Climbing up, Birthday Talk, Aloha Friday
This week has been a rather short week with two days of holidays midweek. Where has the time gone?
This week I actually planned to get more workout exercises done with my new Zumba Wii game but so far only got around to trying it out twice. I guess that I have to step up and be more discipline next week.
This morning I had a rather interesting conversation with Doggie Boy.
He was asking me what the date was and very subtly implicated that he should have a holiday next Monday.
Doggie Boy: ” Mummy’s what the date today?”
Me: ” Today’s the 12th of August?”
Doggie Boy: ” so ..tomorrow’s the 13th, then it’s the 14th then
the 15th right?”
Me: “Yes.. you are correct”
Doggie Boy: ” I have something very important to do on the 15th”
” I don’t need to go to school”
Me : ” You do need to go to school. The 15th is a Monday and you
do have school.”
Doggie Boy: ” No.. Monday I have something very important to do..
can’t go to school.. I need to celebrate your birthday”
Me: “Aww..that’s a nice thought darling but u STILL
Have to go to school ”
( It’s nice that he is thinking of celebrating my birthday for me but it’s not an excuse for skipping school)
I’m wondering what cakes the boys will chose for me this birthday. They chose this assortment last year.
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| My Birthday Cakes for Last Year’s Birthday |
Tiger Girl turns 11 months old today. In a month’s time she will be 1 yr old. Today she reached another important milestone- climbing. She is now able to climb up the sofa by herself. I need to start teaching her how to dismount from it properly or she’ll be having bruises on her forehead if she falls off the sofa.
My questions this week
How old was your child/children when they started climbing/walking? How do you prevent them from getting into scraps during this learning period?
August 12, 2011 @ 5:45 pm
@Anne,
I agree with letting the kids learn through experience. It just causes me heartache to see them getting into scraps. It happened a lot with the 2 boys but with the girl I’m hopping that she learns the proper way to dismount etc soon and have lesser chance of scarring her face.
I don’t mind reviewing your book. Just let me know how you would like it done.
August 13, 2011 @ 3:34 am
Hi Dominique,
If it helps, I trained our toddlers to go up and down stairs safely (we never had stairs gates) and they never fell down. I suppose the same principle can apply with other potentially dangerous activities. Parents can show them how to do robust things safely. Fathers who rough play with their kids ‘show’ them by way of example, how to do these fun things carefully.
About my book. This particular one is on Kindle only. If you have a kindle there would be no problem with this because I can generate a voucher for you. However, if you don’t, I’ll send you the link to where you can download a kindle reader on your PC and read any kindle book from there.
If neither of these is suitable, I can send you a word document, but this is a last resort. Please let me know what you want to do and I’ll sort it out.
Thank you and best regards
Anne
August 12, 2011 @ 7:20 pm
Miss Trinity is a very active child and started walking, running, climbing very early. Yet she never climb anywhere but the kitchen. I have child locks and moved everything way up high so that she can’t get to them. Because I was freaked out about the knives drawer, I had put them all in a basket and tucked it in the corner of the kitchen and told my boys and SO to start getting use to its location. This was the best thing I ever done.
August 12, 2011 @ 7:39 pm
Wow, nice selections of cakes!
I think my boy started walking at 11 months. Am not sure, preggy brain forgot, whoopppssss 😛
August 12, 2011 @ 8:58 pm
I had 5 children, and if memory serves me right, they started pulling themselves up around 7 or 8 months old. Walking was a different age for each of them. As far as keeping them from getting into ‘scraps’. I think it is safe to say that “life becomes the school of hard knocks.”
August 13, 2011 @ 12:29 am
I think she was around 8 months old and I can tell you, I had padding EVERYWHERE! I had rows of flat camping mattresses all over the floor with blankets on top but as hard as I tried, she still managed a few falls.
August 13, 2011 @ 1:38 am
Nice to meet a fellow blogger from Singapore!
Most kids should be able to get to sitting and pull to stand position at around 9 months.
Walking on the other hand is very variable. My daughter walked at 11 months.
August 13, 2011 @ 5:24 am
My daughter was one and I can’t remember how old my son was. I know when I started walking I was bumping into everything so my mother took me to the eye doctor to get my vision tested- and thank goodness she did.
Have a great day!
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August 13, 2011 @ 6:35 am
I love the cake assortment you got last year! Can’t wait to see what they do this year for you!! I know it can be so hard when they start to climb and fall. I think you can do some things to help them like teach them to go down the stairs on their bottoms and keep some of the more dangerous breakable things completly out of reach, but they will fall, it is how they learn. I will give you two pieces of advice that have sereved me very well as a mom to three kids, 12, 9 and 6. The frist was from my freind that was a mom before me, she said if your kid is not bruised and dirty you are not doing your job!! And the second came from my brother-in-law who told me to remember head wounds bleed a lot and to not freak out. That advice has come in handy twice, both times with each of my boys!!! And, it is true, head wounds bleed a lot!! Both needed stiches but are very well and very happy, and not really worse for the wear!! Thanks for a great post!!!
Kathy – visiting from voiceboks!!
August 13, 2011 @ 1:45 pm
@Kathy,
thanks for your advice. I’m lucky that the boys didn’t get into a lot of scraps when they were toddlers.. just hoping that with the girl that she won’t have too many incidents too.
August 13, 2011 @ 9:44 am
I am mom of six and they were all a bit different. Some were rather fast walking by 9 months and others were over a year old. Come see what I asked at http://shopannies.blogspot.com
August 14, 2011 @ 3:53 am
All my girls learned to walk at around 8-9 months. I didn’t do anything special to prevent them from getting hurt except maybe putting bumpers around the dining table edges.
Kailani
An Island Life