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Surprise T Rex posted:Niece likes Paw Patrol and her attempt to say Marshall sounds a lot like "arsehole". HamAdams posted:love it when i finally get the kids loaded into the car and put the car into gear and hear my 4 month old filling his diaper Shifty Pony posted:the two most important features imo are being able to fold it up by simply picking it up with one hand, and it being as lightweight as possible. zokie posted:We got a little plastic cylinder from our healthcare provider for each of our kids that is sized to a toddlers tracea so you can test for too small stuff. I guess that in evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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you don’t get stuff like that for free but maybe you can source something similar to help you check toys and the like to eliminate risky stuff and be able to reduce your anxiety that way?
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my kid was one of the “chew on everything” kind and nothing terrible ever happened… kid is 10 now and still does it a bit… usually just shirt collars or legos… or his headset’s mic… the worst we had was he got his mouth around the large end of a plastic Easter egg… thank god it wasn’t a lightbulb, but we removed it without incident.
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RokosCockatrice posted:I was thinking this was a good idea and then the other day when trying to set up life insurance the agent was like "hey yeah here's a great deal on life insurance, let me just get you and your wife's social and drivers license # and tell me are either of you being treated for depression" and lol oh yeah insurance companies will use anything to tune their actuarial tables against you im very tempted to cancel my life insurance because it seems impossible to clear the hurdle of “yes everything was disclosed”, because they can go thru your medical history to deny your claim post mortimer but won’t do that to work out your premiums etc on the first place
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Aug 20, 2022 07:33
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George beard and Harold Hutchins need to get the gently caress out of my house
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Aug 20, 2022 21:25
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I am so tired. I am ready for my mid life crisis now I think.
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cowboy beepboop posted:I am so tired. I am ready for my mid life crisis now I think. i might be kind of an outlier here since i've always had a lot of trouble sleeping, but my kids are 10 and 7 and i'm only just now getting my circadian rhythm back on track enough to have a couple good nights sleep per week.
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Aug 28, 2022 02:13
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cowboy beepboop posted:I am so tired. I am ready for my mid life crisis now I think. nice, what kind of sports car you going to get? and to be on topic: did you all do much babyproofing? i'm planning on putting some straps on furniture (bookcases and dressers) but idk what else i should be doing to prepare. i guess a newborn won't be getting into too much trouble but i figure once he's crawling around i'll want to have everything ready.
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Aug 28, 2022 02:43
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we did furniture straps on stuff they could pull on, socket covers so they don’t jam something in there, and when they were younger and wobbly we either out corner bumpers on coffee tables or just removed the coffee table entirely, and finally cabinet thingos on cabinets with cleaning supplies on them I’m going to have to re-baby proof a whole lot soon 
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Aug 28, 2022 02:54
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beyond furniture straps we practice just in time babyproofing. if you look carefully in our house there's a high water mark of how high and far he can currently reach.
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Aug 28, 2022 02:58
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Shifty Pony posted:beyond furniture straps we practice just in time babyproofing.
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Aug 28, 2022 03:00
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Eeyo posted:nice, what kind of sports car you going to get? we covered the nursery floor in the puzzle-piece foam flooring stuff and padded all the edges and corners, but the rest of the house basically was never safe for a child and we just made sure the nursery was the only room they were ever left alone in it worked pretty well for us and it was a lot easier than trying to childproof a whole dang house
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Aug 28, 2022 03:24
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we just crate trained ours
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Eeyo posted:and to be on topic: did you all do much babyproofing? i'm planning on putting some straps on furniture (bookcases and dressers) but idk what else i should be doing to prepare. i guess a newborn won't be getting into too much trouble but i figure once he's crawling around i'll want to have everything ready. strapped the heavy furniture and put some locks on cupboards in the kitchen (where the detergent etc lives) and removed any fragile things that were in reach as he started pulling himself up on stuff oh and we did a baby gate for the kitchen but this upset him so much we just ended up leaving it open all the time
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Aug 28, 2022 03:42
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Corla Plankun posted:we covered the nursery floor in the puzzle-piece foam flooring stuff and padded all the edges and corners, but the rest of the house basically was never safe for a child and we just made sure the nursery was the only room they were ever left alone in basically this we put obstacles in front of some things we didn't want him climbing, 90% of the time this worked and the other 10% he'd start climbing the obstacles which was even more unsafe so we still couldn't keep our eyes off him we tried a baby pen (200x260cm) when he first started crawling but he hated it almost right away, he just wanted to explore the whole apartment. we put child straps on the cupboards and drawers but they don't close them perfectly tightly so he can still get his fingers jammed, if he doesn't just rip the drawer open anyway. so in the end we just moved what we could out of the way and at least made his own room safe. that way we can relax in the living room and either watch him or let him play alone in his room.
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Aug 28, 2022 09:00
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by the time we got round to trying to baby proof stuff she was already old enough to render most of it redundant, thought we did get a big baby jail that she'll mostly happily stay in (and watch tv). stair gate lasted about 2 weeks before i tripped over it and knocked it out of place, but she can slide down stairs now anyway so as long as we're supervising it seems ok? cupboard locks are essential though.
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Aug 28, 2022 11:01
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we put up a bigger gate to keep kiddos out of our kitchen entirely, thus saving us from needing separate locks on our under-the-sink cabinets with cleaning supplies. It had three rigid segments with two joints and the central segment was a gate. now that we’re in a new house, we could probably do with those kind of locks but… our youngest is almost a 4-year old and doesn’t just try to eat random things any more?
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Aug 28, 2022 11:25
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we use heavy duty rubber bands to act as cupboard locks. the main floor is open plan so there’s no real way to keep her out of the kitchen, so we have one drawer and one cupboard filled with stuff she can throw around and keep the others closed up with the rubber bands. she just figured out how to walk with a walker, so that’s all she wants to do now. prolly gonna be walking unassisted soon, that’s gonna be fun.
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Aug 28, 2022 13:28
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rubber bands for cabinets is a pro move. We’ve also accepted that most of our house is dangerous to babies and focused 95% of the proofing efforts in one room where tiny mayo clinic can more or less free-range. Outlet covers and pool-noodle bumpers on the pointy stuff, strategically placed furniture in front of stuff we don’t want him getting into. All this and he spends most of his time trying to break down the baby gate.
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Aug 28, 2022 14:02
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mobile kids are great. they're like little familiars that will sort of follow you around
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Aug 28, 2022 22:18
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just found out our 11yo never went to school today. went back home and let himself in and spent day there. will have to work out how to deal with this, neither kid has done something like this before
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Aug 29, 2022 04:36
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promote him
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echinopsis posted:just found out our 11yo never went to school today. went back home and let himself in and spent day there. i did that when i was in 6th grade and i turned out fine
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echinopsis posted:just found out our 11yo never went to school today. went back home and let himself in and spent day there. y tho
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might wanna ask him if anything is wrong at school that makes him not want to go, like other than "ugh i'd rather be napping"
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haven’t gotten home yet to get to the bottom of it but his mother thinks it’s because he hadn’t done some homework thing
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kitten emergency posted:we have one drawer and one cupboard filled with stuff she can throw around and keep the others closed up Yeah we do this too. It's absolutely a pro tip from as soon as they can crawl.
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echinopsis posted:haven’t gotten home yet to get to the bottom of it but his mother thinks it’s because he hadn’t done some homework thing tell him about the great homework strategy i came up with in school which was to tell the teacher directly that i did not do it
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echinopsis posted:haven’t gotten home yet to get to the bottom of it but his mother thinks it’s because he hadn’t done some homework thing well duh it's homework. Can't do it at school now can he?
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lol turns out it was some project at school he was anxious about and I think his mother dealt with it poorly before school and he was upset and she expected him to bike to school when she went to work but he just didn’t it’s not really ok tbh, but he was already pretty sheepish about it so I didn’t feel the need to make it worse really. he’s not very resilient tho. smart, bright, very capable kid, that does not do well when even small things go wrong
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my kid is over 9kg (20 pounds) and almost 6 months old RIP my back e whoops he is actually almost 5 months old bobbilljim fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 23:18
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do pressups with child on shoulders and every day child gets heavier but you get stronger
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been mostly doing weighted couch getups and overhead press
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bobbilljim posted:my kid is over 9kg (20 pounds) and almost 6 months old RIP my back lol try when they're nearly 13kg and walking and decide that they want you to carry them like echi said, think of it as a workout
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i was going to ask about that too. my wife is petite (she has a little cerebral palsy and she can walk and run fine but she avoids lifting heavy things) and is worried about baby carrying stamina once it comes. did you all have issues with that kind of stuff? i'm pretty sure i'll be fine once i exercise my arms a bit, i'm just curious if anyone who is on the more petite side had issues with it.
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the basic problem is that the child just. Gets. Heavier. But doesn't really give a poo poo themselves. So carrying them in one arm starts out fine, but now is not so great after the first 15 minutes but they're gonna get upset if you stop on the plus side, it is in increments so you do just naturally get stronger! definitely get a front carrier for your wife but idk what age they go up to....after that a back carrier can be good but haven't tried one of those. I tried on the shoulders though and whoah was she not ready for that
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depends a lot on the kid. My boy didnt like being carried much but my girl ALWAYS wanted to be carried.
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i love giving my 11 yo shoulder rides and running around. yolo them dawgs
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both of mine are still under 40lbs/18kg and the main thing I’ve learned is when holding them, support their weight with my forearm and don’t use my hand/wrist to stabilise but instead squeeze since otherwise my carpal tunnel fucks me up for a few days basically just have them sit on your forearm and hang onto you or if they’re still floppy, use your forearm against their butt and squeeze against your chest/side
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def protect your back, once you injure yourself it's much worse. no way my wife can carry my 3 year old anymore as she has a disc injury. The bigger they are the more they hold on though so if you try to avoid wrenching motions and keep your back safe you should be ok. still a real test of the mind body and soul to carry 15 kgs of child and a bicycle half a block home while there's poop leaking onto your arm thoughPowerful Two-Hander posted:lol try when they're nearly 13kg and walking and decide that they want you to carry them yeah lol  at least they hang on though
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back?? i, uh, I have been given very clear directives that it's the NECK
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