Posts by breezyleigh

As far as videos go, I offered them videos.  At first, neither wanted anything to do with the videos, but now they want me to drop them off.  I don't feel comfortable going there, but I suppose I will have to.  I also...

Back history:   The father isolated me, then us both, from my friends and family, kept saying they were bugging our house and phones after I kept trying to tell him that I wasn't talking to them for only a couple minutes here...

Oh...forgot...they also say her 4 year old sister keeps saying she thinks DD is sick because she doesn't talk.

I recently had a 25+ minute long conversation with my DD's father.  I knew things had been quiet for far too long.  Short background is that he tends to be quite emotionally/verbally abusive.   At home, DD takes...

My dd is nearly 19 months old and I try to keep some sort of consistency in her life, but her father is extremely inconsistent and the more inconsistency there is, the worse her separation anxiety is getting and, honestly, I'm not sure...

Yep, she can choose between (or among) things. She knows for sure what she likes. I try to let her choose whenever I can. I let her choose among the four colors of trick or treat pumpkins, yesterday. She was so funny! She looked at...

Thank you for moving it, Heather. Phys--yes, it has been frustrating. Dd's gotten much better with things and is saying a lot, anymore, with consistency, and seems to be on the verge of flooding us with speech, soon. She's seemed to...

She definitely has, Holiztic. She was a bit behind in her gross motor skills a few months ago and is now far ahead, so she's been working on those skills, instead. I just don't want to get too overly excited, but she just picks things...

Thanks, Rlin. We do that a lot, so it will be one thing I keep doing. I've always fostered independence and choice when possible with her, too, from very early on, like letting her choose between two outfits, between two different...

Does anyone have any creative ways to get a 16 month old to use the vocabulary she already has more often? My 16 month old DD has over a 20 word vocabulary, consisting of: hi, mom, daddy, dog, bye, i, do, me, what's, that, go, been,...