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Basic rundown, having a far flung family, I post little updates about my baby boy. Sometimes it's just to share funny stuff, sometimes it's the basic life update (monthly b-day pics), sometimes it's asking for legitimate help.
You know, the typical life stuff.
My mom is driving me nuts though. I post a video of him twirling in one of those bouncing swings: "Oh be careful or you might see food!" Okay...
Post a picture of him figuring out how to stand? "Oh, now he won't crawl! And you know that babies that don't crawl don't like reading!"
Recently, though, I posted an update that he was my little vampire, biting at major blood vessels. Wasn't asking for help, just making a comment since we had just dealt with him biting my wrist, inner thigh, and elbow. I thought it was funny.
A friend from church, thinking he was biting my breast since I'm still breastfeeding, offered a tip on how to handle that. I thanked her, specified where he was biting, and submitted that when he gets that bitey, that's when I offer Cheerios because, you know, he wants something hard to chew and/or is hungry.
Oh, Lord, the chewing into I got from my mom and a friend of hers. How I'm rewarding his bad behavior. Reinforcing the biting.
So clarify the fact that I do tell him no and set him aside, but afterwards he gets Cheerios because again, addressing the source of the behavior.
Mom then comments that she's just going to stay out of Facebook conversations from now on.
And she wonders where I get my passive-aggressiveness from?
You know, the typical life stuff.
My mom is driving me nuts though. I post a video of him twirling in one of those bouncing swings: "Oh be careful or you might see food!" Okay...
Post a picture of him figuring out how to stand? "Oh, now he won't crawl! And you know that babies that don't crawl don't like reading!"
Recently, though, I posted an update that he was my little vampire, biting at major blood vessels. Wasn't asking for help, just making a comment since we had just dealt with him biting my wrist, inner thigh, and elbow. I thought it was funny.
A friend from church, thinking he was biting my breast since I'm still breastfeeding, offered a tip on how to handle that. I thanked her, specified where he was biting, and submitted that when he gets that bitey, that's when I offer Cheerios because, you know, he wants something hard to chew and/or is hungry.
Oh, Lord, the chewing into I got from my mom and a friend of hers. How I'm rewarding his bad behavior. Reinforcing the biting.
So clarify the fact that I do tell him no and set him aside, but afterwards he gets Cheerios because again, addressing the source of the behavior.
Mom then comments that she's just going to stay out of Facebook conversations from now on.
And she wonders where I get my passive-aggressiveness from?
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