WOH and sleeping issues
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WOH and sleeping issues
| Sun, 05-22-2005 - 10:34am |
We were at a dinner party last night at the home of one of dh's coworkers. They have 2 boys, 6 and 4. They have a bunch of sleeping issues (kids 'scared' at night, won't fall asleep in their own bed, won't go to bed without mom or dad cuddling them, etc.) The mom blames herself because since she works all day and misses them so much she tends to cuddle with them late at night and they fall asleep in a pile on the bed all together. She said that if she SAH, they wouldn't have the same issues.
I sah. For us, bed time is a rigid, welcome respite at the end of the day. Dh has no desire to keep them up either, lol.

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Why did she loose the allowance. Was it to mitigate the problem caused to yourself or to make your child recognize a negative consequece to an action that she might opt to avoid it in the future. They aren't the same thing. I don't understand the "But" here.
I'd never get to play in even the spring and fall, much less the summer, if sweat pouring off me was enough to bench me, no matter what I was wearing. Never heard of a kid old enough to dress herself suffering harmful health effects from choosing her own clothes.
I still don't see the need to fight over this. If she is just looking to defy you, it's certainly playing right into her hands to give her the argument.
Edited 6/6/2005 12:18 pm ET ET by dogma_2
ROFL!!
You are on a tear lately! God, that was funny!
Meldi
No. I believe (about 500 posts ago or so) that she said (or was it you?) that hanging out with the moms whose dh's are out of town (and their kids) should be just as fun and satisfying for me as not. That there hanging out in a group with a bunch of babies and toddlers in the room is just as fun as not. That there is no place/no reason to not bring one's children everywhere, because either way the fun is the same.
And ftr, I don't go out of my way to avoid other people's children. I hang out with the neighbors and mom's club and playgroup, whatever. Kids come to my house all the time. What I don't like is kids in the gym locker room pointing out my 'parts' when I am trying to get dressed. *That* annoys me. Kids crying when out to dinner with their parents at 9 pm, that annoys me...but, let's not go there again.
Meldi
It wasn't anybody. I read the posts to which you refer and there wasn't any talk of there not being anything one could want to do that shouldn't be done without kids along.
Sure you do avoid other people's kids, not all the time, but you do, as in the examples you just gave and when you said you'd never go to Disney unless it was to take your own kids.
I guess you and I have different opinions on what 'avoidance' means.
I would see myself as a person who avoids other
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