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Especially for anything my kid will listen to or watch absolutely pay to remove ads. But it's also good for the whole family.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Don't care, getting dark at 4:30 is stupid 
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We also have one of those cheap Cosco car seats for travel and it is both great and kinda sucks, but for only $60 it’s unbeatable and if anything happens to not there is no love lost.
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My daughter is fully in her dip era. Anything that can be dipped in anything, she doesn't care. If it fits, she dips. Noodles in yogurt, sure. Strawberries in soy sauce, why not. Garlic naan in apple sauce, you betcha. She's on some next level culinary fusion poo poo.
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Even an LLM would be more coherent than... that
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I didn’t like blowing my nose as a kid either, I don’t know just felt weird/bad. At some point I got over it, though.
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At the top of stairs you absolutely want one that is attached with screws. Pressure mounts are not enough to stop a toddler from dislodging the gate. Believe me I wanted to find one that didn’t need screws but it really is the answer. Guinness fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Nov 16, 2024 |
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On our first family road trip from Seattle to Portland when my daughter was about 4 or 5 months old right as we crossed over the bridge into Oregon, literally as we pass the “welcome to Oregon” sign, she had the loudest nastiest blowout and accompanying freak out in the car seat. We were committed to driving 20 more minutes with stank and screaming to make it to the hotel parking lot at the very least. Changing pad on the pavement, screaming infant, poop everywhere, field stripping a car seat, oh yeah, welcome to parenthood. we otherwise had a lovely time
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yeah but have you considered that minivans commit the most heinous of crimes: making you look uncool *drives away very cool in a Toyota Highlander*
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big robots with facial hair and teeth would indeed be pretty scary so little man has a point
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We like our Bob a lot, but yeah pick up one used for cheap(er)
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the bob is not light but it rolls on the ground so... it's not a travel stroller, but it is our everyday stroller because its big and sturdy and the large wheels with real tires laugh off lovely sidewalks and dirt paths, and with the front wheel unlocked is still very maneuverable. only lock the front wheel for jogging. it also accepts the bracket for clicking in an infant car seat (chicco 35), which was a very very nice feature when we needed it
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Our hand me down Deuter pack is pretty good for light hiking but the baby didn’t really safely or comfortably fit until more like 12 months
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Hearing folks wait until almost 2 or 3 years to sleep train sounds wild, we did it at about 6ish months and it was a lovely week but has been worth it ever since
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ExcessBLarg! posted:our Graco Extend2Fit* We graduated from the infant seat to an Extend2Fit and it seems mostly fine so far, only used rear facing yet. It was the most recommended short of spending 3x as much on a Doona (which got recalled recently anyway lol). What do you regret about it?
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god drat i cannot imagine tolerating that, american suburbia is car hell walking or e-biking to school is pretty sweet, plus the kiddo loves it
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Hand signs are useful and adorable
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My almost 2 year old loves daycare and can name at least a dozen other kids and will talk about a couple of their best buds outside school. We see a few of them outside daycare and they’re always excited to see and hug and chase each other around. Not something they do with other rando kids on the playground. If my kid doesn’t socialize and see friends they go nuts. I don’t believe the age 3 thing.
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CarForumPoster posted:$2500 to not wash poop clothes every day for multiple years? No brainer. A nice thing about waiting to have kids is being able to make these kinds of decisions
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My 2yo jams themselves lengthwise into one of the short sides of their crib. Sleeps fine and wakes up happy so whatever.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It’s fun that there are a bunch of babies and kids around though! It's pretty neat that we have like half a dozen neighbor kids under 3 in our little pocket and they're getting old enough to become friends and we go on walks to the parks and library together. Or when we just see the other kids coming and going our little one wants to pop out on the porch and wave hello. Density and walkability are so great. And I suppose the other parents are alright, too. I don't know if I was just kid-blind before having one of our own, or if everyone in our generation decided to settle down and pop em out at the same time hah hah.
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Also phantom poop smells Ever vigilant
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CarForumPoster posted:not an allergy but does cause his poop to have blood in it  I'm no doctor but that sounds worse??
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:hell yeah one of us “Having a kid ruined my life in mostly positive ways”
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It’s not childhood without taking a few lumps It feels bad, and like try to prevent it, but it’s gonna happen and that’s normal
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My 2yo will eat spicy & sour stuff it’s hilarious. First bite causes a big scrunching face reaction followed by yelling “spicy!” or “sour!” then after a brief pause goes back for more. That’s my kid for sure
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I cannot imagine juggling full time child care and a full time WFH job and being good at either. I primarily WFH and on daycare closure days or sick days I don't get poo poo done, even if grandma comes over to help. They're write-off days. Nap time is the only reprieve and that's not enough to live up to job expectations much less actual career growth. Maybe your jobs are different idk. I know ya'll say you can't afford it and I empathize, I do, but there have to be some kind of options to explore. Part time, half day, co-ops, something. Cut any fat from the budget and put it towards your kid. It'll be good for everyone. Also don't fall into the fear of no daycare being good enough. I have some parent friends that feel that way and they make their life so difficult and miserable and ultimately more expensive because they just don't believe that any daycare could possibly take good care of their special little child so they end up piecing together much more expensive (in dollars, time, and emotional labor) options with IMO a worse outcome. Like yeah don't send 'em to an obvious shithole, but kids are resilient and adaptable and need to get pushed out of their comfort zone a little bit to socialize and make friends and realize there are people that care for them beyond mommy and daddy. Then there is the ultimate difficult decision to make: if one partner's job does not pay enough to cover childcare costs... can you afford to have that job? Should one partner quit to be a more full time caregiver, at least until school ramps up? That's a tough decision to have to make, and there are a lot of pros and cons to consider, but it might be a net positive. Guinness fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Mar 13, 2025 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Oh, if you're putting together baby furniture or baby toys, drop of permatex blue on all those bolts. thank me later. Wish I knew this 2 years ago
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Oster has definitely been outed as a bit of a crank, but that book was written a little bit before it all came out There’s some good parts and advice but also some parts to skip or disregard But that’s kind of how it is with baby advice. Ask ten people get ten different opinions, or more. No one has it all figured out because there is no single correct answer for much of this stuff It’s good to read a few books and synthesize your own opinions and realize that whatever plan or approach you think you have is going to get challenged in reality and you have to be adaptable and respond to your individual situation and needs Everyone has a plan until they
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Hiring a biweekly house cleaner is some of the best money my wife and I have ever spent post-baby, second to daycare Felt weird at first but it relieves so much stress and prevents so many arguments
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CarForumPoster posted:Nonononononono One nap is IMO way better than two, at least with a good napper. It's a lot easier to do and schedule things with just one 12-3 nap instead of 10-12 and 2-4 or whatever. Renegret posted:
Unfortunately it doesn't work as well with a squirmy munchkin as you might think, that little pocket doesn't stand a chance against flailing arms and legs
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:aside from whether or not that statement is true (the number of dumb motherfucking engineers who can't read or write that i have to work with on a regular basis is infuriating and many of them would advance much further in their careers with basic literacy) As an engineer, a thousand times this, good loving lord are some “smart” people so agonizingly stupid. STEMlords are the worst coworkers. I’m also a bit torn on the accelerated academics stuff in early elementary. Back in my day I qualified for it but my parents didn’t put me in until middle school because they thought it more important to just be a regular kid and focus on socialization, behavior, play, etc. There was plenty of time for academics later, and when I joined up with the program in sixth grade I really wasn’t behind at all because I had supportive parents with outside enrichment and lol it’s just elementary school. I ended up at the same high academic level in higher ed. I don’t think it’s bad per se but it’s also not strictly good either. So I guess long way of saying I don’t know but it probably won’t be make or break.
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boquiabierta posted:Can we just keep him in a crib until he’s literally able to climb out? This is our plan. And unfortunately the end is approaching rapidly as our just-turned-2 year old can very nearly climb out. Kid's got determination. Also our crib turns into a toddler bed if we replace one side with the lower side piece thing, so it's still overall big enough for a while yet. Guinness fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Mar 21, 2025 |
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CloFan posted:Yup. We had a crib until she climbed out and fell out. She hit the ground pretty hard and we were scared but she was fine. Thanks to modern technology we have footage of the incident well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions
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Jose Valasquez posted:Just as a warning regarding the kid climbing out of the crib, our kid was able to open windows before he could open the childproofed doors (2 years vs 4 years), which was a particularly terrifying discovery when he was pushing against the screen of the second floor window. Find a way to childproof your windows if you haven't already Oh man yeah that is nightmare fuel
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