Gives the best hugs in the world
Just thought I share :)
ps. the "my 6 m/o" thread lead up to this thought lol
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Gives the best hugs in the world
Just thought I share :)
ps. the "my 6 m/o" thread lead up to this thought lol
my 1yr old loves playing with my guitars, he thinks they are the greatest invention ever and when we go to music stores he goes nuts seeing them all.
Little ones at those ages (1 - 3) are so incredibly sweet. Everything's new to them. Everything's fascinating. And they're so loveable. Enjoy it while it lasts. And try and hold onto those memories between the ages of 14 and 17!
My step-niece and nephew are living in my house while my step-sister is going through a divorce with an abusive father. Instead of having to worry about the father doing something stupid, my step-sister moved out here and brought with her a 1 year 8 month old girl and a 3 year old boy with her (they double as my reason for waiting to have sex until I fall in love, like real love, not highschool love).
I look forward every morning to getting a hug from each one of them and seeing their adorable smiles as I go off to school. The boy loves to open and close the garage doors by the way, he also waits 5 minutes until the garage opener light turn off every time then gets really excited and starts saying "the light turned off automatically!"
Just about the 2 cutest things in my world.
I also started Operation Childhood Repentance tonight. My mom and I have gone through our tough times dealing with everything from video game "addiction" to failing a semester of Spanish. When ever we got into arguments I would always stress that I love her so much but right now she is driving me crazy!
So tonight for no reason (I live with my dad as of 3 months ago) I called up my mom and told her how much I loved her and that I wanted her to know that I know her intentions have always been the best and she only acts "crazy" because she is so worried about me. Task #1 complete: Apologizing and closing past arguments.
Next on the list is bring her/send her a dozen of a different flower every week for every year she has raised me (18 weeks, I already have $200 saved for it)
Most of the reason why I am doing this is because I love my mother so much and some of my actions and words in the past have not reflected how I truly feel. She knows that already but I still want to "repent" in a way and apologize again.
That's cool, my little guy loved the few drums that are around the house, always would play with em, even play the same drum as me making a beat together (I got a doumbek and a couple native american drums) Lat year we brought the kids to Disney, when we went to Animal Kingdom there was a little stop with a bunch of big congas and djembes set up which he immediately ran over to. He thought they were the greatest thing in the world, and he ended up teaching some older kids that if you yelled into the bottom of the drum it makes a cool echo which is something he likes to do at homeQuote:
Originally Posted by invision
yeah I'm holding onto my 11 y/o's kindergarten/1st grade picture lol, he looked so cute thenQuote:
Originally Posted by birdgirl73
And Dr.Hasman, your a good dude, ya made me smile, cheers
err... i coulda swore i posted this almost an hour ago.. i guess i hit the x instead of post...
my 2 year old loves to scream when he doesn't get EXACTLY what he wants.... he loves to make a shitload of noise too.. i'm starting to regret putting those headphones on my wife's preggy-belly.
That screaming two-year-old thing, Slip? It's fairly easy to help take the wind out of their sails with choices. All parents of toddlers need to know this trick. It saved my life. If you see a situation coming up that's likely to trigger a tantrum, give him a choice. Like when my son was that age, he used to get into these battles of wills over what he was going to eat or what he would wear. The choice approach lets the toddler think he's in control, which eases the screaming fits, but really you're in control.
Like, say, if he tends to get upset when you're trying to dress him, say, "OK, son, do you want to wear this shirt or this one?" Or if it's about food, the choices could be, "OK, do you want crackers or bread?" They're not yet smart enough to see that you've limited the choices or to realize that there might actually be a third option or an option to refuse completely, but since they're getting to make a choice, that satisfies their need for independence. The choice thing can be applied to nearly any potentially contentious situation. Try it!
I will have to try the choice thing tomorrow, maybe about whether he wants to put away his trains or clean up the train tracks, starting small.
The 3 year old boy loves his train set. Every night after he goes to bed I go to his train set and make a new design with it. He has one of those wooden Thomas the Train sets with 20 curves, 10 8" straits and like 5 6", 5 3"... His grandma spoils him alot and buys him more pieces all the time. So every night I build him a new train track design and he plays with it all day.
I also found that he likes to "work out" when I work out. I take him to a small gym when it is not busy and he walks on the treadmill on the lowest setting while I use the 40-in-1 Ã?ber-Bowflex machine next to it. He is dead tired and ready for a nap by the time I am done so I can get some homework done.
I work at a day care center everyday after school, and it always makes my day when the kids run up to me and give me hugs.
i have baby sisters who are twins.. they will be two years in a couple months.. OMG they are so adorable.. they see me and they automatically start hugging me.. have to pry them off of me lol... they do give the best hugs... never felt so loved..
I don't know about all that.............I say let the hospital keep em' until their 4. THAT's when they turn sweet and quit shitting all over the place. Next, send em' back when they hit puberty. Save some of that premature graying.:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Have a good one!:jointsmile:
yeah back before I had kids I was around em a lot cause of my job. When I was a kid my family would throw me in the car every weekend and make this long ass trip up to the boobies to go sking, by the time i was in my late teens I ended up a ski/snowboard instructor, mainly teaching kids 4-12. Was great cause there were the regulars that were always there so I had my regular kids that were always so happy to see me, and they always had great fun laughing and screaming the whole day.Quote:
Originally Posted by 420MissHighTimes420
There was this one little girl that was really shy around boys and she wouldn't even look at me or listen to me or anything. Her older brothers were trying to get her to go along with the other kids but she was being so stubborn. So after a while I say something about it makes me sad that she doesn't like me and i cover my face and make believe cry. Next thing I know she is tugging at my pants leg and she tells me "I'm sorry don't cry I'll listen to you now" from that point on (about 3 years total) she was one of the greatest kids to be around and so sweet.
We've taken a slightly different, but equally effective, approach. The thing about a kid screaming when they don't get exactly what they want is that, at some point, they screamed and the parent gave in. These little buggers are smarter than people give them credit for and they will instantly put two and two together. "One out of ten times that I scream, I get what I want, so I better scream 'cause I got a 10% chance of coming out ahead". And if you don't think they've got it figured out they are smarter than you and you have lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by birdgirl73
We give our daughter a lot of choices too, and let her be as independednt as possible, but she knows that "no" means "no". Period! If there is room for discussion we'll discuss but only if we haven't said "no" previously. Once you tell a toddler "no" never, and I mean never, go back on it. Even if you think you really should.
But yeah, Redlocks. Three year olds do give the best hugs in the world :D