Posts by julianito

I am considering a job in Fairfield, but nervous about leaving our very family-friendly progressive MA town. We need a public school system with a great special needs preschool program for DS (who has a speech delay/ apraxia). We love...

No real advice. Just that my 3.9 year old is doing the same thing right now. I am just trying to stay low-key and easy about it. "Ooops, that happens, let's clean it up." But it started following on him peeing in wrong...

OK, we need a gentle discipline solution for our little boy 3.5, potty-trained for almost 9 months. He has started peeing in places that are inappropriate, when faced with a limit that isn't changeable. Time for PJ's etc. (we give...

My three and a half year old son seems to be fascinated by violent stories. His alter-ego, a little kitty cat, gets hit, has a window crash down on him, or gets cut with a sharp knife and gets a big, big boo-boo. He tells these kind of...

meant to make two separate posts

So I have been at home with my 3.5 year old, and am going to start interviewing for jobs in a different city. It requires two overnight trips for me in the next three weeks, plus I have been needing to work for longer stretches to...

I had my birth at Cooley and would stay at home next time. They were pushy with interventions, and while a few nurses were helpful, others were horrible. It might have changed since I did it 3 years gao, but I wouldn't take a chance...

Our speech changed a lot after the apraxia diagnosis. More focus on sounds that his eval. showed he wasn't making, sequencing work (grammar type stuff) and the time recommendation was increased to 5xwk. though we only got 3 out of the...

I've been at home with my DS since birth, and DH or I will be til kindy. DS has apraxia of speech and sensory stuff, and maybe something else neurological that we are still figuring it out. We take him to the public school for...

I like First Feelings, and Your Three Year Old (they have one for each year) By the Gesell Institute. The let me know how age appropriate our current beauty and drama are.