which generally " accepted" parenting protocols do you not go along wiht

[codJane]

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cleanign babies teeth - never really bothered

Please explain the Richard and Judy thing, i didn't get it.

Especially if its further proof that she's an alchy or he's an arse.

no she once complained he bruysghes his teeht in the shwoer then throws the brush intot he washbaisn
WHY i rememebr that i dunnno

Lazy bugger.

Thankyou mucho.

supervising in the bath at all times

Bath every day
Routine for young babies.
Naughty step and constant ongoing discipline systems
"if you eat this you will be allowed to have that"
Not to care that DS would not eat a cherry tomato, cucumber or carrot baton (unless his his life depended on it) and not to care what other people's children do or do not eat in comparison to mine.

cleanign babies teeth totally agree

Routine no need

not sleeping in the same bed - mine have grown out of it fine and sleep through

bloody fussy foods - rubbish food is ok on occasion not avocating feeding shite all the time but still

This thread is fabulous!

My dd has never had a nursary, she sleeps in our bed and we cuddle all night (she's 3).

She chooses whatever she wants to wear every day, which has led to some very arty combinations, and 2 days wearing a fairy dress to the park.

She's been using scissors since she was very little and never had an accident. She can now cut perfect straight lines, even though she's left handed.

My dh is half-spanish so she's been coming out to restaurants with us since she was born. Result? She is perfectly well-behaved, loves going out, socialises like an angel with grown-ups and finds other children to play with, leaving us to enjoy our dinner. she also loves Spanish food - fish, olives, soup, jamon, beans, prawns, garlic. Very funny

doctor told us to stop bathing her every night due to her eczema, so she has one every 2-3 days.

whoops, NURSERY, always get that confused

Stopped bathing my son everyday when he was a few months old as it was a ridiculous amount of palava to be carrying on with on a daily basis, especially at bedtime.

I never was one for pureeing masses of veg for my son.
I tended to use the Hipp jars interspersed with bits of food off my plate and easy-peasy finger foods. All that pureeing of carrots did my head in after the first few weeks!

I stopped using a baby monitor when I realised it was making me paranoid. My son sleeps much better without me running into his room at the sound of a snuffle.

Stopped sterilising when my son was about 4 months old and a Danish friend told me nobody sterilises in Demmark and they don't have any worse rates of illness in babies.

Always fed my baby to sleep.

Tried a bloody faffing great routine devised by a 'parenting guru' and will never do it again!

Feeding baby mush for months on end. Expected them to eat a spag bol or roast dinner by about 9 or 10 months.

They slept on their front from much too early.

I let them pick food up from the floor even in the street (but only their own in this case) and eat it.

Using a push chair after 2 1/2. Couldn't be bothered with that.

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NO to sterilising-totally unnecessary.

Def call dd naughty-too right if she is!

No stairgates-taught her to come down backwards (thank you Justine and Carrie)

Drinks diet coke on occasions.

If she wants to go out in the rain in only a nappy then she can-she may get cold but she won't catch a cold.

And we won't be having any flashcards in this house either....

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-dd learned to count by counting ice cubes into Mummy's glass-along with stairs climber of course....

Weaned at 4 months after ds grabbed chicken sandwhich and stuffed it in his mouth...

HV was appalled as not the regulations.

Can I help it if my son hadn't read them?

I'm a bit half and half here - some things I do, some I don't (I have one son who is 10 mths old).

I did the following:

Sterilised bottles (but not spoons, bowls etc) until about seven months.
Baths every night.
Clean, ironed clothes every day (I even iron muslins and bibs).
Reading to him from the day we got him home from the hospital.
He was in a routine from the day we got him home and has slept from 7pm-7am since 11 weeks and he's still in a routine.
I say no to him, now that he's mobile.

Things I didn't/won't bother with:

Stair gates.
Baby Monitor.
'Approved' food - he eats (more or less) what my husband and I eat.
Mother and baby groups - I went once or twice and neither he nor I enjoyed them.

Things I did/didn't do that really annoyed my health visitor:

I weaned him at 13 weeks (he was and is a big boy and he was starting to grab food and put it in his mouth) on the advice of my GP.

I didn't breastfeed - he went straight on the bottle after my elective (for health reasons) c-section.

Left him with a babysitter (my mother) at 6 days old to go out to dinner with my husband who was flying back down to London for work the next day.

I haven't had him near a clinic since his last immunisation.

Forgot to add that I have to admit that I leave him to cry if he wakes in the night - unless he's clearly distressed, in which case I go in immediately to see what's wrong. If he's only making those little frustrated cries I leave him and he notrmally settles himself quite happily within five minutes.

It rarely happens as he's a good sleeper.

me to with the crying jcscot

You're meant to bath children?!!?!?

There are REAL mums out there!!!

I am normal, I am normal......

Blu, I don't really care what other people feed their children, each to their own, but it's a bit of a pig when we have a playdate and other child looks intimidated by a cherry tomato.

Was very satisfying when we had uber-mother and perfect daughter round though. Turns out her dds are very faddy eaters. Hurrah! Something at which she is not perfect and I'm not bad!

I don't buy the whole CC, and I have never read any guru style books.

I won't be putting up fireguards around the slightest little thing.

Have never followed a routine, yet my 10 month old sleeps well and eats well and is such a happy baby that I'm obviously doing something right