I think I used Maalox when my kids were small. Poor things, both youngest boys had them everywhere

• Ok, moms, need your help! DD has chickenpox on the INSIDE of her mouth and on - her tongue. (sm)
  • chicken pox - been there
  • Maalox and lidocaine. - nm
  • you may need to call the doc (sm) - momtoo
  • Not judging but curious why - sm - Susan
    • She had been given the vaccine, but got it anyway. - Exhausted Mama nm
      • That's what I was afraid you were going to say. - Susan
    • I didn't use the chickenpox shot for mine by choice. - too many vaccines
      • One of those vaccines wouldn't happen to the hep B, would it? - need to know
    • My DD had the shot AND got the CP, however, very very mild case. - Devil's Advocate... NM
  • Chicken pox in the mouth - Sarah MG'r
  • Not to be an alarmist, but did you know they can spread down her throat and into her lungs? You know - Wife
  • Call the doc and get an Rx....sm - Mom of 3
  • I think I used Maalox when my kids were small. Poor things, both youngest boys had them everywhere - mlstoo
    • Yes, Maalox and something else. Some kind of deadening agent, but can't remember. - Exhausted Mama nm
      • Mallox & Benadryl - Lela
      • It's Maalox and Benadryl, equal parts, swish and swallow. nm - PeachState
      • Maalox, peroxide and something else? It was swish and - swallow. Poor thing!
      • gentian violet? now they're saying not to use it on children. - not sure
        • That's used to treat fungus. Chickenpox is a virus, but thank you anyway! - Exhausted Mama nm

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Hi Frustrated, I'm not sure why some people got down on you for what you were asking, but here's my 2 cents.  I have 2 small kids and I am a single homeschooling parent to boot.  My daughter is 4 and my son is 5.  I have been doing MT since before they were born.

I have tried the jobs with the strict shift schedules and I even tried a split shift.  None of it worked for me.  It was totally and utterly impossible.  Then I started looking for the "flexible" jobs which, by my definition, are the IC positions with 24 hour TAT. That is what works for me.  I get my work at whatever time I get it, sometimes they send in the morning sometimes in the evening, and then I have 24 hours to get it back to them.  I can take care of my kids, do their schooling, run errands, sleep, whatever I want.....as long as I have the work back to them in the 24 hours.  I also have 2 accounts of my own and those are flexible as well.  I'm not sure if you need benefits, I didn't have time to read through all the posts, but if you can manage without the benefits, then get an IC position with one of the MTSOs that offer 24 hour TAT.  Best of luck to you, I know it's not easy with small kids.  But I am sure you are doing your best.  Take care.

just as we would do around the coffee pot in the office before work or on breaks.  It's too bad the someone who doesn't want to talk about a certain subject can't just walk away....like they would in the office, I'm sure. 

 NOW go and enjoy your night.  Steak and veggies for dinner here. 

or can just use clear ones if you can't find green.  I got a red bottle of stained glass paint that they sell just about anywhere they sell crafts (even Wal-Mart) and got one of the plastic boards that you use the paint with.  I made green jello and put in the cups and then took marschiano cherries and punched down in the jello against the front of the cup for eyes.  I made scars on the board with the paint and after they dried I pulled them off and put them on the cups.  This stuff makes like a static cling thing.  I then crushed plain chocolate cookies and put on top of the jello and this creates a Frankenstein.   Smaller kids are probably the only ones who would appreciate this.  It was fairly easy, though depending on the # of kids takes lots of jello. 

Something else I did for a decoration - take a picnic table and turn it on end longways.  Take a green plastic tablecloth and cover the table.  Cut black plastic for hair and attach to the top of the table, either on top of the green cloth or just above it if your cloth isn't long enough.  Take aluminum pie pans and then take a styrofoam ball and paint it and attach to the pans and attach for eyes.   Use the above board and paint and make some really big scars and then attach those.  Get some of those popcorn buckets from the movies, or sometimes you can find them in the stores, cover with aluminum foil and attach to the table on each side for the bolts.  If it will be dark you can add glow-in-the-dark paint to the eyes and use a black light.  

I did this a couple of years ago and everyone stopped to tell me how cute it was.  I saw it in Family Fun magazine I believe so I can't take credit for it. 

Teasers in school.  They just do it because they have no life, no self-esteem and they just try and feed off the misery of others or try to make themselves look better than everyone else.

It's very sad and so pathetic, but it carries on with these types through what is supposed to be adulthood.

need to stabilize.

Medical transcription is not a "living" - it is a sideline anymore, unless you can find a doctors office or hospital where you can count on an income and count on medical insurance.

Leave the BF - they are dead weight.  They wear you out and rarely help you find any solid footing.  If your's did you wouldn't be here asking for advice.

I used to think I need to be married - then I began to ask myself:  WHY AM I MORE BROKE AND MORE TIRED WITH A HUSBAND?

There were more hours in the day and more money in the bank when I was on my own with my children.  We may not have had fancy things but we were happy because their mom was happy - ME.

Again, don't use 3 PT/transcription jobs or even 1 FT and some PTs to say you are making it.  Either bring your budget down to living on the 1 FT and let the PT be the discretionary income (extra for savings, emergencies, etc), or leave transcription entirely.  MTing is a losing proposition at this time.  Unless of course, like I say, you are in a stable place like a hospital.  And don't COUNT on the PT to carry you through - these nationals and side jobs are playing fast and loose with paying people or providing any security at all.

GOOD LUCK. 

talking to my mother on the telephone.  She said to him, "Jeremy, I can't take you to the beach (weekend trip) because you're not potty trained yet."  He threw the phone down and ran over to me and yelled, "Mama, put 'unnerwares' on me RIGHT NOW!"  LOL...I did and he never had another accident from that day forward.

Just give your child lots of love and encouragement...and bribe him if necessary!   He'll get it sooner or later.

Chickadee

I'll be going back to teaching, which I left years ago to stay home and have babies.  I started doing MT when we had a financial problem when our "baby" was two, but this working early in the morning and late at night and during the summer when I'd rather be out playing with my kids is killing me!  Considering how much of my own money I always spent on buying supplies and putting money in kids' lunch accounts and buying kids shoes and coats when I was teaching before, I'm sure I will make less as well... But I can't wait to work a normal schedule! 

Good luck to you!  Your family will surely be blessed by your decision.   

They've had girls chasing after them since kindergarten.  The notes from girls that I find in the laundry were just too much.  I love you, I want to marry you.  Goodness!  Last year, my 11 y.o.b. had a girl threaten to kill herself if he didn't "go out" with her.  He took it really hard because we had just lost a family member to suicide, and he felt like he had to do what this girl told him to do or she would die.  She even told him her parents had lost custody of her and she had to go live in another state to be adopted.  Compulsive liar.  I had to go in to the school and nip it in the bud with the teachers, school counselor and principal.

I told my boys they would not be dating or "going out" until they were in high school.  Even with that, my oldest boy had a girl who wanted to sneak around behind her mother's back and lie to see him because she wasn't allowed to date.  I told my son no way, you're either straight up with the girl's parents and introduce yourself to them, or you don't date.  He told her that, and she dropped him like a hot potato because she didn't want to date an honest boy.

Boys' language and social skills are also slower to develop than girls.  Wait until they have a name writing contest outside in the snow on the school playground.  Speaking from experience, sometimes teachers have personality clashes with students and do pick on them.

Cheerios in the toilet worked for me.  SINK THOSE BATTLESHIPS!!  :)

But both boys were 3 1/2 at least and when I was just about ready to give up, they just started using the bathroom as if nobody had ever told them a thing.

Pressuring and scolding are the 2 worst things you can do.  Just be laid back and all of a sudden one day, they are diaper free.  None of my 4 have ever had an accident or wet the bed since the day it kind of dawned on them.  Sort of like the day they learn to ride a bike without training wheels. :)

This too shall pass like water under the bridge.  No pun intended.  Now I'm buying diapers for my grandkids.

nm