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Kovaks
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Sick baby is no fun... He has been sick off and on since he got his 6mo shots at the beginning of the month. Last week has been alot of coughing especially at night and in the morning. He is handling it like a trooper and is his usual happy self but it is wreaking havoc on sleeping. We have gone from sleeping through the night and puting himself back to sleep, to waking up about every hour and not going back to sleep on his own. I think we are going to need a refresher on sleep training after he feels better.
opiate82
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Yup, having been through one miscarriage already and having a very close friend lose a pregnancy at ~30 weeks, we are well aware of what can still go wrong (plus my wife works in L&D, so she has seen it all). But as others have posted, thanks for bringing it up again to reinforce that fact for us, very tactful.
To everyone else, thanks for the well wishes, it has been an incredibly challenging journey already and I am just keeping my fingers crossed for a healthy pregnancy and baby at this point. Moving out of the first trimester was a pretty huge mental burden lifted off of us and we are finally starting to feel like we can get excited.
some days i think i cant wait for my daughter to grow up so we can go camping and on trips but then i read or hear things and i think my it can wait a little longer
opiate82
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Study: Breast-Feeding Benefits Overstated - Business Insider
Not meant to start a breast feeding vs formula debate. I think the one important thing to garner from this (and other studies starting to come to the same conclusion) is that anyone parent-shaming others for not breast feeding should be told to suck it.
lindz
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lindz
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I'm thinking of instituting a toy library for my kids.
I keep all the toys, they can come to me and take a bin of toys then return it to get something different. I am so freaking tired of every single toy they own dumped on the floor in both bedrooms no matter how well we organize shit. Cleaning bedrooms is either me doing them in five, or fighting with them for a hour to get it done on their own.
I keep all the toys, they can come to me and take a bin of toys then return it to get something different. I am so freaking tired of every single toy they own dumped on the floor in both bedrooms no matter how well we organize shit. Cleaning bedrooms is either me doing them in five, or fighting with them for a hour to get it done on their own.
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We had this issue, too. Then, strangely, the toys that got left out started disappearing at night. Pretty soon there were none left. He was told he could have one set of something back, and when he demonstrated that he would pick them up when he was done playing with it, he could have another. If they got left out, they disappeared again. Didn't take long to form the habit of picking up one toy before moving onto another.
Now, if he has a bunch of friends over, crap is everywhere, but, before they leave, he actually asks them to all help him pick things up. It was hilarious last weekend when his friend was leaving, he said, "Okay, you pick up the cars, I'm going to pick up the legos, and then we can do the other toys together, okay?" I love it.
And, is it just me, or does roughly 6 hours of a television on every day seem like an awful lot? 3 times a day on repeat?
Adebisi
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lindz
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It has been Frozen in my house, and it hasn't even come out yet. But my 6 year old has youtube on her tv so they watch youtube videos of the songs... all day...
chaos
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My daughters know all the words to every song, they walk around singing it in public. I guess it is cute or whatever. Secretly I want to shoot myself to make it end, at long last. Eternal sleep...
My kids get way too much screen time but I am struggling with what to do. They are all just young and can't be trusted alone. For instance, today I am trying to clean the kitchen, it is foul as we have been out of town for two weeks so it needs it bad. And let's be honest, I have three kids under 5, you don't want to come in my house anyway on a normal day, and this is ESPECIALLY bad. I try to set my girls up with activities but they get bored and resort to doing bad shit, like drawing on the walls or on my tv (it was one of those invisible markers, which is the only reason I still have three children). So the old go-to is throw on Frozen (i am not as scrupulous as lindz and have had an oscar screener for three months now) and let them veg out while I get something done. Has anyone else come up with a solution to this problem?
My kids get way too much screen time but I am struggling with what to do. They are all just young and can't be trusted alone. For instance, today I am trying to clean the kitchen, it is foul as we have been out of town for two weeks so it needs it bad. And let's be honest, I have three kids under 5, you don't want to come in my house anyway on a normal day, and this is ESPECIALLY bad. I try to set my girls up with activities but they get bored and resort to doing bad shit, like drawing on the walls or on my tv (it was one of those invisible markers, which is the only reason I still have three children). So the old go-to is throw on Frozen (i am not as scrupulous as lindz and have had an oscar screener for three months now) and let them veg out while I get something done. Has anyone else come up with a solution to this problem?
chaos
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My oldest just discovered Johnny Test, it has officially replaced My Little Ponies. But they have an uncle who is about 3 years older than them and he introduced them to Adventyre Time, that is a badass show. I wish they would get into that so I can watch it.
lindz
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See I don't mind my 6 year old playing a lot of xbox. Her reading is WAY past her grade level and I think a lot of it has to do with video games. She wants to know whats going on so she just worked hard to learn to read it. She also reads a ton of books so I'm not too worried.
