Topic : General Advice

Wow, you did that in public! That's GREAT!!! That's pretty much what we do here if she's acting up...almost exactly....but my 26 month old (Two and then some) will not sit in a stroller anymore, so if I take Hannah to a corner, she realizes this is her chance to make a BREAK for it!!! (She usually goes for something to pull off the shelf!)  Thats great that you did that whole nine yards with 20 minutes of putting him back in the corner.  How many times did you have to do that?  I did that once at the grocery store, with putting her back everytime and it took like 30 minutes of her running out and screaming bloody murder.  I don't know if I have the gumption to do it again, but if thats what it takes! Thanks everyone for all the great advice~!!!

You've received some very good advice...so I don't have anything to add to that.

I do want to tell you a story my own sister told me when she witnessed my leaving my child in the car in the manner you described. Like  yourself...I kept my eye on the car the whole time..and was only in about 5 seconds. She jumped my butt over it..and then showed me a newspaper clipping where a woman had done exactly as you and I have done, and WATCHED someone else drive off with her child! It didn't take but 4 seconds for that person to jump in the vehicle and drive away with it...After that, I never left my kids in the car again. It was certainly a huge hassle, but the lesson she was trying to teach me took hold after reading that article. This poor mother watched someone else drive away with her child in the car, screaming and crying. And yes...she did get the child back after he/she was dumped on the side of the highway.....

I always post messages when I’m frustrated, but I’m feeling pretty good today. So, I wrote this in my journal. I thought I’ld share.  I’ve been getting up at 6 a.m. to have a little quiet time, clean the house, organize my day and (AH-HA!!!) to go to the grocery store before Rick goes to work (at the crack of dawn) if we need anything for the day!

Hannah and Haleigh both got hamsters last weekend.  Awesome, huh?  Let me just sum up my feeling on this:

Two hamsters: $15.00 on Visa Credit Card

A cage, bedding, water bottle, food, and a cute little ball so they can roll around the house: $25.00 on Visa Credit Card

Watching my four-year-old’s face while one attacks the other in an eye-clawing, go-for- the-jugular, fight To-The-Death:  Priceless

An extra cage so they can co-exist peacefully: $15.00

Rapid Rewards!: Watching Rick (my husband) almost have a heart attack at having rodents welcomed into our home.

Hannah loves them, and wants to carry them around all the time.  They are kind of cute, but they smell. Now my house smells.  I just put them outside.  I wonder if they can live out there.  Is there any animal alive that makes a good pet, doesn’t smell, pees and poos in the toilet and handles easily? 

We saw a baby rattlesnake on our hike yesterday.  BEWARE OF THE BABY RATTLESNAKES! Don’t go looking for their mom either…SNAKE season has begun.  It was right in the middle of the trail.  Haleigh (2) was walking right beside me and would have walked right up on it if someone hadn’t warned us.  Now she says, “Baby sssssssssss, bite me!” If these darn hamsters keep peeing on me I think I’m going just take them to the spot where we saw the baby rattlesnake and leave them there.  Let nature take its due course.  I’m just kidding for any Hamster Activists out there…I love animals.

We had a pretty fun day yesterday for us…we colored, played with playdough, painted, played with our hamsters.  We worked on our numbers and our letters.  My home has become a preschool.  Then, we went to the park and the kids ran around.  When we got back Hannah said, “Mommy, you’re so great, we’re going to play with you like a toy, all day long.”    Talk about being proud of yourself when you look in the mirror.  After three exhaustingly long-winded Princess stories, (She tells them to me most nights: that way we don’t miss a single detail.) if I can get Hannah to sleep on time and she says, “I love you Mom! Goodnight;” and then she goes to sleep satisfied.  I feel like I’ve done a real good job for the day!  That is pretty much the only measure I have of whether or not I’ve accomplished something.  There’s no Overtime Budget or Food Cost to evaluate. I don’t get a labor percentage or a controllable profit.  Definitely, no raise or promotion is on the line anymore. I work my butt off all day long for one little phrase: “I love you Mom, Goodnight!” And you know what? It’s priceless.

Let him be!! Relax, my son liked it too, he will get over it or maybe not! and that's o.k. You should let your child be, if he gets teased for being girly, it might toughen him up and make him change or he might just let it be, and that's o.k. too!

And, for me annyway's, being gay should not matter at all!! You should just explaine to him, in a non jugding way, what real life is all about and if he is willing to be who he wants to be, that you, his mother, completly support him!

Just tell him about him about his aunt and worry about you when he askes questions about you or daddy diying!!

When this happens tell lhim that you are not dying annytime soon, then tell him about grand ma and grand pa!(of course, if they are still around) my kids asked me when I would die, I told them not annytime soon and they did not belive me, so I just said "look, my parents are still alive and so I will still be alive when you are a parent!!" they don't ask questions annymore!!

good luck