Posts by deminc

Oh gosh, poor little guy and poor mum too! Hop over to allergy forum! You will get lots of sympathy from sleep-deprived mothers trying to keep their kids on the growth chart and skin intact.    My son could not sleep...

OP,   Coming to this thread late - was curious how it got to 4 pages, haha. Anyway, ignore the snarkiness. It was uncalled for.   My ds2 was as you described your child. I had a really hard time with him and I was so...

He HAS been shown the inner workings of the piano. His (young but enthusiastic) teacher opened up his precious upright grand to show him the hammers and strings etc. I have also opened up the top cover of our precious new piano to...

OP,   To be honest, I don't know what you mean by "how they think". But for what it's worth, it seems to me that you may have a budding writer in your hand - she definitely enjoys working with words and words will...

This is really more a vent. DS1 just started learning the piano and he tried to open up our brand new piano and put his hand in to see how the strings and hammers work. Thrice! Argh. VS or not, this was NOT appreciated!

A rating scale was very useful for us when ds1 was struggling with negative emotions, esp anger. You may want to consider if 1-5 may be easier than 1-10. It really depends on the child. Another thing that helped for us was building a...

Going by the kind of questions they ask when doing private testing, I would say it is innate wiring, a certain way of processing information and an ability to comprehend abstract concepts at a younger age. You can teach many young...

I just want to say that a 3 yr old with a sophisticated vocabulary relative to her peers WILL feel very lonely in class. It may also be hard for her to understand adults' expectations when they coo and talk to her in baby...

Quote: Originally Posted by LauraLoo  Another thing to consider or rule out would be food allergies or intollerances.  I mention this because we went through something similar with ds and once we removed the...

The good thing is that he's only 8 months. It's so much easier to track his food now than it ever will be tracking an older's child food. I always regretted introducing a succession of food very quickly - and he was very happy to eat...