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Our two toddlers have been hellbent on destroying the TV by hitting it with increasingly heavy things which, along with some nuclear meltdowns out in public, very nearly resulted in me having a breakdown.

We’ve changed the layout of our house considerably, putting things out of reach of small hands which has helped immensely.
 
RobDogDog said:
Our two toddlers have been hellbent on destroying the TV by hitting it with increasingly heavy things which, along with some nuclear meltdowns out in public, very nearly resulted in me having a breakdown.

We’ve changed the layout of our house considerably, putting things out of reach of small hands which has helped immensely.
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We mounted the TV on the wall because of this. At first she wanted to touch the TV, then it was hitting it with her hands, then started hitting it with toys.
 
godinman said:
That sounds absolutely awesome, great experience for them for sure. I was doing well with making sure mine aren't picky eaters, but they've both taken a bit of a backwards step, funnily enough I decided last night that I need to address it as it's just annoying tbh.

We had a week in northern Spain with extended family out there, in fairness to the kids they really got into it and we made some awesome memories, looking forward to going again.

It's so awesome when kids get to the age/maturity that you're hanging out with them rather than just constantly 'parenting' them.

Food however was a bit of a struggle, one of the relations is a chef so one meal we had the most amazing spread of food, followed by paella, but my two mostly ate bread and ham, proper English fair :cry:

Time to start working out some more adventurous food options..
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Easiest way to do it is make it fun.

With my boy we pretended we were going on holiday to Spain, put some Spanish music on in the background, got dressed up in our holiday clothes, pretended we was at a Spanish restaurant, made some pisto and paella, wolfed the paella down, pisto was a little harder, but ate it eventually, he didn't like the chorizo, then we had churros for pudding.

We knew if it failed and he genuinely didn't like the food, we could whip up a Spanish omelette which he'd be happy with.

We had tried a few months before hand (me and the wife love paella) with paella and got a frank no way.

We've done themed nights a few times since to get him into trying new foods (mexican evening was another). Luckily we've never been chicken nuggets for tea type people so his taste buds don't insist on plain beige foods, but pasta does feature quite heavily in our diet.

Getting them to help cook helps aswell sometimes.

I'm quite proud of him when we go out as although he tends to play it safe with Bolognese, burger or nuggets as the main, he will always choose vegetable sticks and other healthy side dish to go with it, as he does like to eat healthy.
 
Having our first experience with our son (2.5y/o) potentially being potentially ill other than just the usual colds/stomach bugs/chickenpox. His glands in his neck have been raised for nearly 6 months after going through all the usual nursery bugs and chickepox etc, our nursery questioned if there anything wrong with him and we were like 'uh no I don't think so'. Soo off to the local gp a few weeks back who were extremely thorough but couldn't see anything immediate wrong, had a blood test last week (just a finger ***** which was pretty decent for everyone involved) and results have come back for low iron and low white blood cell count :/

The GP said it could potentially be mild anemia or that he was ill at the time he had the test (he did have a mild cold) but he's booked in for a fuller blood test next week and a scan on his glands. I guess the interesting (and somewhat frustrating) thing is that he shows no other signs of being ill; he has has plenty of energy, is eating/drinking well and appears to be growing/developing in line with expectations. Of course the usual looking online trying to dissect results leads down all sorts of troubling paths so just trying to be patient and wait for the results but I now fully understand why people have said to me in the past that your children being properly ill is one of the most difficult things, despite our son showing no symptoms I immediately want him to be better.
 
Our son (almost 3) was whining and calling for us at about 23:45 Saturday night, unusual for him, he just usually sleeps through without a peep. We go in eventually and find him covered in sick :(.

We get him up, change the bed covers and he pukes a couple more times, with about 20 mins between, then he feels okay and asks to go back to bed.

Odd, we thought. Must've been something he ate? He okay the next day, just a bit of a runny bum and low appetite, as expected.

Nope. It was indeed a bug because Monday night the wife and I were up with liquid arse and I was also throwing up my enchiladas...

My Bradford scale will be ****** since having a kid.


OG said:
Having our first experience with our son (2.5y/o) potentially being potentially ill other than just the usual colds/stomach bugs/chickenpox. His glands in his neck have been raised for nearly 6 months after going through all the usual nursery bugs and chickepox etc, our nursery questioned if there anything wrong with him and we were like 'uh no I don't think so'. Soo off to the local gp a few weeks back who were extremely thorough but couldn't see anything immediate wrong, had a blood test last week (just a finger ***** which was pretty decent for everyone involved) and results have come back for low iron and low white blood cell count :/

The GP said it could potentially be mild anemia or that he was ill at the time he had the test (he did have a mild cold) but he's booked in for a fuller blood test next week and a scan on his glands. I guess the interesting (and somewhat frustrating) thing is that he shows no other signs of being ill; he has has plenty of energy, is eating/drinking well and appears to be growing/developing in line with expectations. Of course the usual looking online trying to dissect results leads down all sorts of troubling paths so just trying to be patient and wait for the results but I now fully understand why people have said to me in the past that your children being properly ill is one of the most difficult things, despite our son showing no symptoms I immediately want him to be better.
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Do you give your child vitamins? Our son has been on multi+Iron since birth (5 weeks early) as recommended by the doctor.
 
Junglist said:
We are now fully into the troublesome twos. Daughter turned 2 on the weekend. She's still pretty sound but has some spectacular meltdowns at the moment :cry:
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Ours turns 3 in July - we've been pretty lucky so far and she's only had an absolute meltdown a handful times. It's so funny that it has me and the Mrs in absolute stitches - as soon as she realises we're laughing our heads off she just kind of stops and then starts laughing herself.

Really feel for some our friends - their kids look like an absolute nightmares with constant tantrums at the smallest things
 
Freefaller said:
I hope you deal with those better than I used to. I just used to laugh. :o
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I find them hilarious - when not in public and when it doesn't last too long. I think most of it is borne by the fact she probably knows what she wants to say and is unable to convey her feelings. Would be pretty frustrating.

She's a really cool kid (obvious parental bias aside) and gives us zero trouble so we just take it for what it is, a phase. She loves eating and she asks to go to bed willingly, tantrums are light work compared to those two parts.

BongoHunter said:
Really feel for some our friends - their kids look like an absolute nightmares with constant tantrums at the smallest things
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Our next door neighbours son is like that. Constantly going ballistic but he has done that since he's been born and is probably 3 going on 4. Without overstepping the mark we assume there may be other factors at play. Feel awful for the parents through because they look so defeated all the time. Selfishly, as much as I love the summer I dread having our windows open all day/night because we're going to be bathed in the sounds of screaming toddler from 6am-10pm.
 
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Well I’ve joined the club. Our son was born Wednesday 10th April at 1:50am, at 38 weeks, 7lbs 9ozs.

I’m in love, he’s perfect, my wife is amazing, labour is so brutal. She had to be cut and little one delivered with forceps. Then had to have surgery after to manually extract the placenta which was absolutely savage. Her mum had the same with both her children so seems to be genetic. It does mean my wife has been bed bound for the first 24 hours. I’ve had to do the nappies and clothing him, I’m loving every minute just so tired. I was petrified first time putting clothes on him, his hands and feet seem so delicate. Getting the hang of it already. He’s just a delight.
 
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Yaayuh! said:
Our son (almost 3) was whining and calling for us at about 23:45 Saturday night, unusual for him, he just usually sleeps through without a peep. We go in eventually and find him covered in sick :(.

We get him up, change the bed covers and he pukes a couple more times, with about 20 mins between, then he feels okay and asks to go back to bed.

Odd, we thought. Must've been something he ate? He okay the next day, just a bit of a runny bum and low appetite, as expected.

Nope. It was indeed a bug because Monday night the wife and I were up with liquid arse and I was also throwing up my enchiladas...

My Bradford scale will be ****** since having a kid.




Do you give your child vitamins? Our son has been on multi+Iron since birth (5 weeks early) as recommended by the doctor.
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AHH that scale that encourages you to come in and spread illness. We use it and it's ****. Some people that take the **** and know how to play the system get away with it, someone had 5 weeks off for a kidney stone. While they were off they wallpapered, went to the cinema and did all sorts of stuff.
 
theone8181 said:
AHH that scale that encourages you to come in and spread illness. We use it and it's ****. Some people that take the **** and know how to play the system get away with it, someone had 5 weeks off for a kidney stone. While they were off they wallpapered, went to the cinema and did all sorts of stuff.
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I don't think our company actually uses it, thankfully, it's just I know what it is.
But yeah, it does seem to be a flawed system.
 
Yaayuh! said:
I don't think our company actually uses it, thankfully, it's just I know what it is.
But yeah, it does seem to be a flawed system.
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My place use it, basically means it's pointless just taking 1 day off sick might as well take a couple which based on the numbers has a much lower business impact :confused:
 
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Mason- said:
Well I’ve joined the club. Our son was born Wednesday 10th April at 1:50am, at 38 weeks, 7lbs 9ozs.

I’m in love, he’s perfect, my wife is amazing, labour is so brutal. She had to be cut and little one delivered with forceps. Then had to have surgery after to manually extract the placenta which was absolutely savage. Her mum had the same with both her children so seems to be genetic. It does mean my wife has been bed bound for the first 24 hours. I’ve had to do the nappies and clothing him, I’m loving every minute just so tired. I was petrified first time putting clothes on him, his hands and feet seem so delicate. Getting the hang of it already. He’s just a delight.
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I remember changing ours at a routine check up not long after and the nurse just shook her head at me with how careful/slow I was, takes some getting used to, cherish it ,because before too long they develop superhuman powers, like strength and the super body floppy ability ...
 
alchal said:
I remember changing ours at a routine check up not long after and the nurse just shook her head at me with how careful/slow I was, takes some getting used to, cherish it ,because before too long they develop superhuman powers, like strength and the super body floppy ability ...
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Our daughter ended up on the neonate ward for a couple of days and the first time I seen the Dr change her nappy was mind blowing, literally like watching an F1 team change a wheel :D

They're no where near as delicate as we all assume.
 
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