I always thought I'd be a SAHM, so working while having kids.
Otherwise I lurked on here long enough to know I'd throw any preconceived parenting ideals out the window when reality struck in so I didn't have many. I do spend more on convenience things and stuff that only has a short lifespan for use than I thought I would.
Post by broadsheet on Aug 24, 2016 11:30:13 GMT -5
Happy Meals Screen time Still be potty training past the age of 3
And this is a buzzkill, but having a special needs kid and having to navigate that world. It wasn't that I was "never going to do it," it just never occurred to me that it would happen to me. (Yes, totally naive)
Post by SallySparrow on Aug 24, 2016 11:36:30 GMT -5
Co-slept with the second. Because she was (still is) a jerk about sleep.
Let them stay overnight with anyone before a year old.
That's about it. I didn't say I would "never do" very many things. I learned long before babies that when I do that I've just doomed myself to do the exact thing I said I wouldn't. Like God's little joke on me.
Screen time for under 2. Worked out fine for DD1, but DD2&3 pushed us right into "yes, you can all watch Daniel tiger and sit on the couch not tearing shit apart!"
Post by browneyedgirl9 on Aug 24, 2016 12:04:28 GMT -5
Eating what we eat at dinner Walking around with snacks Not potty trained already Still has a paci at 2.5 My plans was to already have a 2nd by now, but nooope, totally waiting.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Aug 24, 2016 12:11:35 GMT -5
Jog with the jogging stroller (or jog at all ever for that matter). I made so much fun of DH for insisting on buying a jogging stroller, since I didn't think he would take LO jogging in it, and I was 100% sure I never ever would. I'm on week 8 of C25K now. This is, unfortunately, a testament to how boring I find motherhood...
I never thought I would be breastfeeding past 2, just because I didn't realize that if you let a kid self wean they usually don't stop at a year old. But I'm cool with it!
I always thought no food in the car and only eating at the kitchen table. Yeah....
Post by iheartbanjos on Aug 24, 2016 13:13:59 GMT -5
The amount of screen time we allow. We did not allow any screen time before age 2, and now, during the summer, we allowed 2+ hours on weekdays. During the school year, it's only about an hour, but it allows my kid to decompress and is her biggest currency. I am not a big TV watcher, so this is a huge surprise to me.
My globe-trotting-and-going-local pre-kids self would have vomited at the thought of an all-inclusive resort. Yet here I sit, on a sprawling resort in the mountains with DH all to myself while DD is at the resort kids' camp for the day and DS is at the resort daycare.