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Renegret posted:Why are they not making you bring in your own sunscreen? I don't want some bargain bin spf1 on my kid We can provide our own sunscreen if we want, but they didn’t get sunburn from whatever they put on them last summer and I like not tracking it. And yeah, it’s kind of like ‘yeah, literally everything got more expensive this year, that’s generally what the yearly tuition increase was supposed to cover’
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Our daycare has parents purchase a bottle of sunscreen for each child we have enrolled each year. Everyone is told to buy the same kind (unless there's some allergy/medical reason to use a different kind I assume). This way they can use the same bottle for the entire class, but purchasing sunscreen isn't actually a line item on their expense report. Overall it seems like an OK strategy to me?
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Mar 23, 2023 00:33
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Our daycare has parents purchase a bottle of sunscreen for each child we have enrolled each year. Everyone is told to buy the same kind (unless there's some allergy/medical reason to use a different kind I assume). This way they can use the same bottle for the entire class, but purchasing sunscreen isn't actually a line item on their expense report. they do this at my daycare as well
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Mar 23, 2023 00:42
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Brawnfire posted:Also does it ever feel any less surreal when your kid reads? I know sometimes I'm just staring because my tiny baby is tearing through a book. Weren't you just pointing at pictures in the 100 First Words board book? Can we tap the brakes here? 
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Mar 23, 2023 02:25
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Can you send your own sunscreen instead? Edit: I see it was answered already.
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Mar 23, 2023 02:44
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Day 5? 6? of "it's midnight, time to wake up and fuss for an hour or more because molars" Kill me.
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Mar 23, 2023 05:56
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Renegret posted:I asked my cousin at what age will I be able to stop looking at my kid's butt and she sadly informed me that she's still looking for that answer, and her son's 12. My kid will keep asking us to "check butt" and starts saying "toot" a bunch right before she poops. Yesterday she had me check her diaper right as the turd was coming out, which was a new experience for me. Seems like we could start potty training some, but shes only a year and half so I dont know.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:37
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Really enjoying that juice box, huh? If only you were drinking it. Welp, off to grab some paper towels.
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Mar 23, 2023 15:40
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Little man wakes up at 5am. Smacks dad awake because how else can he wake me up to play, when shouting is prohibited? Just a big ol' smack to the head, this is progress. Cue spending the next half hour trying to encourage him to go back to sleep, including permission to use papa as a pillow. It fails. He demands we play with his Lego trains until mama and baby brother wake up. He draws with crayons while papa gets his coffee. It all went better than expected.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:39
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Son is getting a bit too big for the infant car seat. How did everyone go about choosing a convertible car seat? They all look mostly the same with varying price tags.
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Mar 23, 2023 20:50
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Dazerbeams posted:Son is getting a bit too big for the infant car seat. How did everyone go about choosing a convertible car seat? They all look mostly the same with varying price tags. Looked at a few review sites and what was available at target, pretty much.
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Mar 23, 2023 21:06
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Dazerbeams posted:Son is getting a bit too big for the infant car seat. How did everyone go about choosing a convertible car seat? They all look mostly the same with varying price tags. I was looking into convertible ones and decided that they are too expensive compared to dedicated ones and don't bring too much to the table. Then I got a hand-me-down dedicated toddler seat and that was the end of my search.
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Mar 23, 2023 21:20
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Basically looked for ones with the highest rear-facing weight limits for my large sons. Only a few go up to 50lbs and they tend to be $$$, but the one we got will also go all the way to backless booster so it's the only car seats they'll ever need again.
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Mar 23, 2023 21:37
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If it’s in your budget I highly recommend the britax clicktight series. They are extremely easy to install.
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Mar 23, 2023 23:52
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We got two of these, one for my car and one for grandma's SUV. They are the only car seats I was able to find that had a steel frame. Most every other model is just injection moulded plastic. I'm not sure how much this matters, but I really like the idea of the seat belt looping through steel rather than plastic. Brand is Chicco if you don't want to click through the link https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07H8VTTCP For our daily driver we got the UPPAbaby thing, uh Knox. It also is a steel frame but pretty expensive if you're on a budget https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08YQ4L4Y7
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Mar 24, 2023 00:17
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We have the Graco 4Ever and we're happy with it. Even though it's made of plastic, there's steel reinforcement in some parts including where the belt attaches to it. Absolute bitch to take apart when your kid inevitably barfs in it but I feel like that's a universal truth with all car seats.
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BadSamaritan posted:If it’s in your budget I highly recommend the britax clicktight series. They are extremely easy to install. Seriously. When we bought a second car and got car seats for it we went for cheaper graco and we regret it every single time we have to move the seats, which is still surprisingly often
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Mar 24, 2023 00:32
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in general nowadays if needing to do something means removing a car seat, i just don't do it lol
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Mar 24, 2023 00:35
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My son is refusing all medication ever since he had a flavor of some amoxicillin he absolutely despised. Like he doesn’t trust any flavor anymore. I’ve tried mixing it with chocolate syrup and yogurt. I’ve also tried holding him down and squirting it in his mouth, but he just spits it out. Any advice?
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Mar 24, 2023 01:02
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I went with a skinny car seat, the Graco slimfit that fits 3 in a row because we have a small car (Honda fit) and it's nice to be able to be able to realistically have 2 adults in the back with the car seat.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:04
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The Wiggles got some real bangers, not gonna lie
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Mar 24, 2023 01:18
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killer crane posted:Hey, that's me from 2 years ago. One of you needs to police that room for the next week or two. You sit in the room, and the first sign of stirring or talking you go to your kid in their bed, press them gently into the bed (engage that proprioception), whisper the same boring things: "we're staying in our beds to go to sleep," or "we're being being quiet so we can sleep." Then go back to your chair. And you do this over and over until they're asleep, and do it for a couple weeks. That worked for me. Just wanted to quote this and say thanks, this has been working so far and has been far less stressful than repeatedly putting them down, leaving the room, and having them get out and bolt through the house and repeating the cycle. We’ll see if it sticks in a couple of weeks. So far we’ve given them one opportunity to get to stay in their beds by themselves before one of us stays in the room with them, though no success so far.
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A little trick I've learned for installing car seats is that you don't have to pull it super tight. Recline the seat back, pull the straps kinda sorta tight but don't go crazy, then unrecline the entire seat forward. I can install a car seat in like 5 minutes and it comes out incredibly tight that way. Far tighter than I ever managed with pure muscle.
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Renegret posted:A little trick I've learned for installing car seats is that you don't have to pull it super tight. Recline the seat back, pull the straps kinda sorta tight but don't go crazy, then unrecline the entire seat forward. I once watched a YouTube video of a car seat reviewer to get ready for a car rental situation and their technique of pushing down on the car seat and then tightening the strap changed everything.
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Mar 24, 2023 03:32
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I get right up in there and put my full adult weight on the car seat while I tighten it.
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wizzardstaff posted:I get right up in there and put my full adult weight on the car seat while I tighten it. Yo. Yeah this.
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wizzardstaff posted:I get right up in there and put my full adult weight on the car seat while I tighten it. Yup this. When I was a tour guide we’d have a set amount of time to grab our vehicle, install any car seats and get out to the pickup location. I got really fast because sometimes you’d be installing 3 or 4 car seats. For our kid though we had the snap in style with a base in both cars and when he outgrew that we got a car seat for each car. It’s bad enough when we forget to unload the stroller when the other one needs it.
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Between kids and cars and stuff I’ve had like half the car seat brands on the market. They’ve all had pros and cons but the Britax clicktight is my favorite for every day use in my car (or when another adult like grandma needs a car seat in their car) because they’re just so easy to install correctly.
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Dazerbeams posted:Son is getting a bit too big for the infant car seat. How did everyone go about choosing a convertible car seat? They all look mostly the same with varying price tags. Do what 2DEG did, and get a rear-facing one with the highest weight limit you can find. Rear-facing as long as possible is the safest. If you kid still fits in there at 6 years old, you should keep them rear-facing. I'd be recommending an Axkid, they have one that works up to 50 lbs, but it seems like they don't distribute outside of Europe. Looks like the Britax One4Life ClickTight All-in-One fills the same use case. I can tell it's a US-market model because it has loving cup holder. Lol.
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What's up, giant 530am meltdown because the two year olds toenails are not painted  
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remigious posted:My son is refusing all medication ever since he had a flavor of some amoxicillin he absolutely despised. Like he doesn’t trust any flavor anymore. I’ve tried mixing it with chocolate syrup and yogurt. I’ve also tried holding him down and squirting it in his mouth, but he just spits it out. Any advice? With our 3 year old, we had some success with putting the medication in a syringe, getting a bowl of ice cream and then explaining that for every sip of "yucky medicine" she gets a spoon of ice cream. She has a little squirt of the bad stuff and then we follow it immediately with ice cream. We tried hiding it in other foods, but she figured that out very quickly and started refusing anything that was remotely suspect. "No medicine smoothie, daddy."
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Try mixing it in with 2 ounces of whole chocolate milk. Otherwise yea you gotta use a small syringe (5ml or less) and get it deep into their cheek pocket so they can’t spit it out. Only squirt in ~1ml at a time or less then let them swallow it. Our kid used to fuss a bunch with medicine when doing this (and still does to some extent) but they get used to it within a few days if you keep going.
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King Hong Kong posted:I once watched a YouTube video of a car seat reviewer to get ready for a car rental situation and their technique of pushing down on the car seat and then tightening the strap changed everything. Yo what the gently caress This changes everything
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Current disagreement in our household: whether we should let our daughter know that, yes, we do have my parents over and do things without her while she's stuck at horse humper's house for his weeks. I'm in favor because she deserves to know the truth, my spouse is not because our daughter is FOMO personified. I just hate walking on eggshells around our daughter and hiding what fuckface had stolen from her. Renegret posted:We have the Graco 4Ever and we're happy with it. Even though it's made of plastic, there's steel reinforcement in some parts including where the belt attaches to it. That's two of the three we have left, and i just converted one of them to the booster. Surprisingly hefty but easy to adjust/change out once you watch a YT video of someone else doing it.
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My mom has been meaning to get a car seat for her vehicle for the past… 2 years? We’ve just been using the infant seat in her vehicle. Fortunately, my kid still fits in her 18 month clothes and still fits in the infant seat, but she’s gonna outgrow it soon. The car seats around here seemed to have jumped in price since then too. We got the infant seat for about $120 and the same type at the same store is closer to $240 now.
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What's the preferred spot for taking a one year old's temperature? Still rectal or have we moved past that by a year?
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C-Euro posted:What's the preferred spot for taking a one year old's temperature? Still rectal or have we moved past that by a year? You can use ear thermometer after six months
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We use forehead thermometers. They're not as accurate, but for young kids, a temperature measurement is pretty much just a binary of "do they have a fever or not." Even up into temperatures of 104 and 105 that sound scary, we've routinely had our pediatrician (and the ER) tell us that it's not a big deal for a young kid to have a fever that high, and to treat them based on their whole demeanor and other symptoms.
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C-Euro posted:What's the preferred spot for taking a one year old's temperature? Still rectal or have we moved past that by a year? I do armpit temps plus one degree F on my kids since I only have the cheap digital thermometer. There comes a point when they get too wiggly to do rectal temps safely.
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My little sister was telling me that with the passage of the ACA, lactation consultants are available for one year with no cost to patients in the US with Amy insurance. My sister and her wife used LC services to get the non-gestational mother to lactate but said the LC was a great resource on a number of newborn parenting things. I didn't know that was an available resource so I figured other goons might also not know. They recommended nest cooperative but there are probably many options to choose from.
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