Posts by lovesea

DS (nearly 7) just doesn't seem to have hit it off with any of his first grade classmates and I'm a little worried. He seems to play on his own a lot of the time. He seems happy enough and doesn't complain but I can't help worrying...

Thanks for the advice Miranda

I never used a paci with either of my kids and it never seemed to be an issue. I did have the dilemma of other people's advice conflicted with my instincts, the dilemma being is their experience worth more than my maternal instincts. I...

Does anyone's children have a blog? I'm thinking a blog would be a great way for my 6 year old to keep in touch with relatives as we live far away and would also be a great learning tool for him. I'm unsure about how safe it is though....

Hi there, I'm not much of a gardener so looking for inspiration. I live in a big city and feel lucky enough to have a small garden. It's partly paved and partly grass - although the grass is a bit patchy because it doesn't see much sun...

I don't have any advice per se but I recommend Dr Laura Markam (on these forums). Go to 'ask the experts' and post your issue there. She offers some really good advice and usually responds promptly.

I second the pp's view that it's not a big deal. When my second child was born I was horrified when I went to investigate why the baby and dc#1 had gone so quiet to discover that ds was 'cuddling' the baby ie lying on top of her (she...

Thank you so much for your advice. It's very reassuring

I'm starting to worry about my son because he seems to get very upset suddenly out of the blue over things like death and loneliness. I'll give a few examples, tonight before bed we were reading Bambi and we get to the part where...

My 2 and a half year old dd keeps complaining that her stomach hurts yet she seems to have no loss of apetite and she's not vomitting or anything like that. I have not taken her to the docs because she doesn't seem to be in much pain -...