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Pleas do not lock the doors

Frankly, I’d be okay if she just got into things. But she wakes the baby up, and then I’m stuck with both of them again. She’s not old enough to understand that if she’d let me get the baby to sleep, she’d have me to herself. I wish she could understand that.

I cannot and will not just scream at her and go lock her in her room. I practice attachment parenting and I’m trying to find a way to deal with this peacefully. I just feel helpless when she comes in while I’m nursing and starts making noise. Then she smiles and says, “See, I just wanted more time with the baby!” Yeah, right.

And of course, she doesn’t get enough attention. like I said, Dad’s gone a lot, and I have a new baby. I would just like one evening to go smoothly, and not have the baby up until ten or so at night (because she essentially gets a “nap” at 7:30 when I’m trying to put her to bed.

Can anyone help me? Even if you just tell me I’m not alone, this will help. Please don’t bother telling me to give her severe punishments, I won’t do it. I’m reading a book on giving children MORE love when they’re bad, but I’m just so frustrated with her right now. I had to put myself in a Timeout from her just to write this.

I do feel a little better, but still helpless at having any control over my evening whatsoever. Doesn’t the baby deserve a decent bedtime? (The littlest monkey is quite happily awake now. Being awakened doesn’t bother her a bit, it’s just more playtime.) I’m so damned tired.

By: HappyThoughts

Because it is so young, we’re apprehensive to close the crate door for the full 8 hours we’re asleep. I get up at 3AM to check on her, but she’s already done her business. I am still adjusting my sleep to get her outside before that happens. How long will I have to do this?

Can she possibly be locked up for the full 8 hours without going in her crate yet?
Not that this has anything to do with the topic, but yes, I did pay for our puppy. We looked at shelters and surfed petfinder religiously, but in the end, there was no dog that really fit what we were looking for closeby.

We stopped by a puppy store after a day of looking at a few shelters just on whim (we were heading to dinner), and fell in love with our puppy. It got a good bill of health by the vet, and we don’t intend to further breed her. I did pay a small fortune for her, but i don’t think I should be judged for it. We really did try for a shelter dog. She has not once made me regret my decision so far.

I do realize her “mix” is not officially recognized nor is it even unofficially recognized, it seems. While it’s a concern, it’s appearence is not anything out of ordinary. It looks very much like a Bichon/Yorkie. Should I be concerned?

I don’t understand where this response is coming from.

I don’t get where you’re comin

By: nornnyweb

When we put rosco in the kennel he yaps endlessly, annoying the neighbors so I haven’t consistently kennel kept him.
I don’t see how kennel keeping is going to help though since they don’t really have accidents at night…but they are almost doing it because they are mad about something? (maybe that my son is getting older and we are playing with him at night when we get home instead of putting him to bed and paying attention to them?)
I have had the new dog for over a year…since last december. She did it maybe 5 times, very scattered, but the last 3 weeks it has been non stop…one of them has peed every night this week!
The one that I am leaning toward doing it is the female!
Htey have both been fixed for about 6 months…rosco never even figured out how to lift his leg…he pees like a girl, but he is a very dominant dog, but I am really leaning toward it being th beagle b/c she can be very vengeful. When I was originally potty training her whenever I would yell at her for ****** she would chew a pair of my shoes. She has never touched my husbands stuff, only mine.

By: Nicole E

This would be a ocassional place for you kid to hang out or sleep.

The cabin has wood floors, wood walls and and solid wood door with a door nob and lock.

This cabin had no windows at all.

Your kid wants to put in lights inside so its not dark inside.

You give your kid a simple rule. The rule is that the door must be closed while inside to keep out cold air, leaves and wind.

You tell them that on the ocassions they sleep in their they must have their cell phone turned on all night if you need to reach them. You also tell your kid that they can’t have any visitors at night and they must lock the door to the cabin at night while asleep.

Would you allow your teen or young adult to fix aup the cabin or just leave the cabin alone?
You disscussed with your kid all the rules about this cabin and they are excited.

The no windows thing doesn’t bother your teen. Would it bother you as a parent?

If you didn’t have any money to put in windows, How do you as a parent feel about no windows?

The teen would get a place that isn’t attached to the house.

Would you make sure they closed the door while sleeping at night?

How would you check on your teen if they were inside and had the door closed and locked?

The cabin doesn’t have windows.

You know you could trust your kid not to sneak out or have secret visitors.

By: annoymous0381

Once I was told to wash the dishes and he knew i didnt want to… a few mins after I was finished and then drying the dishes off, he came up to me rubbed on my **** and said “see that wasnt so bad”. There were two other times when he did that.

I could see if he would of touched my back…. by touching my *** is out of line, ya know?

Also know that one time he got drunk… and my mom went upstairs to sleep and I was in my room down stairs with my door locked lying in bed and I heard him wiggle and try to push my door open… that scared me… and sometimes I wonder what he would of done if he gotten in.

Im now 22 years old. I live on my own and have a horrible realtionship with my mother because of him. My mom doesnt beleive me that he use to touch my behind and says im lying. Its very long story.

Anyway what are your opinions on him touching me like that. Is that normal or is it just me?? Your answers are appericated.
Well wow! this is a lot of responses and im glad that I dont think its me.

If you all want more details.. there was another time I was very upset because they grounded me. I was back talking to them and they told me i couldnt go to prom with an old boyfriend of mine. I was so upset and in tears. My mom had went outside for a little bit and I was in the living room on the couch… and he came over to try to cheer me up and appologized but had no choice to gorund me. Then he went on saying “you are like a daugter to me” and then tap kissed me on my lips which made me DISCUSTED!!!

After 5 years not talking to my mom… she recently contacted me two days ago. This is the anger I hold.. because of her husband.

By: unknown1022