Cool: little guy’s speech development has been amazing over the past couple of months Not cool: finding out his worst behavior quirks are due the way the owner of our daycare sometimes treats the kids
We did it boys, got the funding. 190k a year for five years. Serious thanks to all of you for tips and ideas, especially PaulKemp for the style and logo help. Next time you're in swfl I'll buy you a beer or two.
Congratulations, man! While I’m sure the concept contributed very little to successfully getting funded compared to the merit of the project and your pitch, it makes me happy that idea was used on something worthwhile as opposed to some marketing initiative for my lame company
Daughter started new day care last week, and came home with a super runny nose/congestion. 2 days, lol. Could be total coincidence, but I doubt it.
As far as RSV goes we’re on the mends as of yesterday. Fever came back at 18 hrs of no medicine but getting more energy, just needs to start eating again.
Oh, I know. When she started her first daycare she got a cold instantly. And her doctor said you might as well expect her to have a runny nose/cough for like the first year.
It probably took almost two years of being in daycare before my kid wasn't getting sick roughly every four to six weeks.
Checked my kids baby monitor last night and nearly had a heart attack. Then I couldn’t stop laughing for about 10 minutes. Fucking guy with a beanie on just chilling in his bed.
We have moved into the “you each get this medicine squirter filled with soap for your shower” portion of the program.
Also Sorry Not Sorry in advance I upgraded to the premium version of Gamechanger so now you get to see stat cards like this all the time
Yeah my parents/her grandparents go to all her games and my dad streams them all live. A bit hit and miss just because of cell reception but it's really nice I can see them from 5 time zones away.
That’s awesome. I know you’re away so that awesome you get to watch like that. Back in the day when I was traveling more weekday games would be listening to that awful GameChanger robot broadcaster for hours
The app has got pretty good over all. Still got the robot voice option, but the game tracker is pretty solid as long as the person doing the scoring knows what they're doing, and it autogenerates ESPN-style post-game articles after the games. It keeps referring to Mini Delta as a "bulldog" (as in "the bulldog went for 5 innings)" when she's pitching which I find odd.
Raise a hand if you have ever played so hard with your boy that he is laughing so hard that he starts projectile vomiting on the couch so the 45mins you had with him after work and before bed suddenly became 30 minutes as you had to clean the couch and floor while wife took boy to bath.
First official night away in 2 years. Mom and her friend are watching mini we'd. We are at a hotel. Had a nice dinner, crushing wine in solo cups
I took my 7-yo to his first drag race last night (local 1/8 mile track 20 minutes from our house), and he’s hooked. It was pretty awesome watching how excited he would get with each race.
I have now fixed my daugther's nursemaid's elbow twice. If y'all ever accidently dislocate your kids elbow I can save you a trip to the ER with one easy trick!
I’m dreading having to explain our dog dying let alone a grandparent. That’s gotta be extremely tough. Our son is all about his grandparents. Luckily all of them are fairly young so he may be old enough to understand more.
Skechers aren't exactly my jam but I don't know of a cooler shoe store for preschool/early elementary school kids where they think the shoes are the coolest things ever. They base a lot of designs on games, trucks, dinosaurs, and they also have a Minecraft knockoff line. Almost all of their kids shoes light up. I would have loved it as a kid before you get into "cool brands"
So my 5, almost 6 year old, asked how we are made today... I told her we would talk about it tomorrow lmao Any tips? I vaguely remember in 1990 when my parents told me I was having a brother they got some educational video from blockbuster that literally had a swimming meet in it with cartoon sperm racing to the egg.
My only advice would be to be careful on what / how much you decide to share. Kids love to go and tell all their friends what they’ve learned, not always getting it accurate. Example, when my son was in kindergarten we were watching tv and flipping through the Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade was on so we stopped and were watching it. He asked about the bad guys (Nazis) so I explained that a long time ago they were a group that didn’t like people that were different then them and they killed a lot of people, including Jewish people which he had friends, and then we talked about how we treat everyone the same and are friends with everyone that kind of thing. The next day I got a call from the principal that he was telling his friend that the Nazis were coming to kill him and they needed to hide. Small doses of info is what I’ve found to be best building every time they ask.
Less is more with stuff like this. The kid just wants a snippet, she’s not looking for David Attenborough to explain the miracle of life. Although that would be rad.
I think if my 5 year old asked me I would just start at the “in mommy’s tummy” part and skip the mechanics of how it got there. He has a little brother so he was there to see my wife pregnant so he kinda gets that. I guess you don’t have to tell the WHOLE story EDIT: also the whole story in our case is IVF for our first. So that's a much more complicated story
I posted about my toddler’s extreme sleep regression awhile back. It was a hard fought series of battles, but he won all of them. He has now taken over the master bedroom. Licking our wounds and planning a counter-offensive
Tell them all the monsters sleep in your closet so they don’t go in his room. Psychological warfare rules be damned.
Question for boy dads around age 5. What age did you let your kid quit a sport? We have been doing t ball/baseball for a year now. My son is in kindergarten and last fall was T ball, then Tball/coach pitch in the spring, and we are starting a fall league right now that is just coach pitch. He turns 6 in December. I wouldn't say my son hates but it he definitely doesn't love it. He begrudgingly participates because we make him, but he tells us he doesn't like baseball and isn't particularly engaged. You have to baby him and stay on him to participate in drills and practice. When we practice in the yard he wants to stop almost immediately to go play with his toys. He can hit the ball okay but he has no interest in playing in the field and is definitely not near as good or interested to be as good as most of his teammates. He's a fun loving kid that has a bunch of interests, but none of them are really sports. I don't think it's a focus thing because he's always done well at school. He just loves his cars and legos. Of course I think that's absolutely fine. but at the same time I don't want him to quit a sport because I believe sports are really good for kids. I'm not some sports obsessed dad that wants to relive their careers through their son. I just want him to have all the positive experiences I had in sports. When I was his age I was pretty bad at sports too, but I did them with my twin brother because I didn't really have a choice and by the time i was 10-12, I was pretty good at baseball and football and look back so fondly of those days. I'm really glad my dad didn't let me quit. But he can't stand it. and it sucks making him do something that A) he doesn't enjoy and B) he doesn't excel at. I don't like seeing him fail. So I'm at this crossroads where I wonder how long we will do it. And whether I'm teaching him a life lesson about persevering or am I forcing something that just isn't there. I lean toward plowing forward and hoping he changes his mind and learns about hard work yielding positive results. FWIW we have done soccer and golf too. He likes golf at the local club, but that's mainly I think because he enjoys the golf cart rides. Soccer is pretty similar to baseball, but he's a little more dialed in to that. We opted to do just one sports this fall and chose baseball because I thought he had more to learn there than soccer in the fall. Just after typing all this out I realize I'm probably overanalyzing a fucking 5 year old, but I can't help but wonder if I'm doing something wrong here. TLDR-5 year hates baseball in his third season and I'm tired of forcing him to do something he doesn't like.
Just keep rotating sports at that age. 1/2 seasons then switch. See if something catches. Still have basketball, tennis, hockey...even gymnastics. Some places have little flag football for kids. Tennis tends to be good because kids can hit things and good programs do more than just hit balls over and over. Note on hockey...sounds expensive but USA Hockey has this program a lot of rinks participate in where you basically pay $200ish for 8 weeks and you keep all of the gear they give you, including skates.
Sounds a lot like my 6 year old. We've done two seasons of baseball and soccer. He liked the practices more but hated the games. My whole side, mom and dad, always played sports growing up through HS and some into college. My wife's side is the complete opposite. We asked him if he wanted to play baseball again this fall and he said no, so we arent playing anything. He prefers legos, trains and minecraft. We started Scouts over the summer and he likes it so that might be his thing. I am like you. I think sports are great for kids and I enjoyed the hell out of playing baseball, football and basketball. I don't want to force him to play if he doesn't want too. Hopefully that changes because I think sports can teach you lessons for later in life.