Soothing & Comforting: Child, Munchkin

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Please Help Me Calm Down

I was hoping to wait until around 3 or 4 to get my son the chickenpox vaccine and now it's apparently going around my area according to SickWeather app. Of course they don't offer details but we've been shopping a lot. Can my son get the virus from shopping or walking by someone that might not know they have it yet? Does it live on surfaces for a long time? The alert came for one town yesterday and for the neighboring town today. Both small towns. My sister is a kindergarten teacher in one of these towns and I'm worried sick. Can she pass...

Nap & Bedtime

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Sleeping - Ferber Method

I need help....my husband and I do not see eye to eye on this AT all! My son just turned 1 and does not go to sleep on his own very well. I find that rocking him to sleep works better and faster. My husband is on this CIO kick and we tried it tonight which I think is so cruel but he cried for almost 2 hours straight. We tried to soothe him at the intervals that the method says but that did not work. I am very frustrated with this whole situation. My MIL watches him during the day and she rocks him to sleep for his naps so, I don't see...