Comments on: it’s Friday, so let’s talk about my hair

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:35:00 +0000

Hmm. Since S. didn’t sleep through the night till around 1st grade, and I don’t actually feel like I got a full night’s sleep till roughly a year or so ago, I don’t think I am much help. However, we did do the Nanny thing of gently putting her back in bed. Of course now that she is almost 9 we generally just say things like, “For God’s sakes, just go to bed!” or “If you get up again I will put you to work. How do you feel about picking up dog poop by moonlight?” We aren’t terribly cheerful after 9pm.

As for your lovely locks, I am deeply envious. You look nice in both pictures. My husband and I made a deal years ago when we married - I would keep my hair short, and he would cut his and never grow a beard. I have deeply resented this agreement ever since. I WISH I could cut my hair like yours. But a bargain is a bargain. Or at least until he goes senile and forgets who I am. Then all bets are off.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:00:00 +0000

33 comments? Is that because you are SO beautiful or because we are SO interested in your kids’ sleeping habits OR because we all come to read you and you haven’t posted in THREE DAYS NOW???
I wanted to chime in one more time–that anonymous near the end said that she co-slept, etc., which is what I do, as you know…I forgot to mention that DD, now 15, co-slept with me right up until 1st grade or so, then wanted nothing more to do with me at night.
The days are long, but the years are short.

By: Nothing But Bonfires

Nothing But Bonfires — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:40:00 +0000

I am loving:
a) your glasses
b) your hair (short and longer stages both)
c) how soft your sweater looks

I totally think we should be friends. Like, ones who lend their sweaters to each other. And advise each other on their glasses choices. (I need help picking new ones. Like yours.)

By: daysgoby

daysgoby — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:07:00 +0000

sugar? Which way do your bangs go?

This may be Sunday night-whee-the-weekend’s-over eyestrain, but I could swear in one picture they point one way, and in the other, well, the other.

If you’re tryin’ to confuse me, it’s workin’.

By: Amy Linder

Amy Linder — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:07:00 +0000

Yes, I agree with Kristen. We explained to our daughter what was going to happen each night during a quiet time each afternoon. We reminded her each day that, at night, mommy would sit just a little further away and there’d be no talking, holding, etc. Pretty soon she would tell us what the “deal” was for each night.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:13:00 +0000

Susan, I just read your update - I wanted to suggest something. If you DO try one of the super nanny or other tv nanny approaches where you silently put him back in bed over and over, 100 times in one night if that’s what it takes, I think you should explain to him BEFORE you start (preferably during the day when he’s fully coherent and alert) that you will be doing this. That way, when you’re in that first intense segment when he’s sobbing for you and you’re putting him back to bed, you can say, “remember what we talked about? good night, no more talking” or something like that. I know when we had to try new things with Bryce, it went a lot better if we’d discussed it with him and explained what the new routine was going to be.

Of course, my younger kid wakes me up before the crack of dawn and I can’t figure out how to make that stop for the life of me. So my words mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.