The premium you pay is the guarantee that they will be there every day when you drop them off and still there when you pick them up, just fyi
So little over 2 months in and going pretty well. He’s uh definitely a hog molly, weighed in at 15 lbs 4 oz at 2 months. Sleeps pretty well at night minimum of 4 hour increments currently. I feel like comparatively to some of the stuff I’ve read we’ve had it pretty easy but I’m also not home with him all day like the wife when he doesn’t really like to sleep/nap much at all.
Yeah. Our oldest was at this place for a little over a year. We just didn’t consider it with the twins due to cost, but put them on the waiting list anyway. Here we are.
We just switched my daughter to a booster seat and the seatbelt is driving me absolutely insane. It's a booster seat with a back, and that little red area you slip the seat belt into to put it in position. Every time I get my daughter in the car I have to unhook the seatbelt there, retract it all the way, then pull it out to start over. Am I missing some sort of dad trick on using the normal car seatbelt and a booster seat? The 5 point harness was much easier to use than this thing. Edit: I just googled around some and I think my seat may be stuck in the automatic locking mode
Daycare said our 14 month old plays rough with the other kids. Asked if we played rough with her at home. Don’t know how to take it, feel like if she was a boy they wouldn’t say anything. She’s just a wild one, not really sure what you can do at this age because she hasn’t developed impulse control. She is the youngest in her class, but apparently the only one who is “strong willed”.
Newborn checking in at 2.5 weeks here. I am back to work and my wife suggested that I try to sleep every night from 12 am - 6 am and she’ll get up with our daughter during that time. I feed and change and get her to bed between 11-12 usually but it feels like this is some sort of trick she will cash in later.
My wife doesn’t wake me up because “what’s the point” since she is breastfeeding. I just try to be good about helping out with everything possible since she is home with him all day. I definitely couldn’t do it, she’s a saint.
Got our third call this week from daycare today for a surprising reason. Our almost 3 yo pulled his pants down and pissed all over some playground equipment and told them he was allowed to do that by daddy. Guess no more pissing in the yard at home.
A few days ago 5 year old pulled his pants down and pissed in the grass in front of the pick up line as I was putting his stuff in the truck, and it's a church daycare They get mad when I do it
when baby was new, I was in charge of getting baby up, diaper change, then hand to mom. Gave mom a few more minutes to get out of bed and prep in our feeding chair. I could then go to bed and she would put down after feeding now that little man is 5 months, she just does it cause it's a scoop out of bed and put back down. It's AMAZING, but feel bad for her, he's going through a growth spurt and asking for food every 3 hours or so. Not coincidentally, wife won't let him cry out/self soothe in middle of night, so I'm fearful he's getting used to multiple night feedings.
We had my daughters 1yr old bday party this past weekend. Supposedly my best friends 2.5 year old son is a complete shithead. Heard it from multiple people that he's destructive, physical and just an overall terror to any kid around him. Now this doesn't take me by complete surprise but the amount of people saying it shows me its far worse than i knew. It was so bad that my wife and another wife are not wanting to invite them to future family get togethers. it sucks and puts me in a awful situation with my buddy but i know i need to talk with him
Are you saying supposedly because you didn't witness any of it? I'd be very careful in trying to uninvite them because honestly unless they're doing absolutely nothing to address the problem, it comes off as really not supporting your friend which would hurt if I were him. There's been a few posters here talk about the hell they went through with their toddlers in daycare and I can't imagine how stressful it is.
I saw him jumping on my couch right before he left but was not around him much besides that. I think the parents doing nothing is the problem. word on the street is that other mothers would try to get the kid to stop being a shithead and the mom would say things like "good luck, i cant get him to listen either hehe " or talk about she has to bring presents to the people at mothers day out because hes such a "handful"
Just wanted to say that the 10% of the time having a 2 and 5 year old is awesome. They say/do some incredible things. The other 90% of them being absolute turds is about to make us pull our hair out.
Yes. We were gone the last few days so my mother-in-law was watching our kids. When I picked my 4 year old up from daycare he ran to me from across the playground and gave me the biggest hug and exclaimed, "my best friend is back." It felt great. However, the rest of the time since we have been home has been a reminder that he doesn't do well being out of routine and our 1-year old has a stomach bug and has been completely miserable.
This is the GOAT. I can have the absolute shittiest day at work and then this happens and all is well in the world again
My soon to be 4 year old step son has been telling me and my fiancé that I’m his best best friend instead of momma. I just give her a big grin. He’s so ready for us to get married and me move in 3 weeks.
We are moving this summer. Mini Boomette is 3, so she doesn’t get it, but telling 7-year-old Mini Boom was hard. He cried. A lot. But he’s really come around and appears genuinely excited now.
My son has issue with transitions with grade changes in school. He refuses to accept he turns 5 in July and he keeps telling us he won’t go to kindergarten when school starts again he wants to stay in Jk. I can only imagine a move. Good luck.
So my 3 year old went to his first birthday party for a classmate today. My wife took him and she text me and said only one other kid from his class showed up, so there are 3 kids total. I feel really bad for the kid, and I’m getting sad thinking about something like that happening to my kid. But I do feel a little better because my wife said the 3 of them are having a lot of fun themselves.
I feel like that may be more common than not. My son just went to a classmate party and he has a total of 12 kids in his class. Counting my son and the kid herself they had 4 kids show. My son has a summer birthday and we have done a pool party the previous two years. He got 3 and 5 kids out of 12 the last two years. But his birthday falls on 4th of july weekend so.. idk we go to all birthday parties for the kids.
Gentleman, the little gal was born a week ago Thursday. Came into the world at just under 7 pounds and 20 inches long. Totally biased but with copious dark hair and gray blue eyes I’m pretty sure we created the world’s prettiest baby. She’s been pretty good so far, usually sleeps for 3ish hour spans between feedings at night and only averages maybe 1.5 scream sessions a day. A total delight that I’m sure will get more difficult with time. Feeds like a champ though so that’s a blessing.
Had a dad fail today and luckily I got hurt the worse. Was playing in the pool with the five year old and tossing her up in the air and catching her. On one of the throws I tossed her really high and my hand slipped off her vest swimmer when I tried to catch her. Our heads hit and her mouth was open. The two top teeth dug into my chin and put a nice size gash. Thank goodness it just hurt and scared her. That could have been a bad one. Before she went to bed tonight she told me we shouldn’t play that game anymore bc it’s not safe.
We had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago only like 4 kids out of a class of 20ish showed up for a birthday party. We are lucky that we have a few friends with kids our daughters age so she'll always have a solid group of at least 10 at birthday parties but me and my wife agreed that every single class/friend party we are in town for we will take her to, and we will RSVP to every single one- yes or no. It sucks so much for the kids because the parents are of the other kids are busy or not interested.
I remember this came up a few weeks ago itt, but the APA just released a resolution about the damages of using physical discipline with children: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/05/physical-discipline
I’m not sure if it’s mentioned. But my soon to be 4 yo step son absolutely loves the Netflix show chip and potato. I’ve watched it with him and it is a really wholesome show. Gotta say I’m pleased.
First broken bone in the books. My two year old fell off a slide over the weekend. Original xrays didn’t show a break. He tripped today and went nuts (for good reason).
Baby Block, 7 month review - 5 stars. Absolute angel. Would reproduce again. Most of you have much more experience than me, but here are a few things I/we learned along the way during the first few months for the new/soon to be dads, if you’re interested: Mrs Block is a saint. After being diagnosed with MS and not being sure about kids, she endured an ectopic in ‘16 then a D&C in ‘17 before baby Block arrived in ‘18. Turns out she’s the greatest mother and is head over heels in all the right ways. The Moms On Call book/schedule is absolutely fantastic. Biblical. It came highly recommended and fuck me, that schedule works to a T. Baby Block loves it and started sleeping through the night at 10 weeks. We love it as much as she does. Taking Cara Babies online newborn class was a great compliment to MOC. Learn the sleepy cues. Respect the sleepy cues. Act on the sleepy cues. Immediately. Learn Dr. Karp’s 5 S’s. No need to read the book, just YouTube it. Get a yoga ball for the living room and nursery. Effortless bouncing to help them get drowsy/put them to sleep or soothe them when they’re agitated or wake up during nap time. Life saver. Swaddle that little bugger, very tightly. Make the nursery a black hole. Black out curtains, no night lights, close the door. Speaking of nursery, put her in there right away. Noise maker for naps/sleep. Turn it up to 11. Get a portable Rohm one and take it everywhere. Four months of paternity leave was an incredible experience. To be part of every moment was priceless and I would stay home until she went to kindergarten, if I could (afford it). I thought I loved baby Block when she was a raisin, but when she started to ‘awaken’ as she approached three months, my God, it became all consuming.
Need some advice. Short story on situation. 5yr old has had this friend from her VPK class we’ve played with all year. That family has been pretty much the only family we’ve hung out with here since we moved. We’re moving about 20 minutes away next month into our new house and into a different school. Last week the VPK gave my daughter a speaking part in graduation. Well when that family found out about that, the mom lit into the daycare about not giving her child a speaking part. At the same time she told the school that my kid was bullying and mean to her child. 30 min before this happened my wife was just with them and they invited us over to play that afternoon. The school was in shock bc the kids play together all the time and they said we watch them every day and there’s nothing mean between the two. That mom has acted like nothing has happened and she didn’t throw our kid under the bus. We don’t want to punish the kids playing together but at the same time don’t know if we can be around someone that said the things she said about our kid and act like nothing happened. We’re also moving soon so we’ll be in different areas. Anyone been in a similar situation or can provide some thoughts on what to do?
Call the mom prior to the play date and get her side of the story. A good play date is hard to find especially if the kids like each other. At the same time I would have to clear the air first bc her acting like nothing happened is a concern imo. I hate fake people so I tend to call it out and get it out in the open. The uncomfortable conversation will be worth it
Kid got in trouble yesterday for calling a friend a stupid asshole. He’s 3 1/2. Trying to figure out where he’s picking it up. The day care has a few hellions that the day care is trying to kick out.
Agree with this. As much as you want your kid to have friends, if Mom is psycho then kid will have psycho tendencies as well. Plus you’ll never trust your kid being over there alone as they get older. Give her a chance to apologize/explain if it did in fact happen but otherwise I’d bail.
Gonna be a busy summer and year with my step son when we get married in two weeks. Been working on baseball on the weekends I’m down here. He’s actually really good. 3 1/2 and doesn’t use a tee. Hits the ball hard 75% of the time. We’re working on gold this morning. But I could use some reqs on learning to read. I’d like him to be able to read full sentences by the time he starts K.
at about the same age my son was trying to talk his friend into going down the slide the friend was scared and said no and my son called him a big pussy when i read the report i couldn’t (and still can’t) figure out where he heard it, but i couldn’t help but think “well at least he used it right”.
My observation has been that kids pick up things from other kids at daycare. Our son says straightaway as a phrase like he is British. Apparently he picked it up from a classmate that watches Peppa Pig. The first time he swore--at a teacher--it was a word we never use and we figured out eventually it came from a kid with an older sibling. My general thought is don't overthink it or make too big of a deal out of it or they will learn that it is a way to get attention and use it more. That goes for a lot of things in parenting.