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GoutPatrol posted:He's 2 1/2, if I leave early he'll just get up, open the door, and go find us (lock only works from the inside). And his bedtime is starting at 930 at best? Yesterday the whole bedtime routine ran from 10 to 12 am. I don't think it is not-tiredness. We had to lock the door. Yes he cried and banged on the door, and then he paced his room for four hours. But we he was coming and waking me up every 2 hours on the dot, then taking 30 minutes to go back to sleep. We have exited the throwing up portion of the stomach flu. Child is living off of snacks and frozen foods and television.
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My 2.5 year old can operate a locked door too, as well as a door with a child-proofing sleeve over it. The combo of the two actually does deter him though. I can turn the on-knob latch by putting my fingers through the sleeve, and he doesn’t have long enough fingers to do that yet. Might be worth a shot!
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Feb 28, 2024 01:05
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For whatever reason our 3 year old has no desire to crawl out of the crib, she'll cry for a bit, then lay down and take nap (still in the crib)
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Feb 28, 2024 01:07
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We bought a monkey hook (I believe the product is called a door monkey) that is high enough our son can't reach it to open the door. It keeps the door cracked, however. Once he's using the potty at night it'll come off and go into our door so he can't come in.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:08
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Oh I just held the door closed. Felt like a monster as she was hanging off it sobbing but that was what we had to resort to. We went through a rough phase when we started encouraging her to use the potty if she felt like she had to which then resulted in her getting up nine times an hour. Thankfully she never started just sitting on the potty forever partly because we also made a conscious choice to remove stimulation. She was okay to use the potty and if she needed help we were there but the parent on duty had all the lights off, all doors closed, anything that might entertain you gone. We wouldn't talk other than "good night Diana" Then she just started wandering around and that led to holding the door closed unless she specifically said she had to potty. Current series of compromises that are holding: she goes to bed after short routine of teeth-pajamas-story-water. We turn off the light and leave a turtle lamp from IKEA and a noise machine. We tuck her in. She is allowed to get up and use the bathroom as many times as she needs but we will only tuck her in one additional time. She can read, sing at the top of her lungs, move around, whatever, but all lights except turtle are off and if she turns them on we'll quietly turn them off. Sometimes she passes out immediately, sometimes she's up for an hour and half. As long as she follows those rules it's fine. Honestly using tuck ins as a bargaining chip was the most successful, we don't even do a huge thing but once we made it clear we weren't doing it over and over she got on board. Any beyond usual nonsense for the routine results in us telling her we won't have time for a story. Eagerly waiting for the next thing that changes and destroys all that!
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Feb 28, 2024 01:38
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Keep up the work on bedtime everyone, the effort pays off. Now we can just say “it’s bedtime, everybody go get ready” and they do, including showers. We hum once they’re in bed then they all read for an hour until lights out.
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Feb 28, 2024 01:52
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We still lay in bed with our 3.5 year old until he goes to sleep. We've tweaked the process quite a bit but can't seem to shake that part. Luckily it usually goes smoothly. The process starts at 7pm with brushing teeth, then reading 4 books, then lights out. I'm usually sneaking out of his room just before 8pm. All in all not too bad. We've got a 1 year old too that hopefully doesn't need that same routine. I do solo bedtimes 3 nights a week so once he starts staying up a little later, things are gonna get hairy.
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Feb 28, 2024 02:32
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Our 3 year old has her own bed but absolutely hates having the door closed even with a night light on and does the usual stalling when going to bed - asks for water, asks for her pillow to get fixed, asks for water again, wants to go pee, needs more water... Last night was one of the worst. She got up far more than usual to come running in our room with this tired little cry and we just take her back to bed, because she just simply doesn't want to sleep We have to wait until she is fully passed out before we close the door but we are trying our best to reason with her about closing it gradually, so fingers crossed we can get some of our evenings back into be coming year
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Feb 28, 2024 02:40
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Trying not to weep* as I read all these stories about parents who pushed through their troublesome sleep routines and now have healthy schedules. In our case, when our kid was 2 she started getting up in the middle of the night and it bothered my wife enough that she started sleeping in the kid's room to keep her there. Now the kid is 5 and they still sleep together all night, every night. Let ours be a cautionary tale, I guess. *just kidding, I stopped weeping about it long ago
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Feb 28, 2024 02:53
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Of course bragging about establishing sleep routines has bitten me in the rear end as both girls have caught a cold gently caress me running, I am so sick of my kids being sick
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Feb 28, 2024 03:46
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dismas posted:tried to do it way too late and she got so upset she'd puke on herself and we just didn't have it in us to keep trying after a few days. Pretty sure even if you can tolerate the aftermath of that, intentionally having your child sleep in their own vomit is straight up neglect.
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Feb 28, 2024 06:33
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Our 3yo still has no desire to climb out of her crib so the conversion kits sit collecting dust. I wouldn’t want to get out either, that thing is cozy as hell. To offset I’m expecting our 1yo will scare us to death by falling out headfirst in the next few months.
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Feb 28, 2024 07:10
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Speaking of sleep, it's 12:30 am and your two year old is awake but chilling in her bed working on her mash-up of Jingle Bell Rock and Mr Golden Sun. Do you (a) go to her room and tell her to go back to sleep; (b) just go back to sleep yourself; or (c) start wondering if there's a larger audience for the mash-up? The answer is (d) make a bottle for your 8 month old who just woke up for her usual middle of the night feeding.
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Feb 28, 2024 13:28
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Kids had this gnarly rear end cough for a week or two now but no fever at all. Take him to the peds on Monday and she ends finding him to be a bit wheezy and gives us an order of albuterol and this really cute looking nebulizer (it looks like a dog). Follow up is on Friday but I hope we can get him something to clear the cough. It doesn’t affect his eating or enjoyment of anything really. He just coughs like hell and then he’s back to playing with his toys and kicking his feet around. It doesn’t even wake him up at night surprisingly.
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Feb 28, 2024 13:33
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Emily Spinach posted:Speaking of sleep, it's 12:30 am and your two year old is awake but chilling in her bed working on her mash-up of Jingle Bell Rock and Mr Golden Sun. Do you (a) go to her room and tell her to go back to sleep; (b) just go back to sleep yourself; or (c) start wondering if there's a larger audience for the mash-up? Seriously what is it with those two songs, my kid does the same.
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Feb 28, 2024 14:00
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We were on a travel work assignment and living in an Airbnb when our oldest was 20 months old and he learned he could climb out of his pack and play. We had to just quickly adjust his room in the night so he could safely sleep in the adult bed in that room. When we got home we just slapped a queen mattress on the floor and he's been sleeping on that ever since. It's wild to me that there are 3 year olds still sleeping in cribs or trapped in their rooms at night.
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Feb 28, 2024 14:08
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My son kept begging me to play cars on the floor all morning. Finally I give in, I'm on the floor playing cars for two minutes when he says "let's play floor is lava game!" Yoouuu.... You little... I just... You just...
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Brawnfire posted:My son kept begging me to play cars on the floor all morning. owned
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Feb 28, 2024 16:50
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Sucked so hard on a booger sucker that I aggravated a tight spot in my upper back. This is a real low point.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:05
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our bedime routine is like an hour, but most of it is hanging out. we do 20 min of chill tv to put on pj's, brush hair and have a snack, followed by 20 min of playtime/picnic with friends/slimetime, then 3 books and lights out. it lasts from 645 to 745 and honestly i can live with this. We've been doing it so long that she hardly protests, and is usually out 10 min after we leave the room. there was a comment about gross medication previously and it reminded me that you can kinda shop around for different formulations of antibiotics. we went to a walk in urgent care place to diagnose an ear infection and they gave us a gross chalky one. we called our ped and she said of course they wont take that, its yucky and gave us a script for a cherry one they took without issue.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:41
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Fancy Nancy can gently caress off
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Thank you to whoever recommended number blocks. After a few weeks of being obsessed with it my 3 year old is running around saying "10 is 5 + 5!" and knows that 9 is 3x3 and 4 is 2x2
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My son turned 2 so I have some bottle related questions 1) when should we stop giving him milk bottles (he currently only has one at bed time, but when he wakes at night and with breakfast) 2) how do we break the habit of waking at night for milk? Should add he’s on formula for a milk allergy Manwithastick fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Feb 29, 2024 08:41
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Jose Valasquez posted:Thank you to whoever recommended number blocks. After a few weeks of being obsessed with it my 3 year old is running around saying "10 is 5 + 5!" and knows that 9 is 3x3 and 4 is 2x2 Like, toy blocks with numbers?
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Manwithastick posted:My son turned 2 so I have some bottle related questions I would work on 2 before 1 because "big kids don't wake up to eat" is a lot simpler than changing diet completely. In my experience, he won't stop waking for milk until you stop giving it. There may be a few rough nights where you have to give him extra cuddles or other sleep association to get him back to sleep after denying the bottle. He may genuinely feel a bit hungry, because kids sort of factor that night feed into their daily eating, but he's not starving and you'll get through. Maybe talk in very plain but brief terms with his bedtime bottle that he won't have another bottle until morning, and see if you can encourage him to drink a little bit more before bed, but don't be surprised if that doesn't work at all. I'd also suggest to really praise him in the morning, regardless of whether it was a meltdown or he fell asleep with no fuss, and give him a slightly bigger breakfast/bedtime until you establish his new appetite to reinforce that "daytime is when we eat" pattern. For #1 don't think as "removing formula", you're expanding his palate to include more foods and will gradually shift to have less formula in his diet. If there's allergies that may be complicated by vitamin and mineral requirements so maybe check with your dr if there's any specific guidelines.
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Feb 29, 2024 13:51
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lifg posted:Like, toy blocks with numbers? It’s a show and is fantastic. Really helps with visualizing math for kids. I credit number blocks for one of the twins being able to do multi-digit addition and subtraction before even entering kindergarten. My wife is a math teacher and would love to use it in her classroom, but her kids are a bit old for it.
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Feb 29, 2024 13:54
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My daughter is obsessed with the episode where they get up to a million. She's always talking about stuff that happened millions of years ago or will happen millions of years in the future. I think it scares her a little in an excited way.
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Feb 29, 2024 14:04
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Brawnfire posted:My daughter is obsessed with the episode where they get up to a million. She's always talking about stuff that happened millions of years ago or will happen millions of years in the future. I think it scares her a little in an excited way. Hell, same.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Thank you to whoever recommended number blocks. After a few weeks of being obsessed with it my 3 year old is running around saying "10 is 5 + 5!" and knows that 9 is 3x3 and 4 is 2x2 I think I mentioned it a bunch but it's amazing and I love it too
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Jose Valasquez posted:Thank you to whoever recommended number blocks. After a few weeks of being obsessed with it my 3 year old is running around saying "10 is 5 + 5!" and knows that 9 is 3x3 and 4 is 2x2 I thought I clicked on the balatro thread for a second and was hoping my son would pay attention to the mult that way
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Feb 29, 2024 14:24
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Number blocks is indeed fully sick. My 4 year old instantly took to the show. It’s cool to see her slowly grasp the concept of addition even though most of the time she uses the blocks as dolls and plays pretend.
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Feb 29, 2024 16:34
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I will have to check this out with our daughter. She was asking about how big a million was, so something better than watching Gabby's Dollhouse for the 1000th time.
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Feb 29, 2024 17:34
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There's also a color blocks one my kid is fascinated by on YouTube by the same people. They teach color mixing, color theory/color wheels, cmyk printing and how it works differently than regular color mixing, complimentary colors, rainbow stuff. My not yet 3 year old loves saying "ingigo" now. It's actually very cool too.
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Feb 29, 2024 17:45
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Yeah, Number Blocks is solid. Also glad someone here recommended it a while ago.
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Feb 29, 2024 18:01
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Oh cool yet another streaming service to possibly buy. We showed Mini Pony an episode of Tumble Leaf yesterday and it was a big hit. I appreciate that it isn't crazy gogogogo zany action.
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hallo spacedog posted:There's also a color blocks one my kid is fascinated by on YouTube by the same people. They teach color mixing, color theory/color wheels, cmyk printing and how it works differently than regular color mixing, complimentary colors, rainbow stuff. My not yet 3 year old loves saying "ingigo" now. It's actually very cool too. Oh really! I'd seen the letter one, Alphablocks, but a color one sounds particularly up my kids' alley.
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Feb 29, 2024 18:08
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Brawnfire posted:My daughter is obsessed with the episode where they get up to a million. She's always talking about stuff that happened millions of years ago or will happen millions of years in the future. I think it scares her a little in an excited way. Also same
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N-thing the Numberblocks love. Having a 4yo do times tables is a neat party trick. But now he's soooo boooored of the kindergarten's math level, doing the homework sheets is apparently torture.
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Feb 29, 2024 23:54
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2DEG posted:N-thing the Numberblocks love. Having a 4yo do times tables is a neat party trick. But now he's soooo boooored of the kindergarten's math level, doing the homework sheets is apparently torture. Homework in Kindergarten? Yeesh, I'd burn them in protest outside the director's office.
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We watched some Number Blocks. My son looked at the number one and said, “Does she miss her mom?” Looked at the number 2 and said, “Is that her mom?”
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