Clothes maketh the lady

I have a problem in hand. My daughter refuses to wear any of her home wear stuff. Either her best clothes or none at all. She will rather walk around the house n*ked (one has to be wary of Web sense censoring words) than wear any of her old clothes - and one thing V cant stand is a little girl exposing herself in today's wicked world. She doesnt mind wearing her brother's homewear clothes though.

I have no such problems with Ash - once in a while he insists on his Superman t-shirt but otherwise he is least bothered about what he is wearing. It is actually tougher to get him to get out of something he is wearing, whereas Mira changes hers at the drop of a drop of water.

I guess I will have to give away all her old clothes and introduce the older outing clothes for homewear. Sigh! But I am still hoping that she will get over this phase.

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WE have been running from pillar to post to find a cure for Ash's affliction. Early dawn today, V took a sleeping Ash to a Siddha doctor called Uma Maheshwari in Tiruvallur in the company of the family (a first cousin) who recommended her to us. The doctor meets patients from 5 am to 1 pm and they managed to be the second in the line. The fee is nominal but the journey is long and arduous. She gives medicines for a week only.

Ash didnt itch after we applied the oil she gave. Now we need to get his stomach clear of all the allopathic stuff he has been taking - she thinks it has prolly affected his liver which is why his lips are getting darkish and his eyes are getting darker. No seafood, no tea and coffee, she prescribes. No other diet restrictions.

p.s. The Ayurveda treatment can wait, V says, though the medicine landed by courier. We are not sure how we can get him to take 300 ml of bitter kashayam everyday for 6 months.

Toddler Biting

Ashwin's behavior is causing us fresh headaches.
The playschool authorities informed us yesterday that Ash bit a fellow playmate for grabbing the toy he was playing with. Apparently he has been doing it all these months in playschool but until now there had been no major casualties. But this time round he managed to get his teeth well into the poor kid's fair arm that it left tell-tale signs. The kid's parents rushed him to the dr for a tetanus injection, and blasted the school authorities for the poor care. Hence Ash was kept in isolation yesterday during playhours!
But websites on children tell me that it is not abnormal behaviour and is a part of the toddler years:
Biting from frustration
Frustration happens when children get into situations that they can’t handle. Children under about three or so are not usually ready to play in a cooperative way with other children in groups. If they are in a group and another child takes their toy they may respond by hitting or biting. They have not yet learned other ways to cope.
If biting gets a strong response, which is likely, they will see that it is successful and may try it again.
Self-Assertion. The accident report given the parent by an educarer at the end of the day reads, "Child was bitten during a struggle over a toy." Toddlers have very limited language skills. Consequently, biting is a way to register a complaint.