i let my niece’s 3 month old baby to get into my arms and i rock her to sleep! she has picked up this bad habit of not going to sleep unless someone rocks her. my niece rightly blames me…and she is bent upon breaking her habit…the baby cries a little less now before going to sleep…i think the baby will listen to me!
Our older one shows up at our bedside few times a week with sad face, begging that she just can’t sleep alone tonight. We let her get in, and then because we feel guilty about leaving the little one alone in girls room, one of us gets up and sleep with her.
Actually I don’t count this as them getting away with it. I know that kids should start sleeping alone, but I am a very huge opponent of doing anything by force that creates emotional insecurity or some kind of fear in them. Plus I must admit, I miss them so much the whole day and in the evening they go to bed early, that I hope for them to show up at our bedside late at night. In fact our bed is so huge that both of them can get in and we won’t touch each other, except that the young one started kicking the comforter off her and eventually off everyone.
I let my 3.5 yo watch some extra TV if I want to do something.I just made her do that last evening.
She sleeps in our bed.We have made peace with it.We do not like it a lot though.
I let her eat pretzels instead of fruit sometimes for her evening snack.
More often than necessary, I let my kid wear a costume (dress up), princess or superhero, to the grocery store with me. The plus side is, everyone stops and stares and makes a comment, usually full of smiles.
My toddler recently picked up a bad word and instead of giving him time out I recorded him (he sounded and acted so cute and no it wasn’t the F word) on my cell and sent it to mom, hubby and sibs.
Neither of my kids likes to sleep in our bed… but would rather us come out of ours and sleep in theirs
many a times, due to exhaustion and the need to go to work in the morning, the hubby or I have strapped the kid in the car and driven them around to put them to sleep… shoot me!
And yes, I rock bubbity to sleep, on days when he just doesnt fall asleep feeding (that too is a horrible habbit)… I have gone down a dress size just cus of it. So thank you
Play doh is fabulous for kids, let them play with it through out the week and not only on week. It is a great material to strenghten the fine and gross motor skills and is a great tool to teach and reinforce other academic skills.
Watching a few too many youtube videos when I’m busy in the kitchen. Which kind of backfires in the long run cause she becomes antsy and restless with excessive entertainment