Posts by Roxswood

Whatever you feel less stressed about. In the airline my husband works for in Europe a baby under 2 can not have a seat of their own. They must travel on an adult's lap so that is what we have always done.

4.5 she got a bike with pedals (and no training wheels) and learned to ride it soon afterwards.

Lip kisses here too between members of the family. I'd be weirded out if someone not close to us that way kissed dd on the lips but thinking about it as a child it was definitely normal to kiss grandparents and aunts and uncles on the...

I'm not sure what she's describing, a very impulsive child who will do things without thinking or because they struggle to control their impulses, or one who is very strong willed and will fight to the end for what they desire/think is...

dd who is 5.5 gets up in the mornings and comes out and makes her breakfast and then sits and plays quietly until I get up with her younger sister. We live in a tiny apartment so she's only in the next room, I don't think I would be...

Quote: Originally Posted by ann_of_loxley 'Legally' here - I think it is 14. I don't know what it is 'legally' where you live though. I'm pretty sure there is no age stated in UK law. NSPCC (National...

Gavin de Becker's book Protecting the Gift (IIRC) says that teaching children not to talk to strangers does very little good at all, often either being completely not understood by the child since we expect them to be polite and talk to...

Haven't nightweaned either of mine. First DD naturally dropped nightfeeds at around 3.5y I think, and second dd still feeds on demand day and night at 22 months.

Just a little suggestion, but baby led weaning saved me a TON of time and hassle making seperate meals or purees and removed the time spent feeding baby. By 7months my second dd was sitting in her high chair shovelling handfuls of...

Good luck with the scan. FWIW I could palpate my uterus with my second pregnancy at only 7 weeks too, but it was a singleton pregnancy. At least by the time I had a scan at 12 weeks anyway. My doctor at 9 weeks pregnant tried to search...