Hi! My name is Melissa, and I am a mother of a 2 year old girl; four year old boy. I always feel kind of weird about joining new forums...kind of gives me the same feeling as signing my kids up for a new sport....."oh gawwwwwwddd, what if they don't like me!?!?" I need the support, therefore I am going to just hope that I get along with others here!!
I am joining this forum, regarding my four year old son. My son starting walking at 8 months old. (when I say walking, I mean walking, running, skipping...and bouncing off walls like the ball we all just received in our preschool Easter baskets) At 10 months, he crawled out of his crib in the middle of the night, and woke me up while sipping on a bottle of ?epicac?..(not sure of the spelling, was something I got at a baby shower..that makes kids puke in case they ingest RAID or something) From there it started, and at this point he was my first child, and I had no reference as to what was typical. Obviously, we had to start incorporating child safety devices all over our home. These things were good for entertainment purposes for my son, it kept him occupyed for 2.5 minutes while learning how to bypass them. He then started to leave our house in the middle of the night....starting at age 2 it was easy at the young age to put difficult locks on the doors. However, most recently right before his 4th birthday, he woke up...turned my alarm off (apparently he knows the code from watching me) and proceeding to play outside...in the middle of the night. He started my car, to listen to the radio (suprised he didn't drive to McDonalds) and ran the battery completely down. I woke up at 5 a.m., to him having a blast playing outside. This is not isolated...there are many other times this has happened, at one point I had to lock him in his room at night. I once, accidentally locked myself in his room with him, while my daughter was still an infant. I tried like heck to get the door open, when I finally sat down on his bed to regroup. I heard my child's little voice say, "it's okay, Mommy...I got it open" My child had un-assembled the whole door in two minutes, I had spent 45 minutes trying to do myself.
These stories are countless, but don't get me wrong. He is the most loving boy anyone can imagine!! (didn't get that from husband,lol) He is EXTREMELY social!!! I just can't talk to typical mom's anymore about his ordeals. I feel like something is wrong with this.... I have tried every sort of discipline (things that I said I would never do...nothing harmful; hang up the phone with CPS!!) I have called his pediatrician a million times, and they always give good advice, like "have you tried locking the doors!?!?!?!?" OMG!!!
I really would like to hear that I am not alone....advice is fabulous!!! My children are in a two parent home, however.. my husband is a pilot, so most of the parenting is done by me.
Thanks for letting me join your forum, sorry for the lengthy intro....
Melissa
I am joining this forum, regarding my four year old son. My son starting walking at 8 months old. (when I say walking, I mean walking, running, skipping...and bouncing off walls like the ball we all just received in our preschool Easter baskets) At 10 months, he crawled out of his crib in the middle of the night, and woke me up while sipping on a bottle of ?epicac?..(not sure of the spelling, was something I got at a baby shower..that makes kids puke in case they ingest RAID or something) From there it started, and at this point he was my first child, and I had no reference as to what was typical. Obviously, we had to start incorporating child safety devices all over our home. These things were good for entertainment purposes for my son, it kept him occupyed for 2.5 minutes while learning how to bypass them. He then started to leave our house in the middle of the night....starting at age 2 it was easy at the young age to put difficult locks on the doors. However, most recently right before his 4th birthday, he woke up...turned my alarm off (apparently he knows the code from watching me) and proceeding to play outside...in the middle of the night. He started my car, to listen to the radio (suprised he didn't drive to McDonalds) and ran the battery completely down. I woke up at 5 a.m., to him having a blast playing outside. This is not isolated...there are many other times this has happened, at one point I had to lock him in his room at night. I once, accidentally locked myself in his room with him, while my daughter was still an infant. I tried like heck to get the door open, when I finally sat down on his bed to regroup. I heard my child's little voice say, "it's okay, Mommy...I got it open" My child had un-assembled the whole door in two minutes, I had spent 45 minutes trying to do myself.
These stories are countless, but don't get me wrong. He is the most loving boy anyone can imagine!! (didn't get that from husband,lol) He is EXTREMELY social!!! I just can't talk to typical mom's anymore about his ordeals. I feel like something is wrong with this.... I have tried every sort of discipline (things that I said I would never do...nothing harmful; hang up the phone with CPS!!) I have called his pediatrician a million times, and they always give good advice, like "have you tried locking the doors!?!?!?!?" OMG!!!
I really would like to hear that I am not alone....advice is fabulous!!! My children are in a two parent home, however.. my husband is a pilot, so most of the parenting is done by me.
Thanks for letting me join your forum, sorry for the lengthy intro....
Melissa