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A Parental Momenthot!
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05.04.2006
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Parents deal with many issues involving their children and most of them pretty smoothly. Unfortunately, one of the hardest issues to deal with is our children’s sleep, but these challenges often happen at the worst possible moment – in the middle of the night when we are drowsy and sleep-deprived.
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Anxiety of Leaving in the Morninghot!
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05.04.2006
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By the time I got upstairs and opened their door to see how they were doing, they were both standing up in their cribs and when I walked into their room, they both started crying loudly. I picked Jordyn up first and then went to Elijah's crib. When I had them both in my arms, I sat down on their couch. That was when I realized Elijah was holding his woobie and Jordyn was holding her Elmo and her doll she named Jordyn. They were definitely upset, but I had no idea why.
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Benefit of Losing Sleephot!
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05.04.2006
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My heart aches. I have just come downstairs from putting my twin 2.5 year (32 month) olds to bed and my heart hurts. They aren’t screaming or crying or calling my name. No, my beautiful children are lying in bed falling asleep silently. While I feel a tremendous sense of pride that –considering everything we have been through in the past couple of months - they are falling asleep in their beds on their own, I am sad. This is my favorite part of the day and yet it is over too quickly. Just when my children are their most delicious I find myself having to leave them. A part of me doesn’t want to walk out the door, a part of me misses my boy crying that he doesn’t want me to leave, misses my girl needing me to calm her down, misses hearing that they want to lie down with me to fall asleep.
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Big Brown Eyes Looking Up At Mehot!
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05.04.2006
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The morning is a very busy time for me. I get up early to ride my bike so I can be back home in time to shower and get dressed before my twin 19 month-olds wake up. The morning provides some of the few moments I get with my children during the week - and it gives my wife a few precious extra minutes of sleep since she spends all day with them by herself.
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Concentrating on Ushot!
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05.04.2006
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Remember the game concentration? Where you turn over one card and then have to remember where the other card is to create a match because if you forget you lose your turn? I feel like my wife and I play that game all the time. Every time we pick up a card with a picture of our children, we always find the other match. But when we pick up a picture of our relationship, we almost never remember where the other card is and lose our turn. We've been doing a much better job at being parents than we have at being married.
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Even Vacations Are Differenthot!
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05.04.2006
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Going on vacation with twin two-year (25 month) olds is stressful and exhausting in ways I'm almost still too tired to even adequately explain. There is almost no down time. No relaxing by the pool, reading a book and getting a suntan. No lying on the beach, feeling the warm sun. Almost nothing like what I think of when I dream of going on vacation. On the other hand, there is a lot of chasing after children who are so excited they can't control themselves and the stress of traveling.
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Guiding Principle: Setting Limits and Consequenceshot!
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05.04.2006
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One of the most challenging, but vitally important principles of parenting is the ability of parents to set limits and boundaries for their children. Many of us want confident children who believe they can do whatever they want. But there are limits to what they should do and boundaries for themselves and other people. Ironically, if they don't learn these limits, if they don't understand their own boundaries or the boundaries of other people, they will actually be more limited in what they can achieve in life.
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Guiding Principles of Parenthoodhot!
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05.04.2006
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There is no question that being a parent is by far the hardest, most important and most rewarding job we'll ever have. But so many people never actually prepare for the challenge of being a good parent. We go to school for years to learn our jobs and attend trainings and workshops to keep our knowledge up-to-date, but what do we do as parents? How did you prepare to be a parent?
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Making My Time Away A Little Easier...For All of Ushot!
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05.04.2006
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You know how some parents look forward to going back to work to get a break from their children and spouses? I'm not one of them. I hate going to work in the morning. Absolutely hate it. I hate leaving my family - especially on Monday after I have spent so much time with them during the weekend. To make matters worse, my twin 19-month old children hate it, too. Sometimes they will cry and scream when I lean down to say goodbye. Other times they cling to me when I give them a hug and refuse to let go - as if I really want to leave in the first place.
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Mommy Do It. Mommy Do It!hot!
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05.04.2006
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There are few things that haunt fathers who want to be an integral part of their children's lives more than holding your child and hearing, "Go with Mommy," or when you are doing something for them and hearing, "Mommy do it!". These words may be different for each father, but the idea is the same; "Mommy is better than you, Daddy" and nothing can be done to change that. For me, these words bounce around my brain every time my children say them like a mental pinball game smashing into the bumpers of doubt and low self esteem leaving me obviously tilted. Game over. I lose.
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Part-time Daddyhot!
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05.04.2006
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Almost every night in the rush to get everything just right as we put our two-year (26 month) old twins to bed we inevitably fight. It doesn't really matter what I've already done to get ready, there is always something else. Something I didn't think of or something that needs to be done in a certain way - a way I wasn't doing it.
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Sharing What I Lovehot!
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05.04.2006
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I have found that one of the best ways to bond with my 2.5 year-old children is to share the things I love with them. The strongest example of this is my love of animals. I believe a love for animals is immensely valuable because it not only helps us learn and treat animals with respect, but it gives us an appreciation that we humans are not the only living beings on this earth. There are other animals, different from us, who also live here and share our world. It was something I started learning as a child and I hoped my children would feel the same way. I never considered that by sharing my love with them, we would build a stronger connection together.
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Sunday Sadnesshot!
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31.07.2006
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Sundays have always been a tough day for me. I am a guy who has always struggled
with living in the moment versus worrying about the future and Sunday epitomizes that
for me. Sunday means that Monday is tomorrow, which means my weekend is over –
whether that weekend was a break from high school, college, grad school or work, it
never mattered. In fact, it was always worse with work – especially when I was in a
terrible job like I was for the first two years of my children’s lives. Now, since I feel like I
get paid for my hobby, instead of feeling the anxiety build within me all day long I feel a
sense of sadness, what I call Sunday Sadness. This sadness, or maybe more appropriate,
this mourning, is less because I have to go to work and more because I so love the time
with my wife and twin three-year olds and I hate to see it end.
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