I’m planning on taking my baby who turns 1 tomorrow on a trip from Tampa, FL. to Kansas in a few weeks. I flew with him once when he was 6 months old and he barely wanted to sit still then. Now, he’s bigger, stronger, and has a bit of a temper, and I’m afraid of taking him on an airplane because he will refuse to sit still and he will scream all of the time because he can’t run all over the place. He’s a happy baby but when you try and restrain him in a car seat or in a shopping cart, he gets so mad.

I’m considering a train ride which will take around 2 whole days. If you’ve been on a train before, what is it like? How are the seats? Can you get up and walk around easily? If you took your young toddler, how did he or she do?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Plus, I’m terrified of flying with my baby. If something went wrong, I would consider it my fault because I put his life at risk. I absolutely hate flying with him because I worry that something will go wrong.

I have a 9 month old Blue Heeler that I adore. She chews up everything: blankets, chair cushions, plants, shoes, golf cart seats. etc. My dad says if she destroys one more thing, he is going to kill her. I don’t know how I can make her stop. I know it’s just a phase all young dogs go through, but she needs to stop now. If not… I won’t have my dog anymore.

Please help me save my dog?
Also, she is an outside dog. She runs around the yard constantly, and we play everyday when I get home. I have bought her rawhides, pig ears, cow hooves, and chew toys. And I have NEVER seen her chew on anything. My parents just assume she is the culprit, and nothing I say can convince them otherwise. I can not punish my dog when I never see her doing anything wrong.

My son was recently diagnosed with apraxia at age 2.5. He has been in speech since 20 months (3x a week). He is 2 months shy of 3 yrs. He has made huge leaps and bounds over where he was. At 18 months he said 3 partial words. He picked up sign language extremely quickly. He understood you and followed directions (most of the time). He is still well behind where other children his age are. His Speech Language pathologist (SLP) said if he keeps making as much progress as he has, and keeps the pace up, by the time kindergarten comes, he shouldn’t be far behind the other kids. I was ecstatic upon hearing that. His hearing is fine. His intelligence is very good.

I have noticed a few things though. I still have a gut feeling that something just isn’t right. He is the most destructive child I’ve ever had. He is worse than his two older brothers were combined. (The older brothers were less than 2 years apart, and would team up together and baby powder the house, and stick of lincoln logs up the vacuum, etc) He is so busy getting into everything. Turn your back a second, to take feed/change his little brother, and you have: powered laundry detergent down the lint screen hole in the dryer, or all 5 lbs of cat food poured on the floor, or dad’s poster paints all over the carpet, or lipstick drawings on the walls and carpet, or toothpaste squeezed out all over the bathroom sinks, labels riped off all the cans of food, etc. I have baby locks on all the cabinets, but he figured them out in 2 days. I do lock doors, but he knows how to use the keys. He is a climber. He will climb on everything. He has a ton of toys. I play with him. He loves to help me with housework: putting wet laundry in the dryer, carrying groceries, making daddy’s coffee, etc.

He has other behavior issues. It is really hard to put a finger on it. He won’t ever settle down. Taking him to the doctors is a nightmare. We went to the cardiologist for a heart murmur. They went to put sticker on his chest to get a heart tracing. He lost it He screamed and sweated so much, the stickers were falling off. There was Toy Story 2 on right in front of him. The nurse brought stickers, and a lollipop, and a juice box, anything to get him to calm down. Obviously, stickers don’t hurt. It took myself and another nurse to hold him down. He acted like we were killing him. The nurse mentioned sensory issues. He hates bandages. Even the ones with the characters he likes, he will cry if they are on him. He refuses to get his blood pressure taken. Even before the cuff tightens, he is screaming "off me". He hates certain things. He hates sitting in the grocery carts, seat or basket. The diaper changing pad has a cover on it. I was washing both covers, and he screamed and yelled about it touching him. "Ow, Ow, off me!" I also changed his little brother on it. There were no complaints from him. He hates his car seat. It is a very nice seat, with a lot of cushioning. His complaint is the straps. Sometimes he will scream hysterically about sitting with the straps on. He’ll sit without the straps no problem. He’ll scream "Go me" (Let go of me.) He’ll work himself up so much that he’ll try to make himself throw-up. I’ve tightened the straps. I’ve loosened the strap, until they were basically useless. The straps have padding on them where the strap hits the shoulder. It makes no difference. He has issues with tags. Of course some tags are scratchy, as everyone has felt before. I removed those tags. Some are made out of very soft ribbon. He hates those too. Of course the same type ribbon is on his stuffed frog that he must carry everywhere. The tag is something that he rubs constantly with his finger. I don’t get it.

The SLP said that he definitely doesn’t have PDD. She says that while she is no doctor, she treats those children everyday, and there is no comparison between my son and the children with PDD. The pediatrician says that his behaviors are similar to some of her autistic patients. Then she referred me back to the SLP he is seeing. DUH!! I can’t help but think there is something else going on. He wants to interact with you, and likes to cling to me most of the day. Does the above sound like a sensory issue? It is very difficult to get referrals to specialists here. I’m trying to get one to a developmental pediatrician.

He also has a problem drinking milk. I’m certain there is something in his genetics. He will have diarrhea 3x a day with any milk consumption. His older brother has a milk protein allergy. He had bloody diapers as a baby. His younger brothor vomited blood and has a protein allergy. He is on feeding tube formula. His older brother didn’t have any issues with speech and was recently told he is gifted. I read something on Google that said that allergies sometimes follow/precede apraxia and autism. Any feelings on this??

Any feedback, personal experiences are

My baby is 4 1/2 months old. He doesn’t sit up by himself yet and has just about out grown his infant car seat carrier. When I go shopping, I have always just kept him in the carrier. So now where do I put him when I buy a regular car seat? Lol…hope this doesn’t sound stupid!

Anyone else have this problem? My travel system car seat doesn’t fit onto a shopping cart. Are there any products I can purchase so I can go to the store with my 8 week old?
Thanks!

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Peckerbush??

poor baby

i dont no how much to sell them. myatvs are a 200cc liquid gunner and a kolt 90.my go cart is 6 horse power and has 2 seats

Something is wrong in my motor and i have taken off the body, seats, roof, etc. to get to the motor but i cannot figure out how to take it off the axle. We have taken out all the screws but it wont move. Can you please help?

My 2 1/2yr old son just switched from pull-ups to cloth trainers with a built-in waterproof liner. They should minimize mess for now but shifting & leaks can happen, plus he’ll eventually transition to regular toddler underwear and I’m already wondering how to handle it when….for example:
-he pees on the shopping cart seat?
-he pees on my friend’s new couch or carpeting?
-he pees on the swings/play-set at a public playground?
-his pee trickles down his leg to the floor in the middle of a store?

I know all the tricks for minimizing accidents (go before & after, bring a potty, ask regularly, bring a clothes change, etc.) but accidents still seem almost inevitable. We don’t want to use Pull-Ups while we’re out because my son thinks of them as diapers (& uses them as such) and is very excited to be done with them.

I have this mental image of myself standing in a grocery isle holding my baby in his carrier, a shopping basket set strategically out of the way, & clutching the hand of my oldest to keep him still while pee puddles at his feet and wondering whether to track pee down the isle in search of an employee or just stand there and hope one happens by soon. Any tips?
First, please take the time to actually read my question. Those were HYPOTHETICAL scenarios.

And to clarify I have already trained 3 girls as a nanny. It’s different as a mom because there are errands & dr’s appts that MUST be done. I can’t just stay at the house during training like I did as a nanny. THAT is what I need advice about. I would NEVER force my child to use the potty (as if that’s possible) or scold my child for an accident.

Also, this training has been initiated by my son. I am not trying to train him on a deadline or because "his friends are trained". I did that as a nanny too (per the parents) and learned my lesson. My son started this and has been training for over a month and has now gone 3 days without an accident. He is very excited about his new potty skills & his new underwear.

I just wanted public opinion on how to handle these situations IF they arise.

Thank you to those who actually gave advice for the question I asked.

My son is 21 months old and has just recently started having terrible tantrums. I know the best thing i can do is ignore him, but this is not always possible. He bangs his head on the floor and does not quit. He will bang his head so hard that he makes himself cry and then will just keep hitting it more. He leaves terrible bruises on his forehead. After he gets what he wants he will quit but I just can’t watch him do this anymore. If we go to walmart, when i go to put him in the cart seat, he kicks his feet like crazy and screams bloody murder. Other people say just leave the store and let him no this isn’t ok to do, but i can’t leave everytime i go! i have to do my grocery shopping sometime! Also, when we go to restaurants he throws awful fits and throws all the food on the floor….. Am i going to have to stay home for the next 2 years? HELP!

I have the Graco snugride barrett, its not recalled (i checked) but these new walmart carts when i put my daughters carseat in the top, where it hooks into her head was so low and her poor feet up in the air she was getting a blood rush to her head, then i saw a mother with a different brand of seat and her child was upright, how you would imagine it to go. I feel as if my child were any older/heavier it would just tip back into the back of the cart? Whats going on? anyone else see this happen?

And i made sure she was connected in there correctly, its just how the new style cart was accepting my carseat? should i buy a new one, as this is maybe a sign that mine is outdated? *purchased in 2008*
I dont consider it a waste of money if it makes her safer, as i stated i saw a mother with a carseat that sat correctly, and like i said maybe it was a sign that my carseat is outdated/recalled, but i haven’t found information about it anywhere. I just returned a crib for it being recalled so now im being extra cautious. I have a 2 year old who takes up the room in the back, I suppose grocery shopping with the two of them is out of the picture now. bah.

I keep going back and fourth if I should just get a conv car seat rather than one of the infant carriers. My son was only in his carrier for five months before I got a convertible one. Part of me thinks it’s a waste but then I think of how convenient it was when we’d go anywhere to just plop the car seat into the stroller or shopping cart. I can’t make up my mind! If you skipped the infant carrier, are you glad you did?

Hi
Last month I upgraded my infant car seat to the next level and discovered I can no longer just keep my baby in his car seat when we go shopping. Although he sits very well (crawl and stands even) I just do not feel confident about placing him in the shopping cart seat ( I’m afraid he’ll fall over). Then I worry about how I’ll entertain him in that thing, I had toys dangling from his carrier before. Has anyone else found this transition difficult. Any tips what I can do to make it easier.
I’ve been using my snuggly but now that its winter and he is in his snow suit he wont fit in that.

thanks
yes I know I should just go for it already. I never realized how much I depended on my infant carrier. I’ll go and get one of those cart covers to start. thanks

My son is two, and I don’t believe that I have the right to control every, single little thing he does. For instance, when we go shopping he knows he’s allowed one treat at the end of the trip IF he was a good boy and he gets to choose what he wants. He also chooses to sit in the cart itself, as opposed to the seat. I also let him choose his breakfast food. He almost invariably chooses cereal or toast and fruit (he knows he’s not allowed things like candy for breakfast) These, to me, are innocent enough choices and seem healthy? How else is he supposed to grow up into a functional human being able to make decisions? There are rules, of course, but he knows them and for the most part he’ll follow them… there are days when he doesn’t and he’s punished if he doesn’t listen or when he starts to throw tantrums (timeouts, toys taken away, etc.)

Today, my mother in law came grocery shopping with us, and as always my son chose to sit in the cart. My MIL FORCED him in the cart seat and my son immediately started crying and throwing a loud tantrum. I told him to calm down, wiped away his tears and put him in the cart. I told her he doesn’t like to sit in the seat and wants to sit in the cart. She replied, that he doesn’t get to have choices (or a will if you like) and that he will do what she says and I give in to him too easily. She basically said children don’t get to make their own decisions.

I don’t know if maybe I’m doing something wrong? Do you give your toddlers a choice in certain matters? Or is it supposed to be all your decisions all the time?

I should probably not take parenting advice from my MIL – she’s extremely controlling and still did things like buy my husband’s clothes AFTER we were married… that is until I put a stop to it.

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What if a bolt, or screw was to go loose on a Fasttttttttttttt rolller coaster??..not those seated-cart ones, but the ones where your legs fly in the air.. Would that be the last day of your life??

My son is 10 months old, sits independently but is not crawling yet (any day now!). We go out to eat at least twice a week and usually we bring him in in the carseat carrier and then he sits on my husband’s lap for most of the meal, eating little bites from our plates. If we’re eating something that needs two hands, we set him in the carseat for a little while. Usually we either have the carseat on a booth bench, on a stable chair, or in one of those "carseat holders" that some restaurants have.
When I’m on my own with him in a restaurant, I bring a booster seat with tray that has safety straps. I can’t stand that carseat.

So far we haven’t put him into one of those wooden highchairs that restaurants have for kids, and we haven’t put him into a grocery cart seat either. (At the grocery store I have him in the BabyBjorn.) I’m afraid that he’ll lean over and fall out!

How old were your kids when you started putting them in these chairs/seats? Did they try to escape/fall out?

Ok so my son is going to be 8 months old this sunday… He can crawl, sit by himself and roll over by himself. He already needs a new car seat because his old one which was supposed to go up to a year he is too big for… the new one wont be able to fit into a shopping cart, isn’t made for it and isn’t made to sit in the stroller like the other one…

So is it time for him to move on and finally sit in the stroller and sit in the shopping cart?

Btw he just starting sitting by himself for about a week… and I mean he gets up by himself not that we put him like that and he is able to stay like that.

Thanks…
Thanks, I will probably buy one of those cart covers soon also.

I’m going to Rehoboth Beach in a week or two. I want to find out how much and where I can rent those Bike/Cart things for my family of 5. Any advice about these and best place to rent, cheapest place to rent would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Surely someone has come up with a good solution to this by now. I can’t put her car seat in the buggy because there would be no room for the food, she gets in the way of everything when she is in her baby sling, no grocery stores around me have infant seats in their carts. Her daddy usually does the shopping, but he has been working a lot lately due to cut backs in his office. Please help, I’m hungry! Can’t eat fast food all the time…

I have a 3 month old daughter that goes everywhere in her car seat. We’ve only been "shopping" to the Target where the carts are newer and our Graco actually snaps into the child’s seat perfectly. Is this ok to do this procedure for the regular carts too at grocery stores/walmart where the buggys child seat is smaller? Do we bring the stroller or what?

I saw one the other day. a lady had one, its like a colorful cloth seat cover that you put in the basket seat and then set the baby in it??????????/ thanks in advance, if you know what i am speakin of

I want to buy a good go cart at least two seats for a GOOD!!! price PLZ help

Just curious. My son is 8 months and I want to put him in it but am afraid he will just try to chew on the handlebar (yuck!). I hate putting the car seat on the cart as well because I know it isn’t the safest and also the car seat I have is tall (and I am short) and I cant really see where I am going when I push it around. I have to look around the side of it to see where I am going and even with that I have run into many displays/people/other carts. Ya, it is embarrassing. So when did you let them sit in that little seat? Thanks!

I went shopping yesterday and brought my kiddos with me. 2 year old twins and a 4 month old. I used a double seated cart and for safety reasons so I could be fast on my feet I kept my son in his car seat but put him down inside the basket (where the goods usually go… all I needed was sunglasses and life jackets for my toddlers). He was actually happier that way then he is when I wear him.

So here is my question. I parked as close to the entrance as I could without being far from the cart corral. I had to run to the front of the store to get the double cart and rather than try to dangerously herd my crew through a busy parking lot I left them in my van for less than a minute to get the cart while the van was in my sight.

I also had to leave them in the van at the end of the trip to put the cart away.

I heard of a woman getting arrested for leaving her baby in the car to buy some cub scout popcorn or something like that. She was a few yards away from the vehicle and it was locked and running with the AC on. She must have had keyless entry.

So my question is to people who say they would never leave their child unattended in the car- even for a moment- what do you do about the grocery cart? Do you just leave it next to your car in the parking lot and drive off? I can see if you have one kid and you can carry them through the parking lot while you return the cart but I have 3 little ones.

What do you think someone should do in my situation?
I could wear my baby and hold my toddlers hands…

But how do I push the cart?

They really need to invent extra arms or something. :-p