Ideas for 2.5 Year Old...what to Play?

[KellyTheChef]

Benadryl and dimetapp work the same...LOL and I swear I'm kidding! :angel:

Don't make me laugh! My ex SIL used to do the benadryl thing! It doesn't really put him to sleep, though! (I know this from using it on a nine hour CAR TRIP!!)

I know, I am a horrible mom...but I am not the only one to do that!!

 

[chefann]

I had a college roommate who would drug herself with NyQuil for long car rides. She had a tendency to suffer car sickness, and the NyQuil would make her drowsy enough to not feel the motion in the car. Of course, she would be useless at the destination, which was usually speech competitions.

 

[janetupnorth]

Don't make me laugh! My ex SIL used to do the benadryl thing! It doesn't really put him to sleep, though! (I know this from using it on a nine hour CAR TRIP!!)

I know, I am a horrible mom...but I am not the only one to do that!!

Benadryl won't work on children if it has pseudoephedrine in it or a form of it...in children this makes them hyper rather than sleepy. Many adults have what is called a paradoxal effect and it does the same thing. As you approach adulthood, your body changes and benadryl should work on you as an allergy reliever and sleep-aide, but if you have the paradoxal effect it works the opposite and makes your heart race, etc.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Benadryl won't work on children if it has pseudoephedrine in it or a form of it...in children this makes them hyper rather than sleepy. Many adults have what is called a paradoxal effect and it does the same thing. As you approach adulthood, your body changes and benadryl should work on you as an allergy reliever and sleep-aide, but if you have the paradoxal effect it works the opposite and makes your heart race, etc.

This is what is does to me! It also makes me feel like there are bugs crawling all over me! I can't take any night time/allergy medicines.

 

[c00p]

Holy cow...who has time to come up with 101 things to do with your kid??????????? I'm lucky to squeeze in time to go pee!! I feel for ya because there are days...but my momma said that "there'd be days like this". It's days like what you are having when I take a HUGE breath in, and then just smile because I have my little baby boy (2 next week) that I can pick up and love on and get angry at. My girlfriend doesn't have that luxury. I do feel guilty sometimes when I'm angry with him over stupid little stuff, and that's when I try to take a small step backwards and appreciate the fact that I've got him here with me and someone else out there doesn't have their baby boy with them anymore. Sorry...didn't mean to be a downer. But I'm preaching to myself here and it just sort-of spilled onto the keyboard...

 

[janetupnorth]

This is what is does to me! It also makes me feel like there are bugs crawling all over me! I can't take any night time/allergy medicines.

I am the same way, hence why I know about it - a few pharmacists have explained it to me. I feel absolutely exhausted when I take it but wired at the same time, I cannot sleep and if I lay down I feel like I am floating. I also can ONLY take Benadryl when I'm actually having a severe reaction to something like weeds or something else.

 

[Teresa Lynn]

Andrea,
I can relate to the potty thing. I swear all my kids were in school before I had time enough to shave both legs on the same day.

 

[janetupnorth]

Andrea,
I can relate to the potty thing. I swear all my kids were in school before I had time enough to shave both legs on the same day.

I usually get through the bottom half of each! :grumpy:

I have to plop them in front of a movie on a Saturday morning in the summer to be able to get through it all to go swimming. :cry:


Of course in all the non-privacy, messy house, running around...I really want to keep my kids little as long as possible...they are already growing up too fast!

 

[genburk]

Thankfully, signing is the first thing we started on at speech. Sounds kind of counterproductive, but it gave him a way to communicate. He had been starting to throw fits, and I really think it was cuz he was just so frustrated! He knew WHAT he wanted to say, but had no way to say it!

He knows drink, please, thank you, eat, more, open, help, and we made up our own sign for "sticky tape" (he claps) cuz he LOVES to play with tape! LOL

I work in a preschool and I teach words to the 1-2 year olds. I need to add open to our list. We have had a few parents and one teacher think "why teach them that, I want them to speak !!". Actually, most parents teach their children to wave (goodby), blow kisses (love you), and the sign for Shhh (finger at mouth), which is basically teaching them a sign to use, but they still learn to say the word because we teach them the word at the same time.

Anyway, it does help children to cope better and they get frustrated less. I am a firm believer.:thumbup:

Example, when my daughter was about 18 months she knew the sign for 'more'. She was standing at a separate garage at the door signing more. Instead of standing outside crying, she was across the yard using the sign and the only thing she could have wanted was more dog buscuits to feed the dogs. I would have had no idea she wanted something, I would have thought she was just crying, but because she was signing, I knew she wanted something. Signing works for teens too sometimes (especially across the soccor field or at a school function). Wonderful thing to teach the teens a few signs !!

 

[genburk]

I am the same way, hence why I know about it - a few pharmacists have explained it to me. I feel absolutely exhausted when I take it but wired at the same time, I cannot sleep and if I lay down I feel like I am floating. I also can ONLY take Benadryl when I'm actually having a severe reaction to something like weeds or something else.

Benedryl and pseudoephedrine knocks me out, I sleep like a baby for 2 hours or more. My father-in-law is a pharmacists and says it shouldn't work like that but it has for me for about 10 years now. I took clariton-D one time for a stuffy nose and didn't know how it would effect me. I slept for about 3 days (20 or more hours a day, thought I really was that sick), then was awake and wired for 2 days. I only took the medicine for the first 3 days then quite because I realized the medicine made me that sleepy. By that time I had enough medicine in me to keep me wired for the next few days. Very weird and oh yeah, I just remembered I lost my job over being off that week too. Oh well, not a great job anyway. To bad I wasn't a consultant then.