https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 19 May 2026 04:05:33 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-get-attached-to-ridiculous-ideas#post-2471625 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:47:02 +0000 Raindrop 2471625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha this totally happens to me! I research and get attached to an idea and sometimes it gets shot down by DH or we are just not in a position to act on it.</p> <p>I don’t really have a suggestion to deal with it that has worked for me. For this situation I would totally be in a ball of stress/worry till I talked to DH also. I would probably blurt it out as the first thing I said when I saw him… I might even call him at work to get my answer sooner.</p> <p>This is something I’m trying to work on in general though. I get caught up with what ifs before anything happens and DH always tells me that’s not good, he says try to just take things as they come before making up every possible scenario and anticipating how you will react to each one because that will just drive me mad. He’s right… but I can’t help it!! I have read that you can have a worry/stress journal to take it off your mind (hasn’t worked for me) or allow yourself to worry for a certain amount of time (20 minutes is the suggestion) and then move on with your life (again hasn’t worked for me). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-get-attached-to-ridiculous-ideas#post-2471602 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:33:00 +0000 Corduroy 2471602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you get attached to ridiculous parenting ideas and then bummed when they don't work out due to logic and feasibility? I feel like I keep doing this on repeat with the LOs. Why do I get so attached to these ideas?</p> <p>My current obsession is preschool programs. I didn't register LO for preschool in the fall and I'm starting to regret not researching that decision more. She'll be 3.5 and I planned to keep her in daycare with baby brother. </p> <p>Out of my regret I started looking at preschools. I found a crunchy forest preschool that has a program on Friday for a couple hours in the morning. Based solely on the website description this program is my new obsession. DH is home on Fridays while the kids are in daycare. Logistically he could totally take LO to the program and then drop her off at daycare. However, I'm sure he would see it as a threat to his video game/alone time. (He does a lot of cleaning on Friday's too but I don't think he'll be worried about losing laundry time.)</p> <p>I haven't even brought the idea up to DH because I'm sure he'll shoot it down and then I'll be bummed. I hope I lose interest in the idea before that. I'm probably not anywhere near crunchy enough for a forest preschool in the world's crunch capitol. Things are good now. We don't need the complication of a once a week preschool class. But GAH - I still want it. </p>