I'd say autistic or not, chewing out an 8-year-old probably isn't good for anyone involved, but I totally understand with your kid/kids being put in danger. On board for discussing/being pissed at the parent(s) though.
Depends on what jbr 's definition of "chewing out" means. Hopefully he didn't scream and lose his shit on him, but giving a very very serious talking to an 8 year old, that will probably upset him, is fine imo.
No screaming or yelling. I just got in a little tight to his face and explained (in my menacing adult voice) if he ever did that shit again that he wouldn’t be allowed back to play with my kids. I told him to go home and then stormed down to talk to his mom.
I clearly said I don’t know anything about autism. I’ve been around 1 autistic child but he couldn’t have been left on his own or rode a bike or anything like that, but I know there’s so many different degrees of it that I know nothing about, hence why I said that.
My 18 month old son the last few nights has woke up multiple times screaming and crying and needs to be calmed down and rocked before going back to bed. We just got a call from daycare today that he didn't nap because he woke up twice during his attempted nap screaming. Anyone have this issue before?
Our kid never went through anything this bad, but I think it is common around this time (2-ish years old, maybe younger?) for night terrors to sometimes happen?
Mine was a professional sleeper for a long time but has been experiencing similar lately. Haven’t talked to the pediatrician yet due to its newness, but our friend who is a sleep researcher said all signs pointed to night terrors — happens about 1-2 hours after they fall asleep, look at everything but you, can’t respond to questions, etc. We’ve been moving him to a different location and basically just comforting him until he can start communicating again, then put him back down. This can take a bit. She said you can just leave them (I think), but I’m incapable of that
Nah. Sucks about his underlying ASD. Really does. But your kids shouldn't pay the price for it, so some fierce advocacy for them when he isn't playing safely seems totally legit. Feel for his parents, but maybe a kid with impulse regulation problems shouldn't have toys like that. Somethings fucky about their judgment
My boy turned 21 months 2 days ago. His head sticks up 1” above our standard height kitchen counter. Wtf is going on?
I have a 2.5 year old who doesn’t eat anything. He pretty much eats nothing consistently. Maybe apple sauce sometimes. They say at school he eats cereal. He has an older brother who is a picky eater but still eats every night. at wits end trying to get him to eat anything. I’ve heard of food therapists but not sure what they do to help. oh he eats McDonald’s.
Fun order of events tonight before bed... -try to brush teeth -headbutts toothbrush -pokes himself in eye -smears toothpaste all over his face. A good dad would clean him up, right? Ok -convulsions bc I was wiping face. -slams head into ground -screaming -runs through house to find mom. She is not there -screams We went to bed early
Here mine last night: -6 month old boy pees in my face while changing diaper. Chuckles ensue from all around -Seeing this hilarity, 3 year old daughter later blasts piss all over me while helping her put pull-up on before bed. Only one of us finds this funny but finds it severely funny
He’s small but so are his parents. Last time I put his weight in our growth app he was 12th percentile. Doctor hasn’t been toooo concerned with weight. Wanted to maybe see a little more growth but hasn’t ever said she was concerned. kid still has quite a belly. He’s been on pediasure for a while just to make sure he’s getting enough.
Always remember parents talk about the struggles and parents bond together over their horror stories. You don’t hear about the great moments which are frequent and silly. But that’s not as fun to drink over so you mostly hear the horror stories.
In a moment out of Seeing Red, 2/3 has a sketching notebook and I'm not allowed to see the drawings at all
I have a story last night that involves the unholy Trinity of vomit, pee, and poop. Will post when i get the chance
I feel your pain. On Monday my 3 year old asked me to stop giving her hamburger in her cheeseburger (she just wants the cheese).
Ok, so last night the wife asks me to put together a piece of furniture and she will manage the kids by herself while I do that. I hate doing this crap on a time crunch, but in the past, if I don't, then she will, which causes it's own set of problems. So I agree and start assembling things. It seemed like it would be easy enough at first, but I was running into a few issues and things were slower than I had hoped - build kicked off around 5pm or so. While I'm assembling the first piece, I hear "oh god no" - our son vomited all over the place, some on carpet, though mostly on the hard wood, thankfully. I run downstairs to help clean up that mess, then go back to work assembling things - I think we are at ~5:45PM at this point. As I start the second piece of furniture, I realize this thing was designed in Ikea from hell - just absolutely stupid construction that is a nightmare for one person to assemble. I've been struggling with this thing for a while and the kids are now bathing ~6:30PM or so. Our daughter goes "help please" - wife walks in to find she has pooped in the bath. She kinda half cleans as best she can but there are about 100 toys in the tub and nothing has been sanitized at this point. She then takes them into our shower to get cleaned off from the poop and somehow in the process of showering them, the shower head pops off and just starts shooting a full stream of water on our sons face so he starts losing it. She finally gets them cleaned up (meanwhile I've now stripped out screws on this piece of shit furniture and have decided to call it a night) and starts to dress them, I think this is 7PM or so - I then go into sanitize the 100 toys from before. Everyone is losing their shit at this point and being upset, my son pisses on the carpet. We finally get everybody ready and in bed by about 7:30PM. We almost killed each other by the end of the night, but somehow got through things with no blood shed and no divorce. I had to take a tap and die to some parts from the shitty furniture, but I finally got that assembled this morning. Worst night ever.
But it is really fucking hard. I struggled during both newborn stages. Way more so with my first to the point I had a serious bout with depression. Not to scare yall but I think it's good to hear that it is hard. You are not a bad parent for thinking that or struggling. I did not have enough people around to tell me that/guide me through the difficult times.
I had a huge list of reasons I didn’t want to have kids. That list was 100% accurate. Everyone telling me it’d be worth it was right too.
I don't know if 6 week olds have a normal sleep schedule, or not, but ours has flipped hers. She fusses from 10-midnight now. Is fine, nearly asleep, then cries; walk around with her, she gets sleepy, nearly asleep, cries. She'll then be awake all morning, and then wants to nap during late afternoon. We can't figure any way to get her to stay awake. Even after a 6oz feeding, she won't sleep.
Being a good parent is no joke. It’s hard as fuck and takes more dedication than anything else you’ve ever done in your life. Anyone telling you any different is a liar or a shitty parent.
It's really hard. 0-18 months, IMO, is brutal. There were things that were fun, but nearly all of it was extremely hard. I questioned my life, if I made the right decision, could I do it, etc. I actually enjoy being around my kid now. It's become much more fun from like 20 months on.
No doubt. But those early months at least for me, I wanted to strangle people who say "cherish every moment cause it will be gone before you know it." I'm sorry but no I am not cherishing getting home from work at 4:30 for my colic-y son to cry for the next 5 hours, then I go to work at 7AM to get texts all day from my wife how he isn't napping. Rinse and repeat for months. It sucked and every day:
Yeah. Even my wife says right now is her favorite time. I loved moments watching him learn to do things like walk or climb up stairs. But those mini moments out of 18 months of sleep deprived hell do not make me want to do it again. Wife claims she's 80% "doesn't want another kid". I'm ready for that to get to 100 so i can get cut. I'm done with 1. I'm 41. I'm too old for this shit.
Yeah we thought we were done at 1. Ended up having another but thankfully he is a god damn angel. Newborn stage still had its' difficulties but at 10 months now couldn't ask for a better baby. Would consider 3 if it was a guarantee they were as easy as #2 but knowing we could get #1 again, nope not chancing it.
Although I complained a few minutes ago, and think I have it bad at times, we're probably really lucky. My SIL's first baby cried nearly non-stop and had to be held the entire time and moving. Baby C really only cries when she needs something, except those couple hours during the evening and right before bed.
Dude, I'm 39 with a 2.5 year old. I'm exhausted and feel like I'm really at my limit. My wife desperately wants a second. I also know how much I value my siblings and would hate to deprive my son of that experience. But I'm so tired. It's a tough spot
You have no idea how easy it feels to manage this time period with just 1 kid when you go through this with your 2nd. When you have your 2nd and you are splitting parenting up you look back and think of how easy it must have been to have 2 parents being able to manage 1 infant.
which is why once you are a good parent your happiness is directly tied to your kids because of the dedication. I dont know a scenario where im remotely happy if my kids aren't.
My 6 1/2 year old son had become an absolute terror and asshole the last month a half. He’s add but has become just absolutely defiant. Screams kicks and hits when he doesn’t get his way. It wakes up our daughter. Being a step dad I’ve always tip toed around discipline. I through the gauntlet down the other night. Absolutely man handled my son into the shower. Sat both the wife and son down. I told her she was partly to blame because that’s the way she talks to me and he was picking up on it. I told them both that this my way or the Highway shit wasn’t going to fly anymore in this house. I never get angry at all and am always calm but I laid down the absolute law for how things going forward. Told my son if he chose to defy me or his mom he will be manhandled every night. Told her that this family didn’t revolve around her desires all the time. Surprised but I think I scared the shit out of both of them.
this is exactly where I (and my wife was 41) was when we had our second. the tiredness doesnt really go away, but he first one can be 'helpful' on some things and now that their 7 and almost 4 they can do a lot of stuff together and theyre into some similar-ish things in some cases so they keep each other entertained to a degree
I would say the baby stage isn't near as bad if the baby sleeps well. My first kid didn't sleep for shit and it was hell. Second one slept through the night after a few weeks. She is 3 and still sleeps like a champ. Every detail of your life sucks ass if you are sleep deprived. Every last one. Baby snakes #3 coming at the end of this month. Hope this guy sleeps like his sister and not his dingbat older brother!