Well, we put C to bed around the right time. Whether he actually goes to sleep is a completely different thing.
C is frustrated that he's done with daycare, but does not start the new school until next week. I'm feeling a bit of that way too; why do we have to wait until Labor Day? I also have his school meeting for parents tonight, excited and anxious.
Post by eponinepontmercy on Aug 31, 2015 15:17:55 GMT -5
DD has been making up memories lately. For example, someone mentioned a Harry Potter movie, and she said she had watched it with Hudson. Neither she nor the dog have seen any Harry Potter movies that I know of. She talks about stuff she did when she was little.
Is that normal? Lord only knows what she is telling people at school about her life.
DD has been making up memories lately. For example, someone mentioned a Harry Potter movie, and she said she had watched it with Hudson. Neither she nor the dog have seen any Harry Potter movies that I know of. She talks about stuff she did when she was little.
Is that normal? Lord only knows what she is telling people at school about her life.
Does she say anything that's really detailed that you can't place in her lifetime?
It could be past-life stuff. But I'm weird and believe in that kind of thing.
Post by laurenpetro on Aug 31, 2015 15:32:30 GMT -5
i am irrationally excited by the fact that the boys' bus stop may be at the end of my driveway. it used to be at the end of our street but i guess with B being SN they moved it for us.
i should point out that i had a neighbor tell me this. apparently i didn't read the postcard. derp.
DD has been making up memories lately. For example, someone mentioned a Harry Potter movie, and she said she had watched it with Hudson. Neither she nor the dog have seen any Harry Potter movies that I know of. She talks about stuff she did when she was little.
Is that normal? Lord only knows what she is telling people at school about her life.
Does she say anything that's really detailed that you can't place in her lifetime?
It could be past-life stuff. But I'm weird and believe in that kind of thing.
After years on these boards with people and their creepy kids, I have been on high alert for stuff like that, but no. It's mostly silly little things, like she went to Disney to play baseball with Greta and Maci and Miss Steph.
I think it is totally normal. My youngest DD used to do this all the time. She knows she is adopted and she had this whole running story about how alien's from another planet dropped her in a corn field close to our house so that we could adopt her. The story was very convincing. You know if their actually were such a thing as aliens. She out grew it and I kind of miss it. She is 13 now and I'm lucky if I get to have a conversation with her at all. LOL
Post by omgzombies on Aug 31, 2015 16:41:19 GMT -5
That chart is pretty accurate for us. The kids used to get up around 6:30am and go to bed at about 7pm. Now they wake up between 7-7:30am and go to bed between 7:30 and 8pm. I do SAH, but unfortunately H does't get home till 6:30pm most nights. It sucks for him a bit, but the nice part is that we have most of the evening for adult time, which we both very much need.
DD has been making up memories lately. For example, someone mentioned a Harry Potter movie, and she said she had watched it with Hudson. Neither she nor the dog have seen any Harry Potter movies that I know of. She talks about stuff she did when she was little.
Is that normal? Lord only knows what she is telling people at school about her life.
I hope it is. DS1 says "Remember when I was a baby and I did xyz?" all the time.
DS1 is so excited for it to be Halloween. He's asked about it since November 1 last year. He tells everyone (people he doesn't know, in public) that he's a scary skeleton or a spooky vampire.
His costume idea changes by the hour, but we're now down to Captain America or Chase from Paw Patrol. I'm trying to talk him into Captain America because 1) it's adorable!, 2) I can wear a Wonder Woman shirt and 3) DS2 has a Superman jacket I'll put him in.
I'm going to take him to the store the first week of October and let him go wild picking out decorations for the house. He found the pumpkin carving set and asks every single day if it's time to carve pumpkins yet.
DD has been making up memories lately. For example, someone mentioned a Harry Potter movie, and she said she had watched it with Hudson. Neither she nor the dog have seen any Harry Potter movies that I know of. She talks about stuff she did when she was little.
Is that normal? Lord only knows what she is telling people at school about her life.
I hope it is. DS1 says "Remember when I was a baby and I did xyz?" all the time.
DS1 is so excited for it to be Halloween. He's asked about it since November 1 last year. He tells everyone (people he doesn't know, in public) that he's a scary skeleton or a spooky vampire.
His costume idea changes by the hour, but we're now down to Captain America or Chase from Paw Patrol. I'm trying to talk him into Captain America because 1) it's adorable!, 2) I can wear a Wonder Woman shirt and 3) DS2 has a Superman jacket I'll put him in.
I'm going to take him to the store the first week of October and let him go wild picking out decorations for the house. He found the pumpkin carving set and asks every single day if it's time to carve pumpkins yet.
Post by penguingrrl on Aug 31, 2015 17:03:11 GMT -5
I'm ready to bang my head into the wall with peoples reactions to the new NJ carseat laws that take effect tomorrow. So many people are screaming about how it will be unenforceable and "how will an officer know how old a child is/what a child weighs" and one asking if police will now carry scales. Ummm, NJ has had carseat laws since I believe the 80s. They have all had age and weight components. This new one simply is updating them with current AAP and NHTSA recommendations since it hasn't been updated in 14 years. It won't be harder to enforce than previous ones. So unless you just think carseat laws are bullshit I don't understand why you're screaming about this update.
Post by hopecounts on Aug 31, 2015 18:31:36 GMT -5
DD is in bed on time by that chart but I sah so it's doable. Dinner is ready when DH gets home @ 5:50/6. Sucks for him and is not convenient but her school reports backs up that she HAS to be in bed by 7 or her behavior suffers.
My 3.5 year old is asleep between 8:30 and 9:30 (it varies and yes it's late!!). She's in bed before that point though. And she sleeps in! Up between 7:15 and 7:30. This weekend she slept in until 8:40!!!! She takes an hour or so nap at preschool each weekday. It seems to all work for her.
Post by litebright on Aug 31, 2015 18:58:18 GMT -5
That chart showed up in my FB feed, too. LOFL to it when you have two kids of different ages who share a room. If I can get them to crash out fast enough that they don't keep each other awake until 9 p.m., I'm good.
This week starts the first week of Activity Craziness Commencing. Four nights of stuff. FOUR. Monday evenings are now my only "nothing to do, lalala" nights. Each of my children do exactly two things: a music class and soccer. I don't think that's over-scheduling! But this happens to be the point at which we went from one soccer practice for DD1, and DD2 having none, to DD1 having two and DD2 having one. SIGH.
I am not looking forward to this. I'm going to either have to do a lot more crock pot meals, or we won't be eating until 8 p.m. and that chart can go screw itself.
We start bedtime around 7. Shorti is occasionally up there singing and shuffling around doing fuck knows what till 9. She sleeps till at least 7 thiugh
The inly way this works on a regular basis is because about 4 days a week we eat leftovers for dinner. When we were trying to cook every night she'd eat by herself while we cooked and we'd eat after she was in bed.
We start bedtime around 7. Shorti is occasionally up there singing and shuffling around doing fuck knows what till 9. She sleeps till at least 7 thiugh
The inly way this works on a regular basis is because about 4 days a week we eat leftovers for dinner. When we were trying to cook every night she'd eat by herself while we cooked and we'd eat after she was in bed.
See, this is the crux. H and I determined early on that it was important to us, as a family, to sit down to meals together. Even when B was weenie, we'd all eat together (be it he was on the boob or hanging out in his bouncy seat while we ate).
So, if I get home at 6pm most nights, dinner is on the table, AT THE EARLIEST, at 6:30. Allowing for child dickishness at meals, that means the earliest dinner is done at 7.
You expect me to wind a child down from dinner to sleeping/bed in 15 minutes? No? Ok then.
So what, exactly, gives? The fresh home-cooked meal? The family time together at the table? The pre-dinner blowing off steam running around outside? Which, exactly, would you have me sacrifice for 45 minutes more sleep?
We start bedtime around 7. Shorti is occasionally up there singing and shuffling around doing fuck knows what till 9. She sleeps till at least 7 thiugh
The inly way this works on a regular basis is because about 4 days a week we eat leftovers for dinner. When we were trying to cook every night she'd eat by herself while we cooked and we'd eat after she was in bed.
Oh yes, this is very true, it makes family meals together very difficult. My two kids eat dinner at 5pm most weeknights. H and I will have dinner either at 6:30 when he gets home, in which case the kids will sometimes sit down and join us and munch on whatever strikes their fancy or whatever they didn't finish earlier, or we'll eat after they go to bed around 8pm. H will usually try to slip out of work early one evening during the week, so we all have dinner together one weeknight. Family meals are on the weekends. We try to do breakfast together in the morning instead, which works well for us, there's usually less meal prep time involved.
I checked it and my kids mostly follow this. We take them up around 7:15 and put them to bed at 8:00. It isn't a huge issue for me as a working parent. DH doesn't see the kids much in the evening but he gets home pretty late and my kids would zombies if I let them stay up to see him.
I think our staggered schedules save us here. The boys go to bed at 730 and come out at 715. There's varying amounts of fucking around on either end there, but I think they're in range.
Carl goes in early so he does pick up and gets started on dinner. I come home and help set the table/finish up and we're eating by 615. Walk around 645 and then quick bath if it's a bath night and bed.
The making dinner thing has gotten way easier as they've gotten older. It used to be he couldn't start until I got home, now I can help out when I get home instead of kid wrangling.