The Parenting Thread

Yeah sorry for the scaremongering, like everybody else states the pros far outweigh the cons. Just be prepared to treat every minute of the day like scenes from final destination in the first few months😉

Medicine is a force feeding thing

I mentioned this in the old forum but we were here with our five year old last month as well.

He was suddenly drinking and peeing like a racehorse and dropping weight, culminating one day with slurred speech, vomiting and nearly losing consciousness. 3 day stay in hospital and Type 1 diabetes is now his/our life.

Your post is basically a mirror to our last 4 weeks, 4am biscuit eating (we've switched to a glass of Apple juice now, easier), glucose sensors and constant worry.

We're getting there though, finally getting a handle on it, carb counting, GI indexes, corrections etc, etc.

Hope you're daughter is doing good.

Sorry Clem, my post was meant to be a little tongue in cheek. Really hope your daughter's doing ok.

I have a constant battle with mine. 4 children, 3 daughters at home, 2 severely autistic. It is a struggle and we always look forward to their bedtime. I think it's the communication aspect that's the hardest. Both are non verbal.

Can uncles contribute?

Nephew is 2 years old on Saturday and still not talking. Is this normal?

Niece was pretty far along the coherent route by this point but am getting worried about Nephew. He seems sharp and all, but.. you know there is the worry.

Yeah I think this is all it is. Just brutal at times haha

My nephew was barely vocal until he was nearly 3 then it was like a switch flicked and he was talking full sentences from nowhere.

My niece started talking around 2 and didn’t stop.

I can’t remember for sure how old mine was when he started but its gone from bits and pieces to full conversations in the last six months since he turned 2.

Basically its probably nothing to worry about and kids all develop differently.

My cousin is severely autistic and non verbal. As a parent I can’t imagine how tough it is for you, but love is the drug. hope you are doing well👍👍

Not at all, I knew you were joking, just wanted to say that it doesn’t matter, the benefits are so much better than the downsides. That unconditional love is really weird but also amazing👍👍👍👍

My lads 8th birthday today, excitement overload by him and his elder brother, even by Christmas standards, up about 10 past 7 and jumping about the place, nuts! Some shouting and telling off has occurred to get the day back on track ...

From my experience, the boy took a really long time to start talking properly. Probably not until he was about 3 was he really coherent.

The girls though, both pretty much chatter boxes before their 2nd birthday. Could be because they had older siblings though.

Edit: I should say that he caught up really quick and is doing really well at school despite being one of the youngest in the year. So I wouldn’t fret at this stage.

Having big problems at the moment with my son, who over the last 2 months or so has developed an obsession with repeating whole sequences of actions or copying us. It's utterly paralysing for the whole family, and can for example mean we spend an hour after summer school trying to get him in the car as he wants to open the car doors and put on seatbelts in a very specific way.

It's not easy to plan for as it can happen with the most innocuous of things, e.g. the other day I stood on a tissue in the kitchen and we spent 10 minutes trying to recreate the event until he was happy. No degree of reasoning, reassuring, explaining, or even discipline works; the only way to move on is repeating until he's satisfied.

Anyone experienced anything like this or got any tips? We're about 7 months into waiting on an autism assessment.

Worrying post to read, hope everything's OK.