[BusyMommy]

Interesting question came up tonight. My 3 y.o. was reading a library book and the last page was a picture of Mom & Dad saying good night to their son; ie. sitting on the bed in their street clothes while he was under the covers in his little bed in his jammies.
Ds was totally confused and kept asking me where his mommy & daddy were going.
It dawned on me that he has NO idea that some kids actually sleep by themselves in their own room.

So, how do you resond to that? I gave him an easy answer tonight, but I'm sure it will come up again at some point.

Interesting. He was actually disturbed that the boy was going to be "left alone."

 

[jadegirl553]

Maybe say something like- Not every family does things the same way, and in some families the parents and the children have their own beds. That doesn't mean that the parents don't love their child, it just means that they do things a different way.

The approach of differences might work well, because it can be applied to a LOT of things. Like some families celebrate different holidays, some families are different races, some families choose different religions, etc.... That way, differences won't be a scary thing, but a good thing.

 

[Ravin]

I found a cute book called "One hundred is a family" that shows on one page a family waking up in the morning, all in bed together. It's a counting book. If you look around, you're bound to find a few books that show things the way you do them.

 

[dnr3301]

I have a really cute book called The Biggest Bed in the World (I can't check to see the author now because it's in bed "napping" with dd. In it, the parents have a bunch of kids and keep buying bigger beds to accommodate the new babies until the house falls apart (from knocking down walls to make room for the beds) and the parents put the kids in another room but miss them too much and, at the end, the whole family is back in one bed. My dd loves this book.

I had the same issue with not being able to find a book that reflected our life when I was pregnant with ds and wanted a book for dd to talk about a new baby and couldn't find anything that didn't have "and then Mommy will go to the hospital and bring a baby home". And whenever babies are fed in books, it always seems to be a bottle. Dd kept asking why the babies weren't "sue-ing" (her word for nursing). Are we really that strange?

 

[BusyMommy]

Thanks guys! I need to find some good books. Wonder if they're popular enough to be at the used store?

Today

ds brought home another library book about babies and on every page was a picture of a baby growing up alone in a crib, playpen, highchair, etc.

One page, I swear, was a baby cying in its crib and the text read: "Babies cry."

Ds was so upset.

 

[Cranberry]

Once when my ds saw a picture of a baby in a crib, he said "That baby is sleeping in his crate." He didn't know what a crib was. I just said some babies sleep in cribs and some sleep in their parents' bed.

 

[Katie Bugs Mama]

Has anyone read the potty learning book by Dr. Sears? The best part about it is that it shows babies BFing, being comforted to sleep (before being put down in an co-sleeper), and CD'ed in a completely matter of fact way, as if that is obviously the type of life that babies live. It's really cool, an a nice antidote to the "babies cry" type books that are out there.