Have a seat on the couch, make yourself comfy and read about the issues some of our friends are having....
Why is it when a baby girl or toddler girl have rolls of fat on her thighs, it is considered sooooo darn cute. Just a few short years later (5ish or 6ish) and then much later (any year after 5ish or 6ish) it is considered gross and disgusting! Young “chubbies” adorable, old “chubbies” disgusting. YEAH, no fair, my chubby is cute. No, I think chubby babies and toddlers are considered cute because some people equate it with healthy. “Oh she’s eating well.” “Your breastmilk must have super-calories!” All the lovely comments we get as moms. That does slowly fade into, “geez, does your kid any exercise, ever?” in grade school when doctor love to throw that dang growth chart in our face and tell us our kids are obese at 9. Doctors can be blamed with those charts, and as the kids get older, the media promotes all the skinny minis and how fabulous they look! (Compare the cast of BH 90210 now and then….characters dropped like a collective person in weight!)
My blogging is bothering my husband, who thinks Fantasy Sports are okay! I don’t think he’s acting fair, do you!? No I do not. Is the problem that you two aren’t spending quality time together? Include him in a blog post, interview him perhaps. Ask him to teach you about his team. If that isn’t cutting it, set timers and allot yourselves X amount of time each day to pursue your fun hobbies. Make certain days of the week NO SCREEN TIME (lol–I tell that to my kids!) and watch a movie together or go to dinner.
Do you know Dr. Phil? Who? Just kidding. No. Remember I just play a therapist on MOMDOT.
Is it normal that my 2 year old goes through phases when it comes to food? Some days she eats like a horse, and other days it could be a few crackers. I think this is very normal. My toddler is like this and so were my older kids. 2 year olds have differing agendas to their day. They’re not like us focusing on when our meals will be. They tend to think, play, eat, play, play, play, sleep. Best you can do is keep a routine for your toddler. Provide plenty of food options the same times each day, but don’t be upset if she doesn’t eat. If her weight gain is a problem, or if your child is getting sick all the time, I’d consult your pediatrician.
[from a GUY!!] My girlfriend cheated on me and wants me to forgive her and move on. Is this possible? Ouch. Sorry man. I believe it is possible to forgive. Communicate with your girlfriend and find out why she strayed. Get a better impression of what broke down in your relationship. If it’s something that can be fixed and worked on, you can try and move past this. But, if it’s unresolvable, maybe it’s time to part ways, it may happen again.
My question is do you have any idea how to get it to quit raining in Seattle?????? Because I’m about to go insane. ug. Move south. Studies show that people need Vitamin D from the sun to avoid bouts of depression! I personally could not live in a place that sees the sun so infrequently.
Why are you so interested in other people’s problems? Well. I enjoy people. I genuinely care about them. I don’t enjoy that they have issues that are often beyond my scope of psuedo-science-therapy, but if I can offer some support and maybe an alternative opinion they haven’t heard of, I will. Plus, as i’ve said before, gives me a break from my own issues, my head is a busy place!
What’s your drink of choice now that you’ve given up white wines? Right, I used to have a section of my sidebar on my blog that displayed my love for fun-labeled wine bottles. My stomach decided to reject anything of the alcoholic-grape persuasion, so i’m not drinking wine anymore. I love a cold beer, Coors Light or Corona Light with lemon and always in a bottle!
Got a question for Ask The Mom? Email it to themomjen [at] gmail [dot] com. Find me making little to no sense at my own blog Cheaper Than Therapy.
as always your anwers are fun and entertaining!
I think it is soooo wonderful you are over here giving therapy to the whole world now! YEAH!
Libby, those are just terrible. It’s even worse when the comments come from people with kids already…hello, you knew what it felt like to hear this crap while pregnant!
I should interview the hubs for a blog… sounds like a fun idea!
I loved the ridiculously RUDE comments people gave me when they first saw my daughter who was 10lbs. 4 oz. when she was born (and yes she was a vaginal deliver and I’m 5’8″ and weighed 130lbs. at the time – ouch!)
“Wow, that one was overdone.”
“I can’t believe you popped that thing out!”
“Does she prefer hamburgers or brats?”
Seriously people. Do you ever stop to THINK before you open your mouths? Obviously not.
No one is ever happy when it comes to size of kids. My son was a huge baby, born at 9lbs and looked like a little sumo wrestler by 6 months. He was in husky sizes by 5 and slowly burned down the baby fat to a trim size and now everyone says I don’t feed him enough and he’s too skinny. It never ends!
I dont know, when charlotte was 12 months, she was in a 2T. She was BIG child. I had people, at her 10 months old, asking me if i fed ber ‘pizza and beer’. People are so rude…yep, thast what i do. Feed me 10 month old pizza. She wont even pizza at almost 4~~~~~~~