Development, Miestones and Phases
Posted by: pj, March 10, 2010 in 4:58 pm
The other day it was about 6:30 AM and the two boys were watching television on my bed while I got ready in the bathroom. I heard some giggling but figured they were laughing at the show they were watching. When I came out, I discovered that my oldest (4) had helped my younger one (2) off with his sleepy pajamas and diaper. With his new found freedom, my toddler left 6 perfect little dollops of poop in various spots of my bedroom floor. Quite an artist. I was livid. As I yelled, I attempted to clean up the disaster, using lots of toilet paper and depositing it in my toilet bowl. I guess I must have stopped up the toilet because while I was washing the little one off in his room, I heard my older son go to the bathroom and flush my toilet. About 5 minutes later I heard rushing water and realized that the toilet had MAJORLY overflowed. So much so that it was coming down through the floor below to the kitchen. I ran down to the kitchen and discovered a waterfall in the middle of my kitchen ceiling. I finally got things under control. It took hours to clean up and had to call a repair guy to deal with the ceiling. That night when I was getting into bed I reached down for the notebook that I keep by my bed for to-do lists. I picked it up to discover another little dollop of poop that I had missed. It had now hardened and I had to throw out my notebook.
Posted by: , March 7, 2010 in 11:17 am
Mean Mommy came out of her cave again last night. I keep hoping that she will go on a nice, long, tropical vacation somewhere or even get the chance to tour the vineyards in Italy but it doesn’t look promising.
Everyone told me that it isn’t the Terrible Two’s I had to watch out for the but Tantrum Three’s. They were quite right. I have never seen anything so dramatic, over the top or hysterical than the tantrums thrown by my daughter. She makes the women on ‘Rock of Love’ or the ‘Bad Girls Club’ look like nuns. At one point right around the holidays she seemed to have turned over a new leaf. We breathed a quiet, stealthy sigh of relief and made the sign of the cross. Weeks went by and our house was a happy home. Dinners were ate with quiet conversation. Errands were run without hysterical sobbing episodes. All was quiet on the western front.
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Posted by: JudyB, March 4, 2010 in 11:35 am
My 2 year old has recently started biting. I believe he is using it as self defense. One little boy always grabs toys out of his hands and my son’s initial reaction is to bite his hand to get him to let go of the toy. Supposedly it’s out of frustration because he can’t talk that well yet. I know it’s bad and I’m working with him but if one more person says something to me as if it’s my fault, i’m going to punch them (guess the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree). One mother asked how I was disciplining him, as if I haven’t read every book about this. I’m doing what you’re supposed to do. Punishing him immediately and giving more attention to the child that has been bit. Another mother asked what was going on at
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Posted by: Ilona Siller, February 24, 2010 in 9:14 am
1. They slept a lot and late. I would get to wake THEM up and then relax on the bed for hours of parenting bliss.
2. They slept in their cribs OF COURSE. Where else?
4. They had teeth from the second they came out.
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Posted by: Jill Besnoy, February 23, 2010 in 7:58 am
Sometimes the pacifier habit will phase out on its own. But sometimes your kid is entering Kindergarten and people are giving you looks (no judgments here). It’s time to bring in the big guns. Getting your child to give up the pacifier without major drama can be quite a challenge. Here are ten tips, which might make it easier.
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Posted by: Shelley Gershoni Cekirge, February 19, 2010 in 1:33 am
Shit happens. Sometime it happens all over me. I was in the parking lot of a Target recently when I smelled something foul. It was very close to me. I looked down at my smiling angel and knew immediately from whence it came. By the time I figured it all out I was literally covered in it. My daughter and I both changed clothes in the car.
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Posted by: honestbaby, February 5, 2010 in 6:30 pm
Both Pirate Potty and Princess Potty books provide a helpful, step-by-step story that introduces girls & boys to the concept of toilet training.
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Every princess needs her throne and this book is perfect for the little princess learning to use the potty for the first time! With a playful, step-by-step story that introduces girls to the concept of using the toilet, Princess Potty is a royal lesson that everyone needs to learn. Includes a punch-out tiara and reward stickers for the little princess-in-training!
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Posted by: Sarah, January 9, 2010 in 10:26 am
My son has a strong will, and I don’t like to mess with it. You know what I mean? Why make life harder than it needs to be? He is two months shy of his third birthday and I knew it was time to potty train him, but who has the time and the patience? It takes a lot of concentration and attention to get this potty training thing working well, and truth be told, I didn’t want to deal with it.
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Posted by: debx2, January 4, 2010 in 12:25 pm
I was at the shopping mall with my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and 14-month old daughter. Not the most understanding group so I was hoping my daugher would be one good behavior. I was wrong. Everything was going smoothly until my daughter decided that she was done shopping and entered into one of her notorious public tantrums. I tried everything in my arsenal to calm her but her screams were not subsiding. There was nothing to do but leave the store. I told them I would catch up and I took her outside where she
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Posted by: Susan, December 30, 2009 in 12:47 pm
We are in the process of potty training my two and a half year old. And it’s not going well. We’ve done everything the books say to do but no luck. She’ll sometimes go pee but never poop. She’s extremely stubborn and we had visions of her not being allowed in her preschool (they won’t take untrained children). We’ve been giving her rewards and making a really big deal of ANY success on the potty. My little sister (who doesn’t have a child and has no concept of any of this) was visiting and my darling daughter for some reason finally decided to go poop on the potty!!! Well, we were ecstatic. We picked her up and did a little dance and sang a potty song and gave her a lollipop and a present and we were celebrating like we had just won the lottery. As the festivities were winding down I remembered that my sister is witnessing this momentous event. She witnessed it alright, and is looking at us like we need to be committed.
