He said it looked "studly."
Tomorrow I will post a picture of the P-Dawg and the J-Dog both in their studly hoodies.
A question for those of you with small children: At what age do you feel comfortable letting your child play alone in a "childproof" room? We didn't let the V-meister stack two blocks together without adult supervision, but we have a much more relaxed attitude with the J-dog, who has even been known to nuke his own Gerber graduate toddler meals from time to time.*
Lately, I've been letting him play upstairs in his room while I do important work elsewhere in the house. Sometimes I even forget to turn the baby monitor on.
But today, the little J-Dog wandered into the Utopia that is the V-meister's room and hit paydirt by upending her Valentine's Day goodie bag. I found him up there a few minutes ago EATING A SEASHELL.
So now I'm thinking that twenty-two months may be a bit too early to loosen the reigns and will resume helicopter parenting mode.
(Incidentally, the J-Dog is PO'd at me now because I wouldn't let him sit on my keyboard as I tried to type this post. He's standing at the front picture window crying for Da-DEE, who will be home from work in approximately eight hours.)
Good luck with that, little buddy.
I hope you all have a warm and fuzzy weekend!
*Of course not.
24 comments:
Hahaha poor little kid waiting for Daddy, righter of all injustice inflicted by Mommy!
I let Charlie play in his room with the baby gate up when I am in the shower in the bathroom that adjoins his room. He's almost 16 months and I've been doing this for about a month. Do you know how awesome it is to not have to waste precious naptime on a shower? The only problem I've had is when he goes into his closet and becomes entrapped in his old baby swing. Which isn't dangerous, just makes him really really mad. And yet it happened every time until I took the swing out of his closet.
YES!! YES!! why do they feel like they have to be all up on ya when you're typing???
"good luck with that, little buddy."
my new mantra.
I'm impressed with how neatly stacked your books are. Did you glue them together?
Miss Burrows - would you expect anything less of me?
I like the glue idea. I like it a lot.
This is probably not the answer you want to hear, but I think it depends on the kid. Each one is different and when you feel it's ok, then it (usually) is. Trust your gut and realize that they're going to get into trouble -- just hopefully not TOO much trouble. Plus, it also depends on what qualifies as "childproof". If I had nunchucks lying about (or a jar of SHELLS, or a vase of marbles) I probably wouldn't let the kids play in there. I'm just waiting for the portable home x-ray machines to become available. One quick scan and Hooray! we know where my ring went!
i hear that seashells are very nutritious
Oh how I wish my kids would go play in their toy room on their own. They won't go anywhere without me with them. It's so frustrating.
But of course we don't have an upstairs, just a long flat house.
I have no advice for you on that one. But I must interject that little J-Dog Soprano is ADORABLE sporting that Italian look.
Fugghedaboutit. :)
Studly! Ha! That is a word I have not heard for a looooong time. I may have to reintroduce it to the rotation.
We are pretty relaxed about letting E. roam around the upstairs and main floor. I won't let her downstairs alone because it's really not even close to toddler-proofed. In general, if I don't see or hear her for a few minutes I'll send out a search party of older children. If they also go AWOL I will track her down myself.
I love it when Dad picks out the clothes, it always hilarious. I'm thinking J-Dawg needs some bling with that outfit, maybe a nice medallion?
Can't help you on the unsupervised thing. My kid's just learning how to precariously hang from furniture and throw himself onto any and all all dangerously sharp corners that exist in the house.
uhoh. 22 months is too early to be unsupervised? Crap. I knew it. I let my NINE MONTH OLD alone while I wipe his sister's butt because she refuses to after she poops and well, there's only THREE outlets without childproofing and an oven there.
(OF course, with the first one I never let her out of my site. Does anyone know where the baby is? The baby, you seen him?)
Why is it that when I'm in the house, I have the toddler right up my butt, but as soon as I go outside to shovel, he runs five blocks away without looking back?
Why is that?
Maybe I should tie a keyboard to the shovel.
Other than that, I've found that 3 years old is generally the age I can leave a child in a room for any extended time and not worry about them eating lye, giving themselves jail house tattoos, etc.
It is Mommy Heaven when you can leave them in a room unattended. I have no advice. I also have a one storey home. I am jealous of your 2-storey home. And now I go.
Very cool on the microwave tips.
he's so adorable i can't STAND it!
You.Crack.Me.Up!
Can't wait to see the studlies...
Heidi
Kyra was 2 in January and if I leave her alone for more than 5 minutes I usually come back to destruction of some kind. Let me put it this way, I should own stock in Magic Eraser.
That's kinda like the time I found my 20-month-old on top of her dresser eating Boudreaux's Butt Paste.
Deb
sandiegomomma.com
Oh, he's fine! Seashells are just like bran. They clean the pipes, don't ya know?
Honestly, I think he's old enough to play unsupervised in childproofed areas of your home. If you hover too much, he'll never get into anything he shouldn't. And he'll never learn that seashells taste really bad and aren't much fun to chew. There's no better teacher than experience.
We let Ethan roam the house when he could safely manage the stairs by himself. That was at about 18 months.
You feel he's ready, go for it.
Even at 5 and 7, they still get into stuff they shouldn't from time to time.
It really depends on the child. Our daughter has been playing in her (not so childproofed) room on her own for well over a year (she's 2.5). But she's really good about not doing things she knows she shouldn't do, and not climbing!
I left my boy in my bedroom when he was about 18 months old, I mean he was a wonderchild, so well behaved, he would get up to no mischief right?? ... while I was having a 2 minute shower in my bath -- he left a beautiful sketch a la ball point pen on two walls. Only sort of half came off with hairspray and toothpaste.
So with the girlie, we waited a little longer, but I cut my showers in half (yeah, under one minute) and yelling at her to yell at me the whole time. At about 2.
Very studly indeed!
I think he's probably just fine to play on his own.
And? I have to remember that "Glue" tip.
Hee.
But seashells are ever so yummy...
Um, I'm with Mrs. Flinger - my 8 month old wanders around for a few minutes at a time while I'm tending to his sister. I think it's just fine to leave him unsupervised at 22 months for a bit, you know, within reason. This coming from me, the woman who took a nap with her new baby while a 3 year old watched television. Moments later she walked into my room with a Costco-sized bag of chocolate chips. Whoops!
I think what is the right age depends a lot on how many children you have. I supervised my 1st until my 2nd one got here 4 years later. I watched my 2nd one most of the time until he was 2-3. My third one, after 3 1/2 months of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week colic, I quit watching her!HAHAHA!! No it really depends on the kid.
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