I asked my mom if she sleep trained us. She said no. I asked if we cried at bedtime in our cribs. She said, yes of course sometimes babies get very tired and they cry themselves to sleep that's just how babies are.
ThymeToBeBorn
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ThymeToBeBorn
@ThymeToBeBorn
Working out my fear and trembling
Joined June 2023
- Replying to @ThymeToBeBornAnytime I tell my mom about baffling hyper anxious modern parenting she looks at me like I'm insane or lying. She's very matter of fact she'll always have a very good natural consequence too. Zero worry that anything *reasonable* is traumatic.
- My kids' school is not the sporty school. But, their high school recently added a powerlifting club, and a bunch of nerd boys joined. So now there's a bunch of high academically achieving boys who are extremely jacked.
- The biggest trad selling point of motherhood seems to be something like "you will learn to like suffering."You cannot be a happy mother if you idolize your former childless lifestyle. Being a parent is wonderful BECAUSE it requires sacrifice, not in spite of it. If your permanent focus is immediate gratification of your every vain desire you probably should stay childless.
- Replying to @emilykmayOmg, my dad read the whole twilight series and pronounced it good world building, and then we all watched all the movies together too.
- My single no kids friend had a 30th birthday party at the YMCa because "most of my friends have kids." She treats every child, baby, adult, elder as though they are someone worth noticing. She is adopted auntie to many and
- Girl was playing with boy at park. Boy's dad tells me boy is autistic. Boy is bubbly, social, good eye contact, plays pretend, seems to be of normal intelligence. Dad says boy freaks out when there are loud noises. This does seem like an expansion of diagnostic criteria.
- Your healthiest weight is the one you can maintain with healthy habits and without neurotic anti social behaviors while also being able to give and receive hospitality.
- Replying to @panda_gongjunimIn old books, men who kept wives constantly pregnant are sometimes considered "harsh husbands." I know a lot of big families with honorable dads but it still tracks when the wife is having babies 11-12 months apart 4-5 times.
- Replying to @alyssaleannBe like a baby everytime he thinks you're down you pop up to kiss him again ask one more question.
- I cannot deposit this $50 check a 91 year old widow gave me for my twins. I just can't.
- A man dropped dead in the neighborhood and paramedics told his wife that people can hear for 20 minutes after death so she lay on him and spoke to him for a while.
- Replying to @anisenotKids can be beautiful, so can cats. Should not be sexual. You can be attracted to her if you are also in 9th grade.
- Replying to @ThymeToBeBornI am so happy for them. They didn't have to start at age five, they got a chance when a ton of nerds just turn into mush. Very wholesome. Some have fairly impressive numbers.
