What have you given up?

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
What have you given up?
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Mon, 06-30-2008 - 10:48am
What have you "given up" in order to have and parent children?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:10am
It is a good way to deal with the heat. You sleep in the afternoon and that way you are fresh to go socialize after the sun has gone down and it is bearable to be out again. Now that dd is past the age of needing babysitting we go out for a drink around 10 on many nights. Often dd is at the starbucks around the corner with her friends.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:15am
Not really. You can be strict with bedtime (I always was until dd was maybe 10-12) and still have problems getting them up. Making them go to bed does NOT mean that they go to sleep. Dd would stay awake for hours and hours in her bed, even with the lights out etc.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:26am
We are usually socializing in some way at 10PM, even if it just means that we have gone out to dinner nearby or for a drink. At midnight all 3 of us are usually on a computer doing things, although dd might be sewing or drawing.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:31am
Once again, I did not have a choice. Dd had an 8pm bedtime, then 9pm, but a strict bedtime. When she was 4 she rarely went to sleep before 11. By the time she was in school, she often fell asleep even later, and now that she is a teen, we are lucky if she is asleep by 1am. So, it made no difference that I drove myself nuts policing her bedtime, she did NOT go to sleep. Not sure how to explain it any more clearly.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:37am
LOL, dd was 8 or 9 before anyone could get near hear with any kind of sun lotion and even then it was an ordeal. Even now she recoils if I touch her and have put hand lotion on my hands, even if it were hours before.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 4:22am

"I'm sure it's not an easy thing to know beforehand. I am definitely speaking of after being married and already having the child. I figure if I have to do it myself, what's the point of having another person around to bother me?"

Believe me that I can relate to the above statement. However, after thinking the situation through, I decided to invest the time and effort in seeing if a better spouse/father could be fashioned out of dh. I think either choice is valid (staying or going), but with either choice my life would have been difficult during those years.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-22-2000
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 10:30am
I think I'd be more inclined to blame eating at Taco Bell, McDonald's, and the diner for your weight gain than I'd blame the time of day you were eating it.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-08-2006
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 11:20am

my son grew 3.5 inches between June & September 2004......


eileen

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-08-2006
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 11:21am

my oldest does that too.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-14-2006
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 11:46am

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