Medicines: Child, Princess

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Appropriate Punishment - 5 Year Old Lost Glasses

My daughter (who just turned 5) started wearing glasses at the end of March. I made it very clear to her that whenever she is not wearing the glasses they must go into the case on her bathroom counter away from her younger sister. On top of that rule we also made it a rule that she only wears them when she is at preschool. She takes them off when she gets home and puts them directly in her case. Tonight she came to me and told me that her glasses case was empty and she couldn't fine her glasses. She did not have preschool today so she...

Allergies

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Allergy to Earrings? When to Repierce My 5 Year Old's Ears?

My 5 year old daughter has a lot of food/evironmental allergies.... she gets a terrible rash around her eyes and behind her ears. Well, I don't know if it was because of her normal allergy rash behind her ears, or if she was allergic to the metal in the earrings (I'm confident she needs nickel free), but I had to take her earrings out because they were so crusty and gross. We cleaned them with hydrogine peroxide and left the earrings out to let the wounds heal (it was like a cracked, crusty, open rash). You can tell where her earrings holes...