There are always multiple active flu strains, and since it's important to start producing vaccine early they kinda have to guess which will be the major active ones that year.
It will pretty much 100% make them all less severe though, though that can be really hard to notice anecdotally.
Oh I know, I'm just kinda.... You know, mad, right now.
Anya’s fever got up to 103.6 this morning, and she refused to eat all day, but she perked up a little this evening.
Our 8 month old has had a fever for 2 days. I am sure it is related to teething. It has been manageable with meds and seems like it may have broke just before bed time. Here is hoping.
I have been a bit nervous about it though because we know of two kids who recently had febrile seizures.
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So I took my son out of his bed after his morning nap today and I was walking across his room to the sofabed there to sit with him while he woke up properly.
While walking and holding the baby in my arm, my foot got tangled in one of his toys that was out of my field of view and I fell.
I did that parent thing where you instinctively protect the kid and I managed to toss him onto the couch where he landed safely and laughed cause he took a fly through the air while half awake.
Meanwhile I was still falling, and I managed to completely slam my knee into the steel frame of the sofa bed. My knee got one of those cuts where the skin just bursts open from pure impact and it instantly started swelling. I couldn't stand up, I started shaking.
Luckily the baby was totally happy, playing with his toys, cruising around his room and taking care of himself. On the floor I called my wife who was able to come home from work and look after him because he's super active these days and I couldn't really see myself keeping up with him.
My knee feels much better now which I'm happy about. Hurt like a mother fucker for a few hours though.
So I took my son out of his bed after his morning nap today and I was walking across his room to the sofabed there to sit with him while he woke up properly.
While walking and holding the baby in my arm, my foot got tangled in one of his toys that was out of my field of view and I fell.
I did that parent thing where you instinctively protect the kid and I managed to toss him onto the couch where he landed safely and laughed cause he took a fly through the air while half awake.
Meanwhile I was still falling, and I managed to completely slam my knee into the steel frame of the sofa bed. My knee got one of those cuts where the skin just bursts open from pure impact and it instantly started swelling. I couldn't stand up, I started shaking.
Luckily the baby was totally happy, playing with his toys, cruising around his room and taking care of himself. On the floor I called my wife who was able to come home from work and look after him because he's super active these days and I couldn't really see myself keeping up with him.
My knee feels much better now which I'm happy about. Hurt like a mother fucker for a few hours though.
Holy shit, I'm glad everything turned out ok for you. That sounds terrifying, and is something I was always scared of happening.
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Protection instinct is 100% real. I dislocated my shoulder protecting my oldest during a fall when he was a toddler. As Pipe discovered, children's toys are damned death traps waiting to be sprung.
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The instinct is real. I fell off our porch while stepping down once, holding our son who was maybe 6 months at the time. I spun in midair so that I landed on my back, but I couldn't really break my fall without letting him go. Hurt real bad and got pretty scraped up, but he was totally fine aside from not being too happy about the sudden thrill ride.
Couple nights ago I reflexively caught a dinner plate that our eldest daughter was trying to eat from but had made it start flying off the table. The trajectory was aiming directly for our youngest daughter who was set up in the bouncer next to us on the floor. All the food spilled but in a neat pattern around the bouncer and the ceramic plate was secure in my grip. My wife said, “good work” and we continued on with the evening.
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Well, Anya barely slept last night, then this morning she complained of her ear hurting so off we went to urgent care.
3 hrs and some antibiotics + ibuprofen later, and she transformed from the miserable girl on the left to the happy girl on the right:
So it wasn’t the flu after all! Which is good news for the rest of us, and it means I can go to work on Monday and Mori’s parents are looking forward to seeing her again on Monday!
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You only really understand your true capacity for handling bullshit when you are midfight/wrestling match with your almost three year old to get them down for a nap.
Child, you are cranky, you are bitchy, I know you dont' like me. But you will feel so much better after a nap. Please just trust me on this.
We ended up in a compromise, she's finally asleep, but on the couch next to me and not in bed.
This morning I was chilling out and letting Abigail watch some youtube videos. She was on a Peppa Pig kick this morning, which isn't a surprise since she loves the show. But then I hear Donald Trumps voice and turn around to this...
Look, I get the Internet can be a wonderful and scary place, but I honestly don't even know what to think about this video. Probably best to block the page at the very least. Fortunately she didn't seem involved with it and moved on quickly, so that's a good sign at least.
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Ha! I hadn't even made it to the end of that video until this morning. There's a dad who saves the day when his adult daughter is on a cooking competition and struggling with opening a jar. Awesome.
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Lol the guy who juggles the infant and his wife turns around and he's like ITS FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE
My fave is the family all watching tv and the baby tumbles face first off the couch and dad catches her perfectly backwards without ever looking
I can't see past the guy who goes "no, we shall not be running across the path of that car like everyone else, we will take one step this way"
That was awesome and scary. They likely would not have been quick enough had it been the other way...
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There are a lot of disturbing videos on YouTube that are meant to pop up in feeds with other kids cartoons.
Like people in superhero costumes spanking each other in bed.
Peppa Pig knockoff characters shooting each other in the head.
Super sketchy stuff right up to straight up pedo shit.
Google "YouTube Child Grooming".
I saw a TED talk, and I mean I know, TED talks...
This one rang really true, and it brings me back to the days of "well... it's annoying as hell but it's just a physics simulator with Spider Man and monster trucks with music, it's not hurting anything and it keeps him quiet when we need it but damn I wish he'd quit staring like that..." It was about exactly this. I didn't know how bad it got until sometime later, long after a tantrum that led me to say "hell no you aren't watching these anymore."
He was never left completely alone with them, but we did let him browse. He was pretty little so I don't think he'd even remember it if we showed him something like that. But it's really fucked up to me, there's no reason for that.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Hey all, I need to rant about grandma, aka my mother-in-law:
Yesterday she stopped by for pre-Lunar New Year's dinner. When talking about the kids, I casually joked that maybe Luke will have tattoos when he gets older. She got so upset, saying her grandson will not be a hoodlum. Because we all know that people with tattoos are hoodlums.
Egging her on, I said that you never know what he'll grow up to be. She said, "He'll be a college graduate, working at a good paying job, and married to a beautiful woman."
"Or a beautiful man.", I quickly replied.
Oh man, she lost it. "I'd rather him have all the tattoos than be that." We went back and forth on that for a bit before dropping the subject all together.
Like, I already knew she was racist and sexist, so I shouldn't have been surprised she was anti-LGBT and tattoos as well. It's so sad and infuriating. She's lived in America for over 30 years and still has those ingrained Chinese prejudices that she can't get over.
Guess it just means that I'll have extra careful with the kids in explaining that grandma shouldn't be listened too for life advice or beliefs.
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That's rough. I have to keep an eye and ear out when my kids see their grandparents, for much the same reasons and it's just so wearying. Like can't you just let up for the one week a year you actually see them.
Hey all, I need to rant about grandma, aka my mother-in-law:
Yesterday she stopped by for pre-Lunar New Year's dinner. When talking about the kids, I casually joked that maybe Luke will have tattoos when he gets older. She got so upset, saying her grandson will not be a hoodlum. Because we all know that people with tattoos are hoodlums.
Egging her on, I said that you never know what he'll grow up to be. She said, "He'll be a college graduate, working at a good paying job, and married to a beautiful woman."
"Or a beautiful man.", I quickly replied.
Oh man, she lost it. "I'd rather him have all the tattoos than be that." We went back and forth on that for a bit before dropping the subject all together.
Like, I already knew she was racist and sexist, so I shouldn't have been surprised she was anti-LGBT and tattoos as well. It's so sad and infuriating. She's lived in America for over 30 years and still has those ingrained Chinese prejudices that she can't get over.
Guess it just means that I'll have extra careful with the kids in explaining that grandma shouldn't be listened too for life advice or beliefs.
To be fair, those are not exclusively Chinese prejudices. You can find plenty of Americans with the same issues.
And on the flipside, similarly, you can have Chinese who don't have those prejudices (although I'll grant that the culture as a whole is more "conservative").
But yeah, based on your past stories I had a really good idea of where this was going right away :P. You have much more patience than I do!
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To be fair there isn't that much in prevailing US culture over the past 30 years to disabuse her of any of that. I don't feel the need to sit here and pretend this country is or ever has been a safe haven on any of that stuff, it's all still plenty out there. So many people have grown past it, but you know.. they've grown. Especially when you consider that a lot of the stuff you're talking about is only finding wider acceptance over the past 10 years or so.
That said, we were definitely going to have to do something similar with my in-laws. Just because I don't expect someone to come out a fully-formed person because a law was passed doesn't mean my kids need to listen racist politics with dessert. :P
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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I can hear my 2yo niece through my door yelling the following things:
"TEAM ROCKET!"
"ASH!"
"PIKACHU!"
I guess my nephew is watching Pokemon. Also he said he "had an idea" and she fires back, "NO, I HAD AN IDEA."
The last couple weeks has been a deluge of her speech ability growing way fast, pretty abruptly.
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There are a lot of disturbing videos on YouTube that are meant to pop up in feeds with other kids cartoons.
Like people in superhero costumes spanking each other in bed.
Peppa Pig knockoff characters shooting each other in the head.
Super sketchy stuff right up to straight up pedo shit.
Google "YouTube Child Grooming".
I saw a TED talk, and I mean I know, TED talks...
This one rang really true, and it brings me back to the days of "well... it's annoying as hell but it's just a physics simulator with Spider Man and monster trucks with music, it's not hurting anything and it keeps him quiet when we need it but damn I wish he'd quit staring like that..." It was about exactly this. I didn't know how bad it got until sometime later, long after a tantrum that led me to say "hell no you aren't watching these anymore."
He was never left completely alone with them, but we did let him browse. He was pretty little so I don't think he'd even remember it if we showed him something like that. But it's really fucked up to me, there's no reason for that.
He shows a bit of it in the middle with some of the sexualized content, but there's much worse. And he's right that it's not a far jump from something seemingly innocent to something actually nefarious.
He gives the content creators too much credit, though. They're not all in it for the ad revenue, there is grooming going on. And videos that are meant to trick kids/parents, like 10 minutes of a cartoon and then suddenly in comes someone with a rifle and executes all of them.
It's just so fucked up. Look up "Elsagate" as one example.
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There are a lot of disturbing videos on YouTube that are meant to pop up in feeds with other kids cartoons.
Like people in superhero costumes spanking each other in bed.
Peppa Pig knockoff characters shooting each other in the head.
Super sketchy stuff right up to straight up pedo shit.
Google "YouTube Child Grooming".
I saw a TED talk, and I mean I know, TED talks...
This one rang really true, and it brings me back to the days of "well... it's annoying as hell but it's just a physics simulator with Spider Man and monster trucks with music, it's not hurting anything and it keeps him quiet when we need it but damn I wish he'd quit staring like that..." It was about exactly this. I didn't know how bad it got until sometime later, long after a tantrum that led me to say "hell no you aren't watching these anymore."
He was never left completely alone with them, but we did let him browse. He was pretty little so I don't think he'd even remember it if we showed him something like that. But it's really fucked up to me, there's no reason for that.
He shows a bit of it in the middle with some of the sexualized content, but there's much worse. And he's right that it's not a far jump from something seemingly innocent to something actually nefarious.
He gives the content creators too much credit, though. They're not all in it for the ad revenue, there is grooming going on. And videos that are meant to trick kids/parents, like 10 minutes of a cartoon and then suddenly in comes someone with a rifle and executes all of them.
It's just so fucked up. Look up "Elsagate" as one example.
I remember hearing about it peripherally, though I don't remember the specifics. Everything he shows in his examples is terrible, but most of it more obnoxious visual poison than anything. I hated watching my son stare at that kind of vapidity, and found them terribly unsettling, but that's the worst I saw firsthand for the most part. The one that really got me was of a little boy taping down a little girl pretending to be... whatever she was pretending. That was vomit-inducing. In cases like that, obviously it's terrible for the kids watching, but my heart aches for the kids taking part.
At one point I saw something on PDF (I think the segment was what actually got me watching him) about the channel with the guy who was gaslighting his kids (his partner helped sometimes) for views, and goading them into physically abusing each other on camera. It was awful, and posted as a "prank channel" with him saying everything was scripted and so of course there was no abuse there, the kids understood what they were doing, etc. That's not right and he is fucking those kids up while how many people watch, and last I heard he still had custody. I guess that's a whole other issue, but the fact that he can monetize videos of him traumatizing his kids and no one seems able to do anything about it is at least as upsetting to me as the abuse in the first place.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Lol the guy who juggles the infant and his wife turns around and he's like ITS FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE
My fave is the family all watching tv and the baby tumbles face first off the couch and dad catches her perfectly backwards without ever looking
I can't see past the guy who goes "no, we shall not be running across the path of that car like everyone else, we will take one step this way"
That was awesome and scary. They likely would not have been quick enough had it been the other way...
That was crazy, you could see the kid straining to go the other way, and the day is like "physics says go this way".
The scariest was probably the out of control excavator though. That would have killed both of them.
And quick story. My wife has a friend who fell down some stairs while carrying an infant. The mom in this case managed to bend her legs land in such a way that the kid was fine. Mom's leg broke though .
There are a lot of disturbing videos on YouTube that are meant to pop up in feeds with other kids cartoons.
Like people in superhero costumes spanking each other in bed.
Peppa Pig knockoff characters shooting each other in the head.
Super sketchy stuff right up to straight up pedo shit.
Google "YouTube Child Grooming".
There are channels out there that make their money based on maximizing exposure from YouTube Kids search trends and getting the most out of the way the feed algorithm works.
SEE: Any one of the half a fucking billion videos with Spiderman and Elsa from Frozen.
so between them his sister and his best friend who goes to a different school we had 5 and they all bad a ball but still yeesh its not hard to give us a call or email to say yes/no
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Our 8 month old has had a fever for 2 days. I am sure it is related to teething. It has been manageable with meds and seems like it may have broke just before bed time. Here is hoping.
I have been a bit nervous about it though because we know of two kids who recently had febrile seizures.
Yikes, that's a pretty high fever. Hope she's feeling better now.
Boy I hope she doesn't have what I'm getting over, that was not a fun few days
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While walking and holding the baby in my arm, my foot got tangled in one of his toys that was out of my field of view and I fell.
I did that parent thing where you instinctively protect the kid and I managed to toss him onto the couch where he landed safely and laughed cause he took a fly through the air while half awake.
Meanwhile I was still falling, and I managed to completely slam my knee into the steel frame of the sofa bed. My knee got one of those cuts where the skin just bursts open from pure impact and it instantly started swelling. I couldn't stand up, I started shaking.
Luckily the baby was totally happy, playing with his toys, cruising around his room and taking care of himself. On the floor I called my wife who was able to come home from work and look after him because he's super active these days and I couldn't really see myself keeping up with him.
My knee feels much better now which I'm happy about. Hurt like a mother fucker for a few hours though.
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Holy shit, I'm glad everything turned out ok for you. That sounds terrifying, and is something I was always scared of happening.
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Parents are basically big air bags.
Couple nights ago I reflexively caught a dinner plate that our eldest daughter was trying to eat from but had made it start flying off the table. The trajectory was aiming directly for our youngest daughter who was set up in the bouncer next to us on the floor. All the food spilled but in a neat pattern around the bouncer and the ceramic plate was secure in my grip. My wife said, “good work” and we continued on with the evening.
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3 hrs and some antibiotics + ibuprofen later, and she transformed from the miserable girl on the left to the happy girl on the right:
So it wasn’t the flu after all! Which is good news for the rest of us, and it means I can go to work on Monday and Mori’s parents are looking forward to seeing her again on Monday!
My fave is the family all watching tv and the baby tumbles face first off the couch and dad catches her perfectly backwards without ever looking
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Child, you are cranky, you are bitchy, I know you dont' like me. But you will feel so much better after a nap. Please just trust me on this.
We ended up in a compromise, she's finally asleep, but on the couch next to me and not in bed.
Whatever. She's sleeping so I win.
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I can't see past the guy who goes "no, we shall not be running across the path of that car like everyone else, we will take one step this way"
Look, I get the Internet can be a wonderful and scary place, but I honestly don't even know what to think about this video. Probably best to block the page at the very least. Fortunately she didn't seem involved with it and moved on quickly, so that's a good sign at least.
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Like people in superhero costumes spanking each other in bed.
Peppa Pig knockoff characters shooting each other in the head.
Super sketchy stuff right up to straight up pedo shit.
Google "YouTube Child Grooming".
...And this is why our daughter still isn’t allowed to watch youtube by herself 0_o
That was awesome and scary. They likely would not have been quick enough had it been the other way...
I saw a TED talk, and I mean I know, TED talks...
This one rang really true, and it brings me back to the days of "well... it's annoying as hell but it's just a physics simulator with Spider Man and monster trucks with music, it's not hurting anything and it keeps him quiet when we need it but damn I wish he'd quit staring like that..." It was about exactly this. I didn't know how bad it got until sometime later, long after a tantrum that led me to say "hell no you aren't watching these anymore."
He was never left completely alone with them, but we did let him browse. He was pretty little so I don't think he'd even remember it if we showed him something like that. But it's really fucked up to me, there's no reason for that.
Yesterday she stopped by for pre-Lunar New Year's dinner. When talking about the kids, I casually joked that maybe Luke will have tattoos when he gets older. She got so upset, saying her grandson will not be a hoodlum. Because we all know that people with tattoos are hoodlums.
Egging her on, I said that you never know what he'll grow up to be. She said, "He'll be a college graduate, working at a good paying job, and married to a beautiful woman."
"Or a beautiful man.", I quickly replied.
Oh man, she lost it. "I'd rather him have all the tattoos than be that." We went back and forth on that for a bit before dropping the subject all together.
Like, I already knew she was racist and sexist, so I shouldn't have been surprised she was anti-LGBT and tattoos as well. It's so sad and infuriating. She's lived in America for over 30 years and still has those ingrained Chinese prejudices that she can't get over.
Guess it just means that I'll have extra careful with the kids in explaining that grandma shouldn't be listened too for life advice or beliefs.
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To be fair, those are not exclusively Chinese prejudices. You can find plenty of Americans with the same issues.
And on the flipside, similarly, you can have Chinese who don't have those prejudices (although I'll grant that the culture as a whole is more "conservative").
But yeah, based on your past stories I had a really good idea of where this was going right away :P. You have much more patience than I do!
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That said, we were definitely going to have to do something similar with my in-laws. Just because I don't expect someone to come out a fully-formed person because a law was passed doesn't mean my kids need to listen racist politics with dessert. :P
"TEAM ROCKET!"
"ASH!"
"PIKACHU!"
I guess my nephew is watching Pokemon. Also he said he "had an idea" and she fires back, "NO, I HAD AN IDEA."
The last couple weeks has been a deluge of her speech ability growing way fast, pretty abruptly.
He shows a bit of it in the middle with some of the sexualized content, but there's much worse. And he's right that it's not a far jump from something seemingly innocent to something actually nefarious.
He gives the content creators too much credit, though. They're not all in it for the ad revenue, there is grooming going on. And videos that are meant to trick kids/parents, like 10 minutes of a cartoon and then suddenly in comes someone with a rifle and executes all of them.
It's just so fucked up. Look up "Elsagate" as one example.
I remember hearing about it peripherally, though I don't remember the specifics. Everything he shows in his examples is terrible, but most of it more obnoxious visual poison than anything. I hated watching my son stare at that kind of vapidity, and found them terribly unsettling, but that's the worst I saw firsthand for the most part. The one that really got me was of a little boy taping down a little girl pretending to be... whatever she was pretending. That was vomit-inducing. In cases like that, obviously it's terrible for the kids watching, but my heart aches for the kids taking part.
At one point I saw something on PDF (I think the segment was what actually got me watching him) about the channel with the guy who was gaslighting his kids (his partner helped sometimes) for views, and goading them into physically abusing each other on camera. It was awful, and posted as a "prank channel" with him saying everything was scripted and so of course there was no abuse there, the kids understood what they were doing, etc. That's not right and he is fucking those kids up while how many people watch, and last I heard he still had custody. I guess that's a whole other issue, but the fact that he can monetize videos of him traumatizing his kids and no one seems able to do anything about it is at least as upsetting to me as the abuse in the first place.
That was crazy, you could see the kid straining to go the other way, and the day is like "physics says go this way".
The scariest was probably the out of control excavator though. That would have killed both of them.
And quick story. My wife has a friend who fell down some stairs while carrying an infant. The mom in this case managed to bend her legs land in such a way that the kid was fine. Mom's leg broke though
There are channels out there that make their money based on maximizing exposure from YouTube Kids search trends and getting the most out of the way the feed algorithm works.
SEE: Any one of the half a fucking billion videos with Spiderman and Elsa from Frozen.
so between them his sister and his best friend who goes to a different school we had 5 and they all bad a ball but still yeesh its not hard to give us a call or email to say yes/no
he (on the bottom) had fun as hell though