The strider was great for my kid. We went straight from it to a peddle bike. Skipped training wheels completely and he’s been riding it since he was 4.5. I credit that entirely to the balance bike.
Balance bikes are the way to go for sure. Amazing how quickly they pick it up & go straight to pedals.
The one time we did Paw Patrol Live it ended up being like a pre-school mosh pit up front at the end/finale Pretty fun stuff
Fucking stickers, man. My wife has gotten Levi several of the large reusable sticker books. Large plastic ones that the pages of the books are different landscapes to arrange the stickers on. Anyways, stickers everywhere. Floors, walls, tables. Pretty soon one is going to end up in my asscrack from him sticking it on a roll of toilet paper.
Yeah my wife is anti glitter. Like won’t pull a card out of an envelope with glitter on it so any art stuff didn’t have it. Most of ours were painting or something like that.
Built a birdhouse yesterday with my boy. Even though it was one of those easy to assemble kits, he was super into hammering the nails and putting together the pieces. He was so proud of the finished product. We had a blast doing it together.
Little guy was throwing his books around and not into reading the classics at bedtime the other night, so I held up my hand and said, “What about this special Dad book about you driving a monster truck?” Spun a tale about us finding one with the keys in the ignition and wrecking shit for awhile before ending up in jail. Now all he wants is Dad books and picks a new subject every night. It’s pretty fun
We ended up in jail because a man came out and said, “Guys wtf? How am I supposed to get my groceries home to my family?” My son chose to crush him
be careful. Those are fun at first. But I have to tell an elaborate, organic story every single night before bed and have been doing it since 2019. They now have to involve a princess castle for my girl and a space ship for my son. If I half ass it or duplicate a previous story, I'm called out immediately. Every single night. I have created the MCU of stupid dad stories.
That sounds awful. Do you come up with ideas during the day or just wing it every night? Do you do two separate ones? I’d just stop and tell my kids to deal with it.
My kid constantly lives in between shithead and mildly annoying. I’m ready for this phase to be over.
I feel pretty blessed at 8, then I guess, that we still have a lot of fun together and he's at worst mildly annoying to me (My wife thinks differently I'm sure) but what we've been through with him is not typical
He went from eating EVERYTHING to eating carrots, yogurt, apples and any processed sugar. Also he’s still the best thing that ever happened to me but man do I dread dinner.
I like to think if I didn’t have a drinking problem and access to the internet I’d be on my way to creating something as epic as Watership Down like Richard Adams did for his kids out of boredom basically. “Finn Gets 18 Holes-in-one and Wins Again” will have to do
I absolutely hate it when I somehow am the only one who has a friend of my boys dad's phone # and my wife says we should set up a play date. Yea, other dad is a physician, his wife doesn't work, I text dad, his wife texts me back something like 'yall come over on Thursday at 10am' I just want to tell her 'bitch, we have jobs' I'm paying for this kid to be in day camp all week, I ain't breaking that schedule plus one of ours for you.
1st grade orientation tomorrow. School starts Monday. Bittersweet. I won’t feel as guilty as going into the office but I will miss the summer. It’s a fun age. Starting to realize soon enough he won’t want me around as much.
Have 13yr old in CA for a lax tournament this weekend & it’s awesome to get to spend this time together. It’s the 2nd trip this summer being just the two of us so I’m soaking it up because I know these will become fewer & fewer soon.
Absolutely hate how a lot of group activities for kids are scheduled around the assumption that a parent doesn’t work.
Son turned 2 today....time flies. He's really into Toy Story and especially Buzz. He was pretty pumped to come downstairs this morning to a 5 foot tall Buzz balloon I got him last night
Not sure why it took me so long to post in this thread, but I need some wisdom. My wife and I left our 17 month old for the first time this past weekend. Since we’ve returned, her sleep has been horrible. We have sleep trained her and before this she was doing great, but all this week, she stands up in her crib and cries for 20-30 minutes before eventually tiring herself out and falling asleep. Naps have also been bad as she makes it maybe 35 minutes, then wakes up, stands up and won’t go back down. Last night was the best she’s done, still took her about 20 minutes to drop. We’ve basically decided to stick to the script of letting her cry it out and doing pop ins when needed. We aren’t sure if it’s her reaction to us leaving and coming back, the 18 month sleep regression early or maybe both. It’s been a rough week and it seems like just sticking to our routine is the best option, but any and all wisdom is greatly appreciated.
My kid is 2 70% awesome sweet little boy. Give me hugs, 20% super annoying demanding my phone to watch YouTube shorts bc God forbid he use the tablet we bought for him 10% terror.