Comments on: Innovative Aunt-ing

By: Michal Naishtein

Michal Naishtein — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:32:59 +0000

My example is taken from right before I became a parent. I was in the middle of contractions for the first time and I was shocked to find out how painful they are. I could not believe that so many women have gone through this before. Anyway, as I was rushing out of the car after being stuck in traffic for a long and painful time and entering the hospital, I already knew that what I needed the most at that moment was…a good dose of the Epidural injection and I was not shy about asking for it out loud. When I finally was in the delivery room, I found out (to my horror) that the epidural can be given only after an infusion of fluids that takes around 20 minutes. The mere thought of going through even another minute with that unbearable pain lead me to think of the following inventive solution: why not administer the fluids simultaneously in both hands and shorten the time until I get my salvation? I remember clearly two things: one is the doctors’ amusement at my idea but also that in the midst of all that pain I thought to myself “hey, this is a cool example of applying SIT’s multiplication tool”.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:55:51 +0000

I am amazed everyday how innovative my one and a half years old son is. How he keeps finding creative ideas to use his toys, my personal belongings, and everything in our closed world environment. Sometime it’s hard not to react and correct him on how to use certain objects right, but at the same time it is very inspiring…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:39:30 +0000

I was not familiar before with SIT and I find it intriguing that some of the solutions brought up here should have really been our natural parenting skills. Obviously, it is not the case. Wonder why and how we lost them…
The common attitude to soothing a hurt child in my SIT-less family (I’d be at least the 3rd generation to apply it), besides physical treatment such as holding, caressing etc., was: don’t distract, ignore or try to make it as if the pain is not there, but rather relate to it, identify with it (”oy oy oy, let me see, that must have been very painful, isn’t it terrible” etc), maybe with a tiny bit of exaggeration, until the “patient” him/herself shows signs that “its over” or at least that “it isn’t as bad as you make of it” (not to mention “stop being silly”). Usually it works.