Bad parenting advice administered via Facebook via a "friend" you haven't see since you wore Buster Browns and Tuffskins should be taken with a grain of salt
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i feel your pain. I just have to hide people who do not have parenting styles similar to mine or else I just go ballistic readin gtheir updates.
who are you on FB? I am also on there, alex nguyen from seattle. :)
this weekend someone posted that they put their 13 month old daughter in TIME OUT for TEN MINUTES. I wasl ike, what the fuckity fuck. I posted it to P101 and they're all like, yeah, sometimes that has to happen, redirection never worked for my child, blah blah blah. I had to step away from the computer and work on not picking up th ephone to verbally bitch slap that mom (she's the wife of my husband's best friend. i have othe rissues with them, in that HE didn't want kids, she did, and now both of them don't ever take care of their kids).
yeah, i remember that post. redirection very rarely works for my son, but i would never put him in isolation that long. hell, as it is he is almost two and i still sit with him in timeout. probably will for quite a while still. people don't seem to understand that children have SHORT ATTENTION SPANS and will forget why they are in trouble, which is part of the reason for the "one minute for every year" rule.
haha, gooooood to know. ;) I will tell you right now that the key to having an awesome kid is paying attention to their needs, instead of fighting them. It's common sense to us, right? I don't know why some people feel so compelled to force their kids into unnatural patterns/routines! It makes every single thing more difficult for YOU.
Ya! Or just ego, or selfishness. When you decide to have a baby, forget about yourself for a year, and then slowly work yourself back into the picture. I mean, it's only a year, and then you can start trying out some ME TIME. ha
I am in semi-contact on Facebook with a girl I went to school with from kindergarten through high school (although we were never close). She had baby at 30 weeks gestation, and was just doing an amazing job contending with his special needs: living in the residence attached to the Childrens Hospital PICU so she could nurse and express milk for him around the clock, doing the whole "kangaroo care" thing. Basically, a lot of exhausting, time-intensive stuff that I wouldn't have predicted she would be able to withstand
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who are you on FB? I am also on there, alex nguyen from seattle. :)
this weekend someone posted that they put their 13 month old daughter in TIME OUT for TEN MINUTES. I wasl ike, what the fuckity fuck. I posted it to P101 and they're all like, yeah, sometimes that has to happen, redirection never worked for my child, blah blah blah. I had to step away from the computer and work on not picking up th ephone to verbally bitch slap that mom (she's the wife of my husband's best friend. i have othe rissues with them, in that HE didn't want kids, she did, and now both of them don't ever take care of their kids).
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10 minutes?! Isn't it like, a minute for each YEAR of life? I don't do time out at all, ever, but...but....? Poor kids :(
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I will tell you right now that the key to having an awesome kid is paying attention to their needs, instead of fighting them. It's common sense to us, right? I don't know why some people feel so compelled to force their kids into unnatural patterns/routines! It makes every single thing more difficult for YOU.
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i am addicted to the hide feature.
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I also delete comments/posts/my comments in a thread if people don't respect shit. If it gets to be a big enough deal, I'll friends delete.
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