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03-05-2024 08:49 PM
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Oh those things are terrible @tyme ! I used them when my daughter was heaps young. I remember I had them in a big bucket in the kitchen bench soaking, waiting for them to grow big and my d pulled the bucket down on top of her and them balls went rolling ALL through the house. I found some years later when we moved.
how old are the kids?
they are heaps fun to play with, can be therapeutic and stuff. But ya gotta be super care around little kids. Yea getting shoved in places they shouldn’t. And also making sure that they are all… ‘grown and expanded’ properly. If a kid swallows an unexpanded one, and it gets lodged somewhere it shouldn’t and then expands it can block passage (airways especially)
03-05-2024 08:51 PM
03-05-2024 08:51 PM
Totally get it @Bow
Bed is my safe place too, then the couch.
My psych is always on me about getting up, going for a walk, getting out of the house. I don't think she realises that sometimes just getting from the bed to the couch is an achievement.
03-05-2024 08:52 PM
03-05-2024 08:52 PM
Very sweet @Bow . I'm glad you were able to make that stand and say she can't stay with you anymore.
I know a boy who is nearly 6 foot and he still sleeps with his mum. The mum doesn't know what to do. The boy is 9.5 years old and super big and tall. He is the only child of a single parent and he has nightmares if he sleeps on his own. In the end, neither the mum or son can sleep well and the mum is at the end of herself.
I think the boy is getting professional support. I don't think there's any changes though....
03-05-2024 08:55 PM
03-05-2024 08:55 PM
Hahaha @ArraDreaming ! I'm scared of the orbeez then. They have been sitting at my place for over a year. I haven't let the kids open them. @Bow The kids are currently 3, 6, and 8. The little one is the fire cracker. She's a shocker. But she's too cute - and that's the problem.
And @ArraDreaming ... I slept on the floor for nearly 1.5 years... floor floor. No mattress. I actually love sleeping on the floor, but the winter means it's getting too cold for my back and I think it was affecting my arthritis.
03-05-2024 09:15 PM
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03-05-2024 09:26 PM
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Lol @ArraDreaming .
So cute.
My eldest here is the sensible one and knows how to hold herself in public, the middle is the mumma's boy - totally sweet, cuddly, neat, and organised; and the last one is a disaster in the making - and love ear lobes.
@Bow Is your D firey? What's her character like? (no need to answer if you don't feel up to it)
03-05-2024 09:29 PM
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