ages and stages chat

My youngest has been possessed by a demon the last few days. I had a fit at his father for feeding him CRAP (which was easy to do when we were away on holidays but it needs to STOP now!!!). So we can expect a few days of hell as he comes down off the crap, and hopefully he'll be back to himself then. We're cranking the fish oil and the pro-biotics. The older one is going fine despite the hormones thank goddess

What are your kids up to, what are you working on with them atm?

My older 2 have discovered a new friend and then another neighbor who loves kids and has a pool, so I've hardly seen them the last couple of days but the downside is when they get home they've been fed crap food and they're moody, emotional and aggressive! Poor L has a mega gut ache today because she's not used to it I'm sending them with their usual food for when they're hungry next time!

It's interesting watching food change them from sweet little things into the demonic avengers from hell! Spikee is at that age when it becomes really obvious. He began the day with blueberries today (he calls them boobies ROFL!) and is now trying desperately to drag his big sister out to he trampoline - she's playing on the puter so I don't fancy his chances

just getting into the diet changes with D - I'm sure there is more going on with him than just that, but that is a story for a time when the smalls are asleep and I can concentrate lol
So far today they are both in good moods. d started out cranky because he needed a MASSIVE poo and had a gut ache but now they are playing without killing each other which is nice lol

I can't remember if I asked you this ... are yours on fish oil and pro biotics?

you probably did but I don't know if I've ever answered lol
C is getting them mostly through bm but also eats a wide range of foods so she is fine, D however lives on white carbs and won't have a bar of them. drives me nuts

Islie was the child from... well lets say not heaven... for quite a while man she was driving me up the wall. I was in tears all the time because she was just acting so badly..... Until my good friend Nut told me to put her on Fishies... Man within 2 weeks she is a different person... A really plesent little girl. Sure she is still anormal nearly 2 year old doing normal 2 year old things but i am no longer pulling my hair out with her... its great... Love it

My Son Connor (long long long story about him) but they wanted to put grommits in his ears (oh I will point out he wasnt really talking either)... So Pete the internet 'Guru' went searching one day.. didnt he... And found out that Dairy is linked to 'glue ear'... Well the dr thought once again here comes this nutty women who has her own ideas (and he knows not to argue with me....) because I was trying this dairy free thing with him... Within the month of dairy free (thats it) his ears had air bubbles and his speach was improving by the day... And Big words that his sister who is 16 months older was having problems saying he was saying them as clear as clear. So the next monthly appoint with another gp and he recons that Connor couldnt be saying the worlds he is saying and cant beleive his speach has improved.... So of course I told that dr where to go....

Anyway fast forward a few month its summer... Dr says 'put him back on dairy summer is here and hes less likely to get glue ear'.... Well within days he was the shitties kid in the world. Once again I was in tears with him cause he was behaving so badly and couldnt work it out... Dairy again.. His speach also started to deteriate (sp?) so straight back off all the dairy and once again a normal happy child.

Wow! It's amazing how much difference it makes when you just alter a few little things. I thought dairy free would be hard but it was easy as piss once we got in the swing of it. Spikee is fine with dairy now, but he had about a year off it before that.

It's also amazing how little gp's know

well, d had pizza shapes yesterday (partly an experiment and partly I REALLY gotta stop taking him shopping lol) and not much else, just a preservative free organic sausage. this morning he was woken up with bad stomach cramps and feeling really off and cranky. One big very solid poo and one liquid one later (sorry about that...) and he was a lot happier and back to his normal self. so no more pizza shapes for him!
I can get him to eat porridge, so bought heaps of oats when we went shopping and am making him porridge every morning - even when it is 39C like it was today!

I'm making mine porridge too atm, with added bran coz I'm crazy.

The crappy eating really affects everything doesn't it, from attitude to appetite. yesterday without junk he wasn't hungry in the morning, but by the late arvo, early evening he was starving. He ate pasta (plain ofcourse ) masses of berries, a banana, and toast. The day before which was crap filled he ate stuff all. Today I expect he'll be even hungrier, and I just remembered I have to give him his fish oil and pro biotics!

putting my foot down, no more watching tv in bed for D. It was my way of making him be quiet while i put C to sleep, but tonight they have just been pottering around happily and i've made the executive decision that he ain't doing it any more, I hated it anyway.
He has been complaining that he is 'watchy' all night on and off, but he'll get over it lol

So what's your quiet making replacement plan? Praying?

We bought a game of barnyard UNO today and I've played about 50 games so far It's quite a challenge playing without any strategy, especially when you can see your opponents hand!!!

don't have one rofl
tonight they were just pottering around happily, C would pop over for booby every now and again and when she started getting really tired we went to bed, I read a couple of stories and we lay down and both were out within 15 minutes!

WOOT!!!

fish oil hey....?

oh yeah, I swear by it!

So do i now... Cant believe the difference.