Nieces, nephews, friends' kids - seriously, you don't know until you have to do it yourself. You don't know what your threshold is on "they'll do it my way or the highway" until the kid screams for hours over the course of days about something.
but you clearly don't understand the power of duct tape...
(No, I'm 100% kidding there)
but yah, that always is a super annoying thing to hear from people (in any context, actually). "Oh that's what you think now, but all your previous experience on this subject is really totally misleading because blahblahblahblah, and you'll REALLY KNOW when you're in my shoes!!" Like I said, I understand where you're coming from and you're likely totally correct! But it's SUPER annoying to be told the above and doesn't really accomplish more than annoy whomever you're telling. Not to mention that there are always exceptions and it's presumptive to assume you know the details of another's situation.
Still Empress of the Poofy Purple Pillow Pile Palace!!
Continued Love of my Aussie <3
Continued Love of my Aussie <3
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Books for very small children: suggestions?
20/04/2012 12:19:39 AM
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Really, before 18 months you're wasting your time
20/04/2012 01:26:05 AM
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I dunno. I really enjoyed books when I was that young
20/04/2012 03:12:29 AM
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At a year and a half?
20/04/2012 06:18:01 PM
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I don't remember reading quite that young, but I do remember not long after that.
20/04/2012 09:35:11 PM
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Color me slightly skeptical.
21/04/2012 01:17:51 PM
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I double checked. I was confusing it with another event. I was about 2.5 *NM*
22/04/2012 12:19:09 AM
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Similar experience here...
20/04/2012 07:04:51 PM
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Yah, I was a bit like your niece
20/04/2012 09:30:02 PM
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Re: Yah, I was a bit like your niece
20/04/2012 11:48:12 PM
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Doesn't need to be an extended period of time, though. A few minutes is enough at the beginning.
23/04/2012 12:42:23 PM
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No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
23/04/2012 02:29:57 PM
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Re: No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
23/04/2012 03:32:22 PM
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Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
23/04/2012 04:39:47 PM
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I'm really interested in the evidence for the crawling thing.
25/04/2012 08:11:31 PM
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I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
25/04/2012 09:56:14 PM
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Re: I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
26/04/2012 03:45:40 AM
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anyone who thinks an infant sleeping on its stomach is dangerous is behind the times.
26/04/2012 01:51:59 PM
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If there was a big ad campaign in the UK about this then no-one told my medical team.
26/04/2012 07:40:48 PM
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Hmmm. *shrug* I don't know. I trust this professor to have his facts straight.
26/04/2012 08:01:53 PM
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Possible answer is difference between Scottish and English health systems.
26/04/2012 08:28:38 PM
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weird. maybe trends have swung back the other way.
26/04/2012 10:01:01 PM
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I hope you don't have it mixed up...
26/04/2012 10:18:00 PM
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blagh. maybe I do...I hope not. I hate it when that happens. let me pull out that notebook...
27/04/2012 12:01:47 AM
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Re: Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
26/04/2012 01:39:25 PM
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Yes, yes, of course. Everyone thinks they have the experience.
26/04/2012 02:25:10 PM
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I understand where you're coming from
26/04/2012 04:50:46 PM
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OH! Another suggestion!
20/04/2012 03:36:45 AM
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I LOVE that book.
23/04/2012 12:44:08 PM
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I...actually had a really long post at one point. I don't know where it went
23/04/2012 02:43:25 PM
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Books by Ruth Brown
20/04/2012 04:26:18 PM
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I loved books like that too. That had little "Easter Eggs" hidden in the pictures ^_^ *NM*
20/04/2012 05:29:50 PM
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