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Parenting Thread - Week Of 8/03 (hexbear.net)
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“Cuban Family, from a personal project I shot in Havana, Cuba.”

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

New Parenting Thread!

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We've been having a lot of success potty training K2! We had a full weekend (which included being away at a small kids theme park for several hours) with no accidents at all! I don't want to jinx it, but I might be looking at a zero diaper life very, very soon. sinwar-victory

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You’re nearly free! Congrats!

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

kril-drained I need a vacation to recover from the weekends with my kid. She has so much energy to play.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

vacation

Had one of those, and needed a second one to recover from all the energy my kid had on the vacation.

[–] liberateanimals5@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My lil baby is starting to smile sometimes! Almost 7 weeks young. She is an easy baby but been having some pretty fussy evening times where nothing can chill her out for a few hours. Great snuggles and when she sleepily burrows into me its the most wonderful thing. I can't wait for her to start being silly!!

[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Hey, maybe you already heard about this, but a friend once told me that this phenomenon is called "blue hour" (like the dusk time period), and it's when little ones in roughly their first year are mentally working through everything they experienced in the day. It's a big process for the brain and it takes time to work through. What helped, according to the friend, is being patient and gentle with the baby when she enters this period and just sitting through it with the little one. When they don't feel alone, they (sometimes) don't cry as much.

Happy to hear about the smiles, I hope you'll get to see many more watching her grow up meow-hug

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't wait for her to start being silly!!

It's coming! It will sneak up on you. Right now she's still just figuring out how to exist

[–] liberateanimals5@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Same...

(jk)

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

We were told to help them get to sleep that we should have a set lights out time. Maybe this is common knowledge though. But we would make sure lights were turned off around 6:30/7:00 when they were little like that. It felt like it really helped them both get to sleep easier and eventually became the hour that bedtime started. Now we do 7:30 for bedtime stuff.

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

Crawling is a new phenomenon that is super fun and amazing. Everyone tried to make it sound scary, but damn it, it's just fun and nice. We removed all the dangerous stuff, now it's just slightly dirty things we try to have him avoid. So I'm able to let him just crawl and explore without issue. I think for some parents , this is hard only because they refuse to change their house.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, being the "cool" parent has come back to bite me a bit. Apparently one of the kids has been talking about ghostbusters at childcare and scaring the other kids because they don't know what's going on. I saw it first hand on the weekend when we ran into a family from the centre. My kid was asking theirs if she knew Mighty Max, which was your typical cartoon for Polly-Pocket-for-boys. I had to explain that no other kid has seen Mighty Max and we've had a larger conversation with the kids that they can only talk about ghostbusters, liquid robot (Terminator 2), and those other shows with mum and dad because the other kids haven't seen it.

Of course, this means the issue is the other kids haven't watched these movies, but that's a harder problem to solve.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol that's kind of funny honestly. I do sometimes wonder how much gets translated through them when were not around. Like, they've been ubsessed with Batman The Animated Series for a while. That show isn't all that graphic, but it sure does have a cast of weirdo and freakish bad guys, along with a lot of gun action.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

My girlfriend says it's trauma because they want to expose themselves to it again and talk about it to make sense of what they've just seen. They're taking it pretty well for trauma if that's the case.

She also says kids cent tell the difference between stories and real life until they're about 8 so that's why the other kids are getting freaked out