I have found it keeps getting better and better. It's like hanging out with a buddy when it's just me and my almost 6 year old.
If you don't take your kids to a pumpkin patch and post the pics on social media are you even a parent?
Kept hearing one of our toys say "pussy" so looked up the lyrics: Ding, dong, bell, Pussy’s in the well. Who put her in? Little Johnny Green. Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. What a naughty boy was that, To try to drown poor pussy cat, Who ne’er did him any harm, But killed all the mice in the farmer’s barn
Same. I have liked every age although I do get sad when I watch videos of him when he was younger. Glad we have them. My son is 6 and we are doing a fishing tournament for his school this weekend. He seems to like to fish, so we went and bought some poles and fishing stuff this weekend. 6 is a fun age.
Me, my ex, all our parents, and my ex's new husband have all failed as parents. MiniDelta fell hard on her wrist during a softball game (first baseman tripped her) and was at the ER until 3am getting x-rays, got home at 4am, and went to bed at 430am. Woke up at 1030 and demanded to go to school. Like....free pass dude! Didn't even demand to show up at lunch with McDonalds to stunt on her friend's lunches. I don't know what we did wrong.
My 11 year old son was telling me the other day that he keeps seeing a car in the parent pickup line that is wrapped in an ad for something called Sexy Breeze or some such. He asked me what it was, and I told him I had no idea. Which led to this text exchange:
Whew, our 2 yr old (almost 29 months) is having some sort of sleep regression at night. He’s fine all day at home and daycare but at night he just latches to his mom and gets super clingy and upset if she tries to get up and do something. She’s had to sleep with him on the couch since Friday. It’s really odd because he used to just pass out and sleep in his bed or ours all night but now he wakes up multiple times crying and whatnot.
almost two year old has been in speech therapy for six weeks and now all the sudden we can’t swear around her
We've never cursed around our six year old or listen/watch anything with language while he is around. We were baffled when we were at Busch Gardens Friday when we were on the bumper cars and he kept yelling "Pussy!" Over and over. Apparently he heard it from an older kid at lunch and "allegedly" didn't realize it was a bad word. He said it again this morning at breakfast. Wife is now worried he is going to say it at school and get kicked out.
My 302 week old has dropped dammit a few times but that's the worst of it. Whenever I accidentally curse around the kids I try to immediately spout out random sounds/nonsense "I was driving home and this fuckinggg uhhhh " I've learned if you end on the bad word they are wayyyy more likely to repeat it
My wife gets so mad at me for chuckling on the rare occasion the 2 year old lets out a word SHE deems bad. She wants to know why I laugh. “Well dear, because I refuse to live in a world where it is not funny when a 2 year old says ass or boob.”
Wife gets mad at me for saying jerk "Well would you rather me/him say fucking douche bag asshole?" Jabroni/Jamoke has become my go to pg insult.
i can't help but laugh at most of the disrespectful shit my kids say to us. They are smartasses and it makes me proud.
my 4 year old said something to my wife the other day like 'this laundry isnt going to do itself' and I almost died. sent my daughter to day camp at the y for a week over the summer and she came back talking like a sailor
It was/is hilarious when my niece says bad words, I will probably also laugh when our daughter learns them, we’ll see how much trouble we both get in with mom.
Around 3 my daughter started repeating what we said, whenever she got excited she'd often say "Fucking Dammit." Our language around her dramatically improved thereafter.
What is the earliest age where you think you could leave child with grandparents and get on a plane and go somewhere for 5-7 days? Maybe 1 year? Feel bad dumping her off at too young of an age.
That likely varies widely by the child sleeping habits and the age and energy of the grandparent. I think a good general rule is when the kid sleeps through the night regularly. I do think you’re in the right context. I think our first weekend away was at age 2 but we could have done it earlier and had done child overnights at grandparents house before that.
My kid is 5 months and sleeping through the night and grandparents have good energy and are 2 hrs away. Probably generally targeting the 1 year mark to go to Caribbean , NYC, maybe Europe. 10-14 days in Europe might be a bit of a stretch. With trying to get pregnant , then pregnancy, and now having a baby, we haven't been anywhere by plane since December 2019. Overdue.
all depends on the level of trust with the grandparents. I know some women would leave their newborn with their mom without hesitation. Others wouldn't consider it for years. I think sleeping and feeding are the two biggest components. If she's still breastfeeding then pumping and storing all that milk for anything longer than a 3 day weekend would be a total pain in the ass. Not to mention all the frozen milk you'd have to store up. Obviously if you're on formula that part isn't a big deal. The other big factor is sleeping and how much you trust the old folks to get up with the baby and not resent the hell out of you and/or just ignore the baby because it's how boomers raised children. Waking up once or twice a night for a couple of days shouldn't be a huge deal, but for a whole week that would suck if you're not used to it. So it greatly depends, but in general I would say around a year is when it gets easier to ditch them with granny and pop. That said, we didn't take a week away until my oldest was 4 and youngest was 2.5. (we made our third baby on that week away so be careful)
I’m probably on the extreme side and we left for Tulum when our first was 7 months old. My dad is a rock star babysitter and she was sleeping 100% through the night and formula fed. It actually went incredibly smoothly.
Been a bit since I've been in this thread. Hope all is well with everyone. Currently sitting in the ER with my 5 year old as he's had a headache on and off for a couple of days and now he's vomiting constantly and can't keep anything down. Covid negative and he's not running a fever. This could be a long night.....
They did a bunch of tests for viral infections. Everything came back negative. Also did a head CT as she was concerned because he has no history of headaches so they wanted to rule out any tumors or lesions etc. That freaked me out a bit as I never even considered that aspect but it all came back fine. So we left without any official diagnosis at about 2 AM. The doctor thinks it's just some random virus that he picked up. He's got an appointment with his pediatrician this afternoon so we'll see what he says.
Fall festival at the school tonight. One of the face painters was dishing out Mike Tyson face tats to a bunch of 5-10 year olds. It was awesome seeing 25 Tyson faces running around afterwards.
I posted in the book thread but it hasn't gained much traction, but all dads should listen to the audiobook "A heart that works"by Rob Delaney. It will give you a new found appreciation for your kids, although it is very upsetting in parts. I should add that the audiobook is narrated by Delaney, which makes it all the more poignant.
Just ran into little man's super fit hot teacher from last year at a 7-11 wearing yoga pants and a cut off top. I hope she didn't notice me staring at her ass and legs when she recognized me before I recognized her
7 year old is on day 4 of a 102*+ fever. I am 24 hours into a 100* fever, terrible body aches, and my chest on fire. Flu tests came back negative for both of us, but this is worse than any sickness I’ve had in at least 15 years. Parenting is fun.
Baby has decided she is a Noragator now and will not stop rolling during diaper changes, even when given a toy as a distraction. We’re having fun!