Posts by shimsheree

I grew up in Puyallup and I live on South Hill now.  I went to Puyallup High School and thought it was fine, but Rogers High School is the one on South Hill and I heard, maybe from my mom, that it's supposed to be better than...

I thought I'd give an update.  DS is four and had seen a specialist about his behavior (it was thought that he had adhd).  The specialist questioned whether ds actually had adhd and he really wanted him to attend a...

  We saw the specialist yesterday.  It was....eh.  (btw, the specialist is a developmental behavioral pediatrician...one of the only ones in our area)   He is questioning whether ds really has adhd or not....

My son is 4 and has adhd, but the medication isn't helping his aggression at all, and it's pretty bad.  His behavior is very violet, random, but sometimes we can tell he will do something, and all day long.  My 2 year old dd...

I wanted to say thank you SO MUCH for all of your replies.  It is really helpful to hear from people who have been in this same kind of situation.  You all had such good points and you are right.  I don't want to place...

I'm not sure what to do.  My son is 4 and has adhd and is very aggressive.  We have an appointment with a specialist in November to see if there's something else going on in addition to the adhd.  He also has speech...

DS is 3.5 years old and has learned how to unbuckle his carseat harness and he does it while we're driving.  Sometimes he'll be fine and leave it buckled, but if he gets mad about something, or something doesn't go his way, he'll...

We live in Puyallup and our pediatrician is a friend from church and she's been great.  The only downside is that she's in Covington, just past Kent.  Her name is Cheryl Tan-Jacobson.  We do cloth and co-sleep and she's...

Hi there, We used to live in Kent (we live in Puyallup now, 30 minutes south of Kent).  I wanted to tell you that if you need an indoors place for the kids to run free, there's the Kidsquest Museum at the Factoria mall in...

I just came to say that I have a 3.5 year old boy too and this age is HARD!  Seriously, it is so so hard.  I just texted my mom this morning telling her that I don't think I'm going to survive parenthood.  I don't know...