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1 and 2 were both born on the 28th, and that’s when number 3 is due too, so at least that’ll be easy to remember
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Our oldest’s birthday is the MM/DD to our wedding anniversary’s MM/YY. It trips me up more often than you’d think. Picking up Rx scripts for them is a minor panic moment every time I key in their date of birth.
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I just got the email invite for summer school. District is low on funding so they are only opening it to kids they identify as needing help, rather than allowing people to apply. I am so grateful and relieved here, not just for having some extra academic support but also because it's something for her to DO for the entire month of July. Between this and some art camps that we had already lined up, she's never going to have more than two weeks without something on her schedule.
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Apr 2, 2025 20:45
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Pulled off a successful "spa night" for my daughter. Dad points!
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Apr 3, 2025 01:32
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So what color is your nails now?
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Thankfully it was one-directional this time around. I've had some pretty frightening makeovers in the past.
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Did my wife admit that your spotted dick was better than her attempt? Have you received the coveted Certificate of Pudding? Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Elissimpark posted:Did my wife admit that your spotted dick was better than her attempt? Have you received the coveted Certificate of Pudding? Sick cheevo
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I love how how you can tell precisely how a kid says words by how they try to spell them
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My wife just sent me a 2 minute video of our 2yo singing songs and I will play it as a nuclear option if anyone wrongs me at the office.
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Ignoring the "you should face rearwards and wear a crash helmet until you're 49 years old" crowd, when did you decide to switch from car seat to booster seat Internet wisdom seems to say 4 or 38" is the minimum, and California state law is pretty ambiguous other than "more than just a seatbelt" My sister in law is saying they transitioned at 5 but they have a boy who is above average height, and our girl is on the ragged edge of 50th pctl
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Apr 4, 2025 01:16
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The seat will be only rated for a specific range, and once the kid gets to that, you can buy another larger rear facing one which will last a year at most, or get a forward facing one that'll last a couple of years...
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My kid was 7. The seat belt didn't fit him right with the booster until about then.
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Apr 4, 2025 01:30
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When I could trust them not to squirm out of the much less restrictive seatbelt. Somewhere between 5 and 6, I think. There were a lot of threats to go back to the harness, or else, for not sitting properly in the belted seat.
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Hadlock posted:Ignoring the "you should face rearwards and wear a crash helmet until you're 49 years old" crowd, when did you decide to switch from car seat to booster seat If you’re already front facing, it doesn’t make such a huge difference between a front facing seat and a booster. The difference is mainly in when they fall asleep. In a seat, their head is kept from slumping over to the side. On a booster, they will tend to fall halfway out of their seatbelt and risk really nasty spine injuries if a collision happens. I guess it depends on how long trips you make, is the kid old enough to not fall asleep on your common trips (or wriggle out without you noticing), how many miles per year do you travel, etc. Assess your own risk. What are the advantages of switching, to you? If you have a seat where the kid still fits, and it’s in your own car, keeping the seat would be a no-brained to me. If you have to lug it around for rentals, like me, it’s a different story… Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Apr 4, 2025 |
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We have one of those car seats that turns into a booster. After I set it up for as a high back booster I just put it back the way it was before. The only difference is that you remove the 5 point to instead use a normal seat belt. What's the point? I'm gonna leave him that way for a bit since he still fits fine.
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My almost 5 year old and my 16 month old both have constipation issues, to the point that they are both regularly getting a daily miralax drink. They also apparently have low muscle tone. Can anyone point me at a good source to read up on one or both topics so I can try to figure out if we are doing something wrong or missing something?
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I don't have reading resources but our pediatrician, gastro, and allergist all have no problems with both our kids being on miralax long term so I haven't really worried about it too much.
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Renegret posted:I don't have reading resources but our pediatrician, gastro, and allergist all have no problems with both our kids being on miralax long term so I haven't really worried about it too much.
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Apr 4, 2025 11:12
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:My almost 5 year old and my 16 month old both have constipation issues, to the point that they are both regularly getting a daily miralax drink. They also apparently have low muscle tone. Can anyone point me at a good source to read up on one or both topics so I can try to figure out if we are doing something wrong or missing something? Our 3yo has had big issues with constipation. She now gets two doses of a macrogol laxative per day (pediatrician's orders), which just makes her poo softer. Her issue was mainly not drinking enough so her poo got hard, it got painful, she didn't want to poo as a result of that - so mainly a psychological issue in the end. She still only goes once every 3 days on average but she's been getting better not holding it in too much. Other things you can do is just making sure they get enough to drink - maybe try different drinks or containers - and increase their fiber content in meals.
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Apr 4, 2025 11:39
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Her issue was mainly not drinking enough so her poo got hard, it got painful, she didn't want to poo as a result of that - so mainly a psychological issue in the end. I hear from Dr wife this is very common at that age.
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Apr 4, 2025 11:49
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Our main convertible car seat cost like half a grand. I'm getting my drat money's worth.
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Also car dropoffs at kindergarten can be a huge pain in the rear end with buckles vs the seatbelt, especially if your school frowns hard at parents getting out at car loop.
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Apr 4, 2025 13:24
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I love having a walker's gate. The drop-off and pick-up lines at the school seem like the most hellish place on earth.
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Apr 4, 2025 13:39
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Nocheez posted:I love having a walker's gate. The drop-off and pick-up lines at the school seem like the most hellish place on earth. This. Agreed a million times. Didn't we all ride the bus when we were kids?? I don't remember the massive car pick up lines.
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sheri posted:This. Agreed a million times. The pickup lines at all my schools in the 90s were massive. I walked off campus to get picked up.
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sheri posted:This. Agreed a million times. The problem for modern bussing (in parts of the US I'm familiar with, at least) is that school funding is being slashed, so schools have to cut things. Transportation is usually one of the first items cut (along with non-athletic extracurriculars). In our district due to the cuts, the bus won't pick you up if you live within 5 miles from the school, which covers a lot of the burbs. Also, they reduced the number of routes, so some kids are on the bus for almost an hour if they're first pick-up / last drop-off, which also incentivizes closer parents to drive their kids. Edit: That being said, pick-up / drop-off is very smooth at our school, so I don't have problems with it. Good-Natured Filth fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 4, 2025 |
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My experience now is very different from my experience as a child, I've been chalking it up between suburban life vs. city life. All suburban life is doing for me is making me get pissed off at everybody. Apparently the more wealthy school districts here don't offer bus service because residents refuse to approve it on the budget since they don't need it. They have the hellish pickup and drop off, but everyone's either a stay at home parent or pays someone to do it for them. Meanwhile, in my school district that has busses (a poor neighborhood), so few people do parent drop off that they're utilizing the parent circle for more busses. I did pickup once because kiddo had a doctor's appointment and there were less than a dozen parents picking up themselves. As it is, getting our kid on and off the bus is a huge burden to us. I can't imagine making it more of A Thing having to deal with in person.
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Renegret posted:All suburban life is doing for me is making me get pissed off at everybody. The modern American cultural problem in a nutshell Being in cars all the time is breaking people
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Our 3yo has had big issues with constipation. She now gets two doses of a macrogol laxative per day (pediatrician's orders), which just makes her poo softer. Her issue was mainly not drinking enough so her poo got hard, it got painful, she didn't want to poo as a result of that - so mainly a psychological issue in the end. She still only goes once every 3 days on average but she's been getting better not holding it in too much.
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Any suggestions for lice? Just got a notice that day care has lice. This is one of my nightmares lol.
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We just had lice. We got the treatment box from Walgreens, and a separate super-nice lice comb off Amazon. Then it was three shampoos and a fine hair combing over five days while watching cartoons on the iPad to distract the kids from the pain of the comb. Also we washed every sheet, pillowcase, and blanket that was in use. It might have been overkill on that last part, but it was our first time with lice and we didn’t any to take chances.
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Sweet, that’s basically what we came up with. The comb will be delivered tomorrow and we’re going to pick up otc treatment from a pharmacy between work and daycare.
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G-Spot Run posted:Our main convertible car seat cost like half a grand. I'm getting my drat money's worth. Yeah we have the uppababy knox which was at least $500 It's covered in sour milk right now and stinks and we have a backup car seat but it's a real pain to work with and sits at a funny angle that mangles the seat belt in our new car
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cailleask posted:Also car dropoffs at kindergarten can be a huge pain in the rear end with buckles vs the seatbelt, especially if your school frowns hard at parents getting out at car loop. This is why I swapped my son to a booster - the dropoff line. You park for pickup so that's easier. Also getting him to unbuckle himself, but mostly not wrestling with the harness, and he could also climb out himself. His sister will probably end up on the same schedule, I'll just have to figure out how they're getting out, she'll probably have to just climb out his side.
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For dropoff, you can always do what the parent in front of me did and let their kid stand on the center console with their head out the sunroof.
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So many years telling them not to and these kids still hold things out for me to throw out/put down. I'm not doing it! gently caress!!!
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Two year old only wanted to eat dried apricots at her cousins party. Dealing with the opposite to constipation this morning.
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Is this an okay place to ask for advice? This might get long. We have a 4th grader fluent in second language and a rising kindergartner. Moved across the country late last year. It's going great except... There is a strong magnet school program here including multiple language immersion schools. We didn't get the 4th grader into their language school last year, "no space". Okay fair. The neighborhood school is waking distance and we've had a good experience so far tho it's a bit of a drop in rigor. We're doing tutoring and watching foreign language YouTube. But the principal was dismissive and we didn't get a good vibe, he's really young and it's a charter which we have some ethical concerns about, but the school seems to have a great reputation. The 4th grade teacher was a bit of a prick when we visited also. Today I heard from another parent who also moved to this city last year and the principal 'promised' their (American but native speaker) 1st grader a spot which didn't materialize. They are waitlisted for next year. Last week was lottery for next year. 4th grader is still waitlisted for their language. Younger one got into two other language schools and surprise this morning got into the language our older is fluent in. It would be great to have two kids speak the same language, for sure. And like I said the school has a great rep locally. Younger one OF COURSE wants to go to the neighborhood school to be with sibling but we're adults who think logically and that ain't happening. It's only one year that they'd be together and we want to challenge her. Gotta make a decision by Tues. Options are 1. Charter school in the older kids' language, which we feel a bit icky about but would be nice because they could converse, keep the flywheel going, and we know a bit of the language now 2. Start fresh in a different language, both other schools look fine. Y'all.
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Sometimes schools have an option where if one sibling is going then the other one can also go? Maybe you can backdoor the older kiddo in with their younger sibling that way?
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