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Posted by: Norma Klingsick at 8:26AM CST on May 28, 2009
My 5-year-old has developed a bit of a fear of storms, and this week in Edwardsville has not helped. We got 6-7 inches of rain dumped on us Monday, some of which dumped in our basement. We've been cleaning up from that, and yesterday, we got even more rain. The ground is so wet that any kind of rain at this point is bad. My husband discovered during the torrential downpour Wednesday that the window wells to our basment were filling up and dumping water in the basement again. He went outside and started bailing water out of the one window well that was filling up. It was filling up so fast that it was filling up the one next to it, too. So my husband took a sledgehammer to the plexiglass on that window well and started bailing that one out, too. During the time he was doing this, the power went out. So the whole time my husband is bailing water out, my two children (almost 8 and 5) are screaming and crying at our front door because it's dark inside and they're scared. I was at work at the time. Add the fact that our neighbor was six feet away from my husband bailing out his window wells, and then a car tried to drive through the four feet of water in our street, stalled and had to be towed away, and there was quite the drama going on at my house last night. After the rain stopped, my husband got on the phone with his parents to get them over to the house to watch the kids while he cleaned up the basement. Since the power was out, he suggested that maybe the kids stay at their house for the night. Apparently, my 5-year-old overheard because by the time my husband got off the phone, he had grabbed a backpack, packed pajamas and a change of clothes and was ready to abandon ship!
Posted by: Amy Bertrand at 9:03AM CST on May 26, 2009
My 4-year-old is very grown-up and not a violent kid at all. Because of this, we tend to let him watch more grown-up movies. We just finished the first four Harry Potter films (though we end the fourth one before Voldemort shows up). We also watched "Karate Kid." The only part he seemed to have a problem with was the kissing. "Oh, disgusting, cover my eyes," he said.
Posted by: Aisha at 10:01AM CST on May 23, 2009
The woman who has cared for our children (part-time) for the past five years will be ending her time with us next week. I want to give her something very special, but I am at a complete loss. She's a grandmother, 60 years old, and on a limited, fixed income. I don't want to give something impersonal like a gift card, but I just can't think of anything. Any ideas?
Posted by: Amy Bertrand at 9:05AM CST on May 14, 2009
With the school year winding down, some preschools are taking the summer off. At mine, most kids go year-round, but in the summer they move up to the next classroom.
Do you get a gift for your teacher? Each of my two kids in preschool has three teachers. That's a lot of dough on gifts, but I really do appreciate the teachers.
Posted by: Amy Bertrand at 7:53AM CST on May 12, 2009
I'm reading the book "Raising Boys" now. I haven't finished yet, but I find that I'm quite surprised by the physiological differences between boys and girls (aside from the obvious). They are more rambunctious, which could later translate to violence. They don't hear as well, which may be why they are so noisy. The book puts strong emphasis on parenting boys and girls differently and on the need for fathers and for mentors as the kids get older. I recommend it for anyone with boys, but I'm also wondering if there are any sort of counterpoint books out there.
Posted by: Brian Sirimaturos at 3:14PM CST on May 10, 2009
I'd like to find a book for my 4 year old that explains the idea of religion and the different religions from around the world. Any ideas?
Posted by: jencrabbe at 4:05PM CST on May 9, 2009
My son and my husband recently bought some Gerber daisies.
I had hurt my back a few days earlier, and my boy kept asking me if my back felt better. Allen, from the back seat: "Do you feel a little bit better?" "A little bit, buddy," I reply. Allen, softly, kinda offhand: "Well, we got some pretty flowers. Sometimes flowers do the trick." Awwwww!
Posted by: momtowandw at 2:51PM CST on May 7, 2009
Though my son (4) is starting to read now, he started writing first. He would sound out words and write them phonetically. Is this normal? It seems very backward to me. And now that he's starting to read, he's not writing so much anymore. Maybe there is only so much their little brains can handle.
Posted by: kelly.j at 10:07AM CST on May 7, 2009
At your child's daycare/preschool, do they ever take class pictures? My Daughter has been in daycare for 4 years and has never received (or been offered) a class picture. I've actually asked the director about it and she said that parents rarely buy them, so they are no longer offered.
Would you get a class picture?
Posted by: Norma Klingsick at 3:12PM CST on May 6, 2009
On the way home from picking up my 5-year-old son from school Monday, he told me that one of his friends "likes girls, like a girlfriend." I asked if he liked girls, and he said, "Well, I love you, Mom, but not any other girls."
Posted by: Aisha at 2:34PM CST on May 6, 2009
My four-year-old has bronchitis. At night, his fever would spike, and I would give him Tylenol. But sometimes, it wouldn't bring the fever down very quickly. I know that cool baths went out of favor a while ago (could potentially cause shock to the system?), but I tried this: I would wet his hair with a brush dipped in cool water. It helped a little. Fevers really make me so nervous. If I do cool compresses, do you put them all over the kids body? Or just arms and legs? Does this make the kids too cold and shivery?
Posted by: Amy Bertrand at 10:34AM CST on May 1, 2009
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