I, a normal person, have never altered my conduct out of fear of doing a horndog (real or perceived) in front of the babysitter Spoiler which is exclusively my MIL
Welp the principal called from the 1st grader's school. my son punched a kid in the nuts during recess.
Kinda hate physical media isn’t a thing anymore. My son is starting to have bands he likes and i used to love going to the music stores and having my own CDs and cd player in my room. It’s hard to feel ownership of as many things with digital. Sure it’s more convenient but it isn’t as fun
Guessing he can't be trusted with a record player? Could get one of the cheap ones, that look like a briefcase.
I have a record player actually. But the cd factor would at least be easier I think. But not a bad idea to do that too. Obviously I’m nostalgic for what I had.
Explanation from my kid's perspective. This was during PE. bigger kid (same age, but my son is small) came up and took a dodgeball from him when they were playing some game in the gym. My son tried to take it back but couldn't. He punched the kid in the nuts (not hard he claims). the kid wasn't hurt but ran to tell the teacher so my son got called to the principal's office. I realize this is all from a very biased perspective but I can't say i'm too mad at him. told him i'm glad he stuck up for himself but you know you can't hit people.
a good foot taller than my son. and he tattled to the PE teacher. lol you best believe this little twat is on my radar.
Spring break proving difficult to work, keep the 6 year old entertained, with limited screen time. This is today's babysitter. I also bought 2 puzzles.
one day last summer I had to bring my then 6-yr-old to work with me. I bought that for him the day before and had it sitting at my work desk. He sat beside me quietly and had it finished in no time and was like... now what?
Thank god for Find My. Kid2 is a little klepto, in the last month I’ve found my (only set) of car keys buried deep in a backpack and my AirPods in a purse.
Got into Atlanta Pre-K Lottery. Went and celebrated this weekend with all his buddies from his old school. Played for 3 hrs, went and had pizza, bruh fell asleep during the 7 minute drive home.
My wife and I had our son back in December and he’s about to turn 3 months next week. I’ve been working mostly remote (couple days a week in office for a few hrs) pretty much since he was born. My wife’s maternity leave ended and she was back in the office today. So today was my first full day alone with the little guy for this long. He’s spit up three times, pooped twice with one leaking out, and went nuclear on me when I took him out for a walk. He’s napping on me now and I couldn’t be happier.
Anybody dealt with a ~1 year old biter? My dude's been doing it for months now. Mostly when he's getting tired, he'll just bite the shit out of mine or my wife's shoulder or chest. The boomers on my wife's side of the family tell her she has to bite him back.
1yo too young to understand IMO. My kid was around 2 and eventually I would flick her in the head when she bit me.
And I now have the stomach bug my daughter has had since Thursday night. Coming out both ends and can’t hold anything down. I’ve thrown up more in the past two years than I have my entire life.
Isn’t there a recommended book on biting? On a different note. My 1 month old son is quite a PITA from like 8pm to 2am. He’s a cryer. He always wants to be held. His twin sister is so much easier. This has been rough, with these newborns, a 2 year old, and trying to get the house together to accommodate us all. It’s probably just bc I’m old and my patience is near non-existent. My wife is so much better at this than me.
I'm sure it's just being a 3-4 year old, but my son gets very attached to things. 1st week at my son's new school last week and just an endless annoyance of errors. Day 1, he needed indoor shoes. So I ordered them on Amazon and they'd arrive Sunday. Sunday arrives and of course amazon sends me a notification they would be late and not get there until Tuesday. WTF? Fuck you amazon. So Sunday night I go buy some slip ons after my son goes to sleep. Of course they are too big and after day 1 teacher mentions it. So we go to the store and I let him pick out shoes. He picks out shoes with lights, I get two pairs. Well at Day 2 apparently light shoes are not appropriate and distracting. Okay, NB I've got some fresh new dinosaur slip-ons that I know he'd love. Well, they apparently fucking suck b/c every shoe that doesn't have lights is apparently the WORST THING IN THE WORLD to him. Day 3, he refuses to wear non-light shoes. Teacher lets him come in with light shoes. Day 4 & 5, disaster in the morning. Took me 30 minutes at school with countless parents/kids streaming in watching him melt down. All weekend he's been talking about how he'll wear his slippers at school and was 100% cool with it. Arrive to school this AM and as soon as I put the car in park "I want to wear my light dinosaur shoes". Had to hand him off crying to the teacher b/c he wanted his light shoes. First off, fuck amazon. Deliver my shit on time. I think I'm honestly going to have to throw away the light up shoes and just make him forget about them. I thought the newness would have worn off by now, but apparently it hasn't. /venting
I made rice for dinner and I turn around and kid2 is rubbing it all over her feet. It’s fresh from the rice cooker so still sticky and she’s created a protective barrier of rice. What in the fuck
That’s not dissimilar from the wax bag thing they do during some pedicures. It’s an add on so im thinking your daughter has expensive tastes, congrats.
Man baby # 2 still only has her bottom two teeth and no others. 13 months old, by this point her brother has stopped eating bottles and was swapped over to real food. He has 8 teeth total by now
All the kids in his class are likely doing it to, had to sign several incident reports about it last year. It's a phase and we keep reinforcing no biting with the book and stern no's. At 2yo she'll still do it when tired or not getting her way, but very rarely now.
‘Round these parts we prefer them to be missing the top and bottom 4 teeth. Luckily it happens quickly after highschool thanks to the meth!
Bumping this because our near 3 year old ( 33 months ) has suddenly turned into a complete terrorist and it sounds exactly like what you described. He was an amazing sleeper up until 10 days ago...put him in his crib and see him again in 12 to 13 hours. We started potty training him about 12 days ago...which must have been the trigger for the sleep regression. He's taken to the potty extremely well...still working on making it to it in time to shit, but almost perfect on pissing. But, he started going insane about being in his crib. Like absolutely bonkers if he woke up in there. So, we took the side off to make a toddler bed. It's improved his insanity a bit, but his sleep is still complete trash which makes him a major asshole. He basically woke up and stayed awake from about 230-3am on the last two nights. My wife finally just put him in our bed at 530am today and put Toy Story on just so we could get a tiny bit of sleep before our days today. I wanted to punt him to the moon the last couple of nights.
Get consistent on the feeding. Every 2-3 hours to the minute. Nothing soothes a baby more than a consistent feeding schedule.
Yeah this brought back some unpleasant memories. He never completely returned to “read a couple books, have him doze off in my arms, put him in bed, and get a full nights sleep mode” again. It’s always something and changing but not nearly as bad. Things we did that actually worked, even if rough on all of us: - Locked him in his room. We bought some thing that latches with the door partially open, so he didn’t feel completely trapped. This was necessary for safety reasons. He wasn’t sleeping and roaming around the entire house all night. - This one is hard emotionally but letting him cry it out after saying goodnight and refusing to go back in unless it was for a very good reason. - Eliminated the daytime nap and made sure he was in the group that skips it at daycare. We were able to get bedtime back down to under an hour, and he’s able to make it through the night more or less. Now that he’s a bit older, incentives like earning stars for being good at night that add up to a new toy or whatever goal we set is also working well. He’s back in our room again due to regular nightmares, Not ideal but we’re all getting sleep at least.
Do you close his door at night/does he have a night light? Our 3 year old had the same kind of issues regarding sleep even though he's been in a todler bed since 14 months. We realized he had developed a slight fear of the dark. a night light and leaving his bedrom door open so he doesn't feel shut away from us has completely solved the issue almost overnight. It's incredible.
can't reccomend the babywise method more. Gives you a specific feeding schedule and tells you when to drop feedings to encourage longer sleep sessions. Both of our kids were sleeping 8+ hours straight by 6 weeks.
He has a Tonie Box that he falls asleep listening to....either Peppa Pig stories or Paw Patrol stories. It dawned on me last night that he may start waking up when the stories are done and it gets quiet. So, I ordered a Hatch off Amazon that's delivering this afternoon. My plan tonight is to turn on that noise machine when I'm leaving the room...and then when the Toney box story ends that noise will already be going...the Hatch is a night light too. So, we'll see if that helps.
The Hatch is great. Not familiar with Toney Box but we use Yoto. If you throw on a kids podcast from their online selection through the app, the content will last all night
Hatch is exactly what we have. LOVE that thing. If you know how long his stories last, you can program the white noise to start almost immediately after.