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Wife brought the daughter to the hospital today for a dermatology consult about some small lesions on her leg. Turns out it's: Molluscum Contagiosum
Shitty, because she doesn't understand not to scratch at things.
Shitty, because we don't know which clothes she was wearing at the time this appeared, and now we'll have to gather every single thing she might have worn and wash the hell out of it.
Shitty, because I probably touched them when checking out what was going on, and so did my wife. So we may have it now. We washed our hands, but you never do know. Incubation period is pretty long so we'll have to wait and see.
And, ultimately, super extra shitty because she must have gotten them from someone else, and we have absolutely no idea who or where.
Ah, parenting.
Shitty, because she doesn't understand not to scratch at things.
Shitty, because we don't know which clothes she was wearing at the time this appeared, and now we'll have to gather every single thing she might have worn and wash the hell out of it.
Shitty, because I probably touched them when checking out what was going on, and so did my wife. So we may have it now. We washed our hands, but you never do know. Incubation period is pretty long so we'll have to wait and see.
And, ultimately, super extra shitty because she must have gotten them from someone else, and we have absolutely no idea who or where.
Ah, parenting.
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They just took blood from my kid for his 2 year deal and ended up taking it intravenously (I guess?) Where they put the needle in and take it out via a long tube into a container. Why would they do that to a 2 year d... What the fuck...
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chaos
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When they took my 5 year old's blood (the one with autism) a year ago she fucking lost her mind. She was screaming at the doctor "GIVE IT BACK! YOU TOOK MY BLOOD!" it's hilarious, and also sad. sadlarious. When they did it they did it the same way,needle into a tube.
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I mean, sort of the same exact thing. Not like they used a huge gauge needle.
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I've had it done to me and you're right it's basically the same.
Now imagine you're 2...
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They have used the needle-to-container method up here for kids for a long time. I'd consider it strange if I saw them doing anything else to a kid these days.
I think they were finding that a) the kids didn't mind it as much, and b) the nurses were fucking up too much with the larger gauge needles and kids would have none of it.
I think they were finding that a) the kids didn't mind it as much, and b) the nurses were fucking up too much with the larger gauge needles and kids would have none of it.
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Just discovered the immense annoyance of trying to do self-checkout with a 3yo
literally every item he either added to pressure plate without me scanning, took an item off, put his hand on the plate, sat on it, leaned on it, snuck a finger on it, grabbed the item in my hand, ... each instance I had to start over. I almost lost it. wife showed up at right moment and she took him to car.
literally every item he either added to pressure plate without me scanning, took an item off, put his hand on the plate, sat on it, leaned on it, snuck a finger on it, grabbed the item in my hand, ... each instance I had to start over. I almost lost it. wife showed up at right moment and she took him to car.
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You're not by yourself, why would you do self-checkout?
Having kids means I have to have someone at a store help me with everything or else the kids burn down the store.
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We hadn't really started potty training my son yet, he hadn't shown much interest in it, we always tried to get him to go before bath time and usually he would just sit down and make sss sss sounds then stand up and say I'm done. We even got potty prizes, little dollar toys to bribe him. Not sure what changed, last friday I'm getting him ready for bed and he said he has to go potty, so I take his diaper off, bam sits down pees likes its no big thing and ever since he's been going on the potty. He recognizes when he as to go and tells us or his grandmothers who babysit him. Still has a wet diaper over night though but every morning since he'll wake up and then go. That's not what I really expected when I had potty training in mind.
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meStevo
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My son did that too. We had a couple of parent-driven false starts where we had him sitting on a kid toilet for periods of time and he simply wasn't ready. Then one day - bam - potty trained. Just clicks/happens with a lot of kids.
My daughter is coming along a little slower, but she's about at that point too. She had her first day at daycare where she came home in the same diaper she wore there in the morning, so this weekend we're in undies and no accidents (ever overnight, which I thought was a mistake to not diaper up) yet.
Meanwhile my 5 year old started adderall yesterday and is going to a different school under an emotional disability next year after being RPC'd 9 times in Kindergarten and we got a puppy. Our house is chaos.
My daughter is coming along a little slower, but she's about at that point too. She had her first day at daycare where she came home in the same diaper she wore there in the morning, so this weekend we're in undies and no accidents (ever overnight, which I thought was a mistake to not diaper up) yet.
Meanwhile my 5 year old started adderall yesterday and is going to a different school under an emotional disability next year after being RPC'd 9 times in Kindergarten and we got a puppy. Our house is chaos.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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5mg, not sure we're really seeing any change in behavior really. Tomorrow at school will be the first test. My wife put off starting it a week to go down a rabbit hole w/ doterra. So that was a waste of a week other than to help get her mentally to the place she needed to be to move forward w/ medication.
Unfortunately we've only go so much time in school left for the year and that's where the worst behavior is we're trying to correct, probably only get one adjustment to medication in that time. He's been better at daycare, though he's barred from any daycare transportation (field trips, taking him to/from school) because he bolted one morning into the parking lot towards the street and the driver had an asthma attack chasing him. So we've pulled him out and take him to/from school ourselves until we put him back in for just the summer.
I suppose I haven't posted in this thread for quite some time... he sees 2 therapists (regular and an OT) a week, has been diagnosed as ODD by a psychologist with survey results and testing not consistent enough to diagnose him as ADHD - but cognitive function is his problem and so that is what everyone is treating/addressing. We had a psychiatrist appointment that lasted all of 30 minutes before he wrote us a prescription and scheduled a follow up, based on years of this experience thus far and the other professionals involved as well as his actions during the meeting (wandering the room touching things non-stop).
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Also a bragging post. lol
My daughter is mostly potty trained. She doesnt go herself, but she'll tell you about 10 seconds before, she'll say "poopoopaaa" if she needs to poop, and "uppppupppuppp" if she needs to pee (not sure why she says up but she does). She's also taken to the piano, so we're giving her those opportunities where we can. Not bad for 20 month old.
My son is a shit, but hes smart, so doing what we can to cultivate it. He's fluent in chinese speaking, comprehending, and reading. He is semi-fluent in writing it. It's actually kinda fucked up, some things he knows better in Chinese than in English. We don't let him watch anything in English on the TV really, if he wants cartoons, he'll watch them in Chinese. We also put on really good movies for him and he'll tell me what it was all about in English. It's pretty cool. He starts kindergarden in August in one of the best elementary schools in the area (yay for living in whiteville).
Proud of them, even if I'm a tyrant of a dad sometimes.
My daughter is mostly potty trained. She doesnt go herself, but she'll tell you about 10 seconds before, she'll say "poopoopaaa" if she needs to poop, and "uppppupppuppp" if she needs to pee (not sure why she says up but she does). She's also taken to the piano, so we're giving her those opportunities where we can. Not bad for 20 month old.
My son is a shit, but hes smart, so doing what we can to cultivate it. He's fluent in chinese speaking, comprehending, and reading. He is semi-fluent in writing it. It's actually kinda fucked up, some things he knows better in Chinese than in English. We don't let him watch anything in English on the TV really, if he wants cartoons, he'll watch them in Chinese. We also put on really good movies for him and he'll tell me what it was all about in English. It's pretty cool. He starts kindergarden in August in one of the best elementary schools in the area (yay for living in whiteville).
Proud of them, even if I'm a tyrant of a dad sometimes.
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Hatorade
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I am late to the party and dealt with something similar, your post makes me say what the fuck... The wife and I just took away the things she liked, treated her like she was in trouble until she was tired of being in trouble and changed her behavior, took months and was really annoying. She slips now and then but a reminder of what happens when she continues being shitty usually fixes it. She is 10 now and minus some social issues that have been surprising she is a good kid.
Not sure how old he is and parent how you are going to parent but meds and strangers talking to him seems insane to me. Pretty sure if I took my kid to a behavioral specialist at her peak they would have diagnosed her with something and prescribed meds to fix it.
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Noodleface
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I'm sorry aladain but that stuff with your son just sounds weird. Why forcing him to do that stuff?
Had a tense moments the other night. Heard a loud thud and actually thought people were breaking in. Nope, son fell out of bed. He stood up confused then went right back to sleep. I figured it would be a meltdown but it wasn't. Phew
Had a tense moments the other night. Heard a loud thud and actually thought people were breaking in. Nope, son fell out of bed. He stood up confused then went right back to sleep. I figured it would be a meltdown but it wasn't. Phew
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Oh we've gone periods of time where the only thing in his room is a bed. The problem is once he is over the edge he can't be reasoned with, there's little rational thought. Room gets cleared at school and he has to be restrained on occasion (probably more than a dozen times this year) and he escalates to the point where he's throwing chairs and kicking/hitting teachers. These massive meltdowns trigger from something as benign as being asked to pick up a piece of trash but more often it's every day things like being asked to do his work. My parents early on were absolutely in line with what you said until they finally saw one of these tantrums. They're different and since it's not always rational it's hard to describe them sometimes.
As for the strangers, everyone we've dealt with has been pretty amazing, and Michael really likes all of them. He just doesn't have the control and isn't thinking cognitively him when he gets escalated. Outside of that, everyone loves him, he's a happy and bright kid, but he just can't control things all the time. We've been dealing with this behavior in some form for nearly 3 years, and he'll be 6 in July. We've been working with professionals for probably the last 18 months. Most won't even talk to you if your kid is younger than 6.