Oh yeah for sure. I don’t think I’ve gone a month without getting sick since we started daycare. Neither has the kid. This last respiratory infection hospitalized them twice this past week.
The wife and I have been sick every single day since our kid started daycare, and it's been like 2 and a half weeks. Somehow he has no symptoms and no fever, while mom and dad are coughing up lung butter nonstop and generally feel like hell. I've taken 3 different COVID tests and they've all been negative, at least. I really hope this ends soon, but I assume our little one is just going to keep bringing home new and fun germs from petri dish academy.
So, fun news, that phase lasts a year give or take. Enjoy playing, “Allergies, flu, or COVID?” every two weeks for the foreseeable future.
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Just got back from dropping off my son for overnight camp. He won't be back until Friday. I got back and my daughter has already went to Grandmas for the night. So... it's just us. It's obvious what we'll be doing next, if you know what I mean.
I mean nothing. Absolutely, positively, gloriously, nothing.
My wife and I spend like 3 hours just absorbing the quiet.
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Annnnnd now our 3 month old has conjunctivitis and tons of snot and is coughing. I'm not sure what he hates more, the eye drops or the snot sucker. Poor kid.
Meanwhile mom and dad are still coughing up lung butter and our heads feel like they are in a vice.
People told me having kids sucks, but goddamn.
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We're watching the neighbor's two youngest kids (5 & 7) while they're away tonight. So them along with our kid.
For those more experienced, how much save vs. sickness do dogs provide?
I’ve got one that insists on licking my girl directly on/in the mouth whenever possible. I figure that’s gotta do something but I know kids are absolutely disgusting so I don’t know how much protection she’s going to get.
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For those more experienced, how much save vs. sickness do dogs provide?
I’ve got one that insists on licking my girl directly on/in the mouth whenever possible. I figure that’s gotta do something but I know kids are absolutely disgusting so I don’t know how much protection she’s going to get.
Pets are good for minimizing allergies, assuming you don't have them already. Sadly they don't do much to stop you catching school bugs.
For those more experienced, how much save vs. sickness do dogs provide?
I’ve got one that insists on licking my girl directly on/in the mouth whenever possible. I figure that’s gotta do something but I know kids are absolutely disgusting so I don’t know how much protection she’s going to get.
Just don't let them lick wounds. Bad things can happen, even if rarely.
Annnnnd now our 3 month old has conjunctivitis and tons of snot and is coughing. I'm not sure what he hates more, the eye drops or the snot sucker. Poor kid.
Meanwhile mom and dad are still coughing up lung butter and our heads feel like they are in a vice.
People told me having kids sucks, but goddamn.
This is like, the one time that this statement is true but, It does get better.
It took us about a year or so to go through the constant rotation of sick, better, sick again.
Annnnnd now our 3 month old has conjunctivitis and tons of snot and is coughing. I'm not sure what he hates more, the eye drops or the snot sucker. Poor kid.
Meanwhile mom and dad are still coughing up lung butter and our heads feel like they are in a vice.
People told me having kids sucks, but goddamn.
This is like, the one time that this statement is true but, It does get better.
It took us about a year or so to go through the constant rotation of sick, better, sick again.
But after that year, it's been heaps better.
You can do this.
I just want to give a performance shout out to our goblin boy. We were off three days last week, and he was sick for two of them, so we didn’t get to do any of the things we had planned. But he was better on Friday! Then it was a long weekend and he was fine.
He goes back to daycare today, we took the day off to recharge, and I can hear him coughing through the wall as I type this.
Children are earthly vessels of Nurgle. And the worst thing is they do stuff that should be getting them sick all the time and nothing, and then they get sick from nothing and spread it to everyone in sight.
"What the hell stop licking shopping carts." (Kid is fine)
"Did you seriously just eat that? That was raw!" (Kid is fine)
"Don't drink that it's obviously spoiled." (Kid is fine)
"Sure buddy let me fill your kiddie pool and you can play for a while." (Kid is now sick and suddenly loves hugging every person he sees)
If you're sending them to daycare illnesses will eventually settle down and then your kid moves up to the next age classroom and it's a whole new petri dish! Luckily it'll be a much shorter cycle of "sick, healthy, sick, healthy" before your kiddo (and you) catch all the new and exciting viruses :P
My wife has been away for six days and Jesus Christ how do single parents survive?!? My 2.5 year old daughter can charitably be described as attached to me during normal times. Now I can’t even go to the bathroom without her having a total meltdown. She’s currently losing it while sitting with her grandparents, who she loves, because I’m out of sight.
My wife has been away for six days and Jesus Christ how do single parents survive?!? My 2.5 year old daughter can charitably be described as attached to me during normal times. Now I can’t even go to the bathroom without her having a total meltdown. She’s currently losing it while sitting with her grandparents, who she loves, because I’m out of sight.
I decided a long time ago that if the kids want to come into the bathroom then I just let them. Which was pretty much all the time between 1 and 4.
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My wife has been away for six days and Jesus Christ how do single parents survive?!? My 2.5 year old daughter can charitably be described as attached to me during normal times. Now I can’t even go to the bathroom without her having a total meltdown. She’s currently losing it while sitting with her grandparents, who she loves, because I’m out of sight.
I decided a long time ago that if the kids want to come into the bathroom then I just let them. Which was pretty much all the time between 1 and 4.
Yeah, it's tough with a tiny bathroom having the kid and one of the dogs in there with me.
Oh and if you have hobbies it's best to give a sacrifice to the Toddler Gods
I play Warhammer so I let my daughter pick out a couple of Necrons and gave her some old paints and shot brushes just so I could get any painting done because God forbid you do anything that doesn't involve the progeny.
I’ve been able to maintain my powerlifting hobby, but only because I built a gym in the house. I’m dreading when she drops naps because that is the end of getting it in on the weekends outside of after she goes to sleep.
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I’ve been able to maintain my powerlifting hobby, but only because I built a gym in the house. I’m dreading when she drops naps because that is the end of getting it in on the weekends outside of after she goes to sleep.
my kid will be 4 in August, the naps are going to be gone soon but I'm hoping it'll balance out with her being a bit more mature and not needing the same level of constant attention / my wife and I will start splitting up time to give the other some alone time
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Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
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I’ve been able to maintain my powerlifting hobby, but only because I built a gym in the house. I’m dreading when she drops naps because that is the end of getting it in on the weekends outside of after she goes to sleep.
You'd have to set something up to keep her away from dropping weights, but maybe she'd do it with you? When my wife works out our two year old does her own version, squats and up/down dog and stuff. She gets bored before the workout is over, but I have a little workbench in the garage for her to play on. Maybe it'd be the time an iPad is worth it. Good luck with the rest of your solo duty!
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we fucked up bad with screen time, covid was just starting and even doing curated media she's a zombie on it and can't be without it, and we never set limits
pad needs to be thrown into the volcano
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
we fucked up bad with screen time, covid was just starting and even doing curated media she's a zombie on it and can't be without it, and we never set limits
pad needs to be thrown into the volcano
Maybe it's time for some creative facts? Maybe the pad "breaks"? Or would she just demand your phones?
When our eldest stopped napping we still kept to a an hour long "quiet time" period in their room. Was really helpful for keeping everyone's sanity
Yup. We do 1 hour breaktime on weekend afternoons where everyone can do what they want. Wife usually reads while 3-year old watches Paw Patrol and I noodle on the guitar. Then everyone is recharged and can stand each other again for the rest of the day.
I can highly recommend this routine.
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we fucked up bad with screen time, covid was just starting and even doing curated media she's a zombie on it and can't be without it, and we never set limits
pad needs to be thrown into the volcano
Ellie has gotten mostly bored of her videos.
She will now, mostly, voluntarily turn them off and go play because she's seen them all.
There are still days when it's a fight for the screens to go off, but once they are, she's fine playing on her own.
Other than weekends, she gets maybe an hour or two a day? We've just reset get limit that it's either videos before school or videos after school.
Now there have been days where it's been a huge fight after we take the videos away on usually because she's started copying the attitude from a character or two. But after she stops yelling, we talk about why, she cries, and then she goes and plays.
Yeah unfortunately since I WFH and they are home from summer break my kids are on their screens a whole lot. Which I don't really like. I've been trying to get them to read in short periods during the day but I'm in so many meetings a day that I can't actively parent.
Yeah. I'm leaning more towards what Dennis is saying.
She hangs out with a couple kids out of school, but the one kid she really considered to be her best friend got held back a year.
Add onto that my mom dying in January and I think I've got a bigger issue with figuring out what "lonely" means to her and go from there.
She's 6.5.
In other news, she's gone up several reading levels in the last week or two, and is starting to figure out multiplication. Advising me yesterday that "10*10=100". Which I know they're not up to in school yet.
So maybe it's all of the above plus a brain leap.
With all three of our kids, but especially with blameless cleric, every notable mental leap came with a sort of existential / emotional fragility that very often showed up in wild ways. Screaming fits, sudden, inexplicable deep insecurity, misbehavior, anger, intentional disobedience... by the time we had our third, we'd go looking for what new thing about the universe they'd internalized when random shifts in behavior showed up. The 5yr old is refusing all food except yogurt and throwing tantrums every time we go outside? Turns out his friend broke his arm and he realized that People Can Get Hurt Outside His View, And He Can't Stop Us From Going To the Store.
This sort of thing happened with learning too - multiplication as a concept and also bedtime is now cancelled, the new routine is scream for 2 hours.
Yeah. I'm leaning more towards what Dennis is saying.
She hangs out with a couple kids out of school, but the one kid she really considered to be her best friend got held back a year.
Add onto that my mom dying in January and I think I've got a bigger issue with figuring out what "lonely" means to her and go from there.
She's 6.5.
In other news, she's gone up several reading levels in the last week or two, and is starting to figure out multiplication. Advising me yesterday that "10*10=100". Which I know they're not up to in school yet.
So maybe it's all of the above plus a brain leap.
With all three of our kids, but especially with blameless cleric, every notable mental leap came with a sort of existential / emotional fragility that very often showed up in wild ways. Screaming fits, sudden, inexplicable deep insecurity, misbehavior, anger, intentional disobedience... by the time we had our third, we'd go looking for what new thing about the universe they'd internalized when random shifts in behavior showed up. The 5yr old is refusing all food except yogurt and throwing tantrums every time we go outside? Turns out his friend broke his arm and he realized that People Can Get Hurt Outside His View, And He Can't Stop Us From Going To the Store.
This sort of thing happened with learning too - multiplication as a concept and also bedtime is now cancelled, the new routine is scream for 2 hours.
I think this happens up and down the age range. There's a good baby book called The Wonder Weeks that explores this pattern in babies and how they often map to developmental milestones.
Man, I feel for you guys with the screen problems. I don't fault you at all, because parenting often sucks. But I've had to fight my wife a bit on this, even though technically we are both in agreement. I think she would give them a lot more screen time if I wasn't around to try to crack the whip. Even though she knows better, she will almost always sacrifice the long term for the short term when it comes to trying to get some peace and quiet.
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Our infant has his first cold and has gone from drinking 4oz each feeding to maybe 1.5oz. Starting to get worried he's not going to get enough.
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Have I ever mentioned that I love metal?
So anyway my daughter now refers to heavy music as "hecatoncheires music", which, let's face it, is pretty effin' metal.
She also festooned a living room chair with stainless steel chopsticks like some kind of Iron Throne and declared its name to be Death Ride.
Yep, that's parenthood in a nutshell. COVID just cranked it up to 11.
Pretty metal. \m/
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We just started rapid testing at least one of us every cold. It sucks.
I mean nothing. Absolutely, positively, gloriously, nothing.
Meanwhile mom and dad are still coughing up lung butter and our heads feel like they are in a vice.
People told me having kids sucks, but goddamn.
Pray for us.
I’ve got one that insists on licking my girl directly on/in the mouth whenever possible. I figure that’s gotta do something but I know kids are absolutely disgusting so I don’t know how much protection she’s going to get.
Pets are good for minimizing allergies, assuming you don't have them already. Sadly they don't do much to stop you catching school bugs.
Just don't let them lick wounds. Bad things can happen, even if rarely.
This is like, the one time that this statement is true but, It does get better.
It took us about a year or so to go through the constant rotation of sick, better, sick again.
But after that year, it's been heaps better.
You can do this.
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I just want to give a performance shout out to our goblin boy. We were off three days last week, and he was sick for two of them, so we didn’t get to do any of the things we had planned. But he was better on Friday! Then it was a long weekend and he was fine.
He goes back to daycare today, we took the day off to recharge, and I can hear him coughing through the wall as I type this.
It’ll get better sounds good!
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"What the hell stop licking shopping carts." (Kid is fine)
"Did you seriously just eat that? That was raw!" (Kid is fine)
"Don't drink that it's obviously spoiled." (Kid is fine)
"Sure buddy let me fill your kiddie pool and you can play for a while." (Kid is now sick and suddenly loves hugging every person he sees)
I decided a long time ago that if the kids want to come into the bathroom then I just let them. Which was pretty much all the time between 1 and 4.
But it loses its thread
Yeah, it's tough with a tiny bathroom having the kid and one of the dogs in there with me.
It’s more commentary on how impossible being a single parent seems after doing everything for a week. And venting.
Mostly venting. I’m fucking exhausted even though I got eight hours of sleep.
I play Warhammer so I let my daughter pick out a couple of Necrons and gave her some old paints and shot brushes just so I could get any painting done because God forbid you do anything that doesn't involve the progeny.
my kid will be 4 in August, the naps are going to be gone soon but I'm hoping it'll balance out with her being a bit more mature and not needing the same level of constant attention / my wife and I will start splitting up time to give the other some alone time
You'd have to set something up to keep her away from dropping weights, but maybe she'd do it with you? When my wife works out our two year old does her own version, squats and up/down dog and stuff. She gets bored before the workout is over, but I have a little workbench in the garage for her to play on. Maybe it'd be the time an iPad is worth it. Good luck with the rest of your solo duty!
pad needs to be thrown into the volcano
Maybe it's time for some creative facts? Maybe the pad "breaks"? Or would she just demand your phones?
Yup. We do 1 hour breaktime on weekend afternoons where everyone can do what they want. Wife usually reads while 3-year old watches Paw Patrol and I noodle on the guitar. Then everyone is recharged and can stand each other again for the rest of the day.
I can highly recommend this routine.
Ellie has gotten mostly bored of her videos.
She will now, mostly, voluntarily turn them off and go play because she's seen them all.
There are still days when it's a fight for the screens to go off, but once they are, she's fine playing on her own.
Other than weekends, she gets maybe an hour or two a day? We've just reset get limit that it's either videos before school or videos after school.
Now there have been days where it's been a huge fight after we take the videos away on usually because she's started copying the attitude from a character or two. But after she stops yelling, we talk about why, she cries, and then she goes and plays.
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With all three of our kids, but especially with blameless cleric, every notable mental leap came with a sort of existential / emotional fragility that very often showed up in wild ways. Screaming fits, sudden, inexplicable deep insecurity, misbehavior, anger, intentional disobedience... by the time we had our third, we'd go looking for what new thing about the universe they'd internalized when random shifts in behavior showed up. The 5yr old is refusing all food except yogurt and throwing tantrums every time we go outside? Turns out his friend broke his arm and he realized that People Can Get Hurt Outside His View, And He Can't Stop Us From Going To the Store.
This sort of thing happened with learning too - multiplication as a concept and also bedtime is now cancelled, the new routine is scream for 2 hours.
I think this happens up and down the age range. There's a good baby book called The Wonder Weeks that explores this pattern in babies and how they often map to developmental milestones.