Posts by jilly

oh yeah, also, the one thing I'm finding fun about this age is that I can use more humour to diffuse the whiny / demanding stuff. He actually "gets" a little bit of sarcasm or irony now, but he has to stop and think about it,...

Has my son moved in with you? He also just turned 6 and we are getting the same emotional eruptions - only he is also sneakily hitting his brother when we're not watching, and screams whenever we refuse him anything. This morning...

I suspected it was annually. Thanks for the info!

So, we are moving to Montreal next week, and our friends who just visited (who have friends who live in Montreal) said we could probably practically live off our child assistance money when we moved to Quebec because we have 3 kids. Is...

If he's sensitive I wouldn't get the "Game of Thrones" and following books. I'm sensitive and 34 and I found them disturbing, although I find that I'm more disturbed by that kind of stuff now than I was when I was 14 . . ....

In a really round about way we've found a lot of Arnold Lobel's books great for anxiety. The Toad and Frog books and "Owl at Home" present really funny scenarios that come out of the characters' anxieties. Toad is very anxious...

Thanks for all the commiseration and advice! Preschool was unfortunately not an option this year because he has a January 15th birthday - he just missed the deadline - and after all ds1 put the one preschool teacher in town through...

You can find it here: http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1222992 So far, no one has said anything. Sigh.

I have a very physically precocious three and a half year old. He can climb anything and unlock doors. He will move laundry baskets and chairs through the house to get up to high shelves and into storage cupboards that are off the...

Oh, this is such a hard age with a spirited child. My son used to be like this, and all you can do is be super vigilant - they don't always have much sense or self control at this age. It is super embarassing as a parent, but the only...