Topic: 2 year old - Cries himself to sleep every other night (Read 4144 times)

I should record some of my son and cat together... My cat is declawed front and back.

We adopted her from the humain society that way. She looked like a shaved rat when we got her.



The cat is pretty much my sons doll, the cat doesn't seem to mind. They're always together.



Posted for fun: What the hell is on my neck?  You can sorta see what it is

Yeah I wondered too.. He woke up from a nap with that on his neck......

... It's a reeses cup, but I have to wonder how the hell it got there...

Kids.

I agree. 

Declawing a cat is just mean you shouldn't be a dick to it if you don't want to get scratched.

My first thought was, I hope for the sake of your son, your cat is declawed 

some people just do not get sarcasm...

Pretty sure sign that:
1) your cat may be into "water-sports"
2) your son is probably ready to be potty-trained.

He certainly has enough control. If he can hit the cat, he can hit the bowl.

How damn right you are... It sucks...

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Just be glad he keeps his diaper on while sleeping. Mine refused until ~1.25 y/o, and if she woke up, pooped, and we didn't have a snapped-together onesie on, she'd smear shit all over her crib. It was the most horrible thing I've ever had to walk into. The first few times, I had to wake up my wife just to stand there with me while I cleaned it as a kind of spiritual support (actually.... to be honest - the first time that happened, I was so horrified, my wife did most of the work)

Anyhoo, she had sleep problems, too, but we were lucky enough to have a noise-making stuffed lamb work for her. Still cries, but usually only for a few minutes instead of 20-40m.

And really, just to reiterate for everyone young -- don't have kids. My God, don't do it! If you love watching others' kids for a few hours, it's not anything like having one of your own, every hour of every day, every year. It's not like a pet, and they aren't similar to child-like adults. They don't quietly walk around and act independently, nor are they little Socrates, calmly asking questions which lead you to think about the world differently. After having an ankle-biter of my own, what I most look forward to in life is the day she's old enough to go to school.

If you want kids, consider this happening three times a day starting about the day she walks reliably (~9 months), and still not ending at her 19th month age:

*extremely shrill* "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE!!! WAAAAAHHHH!!"
"Lunch's almost ready. We're having fried potatoes and roasted chicken with rosemary. Do you like how rosemary tastes?"
*standing in front of you while you cook* "More? More? ..... WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!! WAAAAAAAHH!!"
"It's still cooking. It'll be ready in about 5 minutes."
"MORE! MORE! MORE!!!! WAAAAAAAAAHHH!!"
"..."
"MORE! MORE!" *crying, pulling on legs*

5 minutes more of that....
"Okay. The food's all cooked now, but it's still too hot for you to eat."
"Hot."
"Yep."
"Hot. ... ..... More?"
"Not yet, it's still too hot."
*short pause, confused?* "WAAAAAHHHHH! MORE! MORE?!! MORE!!!!! MORE!!! WAAAAAHHH!!"
"It's still too hot."
"More more more more more more.... MORE!!" *tugging on leg, making you dodge her while you dare try to move*
*agitated* "Listen - it's not done yet, and if you cry anymore, I'll eat it myself."
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR *breaks down into generic crying* MORE MORE more.... *defeated crying*"
...
...
...
"Alright. Food's ready, now."
"More!"

She takes the plate, puts it on the floor, and begins eating. She'll eat a few potato cubes, and give one to a cat, which's cute as Hell. If the cat goes near the chicken, she smacks the cat away. She finishes all the meat scraped from a chicken leg and thigh, as well as a half-cup of fried potato cubes.

"MORE!"
"No more, you're full. Go see what mommy's doing in the living room. I think she has the fuzzy red monkey you like."
"MORE! MORE! *crying again* MORE! MORE! MORE!"
"Go see mommy! She's in the living room."
Then she wanders out to the living room, still crying, and starts crying at wife. Wife picks daughter up, gives her a hug. Daughter's still crying, squirms to get out. When she's let down, she keeps crying. "More?"


She has such a large vocabulary, but when she wants food (and she almost ALWAYS wants food. She'll vomit and still demand more food.), she refuses to do anything useful and her vocabulary becomes very limited ("-anana," "cack" [cracker], "food," "milk," and, of course, "more"). Not sure when patience develops in children.... 10 years?

just as this was about to become the nicest these on /btctalk/, along comes this.

i hope to God you're not serious.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=beat

lol much experience can be learned through forums   

happy to hear that.

also: i think it's great that you turned to your peer group for advice.

well tonight wasn't so bad 

thanks for all the gr8 advice

with my little girl i just tell her its bed time, carry her to bed, turn the light off and lay down with her until she falls asleep. She cries every night sometimes for only a minute some times as long as a half hour but i simply dont acknowledge it in any way. If she wants to cuddle than i cuddle if she wants to be alone than i let her be alone on the other side of the bed. The key is to give them as much freedom as you possibly can. Its really quite easy to train kids, respond to the things you want to reinforce ignore the things you dont want to reinforce, understand their needs and respond to those needs.

my best guess from your story is that he doesn't like to be alone. Children have different needs from adults, even though belief in monsters isnt rational we still have to respond to that need for security. Also dont listen to people who say you have to deny fulfillment of the children needs because they need to be "weened" or "they have to grow up eventually" as an analogy, if you respond to his need to be protected against monsters this isnt going to make it more likely for him to grow up with a belief in monsters.

just spend enough time with him and it will settle.

get your eyes of stupid bitcoin charts
abdicate some money and spend time with him

it's the most important time where he learns most. show him you are caring, he will be more caring and a better guy later.

Dude, don't feel bad about that, he probably loves it. I'd have killed for something like that when I was a little guy. In fact, I remember one summer I set up a tent in my room and just slept in there the whole year. It was excellent. Nothing beats a little space that is exclusively yours.

Uh, what is sudden death syndrome? SIDS? Your son is 2 and well beyond SIDS.
I think you're being paranoid, your son is 2 years old, hes not going to suffocate by himself. Put a baby monitor, or a night vision camera in the room. I don't see how leaving the door open is going to help suffocation seeing as if you're suffocating you don't make noise anyway. Either with, or without the door open your son with suffocate if the unfortunate scenario were to happen.

Unless that is.. If his room was air tight, and you sucked out all the air.