Dang keedz! Learnin' so fast!

[ldsbeaker]

Sooooo, wife's working 12 hour shifts at the hospital, so those 3 days of the week, i have my 4 and 1 year old from end of work day till almost bedtime.

Tonight, I'm being a good dad and feeding the kids leftovers. Chicken adobo, which they both normally eat fine. Tonight, they decide to test me.

Bash (1yo), has started turning his head away when he just wants to eat crackers and cheerios as opposed to the dinner we're trying to feed him. We've been acquiescing to shut the dang kid up. He starts pulling it tonight, and i decide that he's gonna eat some dinner.
He starts with the shaking his head, moving around, and reaching for the crackers i have on the table. I hold fast. He graduates to a no kidding shit fit and is screaming, wriggling, and kicking his feet in his high chair. I put the spoon of rice near his mouth, say "bite" and show him the cracker. Rinse and repeat for 25 minutes. (blake, 4, who is also balking on dinner, is watching this whole evolution with interest. )
Finally I decide that "the romance is over, he's asking for force". I stuff the rice in his mouth. He spits it out. Repeat a couple times. Finally i stuff it in and tell him "no" and prevent him from spitting it out. He tastes, swallows, and remembers that he DOES like it. I give him a cracker.
He balks the second time, another forced mouthful, swallow, cracker. He takes a bite from the cracker and HANDS IT BACK TO ME. I give him another bite, hand him the cracker. We do this a couple times, then he just wants rice. I give him a good amount, then he's really done with the rice.
I give him some cheerios, water, and turn to his brother.

He doesn't put up much of a fight.

Whew. This parenting shit is hard, but when you win one, dang it feels good.

[mooseheadm5]

Beaker: 1
Kids: several hundred thousand over the next 17-odd years.

[ldsbeaker]

Beaker: 1
Kids: several hundred thousand over the next 17-odd years.

Ain't it the troof.

[slimdevil27]

Want mine?



You ain't winnin shit!

My youngest daughter, Georgia Evelynn, at easter when she was two, that's my favorite pic.

[freetoride]

I've never been scared by a two year old before!

[slimdevil27]

I give him some cheerios, water, and turn to his brother.

He doesn't put up much of a fight.

This cracks me up. I can see him looking at you like this:



OH SHIT.....Dad's serious....

[Brad D.]

Ya, my one year old girl is learning the art of the temper tantrum. You tell he no or take something away and she throws herself back on the floor and begins wailing. Soon after she will look around to see if anyone is watching. If she has an audience she will continue and up the ante. If not, she cries a bit more and then continues on her way. Geez.

[1st 5er]

Fun times Adam. I remember those days. I worked a lot.

One of our daughters the other day, when her youngest started to cry about something and I looked at her, the baby,
my daughter said, "Oh, that's her fake cry, she's OK", I cracked up.

And slim, that pic is classic.

[stuartinmn]

The Yum Yum Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZlpARhQerI

[davintosh]

Spare the rod, spoil the rug rat. Gotta give a little what-for every now & then to show them who's boss. With our kids it was the count to three. It didn't take long for them to figure out that they didn't want us to get to three, but they'd have to test us once in a while too.

Love the pic of Georgia, Slim! How old is she now?

[oldskool]

I put my 12 year old girl in a headlock (playfully) so she foot stomped me and then threw an elbow. Mean 'ole thing.
She is corn fed.

[skip535i]

I don't waste my time. My wife on the other hand, does. She'll break her back to find something the kids like and feed it to them just the way they want.

In my opinion, dinner at home ain't no restaurant. You can eat what I've prepared with mild substitution or you cannot eat at all. I've found that kids [i[actually[/i] will not allow themselves to starve when proving a point.

Solitary confinement in their rooms helps, too.

[ldsbeaker]

I'm a big proponent for the "the kids won't starve" movement, too. I have to say that things have gotten a little more difficult with TWO kids, though.


Those leftovers ain't gonna eat themselves... (at least not for a couple months)

[slimdevil27]

Love the pic of Georgia, Slim! How old is she now?

Thanks, she's 4 now.....and living up to every bit of that attitude. The SO is a redhead...I wonder where see gets it

[a]

You did well . If you relent, they just get worse. Aaron prepared us for the twins. When the little one gets older, he will learn stuff from his elder brother. Enjoy them with a good sense of humor . Temper your ire with the thoughts of grandchildren. That's the bottom line for all life, raising kids.

[Ricky535]

Next time try pork adobo

[Cheezy]

Georgia is absolutely beautiful, but if she has big forearms I would have a talk with the missus... Just sayin...


only kidding... hope you have a sense of humor....

[shagrath]

Iain (1) bites Richard (3). Richard doesn't put up much of a fight. He just takes toys away from Iain, getting bit more. Iain also pulls Devin's hair (6) and Devin hits Iain.

Iain is my little fighter. But Devin will kick someone's ass with a light saber.

[slimdevil27]

Georgia is absolutely beautiful, but if she has big forearms I would have a talk with the missus... Just sayin...


only kidding... hope you have a sense of humor....

That was my first thought about that pic.....

I hadn't condidered the other

The missus and I will be havin words...

[ldsbeaker]

LOL.

Kids are still hilarious. Some 4 year old vocabulary words:

Home-tel - where we stay on vacation.
Gray-ma - Not Grandma, pretty self explanatory.
Snack-rament - Our main church meeting starts at 1100, and the kids have to sit still for an hour. Then they have classes, no real spot for a snack or lunch, so we have lunch during sacrament meeting.

Today, I took my kids to daycare, and the oldest girl there (just turned 6, I believe, Blake turns 5 next month) came running up to Blake:
Girl: "Blake, Blake, I lost a tooth last night!! It hurt SOOO much! Do you want to see it?"
Blake: Silence
Me: "Ohh, Blake, she lost a tooth, guess you'll start losing some soon...
*me crouching down to meet his eyes*
Me: "How do you feel about losing teeth, do you want to?"
Blake: *most serious face I've seen in a LONG time, and shakes head once in the negative"

I had to keep myself from laughing, you could totally tell that the thought had NEVER crossed his mind... He was completely speechless!

[stuartinmn]

Makes me think of this video from Robot Chicken about feeding babies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZlpARhQerI

[davintosh]

Want mine?

Forgot how much I love that pic! If you ever need a break from Georgia, she'd be welcome at our house any time.
No grandkids among our kids, and my youngest is 14 (going on 28. The whole adolescent stage is just... ugh.) Georgia would have my wife and me wrapped around her muscle-ey little arm.

[a]

I feed the grandson. He is 7 months old and just starting on semi- solid food. Yogurt. and mashed bananas. I was getting set and put down the bowl within his reach. Big mistake, he is fast and has very good hand mouth moves. There is very good reason why they are called grand parents. Caring for a baby is like riding a bicycle ,you dont forget the moves. Deja vu all over again. Just grand.

[djazz]

This parenting shit is hard, but when you win one, dang it feels good.

Don't worry, it gets worse. j/k, (sorta) It gets better, sorta, too.

We're slowly entering the empty nest phase and I find myself buddying up with the friends' kids to have someone to scheme with. There is nothing like watching a kid work through a problem like making battle plans for a water balloon fight with the gurrrrrlllllllllz.

One of my all time favorite pics on the web.

[a]

Yah , The little girl is way cute.

[Mab1957]

Enjoy it, Adam, the whole experience is worth it. If they're still alive at the end of the day you've done your job. Hug them and show them The Way.

[ldsbeaker]

El Oh El.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2zC8vH0XhM&feature=plcp

[Mr.3-5-7]

I've got 2 year old twin girls, and i dont think i have ever seen a temper tantrum like these before. My wife stays at home all day while im away at work. She has the mindset that you have to coddle them. I think you must be firm with a screaming child. Well Kate like to scream at the top of her lungs if you look at her wrong and will throw her self on the ground covering her face. Danielle will just mean-mug you and whine in the most annoying tone. They dont listen to their mother, at least not for the first 32 times she tells them "no" or "get down from there". I just say it once in a deep firm dad voice and they toe-the-line real quick.

Parenting is hard. And not very rewarding. But sometimes it can be real fun.

[ldsbeaker]

Kids are 6 and 3 now. Bash (3) is potty training. We have been for about 6 weeks, and I think he's finally getting it. We're still at the "take everything off" stage, which sucks when we're out and about, but at least he can dress himself for the most part. Went to a bday party on monday night and it seems like 3 may be a little "late" to start the potty training when compared to the other kids, but we don't care.

[MicahO]

....it seems like 3 may be a little "late" to start the potty training when compared to the other kids, but we don't care.

It varies a lot kid to kid. Our daughter was very early, but we could see that she was in control of a lot of things from a very precocious age (i.e. I'm doomed). At 22 months we decided we'd try to see what happens. As it happened, she *loved* her purple panties - felt very grown up! She crapped in one pair, and I threw them out right in front of her. That was all it took. She was trained in about a week, and the cost was one cherished pair of purple panties. She never wanted to lose another pair.

The boys....they took longer, much longer....