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09-02-2010, 08:17 PM
I've tried baking when Brogan was napping once, but then she woke up when my cake was still in the oven so by the time I got her and changed her and broght her back downstairs my cake had burnt. Now I just wait until a time when my sister is at home to so she can keep an eye on Brogan in one room and I can bake in peace in the kitchen. Leaving Brogan unattended is just a disaster waiting to happen, she gets into everything so it just isn't worth it. And she gets bored sitting in her high chair.
Baking relaxes me too, especially since I don't have an electric whisk, so beating my cake mix helps calm me.
Meat and I are great friends. Just fish I have the problem with, I don't know why the slimy feeling of fish gets to me but the slimy feeling of meat doesn't. Odd.
Ah, that's sweet. Yeah, I swore myself off boys not long after I got pregnant with Brogan due to the extreme asshole that I was with. My male best friend was the exception to that, though then I got too attactched.
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09-02-2010, 08:25 PM
How old was Brogan? When mine were in the infant stage I'd leave them in their play pens for a little while if I had something to be getting done. Specially cleaning. They would get into anything, and as soon as the vacuum turned on they would start crying. It was hard to get anything done with them crawling around...baking included. Though, for my daughters first birthday I did make her brownies and gave her the bowl and spoon from that. Made for some very cute pictures, and cute bath time pictures too.
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09-02-2010, 08:29 PM
Brogan turned one in June. I used to put her in her travel crib since that was pretty spacious and as she was only little it was fine. A playpen is something that I never had though, so there is not any real way to keep her contained when I try to clean. I tend to vaccum when she is eating her breakfast and then I can do all the quiet cleaning while she is asleep or napping or whatever. Brogan doesn't mind the vaccum. It's the washing machine she hates, when it injects the water and drains the water it makes a really loud gurgle, and that just freaks her.
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09-02-2010, 08:32 PM
lol kids are so funny with what freaks them out. My 3 year old daughter is still afraid of the sound of public toilets flushing. o.o
I kept my travel beds with the kids until they were about 18 months, and used them as play pens. Just add a few toys into the mix of blanket and sheet in there and it gives them something to do while you work on other things!
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09-02-2010, 08:37 PM
Yeah, I have to say children's fears amuse me, I know that sounds horrible, but it is seriously funny. One of my friends who I met at a young mothers group has a three year old daughter called Abigail, and Abigail is terrefied of lawn mowers, or strimmers. They live right next to a grassy area too.
I tried that at first, and it worked for a while. But then when she started standing and could pull herself up she just wasn't having any of it.
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09-02-2010, 09:45 PM
Haha, Clair won't be upset if her future husband is shorter than her... but she really wants a taller guy. :lol:
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09-02-2010, 10:04 PM
My youngest is terrified of the vacuum... And of the public toilet lol...
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09-02-2010, 10:32 PM
@ Jaz::
We have kids who are scared of the toilet flushing.
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09-02-2010, 10:34 PM
omg the mo-mo men! I had a next door neighbor whose daughter was a year older than mine and scared to death of the men that came by on riding lawn mowers to mow the lawn infront of our housing complex. It was sadly amusing. ^^;; I'm such a horrible person.
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09-02-2010, 10:42 PM
Haha. Aww, poor thing. xD
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09-02-2010, 10:50 PM
I think the amusing part was that she had no problem with the push mowers, it was just the riding ones that would scare the wits out of her. She was completely inconsolable if she was around/awake when they came by to mow the lawns. It was crazy.
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09-02-2010, 11:06 PM
Poor dear. :/ I wonder why.
There is this one little girl at the day care, and she cries and screams if we try to take her to the bathroom... I find it concerning, because if we try to set her down on the toilet, she pulls at her pants and screams "No pants down!" :(
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09-03-2010, 12:48 AM
Aaron was kinda like that for a while. He just didn't want to sit on the potty the first time we tried potty training. he thought it was a punnishment.
It gets worse when the parents tell the kids that they can't be naked, like ever except for bath time because then they start to think that sitting on the potty isn't okay since they have to have their pants down. It's so hard to teach stranger danger to kids, and still have them trust their doctors for visits, etc. It's a tough line to watch, some parents go over some don't do enough. I worry I haven't done enough since mine have no problem running around naked in the house when people are over after bath time has happened. They want to get dressed in the living room even though we tell them and put them in their rooms to get dressed every night. They have no shame! D:
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09-03-2010, 01:15 AM
We had a boy who was terrified of the potty at 4 years old... I'm talking the boy would flat punch kick scream bite.... anything he could to keep you from putting him there.... Come to find out the mom told him the "coco man" lived in the potty.... Cause he use to play in it when he was younger....
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09-03-2010, 01:24 AM
i haven't gotten to the potty training stage yet with my son but when he hits 18 months we're starting lol i don't k now if thats too young or what but i think he's ready for it, or to give it a shot
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09-03-2010, 09:28 AM
@ Melody::
Although, it's VERY frustrating, when parents potty train by stripping their children down completely naked. Because we have a few kids at the day care who've wet themselves because just having their underwear and pants down wasn't enough for them- they couldn't comprehend that it was okay to sit down now on the potty and go... Clair actually got peed on because of one of these little boys.
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09-03-2010, 11:33 AM
I let the kids decide for themselves. When we first started potty training it was just them in underwear running around, because their pants/shirts would get them caught up and when they realized they had to go they couldn't get the other stuff off. (yes, my daughter thought she had to be shirtless to go potty. @ [email protected]) After a week of them being like that we started putting them in shirts and loose pants/shorts and they were able to manage that, and after that we started teaching them about belts etc. It worked well for us.
Loneata- I tried with all my kids when they were about 18 months. It didn't work for any of them. >.< It worked for me when I was that age though! lol. They should let you know when they're ready, but I think 18 months is a good time to introduce them to the potty, get them a potty chair or a seat insert just so they're not frightened of it. My oldest got potty trained at just over 3, my twins got potty trained at about the same time when they were about 28 months, so just over 2. My son was probably closer to 29...but yeah. Get him introduced to it, and if he catches on, awesome, if not don't push it too much, boys typically learn later...and I think first children typically learn later too. xD Because you're still learning!
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09-03-2010, 02:56 PM
@ Melody::
That sounds like a good way to do it. :)
That one boy, I helped him get his pants and underwear down, and he started screaming "MY SHOES ARE ON!" and then peed one me. :headdesk:
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09-03-2010, 02:57 PM
As far as potty training early I recommend reading a book called Potty Boot Camp.... It is designed for early potty training.... When my youngest gets over his yucky tummy we will be attempting to use it for him... He is still considered "Early learning" as most kids learn between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2
The naked thing makes since... especially cause a kid learns by seeing feeling and touching... Saying peepee or poopoo is abstract.... They just don't get it...
My oldest potty trained relatively easily at 2 1/2 but we had been trying since 18 months... He'd sit there and pee or poo... But it wasn't consistent.... He became consistent at the age of 2.5 but he also had his father trying to undermine what he was learning so he may have learned earlier if it wasn't for that....
My youngest is the most stubborn child I have ever met... I has no desire to be like his brother... He is quite content with being just who he is... Which is a good thing just makes things like potty training or using the cup more difficult!
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09-03-2010, 05:18 PM
Clair- D: That really sucks. I guess you need to have a change of clothes at work, just like the kids do!
I think potty training is more a matter of the kids wanting to do it than the parents wanting it done. While I did kinda force it on the twins when they were over two, most people don't have success with that fashion of potty training. I'd tried reading books about it but they never really helped...there was also an article about potty training your infant my grandpa gave me when my first daughter was born. There were parents that had their 6 month old "potty trained" but it seemed more like the parent was trained than the baby...
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09-03-2010, 06:30 PM
In the beginning of this book it shows the trend of potty training over the last several decades... Saying that it use to be started at only a couple of months old... And that the "wait till the kid takes the reins" idea was actually introduced by a writer being sponsored or something like that by the first manufacturer of disposable diapers... It makes since that people did it earlier back then cause they HAD to wash the diapers... I don't think potty training an infant makes any sense... since most can't get to the potty on their own... And that defeats the purpose IMO... I think between 18 months and 3 years is a good time line... Many are not done by 3 and that is a little too late in my opinion...
The book I got has a good combination of the most common potty training techniques and it is a mom who wrote it not a doctor!!! It sounds like it will work well... But right now Sean needs to be completely over his diarrhea...
Sean asked to go potty 3 times today while we were out at the IHOP today!!!! And he actually peed in the potty!!! So happy!
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09-03-2010, 06:36 PM
@ Melody::
yeah. Change of clothes for the staff too. :yes:
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09-03-2010, 09:09 PM
I can see it working for about a year to 18 months if that's when people choose to start potty training. But if the kids can't walk to get to the bathroom it is pretty pointless. Like I said, these "trained" 6 month olds seemed to be more like trained parents to me! The article had said to watch for the faces the child makes when they're ready to go and a few other things that I can't remember, but it was a lot of doting parenting, that any parent that does anything besides watch their childs every move would never be able to accomplish.
It did give some helpful hints about when to take your child to the potty. Something like an hour or two after eating and like 15 minutes after drinking? It's been a while since I read the article so those times could just be pulled out of my butt, but you get the idea.
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09-03-2010, 10:37 PM
I've so just mopped my kitchen floor 4 times and it is still sticky from the soda Sean spilled all over at..... 32 oz covers a LOT of surface area.... ><;;
I agree Mellie... If they can't walk... It is parent training lol... But I can see how that worked in the past cause I know I hated cleaning clothies... and it is a MILLION times easier now then it was then!
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09-03-2010, 10:45 PM
Yeah, that's part of why I can't imagine doing clothies, while I see the economical and ecological benefits of it...I just can't get myself past the yuck factor to have bothered with them. Though, it also had a lot to do with not being able to find them at stores and not shopping online for things until after my babies were potty trained. It really wasn't until the last year and a half that I began shopping online. xD
Scott cleaned the kitchen for me today. He still needs to mop. The kids spilled juice...it gets the floor almost as sticky as soda, and attracts ants just as much. Which annoys me since I figured after the rain today we;d be ant free since normally they abandon invasion efforts when it's raining. xD
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