Any good theory rec's for babies? Not baby leftists, like an actual baby
Click Clack Moo is a book about farm animals organizing for better working conditions.
A similar book is "Farmer Duck", about a duck that does all the work for the lazy farmer. The other barn animals join together to free the duck and kick the farmer out. The ending is the animals taking over and running the farm themselves.
Mine is 5 weeks and we're doing, overall, great. Sleep is already getting better. Right now I'm in the waiting room to see a lactation consultant cause he gets fussy when breastfeeding sometimes. What about you?
Pretty good so far. Cluster feeding in these first days has been tough but we've managed to get him to go down for a few hours at least once or twice each day so at least there's been some breaks
Recovery and transition to home a bit stressful for my partner. Glad our cat isn't like hissing at him or anything, mostly just wanting our attention same as she did before it's like she barely notices the baby
Emotions so high whenever anyone says congrats I almost cry lol
My cats have reacted the exact same way. Mostly annoyed by the time they aren't getting, otherwise they just think the baby is stinky.
Do either of you have time off work?
My boss agreed to let me work from home for three months and now he's being a dick about so I have to go in and argue with him tomorrow
That sucks man. Mine has made some similar not-in-writing assurances for me that I'm a little wary of taking full advantage of tbh since they might come at a 'cost' like that down the line.
If you're interested in parenting, I was pretty inspired by this lady
https://takingchildrenseriously.com/
Reading the FAQ of this now. There's a lot I agree with (particularly the basic concept in the name) but there is some very strange stuff in here as well. Her fundamental argument seems to be that treating children any differently than an adult is fundamentally coercive.
This vegetarian question is a good example of some underlying strangeness I'm seeing: https://takingchildrenseriously.com/i-am-a-vegetarian-what-if-my-child-wants-to-eat-meat/
But there's much more on here I haven't read yet. I may make a post on c/parenting about this once I have a better grasp of what she's saying.
Totally agree. I think it sounds strange because it's an imperfect ideal, but she advertises it as so simple. Parenting isn't easy and being authoritative isn't always right but it sure is faster. If we weren't always in a hurry to get to work, school, airports, shows on time maybe we could just let them take 30 minutes to get their shoes on.
But, I do take the advice she gives as a foundation. Especially as they get older they become much easier to reason with. When I ask my kid to eat broccoli and he says no, I explain why he should eat it and if it's important to him to get enough vitamins and feels good about what he ate. Yeah it takes 15 minutes but how's he going to learn otherwise?
To give a more concrete example, we had a ton of trouble getting our kid to eat at the table. He wanted us to eat in the living room. I was raised eating at the kitchen table, but falibillism made me question it. Why eat at the uncomfortable table when we could all be sitting on the cozy couch eating food together and pulling up stuff on the tv if we wanted, or blasting music on the speakers. My 3 year old had a different perspective than me and doesn't have my built in bias.
So yeah, I took his whiney comment seriously and it's a great idea!
Lots of children's books teach compassion, kindness and sharing. The seeds of leftism are planted there.
I recommend reading 'The Giving Tree' and asking good questions during. Or tell them about coal mines after and anthropomorphize the Earth a bit.
