August 2021 Babies 🇬🇧

My son had a friend since 5 months old and I became friends with the mum. About a year and a half ago the mum left her partner and made.their own life in the next town and decreased contact with us. When she found out what school my son was going to she started labelling him as special needs to her family and the hairdresser I used asked me whether my childs friends mum had ended the friendship. I caught my childs friends mum discussing me with a church person slagging me off at a lego club when my child did well. I maintained the friendship but decreased time with the family till school thinking the mum was going through a bad patch. Since then my child has been invited for play dates at the friends house every 3 months or so and my son picked up some very bad habits from the visits with my son's friend being very overpowering. During these visits toys which were left out were taken away from my son and he was treated as being substantially younger when he is meeting age milestones and tracking middle of his class. It was done visibly ans he was told he would break them and he was treated as if he was 2 rather than 4 with phrases yoi would use with a 2 year old. I have distanced myself again but unsure whether I should carry on the friendship at all. My son feels hurt though and says he is still best friends with his friend he no longer sees and says even if he does not see his friend he still is best friends. What is best to tell him? The mum has clearly made up her mind after years of friendship and not been honest and my son thinks of them as family.

My little boy has outgrown his i-spin 360, im thinking the next step is a high backed booster. Is this correct? Anyone else made the switch yet? Thanks!!!

I need advice my daughter has never been the best with sleep, she is 4.5 years old and she just cannot settle, we have tried everything baths before bed, has a calm routine, white noise, lullaby’s, stories, lavender oil but nothing works she will keep moving to stop her sleep or start talking and makes silly noises, sometimes goes into her own little world. We have to sit in the room with her too as she won’t go to sleep by herself. What else can we do I can’t keep sitting in her room for nearly 2 hours. We thought we we moved her little sister in with her she would sleep better and also starting school but nothing has made a difference. Please help

Looking for advice, suggestions etc. Sons been out of nappies since 2.5 but wears a pull up to bed. He is 4.5 now. On the odd occasion we’ve forgotten to put a pull up on his bed has been wet. 90% of mornings the nappy is not dry.

I have had conflicting advice that you can train during the night and then told it’s hormones and you can’t teach it.

To add I also do not agree with wakening during the night for multiple reasons

So basically any help needing?

He starts school in August (Scotland) and I would rather he didn’t wear pull ups at that point

Hey I need your opinions on this. I took my daughter to the doctors last Wednesday and they confirmed she had chickenpox so obviously I’ve kept her off school and some of them have healed but there’s some that haven’t scabbed and she has this one on her back that still has pus in. I have told her school and they want me to take her in tomorrow for the receptionist to look at her spots and decide if they’re contagious even though this still has pus in and hasn’t scabbed. I’m actually so annoyed with how her school is handling it. I took her to the pharmacy earlier and he said she’s still contagious and that I shouldn’t be taking her. I’m so frustrated I don’t know what to do 😭