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Kids reward/incentive sticker chart. Every night she sleeps in her bed, put one sticker in the morning. You can also give rewards for cleaning her room, finishing her meal, etc. once the chart is complete, she gets a new toy! This worked for our kids especially for sleeping in their room
My therapist warned me against this just FYI. You’re rewarding her for bare minimum expected behavior. Yes this works in the short term but how long would you be able to do this? Is this sustainable? Will this happen when she steps outside in her adult life?
What are you teaching her? What happens when you stop? How would she feel not being rewarded every day for everything she does?
Consider playing hardball a bit. Sometimes if you give an inch kids will take a mile - if she senses she can drag out bedtime for that long if she does XYZ, she’ll do it. We followed the cry it out method early which helped, and all our kids now understand that if it’s not an emergency, we aren’t just going to keep going up to their room a hundred times - when it’s lights out it’s lights out. Also helps if they can burn off their energy during the day - ie not just sitting around the house.
Two things that worked really well for both my kids
1) get them tired during the day. Include activities that are physical like dancing, softball, soccer, riding a scooter, running around on the playground.
2) develop an evening routine: we have dinner as a family (meaning sitting together in the dinner table for 20 min to eat together) - around 6:30. After that we watch tv for 30ishh minutes and then we all go upstairs to brush our teeth and get bed ready. We read one short book (5min) and then its bed time for the kids.
I have a 9 year old and a 2 year old, by 8:30 at the latest both of them are dead asleep.
EY2 totally unrelated what’s it like having that big gap?
When it’s lights out, it’s light out period. Do not indulge her fits. Just be tough.
It will go away shortly. Children crave structure even thought they fight it.
So I read a post on meditation for kids bedtime that sounded awesome. It goes like this:
Close your eyes, focus on your breathing ,and imagine a spinning white light sphere that comes out of your heart center. With every breath in the sphere expands and gets larger. Keep repeating until you visualize the sphere expanded completely around your body. Then imagine with your finger spinning the sphere faster and then pinning it there. The white light sphere will stay there all night and protect you.
LOL. A 3 year old will totally get this…
Read “my child won’t sleep” - was recommended by our doctor. Very easy read and has strategies based on how much of crying you can listen to lol.
Define a routine and follow it. We had the same issue at two year. The routine helped.
Thank you all!
Skip naps.
I have 4 and spend way too much time on my oldest and 5-10 min tips on the youngest two.
Set the standard and be firm and walk away. Agree with above you gotta tire them out and judge appropriate bedtime .need an outlet for energy and can’t get into bed squirrelly . My wife is adamant that bath/shower gives a little bit of that release and relaxes them.
For our older two we often have them read a little bit in bed (sharing a room) to unwind then go back in and shut it down later.