I took a break from work to play with the boys a bit and then to give them lunch. Chase is turning into a bottomless pit like his brother, it's hysterical. For awhile there it felt like he was never going to eat solid food and now he can't get it in his mouth fast enough. Now if only we could get him a bit more into cow's milk...
I'm sorry he's being a pain in the ass @peachsmama . Good lord so many men have such piss poor coping skills. I know he's frustrated/blow to the ego, but I'm annoyed that he's piling on you while you're dealing with so much. He needs to take a breather and reevaluate. Also keep the prize in mind and why you are all doing this in the first place.
Sunny41, I will. I'm going to see how the new office is and if I like them when I call to have the whole family's records switched over I will tell them why. I forgave the snow day. Mistakes happen. Although not even changing an outgoing message to say you're closed is a little (...), but there was no excuse for yesterday. It was annoying enough taking time out of my day, if that were a work day and I'd taken sick leave I'd be pissed.
When I worked at a clinic we knew we would be closing for the snow day so we called ahead the afternoon before to let the patients know and reschedule. And If there was a chance that the weather would be bad enough to close my boss would take home patient names and phone numbers to call them. No excuse.
I would call the office and leave a message for them why you are leaving. Someone needs reprimanded!
I thought that was only way to do overnight oats, with steel cut. The regular oats wouldn't hold up right? Idk. I also don't do cold oatmeal trtlcrzy. I always heated them for breakfast and added in fresh fruit.
I used rolled oats and they worked just fine. Doesn't heating it defeat the purpose? If I'm heating I'd rather just use instant.
klongoria11 The Nonhuman Rights Project is presenting oral arguments in the NY Supreme Court on Thursday to try to get release of two chimpanzees being kept in atrocious conditions.
This is the result of the efforts by Dr. Wise and related to that movie we talked about before, Unlocking the Cage.
I want to be optimistic, but I'm not. If they succeed though, it will be huge because they will obtain "personhood."
I thought that was only way to do overnight oats, with steel cut. The regular oats wouldn't hold up right? Idk. I also don't do cold oatmeal trtlcrzy. I always heated them for breakfast and added in fresh fruit.
I used rolled oats and they worked just fine. Doesn't heating it defeat the purpose? If I'm heating I'd rather just use instant.
Not if it's breakfast on the go. I usually don't eat breakfast at home and I like to make my oatmeal with milk not water, so if it's already packed in a jar I can just grab and go. For instant I would have to grab a cup of milk, too. I kept them in glass jars for M to take to school and for me.
ETA: My attempt at them were convenience purposes. Do the old fashioned, rolled oats also last in the fridge throughout the week?
I used rolled oats and they worked just fine. Doesn't heating it defeat the purpose? If I'm heating I'd rather just use instant.
Not if it's breakfast on the go. I usually don't eat breakfast at home and I like to make my oatmeal with milk not water, so if it's already packed in a jar I can just grab and go. For instant I would have to grab a cup of milk, too. I kept them in glass jars for M to take to school and for me.
ETA: My attempt at them were convenience purposes. Do the old fashioned, rolled oats also last in the fridge throughout the week?
I guess if I was working and taking it on the go I'd probably eat it in the car on the way so I'd microwave before I left or eat the cold overnight oats. Instant takes like 3 minutes in the microwave.
Once upon a time, I was young and thin. If only I'd considered that someday I'd have kids and get fat, I don't think I would have gotten that belly button piercing.
Once upon a time, I was young and thin. If only I'd considered that someday I'd have kids and get fat, I don't think I would have gotten that belly button piercing.
+1 Sadly, now I just have a permanent hole. It has closed up enough that the stupid curved bar won't go in, but refuses to close up all the way.
So those of you who have 3 yo who don't go to sleep easily, what do you do? The last few weeks, Sam has turned into a bedtime monster. If he doesn't get what he wants (extra story, lie down with him, etc, he goes ape shit. Screaming, getting out of bed, etc. nothing works (in the past threatening to take away toys works, but now he literally hands me extra toys and says ' here you forgot this'.
We've tried ignoring (but that's hard w kid #2), yelling, putting in time out, etc but nothing works. What do you guys do? Oh I should add he sometimes gets dangerous (rocking on his safety gate) so I get nervous ignorimg
I'm so mad at myself. I just realized I forgot preschool registration today. It was open to current families last week, church members today and then opens to the public tomorrow. After the first reg the mwf class was full and the t, th class was half full. I'm sending dh in the morning to be the first one there. I hope it's not full or I might cry!
Dude was sitting next to Pete on the couch then out of nowhere buried his head in his chest and started crying because his best friend at school told him to go play by himself.
I'm going to have to toughen up. The years to come are only going to get worse and this broke my heart. Pete took him to Guitar Center, my mom played Bear Hunt, and I gave him extra books at bedtime. I'm not sure what to do. I said if someone says that to him it's okay to tell them "that hurts my feelings."
My mom said she thinks boys might get teased more for that?
I guess I need to be glad he talked about it at all. Some kids are so private with their feelings. I won't teach him to hold back on communicating just because it might be seen as weakness.
@peachsmama Do you have Publix there? Some of my vegan friends say they have this at Publix and Walmart:
73jewels, bribery (sticker chart and prizes) finally worked for us. It sucked for about a week and a half. Lots of tears and him saying "it's too hard. I don't want a prize." But, MH would sit there with him and start doing it for shorter times each night. Then we had to put up with tears and lots of walking him back to bed. It is really so so hard, but it eventually clicked and is so worth it. We praise him a lot in the morning and that seems to help too. Good luck!
@peachsmama, sorry for another rough day. You deserve a break.
Dude was sitting next to Pete on the couch then out of nowhere buried his head in his chest and started crying because his best friend at school told him to go play by himself.
I'm going to have to toughen up. The years to come are only going to get worse and this broke my heart. Pete took him to Guitar Center, my mom played Bear Hunt, and I gave him extra books at bedtime. I'm not sure what to do. I said if someone says that to him it's okay to tell them "that hurts my feelings."
My mom said she thinks boys might get teased more for that?
This is heartbreaking. I think your advice is good. At this age, I would think his friend may understand what it means to hurt his friends feelings and will not want to do that. I don't think boys are "macho" yet, so I think it's good to teach them about feelings.
73jewels my LO has a ton of stuffed animals in his bed thanks to my parents. So he gets to keep them if he stays in bed. Each time he gets out he loses one of the toys.
We also let him decide the nighttime stuff after bath and brushing teeth. It usually book or dance and then we rock but he gets to pick the songs we sing while we rock. The better he was and bath time and brushing his teeth the more songs we do. We found the reward and takeaway system works for us.
This worked the first time I tried it. The second time I took all the animals away and left the room. 2 minutes minutes later I heard him calling for me. I went in and the little jerk had gathered the 2 I missed from the corner of his bed and said "Here mommy, you forgot these".
*Disclaimer - I don't actually think my kid is a jerk most of the time. But bedtime he turns into a totally different creature.
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