The Youtube Kids algorithm has been feeding my daughter The Yellow Submarine animated music video which has been a godsend, she's no longer watching Taylor Swift every evening.
For the cool millennials (and fine all parents I guess) The Rugrats Movie is still fire. Only could find it on Apple and I’m afraid I made the mistake of renting instead of buying since we’ve already watched it twice.
4 year old has flu, to add to strep and RSV she’s had over the past four weeks. It’s also her second positive flu test of the season.
Made my son a little highlight video for his flag season. Took all of 15 minutes with iMovie and he loves it.
No judgement, but did your kid have a flu shot? It seems like it's going around EVERYWHERE and I'm worried this season's flu vaccine might not help the three of us much.
We got the flu shot and 2/3 of us didn’t get it. Lil man did but it’s probably because he was licking doorknobs or something similar.
Yeah, the first infection was in early October so she hadn’t gotten it then but she did get one (along with the Covid booster) in November so it should still be effective
Pff it's 90 seconds of the nastiest U8 highlights you could possibly imagine. Would be longer but he's just that fast the clips are short.
My co-worker's kid got the flu real bad a couple weeks ago. She had the flu shot, but I guess it only helps prevent type b and she got type a (that's what I was told anyway).
Well that's lovely. I made sure we all got our boosters but the flu shot sometimes isn't very helpful in certain years iirc based on modeling of how which strain will dominate or evolve after the fact.
strain A is tearing through our community right now. I took about a week but it finally worked it through my family. awful stuff
So stressful every year. We almost forgot this year and my wife logged in about 2 minutes late and we were freaking out. Luckily ours is 7:30-5:30
This is our first year doing it. of course he has a late birthday so 3/4 of summer he isn't eligible b/c he isn't 5 yet. Lame Had to put in some time with a google calendar, cross reference new camps/vacations/day camps/etc. There's a fucking lot going on in those 8 weeks of summer
Our after school care program (Champions) has a summer camp which looks great but is only M-Th for some unknown reason.
Anyone have one of those digital calendars that get hung on a wall? The schedule is getting more and more congested and we are starting to forget/miss things because of how crazy it has all been. Does anyone have one/have a recomendation? Seems like their are three main options.Cozyla, skylightframe, and hearth display
I am religious about our shared outlook calendar and add literally any and every sports/social/work commitment to it even if it's only the day before. crazy how the practices and games stack up once you get multiple kids into school age organizations. we have talked about getting one of the big ones that sycs with it for our kitchen.
No regrets with the skylight. I posted on here when I bought it and had several users "herp derp you have a free calendar on your phone". Cool well I suck at checking my calendar except to see what meetings I have for work that day. I walk past the skylight numerous times a day so it helps me a lot.
yea, that's the big thing. Wife and I share a calendar, but things are still getting missed. Seems like it would be helpful to just look up and see what's going on.
Got a Skylight last year and it’s great. Helps for the kids to stay on top of their own shit (chores, what needs to go in their backpack on what day), too.
I actually started writing my weekly calendar into an actual paper planner (clever fox) which reinforces the tons of things we add to our google calendar. It has helped with my anxiety around being overwhelmed
My difficulty feigning being mad at my son when he gets in trouble at school was reinforced by his best friend this weekend. He's a good hearted kid that's always been a talker and just has no inner monologue, leading him to making random comments in class and getting notes sent home for being "disruptive." His friend backed him up saying "he's not mean to anyone or trying to be bad or funny, he just says things that are funny and the teacher gets mad." He does great with grades and is seemingly friends with everyone. The kid's future is something where he's interacting with people.
It's been better this year than last year. But the music and art teacher both sent notes home on Friday. At first it was frustrating, but after finding out the context behind both, it was a clear overreaction and in no way note worthy. But we still make sure to use it as a teaching moment for him and had him write them both apology notes.
3.5 year old has decided to start waking up at 12:30 almost every night crying just to say “sleep is too long” or “can you cover me up” and go right back to sleep immediately. Why you gotta do this to me man?
Our 3 year old now gets out of bed every night, and comes upstairs to sleep with us. How do you break this habit? Or does it eventually phase out?
It'll fade (maybe very slowly) but usually I do is let them lay with us for 5-10 minutes then say ok now it's time to go back to your bed.
kind of depends on the time of night, but usually will either let them lay with us for a few minutes and then walk them back to their room or tell them we will lay in their bed with them for a few minutes
I'll trade you my son who is in a "I want to snuggle all times and can't sleep without it" phase. Used to go to sleep perfectly fine. No issues. Slept through the night (after 0-2yrs of hell). Now he can't go to sleep without someone snuggling him/laying in bed with him. Like fucking clockwork he wakes up at midnight and comes into our room with a pillow and blanket and wants to sleep in between me and my wife. And he needs to sleep directly next to one of us.
We're on like 4-5 months right now. I'm hoping it fades. Last vacation we took he just slept with us every night. He would go to bed and nap completely fine as long as it was in "our" room. We got him a "big kid bed" for Christmas hoping that would help over his convertible crib bed. It has not.
C-c-c-ombo So my son is learning the hard truths around money. My mom gave him $5 for valentines day. He's been so excited about it and yesterday we went and bought donuts. Told him the whole way he was going to pay for it. We get there and he didn't want to give up his money. Told me "no daddy, you use your wallet." So I paid, then wouldn't give him the donuts until he gave me the $5. He did, ate his donuts then started crying that he no long has any money and the donut store "stole" his five dollars "Now I don't have any more money". Tried to ask him if it was worth it and explain everything cost money. So now I've conned myself into giving him a $5 weekly allowance. We'll see how that goes