There is going to be a Baby Tall!! (Future and current Dad's thread)

[dcasper70]

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2) baby einstein. a lot of those CDs i think have a ton of mozart and beethoven. in addition though, i've heard that rhythm and counterpoint are good so if there isn't any bach on there, get his inventions.

if you do the above, you should have a smart, rich child [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

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Poster dlk9s came through with this gem of information regarding the Baby Einstein CDs.
I followed his advice and also took advantage of that deal.

Good stuff...

[turnipmonster]

one piece of advice regarding music stuff. not all people are capable of having perfect pitch, but for those that are, they either develop it young or not at all. I highly recommend teaching your son/daughter the names of different notes and how they sound around the same time you teach them colors and their names.

your kid may or may not develop perfect pitch, but research has shown that a high % of people with perfect pitch go through some type of learning activity like this at a young age. it's a really simple thing to teach them.

[MrWookie]

Congrats, Joe!

[4_2_it]

Congratulations!

[Tommy Angelo]

Mongo huggy congrats my man!

[MissT74]

Best piece of advice I've ever had (and used, it really works!)

Starting on the first day you get home from the hospital, for about a week, run the vacuum near the crip/bassinet while the baby is sleeping. This will get the baby used to noises while sleeping and will prevent the baby from being a "light" sleeper. Amazing how it works.

Also, car rides work very well at getting the baby to fall asleep, especially if he/she has colic. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

GL!

T

[robracing]

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car rides work very well at getting the baby to fall asleep


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The above is sanity-saving tip!

My two cents :-

Remember that it is never too soon to begin to brainwash your kids into supporting the same sports teams that you do.

Be sure to kit them out in your team's romper suits, bibs, etc and repeat every year.

It drives me mad to see kids that support different teams from their Dad's. Talk about negligent parenting! Your kids will come under plenty of peer pressure in the school yard to follow whoever the local fashionable team happens to be, so get your brainwashing done much earlier.

Ideally, you want your children to grow up with exactly the same set of sporting preferences that you have, in terms of both sports and teams.

Once they are old enough to come and play/watch sports with you, you will never hear any complaints from their mother, because you are doing stuff to entertain the kids!

I spent my entire childhood playing/watching sports with my Dad, which in the UK meant mainly golf and soccer.

[samjjones]

This is fine, but can lead to unpleasantries if the parents support rival teams. For example, I am a lifelong Mets fan, and my wife likes the Yankees. I absolutely abhor the Yankees and their fans. At the baby shower, my family bought the kid Mets stuff, and her family bought the kid Yankees stuff. Now, I can't let him wear either since the families went immediately to overkill status with the sports stuff.

p.s. The car ride/vacuum suggestions are spot on.

[nolanfan34]

The only danger I've seen about the car ride thing, is that you have to be careful about overdoing it. We had some friends that used that trick too much - so their kid could ONLY fall asleep by riding in the car. Trust me, you don't want to have to go driving around every night to get the kid asleep.

My advice about sleeping, not sure if it has been mentioned yet, is to get them used to going to be early once they're sleeping through the night. If you keep that routine up, it makes it a lot easier when they're 2 or 3 years old. One of my buddies, they did that, and he can put his son down at 7:30 or 8:00 every night, because that's what the kid expects.

My nephew on the other hand, goes to bed anywhere from 9-11 pm, because his mom doesn't enforce a regular routine. So he's learned he can push that boundary, and getting him to go to bed at 9 can be a big ordeal because he thinks he's going to be "missing out" on the action. My 2 cents.