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    What’s the obsession with teeth?!

    @meanstreak60 Well, my first two managed to get their molars around nine months, which made feeding them table food so easy. My third child has only just got her upper and lower incisors at ten months, and today she was rather proud to be able to demolish some apple and some cucumber.
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    "Cry it out" is not a well-defined term

    @rockhopper72 I think in one of Tracy Cassels' "Evolutionary Parenting Podcast" said that even Holt concluded that he shouldn't have written what he did, because it was literally him and his wife putting down a bunch of things that worked with THEIR kids that others might find useful. ETA: it's...
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    I'm writing a kids book (ages 3-6) about mental illness and need some advice

    @sab8 I do, because I have a five year old and a three year old. In the toddler years I referred to it as medicine that I take every day, because they are not to touch ANY medicine AT ALL unless me or my husband is administering it to them. We developed a respect for meds well before explaining...
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    How often do you get pushed over the edge and what do you do to stay calm?

    @ajewelinhiscrown I had to learn the hard way that my boundaries need to be strong but foreseeable. I would have cut off the water balloons right at the start - "Yes, I can see the water balloons in the pram, but because we have to pick up 6yo in X minutes, we can't play with them right now. We...
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