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upset at nanny -- vent
Chookie wrote:
In article MtNXb.39969$jk2.88777@attbi_s53, Emily wrote: (One of the messiest things about my house these days are those tupperwares... They're never truly clean because they're always being played with, but we just use them anyway. *sigh*) They can't be THAT dirty from just being played with on the floor! And stepped in and ... not really what I'd consider clean enough for food, at least in pre-baby standards! But then I keep reminding myself that the higher incidence of asthma in developed countries has been hypothesized to be related to excessive cleanliness ;-) -- Emily mom to Toby 5/1/02 #2 EDD 7/19/04 |
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upset at nanny -- vent
Chookie wrote in message ...
In article , (Elizabeth Reid) wrote: He actually was handling being thwarted much better this weekend, so it seems to sort of go in phases that have a lot to do with how well he's sleeping/eating etc. I think the amount of food and sleep toddlers get affects their temper substantially. I am lucky in that DS still has a sleep every afternoon, though he's about to turn 3. And I invariably notice a deterioration in behaviour if he's not fed on time! Try increasing the size of his morning and afternoon teas and see if he's less annoying as a result. I feed him everything he'll eat; he's just kind of a diffident eater. When he doesn't eat, he's frequently crankier, but it's hard for me to be sure which is cause and which is effect, since presumably something keeps him from eating on the low food days. Well, Flylady.net is working for me. When DS was about 6 months old I realised that I was just wandering randomly from one task to another, leaving half of them undone, because I had total mummy brain. Hit the net, found Flylady, and am now a lot closer to the Type 1 parents than I thought possible! Going to work part-time hasn't changed that, either. Because my mind has been freed from making mental notes about having to do various tasks, I can concentrate more on enjoying my time with DS, and so perhaps I can be more creative about involving him with necessary activities. I tried Flylady and I liked the idea, but the constant emails were making my life more difficult rather than less! I have the Sidetracked Home Executives book, and I keep meaning to set up their system, as soon as I can extract time from the rest of my life. :-) I also have a reading enthusiast, and limit story-reading to brackets of three, and also limit the number of times I reread a book in a day. Then we get up and do something together. If you like, post about particular activities you're finding difficult -- someone here is bound to have a way of involving their children in it. Cooking especially is hard, and generally everything to do with the kitchen, because it involves messing around on the counters where he's too little to see. He'd love to be involved, but the logistics of it make it hard. I also worry about doing bathrooms with him around because of the cleaning chemicals. Beth |
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upset at nanny -- vent
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(Elizabeth Reid) wrote: Cooking especially is hard, and generally everything to do with the kitchen, because it involves messing around on the counters where he's too little to see. He'd love to be involved, but the logistics of it make it hard. For cooking, do you have a high chair or booster, so he can see what you are doing? Maybe give him some related item to play with - plastic containers, for instance. Or, can he stir dry ingredients yet? Irene |
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Elizabeth Reid wrote:
I have the Sidetracked Home Executives book, and I keep meaning to set up their system, as soon as I can extract time from the rest of my life. :-) Sometimes setting up the system takes longer then doing the actual chores ;-) Cooking especially is hard, and generally everything to do with the kitchen, because it involves messing around on the counters where he's too little to see. I do the very bad mom move of sitting mine on the counter beside me. Luke still sits up there (Hunter is big enough to stand on a stool). No one has ever fell off or come close to getting injured in any other way so I keep doing it. I also worry about doing bathrooms with him around because of the cleaning chemicals. You mean the fumes? I'd just switch products and use something less smelly. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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upset at nanny -- vent
Chookie wrote:
In article , (Elizabeth Reid) wrote: Cooking especially is hard, and generally everything to do with the kitchen, because it involves messing around on the counters where he's too little to see. He'd love to be involved, but the logistics of it make it hard. You can take it two ways. (a) Involvement -- child can help with the cooking. This IS very age-dependent -- DS is almost 3 and can't really mix dry ingredients without my hand on the spoon. I get him to count spoonfuls and cupfuls, taste-test the dried apricots/choc chips etc, put muffin cases in muffin tins, that sort of thing. He can also fetch and carry some items for me. As a result, DS helps me mainly when I'm cooking fun stuff, not dinner. (b) Working Alongside -- child is doing something else in the kitchen while cooking is going on. DS's easel is set up in the kitchen, so he can do something close to me while I use sharp knives/hot stoves. Another alternative is a cupboard full of plastic bowls, tin trays, wooden spoons and other fun but safe objects that your child can play with. Caution: watch your own step as these objects will end up all over the floor! When DD was 3, she showed me that she could actually crack an egg without dropping any shells. So, she became the official egg cracker in our house. I could also give her a plastic knife or a butter knife and she could cut up a banana. At 6, DH will help her flip pancakes when they're making them. I'll let her scramble those wonderful eggs she cracked. She's also been using a hand egg beater to mix up cake batter or pancake batter. I also worry about doing bathrooms with him around because of the cleaning chemicals. Same here; in fact I was much more worried about the cleaning chemicals than I was about the original dirt. Sickness from E coli I can cope with; chemical poisoning is another matter! You can guess from this that DS likes cleaning the toilet. Soooo -- I switched to vinegar. I clean the loo first, then DS takes charge of the toilet brush and can scrub away to his heart's content while I clean elsewhere. Then I give him a damp rag and he "cleans" the front of the vanity unit and the tiles. I did the same thing. I switched to mild detergents and let DD wipe the counters. Also, I found out in her Montessori school that she *LIKED* to wash windows with a squeegee and water. Guess what? A mirror's like a window. Hand the kid a squeegee and a pail of water. Jeanne |
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Cultural differences (was: upset at nanny -- vent)
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Tine Andersen wrote: mmm. I hear it's not really green. :*) I'm not being judgemental - we have our issues here as well with Greenland. -Liz |
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melizabeth wrote: "Tine Andersen" wrote in message . dk... snippage of cool post We put the stroller with a sleeping child in front of a restaurant outside the windows while we have lunch inside if we can sit next to the window and see the stroller. No problem. In New York a Danish woman doing so was put in prison some years ago and her completely breastfed baby taken from her for four days. When the baby was returned she was very hoarse and hungry. My whole country (okay - only 5 mill, but it's all we have) was in an uproar. I remember that! It happened in NYC, I believe and I was living upstate at the time. What a culture clash. Very unfortunate for the family. Is it just Denmark that does this? I thought when I was in Norway and Sweden I also saw this as well. It was in NYC, I remember it too. It was a sad story all around, I didn't remember the baby was breastfed, that wasn't so high in my conciousness at the time. That poor baby -Liz |
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"Liz S. Reynolds" wrote in message ... In article , melizabeth wrote: "Tine Andersen" wrote in message . dk... snippage of cool post We put the stroller with a sleeping child in front of a restaurant outside the windows while we have lunch inside if we can sit next to the window and see the stroller. No problem. In New York a Danish woman doing so was put in prison some years ago and her completely breastfed baby taken from her for four days. When the baby was returned she was very hoarse and hungry. My whole country (okay - only 5 mill, but it's all we have) was in an uproar. I remember that! It happened in NYC, I believe and I was living upstate at the time. What a culture clash. Very unfortunate for the family. Is it just Denmark that does this? I thought when I was in Norway and Sweden I also saw this as well. It was in NYC, I remember it too. It was a sad story all around, I didn't remember the baby was breastfed, that wasn't so high in my conciousness at the time. That poor baby -Liz And yes - Sweden and Norway have more or less the same culture and would put a baby in front of a restaurant as well. Tine, Denmark |
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Cultural differences (was: upset at nanny -- vent)
"Liz S. Reynolds" wrote in message ... In article , Tine Andersen wrote: mmm. I hear it's not really green. :*) I'm not being judgemental - we have our issues here as well with Greenland. -Liz I believe it was named by some viking who arrived there during the short summer. It was green. Tine, Denmark |
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