Fighter recently learned a new trick.
You see every time Shorty changed his diaper or played with him in any capacity she would sing “if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands”… then she would clap her own hands.
This went on and on for months until one day we realized that whenever we sang that song, it would trigger him to clap his hands. Well he does it out of timing sometimes but it still surprised us considering he hasn’t even learned to crawl yet.
It’s a milestone for us because it’s the first time Fighter would respond to us consistently in any way if we did any kind of action.
Well okay… another way he responds is… if he’s crying and we pick him up he stops crying. But that doesn’t count.
Speaking of that… Fighter’s been really tough to handle lately. We’ve always heard stories about how you should never always carry your baby whenever he cries and learn to let him cry it out. Well we were never able to do that and we often carried him when he cries. Now he expects to be carried almost all the time.
Shorty tried to cry him out again recently but the longest she lasted was two minutes. I don’t think we’ll be able to pull it off.
In any case what I tell Shorty is that mommy knows best. So however she wants to raise him… I’ll go with her methods.
I guess we’ll probably debate on more issues in the future like what school he should go to and all but well for now… it’s stressful enough listening to so many theories on how to raise a kid… I think it’s best to talk it out and then decide that “mommy knows best”.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space