We took Maddie to the beach last week. The first time (ever) she saw the ocean she just bolted for it and started picking up handfuls of sand.
ME: Maddie, it's the ocean!
MADDIE: [Picks up handful of sand, never really looking up]
ME: Maddie, it's so big! There's so much of it! Appreciate your ... uh... smallness!
MADDIE: [Looks up for split second at the horizon] OOOOH! SMALLNESS!
when we took my youngest to the ocean for the first time, he exclaimed "I don't like that big swimming pool"
which proved to be true upon discovering 'salt water'
(it was amusing to see a 2 year old yelling at the ocean because it contains salt water and not regular bath water)
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Having never had a toddler, I'm not sure whether to be amused or alarmed when I can't keep my kid's attention on anything. We'll have conversations like this:
Me: Are you going to have a good day at school?
Kid: No, I don't want to go swimming.
Me: Well, you have to swim every day.
Kid: Boulder and Blades are Rescue Bots.
Me: Yes, yes they are.
Kid: They roll to the rescue.
Me: Yes they do.
Having never had a toddler, I'm not sure whether to be amused or alarmed when I can't keep my kid's attention on anything. We'll have conversations like this:
Me: Are you going to have a good day at school?
Kid: No, I don't want to go swimming.
Me: Well, you have to swim every day.
Kid: Boulder and Blades are Rescue Bots.
Me: Yes, yes they are.
Kid: They roll to the rescue.
Me: Yes they do.
that is a perfectly normal (/adorable) toddler conversation.
Having never had a toddler, I'm not sure whether to be amused or alarmed when I can't keep my kid's attention on anything. We'll have conversations like this:
Me: Are you going to have a good day at school?
Kid: No, I don't want to go swimming.
Me: Well, you have to swim every day.
Kid: Boulder and Blades are Rescue Bots.
Me: Yes, yes they are.
Kid: They roll to the rescue.
Me: Yes they do.
that is a perfectly normal (/adorable) toddler conversation.
Reminds me of how toddlers generalize terms too. Lily recently did this at a visit to a local farm.
Me: Look! A cow!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A goat!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A chicken!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A sheep!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A horse!
Her: Dog!
Me: ???
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So people who have raised 13 month olds, how much food do you give them at once? Ever since we had a scare with our daughter almost choking on a piece of plastic she chewed off a DVD case, my wife and I have been giving our daughter only a small amount of food at a time to eat for meal time. But while we try to get her to chew and swallow what she's eating before she gets more, she yells and wants more immediately. We're just afraid she's going to just stuff as much in her mouth as will fit, and then have a hard time chewing it and what not.
So people who have raised 13 month olds, how much food do you give them at once? Ever since we had a scare with our daughter almost choking on a piece of plastic she chewed off a DVD case, my wife and I have been giving our daughter only a small amount of food at a time to eat for meal time. But while we try to get her to chew and swallow what she's eating before she gets more, she yells and wants more immediately. We're just afraid she's going to just stuff as much in her mouth as will fit, and then have a hard time chewing it and what not.
at 13 months, I was still spoonfeeding Isaac a lot. But he'd get little puffies and smaller bits of food.
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So people who have raised 13 month olds, how much food do you give them at once? Ever since we had a scare with our daughter almost choking on a piece of plastic she chewed off a DVD case, my wife and I have been giving our daughter only a small amount of food at a time to eat for meal time. But while we try to get her to chew and swallow what she's eating before she gets more, she yells and wants more immediately. We're just afraid she's going to just stuff as much in her mouth as will fit, and then have a hard time chewing it and what not.
at 13 months, I was still spoonfeeding Isaac a lot. But he'd get little puffies and smaller bits of food.
Thanks for the feedback. She was exclusively breastfed for about 7 months, then I'd say 90% breastmilk and the rest pureed veggies and fruits until 1 year. She's to the point now at 13 months where she wants to eat what we eat for dinner, so it's chicken, vegetables, pasta, etc, but it seems no matter how much we give her she shovels it all in her mouth and then we worry, so we try to just give her a few small bites at a time to feed herself. She just gets angry and I was hoping for somebody to have an answer, hah!
So people who have raised 13 month olds, how much food do you give them at once? Ever since we had a scare with our daughter almost choking on a piece of plastic she chewed off a DVD case, my wife and I have been giving our daughter only a small amount of food at a time to eat for meal time. But while we try to get her to chew and swallow what she's eating before she gets more, she yells and wants more immediately. We're just afraid she's going to just stuff as much in her mouth as will fit, and then have a hard time chewing it and what not.
at 13 months, I was still spoonfeeding Isaac a lot. But he'd get little puffies and smaller bits of food.
Thanks for the feedback. She was exclusively breastfed for about 7 months, then I'd say 90% breastmilk and the rest pureed veggies and fruits until 1 year. She's to the point now at 13 months where she wants to eat what we eat for dinner, so it's chicken, vegetables, pasta, etc, but it seems no matter how much we give her she shovels it all in her mouth and then we worry, so we try to just give her a few small bites at a time to feed herself. She just gets angry and I was hoping for somebody to have an answer, hah!
I know my sister who watches her during the day gives her veggies like peas and carrots in a cup she likes to hand feed herself out of, so I know she's capable of not overstuffing her mouth, but it sure seems like with her mom and me she likes to do so.
Maybe she does it because we're only giving her a few bites at a time. Thanks again for the feedback.
I kind of have to fight the 'oh my God if I just let her try it herself she might [X]!" because given enough times she absolutely WILL [X]. The issue is whether or not [X] is worse than being smothered trying to prevent it or not.
In you case? Yes, if you just give your 13 month old a whole meal at once he'll eventually chipmunk all of it and gag. Just like every other 13 month old ever. You just need to make sure its not anything he's really going to choke on.
I do the same thing with my 5 year old. I must think to myself 'God, she's going to break an arm climbing like that' at least once every other day. And she probably will - which is much better that following her around yelling at her not to climb too high or play too hard for the next 13 years.
Yeah -- food, as long as there's nothing too chokeable then at worst they'll have a mouth full of food and spit it out. Maybe you'll end up throwing out more food than you expect,but after a while you'll get a sense of how much she can actually eat. Probably don't give her anything too hard / large to be on the safe side, but peas should be fine, carrots if they're cut up small, whatever. Or give her mum-mums or something like that which is chewable but soft. (and, why not, learn the baby heimlich just to be extra-safe).
I certainly used to walk around under climbing things as a spotter for my kids when they first went up high, but after a while it became obvious that they were only going to fall off if they do something unusually ridiculous, and there's only so much I can do there. (that said, I don't push either of them very high on the swing any more, after they both (at separate times) fell off the swing onto their faces -- they'll have to learn to do that themselves, it was just too rough seeing them slam down like that)
One of the better activities we put our older kid into was gym class; it was just gym class for little kids so he didn't learn anything particularly flippy or whatever, but they _did_ make him learn "safety jumps", which mean "bend your knees when landing" -- after that I'm much less worried about the long-term state of his joints than I was before.
Jokes -- these are all jokes that my 7-year-old came up with entirely on his own. He's read a bunch of "1000 jokes for kids" books, so he knows the way these sorts of jokes work, but it's pretty great(? or is it) now that he can create them himself.
What do you call it when it's raining burgers?
A meat-eor shower
What do butterflies do when they're in love?
They pucker up for a chryss-alis [kiss-alis]
Why do cats like cowboy boots?
Because of the s-purrs
What do you call it when ducks kidnap one another?
Oh, and it was just amazing the other day, seeing my younger kid read a word for the first time; I was poking around at some amazingly tedious technical stuff on my computer, he came over and complained the "I can't read the words on the screen". This is fair enough, because a:he is still working on reading, and b:I was deep in the innards of regedit at the time which is barely legible even to adults. So I launched Word, put "CAT" in there, made it big, and asked him what it said.
He was so proud of himself when he realised he'd read it properly; I don't think I've ever seen him be so happy with himself about something.
I'm likely only 3 weeks at most (skipped period but definitely NOT pregnant last month, so who knows when I ovulated?!) so it's super early days. I only tested because I bought this bumper pack of ovulation and pregnancy strips off Amazon so I could start tracking! Since I'd skipped a period I took both an ovulation & pregnancy test to determine where I stood and bam, there you go. Normally I wouldn't even test until well after a missed period so I'm super nervous it'll be a chemical pregnancy.
Night two of Isaac's Doc band is just as bad as night one. It's tilting his head forward, backwards, or sideways, so he won't sleep anywhere but the rock n play...
He's perfectly fine with it during the day and for quick naps, but he just won't go down at night. Uggghhh
We're at "pulling myself up on everything my height and giggling like a madman" stage. His new favourite thing is pulling everything off the coffee table, sitting down and then waiting whilst I put everything back again so he can do it again.
3 days with him whilst the childminder was on holiday was exhausting.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
Night two of Isaac's Doc band is just as bad as night one. It's tilting his head forward, backwards, or sideways, so he won't sleep anywhere but the rock n play...
He's perfectly fine with it during the day and for quick naps, but he just won't go down at night. Uggghhh
My kid slept in that thing until he was too big for it, it's not too serious, I think?
I'm really glad babies are made of rubber. Our little one is pulling herself up on anything she can. And will occasionally slip up. Nothing bad, and she gets over it after 5 seconds of being held. I take her socks off when she's inside now.
Babies are made of rubber, right?
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when we took my youngest to the ocean for the first time, he exclaimed "I don't like that big swimming pool"
which proved to be true upon discovering 'salt water'
(it was amusing to see a 2 year old yelling at the ocean because it contains salt water and not regular bath water)
Me: Are you going to have a good day at school?
Kid: No, I don't want to go swimming.
Me: Well, you have to swim every day.
Kid: Boulder and Blades are Rescue Bots.
Me: Yes, yes they are.
Kid: They roll to the rescue.
Me: Yes they do.
that is a perfectly normal (/adorable) toddler conversation.
"Night night poopy nappy".
Reminds me of how toddlers generalize terms too. Lily recently did this at a visit to a local farm.
Me: Look! A cow!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A goat!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A chicken!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A sheep!
Her: Cow!
Me: Look! A horse!
Her: Dog!
Me: ???
at 13 months, I was still spoonfeeding Isaac a lot. But he'd get little puffies and smaller bits of food.
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Thanks for the feedback. She was exclusively breastfed for about 7 months, then I'd say 90% breastmilk and the rest pureed veggies and fruits until 1 year. She's to the point now at 13 months where she wants to eat what we eat for dinner, so it's chicken, vegetables, pasta, etc, but it seems no matter how much we give her she shovels it all in her mouth and then we worry, so we try to just give her a few small bites at a time to feed herself. She just gets angry and I was hoping for somebody to have an answer, hah!
Hah, that doesn't make me feel better, but thanks.
I'd just keep giving her little portions till she gets used to it.
maybe give her larger portions in a month or a few weeks.
Maybe she does it because we're only giving her a few bites at a time. Thanks again for the feedback.
In you case? Yes, if you just give your 13 month old a whole meal at once he'll eventually chipmunk all of it and gag. Just like every other 13 month old ever. You just need to make sure its not anything he's really going to choke on.
I do the same thing with my 5 year old. I must think to myself 'God, she's going to break an arm climbing like that' at least once every other day. And she probably will - which is much better that following her around yelling at her not to climb too high or play too hard for the next 13 years.
I certainly used to walk around under climbing things as a spotter for my kids when they first went up high, but after a while it became obvious that they were only going to fall off if they do something unusually ridiculous, and there's only so much I can do there. (that said, I don't push either of them very high on the swing any more, after they both (at separate times) fell off the swing onto their faces -- they'll have to learn to do that themselves, it was just too rough seeing them slam down like that)
One of the better activities we put our older kid into was gym class; it was just gym class for little kids so he didn't learn anything particularly flippy or whatever, but they _did_ make him learn "safety jumps", which mean "bend your knees when landing" -- after that I'm much less worried about the long-term state of his joints than I was before.
What do you call it when it's raining burgers?
What do butterflies do when they're in love?
Why do cats like cowboy boots?
What do you call it when ducks kidnap one another?
He was so proud of himself when he realised he'd read it properly; I don't think I've ever seen him be so happy with himself about something.
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I'm likely only 3 weeks at most (skipped period but definitely NOT pregnant last month, so who knows when I ovulated?!) so it's super early days. I only tested because I bought this bumper pack of ovulation and pregnancy strips off Amazon so I could start tracking! Since I'd skipped a period I took both an ovulation & pregnancy test to determine where I stood and bam, there you go. Normally I wouldn't even test until well after a missed period so I'm super nervous it'll be a chemical pregnancy.
He's perfectly fine with it during the day and for quick naps, but he just won't go down at night. Uggghhh
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Wife and daughter went to the zoo today. When they were looking at the monkeys, CC said, "Where's the man in the yellow hat?"
3 days with him whilst the childminder was on holiday was exhausting.
Our 4 year old is getting ready for school so were tryyyyyyyyyyyying to work on a earlier sleep schedule but its not working as planned.
Hes current on a 8-9am - 8-9pm day but we need to get him up at 7am and keep him up, we also need to get up at that time and stay up.
My kid slept in that thing until he was too big for it, it's not too serious, I think?
Babies are made of rubber, right?
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