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There are countless sites on the IntarWebs run by mommy and daddy bloggers that offer various parenting tips, freebies and general mentoring services for parents. I am proposing a new model for the mommy blog, in which you, dear readers (all two of you), help me. Because I need a lot of help. Yesterday's topic was crib kicking. I'm batting 0 and 1 on the help part of this equation, but today's question is slightly less odd.
Does anyone else's 14-month-old still cry when you put him/her down for naps, even after you've executed the sleep routine with books, singing blah blah blah? Because mine does. 
So perhaps this is more of a call for solidarity in failed parenting. I dunno. You decide.
Did I ever tell you how Andrew almost ended up with the circus between the ages of 14 months - 27 months? He did a huge array of things to drive me batty. This is the time when their personalities emerge and they decide to wage a battle of wits against us...the sleep deprived, emotionally exhausted people who gave them life! Aghhh! Good memories. *sigh*
Have fun for the next year! It does get better...I promise.
Well, you see, the thing is with kids, they dunt like sleeping. and, as you are currently being annoyed by his crib kicking, keep in mind that it will end...as soon as he finds another way to crank down on yer buttons, say, by spitting, and then biting will replace the spitting, and then taking his poopie diaper off in his crib, and then, well, you get the picture. What I resigned to do early on was to charge my children for all of the inconveniences and worry that they cause me as they come up through the ranks. In each of their baby books, there is a notepad with a running tab. Choking on coins or necklaces and the like run $1,500 a pop; dance moves on the carpet made out of peanut butter footprints, $800. My youngest already owes me $4,700. You may hear crib kicking now, but implement the "running tab" plan and that noise will turn into cash register bells soon enough. —Cheers! Gi
I like this plan. If crib kicking equals $150 per nap/bedtime, we're covering rent in 9 naps/bedtimes. Excellent.
Nick did this *all the time*. Trust me, if he's *only* kicking the crib, he's not as bad as Nick was! When we finally moved him to a toddler bed, so he didn't hurt himself, he would get up and throw his toys (the big metal Tonka trucks, for example!) across the room at the door I had closed and locked.
If you're feeling particularly like a failure sometime, call or chat me. I'll tell you how bad it got for us -- not so you can freak and worry it'll be like that, but so you can see you're not doing so bad. :)
Anne.
That is exactly what happens. A lot. Glad to know I'm not the only one who had an inconsistent napper. Nighttime is less of a mystery, but he still gets up 2-3 times a night for a trip to the titty bar.
Nah....you're not a failure. Its just a nap. What I always hated was the Teaser Nap--where the kid pretends, fakes, and otherwise imitates all the usual nap cues and lulls you into possibly taking your own nap, then, WHAM--they're up and about and you are the one crying.
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