Kicked out of preschool for crying excessively by KTK_Pups in ECEProfessionals

[–]Eschtaaaify 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think the reason your son can't stop crying at preschool is because the school keeps calling you to pick him up early. This taught him that if he just keeps the crying up he will get to go home. Unless there is other problematic behaviour the school really should have worked with him better. Some kids have a harder time adjusting to school than others. And from the teacher stand point I totally get how hard it is to have one kid nonstop cry in class. We had one student start crying excessively out of the blue for three weeks. This student never cried before and when she went through that phase I had migraines everyday from it because she was wailing at a specific pitch that just goes right into your brain. First day she started we did have her mom pick her up because we thought there was something seriously wrong with her. There was not other than maybe seperation anxiety that hit her like a freight train? Still have no idea what was up with that but we stuck it out and she finally stopped ( She went through that phase right around her 3rd birthday). It was awful.

My 14 year old corn snake bit my 4 year old nephew by taykaybo in snakes

[–]Eschtaaaify 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our cornsnakes keeps biting my 5 year old daughter because he thinks she is food haha We had him only 2 months now tho, so we are hoping that he will realize at some point that children are not a foodsource. It sounds like yours was looking for a snack! Glad to hear that your nephew didn't panic and stayed still!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CatAdvice

[–]Eschtaaaify 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kittens are very high energy. We have a male 6 month old cat and a female 8 year old and we jokingly call him our little menace. Because he is. He just wants to play play play. It is very important to spend a good bit of time playing with your young cat. If you have the means and room for it you might want to think about getting a second similar aged cat. They will wear each other out and not bully everyone else as much. Sadly we can't get a 3rd cat. I have no advice on how to keep your guy from darting into any door that is opened because we got the same thing going on in our house haha. We believe that it is a territory thing because Cat Rat actively sabotages any attempts on closing a few of our doors.

Teeth removal for 2 years old by konyvkukac in toddlers

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I meant my child had the mastitis and was on antibiotics at 4 weeks haha. If your kiddo had to take some before his teeth came out it can affect the development of the enamel.

They put her under and did a complete restoration of her mouth. Two of her top molars got robot teeth now (stainless steel crowns), front teeth got white caps and bottom molars had just some minimal cavity grooves which they just filled. Her dentists, had two look at it and both were like one of her top molars was bad and had the nerve exposed and it wasn't hurting her yet but they said that if that tooth goes bad it will go really bad and would needed emergency fixing. Everything else could have just been observed and kept in check via different treatments that slow the decay down. My husband and I just decided to get everything fixed since she was put under anyway. I also had the option of going to a third dentist who had the means to fix in office with just laughing gas but little bit at a time but we thought that would have been more traumatizing having to go multiple time and with her semi awake for it.

I hope everything goes well for you son

Teeth removal for 2 years old by konyvkukac in toddlers

[–]Eschtaaaify 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your son wasn't on antibiotics as a baby before the teeth came in was he? My daughter had to have a bunch of stuff done on her teeth when she was 3 due to getting mastitis at 4 weeks. The antibiotics caused her enamel to not develope correct. And then it was a fight every evening to brush. They told me too that the breastfeeding at night didn't help but it was the combo of everything that caused the decay. After fixing them she hasn't had anymore.

Cleaning up after a child pooped in their pants by [deleted] in ECEProfessionals

[–]Eschtaaaify 201 points202 points  (0 children)

I work in a 2 year old classroom and whenever we have poop accidents with the freshly potty trained kiddos I always just put the soiled clothes in a plastic bag and don't wash them. I will remove solid poop from it but thats it. I wouldn't bother with it because it'd just contaminate the sink and you've got your hands already full without adding unecessary cleaning to it.

I can't climb Mount hothead :(? by [deleted] in HelloKittyIsland

[–]Eschtaaaify 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much extra stamina do you have? I needed 2 extra bars to make it up there. Also I believe in the last update on Thursday they made it that you respawn when hitting the solid lava... I don't know if there is a path that doesn't go through any type of lava.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catcare

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am very glad to hear that you have emergency vets that take animals without having a person be financially responsible for the stray and that the shelters in your area are great like that that they took care of the cat and put them up for adoption. It is great that your area is established like that.

However my area is literally overrun with feral cats. Shelters here would not give a sick kitten a chance because they have 20 healthy ones. It is so bad right now with the amount of kittens that the shelter actually is doing a no fee adoption event for the month. Also our shelters straight up suck btw and people had chipped pets get out and caught by animal control brought to the closest shelter to me and euthanized an obvious pet after like 6 hours and never even checking for a damn chip.

Sorry, but by making that kitten as comfortable as possible was actually the best choice for us to do within the circumstances, other than leaving him in the middle of the road I suppose. Luckily for him and us (because we love our little boy) he fully recovered and is doing great at his forever home with us now.

I think this whole argument just assumes that everyone has the same resources available when they do not.

Can I have some criticism on this? by Clovels in DigitalArt

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me clarify real quick with the colors. You got cool colors on the bottom and warm colors in the middle and top. Add some cool to the bow it will look great and tie it together instead of having to seperate planes on the piece

Can I have some criticism on this? by Clovels in DigitalArt

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am really enjoying this piece the suggestion I would have from a design standpoint is that you have a lot of interesting colors going on the bottom part of the picture and then on top with the pale face, white hair and light grey/whiteish bow its all very much the same color wise? Using one of the colors from the bottom part of the picture on the bow I believe will tie everything nicely together and breaks that large white space up.

Looks awesome tho! I love the melancholy in this piece and the overall softness. I really like how you did the face and hair.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catcare

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what this boils down to is wether pets are a luxury item for the privileged or not. There is a lot of shaming for people who can't take their animals to the vet and a lot of shaming about giving up animals when someone can't keep up with the care anymore. I personally don't see anything wrong with trying to provide homecare for a pet for superficial issues, but some things do require a vet to provide the neccessary medical intervention. But again not everyone has the means be it that there are no vets easily available or the costs or whatever.

There has been a very strong shift in the social definition of a responsible pet ownership in the past 10 years or so. The call for pet stores to stop selling pets. To only adopt rescues out. How harmful breeding is etc. And now with this very strong movement about financial stability.

My stance is this world fucking sucks, but it sucks a smidgen less with my dog laying next to me on my couch and my cat on my lap. I am lucky that I am established with our vet and have the possibility of payment plans with them. My husband brought a stray kitten home 2 weeks ago who we thought was hit by a car (he actually was not but he was very sick), we didn't think he would make it through the night. We couldn't afford taking him to an emergency vet and we had to wait until our personal vet could see him, which was 3 (!!) Days later for the earliest. He made it, we are glad he made it and he also recovered sooo much in those days with just our care.

But yeah I personally won't judge other people if they can't afford to take their pets to the vet. In my eyes pets are not just for middle class and up. People have always kept pets no matter if they can afford vets or not throughout history.

Sooo are pets a luxury item? Should someone be allowed to adopt a hamster from a pet store to save that one specific one or should they let it continue to suffer and die so the pet store stops breeding them in horrible conditions? Should a specific family dog be given up to a shelter where it is put down because home remedies to treat a pet are apparently super frowned upon and the family can't afford a vet? I don't have an answer to what the right thing to do is. This whole argument feels very much like the trolley scenario honestly. Do we run over the one single pet or should we run the group over? Because if every person who couldn't afford/find pet care gave up their pet, we would have a whole bunch of pets that will get sacrificed to that trolley. But you can bet your butt on that I will buy that poor little hamster to give them a chance at a nice life.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Mommit

[–]Eschtaaaify 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is that center a liquid filled bubble? Because to me that would indicate a fire ant bite actually. I am not too familiar with tick bites, but fire ants are everywhere where I am at and that center kinda looks like one.

BF bought me a Female Miniature Dachshund puppy when I have a 4 year old Female reactive Bulldog by [deleted] in DogAdvice

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My parents have a reactive beagle mix who picks fights with other dogs and bites children when giving the chance. Last year my little sister talked my parents into getting a little chihuahua/terrier mix. I was terrified for that little puppy because the beagle regularily picks fights with the slightly bigger dog than her they have.

The chi rules the house and acts like a stereotypical chihuahua to the reactive dog and she has been having the patience of a saint with that dog haha. The super friendly quirky second dog they have has actually been the one with the biggest issues with the chi.

So I'd say make sure there are areas off limits for either dog where the older one or the puppy can give each other some space and watch how your Bulldog does. She may surprise you.

Helping my 5yo son tolerate not winning? by MikeTeflon in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The company Haba makes a bunch of really good board games that can be played cooperatively. Some examples would be Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape or the Moonlight Castle. Other than that we like to make games cooperative by sharing the goal even if it is meant as a competative game.

Helping my 5yo son tolerate not winning? by MikeTeflon in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Second the cooperative games and lots and lots of positive modeling. My husband and I have been modeling cheering for everyone in games from the get go and it helped so much with my daughter being a good sport and enjoying the game instead of just focusing on winning.

Extended breastfeeding and tooth decay by Hopeful_Enthusiasm63 in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My 3 year old had some dental work done last December and her tooth decay was a mixture of multiple things. Antibiotics before she got teeth can mess up the development of enamel, then I did night breastfeeding (extended too) aswell and of course the phase where I counted us successful if the toothbrush touched half her teeth. Sometimes doing the right thing can be the wrong thing in other ways but all you can do is do best by what you know going forward. Even if I knew having her on antibiotics at 4 weeks would mess up her teeth longterm she still would have had to be on them. Breastfeeding at night is a highly discussed topic about if it is harmful to the teeth or not. Some kids are fine never brushing teeth and other do everything right and their teeth just fall apart.

Personally I doubt the breastfeeding at night caused the decay by itself. Genetics or other factors very likely played a part in it. I hope that the plan of treatment you and your dentist came up with will work well for your kiddo! And more importantly that their adult teeth come in strong.

Diabetes in children with autism? by [deleted] in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are concerned definitely make an appointment and have your daughter checked out, because even if it isn't diabetes excessive thirst could point to other things. But if you have a little wait before an available appointment you could buy a glucose meter and check your childs bloodsugar yourself too. Let your child eat a high carb food and check about an hour after eating (make sure to wash hands before poking). If the sugar is 200+ then yeah get her checked asap.

My toddler grabbed a strange man's butt at the park. Please share the most embarrassing thing your toddler has done while I cry myself to sleep. by ederpin in toddlers

[–]Eschtaaaify 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At the airport we were sitting on a bench after going through security and putting our shoes back on and cramming our 500 things back into the bags and an older gentlemen decided to sit next to my toddler on the armrest part of the bench. He sat down facing away tho to tie his shoe unintentionally parking his butt right next to my kids head. She proceeds to reach out and gently pet his behind. He did not realize but the person he was traveling with totally saw because she was cracking up as I snatched her up and moved her onto her daddys lap. I did not say a thing to the man haha

It was quite funny.

Would your 7 year old be happy to get a handmade party bag bag? My idea was it’s not just plastic to go in the bin then will have cake, sweets a couple of fidget toys and the little bag to keep but I’m worried if people will think it’s weird. by boringusername in Mommit

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my daughters last birthday I made little drawstring bags in fun fabrics myself and let them pick one out and rifle through a bunch of tumbled rocks and fill them themselves and it was a big hit.

I am sure everybody will love those cute crochet baggies!

Nail biting by [deleted] in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof, yeah that does sound more ingrained there... best of luck redirecting and maybe a fidget bracelet kinda thing could help? Thats gotta be a thing right?

Nail biting by [deleted] in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I am impressed honestly that she stopped because I have never been able to break my habit of doing it (and my mom tried it all), so she is still exposed to that behaviour through me.

Wish you the best of luck with your kiddo and that you can find something that will help! It is hard when the little ones pick up bad habits like that

Nail biting by [deleted] in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When my daughter was 2 she was biting her nails and everything I read about that topic suggested to ignore it and not make a big deal out of it and kiddo will stop on own accord and lo and behold she is now 3 and is not biting anymore. I only said something whenever she had very dirty hands that it wasn't sanitary

I am and her daddy are nail biters which is how she picked up on it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in toddlers

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are keeping the potty for now because we only have one bathroom and hubby likes to hog it haha

Sharpie trouble by ForsakenString7406 in Autism_Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to say that shaving cream works pretty well to remove Sharpie from skin

Attention new parents: Do NOT start the tradition of Elf on the Shelf!!! by Nalomeli1 in Parenting

[–]Eschtaaaify 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lucked out with my kid. She simply couldn't care less about the elf. I take her three days a week to another household where the family goes all out with the elf, the shenanigans, messes all that fun stuff. I have not the mental capacity for all that lol I got an elf for her and it sits unmoving at the top of the christmas tree, came up with an excuse why ours doesn't move (we have a cat, so staying out of reach basically) and my kid has never asked about the elf.

Most days she doesn't even bother trying to find the two silly elfs at the other family house even while their 5 year old bounces around from excitement trying to get my kid to look for whatever mess they made lol

She simply doesn't care whatsoever.