Comments for Spirited Mama's Musings http://spirited-mama.com Blogging my way through pregnancy, birth and parenthood Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Working With NOT Doing To by Holly http://spirited-mama.com/2013/01/23/working-with-not-doing-to/#comment-356 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:08:21 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=225#comment-356 Thank you Susan :)

]]> Comment on Working With NOT Doing To by Susan Merrick http://spirited-mama.com/2013/01/23/working-with-not-doing-to/#comment-354 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:49:40 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=225#comment-354 Hi holly, interesting blog piece thank you! I see a lot of similarities here! The leaving the room to breathe especially! We have tried rewards and time outs previously, and seen how it doesn’t work for us. More discussion and explanation is exhausting! But it does make a difference.

Thanks for some more food for thought :) x x

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by Jo http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-338 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:14:28 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-338 Interesting comment. I wonder whether your ‘getyousomehow’ title doesn’t seem, in its way, vengeful and inciting paranoia?

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by chon http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-336 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:05:39 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-336 Thanks for adding that holly my daughter still wakes anywhere between once – three time per night. And not to toot my own horn but she has no underlying issues she knows she is loved.

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by Lisa http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-316 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:52:53 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-316 I have two small children. My oldest is 2, my youngest is 3 months. I also work. I’m oficially a “part time” employee but their are times I work a full time schedule because my employer is understaffed. I pretty much don’t sleep. There are days where the only time I spend with my husband is while we are at work.
As tired as I have been, as frustrated as I have been at my rowdy mess maker, I would never lock him in a room alone. I have locked my bedroom door so I could sleep while he watched cartoons, but I was right there with him if he needed me. When my husband and I feel need time to recharge, we get someone to watch our boys so we can go to a movie (or even something trivial like grocery shopping together without the kids). We talked about it recently because I was feeling like a crappy wife. My husband said “we knew they were going to be time consuming before we had then. And they won’t be little forever, we will have time to ourselves when they are grown up.” I love that man :)

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by Lisa http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-315 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:23:17 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-315 There is a girl I know in n abisive relationship. She stopped breastfeeding each their kids after a month because her husband was getting jealous of all the attention she was giving the babies.
Its a mindset that is hard to understand if you’ve never been in an abusive relationship (or been close to someone in one). The abuser has so much power and control over the abused because of prolonged psychological manipulation

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by Paul http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-303 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:06:40 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-303 Nice article, and much appreciated viewpoint on this scandalous pair of power-obsessed imbiciles, and their mediaeval child-husbandry skills.

Yes, maybe they felt they needed an investigative journalist to find out what was bothering the child, but couldn’t find one.

Maybe he didn’t know how to spell ‘abuse’ and so couldn’t google his behaviour to see how far over the line he’d stepped.

Let’s hope the child is not too badly damaged. At least he’ll grow up with a hatred of the Daily Mail, which is a positive and healthy sign.

But it will be interesting to see which parent gets custody of him when their marriage goes even wronger.

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by veltman1 http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-302 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:04:06 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-302 No belittling, dog22. “Real” abuse as you put it covers a whole gamut of behaviours. Also, we’re discussing only one incident – doesn’t mean there weren’t more. Highly unlikely it happened in isolation – especially when you consider the other behaviours described in the article

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by veltman1trish http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-301 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:57:01 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-301 Hi Margie – fully agree with you except for one thing. The mother is NOT more guilty than the father – he abused her as well by threatening to leave. She may be weak and has put an adult man’s needs ahead of a small child’s, which is pretty unforgiveable, but mother’s who do that are usually victims of serious abuse themselves. unfortunately, that doesn’t help the child.

]]> Comment on How To Get Away With Child Abuse by Holly http://spirited-mama.com/2012/12/21/how-to-get-away-with-child-abuse/#comment-299 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:16:31 +0000 http://spirited-mama.com/?p=218#comment-299 No worries :p

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