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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so sorry, OP. What you’re doing is a kind of high intensity parenting that very few people understand. I give you permission to tell DH that the Turkey and all the trimmings is too much and not allowed, in the same way that you going to the spa for a full day is probably too much and not alllowed. Or if he is allowed to do it, everyone needs to recognize this day as one of his days off and you get a day off in return.[/quote]

Op here. Thank you for acknowledging that this is so high intensity. I know all SN parenting is hard in different ways but this particular flavor of hard is VERY hard for ME. like my son is very mobile and strong and athletic and actually I think more intelligent than anyone realizes. But he’s relentless. He never stops talking or moving. He broke 3 dishes today (and this is with us having mostly plastic and disposable plates). He threw a whole roll of toilet paper into the toilet. He threw a rock at his sibling. He threw a magnatile down the toilet and we can’t use that one now until a plumber comes tomorrow. He took a handful out of the pumpkin pie. He ran out of the house and into the street naked. He asks the same question hundreds of times. His current obsession is time and clocks so it’s a relentless treadmill of “what time is it? Today is Saturday? How long until night time? How long til Wednesday? How many days til Friday? Today is Saturday?” It’s so fatiguing.

He just requires such intensive supervision. And we have locks and cameras and baby gates and almost nothing he can break but he is just so fast and will swipe things in the 1 second my back is turned.

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