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Interesting — hat tip to editor Kate who found these cool kinda-spoons. The idea is that there’s no “up,” so there’s no right or wrong way to use it. Harry just turned one (yesterday, in fact!) and is still doing that comical thing where he insists on feeding himself but turns the spoon upside down the second he gets it — so I’m going to give these a go. They’re $9.99 at Amazon. Num Num Dips
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Noelle says
My 15-month-old has started hitting. Fun! I’ve tried saying “no” or “stop” in a calm voice, or holding her hand gently but firmly when saying “no” or “stop,” but she just laughs at me and repeats the hitting. Any successful tips on how to stop this habit (especially before she starts doing it at daycare)? Some of what I’ve read online suggests that I try to explain to her why hitting is wrong (“it makes me sad when you hit me”), but I feel like she’s too young to reason with. Or maybe I’m not giving her enough credit?
meme says
My first son went through a hitting phase at about the same age. He hit all the other kids too. He wasn’t angry or upset – he did it with a smile on his face. We used a stern “no,” then straight to timeout for a few minutes each time he did it, and also tried explaining why it was not okay. We were consistent, but honestly I’m not sure how much any of that helped. It seemed like he just had to outgrow it. The phase lasted a few months and then he just quit doing it. At the same time, my friend’s toddler was going through a rather serious biting phase, so I felt like I got off easy.
Meg Murry says
I would ask daycare, because they’ve probably dealt with this a million times, and that way you can be consistent with them. If they don’t have any specific advice, I’d suggest redirection at that age. “Ouch, don’t hit Mommy. Hitting hurts! Gentle touches, see?” and then show her how to do a “gentle touch” by gently stroking her arm, and then guiding her hand to stroke your arm.
If she continues to hit, I might try setting her on the floor with a firm “no hitting” and then walking away for a minute.
CHJ says
Ugh, my little guy is a big hitter, and we’ve been working on this for a few months. Here’s what has worked the best:
– The book “Hands Are Not For Hitting.” And buy “Teeth Are Not For Biting” while you’re at it — I think it does a better job of explaining that biting hurts people.
– Very simple discipline from Super Nanny’s book. If he hits someone, we stop him and tell him what the consequence will be if he does it again. This is usually “no hitting. Hitting hurts. If you hit me again, I’m going to set you down and walk away for one minute.” And if he hits again, follow through with the consequence.
– Paying attention to triggers. For our son, it’s overstimulation / excitement and being overtired. If he starts hitting, we take him out of the situation, put him to bed 15 minutes earlier than usual, or whatever he needs to get a break.
Anon says
Kids need to be told WHAT to do, not just what not to do. Make sure you’re redirecting touching/hitting behavior based on what it seems your kid is trying to express/do. “We use our hands to be gentle.” “If you want my attention, please tap me gently.” “If don’t want to, you need to say no, not hit.” If they’re hitting other kids, explain once that we don’t do that to our friends and then remove your kid from the situation.
Saying no and expecting a kid to stop as if they were a tv you could turn off leads to a lot of frustration. Giving the kid something else to do is something lots of people miss.
MomAnon4This says
Give something else for him to do – “We hit pillows. We don’t hit people.” Also, even at this age, my son identified a lot with books and stuffed animals. Find a book about Not Hitting. Also do role play with dolls or stuffed animals. “Oh! The elephant is hitting friends with his trunk! Oh, no elephant, we don’t friends!” Let your kid be the teacher or grown-up who disciplines the doll/stuffed animal. Waggle fingers, raise voice, then give hugs to the elephant afterwards to show it’s just a mistake, totally age-appropriate, you are not raising a juvenile delinquent or anything.
Good luck.
just Karen says
I have these spoons in my “when E gets older” wishlist on Amazon, highly recommended in a comment on this site a month or so ago.
Daycare dilemma says
Love num num dips. Baby is only 6 months old so he can’t really self-feed yet, but I feel more comfortable using them to feed him since they’re much softer than the other baby spoons we have. He likes them for teething, too.
Ladies, I need some help making a decision on daycare. (Sorry in advance for the novel.) I’m pondering switching daycares and commuting with baby (6 mos) on the bus, in part to spend more time with him on the commute. Has anyone done this? I don’t know anyone who takes their baby on the bus, so I’d love to hear from anyone who’s done it.
Full story: we currently have baby at a daycare close to our house, and I commute about 40 minutes downtown by bus. DH works from home and does drop off and pickup. Daycare seems fine, we don’t love it but no major issues either. The major drawback is that I only see the baby for about 20 minutes in the morning and an hour after work, which I’m really struggling with. Another issue is that when DH travels (about once a month) it’s very difficult for me to do dropoff/pickup since it’s in the opposite direction from work.
We finally got off the wait list of “new daycare,” which is downtown about five blocks from my office. I would plan to take the baby on the bus but it would add probably 30 mins each way to my commute to do dropoff and then walk to my office. Haven’t met with the teachers yet at new daycare, so I don’t know if we’ll like them better or not.
I’m imagining baby and me hanging out on the bus, reading books and playing with toys and having an hour of quality time that we currently don’t have. Baby is almost sitting up, so he could sit on my lap or in a seat when he’s a bit bigger. Is this crazy? We’re hoping to make a trial run this week before we make a decision.
Should we just stick with the system we have if it’s working relatively well?
E says
I would really hesitate to do this. At 6 months it would be OKbut once baby gets a bit more mobile (not much longer, really) it will be VERY challenging to keep him contained on a bus. My 2.5 year old might be OK now, but months 10-20 would have been a nightmare.
ADE says
+1000. I tried doing this with my LO and it was a complete nightmare. The stress is not worth the extra time, but why don’t you try a trial run and see how it goes? It only took one try for us to swear it off forever.
(former) preg 3L says
When my daughter was 6 months, I would have thought this was a great idea. Now that she’s 15 months, I would HAAAATE trying to do this. I don’t see any scenario that’s (a) safe, (b) clean (for your clothes — if you can keep her still by feeding her, she’ll just get food all over you during your commute), and (c) not going to make you lose your mind. Doing this on public transportation sounds like a nightmare.
Momata says
I would stay where you are. As your child gets older (and mobile, and demanding stimulation), the bus will become more and more difficult, and your child will stay up later so you will have more time together at home. Also, what will happen when your child gets sick? Then you’ve got a feverish vomiting child waiting for the bus and then vomiting all over the bus. Plus you lose the flexibility of husband continuing to work from home as much as he can while kiddo is home sick – you have to clock out.
Pigpen's Mama says
How does baby do on the bus now? My little one is pretty easy going and I’m not a germaphobe type, but I think taking her on a bus would still be pretty challenging (and be more so as she gets older and squirmier), especially trying to keep her from grabbing at things and dropping her toys, which would be gross on most of the buses I’ve seen.
Do you travel for work at all? This was the biggest negative for having a daycare near either of our offices — it would make it hard to either work from home or travel.
Pigpen's Mama says
Oh, also, all the STUFF. We’re pretty streamlined, but adding a bag for bottles + baby to my work stuff would be awkward.
anonyc says
The line that gets me is “it would add probably 30 minutes each way to my commute”–that’s another hour, precious time in your life! I’d nix the switch for that reason alone because I’d feel even more pressure on my already-limited work day.
Even if that weren’t the case, I don’t think this seems like a good switch. I’ve commuted with kids to daycare–once with one kid (age 5 mo-1 year) and once with two kids (at ages 4 and 2)–DH and I found it crushing. CRUSHING. It was the only option for us at the time, but we both look back at that time period as incredibly horrible. Even after kids adjust to commuting, it’s still hard for a LO to sit relatively still and quietly at the beginning and end of a long daycare day. Especially coming home, when they can quickly go from okay to tired/cranky/hungry, it can be an absolute sh*tshow–and you are desperately shushing them, shoving snacks in their face, etc. while the whole bus/train is glaring at you because you can’t get your baby to be quiet. Not how I liked my evenings to begin.
It also delays bedtime *a lot.* When we were doing these commutes, our kids’ bedtime ended up at 8:30/9, which pushed our bedtime back as well (daycare ended at 6, get home anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour later, then to have dinner, bath, reading…they often were settling down at 9 pm). To say nothing of those times when the bus/train is delayed. Later bedtimes = later mornings, which makes everything even more miserable.
I hear you when you say you feel like you don’t see baby enough, but I’m not sure that 30 minutes on the bus is going to be the kind of quality time you’re craving. It sounds like your family has a good setup right now, all things considered. I’d probably look for other ways to work baby time into your week. I really understand how it feels like you don’t see your LO enough; my youngest is often 10 minutes out from crashing by the time I get home these days, so it feels like I barely see her some days. But I’m not sure the answer is making everything harder for you.
Meg Murry says
Yes – adding 30 minutes to your commute each way would basically mean that you would be trading your one awake hour at home with baby to 1 awake hour on the bus with baby, if I’m doing the math right. I would also be concerned that this would make you the default parent for all things daycare related.
If the problem is getting kiddo to daycare when your husband travels, is there a daycare that is on the way to your office but still closer to home so your husband is doing most of the dropoffs but you could do it in a pinch? Is his once a month travel for a day or two, or is it more like 1 week out of the month?
Is there another way to get more time in your day? Could you work from home one day a week, or come home early one day a week and then do more work after baby is in bed? At any rate, baby will soon be able to stay up a little later, and you’ll get some more time then.
Daycare dilemma says
Sigh. All good points. I was excited that we finally(!) got off the wait list and thought this might be a quick fix. Thanks everyone for the input!
MomAnon4This says
I just want to say – I saw people do this when I took public transportation in the city, and it can totally work. It’s up to you. Do you have a car for a back-up transportation for any reason? Will you be going 5 days/week? How flexible/anxious are you parenting in public? I love commuting with my little guy, but I didn’t do it like this. People do it. It does work.
Daycare dilemma says
Thanks for this. A colleague of mine did it (long ago, her child is now in high school) and said that it was great to have that time together. She’s actually the one who gave me the idea. But I’m not sure how old her son was when she was commuting with him; the 9 mos-2 years stage scares me a little. But it’s not necessarily a forever thing either (although it would be a while to line up an alternative if we try it and it doesn’t work.) Still thinking about it.
anon says
I do it with a 1 year old and it works well for us. It’s a shorter ride though (20 min). I would not even consider it without a carrier (Ergo or similar, we use a mei tai).
Daycare dilemma says
We use a carrier (ergo) for walks, but how does this work on the bus? I’d think that baby would get bored (and freak out). Also, when we do walks with the carrier, I end up very sweaty and covered in drool / spit up. How do you manage this in work clothes? (Genuinely curious about the logistics of this – thanks!)
R says
What are some “essential” outdoor summer toys? We have a big grassy backyard with a swingset, but what else would make the yard fun for the 5 and under set?
MomAnon4This says
We have a plastic horseshoe set. Frisbees. Aerobees (like frisbees but with holes in the middle). A catch set with velcro on the ball and on the “catcher” is great for kids to get the hang of it. My parents with a big backyard have those orange sports cones, different sizes, and you can use those to set up soccer goals or bases or almost anything (kids love them). Balls of different sizes and textures. Things for water play, if a faucet is acceptable, including tubs and sprinklers and hoses and guns if you do those. (waterguns). Bubbles. Chalk for sidewalk (not fences or brick, but it might happen).
MomAnon4This says
Also, my kid painted a big cardboard box this weekend. Ugh. But seriously, you don’t need to buy a ton of things for them to play with.
CHJ says
Sandbox! We have one of those plastic ones shaped like a turtle. It’s DS’s favorite thing in the yard.
We also have a little kid-sized picnic table that gets a lot of use.
Meg Murry says
My kids love: bubbles, sidewalk chalk, water play toys, toy wheelbarrows, tricycles, glider bikes (with helmets – my kids can zoom on those things!), an art easel where they can do messy art like spatter painting, something to climb on like monkey bars, a toy basketball hoop and a baseball tee and giant wiffle bat. If you have a shady area near the house or against the garage wall, you could also set up plastic toys like a play kitchen or toy workbench.
Also: trowels, toy construction vehicles and an area they are allowed to dig is the best part of our yard, according to my kids, but that depends on your tolerance for mud/dirt and messy yard dug up yard.
ETA- those things are spread out among our yard, the grandparents and neighbors – our yard does not have all of the things I listed – that would be kid Utopia, according to my kids
Due in june says
So, I am now the stuff of legend. At 37w1d, my water broke at my desk at work in the late afternoon after I had finalized and filed three significant motions in one of my cases and finalized the draft motion and related pleadings in another. Within four hours, my breech baby emerged via Csection.
My desk is the mess I left it, no organizational memo drafted, my timesheet is late, and now a week post-op, I’ll attend to all of that today.
I was supposed to go on medical leave the next day and enjoy two weeks of paid waiting around for baby, dang it.
Also, anyone who thinks a csection is “the easy way out” is ignorant, idiotic, or both.
Momata says
Wow! Congratulations on the baby, hope you and baby are doing well, and good luck on your recovery. Certainly you get points for efficiency!
PregLawyer says
Ahhh!! This is amazing. You are definitely the stuff of legend. Congrats on your new baby, though! Aren’t you excited that you will now have a story following you forever in your firm? :)
due in june says
Yeah, I am. I’m crazy, clearly. I’d rather have this epic story than like, two days of paid pre-delivery leave. I would have preferred three WEEKS of paid pre-delivery leave, and the corresponding reduction in billable hours target, but this is something I am perversely proud of. I’ve been drinking biglaw kool-aid for too long, it seems.
NewMomAnon says
Congratulations!!! And hugs. That sounds unexpected and maybe scary. Hope you’re donig all right.
I had really bad anxiety and depression during pregnancy, and that’s about how I left my office when I went into labor. It’ll be OK. Cleaning your desk is a decent thing to do your first day back before you’ve been staffed on big projects. Or you could schedule a daycare test run for a few hours before you go back to work, and use that time to prep your office so it isn’t quite so awful your first day back.
quailison says
Congratulations! Epic story for sure. Hope you have a quick recovery!
NewMomAnon says
Sleep Training question – kiddo and I moved from a big suburban house to a condo in the city. She went from sleeping soundly through the night to waknig up several times a night crying; I had been rocking her and then sleeping in her room, but the number of wake ups is steadily increasing and I think I need to let her self-soothe.
The first time we did sleep training, we were in a single family home and she could scream all she wanted, at whatever time she wanted to scream. Now I’m aware that she could wake up neighbors if she is screaming at midnight or 4 am, as she has been doing. I don’t hear the neighbors that much, so I think the walls are pretty thick, but I don’t know whether they can hear her or not. Should I do anything to let them know what’s going on? I have only met one set of neighbors who have the barking dog (who I only hear in the hallway, never in my apartment).
pockets says
Meh. People who live in apts sleep train their kids too. The hazard of living in a multi-unit housing situation is that you’re thisclose to other people, their noises, their smells, etc. I wouldn’t worry about it.
JMDS says
Same advice here. We sleep trained in an co-op, and no one complained.
CPA Lady says
And it might not even be as bad as you are anticipating… I sleep trained my daughter with the “put her to bed sleepy but awake” method and it took all of three nights and the longest she cried was 20 minutes. And I don’t think I have a unicorn child, I think it’s usually that quick for most kids.
So who knows, maybe by this time next week she’ll be sleeping like an angel again!
Anon says
Our neighbors apologized SO MUCH when they were sleep training their baby. We never heard him once.
Of course now that he’s a rambunctious five year old who gets up at 6 in the morning and runs around we hear him all the time. But no more apologies.
Momata says
I’m feeling pride in accomplishing one small part of the juggle and just wanted to share in this anonymous forum. I’m going out on unpaid maternity leave in a few weeks for the rest of the year, and just finished maxing out my retirement for 2015. It’s been a stressful squeeze these past few months, especially as we face down an even sparser Q3 and Q4, but we’re really proud that we paid ourselves first for Q1 and Q2.
Carrie M says
Congrats!
Superficial mom says
My baby doesn’t look like me at all. This is disappointing me a bit. Tips to get over it?
Long version – my other child looks like a carbon copy of me, so much so that daycare teachers recognize me as “kid’s mom” even before I introduce myself. I feel horrible saying this and wouldn’t say it in real life so please dont judge.
(1) My baby doesn’t look in the least like her sibling or me, and my siblings and I are very similar looking so I expected the same distinctive features (2) she looks like my MIL in many ways, particularly distinctive features (think hair color) and while I love my MIL, she isn’t objectively beautiful but a lovely person (3) I know I should expect a 50-50 split between my DH and me, but this is a girl and for some reason I really expected her to look like me.
I love her and when she sees me and gives me her delighted toothless grin my heart melts. But I want her to look pretty (I know, I know, I’ve been conditioned by the patriarchy) and to look like me. Should I console myself that maybe her looks will change over time? Maybe not the distinctive feature but other features may grow to look like me a bit? Or should I just shut up and get over it and hope she grows up to be a good person like my MIL because what else matters?!
More superficial mom-ness : When I show her baby pics around, people don’t say “ohhh, so cute” – this just reinforces my worry above. They try to compliment something else, like her cute outfit or how big she’s gotten or something like that.
meme says
Leaving all judgment aside, this is pointless worry, and it sounds like you realize that. You can do nothing, absolutely nothing ever, about this. So, find some way to let it go for the sake of your child’s mental wellbeing, if not your own. Dwelling on it will only cause you needless stress/anxiety, and worse, your child may pick up on your feelings even if you are only subconsciously expressing them. Besides, kids’ features change so much over time; you never know what she’ll look like as an adult. There’s no reason to spend mental energy ruminating over it.
ETA: When I’m obsessing about something I know I need to put out of my mind, I try to come up with a “diversion.” If I start to think about the thing I don’t want to dwell on, I start to hum a favorite song, or pick up a book I’ve been meaning to get through, or play a quick game on my phone, or anything to derail my train of thought and refocus it somewhere else. Good luck.
NewMomAnon says
I’ve had some similar feelings at times in my kiddo’s little life – at times her face looked like my MILs (and I am not as charitable toward my MIL as you are), and at times she just looked like she had been inflated with a bicycle pump. But she changes so much, so quickly! And I look at pictures from my childhood and realize that I changed a lot too as a kid, and my kiddo looks a lot like some of my baby pictures. So my best advice is to keep an open mind, and not pin your baby as “looking like” anyone permanently. Right now, my kiddo looks like her own little person; I don’t really see either her father or myself in her face. And she is adorable.
If it’s making it hard for you to bond with her, I would talk to your OB; that could be a sign of postpartum depression. It manifests in all sorts of strange ways. I think the more you can deal with it now, the less likely you are to send strange messages as your little one grows up.
Anon says
I have very, very few physical traits in common with my mom, but I LOVE that people in my life can tell that I’m my mom’s daughter because of our shared mannerisms and expressions. Just because she doesn’t look like you doesn’t mean she won’t grow up to “resemble” you in many awesome ways!!
pockets says
Yes. So much of how someone “looks” is her facial expressions and mannerisms. My sister looks absolutely nothing like my mother but because my sister’s mannerisms are so like my mother’s, there is no doubting that they’re mother/daughter.
ml says
Right, my sister and I look nothing alike according to our family members (and ourselves), but we’ve been asked if we’re twins multiple times over the years. I can only imagine it’s because we have the exact same mannerisms, speech cadence, and expressions. Those often make a stronger impression than features.
anonymama says
A lot of babies have really goofing looking stages and end up being very good-looking people (mine have a very awkward stage with sparse old man hair and random goofy teeth… but still adorable imo!). Also, I think very young babies are more likely to look like their fathers, and then as they get older they sometimes start looking more like mom. But also, and most importantly, try to get over it as much as possible, kids can pick up on stuff like that, and it can poison their relationships with each other, and with you, if you seem to favor one over the other, especially if it’s because the favored one looks more like you.
MomAnon4This says
Is this your first daughter? Are you an awesome feminist in your non-mom life? That could be why people don’t compliment your baby’s looks, even in a picture – more people than you think might be scared of making your daughter’s looks A Thing, for either you or her.
You could prompt them if you want, “here’s a photo of my daughter – isn’t she beautiful?”
Also, I bet she will look more like you as she grows up. And if she looks like MIL now, who cares? Doesn’t husband resemble in some way his mother? Are those parts you love about him? Love them in your child now, too. You can do this.
ETA: My son was just born with a birthmark on his forehead that hopefully will fade (it’s an “angel kiss” birthmark.) I told friends that he is a cute baby and even his birthmarks are cute. It’s only been a few weeks and both parts of this are now true, and I hardly see his birthmark anymore. And it’s cute, and he’s cute, did I mention that?
Anon says
In response to “Should I console myself that maybe her looks will change over time?”, I’m going to suggest that you google the actor who played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies. Except maybe not from your work computer. Yes, looks definitely change over time…
But that being said, having a mom who is freaking out about her daughter not being pretty enough will be more difficult for your daughter to deal with than anything she herself feels about her future appearance.
Spirograph says
Yes, hot Neville!
Seriously though, I could have written the part about older son being a carbon copy of me and young daughter, not so much. She has the beginnings of one of my less-favorite physical features in my husband’s siblings. But she’s cute in her way, too! And “objective” standard of beauty aside, physical resemblance is such a nice thing to see in your children, I’m sure your husband is happy (especially if your older child looks so much like you; my husband is always grasping for some feature he can recognize as “his” in my mini me son, and do the same for my daughter, even while telling myself that she’s still a squishy baby and not to read too much into it)…focus on being happy for that, and try to leave aside any judgment of attractiveness.
PinkKeyboard says
My aunt thought my cousin was so ugly he couldn’t be her baby and told them to go back and check again…. he is now very handsome and she loves him to pieces.
pockets says
I totally get wanting your daughter to be pretty but after reconciling myself to the fact that my daughter will probably not be a beauty, I really do think that being pretty is not all it’s cracked up to be. Being pretty might make life easier is some respects but a 5 year old who is constantly told she is beautiful will grow up to crave and seek out that attention. I’m not beautiful and I turned out OK; I’m sure many other successful, intelligent women could say that same thing. In fact, when I think about the “pretty” girls I went to junior high/high school with (and their respective Facebook pages) I’m largely unimpressed – being pretty didn’t get them into good colleges or grad schools.
Superficial mom says
Thank you all. I love her to bits and there’s no question of postpartum depression or favoring the other sibling more, really. Just wishing she looked like me and her sibling more.
I loved your anecdotal stories about sisters/moms who were alike in ways other than looks, and of the aunt who thought her cousin was so ugly he wasn’t her baby. Made me smile! And yes looks don’t and shouldn’t matter. I’ll try and get over it.
TBK says
I know we’ve had a million kid travel question, but please please if you have any good baby app suggestions let me know! Taking the twins on a short flight (DC to Boston) this weekend and my basic plan is to let them play with our cell phones. (We never let them because they seriously get all “my precious, my precious” about them when we try to take them back. It’s horrific. So they’re going to freak out about getting to play with them for an hour.) We have an iPhone and an Android — any recommendations for good apps for 14 mo olds? Please?
Nonny says
Download a couple of episodes of Peppa Pig. They are about 5 minutes long and so cute, quite unobjectionable.
FVNC says
+1 to Peppa Pig, and also Small Potatoes. Very cute, ~3 min episodes.
NewMomAnon says
If you search for BF123, it brings up the BabyFirst apps – lots of them. Many of them are free, but you’ll have to monitor your kiddos because there are some ads at the beginning that you have to navigate through (you have to figure out a math problem or something to purchase; they just get stuck on the ad screen and my kiddo gets frustrated). Otherwise, my 16 month old is obsessed with videos of herself, her doggies, family members, her toys, etc.
Nonny says
Along this line, my LO loves just looking at photos of herself and other family members on the phone. It can keep her busy for half an hour, easily. I was shocked at how quickly she figured out how to move from one photo to the next.
pockets says
Not exactly your question, but we downloaded a season of sesame street from itunes. If you get an older season (a few years back), it’s $17.99 for 12 episodes or something.
Meg Murry says
My son loved some of the Fisher Price apps for iPad when he was a baby – we had the animal sounds one, and the giggle gang one. Basically, as long as they smack the screen, it makes noise or something wiggles on screen. You can filter by age and device here:
http://www.fisher-price.com/en_US/gamesandactivities/appspage/index.html
My son also loves when we turn on the front facing camera and he can see himself on the screen like a mirror.
ADE says
Peek-a-boo Barn.
Stacy says
I hear ewe.
Toddlers seek and find (by Wonderkind- I think they have 3 or 4 different apps along the same theme.)
Both have free versions without adds and I find them not too flashy and overstimulating. My 4 yo has been using them since she was about 1, and my 1 yo also plays with them.
anonymama says
My kid liked videos of garbage trucks. (like, take a video of the garbage truck when it comes to your house), he could watch it over and over. and videos of himself, relatives, pictures of friends.
Sleep Training says
I have an acquaintance I met in a social setting and then ended up using her business. Because I knew her first in a social setting, we are friends on Facebook. Recently, she posted a rather inflammatory/clickbait/non-scientific article called “Crying It Out Causes Brain Damage”. I did CIO with my kid with great success and little trauma. I’ve just ignored her post and moved on, since I like her and our business interaction otherwise.
Just curious though, what, if anything, would you do? Would you say anything? And would your answer change depending on what her business is (e.g. accountant vs. therapist vs. gyno)?
Maddie Ross says
Does her business deal with babies in any way? If not, I’d keep quiet. I did CIO and am completely comfortable with my decision. I made my decision to do it after reading a book by a physician about the benefits of good sleep hygiene and teaching good sleep hygiene, which includes crying it out. That article would p*ss me off, but how would saying anything help the situation? Know that you have support out there of people who are comfortable with your choice. And there will always be dissenters. But no, I would probably keep quiet. And if her business did deal with babies, I might press her a bit on her thoughts no the article, but probably not directly attack or contradict.