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tbh that list was just a snapshot i could think of loads of other things if i thought about it. i am happy to let ds wear second hand shoes. some people are really funny about that. and when we were cooking the other day ds' friends mum wouldn't let her ds lick the bowl out after cos of raw egg. wtf that's the best part!! same person also doesn't let her child climb up the slide even when there's no one else waiting to use it.
he doesn't have a set bedtime either and if he goes a day or two without eating i don't get overly stressed about it. he's a chunky boy and i know he'll eat eventually.
oh and the other day at my work there was a little boy who came in dressed as spider man and some of my colleagues were saying why would you let your child come out like that (non-parents) i explained it is much easier to pick your battles and getting into a struggle with a 3 year old to change out of his beloved spiderman outfit isn't one of them.
i let him have a taste of tea, coffee and wine or beer. he will dip his fingers in and have a suck. i thought it would discourage him from doing again but now he just thinks he can stick his fingers in anyone's drink when no one's looking. i also let him eat in the car and whilst walking around which i know some people don't like incase they choke. don't do that cutting grapes in half thing either.
we don't have stairgates, fireguards, plug covers, cupboard locks etc.
i don't mind ds looking a bit rough around the edges. he doesn't like his hair brushed so we leave that most of the time and he often wears odd socks. he likes to draw on his hands and face in felt tip pen which is impossible to get off so sometimes he has to go out like it. i let him roll in mud and splash in puddles and streams and would let him climb trees if he could. oh and if he wants to wear a tutu and push a pram around whatever.
i don't tidy up as much as i should and we don't do ironing. he jumps and climbs on the furniture which i don't stress about. i let him sit on the worktop. i am pretty confident that at almost 2 he isn't going to fall off. oh and he doesn't have to eat at the table.
he's allowed to play in the garden shock horror on his own. have left him in the car once or twice to go into a shop for 5 mins aswell and i've left him in his cot once to go to the end of the road and post a letter. in the summer i leave him in his cot having a nap and we all sit outside in either our garden or next door's.
i don't worry about big bouncy dogs wanting to lick his face. or paedos being on every street corner. ds loves to strip off and i don't mind. might have to change this as he gets older though.
ds has the sort of skin that doesn't really burn easily so unless its really hot and he's going round totally naked i don't bother to much with sun cream. we use those wipes and even then its just a quick wipe over. not bothered about hats - ds refuses to keep them on anyway so its a lost battle.
i let him play with what he wants including saucepans, doors, keys, lightswitches, phones, calculators etc oh and he likes to drink bathwater and suck the bath sponge for fun. some people only let their dc play with toys. i find that bizarre.
we don't do bedtime stories - he just gets one read whenever he asks. he prefers to "read" them by himself and snatches the book off me anyway.
dont make a fuss if he hurts himself. i just say up you get you're alright. people are often amazed that if he falls over he doesn't cry much.
his newest thing is refusing to wear shoes so yesterday he spent an hour walking around the garden with nothing on his feet. even when he scratched them all it didn't stop him.
oh and catching cold what's that about? i go out with wet hair all the time and have never "caught cold" so i let ds do the same.
And yes i am that bored that I have sat here for the last 10 mins thinking of things.