I didn't learn my left from my right until I was 6 or 7 and I still have to think about it sometimes when explaining if something is on the left or the right to someone else.
Reading a clock and tying shoes. I don't think I could read a clock until 4th or 5th grade. One day it just clicked. Before that I could not understand how people could tell time that way.
Post by melodramatic26 on Aug 15, 2013 12:33:51 GMT -5
Hazel didn't roll over until just 2 days ago AND she's 10 months old. TEN. I mean, she did it, like twice, when she was an infant, but that was it.
I cried to my pediatrician at her 9 mth appointment because she STILL wasn't rolling. She crawls and stands and walks around things, but no rolling.
Finally, the other morning I went in to wake her up and she was sleeping on her belly. Then last night when I laid her down in her crib, she rolled over and sighed and went to sleep.
apparently, she was just too fat to roll. True story.
Em refuses to feed herself or hold a bottle (she's 8 months). But I suppose there is still time for this - she just doesn't show interest.
H says I can't drive...
Joanna never held her bottles. I mean, she did once with a plastic bottle, but it was an isolated thing. It was fine with just one kid, but #2 better figure that shit out because ain't nobody got time...
We're such asshole parents. After they had been eating a while we would pull our hand off the bottle so less and less of us were supporting it and more and more of them. They would be hungry enough to try to hold it but not so hungry (like if we did it at the beginning) that they freaked out. I am pretty sure they were holding their bottles through most of their feeding by 6 months.
So try that Tamb! lol I know some babies never do but if you need to train that's how we did it.
I didn't walk until 13 months (my mom called it late but my sister walked at 10m like the boys -- I know it's not really late). ETA the boys are technically "behind" in language stuff / talking but any time they are around other kids it's like their brains just skip forward. It's pretty cool to see. Once they started actually jibber jabbering I worried a lot less.
I was afraid of getting my sister mad, too. She was pretty fucking volatile growing up and violent until she was maybe 11. I still sometimes get that "don't get Amy mad!" feeling but am working through it. My sister was (...is) also totally codependent. I remember once she was 11 or 12 (!!) and was crying and yelling for my parents to turn the heat down b/c she was too hot. Instead of like, getting up and moving the thermostat in the hall herself. That dynamic is really really hard to break when they're still living in the same house. My life was SO much better after moving out (and my parents aren't even assholes or anything).
Post by wildfloweragain on Aug 15, 2013 12:49:45 GMT -5
I learned to drive at late 17. Blame it on our standard cars. I was always terrified of team/ contact sports. Too fast moving. I'm not a quick decision maker.
DS learned to talk late. Had early intervention and it worked wonders.
Marcus also likes to do something, be very pleased, and then not repeat it for literally a month or more. He put two words together a couple of weeks ago -- Daddy this -- and now he is back to just dada.