cobaye22 wrote:Are they first time parents? Notoriously finicky, they won't give a shit after another one.
Your role as a grandparent is to remain alive long enough to lecture the kids about imperial weights and measures once they reach school age.
Trapper John wrote:cobaye22 wrote:Are they first time parents? Notoriously finicky, they won't give a shit after another one.
Your role as a grandparent is to remain alive long enough to lecture the kids about imperial weights and measures once they reach school age.
No it's their second. I'm just glad I can offer my 5 year old grandson the knowledge and experience I've gained, it was gratifying to see him really interested in what I told him about the Thames Estuary, something they are learning about in school.
I'm just pleased they are't learning about every other race and culture in the world, except their own.
Guest wrote:why do people sterilise baby bottles when kids have got to the stage of picking things up and putting them in their mouths? too much hygiene is creating a generation of ninnies.
the not sleeping on the front and swaddling thing is right though, tj, far fewer cot deaths now that has changed.
cobaye22 wrote:Trapper John wrote:cobaye22 wrote:Are they first time parents? Notoriously finicky, they won't give a shit after another one.
Your role as a grandparent is to remain alive long enough to lecture the kids about imperial weights and measures once they reach school age.
No it's their second. I'm just glad I can offer my 5 year old grandson the knowledge and experience I've gained, it was gratifying to see him really interested in what I told him about the Thames Estuary, something they are learning about in school.
I'm just pleased they are't learning about every other race and culture in the world, except their own.
Now I feel bad, five year olds are a joy (as long as you don't have to live with them).
Have you told him about the Tartars yet?
HobbitFeet wrote:I stopped sterilising bottles when mine started to crawl, I also was a proper lazy mother and used those little cartons of baby milk, never had the hassle of making bottles up, so no storage issues, that said once she started weaning I did make everything fresh and freeze it in batches, no jars used
honey was the big thing I remember, no honey before the age of 2
Trapper John wrote:Guest wrote:why do people sterilise baby bottles when kids have got to the stage of picking things up and putting them in their mouths? too much hygiene is creating a generation of ninnies.
the not sleeping on the front and swaddling thing is right though, tj, far fewer cot deaths now that has changed.
For me the jury is out on cot deaths, I think central heating is a major factor.
I'm with you on the hygiene front though, yes it's fine with new borns but later on it's ridiculous. How the hell are kids going too build up restistance against a myriad of germs and such, if they are prevented from coming into contact with them?
Guest wrote:why do people sterilise baby bottles when kids have got to the stage of picking things up and putting them in their mouths?
Stooo wrote:I only found out today that ibuprofen is dangerous for type 1 diabetics. Not something that I was told after my son's diagnosis and during seventeen years of treatment.
Rolluplostinspace wrote:Trapper John wrote:Guest wrote:why do people sterilise baby bottles when kids have got to the stage of picking things up and putting them in their mouths? too much hygiene is creating a generation of ninnies.
the not sleeping on the front and swaddling thing is right though, tj, far fewer cot deaths now that has changed.
For me the jury is out on cot deaths, I think central heating is a major factor.
I'm with you on the hygiene front though, yes it's fine with new borns but later on it's ridiculous. How the hell are kids going too build up restistance against a myriad of germs and such, if they are prevented from coming into contact with them?
My daughter is the opposite.
Very clean house sterilized bottles for three months and thats it.
She has three very bright fit healthy children youngest seven months old.
Will not join in the mass vaccination programmes forced upon children these days.
Seven month old just got over hooping cough.
All three of them had it as babies all three of them now have immunity for life where as the vaccinated kids don't and now never can.
The vaccines start to wear off then you need boosters for the rest of your life which no one sticks to.
It is scientifically impossible to say at what point a vaccine has worn off to now be leaving the child open to all those diseases it was vaccinated for so the booster injections are best guess.
She is adamant about it and well educated about it all.
Her children do not have compromised immune systems like the others who will have to keep having shots.
Her kids play in the mud play in the woods by their house climb trees get cut bruised etc.
Old fashioned I know but her kids are growing up just like I did.
Only ailment I ever had as a kid was tonsillitis.
Rolluplostinspace wrote:Rolluplostinspace wrote:Trapper John wrote:Guest wrote:why do people sterilise baby bottles when kids have got to the stage of picking things up and putting them in their mouths? too much hygiene is creating a generation of ninnies.
the not sleeping on the front and swaddling thing is right though, tj, far fewer cot deaths now that has changed.
For me the jury is out on cot deaths, I think central heating is a major factor.
I'm with you on the hygiene front though, yes it's fine with new borns but later on it's ridiculous. How the hell are kids going too build up restistance against a myriad of germs and such, if they are prevented from coming into contact with them?
My daughter is the opposite.
Very clean house sterilized bottles for three months and thats it.
She has three very bright fit healthy children youngest seven months old.
Will not join in the mass vaccination programmes forced upon children these days.
Seven month old just got over hooping cough.
All three of them had it as babies all three of them now have immunity for life where as the vaccinated kids don't and now never can.
The vaccines start to wear off then you need boosters for the rest of your life which no one sticks to.
It is scientifically impossible to say at what point a vaccine has worn off to now be leaving the child open to all those diseases it was vaccinated for so the booster injections are best guess.
She is adamant about it and well educated about it all.
Her children do not have compromised immune systems like the others who will have to keep having shots.
Her kids play in the mud play in the woods by their house climb trees get cut bruised etc.
Old fashioned I know but her kids are growing up just like I did.
Only ailment I ever had as a kid was tonsillitis.
Just edited it before I get jumped on for spelling like my mate Markey.
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