"FIVESIES"- While MommyYO is at work, get your kid to sleep! #fb

I’ve been putting my kid to sleep, by myself during the day while Mom is at work. This is different for me and a solution to his crying must be figured out.

A few weeks back, I saw this blind guy with a stick, tap tapping away on streets of 5th Ave. He was about to cross the street and I asked him if he wanted a piggy back. He laughed. I said I'd lend him a hand or an eye. We got to other side of the street, safely. Before I left, I asked him about the tapping of his stick on the ground what “that” was all about. He told me he can hear objects in front of him. Basically, the echo from the tapping bounces off objects in front of him and he can hear those objects. He also has a pretty good idea of the size of the obstruction he walking up to.

Over the sirens, car horns and the other city sounds. I said “WHATTTTTTT...over all these sounds, you can hear that?” He simply said “Yes”.

What he shared with me is something I applied to putting my son to sleep. People who are blind have a heightened sense of smell and sound. People who are deaf have a heightened sense of smell and sight. The reason is the mind compensates for that loss, by heightening the other working senses. That is awesome and not much different from what our babaies are doing with us with thier crying. Everybody parent already know this...

So staring at my son crying in his crib, I say ‘What is wrong” What can I do” a tone you do not want to speak to any baby while they are lying in the crib. I’m trying so hard to understand him. Until one day, I realized he might be trying to understand me. I know when my son is crying for food. I know when my son is tired or has a dump in his diaper and needs to be changed because of the his different cries. It's his way of communicating with me and his minds way of compensationing for not being able to speak. My Kid is so friggin SMART!

So like my blind buddy on 5th Ave, I figured even if my son doesn’t understand a lick of what I’m talking about, he can understand the tone of my voice. I started concentrating on not what I was saying but how I was saying it. I changed my tone for playtime and for bedtime. Doing it often enough, he can now tell the difference and knows what’s up when I put him down in his crib. Becaus eof my tone, he’s not left hanging in a dark room, in a crib all by himself not knowing "the deal". Thinking about, I would cry too if someone I do not understand for no reason just threw me in jail.

The last thing we need to do is something only a DaddyYO can do; put him in the crib and no matter how hard they cry, wait it out for 5 min. Wating for 5 min and listening to you kid cry is not easy and not something in the MommyYO DNA. This is specific to DADDYYO's. However, if you go in before the 5 min, start the 5 min clock all over.

Now, If your buddies can respect “FIVESIES” when we get up off the couch, we DaddyYO's need to respect the 5 min our kid needs to settle down. The sooner you and your kid can establish this understanding, a much happier DaddyYO and hero to MommyYO you will be.

Watching this video, I was laughing because the music was Not playing when he was trying to get to sleep, its background music. That would have been funny.