Jacob is my second child. This means that I do things a little differently with him. At one year old he has tasted french fries and ice cream. I made him actual cupcakes with real sugar in them for his birthday. And I let him crawl around in the wood chips at the park. This is how he mastered the baby slide on his own a few months ago. He crawls up the stairs and over to the slide, turns himself around, and slides down backwards. Then he starts from the beginning again.
Here he is on a recent outing:
Poor, poor big sister Hannah. I don’t think I let her attempt a slide on her own until she was two. Although she doesn’t seem all that worse for wear, in my defense. And she has also benefited from my lightening up over the years:
Too true! I am hoping I will be more relaxed with #2. It's so easy to get carried away & overprotective.
Me too (and so many other moms, I’m sure
There’s an amusing anecdote in our family about three brothers and benign childhood mishaps: the first born would get trips to the hospital, the second born would get calls to the doctor, and the third born would get bags of frozen corn as ice packs. They’ve all survived to adulthood as happy, well adjusted people, lol.
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So funny and true! And then we will wonder why the first-born is so neurotic (And I’m a first born, so don’t be offended)
I have one child and am unlikely to have another -my plan, while impossible, is to treat him like a second child – haha.
Me too. I even let my baby eat ice cream instead of saying, “no ice cream for baby! ice cream is bad for babies!” while the rest of us eat ice cream. Lucky little #2.
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Imagine how much you will have loosened up when you pop out number four, five and six!!
Seriously, I don’t know why I didn’t just let the girl play with the laundry for an hour. The boy is fine, even though I ignore him a lot. Much more than I ever did the girl.
I think as a result he is way more relaxed and easy going. I guess the second kid kind of has to be.
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I know I’ve become more lax with each child. The pictures are great, btw. Especially the last one. She looks like a little mermaid.
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Oh yes, that is SO true!
We call our first “the poor guinea pig” because he was the very first one born of the generation out of our family or even my friends by several years…. we did everything by trial and error!
Son #2 had all benefits of experience from son #1 and a few cousins and friend’s kids by the time he was born!
I was a much calmer and more confident mom.
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Oh yeah. I don’t think I gave Angus pretzels until he was four (choking hazard, don’t ya know). I remember my friend telling her husband to take a block away from their firstborn because it was skinny enough to fit through a toilet paper roll, which was the criteria. It would have, but it was also as long as a toilet paper roll — the kid would have had a fine time trying to swallow that. Isn’t it great how the insanity that comes out with your first kid gradually fades away to an exhausted murmur by the second?
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ha! My third at that age, head first down the baby slide w/o me even catching him. Love the bare feeties the best.
I’m with ya – the micro dude definitely gets more freedom than his older brother at the same age. Having the second has made me a better mother for the first too though – I’m more confident!
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Now THAT’S a baby friendly slide! Our parks have much higher, twisted slides with little, vertical, hole in the metal type of stairs leading to them that no toddler, and certainly no baby, could master on their own