Kids, while not as strong as adults, have a god damn knack for delivering accidental precision blows. My three year old is still in this soft-hitting phase we're trying to break her out of when she's mad. She got mad at me a couple of days ago while I was sitting on the couch and didn't immediately do something she wanted and therefore slammed her fists down a little forcefully in my right testicle/groin sweet spot. The kind where it doesn't immediately hurt that much for about 15 seconds then you have pain shooting up your back for about five minutes afterwards.
Yeah this was a damn surgical strike. No damage to the eye itself but a pretty good scrape on the inside eyelid. All things considered I feel lucky.
Kid on my son’s baseball team hit a home run yesterday and my son was so excited he started celebrating at second base like he just won the World Series. Forgot he was supposed to run. The kid on first and the kid who hit the ball were lined up before second base waiting for my kid to get out of the way. In my son’s defense it was pretty awesome to see a 6 year old hit one out.
That reminds me, anyone else super excited about showing your kid some of the all time great classics movies to watch their reactions to seeing them for the first time? The original Star Wars, the Harry Potter series, Saw 1-22 etc?
Lil man didn’t care for SW or HP, but has enjoyed Saw and The Nun. Took him and a friend to watch IT 2 and the scene with the grandma monster with tube sock tiddies had them absolutely lose it.
Really small field, coach’s son, kid has two older brothers, perfect pitch for him to crank, hit it about as well as you could.
Rant: why the fuck are all girls cloths crop tops all of a sudden!? 1/3 is turning fucking 11, she doesn’t need her damn belly button out! It’s not as bad as the “tween” Halloween costume selection, which is fucking horrifying, but pre-teens don’t need to be wearing that!
20 year cycle. Britney Spears and that era of girls fashion is popular. Guys are wearing the wide leg pants as well. It’s really weird.
Levi is now taking 2-3-4 steps on his own to get from point A to point B. A week short of 10 months seems entirely to soon for this. Please slow time down someone, anyone.
#2 has figure out how to stand up in his pack and play. Woke up this creepy sight this morning. Spoiler
I’d do it if I were 10 years younger. Parenting is a young man’s game and I am already 42 (with a 6 and 4 year old). Godspeed.
We are both 31. Plenty of time to work another in. We will wait til the oldest is in less than 9 months from kindergarten and make the call. But I think it’s happening.
I feel like my two kids are 'good' compared to most kids and I still cant imagine throwing a third in there. but my wife and I are old and keeping up with a 6 yr old and almost 3 yr old most days is going to put me in a home.
We have a 9-month old and 2.5 year old. We’re gonna start trying for a third when the youngest hits 1 because we’re fucking idiots.
We're done at one. My kid since probably two and a half has been not easy. Granted I see everyone else's kids probably on their best behavior but she seems to be more stubborn, more likely to throw tantrums, and just non-stop demanding us or attention compared to other kids her age.
Kids are always better out in public and thankfully your child is usually better for other people. I work with kids and usually they do better than parents expect. Part of that also comes with being an only child. When you solely have your parents attention you get to be a little more demanding. Having a second would actually help that some IMO.
The problem is a second wouldn't be that close to her age (almost 4) and just require that much more work even if someday they can play with each other. The other issue is that neither of our parents can help even babysit for a few hours due to their age and health. We basically were on our own until we paid a bunch of money for daycare.
By no means was I trying to talk you into a second. The main point was to reassure you that for the most part kids are better behaved with other people than yourself. You do you with having kids.
I feel you on this man. All of our family is 2000 miles away. Ignoring daycare, I think it’s been like three or four occasions where someone other than my wife or myself is taking care of the kid over the last two years.
I’m on year 6 of this. We haven’t had a night off in 6 years. Parenting is about dedication, but nothing makes me rage like people complaining about their kids when they have live in nannies, parents close by, etc.
yeah it’s tough we’re in the same boat, one thing we have done is our daycare is a mother and her 3 daughter who are in high school/college and one in grad school.....once a month a we pay one of the daughters to watch our son on the weekend for 3 hours so we can get a date night in without him.....my son loves them so no issues there and the girls get $25 an hour for just chillin with him for 3 hours and with Covid we don’t have to worry about finding a babysitter outside of our bubble
My SIL went for a third and got twins. My wife’s cousin did it and got triplets. That was the real game changer.
Work friend had an accidental set of triplets Had two, and one night got drunk at a wedding and 9 months later got triplets His oldest is in college, second in high school The triplets just started kindergarten
Woke up at 2am and couldn’t sleep for hours. Finally dozed off to sleep after 5am, shortly after feeling a tap on shoulder... “Dad I threw up”. Hop up out of bed, remove kid’s sheets from bed and start load of laundry. Set daughter up on couch to sleep some more. I think I’ll take a lunch nap. #DadLife
Happened to me not long ago and 3 nights later I had one of the worst 12 hour stomach bugs of my life. Prayers sent.
Our first was born this morning. 7 lbs 2 oz girl. Didn’t find out the gender until delivery which was awesome. I’ve been awake for like 40 hours. Unfortunately she’s struggling with some borderline hypoglycemia from being a month early and as a precaution she went to the NICU for closer monitoring. Wife and I are obviously stressed but happy. Glad to finally join this thread.
Came up with a way for my kids to clean the hardwoods downstairs (they’re 7 and 4). Swiffer hockey. I give them both Swiffer mops, and they have to find these little plastic ball pit style balls, that I place in dirtier areas, and they have to use the Swiffer mops to move them to the goal (Home Depot buckets). For every ten goals the older one gets, he gets to have a piece of candy, and it’s half the goals for the reward for the youngest. This is the third week in a row that I’ve gotten them to do this. I think it’s sustainable.