I am a human man. I like to do human man things. The activities I participate in most frequently are sleeping and eating. Unfortunately this inevitably also leads to pooping, but we all do what we must, right?
What else can I write about??.. I love gaming. I also love my family, but slightly less than gaming. Oh, also memes, love memes; these would probably come in second place actually.
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Don’t need to jump in at the deep end. It’ll depend on your area, your comfort level, the child’s ability, etc. My kids are about getting to the point where I might start encouraging them to go to the play area on their own. This is 500m from the house and down a walk path away from the road/traffic. This is in a residential area and other kids already come there on their own from surrounding houses.
Congrats on reaching this milestone.
I particularly love the comment Alain De Botton makes about this.
What are you expecting people to say about this? You’re asking about how to explain to the parents (presumably to make it least uncomfortable for you)?
She’s been subject to a prolonged period of aggressive and threatening sexual harassment in her own house because of you. You own up to what you did wrong and accept the consequences. Do you realise your part in all this? Have you spoken to her about what you can do to help after fucking up so badly (might involve you having to move out). I hope you realise your sexual feelings are irrelevant and likely going to be unwelcome (and possibly threatening) here and should be kept to yourself.
Offer some support now… Because you missed the chance to do something when it counted.
For child 1: he would take 2 hours to get to sleep and then wake up every 45 min, every night. We used the sleep training described in Precious Little Sleep, and in 3 nights he was falling asleep himself and sleeping through the night.
For child 2: same start as child 1. We tried the above, and everything else we could think of. Nothing ever worked. I finally convinced my wife to keep him in our room and he disturbs our sleep every night still; but at least one of us doesnt have to go to the other room and screaming doesn’t wake the other child. He’s recently turned 5 and promised he will sleep in his own room, so tonight is literally the first night we’re trying to get him to sleep on his own. UPDATE: success!!
My advice is: good luck. Try whatever sounds good to you (some people find it completely unacceptable to let a child “cry it out”), but ultimately, parents aren’t the ones in charge and kids do what they feel like.
Ive had enough experience with parenting to know that this guy is still waiting for his kid to put on shoes.