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gonna give you another happy story to go with the good news above we've been taking my daughter swimming since she was pretty tiny (she's just under 2 now), first place was really good, then we moved house and the second place had good facilities but the teacher wasn't really challenging the kids so she was learning nothing. So we switched to a different place that is literally in the old person therapy pool in a retirement village first three times, total disaster. clamped onto whoever took her. Cried when taken off and made to do anything, only really cheering up when they got the toys out at the end. then she got sick with a skin infection and we couldn't take her for two weeks. today, first thing, she was going "swimming! Yeah!" Splash!" and when we got there holy poo poo. No grabbing onto me, getting put under and coming back up, jumping in, turning round in the water, starting to swim on a float, everything. And hi fiving me all the way (best thing we taught her). Honestly amazing. also getting changed she pointed at me when I took my shorts off and went "oh gosh.....yucky" lol then I got a migraine, but at least I got to do that first.
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go play outside Skyler posted:thanks for all the support everyone 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:also getting changed she pointed at me when I took my shorts off and went "oh gosh.....yucky" lol username/post combo
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kiddo has developed an irrational fear of talking toys. she likes books that talk/make noise, but anything else? instant meltdown
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kitten emergency posted:kiddo has developed an irrational fear of talking toys. she likes books that talk/make noise, but anything else? instant meltdown i mean, they are pretty creepy
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:i mean, they are pretty creepy fair
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:she pointed at me when I took my shorts off and went "oh gosh.....yucky" goons.txt
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something i am not really sure how to deal with is my 11yo boredom he’ll just lie on his bed crying that he’s bored. there’s only so many ideas you can suggest the hardest part is trying to encourage him to see if his friends are doing something. it’s challenging how they seem to want to put so little effort into making anything happen. I have a suspicion that modern pc games or whatever set such a high bar for easy entertainment that anything else just seems too difficult. not that I want to blame games but don’t think it helps idk
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echinopsis posted:something i am not really sure how to deal with is my 11yo boredom as much as we like to have some time to ourselves doing jack poo poo, unfortunately the only solution i've found which works 100% of the time is going on a family activity go for a walk, go to the beach, go to a museum, go do some sports, etc i also sometimes just "kick my boy's rear end out of the house" and force him to go outside and not come back before a certain amount of time. sure they'll complain and try and come home before the set time, but you have to force them a little. they're kids, they'll figure something out. e: as a stepfather to these 2 boys i guess i have the advantage of not being so overly protective i guess go play outside Skyler fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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being bored is an important life skill really. thoguh it is painful
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bobbilljim posted:being bored is an important life skill really. thoguh it is painful agreed from my personal experience of being a bored kid with my kids, it’s not often a problem, but: I usually treat “kid complaining about being bored” as my kid choosing to not be bored by doing something that they don’t really like and I don’t really like. I’ll usually say one thing and then withdraw from the argument, leaving them back in a bored state. this way they don’t get stuck doing something miserable, they go back to being bored, and in a few minutes they find and start doing something more interesting to them
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we are now finally home with baby anne i think we will spend the next 3 days in bed. gently caress that was exhausting
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go play outside Skyler posted:we are now finally home with baby anne
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go play outside Skyler posted:we are now finally home with baby anne congrats op, glad things are ok
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go play outside Skyler posted:we are now finally home with baby anne bobbilljim posted:being bored is an important life skill really. thoguh it is painful
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my ~6mo has been sleeping badly for about... 3 months now. I think today is the day I break I am so tired  ideally I could just move her to some other room than ours but the only one available is my sons and it's not fair to him to put a baby who likes to wake up in the night for hour stretches in his room. he has been asking if they can share rooms for a while now though, he's a good big brother 💕
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well we made it though today and now i'm having a wine "the parents remedy"
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got on board the rsv train last weekend, nothing as bad as hospital but a 4 day high temperature which meant no nursery and oh my god anyone that did this through lockdown has my undying respect. 3 days of juggling work and childcare and that was enough.
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My kid was also out of school with what seemed like RSV this week. He's 10 so it didn't hit him hard at all (100-101 fever, sore throat, massive amounts of congestion and mucus production, rough time sleeping), but the fever lasted 4-5 days. The first time he's slept in past 6am in ages without staying up until 2am reading/illicitly using his school laptop/wandering the house to steal dessert out of the freezer. He was at his mom's house, but her fridge broke and she "felt bad about trucking him around to get takeout" so she sent him back here for me. I forgot how distracting having another body in the house (that gets up to no good when bored) is while trying to work. I'm feeling a little down so I think I caught it. No fever... just a sore throat and swollen lymph nodes and sinus pressure...
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i'd never heard of rsv until that poor yospos baby was hospitalized but my 5yo caught it like a week after they brought it up, i guess hsv is having a moment this year
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survived the process of waiting for a walk-in appointment to get my 4-y/o seen at the urgent care. physician's assistant clearly agreed that the little infected skin thing needed both types of antibiotics + they're going to culture it and upgrade our antibiotics if its MRSA. very cool, very easy, very chill. *sigh* actually good part: read a whole Dog Man book to the kiddo while we waited e: if it's monkeypox that would be real bad, but I'm hopeful. He had a skin infection starting 2 years ago that caused him to occasionally develop little pustules like this and they take forever to go away, fingers crossed it's just that. prisoner of waffles fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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doing legos with my kiddos feels great. we each have fun and I really like seeing them use and develop spatial reasoning / spatial awareness. I definitely credit legos for a lot of my most absorbed childhood play and experiences that got my brain ready for learning to think in some challenging ways
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so many of the kids toys are like that - gave them all of my childhood legos, as well as magnetiles, little # shaped plastic things that slot together, marble runs, cardboard bricks, even these little plastic discs that slot together. We deliberately pick and promote toys that encourage creative, constructive play, not just “here is a #brand toy, recreate the show!” Then again a creative five year old can figure out how to make the Tracey spider robot from Spider-Man and Amazing super friends, so they will always find a way. 
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kiddo has become obsessed with rhyming but she does this just making up rhyming sounds even if they’re not words. she’ll do this in the middle of random sentence with no transition. every time I think I’ve finally stroked out
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I picked up kids after work and thought i’d take them to mcdonald for a treat but had to get takeaway dessert and end result is that they both spilled their sundaes in the car, eldest got choc sauce all over his woollen school jersey lmao
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born on a buy you posted:kiddo has become obsessed with rhyming but she does this just making up rhyming sounds even if they’re not words. she’ll do this in the middle of random sentence with no transition. every time I think I’ve finally stroked out think you’ve droked lout stroked out?
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working from the couch this afternoon, showing my son the matrix for the first time. haven’t seen it in like 15 years. forgot how god laurence fishburn is in this.
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first matrix is good, don't tell him about the sequels
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lol, I’ve already warned him.
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President Beep posted:working from the couch this afternoon, showing my son the matrix for the first time. haven’t seen it in like 15 years. forgot how god laurence fishburn is in this. how old is your child? just curious I like to say “morpheus” in a exaggerated mr anderson voice sometimes MORRFFFFEEEUS 
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I started to watch the sequel with my kid the cave orgy scene was awkward lmao but sitting thru awkward sec scenes with your parents is a cornerstone of growing up
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what women want with fundie parents was a particularly uncomfortable experience as a teenager
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echinopsis posted:how old is your child? just curious he’s nine. figured he was ready
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i like to say “missster andersonnnn” in an agent smith voice.
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President Beep posted:i like to say “missster andersonnnn” in an agent smith voice. oh yeah I meant in the agent smith voice
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devmd01 posted:what women want with fundie parents was a particularly uncomfortable experience as a teenager lol
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echinopsis posted:oh yeah I meant in the agent smith voice lol, I thought you meant in a keaneua reeves voice and it made sense.
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keanu saying morpheus but in a bill n teds voice
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