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The Pit Parenting Thread

Christmas break where we spend a week trying to entertain Kids and keep them from killing each other - the most magical time of year.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Christmas break where we spend a week trying to entertain Kids and keep them from killing each other - the most magical time of year.
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Yeah, and it's sleeting right now so we can't even send them outside to run around and burn it off. I mean, we could, but they're not interested in going outside and I don't blame them.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Christmas break where we spend a week trying to entertain Kids and keep them from killing each other - the most magical time of year.
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Thankfully the Bug is still very tolerant of and loves to play with Wormy (4.5 and 1.5). So they're not trying to kill each other.

But we're at my in-laws who don't have baby gates. So it's a constant chase for the little one to make sure he doesn't kill him self on the stairs (which are wooden and fairly slick). I obviously take for granted that we've childproofed enough that he pretty much has free reign of our lower level and can't get into too much trouble.

He's also obsessed with my FIL and gets upset when he leaves the room. Just now FIL was trying to make dinner and the kid literally won't let himself be put down.

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Uh thrift store shopping for lil nugs clothes may be the most fun thing around. I got $400 worth of clothes for $40. Christmas shopping for the wife was easy and efficient this year.
 
discdude said:
Uh thrift store shopping for lil nugs clothes may be the most fun thing around. I got $400 worth of clothes for $40. Christmas shopping for the wife was easy and efficient this year.
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Hell. Yes. I love finding awesome things for cheap.
 
Ps & Ts for the wife as we transition S to her own room. She's been in the crib in our room since we brought her home. Now she'll be in her own room on the second floor.
 
It’s tough, but necessary. I know people who sleep with their 5yo still.
 
Last night was rough. The past few nights have been rough in fact. She's not feeling well, so she woke up every 90 minutes or so crying. We had to pick her up, rock her back to sleep then start the process all over again. Fitbit says I had a whopping 4 hours of sleep. Hurrah!
 
tsywake said:
Ps & Ts for the wife as we transition S to her own room. She's been in the crib in our room since we brought her home. Now she'll be in her own room on the second floor.
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Godspeed.

We took on sleep training the little one last week and I thankfully we are almost done.
 
Young WakeandBake rounded 3 last October and we are in full-on potty training. He is at the point where he asks to go potty but nothing has come out yet. #progress
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Whaaaat? How do these people make love on each other? Do they just secretly do it in the bathroom, like El Chupe at a wedding reception?
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former co-worker and (sort of) friend of my wife had their kid in their bed as he was approaching double digits. i think he's 11 or so now. we think he is no longer in the bed. we rarely see her so its not worth asking. we are confident a large part of the sleeping arrangement was so she and her jerky husband did not have to face the reality that they should not be together.
 
It’s of course a #youdoyou but I do not get the extended cosleeping. Even if we are both reading or doing our own thing it’s nice having that alone time before going to bed.
 
deaconson said:
former co-worker and (sort of) friend of my wife had their kid in their bed as he was approaching double digits. i think he's 11 or so now. we think he is no longer in the bed. we rarely see her so its not worth asking. we are confident a large part of the sleeping arrangement was so she and her jerky husband did not have to face the reality that they should not be together.
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My cousin's first wife slept with her parents on occasion through high school. She ended up being totally dependent on them, and when she married and moved away, she couldn't handle her newfound independence. She drove an hour each way to go and stay with them on the weekends. That marriage lasted 4 months.
 
She did better last night, only waking up once around midnight because she was hungry. She's going through a developmental leap right now, so that's to be expected.
 
Nice. Such a game changer when they sleep through the night.
 
tsywake said:
My cousin's first wife slept with her parents on occasion through high school. She ended up being totally dependent on them, and when she married and moved away, she couldn't handle her newfound independence. She drove an hour each way to go and stay with them on the weekends. That marriage lasted 4 months.
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My friend's sisters-in-law (her husband's sisters) have something similar with their mom (although not too the detrimental effect of this story). Apparently the mom and dad sleep in different bedrooms (obviously not that rare), and when the kids are home visiting, the sisters sleep in the room/bed with the mom (one is single - one has a husband, who presumably sleeps in the guest bedroom by himself?!)
 
count me in for 'no extended co-sleeping.' That's great and 'you do you' for everyone else, but no thank you. I feel strongly in nurturing my adult relationship, and the bed/bedroom is a pretty important aspect of that. I don't understand that aspect of co-sleeping: are they just doing it w/ the kid right there, or doing it all over the rest of the house?
 
lbE08 said:
count me in for 'no extended co-sleeping.' That's great and 'you do you' for everyone else, but no thank you. I feel strongly in nurturing my adult relationship, and the bed/bedroom is a pretty important aspect of that. I don't understand that aspect of co-sleeping: are they just doing it w/ the kid right there, or doing it all over the rest of the house?
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More likely, not having any sex at all.
 
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