ILX Parenting 5: I'm a big kid now

that bit about language helping them to name and express their emotions is totally otm, that was a big part of our preschool co-op's curriculum. instead of admonishing them when they freak out, help them label how they're feeling ("It seems like you're upset/angry/sad" etc.)

yeah communication is a huge factor in frustration obv

Beeps goes from drawing ghosts and skeletons and spiders, hanging them on the walls around the house to being scared of zombies because her door rattles for a second when the heat comes on.

― pplains, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i keep meaning to explain to her that zombies cant get up our stairs with those stiff legs and all. oh and they probably haven't retained enough high functioning brain matter to be so polite as to knock on her bedroom door

Dying at the 46 reasons my three year old might be freaking out.

A lot of these were adorable...

After reading these I remembered I was two or three when I would freak out at the sight of this dead tree at the end of my street. My mom took me walking and explained to me the tree had been struck by lightening and that is what killed it. I was so scared of it after that and would freak out halfway there. I thought lightning would kill me if I was near it.

Giving the twins purses and some spending money or a grocery cart was an idea, Life, going to try that.

Shakey, I tried to help them label but didn't stick with it at all.

That article is awesome, explains a lot. Thanks, Mordy!

lil nautilus (thats what we are calling it until we know what kind of thing it is) is now the size of a bell pepper apparently and waving its arms around and crap. k has not noticed the motions as of yet. i am disappointed that el prego website compares the kid to food throughout but does not refer to the ounces with comparisons to liquor (yes i know its not the same thing). your baby is 7 oz., about the size of a mickeys big mouth after you have had a few pulls.

I'm already enjoying this new phase of yr life

this is a song my wife wrote about the "your kid is now the size of this vegetable" thing but it's from our kids album so it's pretty twee (no alcohol comparisons) http://thepetrifiedforest.bandcamp.com/track/jumping-bean

thats pretty freaking adorable

the vegetable thing is so ridiculous - "your child is now the size of a rutabaga" etc

jeez n/a, that's just too cute. I might have to download.

this series of comic books/graphic novels for kids is pretty awesome: http://www.toon-books.com/. they have a bunch of them at our library but we ended up ordering "stinky" because evie loved it so much. "little mouse gets ready" and "maya makes a mess" are also recommended by me.

the fact that email preggo server just described young nautilus as the size of a "large heirloom tomato" gives me much insight into their target demographic

'the size of a handcrafted artisanal latte'

large heirloom tomatoes are a different size than large regular tomatoes you see

Yesterday, while i waited in line at Comcast to swap out another busted DVR, Rachael Ray was making some disgusting food on the ridic large tv in front of me. All I recall her saying, in a super excited manner, was 'Now were ready to use our Cherry Tomatoes!!!!' Then in a much MUCH more deflated tone 'I guess you could use Heirloom Tomatoes if that's all you have." AND THEN she had the audacity to SHRUG. Rachael Ray is an embryo and fetus hater. What a bitch.

tbf, I think cherry tomatoes probably have a lower proportion of water and therefore cook better than heirloom. sort of like roma tomatoes.

oh she actually cooks?

oh lol IDK. Maybe she was just dumping them into mac and cheese.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mcWksBn1PmA/UUCblnD1nQI/AAAAAAAAAUo/HOd1yyIEGT0/w480-h480/DSCN0207.JPG

2 months old, already 15 lbs 4 oz, 25.5 in long
I love this kid soooooo much

!! what a love <3

Happy little chap. Surprised he's not in a Ginobli jersey tbf

when he's older, hopefully kawhi Leonard is still good and on the team

I will get him a kawhi jersey

I already have a Manu jersey, he would be biting my style

lol

My daughter is 19 months old now and really fun. The whole 12-24 month timeframe is def my favorite. This week we taught her to say "funky funky" when something stinks, pretty funny to hear.

http://i50.tinypic.com/fm8ltf.jpg

so cute

Those pigtails are adorable. I remember (and seriously miss) when my girl was that size.

I remember (and seriously miss) when my girl was that size.

Ditto and ditto.

Adorable!!! Bison!!!! Happy Boy!

So cute, pigtails and smiles and at a library!!! LOVE!

Okay can anyone confirm this male child development track that a friend, who studies child development, informed me of recently:
0-6yrs - it's all about mama
6-14yrs - it's all about dad
14yrs+ - it's all about friends

my son has been all about daddy from age 3-4 and shows no sign of stopping so

My son is almost 9 and is totally, totally into his mother and definitely not me. My two-year-old spent much of last year being a daddy's girl, but has needed her mother a lot more recently and it's just killing me.

:(

Okay can anyone confirm this male child development track that a friend, who studies child development, informed me of recently:
0-6yrs - it's all about mama
6-14yrs - it's all about dad
14yrs+ - it's all about friends

― I thought, 'This is Jeezo. He came in, he activated' (sunny successor), Friday, March 15, 2013 2:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

K, now 1, does apparently sometimes ask for me in the middle of the day while I'm at work, and she seems pleased when I get home before her bedtime. But mom is definitely #1. In fact, when she's scared or uncomfortable in a crowd/public situation she'll sometimes refuse to go to me and only want to go to mom, which is kind of embarrassing. At her birthday party, she actually stayed on her grandma the whole time and didn't want me to hold her. :(

OTOH, I'm usually the one to get up with her and make breakfast, and she'll make me sing to her for about 30 minutes straight.

evie will change who she's more into week by week

fwiw it can be totally exhausting being the favoured parent

I am the favored one for fun things & have been so from about 2 years on with all three of my kids. I'm not the one to ask for help with things (nightmares, food, cuts & bruises), so I've got a pretty good deal I think.

we'll see how it goes with my son. I feel like my 5yo daughter kinda favors us each for different things, which is going fine. personally, as a male child I don't recall every feeling particularly attached to one parent or the other, I was always more fixated on my (older) brother.

Somehow K learned the word "iphone." This makes for fun:

"K, what's better the Samsung Nexus or iPhone?"
"IPHONE"

I mean, it sounds sort of like "ahphoo" but she definitely says it.

My daughter's working hard learning to string together sentences and sing large chunks of songs now. Her favorite songs are the Wonderpets theme and Gangnam Style.

"Whoop whoop! Gangnam style! Heeeeeeeey, second lady!"

lol
my three and a half year old reallllllly likes that justin bieber song "beauty and the beat"...i kind of like it too. weirdest thing is that she imitates nikki minaj's opening "uhhh!"

i think iPad was one of henry's first words. sometime he'll say a color instead like 'where's blue, mama?' this means where is the ipad with the blue cover as opposed to the ipad with the green cover.

awww!!

it is crazy how quickly sylvie picked up on the ipad touch screen -- i guess that'll just be second nature to her. i'm still kind of clutzy with that stuff.

i guess that's the true test of an intuitive user interface, right?

RE: my question above about boy's development and people preferences. My friend has a 7 year old boy who sat her down last week to explain to her that he didn't love her the most anymore. Henry and I have such a love affair going on. We're smitten. It will surely kill me if he delivers this speech to me someday.

Abby handles our tablet with ease. The only thing she can't do is type in search terms, but she knows where the search box is located on the netflix app and is eager to handle it herself.

VERB CONJUGATION ALERT: Dalton on the way to bath chanting "I A NAKED BABY, I A NAKED BABY!" stopped and corrected himself "I AM a naked baby."