Do you feel like you’re getting stupid?
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Topic: Do you feel like you’re getting stupid?
Posted By: emz
Subject: Do you feel like you’re getting stupid?
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:04pm
I honestly feel like my brain is turning to mush being at home. Don't get me wrong, I love it and wouldn't trade this first year for anything but I'm under-stimulated. My other job (the paid one  ) is as a deeds clerk so that uses little to none of my brain capacity either. I've been doing Sudoku, crosswords etc to keep the brain in check but I'm getting bored. I don't have the energy (or a really good book that grips me) to read at the moment with DH being away. The lack of adult conversation bar here is driving me 
So, are you getting stupider too (hehe)  Or is it just me?
Do you have any tricks to keep your brain functioning at the level required when you normally work fulltime away from the home? But then again, I'm not as bad as my mother who last night while making pudding and gravy mixed the two together  Luckily the pudding was salvaged and didn't have much of a hint of brown gravy (I say 'much' though...)
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:06pm
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Oh yip I so know what you mean. I do suduko and logic puzzles but sometimes its just not enough.
I'm going to polytech next month part time to try and revive the brain. |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:08pm
nah! i was stupid to start with!  ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:09pm
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I know the feeling. The study helps a lot for me! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:09pm
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YES.
I swear to God, each child took about 30% of the brain I had and I'm left operating on... um..... Hehe. Depressing huh? ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:11pm
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I've only been on leave for a week and I'm already climbing the walls! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:12pm
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I feel stupid now, must start during pregnancy and stays till after bub is born nnoooo. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Aprilfools
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:36pm
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Yeah, I've gone completely stupid already and I'm usually quite quick and on to it. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 12:51pm
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I feel stupid quite often as well. I am lucky that I can work casually from home when ever I want so I can use that to stimulate the brain.
A few weeks ago I had to do a sales report for work that I used to do a couple times a week (BC - before child!) and could do in my sleep. The first time I did it a few weeks ago it took 2.5hrs, I still didn't think it looked right and I was absolutely exhausted!! ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:22pm
I too am the same.. went out with some friends the other night, and it took me ages to warm up and start talking to them... I was stuttering and getting words mixed up before that!  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:29pm
| Me no dumb dumb. Me clever! |
Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:40pm
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Woo hoo there is hope for us we have one person who isnt dumb.
What are your tips of success?? lol ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:31pm
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I stutter now too! WTF is with that?
Maybe I'm just too tired? I look after Jack during the day, go to work at night and look after DH too (seriously he creates more mess and work than Jack does). Or maybe just trying to get used to Groundhog Day in our household. Or MAYBE I just need a life! (Or a job  )
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Posted By: NeoshasMummy
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 2:31pm
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Reading helps, as well as doing alot of crosswords and sudoku. Making your grocery list on a spreadsheet and catergorising all wardrobes in the house by length and colour. Go online and see what DH has bought for lunch then add up everything he has wasted money on for the month, you can compile that into a spreadsheet as well then turn it into a presentation and have a debate with him over it when you get home....
If all else fails watch PLAYHOUSE on sky mickey mouse clubhouse or the number jacks will sort you out  ------------- https://secure.fertilityfriend.com/home/30c4ec/" rel="nofollow">  Mrs Te Kani ❤️ Neosha 26/5/2007 |
Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 3:04pm
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I had a job interview last week and my brain actually came out of hiding for it. So it was there all along - who knew?
Seriously, just going into a work environment and talking about something other than poos helped my feel like my old self - even if it was just an hour and I got to talk about how great I was for the whole time... ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 3:53pm
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Don't you love Mummy Brain. I have just found that half my vocabulary is now missing. I will start talking and suddenly realise I can't think of the word for something. I will end up either changing it to something else or miming it until the other person guesses! Seriously! I am starting to wonder if i have filled my brain up with so much useless information that there is now an overflow! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 4:02pm
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Im definately dummer and i seem to get dummer by the day - 3 years since I've worked, so it cant be long before it stops functioning all together.
Im even finding it hard to type something right now which makes sense... oh and I stutter, I guess my brain wants so badly to just talk baby talk its a fight trying to say anything normal. I do love crosswords and sudukos when I find the time. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Bubnumber2
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 4:26pm
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Hi, have you considered doing a paper at Uni, extramural even, if that suits your life better?
I have a three year old, and have always worked part-time (in a job that doesn't really require much thinking either), and I picked up a few papers...it's great. I can do the work at home, at night or when my son is resting or at playschool. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/"> 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 4:34pm
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I have a part-time job, and finished my degree last year so I really want to have a break from studying.
Lol NeoshasMummy - I HAVE made a grocery spreadsheet, worked out how much DH spends and had a debate with him over it
Might have to get the canvases out and begin painting soon (and I'm not a painter so that would be interesting lol) |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 4:47pm
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Tell me about it. I have been on semester break now for 8 days and I am itching to get back into it. But I have to wait till next week. Puzzles do help. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 4:53pm
I'm the same! I'm finding right now I really want something to do!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 8:13pm
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Preggy Brain, Nappy Brain, Mummy Brain then senial dementia (sp?) AND I'm a natural blonde
WE'RE DOOMED TO DUMBNESS!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 8:19pm
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Aha! At least I'm a brunette I have a redeeming quality lol
And to think I plan on getting pg again soon! We are all doomed for this vicious cycle! |
Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 11:23pm
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Emz, I so get you with the whole mummy brain.
I do sudoku, crosswords, I play texas holdem poker online (for free), watch one of my many dvds, read books... I am running out of ideas. Wish I had a part-time job at home, or a cool project. Wait? I bake and cook alot (which ends up costing me loads $$). We should start a club. Mummy brains annonymous... wait? Isn't that what OhBaby is for? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 12:29am
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I read usually about 2-3 books a week, the paper every day and I keep up with NZ news online but I get most of my mental stimulation from DH. We debate all the time, from religion to politics, anything really- I love it
I really struggled the first couple of years but I find I'm getting better now. I love being able to read about lots of different things- when I was at uni I only read my text books, when I worked I only read fluff because I didn't want anything too heavy at the end of a long day- but now my day to day life isn't very intellectually stimulating I find I crave books that make me think. ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 8:04pm
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Sudokus, reading, visiting with other mums, doing our accounts... you could volunteer at the local playcentre? ------------- |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 8:17pm
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I agree about the puzzles, I do the word ones on Facebook, can keep me entertained for hours.
Sometimes I play Sims2, read the Herald online, read my cook books and make up shopping lists... Have the odd dumb moment like today when I couldnt' figure out why the crockpot light was on... yeah I'd forgotten to plug it in... I discovered it about an hour after I "thought" I had ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Snickerdoodle
Date Posted: 25 June 2008 at 8:09am
I'm almost too dumb to function
error...error... ------------- 
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Posted By: pink2003
Date Posted: 25 June 2008 at 4:09pm
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Oh my I know what you mean, I think it is really good to talk to people that dont have children some times as it really is a different language that they speak.
The reading is good and I loved it when I started my own business with the accounts side of things order etc all get the brain going, And thats where I get my adult contact to so works well all around just wish I started years ago then I might not have lost the first 80% of my brain 
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