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I am feeling so determined this time around and sticking with my goals so far. I am eating as close to phase 2 as I can, but mostly keeping my calories under 1200 a day and exercising. So far it is paying off. My weight is slowly dropping each day. My kids are eating better foods, and we are all being more active.
At the homefront, my husband is gone on business for a few days, my son is putting new meaning to the phrase "terrible 2's", and my daughter is being her usual precious self. I am really at a loss with my son. I don't know what to do with him. He is into everything, nothing phases him, punishments do nothing. I know consistency is key, and trust me, I am consistent. The little fella is in timeout about 75% of the day! lol. He just does what he wants to do and doesn't care about the consequences. He is great when I am spending one on one time with him, but as soon as I turn my back, he is into stuff. His new favorite words are NO and MINE! He is up and into everything after we go to sleep at night, and before we wake up in the morning. I'm just at a loss. Suggestions anyone?? I know this site is for dieting tips and advice, but i also know most of you are mothers. He is just night and day from my daughter, it is like being a first time mom all over again. Everything I thought I knew just doesn't apply to him. It may just be a phase, I keep telling myself, This too shall pass!!
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Good, rock solid plan Gracie (allow some flexibility). Insofar as your son is concerned, it does sound like a phase so maybe let him work it through it himself without becoming overly concerned?
28 Jan 09 by member: information
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Great job with the diet Gracie. As for the 2nd child, I had the same surprise as you! I have said that the true parent test is having at least two children because it's not really fair if your first and only one is a perfect child. My advice is to call SUPER NANNY! lol
28 Jan 09 by member: KellyBo
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Kellybo: So true. And my mom suggested SuperNanny too! lol. He isn't that bad. No tantrums or outbursts of ghastly behavior like those kids. lol. He's just very curious and determined! This is what happens when you pray for patience!!
28 Jan 09 by member: graciepoo
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Motion detecto outside the bedroom door- 29.95 from radio shack.
28 Jan 09 by member: sharonfriz
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I love the motion dector idea!! ImLuuvd use to get up at night when she was little also. She would climb onto the kitchen cabinets and mix all my cannister foods together, coffe/sugar/flour and have it all over the place. Once she even left the house and the neighbor called and woke me up early to inform me that ImLuuvd was in their front yard playing on a swing set. Sooo dangerous, I was at my wit's end just like you are. Thank goodness she out grew it and stopped.
28 Jan 09 by member: Janelleas
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Wow Janelleas, that is scary. We have to keep the latch on top of the outside doors shut b/c he has went outside before. thank goodness we were sitting in the same room and grabbed him up. When I was little I would sleep walk really bad and my parents found me walking down the road completely asleep and unaware of where I was. I actually just got up and found him in my daughters room emptying her Piggy Bank. lol. Little thief. He knows his sister's room is off limits b/c of all the choking hazards and breakables, so that is the first place he goes when he thinks no one is watching. I may need the motion detector b/c I honestly never hear him get up, even with the monitor on. There is no telling how long he was up this morning when I got up.
29 Jan 09 by member: graciepoo
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aren't little boys fun. My middle child is a 6 year old boy and just learned how to really fustrate mom, dad, kidengarten teacher. When he was little and wouldn't stay in his room for naps or bedtime we tied a rope from his door handle to another door handle in the hall way. so he couldn't get out. It only took 2 weeks for him to just get into bed and go to sleep and not try to escape. But now he is learning how to control his emotions or the lack of wanting to learn. He gets bored easy and just wants to play. It just get funner and funner. Is funner a word lol. The other thing is girls are so much different to raise then boys. Our daughters are pleasers. Our son is I'm right and thats just how it is. Wish I was always right. lol
29 Jan 09 by member: jprunty
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