Answered by wackerkmb - Apr. 24, 2014 11:47am
Try and not stress your the mother at end of day. Every mom wants best for their children i know i have a 8yr old and now pregnant with our second. MIL can and will be difficult, if you have the backing of your partner it helps. you do how you feel and rare your child the way you want your child rared, the in laws will have to do what you want or you won't have them involved as much as they want. But at the minute don't worry about that until you really need 2. Just enjoy being pregnant because we never know if we will be this lucky again. Everything always works out in the end, god bless and wishing you a happy healthy pregnancy xx
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Answered by eag923 - Apr. 23, 2014 2:02pm
As for the comment your mil made about reading, what she is probably trying to say - in a less than perfect way - is that reading to a little one for 20 min a day, esp if you are trying to do it in one sitting, can be challenging. My oldest is almost 3 and I TRY to read to her every day. However, some days you can't get them to sit still for more than 30 seconds. I don't want to force her to sit there and listen bc I don't want her to hate or resent story time, so like Jennavee said, I take it one day at a time. Once your baby becomes mobile, they definitely call the shots on how long you do something for! :)
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Answered by eag923 - Apr. 23, 2014 1:57pm
I'm a special ed teacher, so I had similar views as you do on TV. My daughter watched very little TV, but at 18 months - when she showed genuine interest in TV - I allowed her to watch things like Sesame Street, Super Why, etc. She was speaking in 3 word sentences by her 1st birthday, so I figured she wasn't language delayed and a few educational shows a week weren't going to kill her. She does learn a lot from them. By her 2nd bday, she knew all of her colors, could identify all the letters of the alphabet, her numbers, shapes, etc, so not ALL shows are bad. The issue with your in laws car is that is is their car, so you have little control over what they buy. You can always request that they leave the TVs off, or if they do turn them on, have them be educational shows.
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Answered by jennavee - Apr. 23, 2014 1:45pm
Is your child going to be in their car that often?
Grandparents like to spoil their grandkids. Don't expect them to have the same parenting views as you, let them spoil them a little within reason. If the child is going to be with them a lot, maybe talk about guidelines and will be allowed and what won't be allowed.
As far as things like that delaying conversation, my son watches about 10-20 minutes of kid shows each morning while I cook breakfast (he's 16 months old). According to his pedi his vocabulary and language skills are higher than that of a 2-year-old. Try not to stress out about it if it's only going to be in the car!
I know you're venting, and it's definitely hard when relationships are strained! Hang in there and take things one day at a time!
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