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- pango1
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
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- every father goes through this :)renderedred
- Kids and their tea bagging these dayspango
- mg331
And, word of advice for any of you dads or dads-to-be that are prone to losing your cool, shouting, getting pissed off and in those moments forget that you can't reason with your little ones the way you can adults...
make sure you take the time to apologize to them, look each other in the eyes, and acknowledge that you were wrong. Get on their level, not towering over them, and make sure they know you're sorry.
Speaking from occasional experience, most recently this morning when the arguing, thrashing refusing to take off a night-time diaper and put on underwear, don't want to get up and start my routine, want to stay in bed all day don't want to go to school side of my daughter reared it's ugly head this morning.
- her brain is growing, she is pushing society boundaries - be calm and firm, you're not telling her off, you're marking where social boundaries lie.shapesalad
- by social boundaries - I mean, she is learning how far you can push boundaries - simply, why do I have to take a diaper off.shapesalad
- It's you job to calmly mark the boundary, you take a diaper off as if you wear it for a week it's stink, leak and you'll get an infection.shapesalad
- She'll try again to not take it off, so now you show you mean business and this a boundary. So a count down to 5 and it must be off.shapesalad
- You might have to act out what happens when you get to 1 and she hasn't take diaper off. Such as no bed time story etc. Next time, she won't push the issue.shapesalad
- because she's learnt where the boundary is, and how far she can push you.shapesalad
- well.. that's how I've understood it from seeing my nephew grow up. what do I know...shapesalad
- thanks, mg33 ... I'm almost in tears reading this it's that importantmonospaced
- appologiesed to our wee 2yo this afternoon. were meant to be napping after a long long morning and afternoon but she kept fucking about and i was wantin 2 sleepmicrokorg
- i moaned at her a few times and raised my voice too - properly tired and pissed off. But after felt bad about it. she just wanted to play and talk.microkorg
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- mg334
While giving my 3 1/2 year old daughter a bath last night, I silently farted and within about five seconds she wrinkles her nose and says "yucky, it smells like Brussels sprouts in here."
- nocomply3
My oldest is potty training and the other day he came out of the bathroom and said "Mommy, I used my firehose!"
- trooperbill0
my 2 year old is starting toilet training (no potties for us). got a seat adapter and step ordered on AZN! anyone got any tips?
- 1. Don't rush it.
2. Give them a sticker to put on the toilet lid every time they use the loo.Hayzilla - https://i.imgur.com/…fadein11
- don't toilet train! just wait for them to get bored of wet dippers.pr2
- ^lol noBosozoku
- 1. Don't rush it.
- microkorg3
Our 10 month old little girl decided to start singing along with the "na na na na-na-na-na" at the end of Hey Jude whilst shaking rattle toys.
Think we have a little musician on our hands.
- we get the full rendition of PJ Masks theme tune loltrooperbill
- mg334
My daughter is just a little over 22 months old now and just blows me away everyday. Watching her personality grow, her quirks, the things she likes, the moments of independence where she realizes she has a choice in something, it's all so cool.
At her daycare last week, one day when it was raining the inflated a bounce house in one of the bigger classrooms. My wife asked her about it and showed her a video of a bounce house, and every morning since then she wakes up and asked to watch "bownce howse video-whoa!" She absolutely loves watching videos of them. It's hilarious.
- mg334