echinopsis posted:

it’s far easier to say obvious misunderstanding things like “the pokemans” than trying but failing to understand their new forms of communication and understanding

President Beep posted:

he also used to absolutely insist that it was called “elmo’s square” and not “elmo’s world”. was like three though.

rotor posted:

when my kids forget to do something I told them to do i say "that wasn't very cash money of you" and they hate it

rotor posted:

nailin this poo poo to my kids' doors like im martin fuckin luther

President Beep posted:

it’s very sad and can be hard on any relationship. hope op and his partner are holding up okay.

Fart Sandwiches posted:

i had a dr cut my balls in half (i have no idea how vasectomy works) just so i wouldn't do another on accident. good luck on your cum adventure

President Beep posted:

sounds like a bad idea to me, op.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

President Beep posted:

badass. thanks for linking.

rotor posted:

posting the #1 most brutal own my son ever did on me:

when he was, idk, like 4 years old he asked me what my job was and i was like "well, you know how a paleontologist is a scientist about dinosaurs right?" "yes" "ok and you know how astronomers are scientists about stars right?" "yes" "ok well I'm like a scientist about computers"

and he looks thoughtful for a minute and says "when i grow up Im going to be a real scientist" and frankly i have never fully recovered from this

TimWinter posted:

When is it developmentally appropriate to tell your kids how much the world sucks? I assume this is like the sex talk where if they make it to highschool without the sit down they're going to be at a huge social and emotional development disadvantage

Stringent posted:

Home schooling seems like the most insane thing to me. Even if you were a trained educator, it still seems nuts. Like being a surgeon and wanting to perform surgery on your own kid.

Fart Sandwiches posted:

I want to homeschool because I’m extremely worried about like, shootings and poo poo, not to mention the potentially questionable quality of education. luckily for my kid I am not delusional enough to think I’m qualified to teach a little one and I understand the value of socialization. I just consider it my job to help educate as a supplement to the school system where appropriate (I had to cut out my dinner time news rants because while very fun to complain about cops the tone upsets the kiddo haha)

I got like 4 years to worry about that tho

rotor posted:

on one hand its like worrying that your kid will get struck by lightning but on the other hand the overreaction to it and the ridiculous safety training they have to do has gotta be harmful, and on the other hand I had to do the same kind of trainings to prepare me for nuclear war so maybe its fine idk Im out of hands

rotor posted:

my pro parenting tip is to always have subtitles on the TV. Both my kids learned to read really well and really early and I give the "just leave the subtitles on for Blues Clues" strat lot of credit for that.

rotor posted:

what the gently caress is "live broadcast tv??"

Solus M.D. posted:

we are currently experiencing baby creep, the only places in the house without baby toys/play area right now are the office and kitchen

it’s only the beginning

my homie dhall posted:

even as a non-religious person I appreciate some of my religious upbringing for giving me background and context into the lives of a large group of people I would otherwise not have

Poopernickel posted:

This is a spicy take, but you might consider doing a church thing with your kid for a few years. Even if you're not super into it and you all eventually lapse, the morals are good for a child to learn. Also the community can benefit you a lot as a new parent, if you find one with a bunch of other parents.

echinopsis posted:

don’t forget tho that the most important thing and also hardest thing to do is that you have to transform into the morally admirable person because you’re their number one role model and all the telling a kid what to do in the world doesn’t mean poo poo because they’ll turn out just like you pretty much.

evil_bunnY posted:

ffffffffuck that. Literally no one in any (white) church-like org has ever been morals-motivated.

President Beep posted:

the geezer at church told me about some dude a long time ago that said “don’t kill” and i was like how am i just now hearing this!!

President Beep posted:

not me, bruv. burned down an orphanage earlier because i stopped going to youth group before they told us the important bits. wish i knew what to do.

Fart Sandwiches posted:

gently caress church

shoeberto posted:

When I went off to college I dropped the sort of guilt-induced pseudo-beliefs I picked up from my small town high school groupthink, and I'll never forget telling my closest friend from home that I was openly an atheist. At the time, he couldn't conceive that you could have morals or be a good person without religion. It ended up being a good conversation (and he's actually an atheist now, too) but yeah, growing up in that sort of environment can give you a pretty black-and-white idea of how people pick up morality.

(also apologies for the fact that my entire post sounds like a frontpage post on r/atheism)

bobbilljim posted:

one time not long after we got my son a real bed he fell out right onto a cushion i put down there and i found him still sleeping on teh floor lmao

bobbilljim posted:

i forgot what cardinality means. i have an engineering degree

Corla Plankun posted:

when i was a kid i wondered about how much piss was left behind in the toilet after every flush and realized that it was intractable with the baby math i knew. I wondered about it for a long time and then eventually i got to diffEq and realized that the pissmath was actually very high level and complicated

rotor posted:

my kids got out of the why phase pretty fast because i would pull the fuckin car over and say "ok it's a long story but here it goes. Red paint was first sythesized by German chemists in 1846. This is during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm, a fact which will become relevant in a moment. OK so..."

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

the current thinking is to start with a pedal-less balance bike instead of training wheels

idk if that's appropriate for a 7-8 year old though, balance bikes tend to be smaller, though i'm sure there's a range

President Beep posted:

well yes, kenny, i assume the bears at your circus need pedal bikes.

kitten emergency posted:

I’m a dad now

shoeberto posted:

Admission fee is really more of a deposit.

kitten emergency posted:

man this NICU poo poo sucks. wife was having breakdowns at the hospital because she had been in there for a week total (they offered a courtesy stay thing where she could sleep in an extra room after discharge), she was missing meals because of how the cafeteria hours worked, just a mess. she decided to come home because at least she could have a breakdown in a more comfortable bed.

the kid seems to be getting better but they think there’s some thyroid issue where her thyroid isn’t working right, so they’ve got her on meds for that but it takes a while to kick in. she’s not under the jaundice light any more at least and is starting to bottle feed, so that seems good. I guess we’re both just terrified that she’s gonna have some permanent developmental problems because of all this. :/