Well fuck Being admitted and surgery in the morning. Playing c.f. routine shot fielded it crow hopped and fired home. Heard a loud bang like a gunshot. Completely snapped my humerus bone . how in the fuck. I miss my girls first night away from them
Found out this morning that my day care wants to move my daughter up to the next class. She will be 9 months next week so this was a bit of a surprise for us. They usually move them up around 1 years old. They told us the 1 year old thing is just ball park timeline and it's more on how they are developing. My daughter has been very quick to everything but we thought it would be a little longer. She started trying to stand up a couple weeks ago, can hold it for a few seconds, so I know the walking isn't too far behind. Not sure how I feel about the move yet. My biggest concern is napping. In the next class up they only do one scheduled nap a day. That actually might be a good thing though as she has pretty much stopped napping at day care. She wants to be in everything all the time so apparently anytime they put her down, she just screams to want to play with the other babies that are not napping. At home she naps like a champ, but it's in a dark room, with her sound machine, so much different situation. I bet she would actually nap better if the whole class is going down at the same time. There's also the money, which I'm trying to not really let be a factor in my decision. I talked about how expensive my day care was but it's a pretty sizable discount for the next class up. Think it drops from $1,750 a month to $1350, so that would be a nice little savings. Any one else dealt with this before and want to give me some thoughts?
If your only concern is her nap schedule, then I'd not worry about it. I frankly like when my kids get bumped up early, I think they progress quicker when they see bigger kids doing things they want to be able to do.
Send her up, she will adjust to the nap schedule eventually and you get $400 dollars a month to blow on cocaine and hookers.
I agree. Move her up. Daycare wanted to move our 1 year old up but we’re moving in a few weeks so we asked if they could just keep her in the same room. That way it was two transitions in a short time period.
I was thinking that as well. I like the idea of her being with older kids to help with her development.
Yep, that’ll help a lot. Our son is almost 2, & every time they’ve moved him up, he’s adapted fine & done great....I’m sure your daughter will be the same way if she’s already catching on to things that quickly.
Surgery was successful ill post pic later. 2 plus hours. One long plate 11 screws it was a clean spiral break. If someone wants to make a thread ill respond. Doing all this with my left hand sucks. Ill update when I can
Any reccomendations on breaking fear of water? My daughter(she is 4) is terrified of going deeper than her waist and we have her in swimming lessons but she refuses to do anything other than cling to the side. Really frustrating to see other kids acting like fish but she won't do anything.
I have no advice on this. My 3.5 year old son will swim underwater at the pool for hours. He loves it. Water gets in his eyes in the shower? Lord help us all.
More often than not the daycares bump the kid up because they need to make room for an incoming kiddo OR they need to balance their teacher/kid ratio. Feeding the parent a line about how the child is advancing helps to ameliorate the process. Regardless of the reason, like bdl said it will be good for your child to be in a more “advanced” setting. Any siblings? You want your child to be around others who are swimming as much as possible. Go to any swim parties you can. Enroll your child in one of those indoor swim classes (aquatots for ex.). Exposure and experience are key so take your child to the pool often and push a little more each time. One more trick is to fill the bath tub near the top, get some toys and let her horse around on her own. When you go to the pool recreate the same envt. as much as possible through props (same toys from bath, same towel, etc.) and routine (tell similar stories, put her haia
So the wife got a new job and we had to hire a nanny for the summer. First time we've done this; she started last week and we pay her hourly. Obviously the nanny is off tomorrow, but do I still pay her for it? Educate me.
No, people who work hourly get paid by the hour for time they are at work If she has been with your family for like a long time, I would consider it as kind of a loyalty bonus thing, but not if it's just a temp
My 3.5 year old is a little shit during nap time at daycare, He has been refusing a nap for at least 6 months and now refuses to be quiet while his friends sleep. He and one other kid run around the room yelling and ignoring the teachers. They try to put them in the office but both feed off each other and laugh at disobeying the adults. They say he is fine the rest of the day but he gets real joy out of being insubordinate during nap time. They want to meet with us to discuss it next week. Any thoughts or suggestions? We are at a loss for how to alter his behavior.
Token economies? Is that like giving stickers or treats for positive behavior? He had problems about 6 months ago where they tried stickers or I gave him ice cream treats at home for a good nap/rest time. That wore out after a couple weeks. We met at that time and came up with a plan to give him a backpack with activities to keep him occupied and quiet. It worked for a while and then faded but he switched rooms in early April and it became less of a problem. The new teachers dealt with it better and gave him puzzles to do instead of his backpack (and they took the backpack away anyway because all of the other kids wanted one). Now his old classmates where he had problems have moved up to being in his class again and the problems are circling back. It seems like they feed off each other.
Yeah, it’s basically like a simplified economy. You want to make sure it isn’t directly tied to food (i.e. don’t directly reward him with food but give him that option if he wants it). You can give him a token or sticker everyday he listens to the teacher or however you want to define it. Then he can turn them in for rewards on a daily or weekly basis. EDIT: this is a simpler breakdown https://www.verywellfamily.com/create-a-token-economy-system-to-improve-child-behavior-1094888
They tried it and it turns out what he is really in to is getting the teachers to get really angry at him so he can laugh at them. He is usually good but when he wants to be bad he is like an internet troll.
We pay our nanny for all holidays that would fall during the week when she would be working and give her 2 weeks paid vacation. I look at it as a retention bonus. With our first kid we had to scramble and find a new nanny after about 4 months and that was a nightmare, anything to prevent that again.
1. That’s hilarious. 2. I would tell the daycare that. If they stop getting angry, the behavior will likely stop.
Approximately 8 weeks until I go from a father of 1 to a father of 3. Not sure if I’m more excited to meet these kids or to never deal with a pregnant wife ever again.
Alright fellow edads. Im taking a small mini family vacation to the mall of america (hell on earth)imho. I don't travel much because I get next to no time off in summer. What is the best hotel booking site to use? Are any really better than the others? Looking for any pointers I can get. Tia
Alright, I guess it’s time I join this thread. Expecting our first on December 24th and find out the gender tomorrow. Really looking forward to being a father and came at a great time for us as a family. We found out a week after I accepted a job in Memphis, were able to buy with a baby in mind and she doesn’t have to work.
Both your posts had me rolling. No great advice for you, good luck! Also, no more kids for me. Two teenagers now. It was like a year happened and all of the sudden they are as tall as us now. Not all bad but I had to check myself because they were giving me mood swings.
Wife and I have been talking about me getting a vasectomy. Any survivors here? I'm about to be 32, with 3 kids and we're about 99% sure we're done, I think the thought of it just kinda scares me a little.
The daycare doesn't have like a gym or something do they? The last place my kids went had a gym where shithead nappers got taken when the rest were napping so they could run off their energy and not bother other kids.
There is a gym but they have a class nap in there (I think his class). We met yesterday and it sounds like he is the leader of the nap resistance. They’re basically asking him to sit quiet for 30 minutes with no activity and then he and other non-nappers can go do something. I said that sounds like a lot for a 3 year old if he isn’t tired. I recommended puzzles or books but they said it creates a problem because other kids want them. I wasn’t sure why that was a problem. I’m not sure there was much of an outcome from the meeting.
Fam why you got a gym and don't let the kids gym? My boy had to transition to non-napper at about the same age because he was a fucking nightmare at napping. He'd rather sleep when he's dead and when forced, would turn into a total shithead. Running that off was way better and we got way fewer complaints when he started doing gym time instead. I think it's silly to ask a 3.5 year old to sit quietly for 30 minutes. You're asking for problems if that's your expectation.
4 yr old is having a tough time with the move. We moved Friday and I had to fly out Sunday morning so hardly anything is unpacked. We also downsized a lot since we’re in an apartment until we figure out where to live. I’m hoping once she gets her toys and books unpacked it will be better. Breaks my heart when she looked at me and said Daddy I don’t like it here and won’t to go back to our house.
Say a prayer for Shelby she is having terrible pain on her right side a betting man would say it is her appendix. Did my first PT everything is healing nicely and with proper care and PT twice a week I could have normal functionality of my right arm in 3-4 months