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It's a [Kids] World. [Parents] Just Live in It
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Hello and welcome to the next Kids and Parenting thread!
Here in we can talk about
Our kids
Getting ready for kids
What exciting things the little shits get up to
Our parents and the excruciating things they get up to
This is a judgement free parenting zone. We are helpful, empathetic, and all just as exhausted as everybody else.
Please use this space to scream about your kids, your parents, your family.
Please also use this space to brag about your kids, your family, your parents.
We've all seen each other's kids growing up over the years, and internet Aunties and Uncles are always a welcome thing.
Don't be a jerk. Don't like kids, don't have them, think the world is ending so having a kid is selfish and we're all horrible human beings for reproducing? Fuck off with that.
Better suggestions for thread title accepted.
Here in we can talk about
Our kids
Getting ready for kids
What exciting things the little shits get up to
Our parents and the excruciating things they get up to
This is a judgement free parenting zone. We are helpful, empathetic, and all just as exhausted as everybody else.
Please use this space to scream about your kids, your parents, your family.
Please also use this space to brag about your kids, your family, your parents.
We've all seen each other's kids growing up over the years, and internet Aunties and Uncles are always a welcome thing.
Don't be a jerk. Don't like kids, don't have them, think the world is ending so having a kid is selfish and we're all horrible human beings for reproducing? Fuck off with that.
Better suggestions for thread title accepted.
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If his alarm goes off and I pop my head around the door to make sure he gets out of bed I'll get an earful about how he needs more time in bed and it's my fault for not letting him sleep longer. If I get distracted and pop my head around the door a few minutes after it's gone off he'll have turned it off and have attempted to go back to sleep and it'll be my fault that I didn't get him up earlier and he didn't want to sleep longer. If he's fat-fingered a button on the alarm whilst turning on the sunset / waves button to get him to sleep the night before which turns off the alarm and when I go in I wake him up then it's my fault that I didn't check his alarm was on.
No matter what I do he'll then spend the time he's supposed to be eating complaining about how tired he is and he can't possibly eat because he's so tired but still manage to put away two slices of toast.
I've basically resigned myself to being the cause of all problems so I'm happy to take the blame for anything that goes wrong in anyone else's morning routines.
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Our kids wake up at 0430 every morning. Maybe 0500, but then they collapse like dying stars at 1900 and you'd think we could stay up and be adults but no we need to go to bed cause of the next morning.
First time I tried it with my son he had a nightmare, so I stepped off a bit. But then he started staying awake until nearly midnight.
Then my daughter started ADHD medication for her inattentive ADHD, and it caused her to stay awake late.
So we tried again (on a weekend where we didn't have anything going on the next day), and it worked. So, fingers crossed.
He enjoys pop up pirate and Jenga though he doesn't quite understand that the pirate popping up means you lose and not win....
Houseruled win condition?
My kid is overall less interested in the game aspect and more interested in playing "toss the tiles" or "52 card pick-up", if you get my meaning.
Still, I think there are a scattering of common suggestions I've seen, like Animal on Animal and Go Away Monster. But then I've frequented more board game places recently, so I don't know if you're just looking for whatever you can grab at a Fred Meyers or Target or such "all-in-one" shopping locales.
Even if it just turns into an art tool.
Then around 4-4.5 he got Pop The Pig and he enjoyed that, as long as he was the one that got to push the pig’s head.
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Memory match cards are an absolute favorite for my 4 year old.
I have lots of experience with nebulizers, both in using them and in getting a small child to use them, and the biggest thing is figuring out how to get the small child to sit still with the mask on through the whole treatment. If they'll sit still and watch TV then you're golden, it's a slam dunk.
I don't have any recommendations about brands or anything, we just used what the doctor gave us. If you think of questions as you're going along I might have better answers!
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In other news he's hidden my wife's wireless earphones. All he's admitted is that he was walking with them one day in the house....
That set bedtime back a good half hour.
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But it's ten degrees outside
Ja it is deeply unfair that the kids are basically recovered and demanding play and attention and real food while Mrs. Red Robe and I are still incapacitated.
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literally just undies.
She still prefers that over not most days
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Know them feels. My 10yo has literally had full-blown meltdowns about unexpectedly having to get changed. 7yo not keen either, but the dramatic mood swings on display getting the elder from one state to another are amongst the most unexpected emotional reactions in the repertoire.
Y'know what? Same.
Edit: and to make this more than just a shitpost, it's actually true. My teenage daughter complains when I'm roaming around the kitchen in the morning in my underwear. I mean, jeez, she usually sleeps in! I was expecting I had a little while of comfort before I had to put pants on!
He doesn't seem to take after either of us here at home, so that must just be him.
I wear pants at basically all times unless it's shower time? Same with shirts. I prefer being covered, it feels more comfortable that way.
Trying my best to discourage my son from watching it.
Yup....
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Satans..... hints.....
Children's TV rules right now. I genuinely enjoyed a lot of the shows our kiddo watched when she was little.
Children's TV rules now.
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Every form of media (especially but not solely for children) has a lesson, it's just a matter of whether it's good or bad.
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Peppa Pig, Pinkalicious, Cocomelon, Blippy
But the highs now are so much higher than before.
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I can't tell if either are "bad" tv, but seems to me that their fine. Plus I think Dave is awesome!
Curious George is a main offender
But I mean is it the worst that kids learn lessons from watching tv?
Satans..... hints.....