Will I survive raising my 3 year old? Pics included

[PIO-PIO]

this is cute. my son is 3 1/2 and is into everything. as someone else said the 3's are the stage to watch out for. my daugter is now 8 and was a handful at 3 too. I now work nights and have my son all day and I dont dare sleep, the last time I "cat-napped" on the couch during one of his shows I woke up with him trying to feed me a frozen burrito.

 

[Judy]

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I just hope he gets through his childhood without anything serious happening. Most kids do. However, you may be facing charges if he does not. I am not accusing you of child endangerment, I am trying to tell you that an "accident" could well be seen as such.

Yes, it was a little boy doing what little boys do, of course. But what little boys do can be deadly. You cannot lock the world out. And you cannot leave the child unsupervised while you are asleep. If he is up, you must be up. That's just how it is. Supervision is expected, and needed.

I did not get a whole lot of sleep while mine was growing up, and he didn't even get up during the night.

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

Wow my 3 year old gets into stuff too.. But not like that.. One morning my sister in law was staying the night. And she went to walk into the downstairs bathroom. That you have to walk through the kitchen. And my son was sleeping in the middle of the kitchen floor.. Nothing gotten into though.

And my son. As soon as he could walk, started getting into every thing. So I bought locks for the fridge and cuboards. And it only took him 15 minutes to figure out all the child proof locks.. Not a single child proof lock would work for that kid. So every thing in my house is locked with bungie cords and eye hooks.. Or locked up with real locks.. Some kids just amaze me. My first kid never figured out the locks till she was older..

I think I would just tie a bunch of bells on his door so you can hear it open up. That is what I had to do with my sons door.. He used to sleep walk. But he would even sleep walk and climb the baby gates.. So those couldnt be used.. And he could no longer sleep in cribs or beds.. Doctors orders for my kid was to sleep on a matress directly on the floor.. At least he isnt as bad now.. If your child bedroom is far away from yours. I would put his room closer to yours so you can hear him get up..

Good luck keeping your little one contained. Its very hard some times..

 

[ArizonaNessa]

That made me smile. It will get better. Just be glad he didn't decide to get the frozen blueberries and paint the walls in his room a beautiful shade of purple and outline it all with red SHARPIE marker!! Yep that is what my friends' little girl did in the middle of the night at age 3.

Edited to delete personal information so that people don't attack me or make judgments against me and my parenting.

Good luck with your child, lock everything up and be the best parent that you can. Pray a lot and love them.

 

[Judy]

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Absolutely.

I cannot believe how oblivious these people seem to be to the rigors of child protective services. Supervise them, or pay the consequences, if you are reported. Evidently no one here has dealt with a divorce/custody challenge. I hope all of the posters have marriages that will last til the kids are raised.

 

[Ah Lian]

Oh dear, I really sympathize with you, although the pictures are very cute! I have a 3 year old too and what we've been doing is taking him to pee at night before we go to sleep. He goes to bed around 8.30 or 9pm (he still takes a nap in the afternoon) and a few hours later around 11.30pm before I go to bed I pick him up, take him to the bathroom and make him pee into the toilet. He's so used to this now that he will pee almost asleep. Then I put him back to bed. This way he stays dry all night and is also less likely to wake up by himself.

I'm not sure whether this will work for you or not, but it has worked for us. It is a little bit of a hassle, but not really that bad since he is a boy and can pee standing up while I support him (even though he's practically asleep!). If I forget he will sometimes wake himself up or else wet the bed.

You say you've installed a hook and eye lock on the door. How has that worked for you so far? Also, I think the other suggestions of motion detectors and baby monitors are good too. Let us know what happened!

 

[Ducklove334]

IS THAT ALL!? hahahaahahahaahahahaahahahahahahahaha!


luuuucky

I was MUCH worse at three!

so wasn't my sister

 

[tampitt]

creative little fellow. He has the flour all in one area for his trucks, i consider that pretty tidy for a three year old.

 

[Ducklove334]

oh and to answer your post title, you've lived this long LOL

he's only going to get WORSE, boys are hell

now it's flower, in about year he'll graduate to bugs in the bathroom sink, and toads in the toilet, lizards in the trashcans...that sort of thing

ETA: at about 5-8 he'll make another milestone to bringing dead baby birds and other dead small furries, playing with them, then leaving them in his pockets for mommy to find

 

[Thomas423]

Boys will be boys.

Mommies will be mommies.

He old enough to start teaching him to stay in his room at night except for potty. That includes when he wakes up in AM before you. No system is perfect but start teaching him.

Love, understanding, patience, and discipline (not spanking discipline but teaching discipline)

And yes, you will survive.....we all did/do. LOL

My boys would get up and feed the dog everything in the fridge. We had to teach them (quickly) not to do that and that they needed to stay in their rooms to be safe.

Cute pic....do save.
And so neat....you are so lucky. He could have painted the whole house with flour.