Do you ever play with your kid, play doh or colouring and then look at the clock and think, what?! It's only been 10minutes? Then pick up your phone and post here ?
Oh god all the time. Most of the time I'm posting here in the morning it's from the playground or some indoor play place. I love those kinds of things because they're having a ball playing with new toys (nothing beats novelty) and I can play on the Internet, lol.
I agree with redheadk too, art projects and crafts and games are exactly why I sent my kids to preschool beginning at age two. It's good for them because of all that stuff and good for me to have time away from them
I guess my confession is that my tolerance for this kind of stuff ^ has gone way down since #1 was a toddler. It was genuinely interesting/amusing to me at first but by number three, I am just over doing all that kind of stuff, like mommy and me type classes or playing cars. I guess the novelty has worn off, lol.
DH is much better at actually playing with DS than I am. I'd rather go outside with him where he can ride his tricycle, play with his water table, etc and I can just sit in s chair!
Another confession because bunnybean's question about other boards reminded me. I (very occasionally) check out the travel board. There is a frequent poster on there who I am so jealous of. She goes on so many amazing trips. I want to switch lives with her, lol.
Post by scribellesam on Aug 29, 2015 10:54:22 GMT -5
I agree. I feel like playgrounds are a twilight zone where time moves twice as slowly as anywhere else. I only want to go if I'm meeting other moms there who can distract me.
I had wine and a margarita last night. After dinner we drove by the house we're negotiating on and the owners were standing outside. I tried to get H to stop so we could "say hi and introduce ourselves". He did not stop. Lol
We've had a few times where Bas develops a solo way of playing with things, and then H butts in and makes it a parent & child thing. Like colouring - Bas was happy to scribble on his own until H started drawing stars and cars, and now colouring = Bas demanding that we colour with him. No, H. The goal is Bas playing while we lie around on the couch.
I call it promoting independent play and think of it as a vital part of parenting...this brought to you from a horizontal position on the couch.
Also, if DH or someone else interrupts my carefully cultivated independent play the child becomes his problem, no stepping away as soon as you get bored.
Post by bananapancakes on Aug 29, 2015 11:17:39 GMT -5
I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed that my 16 month old knows the way from our house to Tim Hortons. I walked behind him today while he pushed his lawn mower and without any instruction from me, he made all 6 turns correctly. #motivatedbytimbits
I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed that my 16 month old knows the way from our house to Tim Hortons. I walked behind him today while he pushed his lawn mower and without any instruction from me, he made all 6 turns correctly. #motivatedbytimbits
I will feel zero guilt over moderate amounts of TV. My mom says I knew my alphabet at 14 months and a bunch of Spanish words by 18 months thanks to Sesame Street. No lasting damage (that I can tell!). My mom already puts Daniel Tiger on for him, and I think it's cute that he loves to move to the music.
ETA: I just realized I posted the exact same thing on the same topic (in a confessions thread even) a week ago. Apparently we like to discuss TV watching. I will stop repeating my same opinions. But put me in the TV for lyfe column of the spreadsheet.
oh I would not have thought this was a confession but based on something someone posted a few days ago maybe it is?
I have not changed the music I listen to in the car at all since DD was born. Well, unless J is screaming NOT THAT SONG!
The other day she was requesting to listen to Fancy and Love Story (Taylor Swift). I guess Love Story is not "bad" at all but still. IDGAF about Fancy.
C's current faves are Uptown Funk, Watch Me Whip/Nae Nae, and Cassidy (by the Grateful Dead). She can also sing Bawitdaba by Kid Rock and often combines it with the Hot Dog Song from MMCH.
I will feel zero guilt over moderate amounts of TV. My mom says I knew my alphabet at 14 months and a bunch of Spanish words by 18 months thanks to Sesame Street. No lasting damage (that I can tell!). My mom already puts Daniel Tiger on for him, and I think it's cute that he loves to move to the music.
ETA: I just realized I posted the exact same thing on the same topic (in a confessions thread even) a week ago. Apparently we like to discuss TV watching. I will stop repeating my same opinions. But put me in the TV for lyfe column of the spreadsheet.
I used to be really uptight about this, but I've gotten really lax about it. And I, like @bunnybean, feel guilty when he's watching tv, like it makes me a shitty parent if he watches tv.
My MIL is great with J. But she always talks in this super annoying voice to her. Annoying to ME but J loves it. That's why I try to hide when she's around. I know her relationship with J is good and positive for both of them but it is painful to witness
My dad has a voice he uses with babies that drives my mom bonkers. I'm surprised she had 4 babies and didn't murder him.
I used to be really uptight about this, but I've gotten really lax about it. And I, like @bunnybean, feel guilty when he's watching tv, like it makes me a shitty parent if he watches tv.
I'm starting to feel really guilty about it since we're clearly dealing with a speech delay now.
Awwww, don't beat yourself up. We dealt with a delay with my DD and I was a FTM who didn't really let her watch TV. Any TV that was on was our programming and she wasn't all the interested. The first real TV she watched was baby signing time videos because she wasn't talking.
Ds watches lots of TV, more than he "should" I'm sure. It gives me a sanity break and I refuse to feel guilty about that. I also use it as a reward/bribe and it works like gangbusters.
Ds watches lots of TV, more than he "should" I'm sure. It gives me a sanity break and I refuse to feel guilty about that. I also use it as a reward/bribe and it works like gangbusters.
I feel guilty about a lot of things I shouldn't, and I should probably feel guilty Bout others that I don't. LOL
I joked with my mom that I need to have another so I can stop feeling all this stupid guilt about random stuff.
Ds watches lots of TV, more than he "should" I'm sure. It gives me a sanity break and I refuse to feel guilty about that. I also use it as a reward/bribe and it works like gangbusters.
I feel guilty about a lot of things I shouldn't, and I should probably feel guilty Bout others that I don't. LOL
I joked with my mom that I need to have another so I can stop feeling all this stupid guilt about random stuff.
I would like to have another so they can entertain each other and I can do things like assemble a salad without someone trying to block my legs and whining to be picked because assembling a salad is SO INTERESTING.