Strange things you let your kids do to keep them happy.

[leckert]

Feeb can you get a sun hat to fit over the beanie? Might solve one drama


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[Emma09]

I also let DD eat frozen peas.... Are they bad for them? They're still veggies
I unplug my landline and let DD "talk" all day long.
I let DD clump around home in my best high heels.
I let DD take said shoes to bed with her :-)

[feeb]

Feeb can you get a sun hat to fit over the beanie? Might solve one drama


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Ahhhh good idea his hat would fit!!

[Shades]

Tonight we have our Cars runners on to bed instead of the Crocs. Not sure it's that much of an improvement really.

[MummyNaomi]

Mine sleeps with his Farm Puzzle - check it out https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...uzzle-sleeper/

In fairness, You never know when you might need to complete your puzzle in the middle on the night though - best to keep it close

[MummyOfTerrors]

i let my children get away with lots
my DD loves to put on all my pretty underwear(clean) over her head (several pairs)
she has her own car keys on a lanyard
she often takes odd items to bed likes shoes coathangers clothes (she often forms attachments to certain items a day)
she once took a nail brush to my MCHN appointment

[FabFiona]

My son spent his whole day (including a trip to the shops and park) carrying around 4 D Energiser batteries. Loon.


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[Frangipani]

on the crocs- DS1 who's just over 3yo was the same until recently with his. though not sure if his crocs are authentic or a knock off (i think they were an ebay mixed lot). they would rub and leave blisters if he wore them ALL day on childcare days, but some days there was just no negotiating....so i'd usually try to get him to wear socks.

Now we've moved onto thongs....so know matter the outfit it has to be his buzz thongs!

Speaking of outfits....that's another issue....DS1 has become Mr Independent and dresses himself most days....i try encourage certain mixes but most of the time the mixture he choses himself just doesn't go well together....but once again no negotiating and when it helps me so much and getting out the door on time....how can i complain. he is usually dressed before he comes out of his room (i'm usually still in bed). i just like to explain to the childcare carers and the odd looks from strangers i get that it was his choice and he dressed himself :-)

DS2 has only recently started this particular shoe issue...he is now almost 20months. He has a pair of also buzz sandals but strappy ones. they were DS1's so they are really well worn...had only just put them in DS2's room for around the house wear in a few months because they were a fraction to big. well DS2 found them and even in the coldest last few weeks of winter would not wear any other shoes- so socks and sandals it was.

my boys seriously have no fashion sense....lol!

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[JLeigh29]

DS has a DIY Daddy and so is obsessed with tools. He walked around for a couple of days straight with a heavy rubber mallet (much to my mum's horror) a few months ago (including to bed, but I'd go in once he was asleep and take it out) but now it's an extendable screwdriver and a little mdf circle with a hole in it so he can put the screwdriver in and turn it round and round (it makes a ratchetty noise when you do). We draw the line at taking it to bed though. Mum still has a fit when she sees him with it and follows him around with her arms out saying 'Careful! Slow down, don't run' to him and 'Are you sure that's safe for him?' to me!

[YoYo]

Elbows.... My dd is obsessed with people's elbows. Pinching them, squeezing them, rubbing.... It's weird. When she's a little grizzly, I offer my 'belbow' and all is well. Good thing is it never gets lost.....and sometimes (well all the time) she has the option to use TWO!!

[Glass half full]

Oh these are all so cute! They are so funny once they get something in their little heads. DD likes to sleep on the floor sometimes. When she's having one of those nights where she is mucking around, taking ages to go to sleep, if we go in and ask if she wants to sleep on her "floor bed" she's normally asleep within minutes after we set her all up on the rug. So funny.

[Kazbah]

Oh these are all so cute! They are so funny once they get something in their little heads. DD likes to sleep on the floor sometimes. When she's having one of those nights where she is mucking around, taking ages to go to sleep, if we go in and ask if she wants to sleep on her "floor bed" she's normally asleep within minutes after we set her all up on the rug. So funny.

Oh dear ... I do this to myself!!!!

DS1 loves his cow blanket, if he doesn't have it it's hell on earth. He used to have it over him. Then he'd hug it. Lately he doesn't like it over him, cause mum crocheted him a new blankie, so he wrapped his pillow in it ... now he has it lying over his pillow and down his bed. :shrug: ah well. We also had a cuddly galah called "charlie" and he is very well-known in the childcare centre. We ended up getting a second one so we could have one to wash!

[JLeigh29]

Was out the other day and saw something that I thought would fit here...

A little boy, maybe 3, was looking at shoes too. He was wearing silk boxers, a Thomas t-shirt, two different thongs and adult sized black leather gloves. Mum looked VERY embarrassed when the sales lady commented on his fashion sense (in a 'been there, done that, totally understand you' kind of way, no offence intended)

[Elocin]

I was at the shops on Friday and saw a little girl, maybe 5yo, dressed in a unicorn outfit (as in head to toe, zip up the front, horn sticking out of the hood) and pink glittery ballet shoes. She looked happy as larry too, walking around neighing at people as they walked past with a huge grin on her face. I nearly choked on my lunch I was laughing that hard!!!!

[JLeigh29]

Is it weird that I'm kinda looking forward to DS going through that stage, just to see what he wants to do, lol!

I just remembered that DS went through a stage of loving Chux cloths and we went a few places with him sucking/clinging to one...

[deletedit]

Our bedtime ritual seems almost sane.

Bath.
Put pajamas on. SHE has to do it and don't you dare even consider possibly even helping button them up.
Octonauts.
Convince child its amost 9pm and not to watch two Octonauts.
Put child in bed with Dog, Cat, Kwazii, Peso, Captain and Piglet.
Read her a Hairy McLary or Slinky Malinki story with all the nouns switched for the word 'piglet' and don't you dare get a word wrong.
Put on blue hat that was supposed to be the baby's hat.
Make sure there's a night light, bottle of water and the music box is turned on.
Kiss her and Piglet goodnight.
Lock the baby down the other end of the house so he doesn't squeak at her through the door.

Any deviation from this results in major meltdowns. But then so do plenty of other things during the day ... she's 3 and, I quote from her childcare, "easily upset".

[Party-of-five]

last night we had to take DD2 to the ED with croup so to keep her entertained we let her pull tissues out a box one at a time "blow" her nose then she placed tissue in the bin. One whole box lasted an hour