His mom doesn't want any type of games or anything. I was thinking a soccer net a goal. We try to throw the baseball but he doesn't quite have the hand eye coordination but he loves kicking things especially the dog.
Boy or girl? We're doing the following for our 3 year old son: https://www.lowes.com/pd/CRAFTSMAN-...MI4qHX5aWn3wIV0sDACh2_yA-REAQYASABEgJIXPD_BwE
Sunday was better. Had more solid shits but this over night he let out straight diarrhea. So still no trip to the Daycare. Staying home with him again. Getting good at it. Do a little work while he naps and listen to an Audible Book.
My (almost) 4 year old is getting: Some legos/duplos Two puzzles A die cast model big rig A tool belt with real tools Lightning McQueen sheets My (almost) 2 year old is getting: A step stool A different color big rig A tool chest with plastic tools Some play doh stuff My kids already have way too much shit and the grandparents will buy them so many presents. We are trying to get them more functional “gifts” for now.
Was having a nerf fight the other day. I have a full gun. Boy has a full gun. I empty mine into him at close range. He sets his gun down to do something. I pick his gun up and empty it into him too. He's like "HEY NO FAIR". There is no fairness here.
All my nearly 5 year old wants is legos but he has almost every damn Lego City set. Last year if it wasn't Legos he kind of tossed the gift to the side and would say "don't they know I only want Legos?" Hopefully he can fake it a little better this year. 2 1/2 year old is getting paw patrol stuff.
We had this done 4 weeks ago. The pain is really from the wound sticking to the diaper so just lots of neosporin or petroleum jelly on the tip. Make like an ice cream cone. Aside from that, just make sure you’re pouring the head back. Our guy had a small adhesion and the pediatrician had to pull it back a little. He didn’t like that simultaneously while getting his shots.
He was starting to get to 4 hours a night and then had shots and the last two nights have been rough. Hoping in 2-3 more days he feels better and can try and get back on track. Plastic golf clubs will be his first present when he can stand up.
Just had to take the afternoon off work to take apart the toilet to find the shit and toilet paper covered toy that was clogging the toilet. If only i didn’t have to take a shit while letting the dog out the quick pit stop wouldn’t have turned into a several hour mess.
Question for the guys who pay daycare. Is it normal for you to be charged a full week if the child isn't there? Last week we had a big snowstorm in va. Schools were closed 4 days(we have 1 in school, 2 in daycare) so we kept our kids out of daycare the entire week. I went in to grab them today and make a payment they charge the entire week saying it's their policy. I asked to see it but the director wasn't there. My wife said we only get week of "vacation" where we dont have to pay if they aren't there. I never heard of such bs.
Yea this is typical protocol I believe. We use an in-home daycare, don’t have to worry about this which is nice.
Yes, every daycare I have ever heard of charges you if you are there or not They wouldn't be able to keep their doors open otherwise
Yup. Just pay your money to the daycare overlords and thank them for keeping your kid alive while you make money to give right back to them. It’s a vicious cycle but in a few years they’ll be out and you’ll feel like you won’t the lottery. Just got one out and will have the last one out in a couple years.
Yeah it sucks. We are about to have paid for 2 weeks of Daycare when he's been at home sick with either I or my wife.
Little guy (3 weeks old) slept for 5 hours straight last night. Wife freaked out about his blood sugars being low. My argument is he is gaining weight, so let him sleep until he is hungry. Who is right?
Per my wife you are 100% right. Her thoughts: Always let the baby sleep When they are awake/day time follow the 2-3 hour feedings If baby isn't gaining weight then adhere to the 2-3 hour feedings at night Note: She is not a doctor.
Dear Dads of TMBSL, My good friend Josh did a crazy thing and bought a climbing gym that was closing. It was attached to a cross fit facility and wasn't really doing well financially. Josh had worked there for a while and had begun to shift the focus of the gym from cross fit dudes and adult climbers to local kids. Sort of a Boys and Girls Club for rock wall climbing. The place is in rough shape and he (as well as me and other friends and family) will be spending a lot of time over the next couple of weeks renovating the space to clean it up and suit his vision. He's doing an online fundraiser over at IndieGogo (link below in the spoiler). If you're so inclined, there are some cool perks. Most of you probably aren't interested in a month membership at a gym in west Michigan, but you could sponsor a local kid for a monthly membership. Spoiler
As long as it’s at night, that’s great. And a blessing. So count em up. During the day we do 3 hour feedings and wake him up. It’s important for him to try and begin sleeping at greater lengths at night. Gotta make sure that belly is full though.
Speaking of feedings and sleep for new dads, we didn't follow this to the T as its' time frames and methods seemed a bit aggressive for us but we got a lot of good out of it It's first step towards sleep training is spreading out/eliminating feedings. Puts a huge emphasis on that before getting into any real "sleep training" I forget when exactly but I was tired of my wife having to get up in the middle of the night so I said fuck it Im gonna get up with a bottle and I'll lower the amount every night to try and get this eliminated. Night #2 he barely drank any of his mid-night bottle and ended up falling back asleep for the rest of the night. Night #3 didn't give him anything and he woke, cried for a bit then went back. By either night #4 or #5 he was done waking up in the middle of the night. Basically babies will eat when they're hungry. When you eliminate/spread out feedings they know to make it up for it during other feedings. Obviously you're not going to do this with a new newborn but if anyone's interested I can try and dig it up and post some of their example schedules and age at which they say to implement them.
We got a stomach bug that just won’t leave the house. Keeps circling between the 2 girls and my wife and me. Just frustrating that we can’t get well. Got to love living in a petri dish with a 4 and 1 yr old. Someone has been sick for the past month.
Back to presents, got my almost 3 year old a Jeep power wheel, also comes with a remote that I can control it. Think I might be more excited than he will be.
Bought one of those for my niece/nephew last Christmas. I get to figure out why it broke when I visit next week.
Unless you live in an area where public schools are shit and you end up paying for private school I’ve heard the dreaded H word (homeschool) tossed around by the bff. Totally against it for several reasons
My wife is adamant we send our kids to private school. I plan to do everything possible to prevent it.
I think it depends on the type of private school and what private school they go to. I'll speak from my own experience, but I send my kids to a catholic grade school, both of us grew up catholic and my wife went to catholic schools all the way through high school. Yes, this is considered a private school, but I feel there is quite a bit difference between a catholic private school and a private private school (no religion affiliation). Does that make sense?
No way in hell I'm sending my kids to a Catholic school. All of my cousins went to them and they're failsons/daughters. My parents gave me the choice of public school + wednesday catholic classes or catholic school and I chose public school. I'm not funding a worldwide child molestation cabal. Reasons for no private school: cost class consciousness socialization ego i'm completely against the movement to divert public funds to private coffers they don't deliver better outcomes as a whole parental involvement is much more important than a specific teacher And the biggest obvious reason that undermines everything else I listed, we should be able to move into any school district we want.
I respect your opinion and was just curious why. I obviously don't care where anyone sends their kids, it's your choice.
One of my best friends was a private catholic school kid. Lots of great people come from private schools. There just seems to be, in my experience, a bigger proportion of entitled douche bags that come from some of those schools than from public schools. And if they're very small religious schools then the kids are usually super weird. Public schools get shitbirds and bad influences, especially if you're in an area with really bad public schools. There's the good with the bad of each.
My only absolute fuck no not in a million years would be home school. Some people can apparently do it and have their kids well adjusted socially but I wouldn't be interested in that in the least.