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Back to the toddler thread: my 2 year old has entered the terrible phase. Doesn't want to share, at all; makes me look like a demon when I take the younger one to his group PT classes and she terrorizes the other youngsters. Smarts off to everyone. I thought I was raising a sweetheart until about 3 weeks ago, now I think I created one of the children of the corn.
 
One of my old clinical instructors back in nursing school told us she used the stipend to buy chickens for her coop. She said she named one of the chickens after each of us. I said, 'Oh, so you can think of us someday when ringing their necks for dinner?'. You should have seen the look I got. I've only used sarcasm scarsely on the job ever since.
@Deezus you can have this if you want it.
 
Man, reading through this thread, seeing how someone's toddler is behind on motor skills...just gives me nightmares and makes me scared to have kids.
Are you referring to my post? He's not that far behind, and I mentioned he's already made progress this week. In fact, he made even more today.

It's perfectly fine if you don't want to have children. It's not for everyone. As for me, this is my child, and it doesn't give me nightmares or make me scared because he can't quite climb yet at 16 months. I'm just going to keep working with him on it.
 
Back to the toddler thread: my 2 year old has entered the terrible phase. Doesn't want to share, at all; makes me look like a demon when I take the younger one to his group PT classes and she terrorizes the other youngsters. Smarts off to everyone. I thought I was raising a sweetheart until about 3 weeks ago, now I think I created one of the children of the corn.
He wants you too, Malachai.
 
Are you referring to my post? He's not that far behind, and I mentioned he's already made progress this week. In fact, he made even more today.

It's perfectly fine if you don't want to have children. It's not for everyone. As for me, this is my child, and it doesn't give me nightmares or make me scared because he can't quite climb yet at 16 months. I'm just going to keep working with him on it.
Milestones are nice guidelines, but kids develop things at their own pace. We as parents get competitive and can be super critical of our children. Trying to be supportive while teaching and developing them is a challenge. You have a great attitude and are a patient and supportive parent.

Also, potty training has been a nightmare for my family. She's 4 and has accidents. Kids get distracted, but when want her to know the importance of telling people and using the bathroom properly. She will go weeks without problems during the day and then fall back. We have just started talking with her about waking up at night and coming downstairs to use the bathroom. Hopefully, for all of your toddlers, you and them have it easier.
 
Milestones are nice guidelines, but kids develop things at their own pace. We as parents get competitive and can be super critical of our children. Trying to be supportive while teaching and developing them is a challenge. You have a great attitude and are a patient and supportive parent.

Also, potty training has been a nightmare for my family. She's 4 and has accidents. Kids get distracted, but when want her to know the importance of telling people and using the bathroom properly. She will go weeks without problems during the day and then fall back. We have just started talking with her about waking up at night and coming downstairs to use the bathroom. Hopefully, for all of your toddlers, you and them have it easier.

For any parents starting potty training soon this book really helped. My son was pretty much potty trained after 3 days with minimal accidents since. Would recommend
 

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The immunity-building phase absolutely sucks.

That is all.

Yes it does. I didn't use a single sick day for myself for about three years. It's was all used on my kid being sent home from school constantly.
 
Lil guy is 17 months old now, and his newfound curiosity is really fun -- he loves to explore the house, see how things are done, and touch objects for me to name. He's memorized a ton of things around the house -- I can just say the word, and he will go and touch the (usually) correct thing.

Also, he learned to climb a few days ago :) What especially helped was having him learn to get up steps first. Once we worked a few days on that, he suddenly started pulling himself up on stuff. Our couch is kinda big, so maybe that was part of the problem, too -- we don't really have a lot of more typically climbable furniture, so getting a movable toddler step stool and putting it next to the couch was all he needed.

Now, in the next month, if I could just get the little dude to point (he does ALL the other usual hand gestures like clapping/waving/high fives, and can touch his head/ears/nose on demand, so I think it's just around the corner) and scribble (a specialist thought chalk or markers would help instead of crayons because they're larger, but he just throws them all--maybe he just hates art? lol), he'll be all set for typical abilities of an 18 month old.

Lastly, he's developed this REALLY cute habit of running up to hug me every time I sing anything. He's obsessed with all music and melody, even from my boring monotone voice, and so we keep Super Silly Songs on in the background for much of the day.
 
Is there a newborn thread? Wife and I had twins a week ago today. Certainly not toddlers yet.
Good news -- looks like it's still around after all!

 

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