I think my wife co-slept a bit when they were newborns briefly but aside from that my boys have never slept with us. My youngest has a full size bed in his room that we thought he was ready for but he refuses to leave his crib so a few nights I've slept in that bed to make him happy and go back to sleep.
it's a fine line but we have been able to navigate the occasional kid in bed. lately my oldest (8) has been sleeping with us on nights when Bama has a 8:00 PM tip. it's just a little secret we don't let his little sister know otherwise she would insist on joining. my 5 y/o daughter comes into our bed in the middle of the night maybe once every couple of weeks. claiming a bad dream. she just gets right between us and we don't mind. it's all so occasional enough that we enjoy it. thankfully neither of them have ever made a habit of it. my 2.5 year old has only come in when he's sick.
My 8 year old son very occasionally will want to sleep in our bed and of course we let him. This is a recent occurrence, we never really let them when they were under 4. My 5 year old daughter has zero desire to ever sleep in our bed.
Every now and then as weekend treat we use twin blowup mattresses and put them in our room. So the boys (8 and 5) get what they want to be in our room but they know it’s a special setup. And they aren’t getting used to being in our bed. they only sleep in our bed if it’s a middle of the night and usually they aren’t feeling well kinda thing.
This hits home as our seven year old daughter got in our bed in the middle of last night and slept with us. If it's every once in a while I've resigned myself to letting her since it's not going to be nice or help her with any trust issues if I'm a mean guy and make her go back to her room, especially if she's scared.
thats the way we have been with our little man. He usually tells us he had a bad dream or something and we let him climb in bed. its not very often, but maybe once every few months
wife will be out of town so it’s a boys weekend coming up we were eating lunch and telling mom that we’re doing nothing but manly stuff all weekend my 6 year old killed me with “we’re gonna walk away from an explosion while smoking cigarettes”
3YO was yelling at Alexa to turn off the TV this morning. Alexa responds with "rental complete" I now own a rental of the movie Hero. can't wait to watch that!
it was a few pages back, but someone had posted instructions on how to disable voice purchases on alexa. definitely recommend especially if youre kids listen to music at all on it.
We never had a daycare/preschool that used these, but it freaked me out that some have webcams in the classrooms where you could look live at what they're doing.
Why? It is common place to have webcams at doggy day care places but we can't watch our toddlers? Webcams have also caught a few instance of Abuse in Atlanta. I sure wish my daycare had them
Yea I'm not sure i understand the problem, particularly with the instances of abuse that seem to happen at daycare facilities
I think the cams are probably good. Our first daycare let the parents remote in and watch — however my wife was a psycho about it. Our daycare now has webcams but they’re only used by staff.
Our son in daycare has ADHD so it’s important for us to see how he’s doing in realtime. We don’t really trust the teachers are well equipped. At least he’s almost done there.
By staff makes sense, it would creep me out if another parent could see my daughter doing something in class but that's just me.
Yes. A little over a month ago now. we have noticed behavior and emotional issues since he was 2. We continue to struggle with eating consistently. And over time we noticed that his emotions were really extreme and getting his attention was a challenge. To this day we still haven’t ever given him “time out” because we knew it wouldn’t be effective to manage his big emotions. so all that said what drive us to getting him tested is he is going into kindergarten in the fall and we needed to know how we could help him and if he was ready.
Our almost 3 year old has gotten up almost every night since 2 years 2 months old because we need to fix the blanket or she can’t find her stuffed animal that is right next to her. Shit is infuriating even though it doesn’t take long, it’s having to go back to sleep which can be hard for me.
Not sure if I should post here or the travel thread, but has anyone taken kids to an all-inclusive resort? Wife and I were planning on going to Europe for our 10 year anniversary this year. We have a 4.5 year old, but both sets of parents have some health issues, and we don't feel comfortable having them watch him for that long. Mainly due to if something comes up, we'd have to cancel or try and rush back. So we've decided to pivot and take a vacation with him. Reason we were looking at the resorts is they have kids clubs so that would give us some alone time and he could have some fun with other kids.
I'm sure it's pretty similar to taking them on a cruise where you can drop them off at the kid zone for a few hours and have adult time. If they're fine in new places and integrate with new kids easily, it's great. They usually do a good job of doing different activities with the kids to keep them entertained.
When I was in the Dominican last year we got paired with a single golfer at a course and he said he had played two rounds of golf every day while there (he was fuckin bombed by the end of our round) and his wife was enjoying the pool while his kid was at the kids club thing. So just follow that blue print for a successful anniversary vacation.
That is one option we looked at. I have family in Ft Lauderdale we are planning on visiting. We were planning on doing that as part of the trip, but they're weren't many option in may/June when we were planning on going to FL
My city did in fact have a youth day camp. got signed up for both of those mf summer sessions for $750 a pop. still way cheaper than daycare lmao.
Me explaining to my wife how i've mapped out all of our Summer Camps, Vacations, Family visits, and holidays.
Same… then my brother drops a note to everyone that he’s getting married this summer and it completely fucks up two weeks of camp I can’t cancel. Grrrr
Yea I have to travel and I’m in the wedding. One event on a Thursday of one week and wedding is not until Sunday evening, so won’t get home until Monday or Tuesday… so basically one week of kids camp will be Monday-Wednesday at best. Following week will probably be Wed- Friday. Essentially I lose one week of camp spread out over two weeks. One of the camps frowns upon you missing time so I might miss out on it all together.
We have our own calendars and just share events. I guess I worded that one wrong. We just “invite” each other to everything.
I'm rarely sick which is a good thing because when I am sick, nothing changes. It's cool actually, I get to sleep on the couch to not bother my healthy wife so I get worse sleep. I also get to wake up at 3 and and 6 AM with my youngest. Then I do everything exactly the same as I would if I were healthy because why wouldn't I.
Thursday through basically Monday is basically telling everyone that you don't care about them but you expect them to care enough about you to spend vacation time on them
Nah, finally caught something from the kiddos. Knew my luck had to run out eventually been a year or so.
Tonight is night one of the “Taking Cara Babies” sleep training program. Fingers crossed it works as well as everyone says. A lot of our friends have recommended it.
I mean you gotta think the rhinos die of exhaustion at some point if you’re throwing infinity humans at them