A couple weeks ago my back was really hurting, and while I was sitting on the floor Sapling came up behind me and sort of patted me on the back, which gave me an idea, so now I've been working on training her to rub my back. She'll sort of lightly pat it for a good 30 seconds if I ask her for a backrub now.
Just lay down on your stomach and have her walk on your back. It works wonders. (Says a father with bulging discs in his neck and lower back)
My 5 year old daughter is a rogue with high charisma. She pocketed a candy at the store last night. Dad found out, and walked her back to the store to apologize. She somehow was able to keep the candy and not pay for it.
I'm... Not sure how I feel. This girl is miss popular. Very loving with lots of friends. I'm dreading her growing up and continually getting away with stuff like this.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
My 5 year old daughter is a rogue with high charisma. She pocketed a candy at the store last night. Dad found out, and walked her back to the store to apologize. She somehow was able to keep the candy and not pay for it.
I'm... Not sure how I feel. This girl is miss popular. Very loving with lots of friends. I'm dreading her growing up and continually getting away with stuff like this.
I wouldn't have let that go, I don't think. The big lesson there was "I got what I wanted".
My 5 year old daughter is a rogue with high charisma. She pocketed a candy at the store last night. Dad found out, and walked her back to the store to apologize. She somehow was able to keep the candy and not pay for it.
I'm... Not sure how I feel. This girl is miss popular. Very loving with lots of friends. I'm dreading her growing up and continually getting away with stuff like this.
I wouldn't have let that go, I don't think. The big lesson there was "I got what I wanted".
Yeeeeeppp. I was giving the youngest a bath when this happened, so I only saw the aftermath. I made her give half to get younger brother, at least. But the damage was done.
We definitely need to be more consistent in telling people to stop giving her things. Were just very non- confrontational, and have a harder time telling others not to give her things.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
My 5 year old daughter is a rogue with high charisma. She pocketed a candy at the store last night. Dad found out, and walked her back to the store to apologize. She somehow was able to keep the candy and not pay for it.
I'm... Not sure how I feel. This girl is miss popular. Very loving with lots of friends. I'm dreading her growing up and continually getting away with stuff like this.
I wouldn't have let that go, I don't think. The big lesson there was "I got what I wanted".
Yeeeeeppp. I was giving the youngest a bath when this happened, so I only saw the aftermath. I made her give half to get younger brother, at least. But the damage was done.
We definitely need to be more consistent in telling people to stop giving her things. Were just very non- confrontational, and have a harder time telling others not to give her things.
It's something I didn't really understand pre-baby. "I get that you may not care about what she's doing in this specific instance, but she's just going to learn that's OK to do all the time which is a problem for me"
I pulled some shit like this when I was about 4 or 5, swiped some candy. My parents took it away, and I cried and they caved and gave some to me and some to my brother. Guess what the lesson was that I actually took from the ordeal.
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When I was.. probably around 5 or so, I took a tiny tube of breath mints from a register. I was scared to do it but I wanted to see what would happen. The answer was nothing. No one noticed, and I felt so terrible about it that I told my mom in the car on the ride home that I took them and we didn't pay for them and we should go back and pay for them. She was like "yeah we're not doing that, it's late and we're already almost home." I didn't really want them, I didn't even like them, and I felt so much worse about this stupid little 25-cent tube of breath mints because we weren't turning our asses around to pay for them.
After that I decided that stealing was stupid and never really thought about doing it again. I recognize now that I was not a typical child in the lessons I tended to take from these things.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I pulled some shit like this when I was about 4 or 5, swiped some candy. My parents took it away, and I cried and they caved and gave some to me and some to my brother. Guess what the lesson was that I actually took from the ordeal.
My brother got caught stealing when he was like 14 and got sent to some 2 week boot camp/scared straight thing. I did not steal.
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My sister got banned from Hot Topic for life because she unwrapped something she was totally going to pay for and put it in her pocket and then whoops forgot to pay for it.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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I remember doing that candy stealing thing at age 5 or so. It was at the grocery store, and I took one of those multicolored caramel things just because I could. I don’t even think I would have liked it.
My dad saw I had it and asked where I got it, and that’s when young Drake Chambers really went all in. I told him I bought it! He asked where I got money. I told him it was crazy, money just started falling from the ceiling! And I took some and bought some candy!
Probably the maddest I remember my dad ever being with me.
My daughter already has all the charms down pat and a full devil-may-care attitude. At 2 and a half. Also rage of a thousand suns when shit does not go how she wants. She is the embodiment of the steel fist in the velvet glove. We full on ignore her tantrums now. She's also the SWEETEST person ever when in a good mood, so it's a ride.
As a child, it basically never crossed my mind to disobey an adult. Lying or anything of a deceptive nature wasn’t even an option I considered. But I was quite unusual - my mom said that as a 2-3 year old, she could set me down in the middle of a shop (thinking small 80s shops - that aren’t much bigger than a big room) - and tell me to sit and not touch anything and I would do just that.
I literally can’t conceive of a 2-3 year old that would do that, yet apparently I was that child.
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So my wife is getting anxious about our son's teacher's concerns about his behaviour at school. Basically, she says he has a hard time sitting still on the carpet.
These kids are 3 to 4 years old, ours coming from a very busy, open-concept and play-focused daycare. Then comes JK and you're now to sit still while a teacher talks at you, surrounded by toys. I don't know, I'm trying not to dismiss the behaviour, and I do agree he should be told to sit back down, but I'm not taking it as some kind of red flag that there is something terribly wrong. At home, he's high energy, loves to run around with capes and masks and play superheros, loves to build forts out of couch cushions, but he'll also sit still and play Lego, or do a 48-piece puzzle, or play with magnet blocks. I just think he sits on the carpet at school, thinks "well this sucks" and gets up to go play. Sure, sit him back down. But he's 4!
Today she brought him out with Grandpa to a nearby cafe, and apparently he wouldn't sit still in the booth, so when he got bored of playing with some of the games they have there, he was standing up in the booth, playing with picture frames, etc. I wasn't there, so I can't really comment on it, but again, 4 years old and expected to sit still in a booth while grownups talk for an hour? I don't know...
Am I just being soft on him? I've suggested so far that we encourage independent play a bit more on his own, so for example when he gets home from school and mom is cooking dinner (I don't get home until around 5:30pm) send him downstairs into the family room to play. If he brings toys upstairs into the living room, send him back downstairs and tell him mom is making dinner, play downstairs quietly please. Thinking maybe increasing the amount of time he's left on his own to entertain himself quietly will help, but I don't know.
This afternoon I was trying to vacuum and mop the main level, and he wrapped himself up in blankets from the couch and tried crawling around the kitchen "like a monster" after being told to stay out of it. I just told him to go up and play in his room, he did, and when I was done mom went upstairs and said she found him lying in his bed just playing with a stuffed animal. So, I think he just needs quiet time to himself, but he needs to be "forced" to take it. He won't take it upon himself to do that since mom and dad are here and yaaaay, but secretly he's exhausted and could use a little time to decompress.
Yeah, he sounds like every other four year old I’ve known! My two definitely wouldn’t sit still in a booth for that long, and a lot of their games are so physical and active!
That sounds entirely reasonable for a 4 year old who hasn't had any similar experience to that class setup.
As for the restaurant booth...I'm not sure what else they would expect. If there's not something successfully engaging for them to do, and you're not involving them in conversation, they're going to explore for entertainment.
I mean, if he can't even sit still for 5 minutes (IE fiddles a bit with things on the table, but not getting up), ok maybe something there, but 4 year olds are a storm of energy. One other thing that can help is playing with him and modeling what good behavior is/guiding. They don't know much at this stage, so helping them understand that you act differently in different contexts helps. At home? Go nuts. Out at a restaurant? Inside voices and less activity - but it wasn't an overnight thing.
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We threw a little 1st birthday party for Bean today. It was a "Decorate Your Own Cupcake Party".
I mean, if he can't even sit still for 5 minutes (IE fiddles a bit with things on the table, but not getting up), ok maybe something there, but 4 year olds are a storm of energy. One other thing that can help is playing with him and modeling what good behavior is/guiding. They don't know much at this stage, so helping them understand that you act differently in different contexts helps. At home? Go nuts. Out at a restaurant? Inside voices and less activity - but it wasn't an overnight thing.
He's definitely fine at restaurants with us normally, I think the teacher's comments just got my wife overthinking it.
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My kids are/were kind of partial to Hippos Go Berserk and Barnyard Dance. Lots of dancing and generally acting silly during both. Daddy gets his best southern accent on for Barnyard Dance... and eventually the kids say "daddy, stop doing the voice".
And now they are kind of too old for Boynton books .
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Miles has sat very nicely (for the most part) at sit-down restaurants since he was about 3 1/2-4. I can tell you that kids are often running around and throwing food all over the place and making noise because many, many people have come to me and said that my kids are so well-behaved, their kids would have been running around and throwing food all over the place and making noise. They also don't see him at home, where he is doing all those things all the time. What I've always been told by his teachers is that unless he's actively destructive it's not at all a concern.
There have been kids in his class over the past couple years who have been much more destructive, or who reacted to simple commands like "sit down on your carpet square because it's time to do this thing" with full-on tantrums, and they tend to be the kids who need help. All his teachers have told me that while it's good to make sure you're communicating with his teachers and his behaviors are manageable, it's probably okay.
As a first-time parent I always told myself there was no way I would be that parent who worried about every little tantrum like there's something wrong because kids are kids and do crappy obnoxious things sometimes, and then I went on to be that parent who did those things. So I guess she should know that it's probably fine but also as normal to worry about your first kid as the behaviors are themselves.
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So, I just registered my kid for Junior Kindergarten. It feels so surreal.
While sitting in the school and filling out forms, the PA system came on, annoucing that due to the freezing rain, it was going to be an indoor recess.
From the other side of the school, I could hear the faint cheers of children.
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I remember doing that candy stealing thing at age 5 or so. It was at the grocery store, and I took one of those multicolored caramel things just because I could. I don’t even think I would have liked it.
My dad saw I had it and asked where I got it, and that’s when young Drake Chambers really went all in. I told him I bought it! He asked where I got money. I told him it was crazy, money just started falling from the ceiling! And I took some and bought some candy!
Probably the maddest I remember my dad ever being with me.
Reverse psychology was incredibly powerful for me. Incredibly powerful. When I did something I knew was crappy to see if I could get away with it, the people around me would brush it off with varying degrees of vague positivity/nonchalance, and it would completely break my little brain because I just did a terrible thing, what is wrong with them. I then proceeded to make myself feel terrible and never did the thing again. As a result of my utter existential confusion with the universe that kind of thing happened very rarely, though with some of the social stuff I had thoroughly grown out of that reaction by middle school.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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I remember doing that candy stealing thing at age 5 or so. It was at the grocery store, and I took one of those multicolored caramel things just because I could. I don’t even think I would have liked it.
My dad saw I had it and asked where I got it, and that’s when young Drake Chambers really went all in. I told him I bought it! He asked where I got money. I told him it was crazy, money just started falling from the ceiling! And I took some and bought some candy!
Probably the maddest I remember my dad ever being with me.
Reverse psychology was incredibly powerful for me. Incredibly powerful. When I did something I knew was crappy to see if I could get away with it, the people around me would brush it off with varying degrees of vague positivity/nonchalance, and it would completely break my little brain because I just did a terrible thing, what is wrong with them. I then proceeded to make myself feel terrible and never did the thing again. As a result of my utter existential confusion with the universe that kind of thing happened very rarely, though with some of the social stuff I had thoroughly grown out of that reaction by middle school.
Yeah, the bad things I did as a little kid haunt me, not because of how bad the things were but because of the guilty conscience. It's because I was so young I could not rationalize my behavior or make excuses for myself - I was being bad and I knew it.
It's funny now from a practical adult perspective but I can still feel bad if I recall those times, so much so that those are some of the disclosures I had to make when I was polygraphed for work.
My daycare place decided to close because of the snow. I'm so mentally, physically, and emotionally drained from a long weekend of potty training the 3-year old and getting no sleep that I can't even right now.
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When I did my first steal I was probably 6? it was a Hershey's bar with almonds, I slid it up my sleeve like a pro
when I was tearing it open in the backseat, my dad asked what I was eating
oh shit, I'm got I start to cry a little bit and say "HERSHEY'S I TOOK IT" expecting anger because I broke a rule
but he just chuckles and goes "with almonds? nice, gimme some"
and I think that's how I ended up where I am today
My daycare place decided to close because of the snow. I'm so mentally, physically, and emotionally drained from a long weekend of potty training the 3-year old and getting no sleep that I can't even right now.
Our daycare was open which is insane there is more snow on the ground today than there was last monday when they closed. I think its more that workers dont' get paid if its not open so people risked their own personal safety to get paid. AMERICA!
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I remember doing that candy stealing thing at age 5 or so. It was at the grocery store, and I took one of those multicolored caramel things just because I could. I don’t even think I would have liked it.
My dad saw I had it and asked where I got it, and that’s when young Drake Chambers really went all in. I told him I bought it! He asked where I got money. I told him it was crazy, money just started falling from the ceiling! And I took some and bought some candy!
Probably the maddest I remember my dad ever being with me.
Reverse psychology was incredibly powerful for me. Incredibly powerful. When I did something I knew was crappy to see if I could get away with it, the people around me would brush it off with varying degrees of vague positivity/nonchalance, and it would completely break my little brain because I just did a terrible thing, what is wrong with them. I then proceeded to make myself feel terrible and never did the thing again. As a result of my utter existential confusion with the universe that kind of thing happened very rarely, though with some of the social stuff I had thoroughly grown out of that reaction by middle school.
Yeah, the bad things I did as a little kid haunt me, not because of how bad the things were but because of the guilty conscience. It's because I was so young I could not rationalize my behavior or make excuses for myself - I was being bad and I knew it.
It's funny now from a practical adult perspective but I can still feel bad if I recall those times, so much so that those are some of the disclosures I had to make when I was polygraphed for work.
I'm terrified to see how my daughter turns out because apparently I was really tricky pretty much every time I did something wrong. I learned pretty young that lying wasn't allowed, so instead I'd talk around whatever, or go with the whole beg forgiveness instead of asking when I knew I'd be told no. Or be told to go clean my room, and in stead of arguing, I'd just go to my room and chill, play with my toys, w/e. And so my parents just assumed I was doing as told and wouldn't worry about checking on me.
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That sounds entirely reasonable for a 4 year old who hasn't had any similar experience to that class setup.
As for the restaurant booth...I'm not sure what else they would expect. If there's not something successfully engaging for them to do, and you're not involving them in conversation, they're going to explore for entertainment.
Sprocket is 6 and you'd think 30-45 seconds of sitting still is inflicting an actual war crime upon her.
It's probably at least partially our fault because of iPads and the like.
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That sounds entirely reasonable for a 4 year old who hasn't had any similar experience to that class setup.
As for the restaurant booth...I'm not sure what else they would expect. If there's not something successfully engaging for them to do, and you're not involving them in conversation, they're going to explore for entertainment.
Sprocket is 6 and you'd think 30-45 seconds of sitting still is inflicting an actual war crime upon her.
It's probably at least partially our fault because of iPads and the like.
Ours doesn't have anything like that but watches waaaaay too much tv.
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That sounds entirely reasonable for a 4 year old who hasn't had any similar experience to that class setup.
As for the restaurant booth...I'm not sure what else they would expect. If there's not something successfully engaging for them to do, and you're not involving them in conversation, they're going to explore for entertainment.
Sprocket is 6 and you'd think 30-45 seconds of sitting still is inflicting an actual war crime upon her.
It's probably at least partially our fault because of iPads and the like.
Ours doesn't have anything like that but watches waaaaay too much tv.
Sprocket watches YouTube. This was a huge mistake on our part.
Like, it's YouTube Kids, but still. Those people understand that you don't keep kids' attention with calm, measured voices and slow, sedate content.
Also, it feels like she acts like she's on YouTube sometimes. Like if she gets told off for something, she overreacts. Not like "flailing and crying" but like "startled, bug-eyed, spit-take" kind of overreacts. And when she plays minecraft, she prattles on to herself endlessly, like people are watching.
Its partially cute, and partially concerning.
Oh, and it's not always YouTube Kids, because they don't have a Roku App, because I dont know, what the fuck YouTube?? There's parental restrictions, but it's still a looser content filter than the Kids app.
Also via the process of osmosis, and being exposed to this much Youtube, I am now a fucking unwilling, living walkthrough of every Granny, Baldi's Basics, and FNAF game and fan-mod ever made, and it's starting to erase older, legitimate information that used to be in my brain. I think last week I forgot how to tie shoes.
We've made a point of having time in the day where the kids don't have any access to screens or direct attention from us, beyond acknowledging what they're saying of course but not us available to play with them. Our rationale is that they've got to be able to survive with a house full of toys and books for 30 minutes without being directed and that surely that will help them as adults somehow. It definitely requires an investment of patience from us sometimes but my 8 year old can still spend a significant amount of time playing with her toys by herself, and sometimes for a while with her almost 6 year old sister, and that feels like a win.
And I know how that sounds and I swear I'm not trying to brag. I feel like it's important for us all to say to one another that it's ok if your kids get upset with your decisions and it's ok to make them fend for themselves sometimes and that taking the past of most resistance is healthy and worthwhile, sometimes. You aren't being mean to them and you aren't ruining their lives somehow.
That is at least a reassuring thing for me, Sprocket is fully capable of playing on her own for an hour or two at a time, just herself and her toys. I don't mean to make it sound like it's all YouTube all day or else life is miserable. I do think we should cut back on the screentime though.
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We've made a point of having time in the day where the kids don't have any access to screens or direct attention from us, beyond acknowledging what they're saying of course but not us available to play with them. Our rationale is that they've got to be able to survive with a house full of toys and books for 30 minutes without being directed and that surely that will help them as adults somehow. It definitely requires an investment of patience from us sometimes but my 8 year old can still spend a significant amount of time playing with her toys by herself, and sometimes for a while with her almost 6 year old system, and that feels like a win.
And I know how that sounds and I swear I'm not trying to brag. I feel like it's important for us all to say to one another that it's ok if your kids get upset with your decisions and it's ok to make them fend for themselves sometimes and that taking the past of most resistance is healthy and worthwhile, sometimes. You aren't being mean to them and you aren't ruining their lives somehow.
This is something I've been trying to implement. Easier said than done, it turns out.
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Just lay down on your stomach and have her walk on your back. It works wonders. (Says a father with bulging discs in his neck and lower back)
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I'm... Not sure how I feel. This girl is miss popular. Very loving with lots of friends. I'm dreading her growing up and continually getting away with stuff like this.
I wouldn't have let that go, I don't think. The big lesson there was "I got what I wanted".
Yeeeeeppp. I was giving the youngest a bath when this happened, so I only saw the aftermath. I made her give half to get younger brother, at least. But the damage was done.
We definitely need to be more consistent in telling people to stop giving her things. Were just very non- confrontational, and have a harder time telling others not to give her things.
It's something I didn't really understand pre-baby. "I get that you may not care about what she's doing in this specific instance, but she's just going to learn that's OK to do all the time which is a problem for me"
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Every time I would read that to my daughter she would say a quiet ”hi” after “what do you say” and it was always super cute.
After that I decided that stealing was stupid and never really thought about doing it again. I recognize now that I was not a typical child in the lessons I tended to take from these things.
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We are also not permitted to sing to him, either.
My brother got caught stealing when he was like 14 and got sent to some 2 week boot camp/scared straight thing. I did not steal.
My dad saw I had it and asked where I got it, and that’s when young Drake Chambers really went all in. I told him I bought it! He asked where I got money. I told him it was crazy, money just started falling from the ceiling! And I took some and bought some candy!
Probably the maddest I remember my dad ever being with me.
I literally can’t conceive of a 2-3 year old that would do that, yet apparently I was that child.
These kids are 3 to 4 years old, ours coming from a very busy, open-concept and play-focused daycare. Then comes JK and you're now to sit still while a teacher talks at you, surrounded by toys. I don't know, I'm trying not to dismiss the behaviour, and I do agree he should be told to sit back down, but I'm not taking it as some kind of red flag that there is something terribly wrong. At home, he's high energy, loves to run around with capes and masks and play superheros, loves to build forts out of couch cushions, but he'll also sit still and play Lego, or do a 48-piece puzzle, or play with magnet blocks. I just think he sits on the carpet at school, thinks "well this sucks" and gets up to go play. Sure, sit him back down. But he's 4!
Today she brought him out with Grandpa to a nearby cafe, and apparently he wouldn't sit still in the booth, so when he got bored of playing with some of the games they have there, he was standing up in the booth, playing with picture frames, etc. I wasn't there, so I can't really comment on it, but again, 4 years old and expected to sit still in a booth while grownups talk for an hour? I don't know...
Am I just being soft on him? I've suggested so far that we encourage independent play a bit more on his own, so for example when he gets home from school and mom is cooking dinner (I don't get home until around 5:30pm) send him downstairs into the family room to play. If he brings toys upstairs into the living room, send him back downstairs and tell him mom is making dinner, play downstairs quietly please. Thinking maybe increasing the amount of time he's left on his own to entertain himself quietly will help, but I don't know.
This afternoon I was trying to vacuum and mop the main level, and he wrapped himself up in blankets from the couch and tried crawling around the kitchen "like a monster" after being told to stay out of it. I just told him to go up and play in his room, he did, and when I was done mom went upstairs and said she found him lying in his bed just playing with a stuffed animal. So, I think he just needs quiet time to himself, but he needs to be "forced" to take it. He won't take it upon himself to do that since mom and dad are here and yaaaay, but secretly he's exhausted and could use a little time to decompress.
As for the restaurant booth...I'm not sure what else they would expect. If there's not something successfully engaging for them to do, and you're not involving them in conversation, they're going to explore for entertainment.
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He's definitely fine at restaurants with us normally, I think the teacher's comments just got my wife overthinking it.
My kids are/were kind of partial to Hippos Go Berserk and Barnyard Dance. Lots of dancing and generally acting silly during both. Daddy gets his best southern accent on for Barnyard Dance... and eventually the kids say "daddy, stop doing the voice".
And now they are kind of too old for Boynton books
Both of my sons just love making Alexa play "What Does the Fox Say?".
There have been kids in his class over the past couple years who have been much more destructive, or who reacted to simple commands like "sit down on your carpet square because it's time to do this thing" with full-on tantrums, and they tend to be the kids who need help. All his teachers have told me that while it's good to make sure you're communicating with his teachers and his behaviors are manageable, it's probably okay.
As a first-time parent I always told myself there was no way I would be that parent who worried about every little tantrum like there's something wrong because kids are kids and do crappy obnoxious things sometimes, and then I went on to be that parent who did those things. So I guess she should know that it's probably fine but also as normal to worry about your first kid as the behaviors are themselves.
While sitting in the school and filling out forms, the PA system came on, annoucing that due to the freezing rain, it was going to be an indoor recess.
From the other side of the school, I could hear the faint cheers of children.
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Reverse psychology was incredibly powerful for me. Incredibly powerful. When I did something I knew was crappy to see if I could get away with it, the people around me would brush it off with varying degrees of vague positivity/nonchalance, and it would completely break my little brain because I just did a terrible thing, what is wrong with them. I then proceeded to make myself feel terrible and never did the thing again. As a result of my utter existential confusion with the universe that kind of thing happened very rarely, though with some of the social stuff I had thoroughly grown out of that reaction by middle school.
Yeah, the bad things I did as a little kid haunt me, not because of how bad the things were but because of the guilty conscience. It's because I was so young I could not rationalize my behavior or make excuses for myself - I was being bad and I knew it.
It's funny now from a practical adult perspective but I can still feel bad if I recall those times, so much so that those are some of the disclosures I had to make when I was polygraphed for work.
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when I was tearing it open in the backseat, my dad asked what I was eating
oh shit, I'm got I start to cry a little bit and say "HERSHEY'S I TOOK IT" expecting anger because I broke a rule
but he just chuckles and goes "with almonds? nice, gimme some"
and I think that's how I ended up where I am today
Our daycare was open which is insane there is more snow on the ground today than there was last monday when they closed. I think its more that workers dont' get paid if its not open so people risked their own personal safety to get paid. AMERICA!
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I'm terrified to see how my daughter turns out because apparently I was really tricky pretty much every time I did something wrong. I learned pretty young that lying wasn't allowed, so instead I'd talk around whatever, or go with the whole beg forgiveness instead of asking when I knew I'd be told no. Or be told to go clean my room, and in stead of arguing, I'd just go to my room and chill, play with my toys, w/e. And so my parents just assumed I was doing as told and wouldn't worry about checking on me.
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Sprocket is 6 and you'd think 30-45 seconds of sitting still is inflicting an actual war crime upon her.
It's probably at least partially our fault because of iPads and the like.
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Ours doesn't have anything like that but watches waaaaay too much tv.
Sprocket watches YouTube. This was a huge mistake on our part.
Like, it's YouTube Kids, but still. Those people understand that you don't keep kids' attention with calm, measured voices and slow, sedate content.
Also, it feels like she acts like she's on YouTube sometimes. Like if she gets told off for something, she overreacts. Not like "flailing and crying" but like "startled, bug-eyed, spit-take" kind of overreacts. And when she plays minecraft, she prattles on to herself endlessly, like people are watching.
Its partially cute, and partially concerning.
Oh, and it's not always YouTube Kids, because they don't have a Roku App, because I dont know, what the fuck YouTube?? There's parental restrictions, but it's still a looser content filter than the Kids app.
And I know how that sounds and I swear I'm not trying to brag. I feel like it's important for us all to say to one another that it's ok if your kids get upset with your decisions and it's ok to make them fend for themselves sometimes and that taking the past of most resistance is healthy and worthwhile, sometimes. You aren't being mean to them and you aren't ruining their lives somehow.
This is something I've been trying to implement. Easier said than done, it turns out.