Confessions of a Doman mom

[patience]

1) I spend A LOT of time on this site as well  
2) I absolutely LOVE breastfeeding and the bond me and my son have because of it
3) I am behind in creating new material and haven't been reading as much as I used to lately
4) Surprisingly, I am more relaxed when it comes to teaching him than I thought I would be

[cybermommy]

We're past breastfeeding now, but I used to nurse on the floor in front of the TV with a tape of my favorite cooking show. When my son saw any cooking show go by when someone was flipping channels, he would automatically go to the couch and pull a cushion down to the floor, then drag me over to the cushion to nurse him. Talk about your Pavlovian responses!

This site is sucking up way too much time for me a well, and I just started! I was hoping it got better.

[iLusion]

Point 1 from your post Patience is totally true for me too!

[LDSMom]

1. My son watches regular plain ol' non "educational" TV in the morning with Dad while I work. He loves Mickey Mouse and Little Einstens
2. I also don't read enough to my son even though we go to the library every week for singing/reading time.
3. I let my son take his cars and books to bed with him.
4. I let him play in the dogs water bowl.
5. I don't always wipe his nose right away when it starts running. Seriously how many times can you do it in a day?!

[Nikita]

I dont read enough books to bub. Partially because she wont sit still. I havent done much flashcard flashing as she rips at the cards and makes it a ordeal. As I'm a chocoholic she is too, despite my trying to hide my chocolate consumption. She woke up the other day in my bed, said "oh oh!!" and opened her mouth wide pointing to my bedside table. She lifted up a few things and sure enough there was a piece of chocolate which she popped straight in her mouth. The next day she did the same thing...she knows where I stash it even when I cant find any chocolate myself. She ate nuts (peanuts, cashews) early as she kept finding fruit and nut chocolate...
I have the best intentions but housework etc gets in the way.

[linzy]

1) I don't read enough to my son. My goal is to read at least a few early readers and then out of a read aloud book (a biography, history, poetry, fairy tales, etc..) daily. Somedays it happens, somedays wiht work and dinner and all of that it simply becomes late and we crash into bed exhausted with nary a book read.

2) When my son is disobedient I send him to the corner, sometimes I am happy to send him to the corner so I can have a few minutes to check my e-mail.

3) My son is very verbally precocius, but his math skills are not great. I am nearly certain that this is because I find teaching math boring and was not consistent with our math program and still don't like to teach it.

4) My program has really fallen to the wayside in everything except reading, but he is making progress in reading!

[khatty]

1)  My math and reading program are not as consistent as I wish they were.

2)  I have almost given up on elimination communication - we just don't seem to be communicating anymore.

3)  I use breastfeeding as downtime to read many parenting books, most of which I do not have the time or motiviation to implement.

4) I retyped this post at least 5 times, dd kept turning off the computer!

[staceycanada]

My confessions:
1.  I also spend ALOT of time online.

2. We haven't been to the library in over a year and I owe them $50 in late fees. (It's my hubbies fault though. He left 2 videos in the car for almost a month and they charge something like $1 a day.

3. I have no friends, something I keep saying I will fix but between teaching my daughter and my online time I never go out.
which brings me to number

4: I have been meaning to take my daughter to the mom and tot drop in for over a year. Why can't I make myself go? I am worried that I will go and no one will talk to me. I have belonged to 3 different drop in centres in the last 18 yrs and never met anybody. I am shy and peole tend to stick together.

[tatianna]

my little girl still can't read yet. nothing
(even though i taught lots of other kids to read)

the first year i spent at home with my daughter i hated ever minute i was not at work

i spend way more time read about early childhood education then teaching my daughter

sometimes i think i'm learning more then she is

guilt anyone?
some nights i wake up in a panic because she is already 2 and a half
there is so much to learn and so little time

but there are great things too
muse loves
poetry
painting
fine art
gardening
ballet
classical music
and is soooo sweet
it's been a wonderful 2 years

[Nikolett]

It was encouraging to read from everybody here,

thanks for starting this thread,

looks like a lot of us need to invest in our off-line, no-book time, teaching our kids, going out and having fun!
Good news, teaching little kids doesn't have to take long, just few minutes a day!

Staceycanada, I think it's time to go this week! If you already put your fears in words, they can't stop you any longer! Nothing worse can happen, I bet you might find another shy mom to reach out to Where in Canada are you? I have good friends in Montreal...

About book reading/not implementing: take notes of what you try that week while you are reading, go back to book only after you've tried and tested your noted plans!

[rose08]

My daughter doesn't sit still for too long even though she is not quite mobile yet.  Which brings the concern on how it is going to be once she gets mobile 

I didnt really read to my daughter as much as I should (and wanted to) when she was younger. She would pull at the book and scream and wouldnt sit on my lap or sit still. I only really started reading to her about 4 months ago, and now I cant stop .
She is 12 months old now and is only interested in her books, I sit down to rest for a bit after doing some work around the house (I'm a stay at home mum), and she will toddle up to me (she used to crawl til she started walking a month ago) with a book in her hand and then shove it at me saying mumumumum...
I take this to mean "read me this book" So i sit and read the book, then again and again, until I put it down elsewhere. Then she will pick it up again and bring it back, or another one she has found...she has plenty.

I wouldnt worry too much about her not sitting still. My daughter was like that too and now she will stand still while I read it or sit on my lap if I ask her to.

I hope it sorts itself out for you

[nhockaday]

I eat the marshmallows out of my son's Kaboom   

[staceycanada]

Staceycanada, I think it's time to go this week! If you already put your fears in words, they can't stop you any longer! Nothing worse can happen, I bet you might find another shy mom to reach out to Where in Canada are you? I have good friends in Montreal...

I am in Ontario. They are closed for this week but I am for sure going on Tuesday (they are closed Monday's) and on Tuesday I am going to a Le Leche League get together. Way to jump with both feet huh!

[Nikolett]

way to go!  tell us how it goes

[purplefungi]

I've got some more:

I have to put the oldest in his room when I breastfeed my youngest.

I can't keep up with my youngest for milk while I'm at work so now I have to supplement with formula while I'm away. I hate this.

I don't have too many friends in real life either. Canada isn't too far from me. You can come over for a play date!

I don't always change my baby's diaper in the middle of the night after I breast feed him.

I am very unmotivated to potty train.

Math with Dirk isn't working so far it seems.

I never feeel like I'm doing a good enough job at being a mother, but this could be a little post partum depression going on.

I think that I'm learning way more than my children in this process. I'm picking up foreign words left and right and reading about early education way more than I ever had before. There is just so much information out there.

I'm not good at discipline. I want my children to trust me and maybe, if I'm lucking enough, to have them look up to me. I have a hard time telling Dirk "no." Sometimes if I get really mad, I might start yelling at him. He really tries me.

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