I LOVE the rinse and repeat! HA. It's so true. I find I give my all the first time they ask...after that they get the dumbed down repeat version because they just keep asking, ignoring what advice is given yet ask again like the advise might somehow magically change to be exactly what they are currently doing.

It drives me bonkers though, I've got a 26month old who sleeps like crap (nursing all night) and no more than a 45min nap (ever, and only with movement -rocking, stroller or car)? Seriously?? The kid is so utterly exhausted she comes here and sleeps 3hrs (on the days she isn't so far overtired that she can't sleep). The mom has asked, gotten advise, tried it once but the kid cried so ABORT. Well guess what, the kid is trained to know that if she cries they ABORT...hence the nursing through the night 26month old. Gahhhhhh. Now when they ask for advise I just give the shorten, restated version and point out that they have set habits that need to be broken for change to happen (this is when the topic goes dead, not to be risen again until months later). Gahhhhh.

Same goes for the food. I don't get families that make a separate meal for the kids. Is there some magical age in their head when they can suddenly stop making the same 4 foods and their child will magically be 'old enough' to eat what the rest of the family is eating...and somehow they will magically like foods other than the 4 foods they have grown accustomed too?

It is just so much harder to fix these problems later in life...don't let the toddlers run the house in the first place!!