KatDew

Two out of three of my kids want to do football classes. One is 2.5 the other is 5. Any suggestions? I was looking at the baby booters on saturday mornings at Jags but that seems to be till age 5?

My son uses it after school. They're good

A child is contagious from the coughing stage till the spots have scabbed over, usually 5 days after they appear. Chicken pox has a maximum incubation of 3 weeks.

One of my twins could properly scoot before her second birthday (she kept stealing her big brothers)... her big brother didn't manage it till past 3

We had our sons 5th birthday there today. Can't recommend it enough. Simon who owns the place was great with the kids. The painting was enough excitement to keep their attention and lots of space if they need to run off a bit of energy. Probably don't wear precious clothing but the paint is washable.

At risk of sounding awful.... Bribe him with a chocolate button for after? (seriously the medicine is likely to have sugar in it anyway). Mix it in with some yogurt?

Sent you a PM. One final thought though.... however temptingly close, don't sign up with Melbourne grove GP

We upgraded to a Maxi at christmas when my son was rising 5. I think he was safely within the weight range but it was getting unstable do to his height (I think). It kept toppling forward really easily. Anyway the problem stopped as soon as he was on the maxi.

Now if you've got any tips to get my 5 year old to eat potatoes..... he'll eat most things (some under duress) he's a reasonably good eater if a bit slow but I've never persuaded him to eat potatoes (yes even chips) Thankfully small persons number 2 and 3 are much better eaters. In fact small person number 2 regularly seems to eat her body weight in food and yet is always a skinny titchy thing

Good to hear as my sons part is booked there for sunday

oh dear God.... seriously? I hate this kind of attitude. Firstly what if the girls don't want to marry and have kids/ be 'kept' by a man? Secondly it's certainly not true of our house, we would never of got our first mortgage if it hadn't been for my job. Yes I choose to work part time but I am actually still the bigger earner (no dis-respect to by husband) I just happen to work in a profession that is paid well. I have no issues with women who want to be at home and raise children but lets not make those decisions for our girls from childhood. Let them make those choices later and in the mean time give them every oppurtunity in life that we would allow our sons.

Balance bikes are brilliant. My only word of warning is they are heavy to carry if your twins refuse to go the whole way on their bikes. My eldest went everywhere on his balance bike from 3 till about 4.5. It was amazing as he could suddenly go everywhere at adult pace. I can't decide whether to get them for my twins though as they can be bulky

You may well be limited on choices as it depends on your postcode where will accept you. Avoid Melbourne grove.

Toddler taming is actually a much nicer book than it might initially sound. The title makes it sound like it is pitting your will againest theirs. An awful lot of the book is about reasurance and setting the field. Using statistics/surveys to give us realistic expectations of a toddlers behaviour rather than hear say. It then has some practical solutions. I quite liked it as a book

I have this worry as I have a pair of August born premmie twins. However, seeing my son in reception, I think they would be at a greater disadvantage missing reception than they would by being the youngest in their year.

My husband and I adopted an adult dog a few years back. Like you he had grown up with Dogs whereas I hadn't. Ours turned out to be a lovely dog and I really enjoyed the experience of having a dog. Our dog has now sadly died as he was an old dog. I haven't had a staffie but generally all the staffies I met whilst out dog walking were lovely dogs. I know this isn't always the case but we always had good experiences and didn't seem to come across the less lovely ones!

We have a mid sleeper from ASPACE which is lovely. We got it in one of their sales. It went together very easily and is a lovely bit of furniture. Also you get playing space underneath the bed!

I have kids there, as people have said both stations are quite walkable 5-10 mins at the most so not far. You can't always park right outside the nursery (especially at the moment as there is building work next door) but the road down from champion hill there is usually parking. I've been using the nursery for the last 4 years and have been very happy with it.

my son never really got along with the buggy board either attached to a bugaboo chameleon or the city select. He did use it at times as we didn't really have any choice (he was 2years 5 months when my twins were born. He fairly quickly decided that he was better off under his own power. We got him a balnace bike and he went everywhere in that instead

What do the schools tend to do around here? Obviously most the kids would get to school fairly easily but some of the teachers might be travelling a lot further. Do the schools round here tend to have impromtu snow days or open regardless? My son is in reception at DVI but obviously feel free to add about all schools

It's not just the car itself thats the issue it can also be the car seats themselves. I'm making the assumption being that you are talking two newborn seats and a toddler seat that you have a toddler and are expecting twins? We had this situation and therefore ended up with an interesting mix of car seats! If you are buying new then Halfords etc can try various models for you and see what fits best. We ended up buying a zafira and putting one child in the back row for this reason

I have one. As the above poster said the back seat is narrow so you can only accomodate two car seats. The back row is hard to access if you are using the middle row with car seats strapped in and when the back seats are both up the boot is tiny. However the good points is mine goes a long way on a tank of fuel. It's a reasonable car to drive and feels ok to park etc. So far it's been reliable. It's a good car but having spent the last two and a half years posting a baby/toddler in via the boot and having to climb in myself to strap them in... I'm not sure it's the ideal car for young children

Just read the thread properly and realised you had managed to get an appointment

Might sound like an odd suggestion but you could ask your dentist. It's the face area and they put in and take out stitches all the time.

Just to add whilst I understand your annoyance I don't think you were 'turned away from a Church at Christmas'. The goose green centre whilst attached to St John's, is hired out during the week. The groups that are run out of the goose green centre are mostly not affiliated with the church