Hello everyone and welcome to Best and Worst 2015.
For those of you who are back at work this week, my commiserations and hearty good wishes that you can still vaguely recollect the holiday that was. For those of you who are still holidaying, screw you, lucky bastards. (Kidding. Sort, of).
While there are tragically already many painful events to reflect on in 2015, I am going to try and remain positive – refusing to wallow in the sadness of ‘worsts’ and instead give you a whopping three ‘bests’ this week.
BEST: As you may have noticed by now, we have launched the new look Mamamia. The website has genuinely never looked so good or been so easy to navigate. We’re very proud of it. There are some exciting new functions you’ll want to test drive immediately, less of what you didn’t like and more of what you did.
As with any new piece of technology, there have been a few minor hiccups and I apologise to any readers who have been effected. We’ve pulled the socket out of the wall a few times, switched everything off and on again – so it’s 100% fixed. In all seriousness though, we’re doing our best to resolve any issues quickly and you can email tech@mamamia.com.au if you’re still having problems.
Top Comments
Best: Miss 7mth old is on the move! She is crawling and cruising along our couch. [I am a bit sad that she's growing up so fast]
Best2: Took the kids to the Thomas exhibition at thr Rail Museum in Ipswich. They both loved it! It catered for kids as young as them (2yrs and a 7mth old). My son wont stop talking about the "frains".
Worst: I had to help my hubby understand the reality of his mother's cancer...why she's being seen in palliative care. Life is being particularly harsh on him at the moment so it was such a hard convo to have. Particularly when afterwards we found out his childhood pet was being put down.
OMM: A fairly random question, but is it normal for my toddler (2 y/o girl) to have obsessive compulsive behaviour?? Is it a stage they go through??? She hates getting messy when she eats - always holds her hands up for me to wipe them & will just give up if it gets too much for her. If she spills water on her clothes while she's playing outside (even very small amount) she'll make me change them!!! She just likes to neaten stuff up in general. And when I'm putting her down to sleep, she freaks out that I'm not going to remember to take off her clothes. She just seems a little wound up!!! Has anybody had this experience???
Yes! My son was exactly the same! Child would scream blue murder if the sand from the sandpit was on his hands, or if he had to pick some type of 'mushy' food up to eat it with his hands. Heaven forbid if something was spilled on his clothes!! He's now 22 and has completely outgrown all of those 'ocd' things that used to do my head in when he was 2 - to the other extreme, where he is a complete slob lolol. I'm sure your little one will grow out of it - good luck :)
My cousin (who I'm super close to) was very much the same from about 18 months - 2.5 years (she's 3.5 years now). She also used to close all the cabinets at the doctor's office before they were allowed to start. We weren't worried and she seems to have grown out of it now!
This sounds exactly, i mean EXACTLY like my 2 year old daughter. When she eats, she does the exact same thing - screams for me to get the food off her top / hand / kitchen bench, before she will go back to eating. She also has this thing with small, foreign objects being in contact with her body. For example, we bought her a Dora sequin skirt / costume. It's quite a hideous thing, actually. It is covered in the tiniest, fuschia sequins you have ever seen. So whenever daughter gets said tiny fuschia sequin on skin, she will run up to me, screaming, saying "get it off". I had to laugh when you wrote "wound up" because that's my girl to a tee. It's quite funny, actually.