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My wife has twin half-brothers (same mother). I've kinda lost my faith over the years, but I've never prayed so hard for anything in my entire life that that was on their father's side.
wait, I'm confused by your post
are you saying you want sextuplets?
No, I'm praying that the whole mulitples thing came from her brothers' father (whom she doesn't share any blood relation to).
but there's no evidence genetics play a significant role in multiple births
I'm not taking any chances. If there is a correlation, and if there is a God, and if He does listen to prayers, I need to cover that base.
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Quoththe RavenMiami, FL FOR REALRegistered Userregular
-Don't use 'baby talk' if you can avoid it; a child's development is hampered by the use of 'goo-goo-ga-ga' and it reduces their ability to learn from observation.
-Potty training, much like many other aspects of child development, requires patience and positive reinforcement.
-Spankings and corporal punishment are not child abuse; they are teaching tools that are a last resort when that little bastard just won't fucking listen.
-Make a punishment stick; don't weasel out of it.
-If you can't teach your kid not to talk during a movie, you don't deserve the child and I will steal it from you and turn it into a ninja that will fucking cut you into pieces.
uh, what are you basing that on? because I'm pretty sure the evidence is against you
i'm pretty sure i agree with him, what are you talking about
i mean, you want to use simple words and phrases, but making shit up doesn't help
I've had to fight against a speech impediment my entire life (it's not too bad, I just have difficulty with the 'r' sound in words like 'girl' and 'work'. I get mistaken for being from Boston all the time.), and my mom's fairly sure it's because they thought it was cute when I'd mispronounce stuff as a child. I will not make the same mistake.
I feel for you. I have this habit that requires I carry lye and a shovel in my trunk at all times because of something I did that my parents thought was cute.
My wife has twin half-brothers (same mother). I've kinda lost my faith over the years, but I've never prayed so hard for anything in my entire life that that was on their father's side.
wait, I'm confused by your post
are you saying you want sextuplets?
No, I'm praying that the whole mulitples thing came from her brothers' father (whom she doesn't share any blood relation to).
but there's no evidence genetics play a significant role in multiple births
I'm not taking any chances. If there is a correlation, and if there is a God, and if He does listen to prayers, I need to cover that base.
or you know, you could actually look at the evidence and reduce the chance by not using fertility drugs and having kids before she hits her mid 30s
One thing I would do differnetly is teach the kid a few basic signs before he or she starts talking.
Makes for a much less frustrated kid.
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
Congrats on the kid man. You'll never experience anything more exciting and stressful in your life. Trust me. Also, if it's a daughter, my son will totally nail her in like 18 years.
My wife has twin half-brothers (same mother). I've kinda lost my faith over the years, but I've never prayed so hard for anything in my entire life that that was on their father's side.
wait, I'm confused by your post
are you saying you want sextuplets?
No, I'm praying that the whole mulitples thing came from her brothers' father (whom she doesn't share any blood relation to).
but there's no evidence genetics play a significant role in multiple births
I'm not taking any chances. If there is a correlation, and if there is a God, and if He does listen to prayers, I need to cover that base.
or you know, you could actually look at the evidence and reduce the chance by not using fertility drugs and having kids before she hits her mid 30s
One thing I would do differnetly is teach the kid a few basic signs before he or she starts talking.
Makes for a much less frustrated kid.
Oh yeah, there's a good thing you can do, CanMan. Learn some sign language. It may make your kid look like a geek, but it's worth it. Children can understand and mimic sign language before they can speak.
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Quoththe RavenMiami, FL FOR REALRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
minimal research seems to indicate that there are different theories regarding baby talk
Dudes, unless you do nothing but use baby talk around your child then the kid is going to get plenty of exposure to actual conversation. I would wager that most parents don't sit around with their child in dead silence or making ga-ga noises at each other. Even infants pay attention to what is going on around them basically all the time.
minimal research seems to indicate that there are different theories regarding baby talk
so i guess, uh, do whatever you want
raise your children to communicate via drum circle
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
edited April 2009
We talked normally to our kid and his speech is excellent for a 4 year old. When he does come across a word he hasn't heard before or can't pronounce, we work it through with him until he can get it. Takes some time to get used to and every now and then you kind of have to drop what you're doing, but it helps alot. My niece at age 6 doesn't speak as well as my son because they over babied her and simplified shit to much.
Babies, like under a year old, tend to hear and respond to baby talk better than just being like "hey baby, what's up? how was your day? Let me tell YOU what Ted in accounting tried to pull."
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One thing I would do differnetly is teach the kid a few basic signs before he or she starts talking.
Makes for a much less frustrated kid.
You know what's terribly good fun for kids and parents? Learning a language at the same time. You can hard wire a kid's brain to accept and understand new languages for later in life and you can both have ridiculous fun doing it, sign language included. Learning German from my grandmother was awesome.
However, I wouldn't recommend it before the age of five; it was wicked hard for me to grasp Spanish until I was six or so.
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how far along is your wife?
Have you seen your doctor yet or is it just a home pregnancy test?
Try not to tell anyone until she is 12 weeks along without any problems. I don't mean to freak you out or anything, but chances for a miscarriage are dramatically higher before 12 weeks..
Other than that, Congrats!
Don't give it a stupid name ok
spell the name like it's supposed to be spelled. No pointless Ks or Ys
She's coming up on 5 weeks. Multiple home tests plus symptoms.
duuuuude.
what are you counting the 5 weeks from?
Go to a doctor. Before you see a doctor, don't tell anyone.
Also if you can swing it, try to go to a doctor you know and can have as your doctor all the way up to the birth and maybe even for the first few years of the baby's life.
Babies, like under a year old, tend to hear and respond to baby talk better than just being like "hey baby, what's up? how was your day? Let me tell YOU what Ted in accounting tried to pull."
Talk to them like Mark Walberg talks to animals.
Hey baby, how's it going. That's a cool looking stuffed bear you got. I got a stuffed bear after I finished filming Max Payne. Did you see that movie? Oh well, later baby. Say hi to your mother for me.
We talked normally to our kid and his speech is excellent for a 4 year old. When he does come across a word he hasn't heard before or can't pronounce, we work it through with him until he can get it. Takes some time to get used to and every now and then you kind of have to drop what you're doing, but it helps alot. My niece at age 6 doesn't speak as well as my son because they over babied her and simplified shit to much.
Let me ask you this.
Are you and your wife smarter than your niece's parents?
My brothers and I are both smarter than any of my cousins ever will be. But I've never attributed that my mom's parenting. My mom and my dad (deadbeat that he is) are smarter than my aunt and any of her hobo boyfriends, or my uncle and his wife. That's why we learned faster. That's why we talk better. That's why we make better decisions with our lives. We're just smarter.
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how far along is your wife?
Have you seen your doctor yet or is it just a home pregnancy test?
Try not to tell anyone until she is 12 weeks along without any problems. I don't mean to freak you out or anything, but chances for a miscarriage are dramatically higher before 12 weeks..
Other than that, Congrats!
Don't give it a stupid name ok
spell the name like it's supposed to be spelled. No pointless Ks or Ys
She's coming up on 5 weeks. Multiple home tests plus symptoms.
duuuuude.
what are you counting the 5 weeks from?
Go to a doctor. Before you see a doctor, don't tell anyone.
Also if you can swing it, try to go to a doctor you know and can have as your doctor all the way up to the birth and maybe even for the first few years of the baby's life.
She's 4 weeks and change from the first day of her last cycle. She's scheduled for a doctor's visit in a couple weeks. The tests we used were the same ones her OB-GYN would have given her (the next best thing to a blood test). Highly accurate. Highly sensitive. And 4 consecutive positive results spread out over 2 days.
Basically you should be strapping knives to your spawn's limbs from an early age and sending him out to do your bidding as an unstoppable death machine.
That's about the extent of my parenting knowledge.
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The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
how far along is your wife?
Have you seen your doctor yet or is it just a home pregnancy test?
Try not to tell anyone until she is 12 weeks along without any problems. I don't mean to freak you out or anything, but chances for a miscarriage are dramatically higher before 12 weeks..
Other than that, Congrats!
Don't give it a stupid name ok
spell the name like it's supposed to be spelled. No pointless Ks or Ys
She's coming up on 5 weeks. Multiple home tests plus symptoms.
And don't worry, nothing infuriates me more that stupidly spelled names. I think my wife wants to use a not-so-common name, but it for damn sure will be spelled correctly.
wait, I missed this
you haven't even been to the doctor yet? what the hell are you waiting for?
edit: oh, ok scheduled already
but yeah, not to be a downer but this early on I'd keep the news under wraps for now
it is very common for pregnancies to spontaneously abort this early on because a lot of shit can go wrong in the first few weeks
I'd suggest that kid better be reading, writing, and know the basics of at least 2 languages before he hits 1st grade
I was reading extremely early in life, I don't know how much more frustrating school would have been if I couldn't read
No shit. Running into kids who don't read by first grade is terrifying to me.
I certainly agree with all of Stale's points.
I have every intention on instilling multilingualism into any potential future children, along with the general importance of education, at an early age.
We talked normally to our kid and his speech is excellent for a 4 year old. When he does come across a word he hasn't heard before or can't pronounce, we work it through with him until he can get it. Takes some time to get used to and every now and then you kind of have to drop what you're doing, but it helps alot. My niece at age 6 doesn't speak as well as my son because they over babied her and simplified shit to much.
Let me ask you this.
Are you and your wife smarter than your niece's parents?
My brothers and I are both smarter than any of my cousins ever will be. But I've never attributed that my mom's parenting. My mom and my dad (deadbeat that he is) are smarter than my aunt and any of her hobo boyfriends, or my uncle and his wife. That's why we learned faster. That's why we talk better. That's why we make better decisions with our lives. We're just smarter.
My sister is a moron, but her husband is a PhD, so it's like a draw.
My son is just a smart kid, but he has an evil side too. He's like the mafia Don of his daycare class. He might not necessarily do the bad things, but he's got a piece of the action in some way. Worst part is he charms his way out of trouble with the teachers, and they all love him. Kid is a smooth criminal. I think he's going to grow up to be the leader of a suave heist crew, like in Ocean's 11 or The Italian Job.
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I'm not taking any chances. If there is a correlation, and if there is a God, and if He does listen to prayers, I need to cover that base.
i'm pretty sure i agree with him, what are you talking about
i mean, you want to use simple words and phrases, but making shit up doesn't help
I feel for you. I have this habit that requires I carry lye and a shovel in my trunk at all times because of something I did that my parents thought was cute.
Shooooocking.
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Poo on you.
Exactly. Baby talk to babies seems fine. But as soon as the little bastard starts understanding real speech, the baby talk stops.
a thousand times, this!
the world does not need anymore lexxus', cherry blossom peach's, or ashhlyanna's.
also, congrats!
Makes for a much less frustrated kid.
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Oh yeah, there's a good thing you can do, CanMan. Learn some sign language. It may make your kid look like a geek, but it's worth it. Children can understand and mimic sign language before they can speak.
so i guess, uh, do whatever you want
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You know what's terribly good fun for kids and parents? Learning a language at the same time. You can hard wire a kid's brain to accept and understand new languages for later in life and you can both have ridiculous fun doing it, sign language included. Learning German from my grandmother was awesome.
However, I wouldn't recommend it before the age of five; it was wicked hard for me to grasp Spanish until I was six or so.
duuuuude.
what are you counting the 5 weeks from?
Go to a doctor. Before you see a doctor, don't tell anyone.
Also if you can swing it, try to go to a doctor you know and can have as your doctor all the way up to the birth and maybe even for the first few years of the baby's life.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I was reading extremely early in life, I don't know how much more frustrating school would have been if I couldn't read
add this and you should be covered for any eventuality
Talk to them like Mark Walberg talks to animals.
Hey baby, how's it going. That's a cool looking stuffed bear you got. I got a stuffed bear after I finished filming Max Payne. Did you see that movie? Oh well, later baby. Say hi to your mother for me.
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No shit. Running into kids who don't read by first grade is terrifying to me.
Let me ask you this.
Are you and your wife smarter than your niece's parents?
My brothers and I are both smarter than any of my cousins ever will be. But I've never attributed that my mom's parenting. My mom and my dad (deadbeat that he is) are smarter than my aunt and any of her hobo boyfriends, or my uncle and his wife. That's why we learned faster. That's why we talk better. That's why we make better decisions with our lives. We're just smarter.
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
She's 4 weeks and change from the first day of her last cycle. She's scheduled for a doctor's visit in a couple weeks. The tests we used were the same ones her OB-GYN would have given her (the next best thing to a blood test). Highly accurate. Highly sensitive. And 4 consecutive positive results spread out over 2 days.
That's about the extent of my parenting knowledge.
you haven't even been to the doctor yet? what the hell are you waiting for?
edit: oh, ok scheduled already
but yeah, not to be a downer but this early on I'd keep the news under wraps for now
it is very common for pregnancies to spontaneously abort this early on because a lot of shit can go wrong in the first few weeks
My mom sucked all the good genes out of my grandparents when she was born though. Her brother and sister are both stupid a good 95% of the time.
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I have every intention on instilling multilingualism into any potential future children, along with the general importance of education, at an early age.
Haven't you already done enough to the man? Leave him be. Sheesh.
My sister is a moron, but her husband is a PhD, so it's like a draw.
My son is just a smart kid, but he has an evil side too. He's like the mafia Don of his daycare class. He might not necessarily do the bad things, but he's got a piece of the action in some way. Worst part is he charms his way out of trouble with the teachers, and they all love him. Kid is a smooth criminal. I think he's going to grow up to be the leader of a suave heist crew, like in Ocean's 11 or The Italian Job.
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