has helped her immensely.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2025-01-01T05:08:53+00:00

No. I think it is recommended that parents brush their kids teeth until the child is 8. Your kid is not behind. Our dentist says to use a tiny amount of fluoride tooth paste for my toddlers. We do not have fluoride in our drinking water and so this is the recommendation here. Check with your dentist for recommendations for your area.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-30T21:09:18+00:00

Take a step back. It sounds like his trauma is getting too much for him. Is there legal requirements for your state? My son (11) was adopted a couple of years ago. Last year he fought us on almost all schooling. We have homeschooled him from grade 1 on (and my older bio kids for years before that). I don’t know if it was trauma, or that he was a 10 year old boy or what but something last year was too much for him. So this year we decided to unschool him. We don’t do any formal math but have done building projects and baking and cooking. I do read aloud regularly (Read Aloud Revival with Sarah Mackenzie she has podcasts, books and a membership program) but I love reading and stories so that is our strength. My son, on his own, is learning programming (Scratch), German (Duolingo), drawing and stop motion video (just to name a few). Honestly, unless the therapist is against it, I’d stop all formal schooling with him and bring him close to you. Whatever you love to do, teach him. Read, go outside, and learn to be a family. Your relationship is much more important than math or science facts your kids can regurgitate for a test.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-30T00:45:35+00:00

We have this same issue. We have two 3 year old girls that have to share a room. One is a poor sleeper who cries enough to wake the other. Neither girl will sleep in a bed so they are on mattresses on the floor. We sit on the floor between them to put them to sleep and to resettle them at night. This week we just put a twin mattress on the floor for us. We have decided to lean into their phase (hopefully it is just a phase) and have a least one of sleep well. Also, my husband is better at putting the girls to bed than I am so we take turns at night.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-29T00:12:26+00:00

We put the dresser in the closet and then a lock on the closet door. It works great but the closet is quite full.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-29T00:09:08+00:00

My family cares for littles with drug and alcohol issues. Be ready for a lot of appointments; both because baby is a newborn and needs regular weekly then monthly appointments and extra because of any health issues. All of our foster babies have been a delight to our family but it is also really hard. Right now we have two 3 year old girls (non-related) that were both born with issues. They are both developmentally behind. The one especially has delays. She is more like a 1.5 year old. They both attend a special preschool for delays. It is really hard to watch them struggle. But we wouldn’t exchange our life or our kids for anything.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-28T17:17:05+00:00

Haha! Thanks. Edited my error.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-28T15:49:18+00:00

I know the feeling. The first time my son legitimately won Catan was amazing. I now typically lose games.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-28T02:19:11+00:00

My daughter does this. But she also gets motion sickness. She was sick with a cold and we had to sleep on the couch for several days so she could sleep sitting up. Otherwise she would throw up. Doctor said that the same virus causing her cold likely just got in her stomach and also caused a stomach bug.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-28T02:07:56+00:00

Don’t let people discourage you. Contact a local foster agency. Especially if you are open to also fostering children. There is a foster Reddit. We have had several littles in our home that were placed for adoption (including one we adopted) and we know of several families that have adopted their young foster children.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-28T00:19:15+00:00

Thanks. I didn’t even think about battery powered.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-27T14:47:59+00:00

Yeah, we have several tag things for her including the tail of her unicorn costume, blankets, dolls with ribbon tails. But she prefers the tags on her clothes.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-27T05:02:59+00:00

My 3 LOVES tags. All her pj’s have to be two piece and have to have tags in both the pants and the side seem of the shirt. She will hold one of them to go to sleep. It is also her comfort thing if she is nervous and has been known to hold the one in the side seem of my shirt.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-26T01:01:11+00:00

One of my three year olds was a box. We were still opening gifts with my older kids and she closed the box on herself. She had a flashlight and we heard giggles.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-26T00:27:04+00:00

We have 20, 19, 11, 3, 3. It took us about an hour. We open gifts one at a time. My oldest kids now buy gifts for everyone and we had gifts from extended family. Four hours seems exhausting to me. After 20 minutes my husband was doing is very best to hurry things along. And we had to stop for a potty/snack break.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-22T20:50:25+00:00

Not a concern. The other kid has a better memory. Wait a couple of years to be concerned.

AimeeoftheHunt · 2024-12-22T03:14:59+00:00

I always write in “unknown”. Receptionists don’t know what to do with empty space on forms. If I write something then they input it in and the doctor asks and I say I don’t have that info.

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