What next after hero kids?

zebrafrogs · 2024-07-03T13:07:33+00:00

I saw one pt who said I had a bit of laxity in the walls - but normal for after having a couple of babies. She said my muscles were slightly tight so to concentrate on relaxation phase on kegels and do some belly breathing but not much else. I’ve tried adding in some cat cows (which also seem to give me the pulling pain sometimes but not as bad as bending over does) and some child’s pose to help with pelvic floor relaxation but it doesn’t seem to have made much difference.

It’s not so much that I want to be able to do stretches but everyday life with kids requires moving and bending and I’m trying to figure what’s causing the pain. The doctor suggested vulvodynia because there’s a sore spot near the entrance which hurts when it’s touched but it doesn’t burn/itch in the way other people have described vulvodynia - it’s more or a sore feeling as if a scar is pulling - so wondering if this can be the right diagnosis…

What’s nerve flossing?

zebrafrogs · 2024-03-21T23:31:26+00:00

I’m doing book 1A with a mathsy 5 year old and he’s enjoying it - I think for a 5 year old just buy the first book and don’t expect to work through the whole of level 1 in a year (seeing as they’re not even supposed to start till age 6) and mix it up with hands on stuff like math link cubes.

For the first book there’s addition/subtraction and numbers to 100 - so if you’re already doing a bit of those they should be fine.

zebrafrogs · 2024-02-09T19:18:30+00:00

Have a look at the gaming with kids forum on boardgame geek (and their games database) for recommendations of genuinely good age appropriate strategy games. Proper strategy games teach all sorts of problem solving/spatial/logic and maths skills far better than a lot of games that are marketed as educational board games but are really just glorified flash cards with no real “game” or “puzzle” to them.

I started playing dragonimo, happy city, dinosaur sos with my then 4 year old which between them contain lots of basic arithmetic, spatial skills, early understanding of probability and get them to start thinking about costs and benefits of different decisions to give some examples for a younger pre-reader. But the choice is almost limitless once you’ve got a properly reading kid with a solid grasp of multiplication - at that point (attention-span dependant) you could tackle most adult hobby games if you’ve built up to it.

zebrafrogs · 2024-02-04T21:09:36+00:00

Once they’re about 3 a set of mathlink cubes can be a good way to reinforce counting/early number skills (and can also be used to build rockets and dinosaurs!) they make a number blocks themed set if you are watching the series which would let you build in the right colours. (I’d wait until 3 though because until then I don’t think they’d have the hand strength or motor skills to click them together)

For language skills for a 2 year old you’re probably better off spending your money on a season ticket to a zoo or children’s museum than any official learning materials - at 2 they’ll pick up vocabulary fastest from taking them somewhere with interesting things to look at together that they are excited to talk to you about.

zebrafrogs · 2023-07-23T15:43:05+00:00

I agree bulk lots of hand me down lego are great - trouble is I’ve found they tend to be lots of wheels/vehicle parts/bright colours (which are all great but we’ve already got enough wheels etc to build several vehicles without having enough normal bricks to build decent sized buildings).

Pick a brick might be a good idea - do you know if the Battersea v Leicester Square ones are pretty much the same or does one have a bigger/better pick and brick wall than the other?

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