Comments on: The Boy Who Cried Mommy

By: Jungletwins

Jungletwins — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:32:48 +0000

My twins totally outsmart me on a regular basis. The most recent example- when I started dressing one of my daughters in sleep sacks to stop her trying to climb out of her crib, she taught herself to move the entire crib around the room by throwing her little body around inside it. Remarkably, she managed to cause as much destruction while in her crib as she would have caused out of it.
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By: Rusted Sun

Rusted Sun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:48:02 +0000

Our twins are 16 months and also like to get their legs stuck in the rungs of the crib. We have learned to tell the difference in pitch between a real cry and a fake one.

I love the 3 day rule. Especially when the kids are young 3 days feels like an eternity, but it is well worth it when after three hard days they start learning that you mean business.

Our son has recently started turning his head when we offer him food. My husband would give up and offer his something else. But I refuse to be a short order cook. Three days of not giving him anything other than what is offered at meal times (we always start with what they are lest likely to want to eat) and he is back on track and happily eating what we offer.
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By: Terzah

Terzah — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:26:20 +0000

Oh man, this is my son. He has done this kind of thing on various pretexts ever since he got his leg stuck in his crib bars the first time. Now he’s almost 3 and in a big-boy bed, and the most recent pretext involves using the potty. It’s really hard to deal with this one–because sometimes it’s actually true, but other times it’s not. He also surprised us the other night when he and his sister had a babysitter. He told the sitter he needed to have his bedroom door open at night-night time–and she let him (I remember little kids telling me these sorts of things when I was a sitter). He was sound asleep, door open, when we got home. He knows that will *not* work with Mommy and Daddy–but boy oh boy, he’s already foolin’ the sitters and not even three. What kind of teen is he going to be? (His sister, happily, loves her sleep–all of her pretexts are daytime ones.)

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:59:54 +0000

LOL!!! Love the moral (“wicked smart”…hahahahaha!)

We’re big fans of the “3-day rule”, too. It’s true. It works.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:38:41 +0000

My son accidently got his leg stuck in his crib one time and we went in to help him. He quickly learned to intentionally get his leg stuck so we’d have to come in (as in we’d see him go put his leg in the same spot as we turned our backs to leave the room). It was a rough time… luckily, he doesn’t do that any more and now they are in beds.

By: Vicky @ thecitycradle

Vicky @ thecitycradle — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:43:33 +0000

What a funny story! I have a very similar one. Our little girl at only 9 months has developed a fake cough to get me into her room at nap time.

The same basic idea: she coughs, I think she must need me, I enter, she learns if I cry mom stays away, if I cough she comes and holds me. Now every nap about 40 minutes in the coughing begins. Totally fake. How do they learn this crap???
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By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:32:44 +0000

That’s so funny about the 3 Day rule because we kinds of discovered teh same thing. I heard CIO usually takes 3-4 nights and for us it was 3 nights of crying and then the 4th night was a success. Then, we had to do a CIO for bathtime for our daughter and the same thing happened – 3 nights of crying and the 4th night, none! I’m glad its a “real thing” and not just a fluke because I had planned on using it for other things as the twins get older. Now I have even more conviction!
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