Rennie Parent Stories and Advice

[Sitara]

The baby I nanny for just turned 7 months old and has been wearing 9-12 and regular 12 for over a month already.  They are the only sizes that are long enough for his lankiness.  I wonder where he gets his height from as both parents and their families are all short.

[LadyShadow]

I learned when mine were little that the "Child of mine" clothing from Wal-Mart or Target are great for long babies.

[Marcos Charron]

Okay

From the grandfather files, that's right, I have a grandson (Drake) who is 8, and a granddaughter (Addison) who is four. Here are some of the things to expect,

A piece of birthday cake fits inbetween two books on the bookshelf if they try hard enough.

A splash, followed by "Uh Oh" is not a good thing.

EVERYTHING can fit in the toilet.

Questions like "why does poo poo float?, and "her boobies are bigger than my mommies" will come in a crowded but quiet place, always.

The dog will eat anything the child will eat, and they both like to share.

Marcos

[Trillium]

yeah, oops and uh-oh are never good, or long periods of quietness!

[Mead Swilling Lech]

"long periods of quietness"

THIS x10!!!  You know the saying "an officer should never worry when his soldiers are bitching, but if they're not, he should be very concerned", well, it applies 100 times more to kids.

[cowgrrl]

-At some point they will possibly decide not to garb.  This will probably be after you've spent some money on garb for them.  Thankfully he's at the point we can trade stuff between ourselves. 

-You will probably have to have a talk after every faire visit.  It will probably start like this: 'You know that word you heard?  Don't say it in public!'

-Get use to looks from people who think you've abandoned your kid on a bench or left them to wander around unsupervised.  I got the 'Look O' Death' from a lady after I went quickly to the FoF area to get more gatorade for my slightly dehydrated son (He'd already sucked down a mug of water).  I was gone no longer than 5 minutes, they were at a picnic bench eating & had I been the least bit worried about him I'd of sent DD.  I wanted to tell the lady that my young daughter knew the ins & outs of faire better than she did & to back off!

[mpullen]

Breadan, you are obviously using disposable diapers.

All three of my children (youngest is now 30) were raised on cloth diapers. Can you imagine the joy of scraping the green goo off the diaper and then rinsing off the worst in the toilet and then depositing said smelly cloth in the diaper pail for later washing?

We tried a diaper service for the second child (only Son), but after a month or so of shelling out a vast amount of money, decided to go back to the old scrape and squeeze method.

Oh yes, remember changing Son's diapers. He would wait until the old diaper was off and cleanup completed and then as the cold air hit his "sprinkler", it would rise up and deliver a fountain. He actually giggled when this happened.

Remember youngest Daughter being able to pack some really green and noxious goo in the place where Dad hesitate to scrape. I think the Wife thought it was funny.

On a related note: bought Daughter an expensive gypsy garb at TRF about 10 years ago. Next morning, Aunt Flow arrived apparently unexpectly, and $200 down the drain so to speak.

[Breandan]

We have the best of both worlds, we use G diapers