Michigan

[NovaAman]

No, I am talking about a 6 yr old little boy whose mom thinks that when a kid is afraid of something, you do your damndest to protect them from getting over their effen fears. This kid is afraid of his bike because he fell off, so now he will not get back on it.

SO, maybe I am a hard rear about that sort of thing. I think it is healthy to have a respect for dogs. Like, you don't just go up to a dog willy nilly and try and play/pet it. That would be stupid. BUT, When I have to lock my dogs up because they are happy to see you... Because they bark... and your kid is throwing a tantrum until he gets his way... I do lock them up out of respect for others especially if their children are not used to dogs. BUT this kid has been around BIG dogs. Grandparents have dogs. BOTH SETS. AND it is only cuz Ruby is a barker that he freaks out acts like a baby and gets his moms "my poor baby".

So, my youngest sets them loose in the back yard, and Jai ends up on the cube screaming bloody murder. I walked out on the deck, told the kid to shut the hell up, there was nothing wrong with him and the dogs were not going to hurt him. OMG, that kid shut his mouth so quick and my friends mouth just about hit the floor at how fast her kid shut up. He didn't even cry. I told her, I wouldn't tolerate that kind of behavior at my house. I put the dogs away again, disciplined Aiden, and sent the kids in the toy room to play. NOTE: I have been friends with this woman for over 20 years. We are late starters on the parenting thing.

I know I probably sound like a jerk. Thats ok. This is how I feel. If the kid had been bitten before, I might be more sympathetic to that. But he hasn't and I am not.

 

[Juise]

Thanks for the replies from Juise (I'm sure your answer would have been almost identical to RaZ's

) BobBry and RaZ.

Gosh, thanks for the vote of confidence!

As for myself, I throw in dry materials and toss it all together when it seems wet, and turn it every once in awhile. Probably not as much as I should, but it turns to dirt none the less. I worry more about mixing than actual rotation, but I also greatly value my tumbler, especially for all the the compostable materials that chickens shouldn't get to. I use it when it looks like dirt. If you can, it is helpful to have two piles, a working heap that you are still adding to, and an aging heap to use from.

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When it comes to eradicating poison ivy rather than leather gloves I would suggest heavy duty rubber gloves. Ushinol oil in poison ivy will permeate leather gloves and you will have to discard them.

I have also heard that urushiol does not break down on it's own, so that if you get it on a pair of rubber gloves, they can sit in your closet for a year, and you will still break out when next you pick them up. I'm not sure about that, though. I rather doubt that sunlight doesn't break it down, but perhaps left alone in a dark undisturbed place it can last a very long while. So if you don't toss anything, wash it well with soap and water when you are done.

Definitely do not burn it, it can easily be your death warrant.

I commonly hear that you can pretty effectively remove the oils without harm if you get to it within an hour, but 50% of the urushiol absorbs into your skin within 10 minutes, so I would say that if you know you have gotten it on you, just drop what you are doing, go scrub well with soap and water, then get back to it. I would also recommend that even if you have not knowingly gotten any on your skin, if you have more than an hours work to do in it, that you go and scrub up anyway at least once an hour.

I also cannot recommend Technu enough.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Opa, well said. I believe in consequences too, how else to learn? also the "work first then play."
If we didn't take care of our things they were thrown away. Never to return, we were poor. I also helped my mom take care of my sister and the house at around 12 or 13, even making grocery and budget decisions. And not for snacks, we lived on so little that one mistake could literally make you go hungry.
I'm not sure i want to go quite that extreme if i have kids, but it was quite effective on me Learned how to properly clean a house, (toilet and laundry too), and budget, and all about consequences.
I think my mom got a lot of riff for making us work so hard, but both us girls grew up to be very hard working, even if sometimes the DH's and kids and visitors don't appreciate

Got my first job at 17,
( in a kitchen, of course!

then I was a plastic part maker/ assembler/ inspection gal for about 6 years, too)

 

[Juise]

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No, I am talking about a 6 yr old little boy whose mom thinks that when a kid is afraid of something, you do your damndest to protect them from getting over their effen fears.

Hahaha, I didn't really think you were talking about Kaia. That is a pretty silly way to go about things, I take every opportunity I can to help Kai get over her fear of dogs. I can't believe how pervasive it has been, but she gets better about it all the time. It has been about a year now since she was knocked down and trampled by those 4 labs, but she is definitely still worried about them. (I told Nova about it, but for anyone else, when she was 3 my daughter had four big labs come running and jumping all over her, all in happy exuberance, but they were every one of them more than twice her size at least, and she was knocked to her back and pinned down with all of them on top of her.)

One of her set of Grandparents have a little dog thing that is pretty vicious, especially toward children, so that doesn't help. She gets more scared by her Grandmother's reaction to the dog getting near her, though, than she does by the dog.

Anyway, she is willing to say hi and pet dogs now with a little coaxing, and she likes them, but you can definitely see how nervous she is while she does it.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Oops, also Olive, in a pinch pouring a bit of gasoline on a poison rash will take care of it and make it go away in seconds, if you catch it when it's just starting to get red and itch. Burns a bit, but worth not getting itchy sores all over!

This last bout i had a month ago i used rubbing alchohol, but it didn't work as well (though i swabbed instead of poured, and wasn't able to tend it right away)
I didn't have to go to the dr though! I discovered the gas after having to go to the med center last year and get steroid pills cause benedryl wasn't touching it for me.

 

[Juise]

I may have to try to gasoline trick next time, I wonder if it helps on blood carriers like myself...

 

[fuzzybutt love]

i don't know if sunlight breaks it down, but for me it drove it deeper into my skin. (heat) and i do think i was re-catching it the first time i got it, from my sheets, before i knew what i was dealing with.

 

[Juise]

Oh, Fuzzy, I meant on impervious things, like rubber gloves. I definitely try to keep a poison ivy rash protected from the sun. (This is what I have been told to do, though I couldn't tell you the reason it is supposed to make it worse.) I'm sorry, I didn't mean that to be unclear.

 

[Olive Hill]

fuzzy - Thanks. I'll pass the info along. He's had a steroid shot, has steroid cream and it's still pretty nasty. It's now spread to his torso and legs. We're washing bedding every day, never using the same washcloth or towel twice, etc and it just keeps going. I'm sure he'll try anything at this point. I've poured bleach on it when I got it really bad on my arm once. That didn't work at all and stung like CRAZY in case anyone is thinking about trying it. LOL!

juise - He did wash and washed with cold water just like you're supposed to. He's just very sensitive to it and it's pretty bad in that area. He gets it every year somehow and it seems he's become more sensitive as time goes on. We've been round and round the poison ivy merry-go round with him, just seems it's impossible to keep ahead of the curve when he gets more and more sensitive each year and there's no way to avoid it entirely. Technically it shouldn't still be spreading now more than a week later, but alas... somehow it is.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

i don't know, i was desperate, lol. I think anything that will dissolve and evaporate the oils, and i think the gas does that. Maybe the rubbing alcohol would too, if you drizzled it on. I didn't have that on hand when i got it this year, DH bought it after 3 days of my moping . I read that the rubbing alcohol takes the oils off surfaces.