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the pedant stage of development is always fun
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jeebus bob posted:Good idea but both our kids (probably) have ADHD courtesy of yours truly so that quite often just would not work
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May 27, 2023 16:13
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i’m staying at my mums when I have my kids and omg my mum talks so much. absolutely non stop, if you’re in the same area as her it just never ends. I actually really struggle to deal with it and feel so drat ungrateful. and she’s so motherly and wants to do everything for me, and it’s sweet but I don’t like being mothered. and she encourages such bad habits. like right this minute she’s offered the kids some small chocolate fish and they took one each and she’s like “that’s not enough you need a mouthful”, and at other times she steamrolled peoples autonomy when they’ve turned down food until they eventually say yea and then she giggles everyone says it’s out of a place of love and it probably is but that doesn’t make it acceptable. this is a challenging time
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May 28, 2023 09:54
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grandparents are so tricky. When I hear people say things like "oh, we only see them once a month were very bad" I'm like "once a month??? That's way too much!" in my case there are two sets on my side (parents and step parents) and one set are pretty chill partly because they have more recent experience with my step siblings kids, but the other set don't have any of that (first actual grandchild) and want to visit way more but it's much more of a hassle because we have to watch out for things like "child is having a freakout and needs to be left alone for a bit but instead is getting chased around" etc. so it kind of grinds us down a bit but we (well, me seeing as it's my family) are pushing back a bit in the constant attempts to come visit on my wife's side there are so many grandchildren her mother is like eh whatever
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May 28, 2023 10:33
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yeah it’s a constant battle of boundaries and being flex with them because they’re family and I am relatively weak willed, I hate upsetting people and so probably let boundaries get trampled all over just to keep the peace
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May 28, 2023 10:36
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any suggestions on some good books for a three year old? that won't make me want to gouge my eyes out reading them 90 times.
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May 28, 2023 14:38
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Shifty Pony posted:any suggestions on some good books for a three year old? that won't make me want to gouge my eyes out reading them 90 times. Depends on them, but there are some books. Dinosaurs Love Tacos is one, I Need a New Butt is another. Your local library is by far your biggest resource here; kids books are still books and you can skip buying the ones they will be read one or zero times.
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May 28, 2023 17:06
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Volmarias posted:Depends on them, but there are some books. Dinosaurs Love Tacos is one, I Need a New Butt is another. Your local library is by far your biggest resource here; kids books are still books and you can skip buying the ones they will be read one or zero times. please tell me that's to the tune of I Wanna New Drug by Huey Lewis and the news
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May 28, 2023 17:31
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:please tell me that's to the tune of I Wanna New Drug by Huey Lewis and the news You tune it however you want I guess.
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May 28, 2023 18:21
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we are very familiar with the dietary habits of dragons, it is a hit. was just trying to think of a few books to throw in for his birthday. he's already getting a marble race set, some binoculars, and a magnifying glass.
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May 28, 2023 18:45
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do not let grandparents visit imho instead, visit grandparents, eat their food, make a mess of the place, leave the kids there overnight, etc.
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May 28, 2023 21:36
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I don't trust my father to secure all the guns he owns.
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May 28, 2023 22:11
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Shifty Pony posted:we are very familiar with the dietary habits of dragons, it is a hit. I'm also a fan of The Day the Crayons Came Home, because it lets me show my range as an amateur bedtime voice actor. One of the postcards is by two crayons fused together in the clothes dryer(iirc). Trying to alternate their voices, culminating in the anguished cry of both simultaneously, gives an uncommon opportunity to do eldritch/body horror at bedtime. Let out a little of your own version of The Many, as a treat. Do not forget us in your pants pocket again, goon 
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May 28, 2023 22:18
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probably too old for a three year old but my daughter loves the barenstein bear books. mostly because I make all the bears sound like southern hicks but she also likes the stories. not the new ones by the son, though, those are trash.
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May 28, 2023 23:16
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what, you're not a fan of the Berenstain Bears Defend Our Freedoms on January 6th?
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May 28, 2023 23:24
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the berenstain bears: your elders are made infallible by god, they are always right even when they are demonstrably wrong
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May 28, 2023 23:31
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Shifty Pony posted:any suggestions on some good books for a three year old? that won't make me want to gouge my eyes out reading them 90 times. i started reading my kid the magic tree house at 3, again good via the library i also like reading the ada twist series of picture books to her, for whatever reason the art vibes with me. again easy to find at library sometimes secondhand/consignment shops have kids book like franklin for like $2, usually worth it
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May 28, 2023 23:34
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pseudorandom name posted:what, you're not a fan of the Berenstain Bears Defend Our Freedoms on January 6th? my mom got her the Easter one and it's so loving terrible. that one got "lost" along with the "babies learn particle physics!" dreck my mom got her too.
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May 29, 2023 00:27
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talk to your kids about general relativity before someone else does
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May 29, 2023 01:38
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my boy has been fighting sleep pretty hard the past half-week, so i decided to take him on a walk 2 hours after dinner, after i fed him. he went down pretty easy, lets hope this works every time!
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Jun 1, 2023 02:50
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Eeyo posted:lets hope this works every time! oh my sweet summer child. get ready for the arms race
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Jun 1, 2023 02:51
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Achmed Jones posted:oh my sweet summer child. get ready for the arms race 100% fresh outdoor air does noticeably help kids fall asleep, but just go sit outside with them and do sidewalk chalk or colour at the table or read
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Jun 1, 2023 04:30
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Eeyo posted:my boy has been fighting sleep pretty hard the past half-week, so i decided to take him on a walk 2 hours after dinner, after i fed him. he went down pretty easy, lets hope this works every time! going to try this. evening spring fever has turned into evening summer nights mania, and its not good for anybody.
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Jun 1, 2023 16:18
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our daughter has been, at the end of bedtime routine, point to her crib and tucking herself in and passing out all by herself while we just sit in the chair across the room. its so cute and so nice to not try and get her in the crib without waking her up
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Jun 1, 2023 16:23
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Achmed Jones posted:oh my sweet summer child. get ready for the arms race lol that last part was sarcasm. he’s young enough that it may actually work for a while, but once he’s old enough it’ll probably stop working.
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Jun 1, 2023 20:19
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lol fair enough. i dont know if im happy for you that you won't be disappointed, or if i'm sad for you that you didn't get that momentary, fleeting warmth of "maybe my kid'll just be really easy  "
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Jun 1, 2023 21:32
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hey perplx jr can I have a fry? perplx jr (21mo): no no no, no no no *to the tune of twinkle little star*
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Jun 2, 2023 17:35
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22 month old has started shouting "one...two...WHEEE" whenever we turn a corner in my car. makes commuting a lot more exciting.
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Jun 2, 2023 17:48
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RokosCockatrice posted:going to try this. evening spring fever has turned into evening summer nights mania, and its not good for anybody. if it really feels maniacal the fix might actually be just starting nighttime routine earlier if kids (and adults but i guess adults handle their poo poo better) stay up too late they start to run on like adrenaline or something and they get too hyped up to go to sleep & stay asleep i've had a lot of luck with just moving the bedtime back a half hour every day until it is easy and then sticking to that bedtime going forward
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Jun 2, 2023 18:19
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also i read like 4 sleep books so that is at least somewhat scientifically based advice and not just me making poo poo up
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Jun 2, 2023 18:19
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well let me just chip in and say that i had to do the exact opposite for my baby girl, and now finally after 3 weeks of sleeping around 8:30 or 9pm she's finally starting to do her nights. well that's a relative term she's still waking up 4-5 times to breastfeed but at least she's up and ready to party at 2am i guess what i meant to say is that sleep is a complex subject for babies and ymmv
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Jun 2, 2023 19:28
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yeah our boy has been sleeping overnight for a while, probably since he was 3 months or so. i’m willing to deal with lots of bullshit in the daytime as long as he keeps it up, my wife and i both get a solid 8 hours of sleep.
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Jun 2, 2023 20:04
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Eeyo posted:, my wife and i both get a solid 8 hours of sleep. the last time i was able to get that was ... 8 months ago, 2 days before baby skylar was born she's amazing but goddamn what i would do for an uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep. pretty sure that if she ever does start sleeping for that long i won't be able to sleep because i'll think she stopped breathing or something
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Jun 2, 2023 20:15
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12 hours of sleep by 12 weeks old by Suzy Giordano is a book I will continue to recommend until all of you are getting a proper 8h/night sleep
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:12 hours of sleep by 12 weeks old by Suzy Giordano is a book I will continue to recommend until all of you are getting a proper 8h/night sleep Laughs in pet ownership
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Jun 3, 2023 01:06
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what kind of pet is waking you up??? I have three kids under 5 and a 110lb Labrador and I sleep like a king
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Jun 3, 2023 02:15
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:what kind of pet is waking you up??? I have a cat. Hey. Hey. Hey. The feeder goes off when it's light out and it's not light out, but it's gonna be soon. Hey. Hey. Hey. I'm hungry. I'm going to stick my paw in your armpit. You won't get up but you will be awakened. Hey. Hey. I'm hungry.
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Jun 3, 2023 02:34
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when poodle jones wants to get up, he will go nose to nose with me, sometimes getting into bed. it wakes me up. after that he'll leave me alone though and i can go back to sleep if i want on the other hand, he barks at everyone who comes to the door. this is mostly fine. but if we take him to a hotel, he barks at everyone who walks by the door. this is not fine. id like to take him camping but that seems like a terrible idea. anyway consider getting a poodlemutt.
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Jun 3, 2023 02:51
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foodle is also very vocal and if I forget to close the blinds at night she will bark at the neighbor going for their morning run at 4:30 am
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lol good girl foodle! when PJ wakes up early he likes to stare out the back sliding door (he'll go under the curtain). he has been known to wake us up around 5am when he sees a cat freakin poodles!!
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