Comments on: Complain to your baby http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/ Two geeky girls' guide to the first years of motherhood. Sat, 25 May 2013 05:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Surprised Mama http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-129558 Surprised Mama Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:43:31 +0000 http://www.rookiemoms.com/?p=43#comment-129558 This is so funny because I find myself saying things like this to my son. Glad to see that there are others who do this and it doesn’t make me a bad mother! ;)

]]> By: Berto http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-129517 Berto Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:59:19 +0000 http://www.rookiemoms.com/?p=43#comment-129517 I’ve been doing this with my son from day one. It really helps me to relax. “Dude, no matter how long you scream in my face I won’t be able to nurse you. Please take this bottle instead.”

]]> By: JanetLansbury http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-129515 JanetLansbury Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:07:09 +0000 http://www.rookiemoms.com/?p=43#comment-129515 I love this, because it reminds me of the advice of a mentor, infant specialist Magda Gerber, who said, “Just tell a baby how you feel and what you think, don’t censor your feelings or thoughts”. (Well, maybe censor the expletives. ;-)

The beauty of sharing feelings and thoughts with our child is that we get to develop an honest relationship with him or her from the beginning. It frees us to be ourselves, (allows us to think out loud when we are puzzling over our infant’s cries) and breeds trust. When we’re authentic, our babies can be, too.

And anyway, our babies are so intuitive they are already reading our thoughts, so we might as well spill them… I just posted about that: The Secret Language of Babies. http://www.janetlansbury.com/2010/08/the-secret-language-of-babies/

]]> By: Christina http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-129508 Christina Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:31:29 +0000 http://www.rookiemoms.com/?p=43#comment-129508 I have an almost 4 year old and a one month old, and I do this all the time! “listen, kid, I’ll feed you in a minute; Mommy needs to pee first. Oh, and try learning to talk, it’ll be way less frustrating for both of us. My baby-to-English translation device is on the fritz again.”

]]> By: cleverclogs http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-18722 cleverclogs Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:21:27 +0000 http://www.rookiemoms.com/?p=43#comment-18722 my baby waits right until Oprah starts to begin her fussing for the day! Always! So annoying!

]]> By: VDog http://www.rookiemoms.com/affirmation-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-18445 VDog Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:15:37 +0000 http://www.rookiemoms.com/?p=43#comment-18445 I just wrote a letter of complaint to the Little Man last week (link included above). He is really getting on my nerves these days. When can I expect my rationalizations to make any sense to him???

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