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The Pit Parenting Thread

That's fucking awful. I mean I don't have kids so this is probably just random ramblings but I can't imagine a situation where I would feel so upset by saying good bye to my kids in the morning that I had to quit my job to raise the kids. I would also probably pull my hair out if I were home all day alone with the kids.
 
That's fucking awful. I mean I don't have kids so this is probably just random ramblings but I can't imagine a situation where I would feel so upset by saying good bye to my kids in the morning that I had to quit my job to raise the kids. I would also probably pull my hair out if I were home all day alone with the kids.

The bullshit about how great of a lawyer she was, how she was driving a "luxury SUV," and married to a doctor, but sigh, "just couldn't have it all" made me want to break things.
 
I'm afraid we are going to have to take Birdie to a sleep specialist. She's been having bad night terrors for nearly two years and they just won't get better. The doc said she'd probably outgrow them soon right after her 3rd birthday. She'll be 4 in two weeks and still gets them very regularly. It absolutely blows.
 
How regularly for how long? My 5 year old still has a few night terrors a week.
 
How regularly for how long? My 5 year old still has a few night terrors a week.
Probably 3-4 a week. Each instance lasts 5-10 minutes. Always between 10 and 11 PM.
 
Yeah. About 2 a week, typically between 2 and 3 am. Typically he's replaying something bad that happened at school. Telling another kid to stop throwing something or hitting him or something like that.
 
In my camp experience, this usually makes home sickness worse. The best practice is to keep the kid focused on upcoming activities they can get excited about. When they are distracted, they really don't think too much about home this is probably more difficult to do in a family beach vacation scenario.

Camp is different because it's constant activity, unlike the beach vacation.
 
I'm afraid we are going to have to take Birdie to a sleep specialist. She's been having bad night terrors for nearly two years and they just won't get better. The doc said she'd probably outgrow them soon right after her 3rd birthday. She'll be 4 in two weeks and still gets them very regularly. It absolutely blows.

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Look it up, Bake. It's generated by nightmares, but literally the child is terrified. The worst ones are when the child is terrified and doesn't wake up, has no idea what's going on.
 
My now 7 year old has had these. She would cry and act confused, and generally say things that made no sense. It was very hard to get her to calm down or wake up. When she eventually woke, she had no recollection as to why she was upset. Almost like sleepwalking.
 
The bullshit about how great of a lawyer she was, how she was driving a "luxury SUV," and married to a doctor, but sigh, "just couldn't have it all" made me want to break things.

I think she was the associate on a case I had against her firm a couple years ago. Do not recall her being "high-powered."
 
She's only been out of law school for four years and for half of that time she''s been either pregnant or on maternity leave or quit the firm. And it wouldn't surprise me if she got married after graduating from law school and spent time on that. And she lives in fucking Durham. Sounds like she's full of shit.
 
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