janinegirly
Ideal_Rock
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2006
- Messages
- 3,689
Awwww that is so cute mrssalvo!! They don''t look as much like jeans as they do in the ad. Adorable!
Date: 6/22/2010 7:32:00 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
PSA: Okay, I thought about if I should share this or not b/c I don''t want to be paranoid or freak anyone out to just stop reading here if you want.
In my ethics class there is a woman who works in a residential home for girls who sexually abuse (most are also victims). Her stories make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Also is another woman who works for DSS. They both said that a child can be molested in the same room as the ''innocent'' parent. I seriously cannot imagine but believe their professional experience and that a capable, experienced molester probably can. Anyway, I expressed a concern now that T is in daycare (NOT that I have any reasons to be freaked) but she is getting exposed to a lot of people and other children are often violators (learned behavior). The one woman told me when I am bathing her or changing her diaper I should just tell ''this is your bottom. Only mommy, daddy, [fill in the blank] can touch it. This is your privates. It is only okay for mommy, daddy, [fill in the blank] to touch it. Tell me if someone else does.'' She said her son caught one pretty quick and she remembers him at 5 telling her that his friend accidently bumped into him and touched his bottom. I am going to start b/c I do think it is important for her to know what is ok and what is not ok. Just thought I would throw it out there for you all. Feel free to permanently ignore my warningsAs I get more exposed to my education I just see how traumatic sexual abuse is. I know I cannot protect her forever but I can try right? I also decided she may never go to a sleep over. Just not worth it unless I REALLY know the family. Even then, people surprise you.
Date: 6/23/2010 8:46:14 PM
Author: Blenheim
TGal, EB, MG, PJ, Tacori, Lili - Thanks so much for weighing in. He's been doing a lot of babbling and understands a fair amount of what we say to him, so I feel better reading what all of you wrote.
Lili - the funny thing with the animal sounds is that he doesn't saw woof or arf or anything like that. He actually barks. He also sometimes tries to faceplant into the high chair and eat without his hands, and he throws balls and then fetches them for himself, and sometimes he tries to drink out of the dogs waterdish. We think that he looks up to his big 'bro' and 'sis' a bit too much at times.
PJ - Hey, Axel has Mama and Dada on George.
Tacori - congrats on finishing the class! That must feel really good.
Blondebunny - How awful. I'm so sorry.
Ebree - happy first bday to Henry!! And welcome over here.
DH and I signed up for a 5-miler in Sept in hopes that it will force us to get off our butts and train for it. I even came up with a training schedule so that we can get prepared for it. But then it was 93 degrees and humid when we got home from work today, so we decided to tune it down and just do a 2-miler, but even then we were struggling at the end with the heat. And then we got home and discovered that someone threw his glasses out of the stroller at some point during the run. GRRRR. Fortunately FIL lent me his bike at this point so that I didn't have to keep running all over the neighborhood, and I was able to find the glasses and they hadn't been run over or anything. Thank God. I keep the shade on the BOB all the way down so that I can see his head through the little window and I can tell if his glasses are still on (due to the teething on the glasses tendency), but I was just so tired at the end I didn't pay as much attention.
SIL keeps Mardi Gras beads on her door knob, and George pulled them off this evening and put them in a trash can and then carried the trash can to DH and handed it to him. LOL. I never know what he's going to do next.
Just popping in to represent another late speech kid. I didn''t really say anything until I was around 2 years old. Prior to that I would shake my head yes and no and I would say "juice" and "more." Then apparently I just started speaking in full sentences at around 2 years old. My mom said her friends all were convinced I was mentally disabled but the pedi would test me and tell her I was just a late bloomer with that stuff. I''m no Einstein but I am about to get a PhD in mechanical engineering, so I think I turned out OK. I know its anecdotal evidence, but I just wanted to share to soothe your fears a little bit about George''s lack of a huge vocabulary.Date: 6/22/2010 10:25:38 PM
Author: Blenheim
Speech question - So, we had to get the health form filled out by George''s previous doctor for his daycare paperwork, and I noticed on it that she said something about monitoring him for delayed speech. I asked DH about it, as he''s the one who took G to that appointment, and he said that he thought it was because of the way that he answered the speech questions that she asked him and so apparently DH blew it off at the time as George seems fine to him. Sigh... But I have been noticing that he''s not saying as much as I''d expect him to, but I hadn''t been worried - yet - because I seem to recall others here talking about their kids having ''delayed speech'' per the charts and then exploding with like a million words at 20 months. Am I remembering? Or am I making this up?
For reference, G is now 14.5 months. He can say bubbee (puppy). He now can say no.Sometimes if I ask him where his duck is, he''ll pick it up and say duck, but that''s one not 100% consistent. He also makes siren noises when he sees his firetruck, and barks at the dogs, if those are considered language? But that''s it. Does this seem normal or delayed?
ETA - Einstein had delayed speech and was initially thought to be mentally disabled, if I''m remembering correctly. So maybe G''s just the next Einstein. And maybe this is how parents think that their obese toddlers are on the skinny side.