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Sewmommy
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07-06-2004

Monday, October 01, 2007 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sewmommy a private message Print Post    
LoL Wargod! "That looks like fun" sounds familiar. We are continuing the hammering into her cute little head. I can't complain too much honestly, she's a good kid with a big heart, she just doesn't think. :-)

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 8:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
received this in email ... it cracked me up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
What a hoot! I'm passing this one on...thanks Ladytex! :-)

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 7:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That is very funny!

(Though ... I ... um .... recognized some things that I have said in there too)

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Jimmer, I think every *parent* recognises themselves in there somewhere. I sure did, pretty much throughout.LOL Thanks, Lady!

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
was that lady listening to me this morning?

Karen
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09-07-2004

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
That was great, LadyT! I passed it on to my Mum.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, I heard a whole lot of my favorite phrases in that! Thanks for posting it Lady!

I am finding myself stuck in that place where mommy wants to protect her baby and letting her baby make her own way.

Kota had a track meet today that I went to watch. Because she has asthma, we'd already talked to her doctor about running and her teacher who is also the girls track coach. Hers is not exercise induced though sometimes she does have asthma attacks during exercise. Hers is caused by being sick to begin with, smoke in the air, or wind (that's blowing dust and crap around.)

Halfway through her race, she stopped dead in her tracks, bent over with her hands on knees and was gasping for air. I was ready to make her stop there and quit (and I know it's not caused by exercise, most likely it's cuz it's windy today and theres dust and pollen in the air!) Within a minute or so though she had straightened back up and finished the race at a slow walk. Then had to take her inhaler and sit down for a few minutes afterwards.

What I'd really like to do is make her quit the team and stop it even though I know that's dumb. She's had asthma attacks laying in bed sleeping, can't make her stop that either! Plus the exercise is good for her and I don't want her to be scared of it. She knows her own symptoms and knows when she needs her meds and knows when she needs to ask for help. Heck we've been teaching her that since she was about 4, she knows what to do. So instead I asked her if she was ok and sat with her then told her I was proud of her for finishing the race because she could have quit right then and went to get her meds and no one would have been upset about it, instead she got cheered on and encouraged by her team, her class, the other parents watching and one very worried mommy!

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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That's hard isn't it Wargod? You're proud of them for persevering and at the same time it is a worry and you want them to know that it is okay to stop if they have to stop.

She did great though!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Yay Kota!! I'm so proud of her for not quitting. And I'm proud of you for not going out there :-)
yes, I know it's hard ...

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 4:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yay Kota! Lol War I would've wanted to run out there too.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 4:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Yep it is hard! Ever since she was old enough to understand, she's been talked to, not about, at drs apts, home, and school when it comes to her asthma. Short of a complete panic I am sure that she knows when she can keep going and when she needs to stop and get help. That's something I have to remind myself of. We have taught her well. And, not to be funny, but heck other than the emergency room, what better place than a school sporting event to have a major asthma attack that would need adult attention?? Doesn't make it any easier, but remembering those things makes the worry a little less!

She got home from school a little while ago perfectly fine. Didn't have to use her inhaler again and even participated in pe (her teacher told her she could sit it out if she wanted to.) She did tell me she was going to starve to death if I didn't get her a snack right away, lol. It's not unusual for her to be starving after using her inhaler.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
yay!! kota!! and yay!! mom!! it really is hard to sit on the sidelines and let the kids learn about themselves. why is it, it's always a mother instinct to run out there and try to do something?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, October 05, 2007 - 2:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Built in reaction? We're parent trained from the first cry to spring into action if something isn't right and to fix that. Most parents I know, no matter how old their kids are, are still ready to jump in and make things right.

I'm at that stage where I'm still learning. Both of my kids are now to the age where they can take care of some stuff themselves and don't need me to run and help and I don't really know how to do that yet.

LOL, a conversation in our house earlier this week actually centered on this! When I picked Caleb up from track he told me how when they were running (they run around the outside of the school, there's also the coach, some teachers and parents who join them and run at the back) that day, him and some buddies were running and they went past a group of girls who were hanging out and the girls called out how "sexy" the boys were. They are the group of 6th grade boys. There was a 7th/8th grade group of boys who didn't like it and the next time they went around, the older boys tried to trip them and one of them punched one of Caleb's buddies in the back. Now, Caleb then told me that when they were done running he and his buddies informed the coach about what had happened, but couldn't say who the older boys were cuz they didn't know them. If they see the older ones, they're to point them out (I don't see that happening.) In addition the adults who run with them are now split up among the different groups running so that something like that can't happen again to anyone else.

After he told Darren this story and went out to play, I asked him if I should go talk to the coach. LOL, the look I got! And then he told me how Caleb and his buddies had taken care of it on their own. Even I could see his point. What more could the coach do? And Caleb is old enough to take care of this stuff without mom jumping in. But the instinct is their to take care of it for him. Not sure I'm ever really going to learn that!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 7:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
These medicines have been recalled for Children UNDER the age of two:

Medicines that are being recalled from the U.S. market include: Concentrated Infants' TYLENOL Drops Plus Cold; Concentrated Infants' TYLENOL Drops Plus Cold & Cough; PEDIACARE Infant Drops Decongestant (PSE); PEDIACARE Infant Drops Decongestant & Cough (PSE); PEDIACARE Infant Dropper Decongestant (PE); PEDIACARE Infant Dropper Long-Acting Cough; PEDIACARE Infant Dropper Decongestant & Cough (PE) products; Dimetapp Decongestant Plus Cough Infant Drops; Demetapp Decongestant Infant Drops; Little Colds Decongestant Plus Cough; Little Colds Multi-Symptom Cold Formula; Robitussin Infant Cough DM Drops; Triaminic Infant & Toddler Thin Strips Decongestant and Triaminic Infant & Toddler Thin Strips Decongestant Plus Cough.

link

Panda
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07-15-2005

Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
thanks so much, Maris! I am taking my 18 month old in to the ped. today b/c of a nasty sounding cough-I am not taking chances with OTC meds!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Today was Kota's last track meet and the weather was so bad I thought for sure they would cancel or postpone it. It's cold, very windy, and most of the sky is covered in a thick brown layer of dust and dirt. I told her when I took her to school I didn't think I was going to make it if they did have it because I wasn't going to take little nephew out and she was very understanding about it.

They did have the track meet and Kota made it through half of the race and then stopped and stood gasping for air. When Dakota didn't keep going like last time teacher went running out with Kota's inhaler and gave it to her there in the middle of the race. After a few minutes and another puff I guess they decided together that Kota would not finish the race. Now why do I worry about my kid? She knew enough to know that this time she needed to go sit down, she was disappointed about it but knew it was the best thing to do.

Kota had to go to the nurse again after they got back to school a few hours later for her inhaler and I assured her it wasn't the running that was the problem but the weather. If I had noticed the sky this morning I would have called or gone by and asked them to keep her at school, but by the time I did notice they were already back.

Track for her is now done (Caleb has another 2 or 3 meets.) I'm sorta sorry it's over, I like her getting the daily exercise track provided, but with the weather changing, I'm also glad it's over.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Friday, October 19, 2007 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines don't work for children under age 6 and giving the common medicine to young children cannot be recommended, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee said Friday.

The panel of health experts looking at how safe and effective antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants are in children said it is not appropriate to take data from adults and apply it to children under 12.

from CNN.com
After a two-day hearing on the safety of the medicine, the panel called for more studies about how these drugs affect children.

Although the panel's recommendation is nonbinding, it could lead to changes in how cough and cold medicine is used.

Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Monday, October 22, 2007 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
Wow, I thought all along they were talking about cold-cough medicine for 2 yr olds and under.. Didn't realize it was 6 and under. must.pay.more.attention!

But apart from that..

I have an almost 2 year old.. I'm just in a rut as to what to make him for dinner everynight. I have certain things he loves and I tend to make them over and over. I have brought in a few new things here and there and NO WAY! he pushes them away, clenches his mouth and won't even try (I can hear my mom laughing now)It really sucks to put time and energy into something new and the little bum won't even touch it, let alone look at it...Grrr

my little guy loves:
grilled cheese sandwiches
mac n cheese, real or KD
spaghetti and meatballs
chicken/brocolli/rice casserole
chicken strips (homemade or Wendys)and ranch dip

What are some tried and true favourites of your kids..maybe I can get inspired

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 22, 2007 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Cinnamongirl, you about covered it for my kids! Dakota's biggest things always seemed to be the easy foods and things that didn't have too many flavors or textures involved. She loved finger foods (chicken strips, taquitos, vienna sausages, sandwiches) and things that didn't have too many flavors or textures (she liked tomato or chicken noodle soup but wouldn't eat vegetable or stews or even homemade chicken soup.) She was also a little bit odd in that she loved seafood (crab legs especially!)

Caleb doesn't really count, lol, other than seafood he ate everything at that age. I had it pretty easy too because Darren worked the swing shift and I could fix the kids whatever they wanted even if it was mac n cheese every night. Didn't have to worry about the balanced meal because during the day and evening they ate fruits and veggies as snacks.

Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Monday, October 22, 2007 - 5:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
Yeah, not too worried about fruit, I sometimes think he eats too much of it:-). But veggies, only semi-cooked ones so far. I do hide pureed veggies in other dishes...like I puree carrots for my mac n cheese...it tastes great and he loves it.

I will try the soup though, I started with vegetable beef soup and he hated it so I stayed away from that area..lol

I despise seafood but I vowed that I would try cooking some for him...it just kills me that if he doesn't like it, it goes to waste cuz I'm not eating it..no way!! lol

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, October 22, 2007 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
If you puree soups, too, you can hide a multitude of things kids wouldn't eat normally. I was a lucky one - my kid ate it all, but I've got a friend whose son lived for almost a year on ketchup sandwiches and yogurt. She'd get fruits and veggies in whenever she could, but that kid wouldn't touch anything else at meals. He's a fairly normal teen now (as normal as it gets), so he didn't suffer any permanent damage. :-)

Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 7:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
ketchup sandwiches?? OMG!! lol

Karen
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09-07-2004

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
In the same vein as Teach, Jerry Seinfeld's wife has a cookbook out called Deceptively Delicious. Shows you how to hide the healthy stuff in the 'good stuff' the kids like. I don't have little ones yet, but it seems to be a good idea. I saw her on Oprah and was amazed at some of the stuff she came up with.

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
Enbwife are you still around? How are you and the family? I bet Nate is getting sooo big now, and Starr is almost (or maybe already is) in JK. Please let us know how you are doing...I've been thinking about you.