Yeah, but realistically, by the time we left graduation, got home, got kids settled with a sitter, drove to venue, parked, we'd miss part of the set.
You leave the wife and kids at home unless she is also a huge fan of whatever band you are talking about.
My daughter is about tour turn 3 in a couple months, and I'm pretty sure she is done with naps. What were some of your experiences transitioning out of nap time with toddlers?
I think we just got through it but fuuuuuuuuccckkkk that. Was only waking up once a night around 3:30 to feed before. Started waking up every 3 hours and it was miserable for all of us. Just these last 2 days she has gone back to sleeping until 3 or 4 so i'm crossing my fingers we are through it.
going thru 8-12 month regression right now while teething, sick, and excited about crawling/pulling up on things/creeping. this regression is many times worse the 4 mth one for us. fun times in the goheels household.
Mini Boom brought home a paper today with an order form to buy a congratulatory message and an advertisement in the motherfucking VPK graduation program. This daycare can get fucked.
Any advice to get 1 year old to not be so clingy to me and the wife. She freaks out when we try to give her to others and even young kids her age she gets nervous
Keep doing it. She will become accustomed to the behavior and stop reacting negatively. I'm realizing it is no different than socializing a dog.
Actually, on that thought, three weeks ago we got a puppy that we are in the process of potty training. Last week our son told daycare that he was ready to start potty training too so now that is happening. We are taking cues from daycare on how to do it but their method is to be proactive and put him on the potty every hour or so and giving a reward (M&M candy) every time he goes while on the potty. It is just like us being proactive with the dog and taking him out every 1-2 hours and giving him a treat when he goes to make sure we reinforce the behavior. The cool thing with the kid is that he can tell me what is going on in his head so when I pick him up I hear, "Daddy, I go potty in the toilet and I get M M."
This. My sister and brother-in-law have two huge dogs and anytime we go over to their house the dogs always jump all over us and rip us to shreds with their huge talons. Sis and BIL think it's hilarious. Of course their daughter is a 5 year old nightmare as well. We will go out to eat with them and she will scream at the top of her lungs at her mother "I hate you!!!" to which my sister will reply "wow, she is in rare form today". No woman, that's her baseline, just like your dogs.
Y'all have given me hope. My newphew is turning into a 3 year old hellion, and my sis and BIL have a lab that jumps all over us and everthing. Wife and I have the next boy in the family (only 8 weeks) but our pup is much more behaved... hope this trend stays haha
I cant tell you how many times I have had people act like I was a terrible human for saying something about training kids is just like training a dog, consistency, structure to a day.... reward good behavior, punish bad... every day, no letting up. usually comes after someone commented how my Lab was the most well behaved dog they ever met, and how most labs they know were crazy with so much energy. Its not like my Lab(s) have had less energy than any others for some magic reason. ok....back to fun dad stuff
Just started using a full time nanny. What's the etiquette on paying them? Do you keep hours or do you pay a weekly, 40 hour a week salary, no matter of they work 32 or 40?
They feel the same as I do. I'm not sure what my dog's separation anxiety has to do with my kids. Then again, you're probably the guy that spanks your kids, right?
So during our move we were worried 11 week old wouldn't sleep in his pack n play since we had him comfortable in his bassinet before then. (the movers took the bassinet). Lo and behold little dude is comfy af and goes 8+ hours consistently for now. Just waiting for the regression
This was literally my pitch to our nanny when we hired her. Sometimes we ask her to come over at 8 and stay until 6, sometimes we go out of town and she doesn't have to work at all. She gets paid the same on the 1st and 15th either way.
F'ing killed it on the dance floor tonight at the Daddy-Daughter dance. Never let loose like that even in my youth.
So when I picked up Half Knight a couple weeks ago, he told me he has a girlfriend at school. This was news to me, because as recently as last month he was still in the "girls are yucky" phase. He has also gone from making a puking noise when I ask if he he wanted girls to kiss him, to saying that he is good with kissing "unless its on the lips". I wanted to tell him yeah that'll pass pretty quick too. His teen years are going to be interesting.
It is hard to believe it is my son's 8th birthday today. Poor little guy has had a rough week. His baseball coach is a huge fucking dick, who basically ignored half the team to work with the kids he thought were better last night. Not giving kids the chance to hit or offering any instruction. Now I'm under no belief my son is going to be in MLB, he's only playing baseball because he missed the age cut off for lacrosse. But damn, there is no reason to coach Second Graders like that. Then today in school he had an incident with a substitute teacher who yelled and screamed at him and then ripped a gift another teacher gave him out of his hands. And the kicker is she did this in front of my wife who was volunteering today in the office. He had just calmed down and that just destroyed him. Thankfully we have a good relationship with the school and we were assured by the Vice Principal that this would be dealt with. I just feel so bad for him these have been his last 2 days around his birthday.
Yeah, that sucks for the kid. I coach Mini Boom's t-ball team, and I'll admit it's hard, but I'm always cognizant of the fact that I've gotta give every kid attention. And I always try to give tons of positive reinforcement to the kids who aren't as advanced when they do something good. Sorry to hear your boy is going through that.
Thank you. I took him to practice on Monday, and it's already clear he's identified the kids he's going to work with and fuck the others. I unfortunately couldn't coach because of my new work schedule, but I just can't have someone ruin my kid's love of playing sports.
Maybe pull the coach aside and explain that you know how hard your boy tries, but that he could use a little extra attention from the coaches. As a youth baseball coach, I would be receptive to a parent making that request.
This is very true. Also all yesterday I kept thinking how much easier it was to train my dog to do ANYTHING when compared to getting my kids to start their requests with the word please. My twin girls will be 4 in June and they are great for the most part. But getting them to say please is SO MOTHER FUCKING FRUSTRATING I MIGHT LOSE MY FUCKING MIND SOON. It's like they leave it out on purpose just to fuck with me. But life is good.
Just taught my 18 month old "knuckles" this week and now it's his favorite thing. He gets so excited when we bump fists and apparently he did it non-stop at daycare yesterday.
Subs can be the worst. I made a point of calling out a sub in front of her class at one of the schools I work at after she was continuously shit talking to me about a kid I was working with. This was happening over the span of a week both in the break room and in front of the class when I would come to pick him up. The look on her face after I got done laying into her was THE highlight of my week.
This coach is considerably more of a bitch than I thought. He contacted the head of the rec department to say I threatened him in the email I sent questioning him. Apparently saying I expect it won't happen again is a threat. But I digress. One hour and 15 minutes is not enough time to get batting and fielding practice in for 11 kids. Oddly this was not an issue the previous 2 years with other coaches.