Passive Parenting!!

[mogwai]

Ok, so who else fancies leaving the little one in a vibrating chair with flashing lights while they nip down the pub for some guilty pleasure at lunchtime? Is this breaking the law...technically?

Mine's a vodka and diet coke, and as it's lunchtime, I'll bag some potato wedges

How long just top and tailing would take us to grade 4? We've just gone a week . Just too exhausted to wrangle the bath.

at fingernails Serah, I started to cut dds on maternity ward - no one warned me about the skin underneath and she bled! I felt so awful, wounding my child on her first day in the world, so fingernails now get bitten and only when really dire in our house.

sympathies, Mandymac

My dh cut baby mogwai's fingernails on her first night home, with the same bloody result. He looked mortified and said "I feel like shit" with tears in his eyes (bless). Baby "wasn't even bovvered".

Top and tailing for eight days counts as grade 4, just spilling over the week mark....

Grade 4... slip a spoon of "medised" into babies "night night" bottle, despite no signs of teething pain being evident that day.....

eek.. no, grade 5 I meant. I think a week of top and tailing deservedly achieves grade 4

can you use that at four weeks, serah?

Are you saying you waited four weeks???? Four days!!!!

(note for potential upcoming law suit: never ever use medised on babies under 3 months old)

what was the stuff? I neeeeeeeeed it

Ahem...passive parenting grade six, wearing earplugs and an eyemask while your newborn screams down your ears.

I really shoud be reported to the authorities...

passive parenting book shelf 1:

Katherine Whitehorn's How to survive children (out of print) - 'Parenthood's not what you should do - it's what you can stand'.

serah - got my grade 2 certificate on that one, deffo. photographic evidence of appalling livid dual stripe scarification on ds for months afterwards. noticeable lack of 'oh I do that too' support from local mums [cough]

mogwai... I am your health visitor

excellent passive work by the way Acnebride. Like your style! (i.e. phew, I also am relieved its not only me too!)

reading through this, I've only just stopped thinking, "my life as a parent is shite". Life was sooooooooooo much better without DS, but at least it's bearable now. He's 10mo BTW.

well I think I am a fairly passive parent. Certainly laid back.... too laid back sometimes....

Ie I allow dd (16 months) to get up and wander around before me (having some milk) and the other day she learnt how to open fridge door and smashed 4 eggs! Eek.

We potter along fine normally, definitely agree the first six weeks hardest - so far!

wow weesadie..that's certainly passive...love your style.

Can you not teach her to whip up an omelette or something? Maybe in a few months, you'll be getting full English . My mother used to let me get up before her on saturday mornings. She had a rethink when I scrawled on the walls with red crayon. Mind you, it was no random scrawling....I'd written 3 X 2 = 6!!! I remember the smacked bottom like it was yesterday. My mathematical genius went unnoticed

Serah....you ARE my health visitor? In that case, can you stop parking your Ford Fiesta across my neighbour's drive? She's getting a bit pissed off with it. Oh yeah, and get some immac stuff for that moustache...

I am working on it

My mum had me making her tea and toast by 6/7 yrs so I guess it runs in the family!

hmmm so did mine

And I used to get up and watch TISWAS but she would get up and switch over to BBC1 to see Swap Shop cos she fancied Noel Edmonds.

I watched five minute snippets of TISWAS whenever she went out of the room....on a black and white TV!!

I never knew the phantom flan flinger was throwing yellow custard until we got our first colour telly

weesadie - well, you've started something now. Just keep her away from tomatoes and the microwave.....

Survival tactics to get us through motherhood - vital and normal
I now have a lovely TV installed in my bedroom, a nice litle flat screen one high up on the wall angled down at our bed (taken me two years to persuade DH so allow me to wallow). Not for me to watch tv in bed so much as for those early mornings - kids are both up, me wanitng more sleep, the devils wanting in our bed so put them in the middle, switch on cartoons on low volume and Dh and I roll over and doze while they are amused for a bit longer...

I thought it would have been my beard that unsettled you the most moggers
You got to see Tiswas in colour? You were spoiled.... trust with your passiveness, you will not be spoiling DD in such an extravagant manner.
Tomates and microwaves? What am I missing, other than the plot?

put a tomato in a microwave and it explodes. very messy, student-stylee activity. Sad, I know....

cool...... so it does!!!!

God knows what I'll do when she can reach the microwave!

When she started being able to switch the tv on and off I put the inside of a matchbox over the switch and sellotaped it there, worked like a charm!

Being very very passive this weekend as my dad is taking her to see her great granny and I get two nights off and two lie-ins!

nah serah...the beard suits ya
I was thinking of growing one myself, I have the beginnings of one!