Whaddya goin' do with these kids these days? (parenting)

by **Grotewold** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 18:43:06

PhillieMooDo wrote:Night 2: 3 minutes of hard core crying, asleep in 15 minutes. Slept 12ish hours.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 18:52:14

One of lil vulture's chores is to empty the dishwasher. Today, she did it without being reminded.

by **swishnicholson** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 19:00:34

TenuredVulture wrote:One of lil vulture's chores is to empty the dishwasher. Today, she did it without being reminded.

by **phatj** » Sun Dec 03, 2017 23:24:21

We did the "cry it out" thing starting around six months. Took like 2-3 days before there was zero bedtime drama.

by **PhillieMooDo** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 02:13:16

phatj wrote:We did the "cry it out" thing starting around six months. Took like 2-3 days before there was zero bedtime drama.

Today was a slight regression...of course we're only 3 hours into sleep time. But, we're hoping things start to sail along pretty consistently, sooner than later.

Of course, we'll then fly back to Philly in 3 weeks and blow it all to hell :lol:

by **TenuredVulture** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 16:01:30

We've been in Arkansas too long. Apparently, Lil' Vulture has joined FFA (Future Farmers of America).

by **phatj** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 20:49:18

I already knew what FFA was!

by **Bucky** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 21:21:59

There's an actual high school in Roxborough, part of the Philadelphia School System- the Walter Biddle Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences. But we called it 'The Farm School'. So I had lots of friends and acquaintances who went there, so FFA has always been a part of my lexicon. And as far as I know none of my friends are farmers.

by **Monkeyboy** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 22:26:22

farming is making a comeback with younger people.

by **Woody** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 23:10:55

Played a softball game at the Saul farm school once. Threw two people out at home from left field and my buddy hit homers for the cycle. #glorydays

by **Grotewold** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:52:16

I highly recommend Bury Daddy in the Snow. Once your body temps drop to where your breathing slows it’s very relaxing

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 16:19:59

Lil' vulture is really mad about the cdc forbidden words thing. Of all the outrages, I'm not,sure why that's the one to set her off.

by **swishnicholson** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 17:37:54

TenuredVulture wrote:Lil' vulture is really mad about the cdc forbidden words thing. Of all the outrages, I'm not,sure why that's the one to set her off.

Kids these days are very sensitive* to the vulnerable transgendered community. Although I admit my opinion is not science-based.

*except when they're not

by **lethal** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 23:47:05

Grotewold wrote:
PhillieMooDo wrote:Thanks, folks, appreciate your thoughts. Definitely interested in more info, Grote, if you're willing to share. Thanks

Will put here in case it would help anyone else.

The biggest thing for us, again, is routine. Same time every night, sleep sack on, one book read, one song, good night.

I don't remember the exact protocol we followed, but basically put the baby down after that and say "It's time to sleep" or whatever and walk out. Then wait five minutes; if they're crying, go back in, pick up for one second, reassure "it's time to sleep," walk back out. Repeat that process until they're asleep.

The next night, bump intervals up to like eight minutes. Then 10. On average our kids (five or six months old at the time) were asleep within 15 minutes by the third night.

Another factor I forgot to mention is a white noise machine. We swear by it, not only so you don't have to tiptoe around the house, but it gives them another sleep cue and focal point.

Blackout curtains or blinds are great, too, especially for naps and summer nights.

My daughter just hit 8 months and we have a routine down, put her to bed by 6, she's asleep by 6:30-6:45...sometimes there's lots of crying, sometimes there's lots of fighting sleep. Like clockwork though, she'll lose her pacifier around 10 and cry until we put it back in, then around 2, she'll wake up scream crying and it'll take half an hour of holding her and/or feeding her to get her back to sleep, then she'll get up at 5 hungry.

If we could break that 2 AM habit, it would be so much better.

by **Woody** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 09:31:13

put your kid to bed at 6?!

what kind of sorcery

by **Grotewold** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 09:45:19

That's rough lethal. I remember thinking about leaving five or six pacifiers in my first kid's crib, which I had read somewhere. But I think we just phased them out right around six months, which was only rough for a few days. No pacifiers then for the twins.

Two great things I'm enjoying at the moment is the eldest yelling "turn on!" to his iPad and the TV, not realizing that Youtube turns the next video on after three seconds either way. And flipping the light on in the twins' room in the morning and seeing them stagger around the cribs like drunks stumbling out of the club

by **The Dude** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:25:23

My favorite thing right now is seeing my son turn into mick foley, climbing up the book case and diving off and smiling, or running into a chair and getting up and putting a sleeper hold on his sister

by **TenuredVulture** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:59:30

swishnicholson wrote:
TenuredVulture wrote:Lil' vulture is really mad about the cdc forbidden words thing. Of all the outrages, I'm not,sure why that's the one to set her off.

Kids these days are very sensitive* to the vulnerable transgendered community. Although I admit my opinion is not science-based.

*except when they're not

I think she was most outraged by the banning of the term "fetus".

by **Titlehungry** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 17:02:19

The Dude wrote:My favorite thing right now is seeing my son turn into mick foley, climbing up the book case and diving off and smiling, or running into a chair and getting up and putting a sleeper hold on his sister

I guess letting my two year old watch wrestling sometimes isn't optimal parenting... my in laws didn't think he should watch Spongebob... but the kid is a great two year athlete... he has a speech therapist lady come out twice a month because his doctor wants to get his vocabulary moving quicker but the first time she was here, she wrote in her notes she has never seen a child his age throw a ball like he does by closely mimicking the motions and actions he watches on tv... couldn't believe she wrote that lol... back to wrestling, yeah, he mimics that too... doing pretty awesome off the top rope moves he sees on tv from the arm of the couch onto the couch... yes, when he falls and hits his head, I know I'll have to quietly have to listen to my wife have a tirade but I'm impressed by it

by **TenuredVulture** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 17:15:36

I've been pretty far from an optimal parent. Don't really feel bad about it.

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