Comments on: Randomly, lately

By: pedipaws

pedipaws — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:01:07 +0000

Nice post, keep up the good work.

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:12:29 +0000

Its a great post and useful also because today everybody want to buy shopping goods online.
Thanks for such an helpful post.

By: baratch

baratch — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:17:43 +0000

Hello.This is first time for me to visit your site.
Your boys are so lovely.
I have three children (6year-old boy,4year-old boy,2year-old girl)and a cat.
I use furminator to my cat. It’s great.

I’m happy if you link to my site.It is written in Japanese(some of the words are English) but show pictures.
http://baratchfamilykidspets.blogspot.com/

By: T

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:53:17 +0000

so what size Furminator did you use on Cat? i saw the medium one on Amazon was on sale but didn’t know if it was too big…

By: Alyson

Alyson — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:44:52 +0000

I didn’t have a picky eater until kid #3, and there are times when I could almost KILL him! But he is the one who is most receptive to nutritional information given him in a school setting (health segments in class, etc.). So he is coming around, slowly…..very slowly. Continue being Zen about it. Things will get better eventually.

By: nicola

nicola — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:26:35 +0000

I’m potty training at the moment and i use the term lightly cos she wees standing up with her legs apart and ONLY outside, (and we live in London so it’s sometimes hard to find a patch of grass) She won’t use the potty or toilet and refuses to do a poo at all but waits till we put her nappy on at night to do one…..but i know she’ll get there in the end. x

By: christen

christen — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:25:31 +0000

Do you ever wonder if firstborn kids are more suspicious/challenging because first time parents are so much more stressed and obsessive about every little thing with them? It seems like that could make sense. Mom and dad are sooooo worried about every time the kid takes a poo and every ounce of formula he gets that it just makes the kid a little more… I want to say tense but that’s not the right word. Nor is high-strung or difficult… because that’s not it. But the parents are so much more relaxed with the second, I can see that affecting the second baby’s personality greatly.

Does that even remotely make any sort of sense at all?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:12:57 +0000

How do you keep Dog from snacking off the plate? Our two Goldens would have that plate cleaned off in half a second.
I will have to try the Furminator, since you could knit a new dog from the tumblefurs drifting about. My inner cheapskate always freaked over the price, but if it works…
Have you read “Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense” by Ellyn Satter? Great resource, very down to earth.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:45:12 +0000

Take heart. The food battle was one I decided (when I was pregnant) that I would never have. I never made him eat anything, but I always presented him with pretty good, healthy food. I remember his monochrome phase: only orange food; canned mandarin oranges (kids love these), mac and cheese, and goldfish. The most fun part was watching my mother twitch. I figured as long as he was growing ok, he was fine. He was never sick, either.

Now I have a 14 year old I can barely afford, he eats so much. It really will be ok. I always suspect that when they see it stresses you out (especially at those power weilding ages like 3 and 6), they’ll starve for the pleasure of making mom nuts. DOn’t sweat it. He will start eating at some point. Oh and boys? They can’t sit at the table until they’re about 8.

By: No cheese. « Because OF COURSE.

No cheese. « Because OF COURSE. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:52:04 +0000

[...] Today I decided to take Linda’s advice and let Ethan eat in the living room while he played. Another big hurdle we’re trying to get over is the fact that E wants to get down from the table exactly 3 minutes after being served his food, so I thought I would give the “eat-n-go” method a try. I fixed a plate of almonds, crackers, and cheddar cheese and set it on the coffee table in front of where he was playing. He dramatically recoiled in disgust when he noticed the four thin slices of cheese atop his beloved club crackers. I decided to try and bargain with him, tearing the tiniest morsel of cheese from a corner of one of the slices, and telling him that he would only have to try that one bite before deciding he didn’t want to eat the rest. “Be a big boy!” I coaxed. “Remember when you tried that rice with Aunt Emily? And the time you ate an egg on toast with Daddy?” I recalled, thinking back to the time that he ate one tiny spoonful of buttered rice and gagged uncontrollably, or the ONE time we convinced him to try some of Drew’s fried egg on half a slice of whole-wheat toast, which he somehow managed to gag down one bite of, eyes watering, face flushed, Fear Factor-style. [...]