Yeah. That’s true. I’ll enjoy what we’ve got now 
emma, I re-read it recently, too. It made me feel much better about where we are now.
I opened the thread thinking someone was posting about a new reality TV series.
The most useful things I learned about toddlers:
Eat together. Give them the same food as you’re eating. If they want something from your plate, give it to them. Both of my boys went from reluctant to adventurous eaters that way.
Give them a choice between two inconsequential options. Never ask “do you want a sandwich?” or “what do you want to eat?”. Instead, make it “do you want your sandwich cut in squares or triangles?”, or “do you want to walk to bed, or be carried?”
It didn’t do anything for our daughter either.
Yikes. And you still are able to post?
When I was born, I had a 13-month-old sister, a 28-month-old sister and a brother who was not yet four. And my father was old fashioned and did nothing to help. He told someone once that he only changed diapers “if it were an emergency.” Having four kids under the age of four itself is an emergency.
Well, it’s better than actually parenting them. Go away, kids, Mommy’s on the internet!
I definitely agree that four kids under four is an emergency. Four kids under five is pretty insane, too.
My oldest is probably going to be okay about eating once the extreme picky phase passes. Goodness knows our menu hasn’t changed to accommodate him. He’ll have to get used to it or find a source of money to let him eat at McDonald’s.
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(As a letter to the editor, I’d recommend painter’s tape over duct tape. Not as strong so you need to use more, but it doesn’t leave a sticky residue that only comes off with SOS pads.)
I sometimes find myself following the Bill Cosby Chocolate Cake Breakfast plan. It can be hard to determine what’s important and what leads to incorrigiblity. On the napping front, I’m wondering if it’s really all that necessary to nap the boy rather than just move his bedtime back a little. Up at six, down by six kind of thing. I’m also thinking of just soundproofing the room, throwing him in there for three hours a day abd getting on with the rest of the day.
I definitely have friends whose kids aren’t napping at all at this point. We actually tried that with the Little One, but she actually does need her nap, and if she goes more than two days without it (one day is usually OK if she gets to bed by 6:30) she’ll get really cranky and wake up screaming in the middle of the night, which is even worse than the 10pm bedtime.
So yeah, I think it’s about what works best. If she could handle going without a nap, we’d so be going for that right now. But she can’t. But if that’ll work for your kid, I say go for it.