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Anonymous says
Does anyone know about UTMAs – can i spend the money down on child-related activities? My research is that it’s largely children who bring suit about UTMAs. (My son is disabled and not only would it be unwise for him to have access to the money at age 18 but would actively hurt against things like Medicare/Medicaid at 26 or whenever he needs that.)
Anon says
if you are the custodian I believe you can use them for expenses to benefit the child, but to save all receipts, etc. do you have a financial advisor or accountant or attorney you can consult? a trust would be a better investment vehicle to save for a disabled child than a UTMA. how did your child end up with a UTMA?
my kids both have UTMAs because a relative left them some money in his will and it had to be deposited into an account directly in their name. this would not have been my preference as a parent, though i also had a UTMA, which while technically mine at 18 I didn’t know about until I was older, but my parents never touched the money so there were never any issues.
Anonymous says
my parents give big gifts to both kids for birthdays so i started investment accounts for them when they were young — i wanted the money separate from ours (my husband’s and mine) so there was no confusion. he was diagnosed at 3 (autism) and by 12 it’s becoming clearer that he probably won’t be launching. so i’m hoping i can withdraw money from utma to use towards his private school tuition and then put that same withdrawn amount back into his STABLE account.
our accountant didn’t know much on this, and our financial adviser just tries to sell us annuities. we did finally get a special trust set up for estate purposes.
Anonymous says
I would look for an attorney who does Medicaid planning/elder law – many elder law attorneys also do special needs planning (which includes public benefits planning, special needs trusts, etc.). Different state bar associations refer to the practice area by different names, but the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys has a website with a lawyer search function to get you started.
Anonymous says
thank you!
anon says
I do think you should be able to do what you just said, even without putting the same amount back into the STABLE account. going forward i would stop putting the money from your parents into the UTMA and add it to the STABLE.
Anonymous says
for sure – i’ve stopped for a few years now, but because the original money was in investment accounts it’s grown a lot so i need to start thinking about how to pay it down. the kid doesn’t have a lot of interests so we’re not spending a ton of money on him.
midwest anon who loves summer says
Summer Fun – Calling the poster yesterday that wanted summer to-do ideas. We made the ice-cream-in-a-bag recently with some friends’ kids. It was fun – more work/mess than I’d do on a normal day, but made for a fun treat/activity on a play date. My other summer love is gardening. Even if all you do is buy a basil plant, a potted cherry tomato plant, or a pot of annuals, it can add so much fun with kids. They can see the tomatoes grow, eat them right off the vine, etc. If you go to the beach, it’s the best time to let kids eat messy fruits like watermelon, peaches etc. No clean up needed, just let them swim! Another hit this summer so far has been chalk “painting.” Again, messy but they can just rinse off in the hose. I also do sparklers with the kids around the 4th. I still love them myself. We also do way more group dinners, things like grilling out with family or friend groups. For many reason (including less illnesses going around) it’s so much easier to for us to coordinate grilling outside with friends while our kids all play in the small blow-up pool. (See my pattern here? Stuff I also enjoy, not all just “kid” stuff!).
Anon says
That was me, thanks! Unfortunately I have the blackest of black thumbs. My kid loves the idea of gardening and we’ve tried to grow stuff the last ~3 summers but nothing has ever survived. But I appreciate all the other ideas.
ifiknew says
Talk to me about when you started ADHD medication and how you knew it was necessary. I have a 5 year old (turned 5 a month ago) and his energy level and impulsiveness are seeming more like an issue in group environments, depending on the day. We will wait and see how he does in the fall in kindergarten, but curious what types of things were happening and how you knew it was necessary.
anon says
We started one of my kids as soon as she turned 6 (the youngest age anyone around here would prescribe it). It wasn’t so much about energy levels, because lots of 5yos are plenty energetic, but her inability to control her impulses was making her pretty miserable in group settings and causing lots of issues in school. She’s still plenty impulsive even medicated, but it was pretty obviously taken down a notch and we no longer got weekly calls home from the principal, etc.
Clementine says
When my kid told me he was a ‘bad kid’. That’s when I knew I needed to do something.
Anon says
Hmm.. my 6 year old says this sometimes, and we’ve never considered an ADHD diagnosis. She’s very strong-willed and sensitive and can have big meltdowns at home, but does great at school and activities. I don’t love hearing it and we correct her when she says it and point out that while certain behaviors may not be good, she’s not a bad person. But I guess I thought it was a fairly normal thing for sensitive kids to say – is that way off base?
Anon says
My clingy preschooler follows me into the bathroom and in the bedroom when I am changing my clothes. He is opposite gender to me. At what age does this stop being appropriate?
Anon says
I think different families have different feelings about this. We had my husband stop changing in front of my 6 year old daughter this year, but that’s mainly because a classmate showed her his p*nis and after that she went through a phase where she was constantly talking about p*nises and begging her adult male relatives, including my husband and father, to show her theirs. So it seemed weirder than if he was changing in front of her and she was mostly oblivious. In preschool I would not really give any thought to it, my guess is he will age out of the clinginess before it becomes weird.
Cb says
Yeah, I think when they are noticing is a good benchmark. My son will be in the room while I’m changing and I should probably stop but it’s a pain to kick him out. I pull a T-shirt on before he crawls in bed with us in the am and we get up but he doesn’t seem to notice or care?
I guess as long as no one is uncomfortable, it’s better for kids to see what ordinary naked bodies look like, versus what they see on billboards, etc.
Anon says
No idea but following with interest! (Will hop into the bath with my toddler daughter and probably won’t with my infant son in the future but I don’t know)
Anon says
I’m letting my kids decide what they are comfortable with (or if it becomes uncomfortable for me, which it isn’t yet). I have an almost 9yo boy who still sometimes sees me changing and will walk in when I’m in the bathroom.
Mostly he sees my top, I’m more guarded about the bottom…but I’m about to have a baby and my three boys will be seeing lots of breastfeeding, which I definitely don’t cover up at home. I think it’s good for them to learn that the female body is beautiful and exists for more than to be sexualized! We also speak candidly about the whole baby “process” and how the baby exits the body, and occasionally they have seen me in the process of changing tampons and we’ve talked about periods.
There is no objective “inappropriate”: do what feels right for you.
Anon says
My son is 4 and we’ve stopped letting him come into the bathroom when we potty. Showers he still occasionally busts into the room which can be funny or infuriating depending on how much he decides to focus on body parts. He still doesn’t fully grasp that mommy has different parts than him and daddy. Im planning to start phasing it out between now and when he turns 5. We try to use anatomical terms with him so he does ask a lot of questions now as he is getting older.
Anonymous says
I’ve always figured whenever one of us becomes uncomfortable. My 3-year old and I sometimes shower together and I change in front of him and it’s never bothered either one of us, but I’m sure that will change one day, and we’ll respect those boundaries when they become important. I’ve noticed that lately he occasionally asks for privacy in the bathroom (and sometimes he wants company), so I think it might be a little bit of a slow continuum.
Anonymous says
I became uncomfortable before the kids did, which kind of surprised me. I started asking for privacy when they were around 4. That said if they do bust in while I’m changing it’s not a huge deal. Two boys, they showered both together or with their dad till age 6 or so (older one) for efficiency, and we then switched to alone more because things were getting nuts in there energy wise (and they’re now both capable of showering alone, although we do help wash the 5 year old’s hair). Older one still has no desire for privacy at age 9.
Anon says
To piggyback on the question above, how do you manage when to cover up with your kids. I have an almost 7 year old girl and almost 5 year old girl. They haven’t bathed together in a while but more recently I’ve tried to remind them to change in their rooms, and be a little more modest. I don’t want to shame them but with kids of the opposite gender I want them to be more mindful. How do you manage this?
Anon says
It happened naturally for my kid – around age 5 she got very uncomfortable with being naked around males and girls/women she doesn’t know well. We haven’t really done anything to encourage it, though we’ve of course supported her desire to change privately.
Anonymous says
Same age kids, I still let them bathe together, and they share a room. I remind them of which areas are private and who can see them (parents, doctor) but don’t police them too much, I kind of love how they are so comfortable in their bodies.
Anonymous says
We just try to have full nudity confined to the bathroom or in bedrooms for changing but our rising first and fourth graders have zero modesty and one of them prefers to not wear clothes around the house. Which is fine with us as long as he has underwear on. Honestly higher priority for me right now than enforcing modesty at home is just getting them to not hang out in the bathroom with someone who is pooping.
Anonymous says
On a similar subject, we’re still giving our 5 year old baths. When should we encourage showers? Around when DS turned 4, I showed him how the shower works and he was scared of it, so we haven’t pushed it since.
Anon says
I started making showers the standard and baths more of a treat when time permits when my kids were 6 and 4. It’s so much faster but when time permits they prefer baths to play.
The older one is about 75% self sufficient in the shower but I’m with her the whole time. The younger ones is more reliant on me but he washes his own legs and toes.
We can do both kids in under 15 mins if I hustle.
Anonymous says
I don’t think there is any “should.” What works for you? Is there something about baths that isn’t working? I grew up taking baths and having a blast doing so till I was at least 8, I think maybe more like 10. In my current home, we don’t have a convenient bathtub so the kids have showered their whole lives (we manage a couple baths down in the basement every year as a treat).
Anonymous says
I think you can do whatever you want. I didn’t shower til I was 12. My oldest took baths until he was 5. In kinder a shower just became more efficient. My twins started preferring showers at age 3, and they pretty exclusively shower now.
Anon says
Agree, there’s really no specific age at which you need to switch.
anon says
I think my oldest started showering after a vacation where he stayed in a hotel/somewhere with just a shower. Or maybe it was swim lessons where they showered after….can’t remember. But anyways it will probably happen on its own, I wouldn’t worry if baths don’t bother you and you aren’t trying to speed up bedtime or something.