Well, thanks for ruining the next 5+ years for me…
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Yep. Five year olds still suck. I’m off work Mon-Wed but I get to wake up to my daughter’s incessant whining and crying instead of sleeping peacefully til my son wakes up.
Today she cried because it’s cool out and she had to wear pants instead of a skirt. Other days it’s because her socks feel weird.
I don’t know where she got the weird thing but it’s kind of funny to hear her say she doesn’t like something because it looks weird. She’s five.
And we thought the battle over which outfit to wear would end when she started school. They wear uniforms FFS.
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Oh brother! I had one that struggled with this DAILY!
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When people hotbox the school bathroom. I quit smoking, I don’t want to breathe that shit in. Even worse is when 5 guys either huddle around the urinals or when they occupy every single stall just to smoke. If I have to take a shit, I really don’t want to have to wait unnecessarily.
When does that stop exactly? There’s a 30-something I wake up mext to each day that pretty much fits the above description
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Child sleep coaches. Snake oil salesman would consider these guys lowlives.
I managed to dissuade my better half from getting our boys involved but it was a constant battle. More than half of our friends got one of these charlatans. My favourite story was of the guy who turned up 15 minutes before the regular sleep time, looked at the room, moved some things around, had the baby put down, put his hand on the baby’s then said “It’s time to go to sleep Lucas”.
Then told the parents he may cry but leave him while they completed a questionnaire. Instead of throwing this guy out on his ass they paid for 6 consults adterwards… assholes.
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Me- “Put your baby in the car and drive around for a little while. That will be $1000.00, thanks.”.
I’ve never heard of these. Holy crap! Our solution to the kids’ sleeping was to put them in their crib and leave the room starting at day 1.
No bad habits to break when you start em out that way.
Maybe we just got lucky with kids. But they were sleeping through the night by 3 months. We did this big routine with nursing and swaddling and rocking and pitch black rooms with the fan on and classical music.
Now that they can talk if they fight bedtime at all: “this is night time. We all sleep at night time. You don’t have to go to sleep right away, but you do need to stay in bed and lay still. The better you sleep the more you’ll get bigger and stronger. Do you want your brother to be stronger than you?”
After 5 minutes laying still in a dark room with music and a fan, out cold every time.
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Maybe the 36th month will be our lucky month with our first…
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a fool and his money, so the saying goes
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Ours is just shy of 3 months and slept 7 hrs last night … aside from a short sleep regression this past week he’s been sleeping between 6 to 8 for about a month
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Best argument against having kids:
My eye was twitching just posting this.
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a little grape dimetapp usually puts them little mongrels to sleep -
ya’oughta give it a shot!
my $0.02
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That’s nothing. I used to give my kid a chocolate milk and a crazy frog vid every so often just for the laughs.
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More ethical than sleep coaches.
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Food with kids is another pain in the ass. That’s why I love my dog. She always super excited for whatever food is going. I sometimes point that out to my daughter; ‘If you got this excited about rice and cheese maybe I’d cuddle you too.’ She’s 18.
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wife does this constantly, and complains of neck problems.
yes, i bought her ear buds, and she still does this. and complains of neck problems
I tell her why she may have neck problems, and I’m the asshole.
whatever~
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Ah married life … cheers to you buddy
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