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If he say this one more time...
...I am going to scream. "You need to not let her crying bother you." DD still cries a lot (last Friday was especially bad - I added it up and it was three hours of crying). It makes for a not very happy mom. And DH's response is always "you just need to not let the crying bother you." How the heck am I supposed to do that? Is any mom actually able to do this?
Re: If he say this one more time...
Sometimes I can tune it out better than others, but it always bothers me. And now that DD is 3, it's not really crying, it's screaming. Fun times.
Last night DD said the word "snack" over and over again for over 20 minutes. "Snack snack snack snack SNACK!" I wanted to rip my hair out. Apparently she didn't understand the first 10 times DH and I said no, we're going to go home and have dinner. (She has been in a bad habit of not eating meals and then expecting to get snacks multiple times a day and we're trying to correct that behavior.)
After she's had an especially rough day, I'm ready to drink, cry, or run away by the time she goes to bed.
There is one girl who hangs out on the AP board (for entertainment, she thinks we're loonies) and her response to EVERYTHING is "I just let him cry, but his crying has never bothered me". Sleep, separation anxiety, anything she just walks away and it supposedly doesn't bother her at all. It really annoys me when I see her respond to posts lol.
Three hours is a lot, I'm sorry you guys had a rough day
Riley doesn't really cry unless she's scared or hurt, but she has started screaming tantrums, so that's fun. I try to remind myself she's just asserting herself and it's a good thing, but rather embarrassing when we're in public.
When I'm at the end of my rope, yes, I can tune out James and his incessant crying. However, at this age, he is usually just either tired, cranky, or being an almost 2 year old pill, so I know the solutions and I'm usually working on getting them done and him not understanding and wailing is mostly annoying to me. When he was smaller though, it was harder to ignore him. I'm sure I could though. I might feel a little bad, but not THAT bad.
However, I'm not a very emotional person and generally am not that sympathetic to anyone. I don't really have that "heart-tugging" gene, which is a bummer for my kid. I'm more sympathetic to him than anyone else, but I'm still not super lovey-dovey in that way, you know? I still don't like it when he cries and is unhappy though, regardless of the cause.