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copteacher
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 Posted: 10/22/02 - 10:26 Post subject:
and ditched all your porn joel?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 10:27 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | and ditched all your porn joel? |
What is this 'porn' you speak of?
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 11:21 Post subject:
| Molly600 wrote: | | our house is going to be a nightmare to baby/kid proof. Lots of things sitting around waiting to be broken, electronic things out, even our booze is on a cute little table, but sitting out on a bottom shelf. Good thing the kid doesn't come out able to move around or we'd be in trouble. But what a pain it will be soon enough.... |
Listen up, Moll: right from the start you need to set a policy that once Boinger is old enough, he keeps his hands off your stuff. I only put my stuff away for a very short period, the pulling-oneself-up-with-use-of-the-nearest-thing stage. After that it all went back out and you'd better not put your hand on it, missy, if you don't want to pull back a stump. No, seriously, you will be teaching him to respect others' property, and this lesson can't begin too early.
Don't let the little guy make you choose between nice things and having children. I didn't, & I've suffered very very few losses. And, in the balance, have 2 kids who really take care of their own stuff.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 11:25 Post subject:
I don't know how much the house has changed, but other things have.
We used to just grab dinner, out or at home, eating whatever, wherever. Now we gotta sit at the table & stuff.
The paraphenalia these brats need is horrendous. Booster seats in the car, and toys to take for boredom, and books left everywhere from the drs. office to Nana's house, etc., etc. You think it'll let up when you stop carrying a diaper bag, but it doesn't.
The napping schedule was nuts, but now it's settling down. If we go off by ourselves they know to leave us alone, so it's nice now do be spontaneous again.
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pokychick
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 11:59 Post subject:
Our house has changed in the usual ways i.e. toys, laundry, etc.
The biggest change for me, however, is realizing that she
is watching and listening to everything I do and say.
Sometimes I forget I am supposed to be setting a good example.
She will be 3 next month and the other morning she told
me her sausage was too freakin' hot. ..................oops bad me
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 12:31 Post subject:
I can't see the carpeting in my basement through all the toys (that's only been since it was kids rather than kid---my second is a terror)
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Gogirlgo
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 13:47 Post subject:
With the first one I was home so I had time to clean up and do laundry and all. I don't recall that I was real regular about it or anything, just that I had the time to do it.
Now I have two kids and I don't have very much time and the time I do have I guard jealously. To me, the state of my house hasn't changed. It's more the state of my mind. I can't remember very much anymore and I use words I don't mean. I'm not talking about using "couch" for "sofa." I mean saying "couch" when I meant "fruit-flavored." Really off base.
I'm sure it's because I have a lot on my mind with small kids. I mean, I can't be the only parent who's ever walked into a class and announced, "Here is a piece of paper with my permission to take my child anywhere you deem educationally relevant anytime this year. Don't hassle me with more forms."
I use a Palm because it synchs with my meeting scheduler at work. Family law has decided that if it wasn't in the Palm, it wasn't meant to be. Even though I'm a privacy lunatic, I've taken to doing my bills online b/c it frees up about three hours a month. I do a lot of my shopping online or at lunch.
One night a week I'm out of the house at choir practice and one night a week Mr. Go teaches. We try not to schedule stuff on the other nights. We have a special dinner every Friday night. We have Game Night once a week. We do these things to make sure that we remember who the real priorities are in this life.
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Molly600
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 14:10 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Molly600 wrote: | | our house is going to be a nightmare to baby/kid proof. Lots of things sitting around waiting to be broken, electronic things out, even our booze is on a cute little table, but sitting out on a bottom shelf. Good thing the kid doesn't come out able to move around or we'd be in trouble. But what a pain it will be soon enough.... |
By the time they're teenagers, it won't matter where you hide it (booze), they'll find it. |
oh ya, I had no trouble getting into my parents. I just meant getting it out of reach of baby, teenagers are a whole other story! How in the heck do I get them to NOT do all the bad/crazy stuff I did????? That's a whole other thread!!!!!
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Molly600
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Posted: 10/22/02 - 14:13 Post subject:
| Laurie Ellen wrote: | | Molly600 wrote: | | our house is going to be a nightmare to baby/kid proof. Lots of things sitting around waiting to be broken, electronic things out, even our booze is on a cute little table, but sitting out on a bottom shelf. Good thing the kid doesn't come out able to move around or we'd be in trouble. But what a pain it will be soon enough.... |
Listen up, Moll: right from the start you need to set a policy that once Boinger is old enough, he keeps his hands off your stuff. I only put my stuff away for a very short period, the pulling-oneself-up-with-use-of-the-nearest-thing stage. After that it all went back out and you'd better not put your hand on it, missy, if you don't want to pull back a stump. No, seriously, you will be teaching him to respect others' property, and this lesson can't begin too early.
Don't let the little guy make you choose between nice things and having children. I didn't, & I've suffered very very few losses. And, in the balance, have 2 kids who really take care of their own stuff. |
Great points LE. I really agree with you on this. They have to learn or I'd have to just have an empty house basically. It's really annoying when my brother and SIL come over with my nephew, they have to move everything off the coffee table, off the side tables, etc. instead of telling him no. Hello, the kid needs to learn no, you can't go clearing out places he visits for the rest of his life. The more annoying thing is when they leave they don't even put my stuff back.  I'm going to have to work on that the next visit and not have them do that.
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