I don't mind baby toys that make noise, even when the songs get stuck in my head.
This is soooooo unpopular with me. Hard pass on toys with obnoxious songs.
Me too!!! I will hide or give away some of DS toys if they are noisy. He knows it too. Yesterday I was trying to talk to my mom on the phone and DS found his loudest truck and drove it all over the house. Ahhhhhh!!
UO with my neighbors: if your kid is under 5 they need adult supervision when playing outside. If they are in your fenced in yard, that's fine, whatever, but when they are running around in the street...an adult needs to be present.
Hehehe, don't look in my yard. Or at the farm. The 4 yo has been running amuck for at least a year. I stopped trying to keep up.
Noooo, but he's probably climbing on a backhoe or other piece of farm equipment...
Lol #farmlife
My neighbors let their kids run around outside for hours at a time. We live in a cul-de-sac so I don't know if that gives them a sense of security, but most of the kids are too young to realize that cars are coming or that maybe they shouldn't just dissappear into someone else's house. It makes me hesitant to take my kids outside to play because I then become responsible for the 10 or so children running around because their parents have more pressing matters to tend to inside the house.
I completely understand. When we lived in a different part of the state, the kids next door would stand in our driveway and ask to come play (they were 4 and almost 2), and I hated telling them no because their place was a dump and unsafe, and the parents screamed a lot. But it meant I had double the kids too.
Noooo, but he's probably climbing on a backhoe or other piece of farm equipment...
Lol #farmlife
My neighbors let their kids run around outside for hours at a time. We live in a cul-de-sac so I don't know if that gives them a sense of security, but most of the kids are too young to realize that cars are coming or that maybe they shouldn't just dissappear into someone else's house. It makes me hesitant to take my kids outside to play because I then become responsible for the 10 or so children running around because their parents have more pressing matters to tend to inside the house.
+1 here. I live in a huge subdivision and there are CONSTANTLY unsupervised kids in the road-like, 4 and 5 year olds. The huge amount of kids in the neighborhood just makes parents feel that someone, anyone, is probably keeping an eye on their kids if they just let them go play. Last summer, a little 3 year old made it down to my house from a mile away- a MILE! We ended up calling the police because he couldn't tell us his address, and luckily his mom was already out with the police looking for him. It was like a movie scene seeing them reunited. Duh, lady, don't leave your three year old unsupervised for so long!
Post by tatersalad on Mar 31, 2016 20:36:30 GMT -5
The whole kids unsupervised running the subdivision is unpopular with me. While I may put a padlock on the back yard gate and let my kid wander in an out as early as age 2, I'm keeping an eye on him through french doors and windows the entire time. It was nice to be able to play in the cul-de-sac and roam my neighborhood growing up once I could navigate traffic, but my stranger danger radar was always on high. I doubt I'll let my kids roam any neighborhood until they hit their teens, and I'll be a nervous wreck even then.
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