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What Should I Be Doing With My Newborn, Seriously

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Pete Incaviglia, Mar 24, 2008.

  1. SigR

    SigR Member

    I'm just making a little stand on behalf of those who don't buy into the "I have a baby/kids, get out of my way" mindset that many people have. I've sat through dinners where children have fussed and cried the entire time. I've watched movies where 4-year olds have run loops around the theater. (R-rated movies) I've heard many others complain of the phenomena. That some believe that somehow having a kid makes everyone understand and accept the nuisance. I accept that babies make noise, but I don't want to hear it at Ruth's Chris, Applebee's, or Mcdonald's. And a lot of other people don't either, who will think very poorly of you as an adult if you bring a screaming kid to a restaurant.

    Too many parents let kids run and scream wild in public. And I will not blame a kid for being a kid. But I will blame the parent for not handling the situation as it arises, or not teaching the kids as they get older how to behave in a public setting. (not literally, i keep my nose out of other people's business as a rule unless they are truly walking all over me)

    Also, leave the "my post count is bigger than your post count" bullshit at the door. It wins you no points except with others who mistakenly equate post count with post merit.
     
  2. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    In her swing or bouncy chair be sure her head sits up straight (you can buy a head positioner) because her head will tilt to one side too much without it and tighten the muscles.

    This can result in something called tortacalles. No idea how to spell it.

    Oh, be sure to watch 30 minutes of Pittsburgh Steeler videos a day or talk about them. That's how my folks brainwashed me.
     
  3. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    I've sat in a lot of restaurants and movies and airplanes surrounded by really obnoxious adults.
     
  4. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I was drunk, and you promised you wouldn't keep bringing it up.
     
  5. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Then tell Boom to take his stogie and stuff it.

    On a tee...couldn't resist.
     
  6. Jack_Kerouac

    Jack_Kerouac Member

    It was at about the one-month mark that I began tying my older son's right arm behind his back in the hopes that he would someday have a 20-year career as a left-handed relief specialist.

    (Only kidding, DFACS! Though he did turn out to be a lefty all on his own despite Mrs. Kerouac and I both being righties.)
     
  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I'll give you that and apologize for calling you "newbie." At the time it was preventing "dicksnort."

    Not all parents are terrorist SuperMoms and SuperDads. When mine was very small I was cognizant of the fact that her stroller was the size of a Volkswagen and didn't use it as a bulldozer in public, like I've seen others. And my wife and I were extremely careful in restaurants; if we saw that she was going to be handful for a while, we'd box up our food and go. I also don't see my girl, now 2.5, getting into a movie theatre anytime remotely soon. I'll be very over-cautious there, even if it's a movie that no kid-less adult would be caught dead in.

    You're 100 percent right that kids need to be taught how to behave in public. But I don't think that starts with a flick of the switch at age 5 or whatever. They can be acclimated much, much earlier, and get the right message.
     
  8. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    You know, poin, you never disappoint. :D
     
  9. spup1122

    spup1122 Guest

    Primary colors only. Kids that young can't process other colors. In our child development classes in college, they told us that kids ideally should just have white nurseries because they can't process the colors until they're almost one.
     
  10. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    You should be out and about.
    A wedding ring and a baby are great ways to pick up chicks.
     
  11. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    So she probably digs my black and white Jack Daniels and Aerosmith t-shirts?
     
  12. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Folks, it's a one month old baby. Let's not try and get them into Harvard too early.

    They have primary needs: food, shitting, warmth and love.

    Beyond that, not so much.

    In my experience, the single most important thing is sticking to a schedule, particularly as they get older (three months to a year).

    Dinner, naps, baths at the same time.

    It gives them a sense of security.

    However, when they're old enough to keep their head up, get them a Jolly Jumper. Greatest invention in the history of child rearing.
     
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