What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:46pm
Yes. And you went by a different name as well. That far back.
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Registered: 09-15-2003
Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:49pm

I understand and I will probably feel the same once the kids are in school and we have different things going on. But right now, if Aspen is being a pita, bedtime cannot come fast enough and I am a lot more apt to come up with some kind of 'errand' at the end of the day when dh gets home. I always try to make her happy, but there are plenty of days when nothing I do is enough (geez, I remember my mom saying that!).


The converse is true as well...if she is being all funny and cute I'm apt to let bedtime slide a bit if we are hanging out having fun.


But today? Dh cannot get home fast enough. I am dying of a head cold and the kids are sorta sick too yet spoiling to go outside and swim. I just don't have the energy today.


Meldi

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Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:50pm
She has said that even out of town grandparents, who love him, need breaks from him because of his behaviors. That is why I inferred that it was a more or less constant attitribute.
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Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:52pm
Because there is nothing to blame anyone for. It just is.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:53pm
I looked it up. It was about reading skills of kindergartners and prospective kindergartners and whether or not there was value in holding some kids back a year. April of 2004, but it's been a minute, so I've long since forgotten the title. (and didn't bother to read enough of the thread to quote any more of it than this)

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
flat in others,
and really annoying when it's stuck in your head."

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:54pm
Well, actually the thread I quoted, she was faduckeggs.

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
flat in others,
and really annoying when it's stuck in your head."

Karen

"A pocketknife is like a melody;
sharp in some places,
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:55pm

<<That is why I inferred that it was a more or less constant attitribute.>>


It is a poor inference. It might have been a good inference if she had said that out of town guests didn't want to be with him at all.


My parents needs breaks from my kids too. And their frustrating or tiring attributes aren't anywhere near consistent. My parents see right past many of those attributes and behaviors and dismiss them .. yet they still need a break.



Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:56pm

Yes, I read that comment, and am certainly not the only one who felt that any parent saying their child is "the most loved and cherished child there ever was," particularly when said parent is responding to someone who has just said that THEIR child was PLANNED as evidence that said child was loved, is not putting anyone down - it's another way of saying "I couldn't possibly love him more if he HAD been planned."

So what did I say this time to get lumped into an interpretation of what someone else said?

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:58pm
You've already said that you hated the first year, and now you hate the fourth? I sure as heck hope that you liked one and two....that means that you have found half of your child's life so far to be something you'd rather skip. Two years out of forty may not be a lot, but think about the implications of someone you really love wishing away half your life and tell me that wouldn't have an effect on your outlook on life.
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Wed, 06-22-2005 - 5:59pm

Thanks for the clarification. And please don't tell me to lighten up. I obviously didn't get your meaning. I read it over *several* times before I posted. Which is why I used the "confused" icon. And I wasn't the only one confused and taken aback by your quote (I believe it was referenced by someone else on the board as well).

And you don't need to shout my name.

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