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My blood turned to ice just now when I realized that the swimming lessons I signed my son up for start tomorrow…at the same time he normally takes his morning dump.
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Nessa posted:Anyway, despite my husband cleaning it right away, our carpet is stained to hell. It already had some stains from the previous owners, but these ones look much worse. Any tips for getting brown toddler puke stains out of old beige carpet? A little late, but if you have one, Home Depot rents carpet cleaners for about $27/4hours or $40/day. Handy if it's a small area. We did that a couple times, and eventually bought one.
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Ben Nevis posted:A little late, but if you have one, Home Depot rents carpet cleaners for about $27/4hours or $40/day. Handy if it's a small area. We did that a couple times, and eventually bought one. Ask around your parent friend group, and borrow one.
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External Organs posted:Almost 3 year old hugging me while saying "I been missing you" is basically the best feeling in the world It's basically the best thing that's happened ever, enjoy it and burn it into your brain.
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I’m looking into just replacing the floor with something better if it’s in our budget. I am amazed that there are people that didn’t just use ice cream buckets as puke buckets. We always keep a couple around for various purposes, but mostly as puke buckets.
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FYI Blippi season 7 on Netflix features the original Blippi (Steven) and not the cool and good and season 1-6 Blippi (Clayton), and may be problematic for your detail aware child.
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Apr 8, 2023 03:10
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Sat/sun morning, the kids get two picks (~22min) each of tv, rotating among all three. Once the first one is downstairs I take the dog for a long walk. Just the twins were up today when I left. They watched their two picks each and turned the tv off to go play quietly while I was still gone. Good job boys!
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Our daughter was playing with some new toys and I heard her go if you liked give a thumbs up. Guess she's been watching too many youtube videos on her tablet.
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Thought kiddo was over the stomach bug since she was good for a whole day and even slept through the night in her own room. Nope. She had a foul liquidy poop in the evening and then and hour and a half after going to bed, she woke up crying and vomiting again. My husband noticed there were no tears when she cried and since we couldn’t get her to drink any water or even have a pedialyte popsicle, I called the health line. In the middle of talking to the nurse, she puked up again all over the kitchen floor and became incredibly upset. Even crying, “Help me mama!” The nurse could hear her and when I got back on the line he said he recommended getting her seen by a doctor in the next four hours if she didn’t improve over the next hour. It was already late and I didn’t want to wait around a whole hour, so we just got packed up and left for the children’s hospital. Once we got in the triage nurse gave her some anti-nausea medication which really seemed to help. She was able to eat most of an oaty bar and drink some water. She either slept or was entertained by YouTube and a fish tank during the 5 hours we waited to see a doctor. Doc wasn’t too worried, but sent us home with a couple more doses of the medication to give her in case she takes a turn again and we can’t get her to eat or drink anything. Managed to finally go to bed and get a few hours sleep at 6am. Kiddo came to wake me up at 9. Fortunately, she’s been eating and drinking. Had some puffs and even asked for popcorn. Not the greatest morning snack, but I’ll give her whatever she wants to eat right now. We were supposed to have my father-in-law over today to finish working on our downstairs shower (I’ve been waiting over 6 months for it to get finished). Of course those plans have been shelved in favour of doing absolutely nothing.
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Glad she's feeling better  last week ours threw up all her food during the night but as she didn't cry we didn't realise until morning.
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Welp we've all got Covid. At least we're all vaxxed.
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I keep thinking that we are safe from the stomach bug going around cuz we had it recently, but recently was Christmas, and I don’t think that’s quite how stomach bugs work anyways. At least with ours, the vomiting and diarrhea was over in 24 hours, and the uneasiness was over in 48 hours.
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My two-year-old son is screaming at the breakfast table I WANT COFFEE!! I WANT COFFEE!!
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Glad she's feeling better Oh nooooo!  Brawnfire posted:My two-year-old son is screaming at the breakfast table I WANT COFFEE!! I WANT COFFEE!! Mine will ask for coffee, but that’s because I get sweet stuff like French vanilla cappuccinos, iced caps, and coffee frappes. She would drink the whole thing if I let her, so I try to hide the cup from her sometimes.
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My daughter started getting in on the "coffee drinks" a while back and it's like we put a teaspoon of coffee into milk and chocolate syrup with a dash of cinnamon. She feels like such a grown-up drinking her (chocolate milk) coffee.
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At what age do children start using a public bathroom on their own? My 7 year old still won't and it's making me more and more uncomfortable to have to drag her into the men's room
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cum jabbar posted:At what age do children start using a public bathroom on their own? My 7 year old still won't and it's making me more and more uncomfortable to have to drag her into the men's room How does she do at home? I figure it should work more or less the same way.
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Everything is fine at home. The problem is she's scared of everything outside the house, including the bathroom
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My child just laid in their crib and stared in their dark room for two hours last night from 1:30 to 3:30 AM. Any time I attempted to leave they got up and yelled. If I tried to rock him to sleep he just laid on my chest quietly and stared. Finally I suggested sleeping in the dog bed again instead. I put his little sleeping bag in it, pulled it next to the guest bed, and me and him and the dogs had a little slumber party. He slept until like 9:30 after that and now has tons of energy and I’m exhausted.
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space uncle posted:My child just laid in their crib and stared in their dark room for two hours last night from 1:30 to 3:30 AM. Any time I attempted to leave they got up and yelled. If I tried to rock him to sleep he just laid on my chest quietly and stared. Welcome to parenting! Ours has done it a few times, I swear it's some big thing happening in their brains.
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cum jabbar posted:Everything is fine at home. The problem is she's scared of everything outside the house, including the bathroom 
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Brawnfire posted:My two-year-old son is screaming at the breakfast table I WANT COFFEE!! I WANT COFFEE!! you should start pounding the table in a bo diddley beat when he says that to turn your family into the next bow wow wow This will have no repercussions on future table behavior
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Brawnfire posted:My two-year-old son is screaming at the breakfast table I WANT COFFEE!! I WANT COFFEE!! In Finland this is normal
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Any advice for how to sleep train while sharing a room? We’re still room-sharing with our four-month-old but are starting to think about moving him into his brother (3 year old)‘s room. But how tf do we do sleep training without torturing the toddler, and by extension us? Do we sleep train him in our room and only move him out when he’s trained?
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Had an amusing moment as my kids got some sort of pastel-colored marshmallow in Nana's easter basket and my son tries to draw on the sidewalk with it, then tries to play with it like clay, then just starts throwing it around. Definitely not recognized as food.
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So...kind of parenting adjacent question. Are there/have there been any threads specifically for step parents/partners of people with children? I realize a lot of the things I'm dealing with (unexpectedly met the kid's mother for the first time this weekend) are along those lines and I definitely don't want to take away from the Real Parents in this thread. In other news, we took him to this big easter egg hunt event and watching him talk strategy beforehand with another young kid was amusing as hell. He decided he was going for ONLY BLUE EGGS and boy did he ever, with the exclamation that he WON THE WHOLE THING! afterwards. His phrase this weekend was "you're the BEST!" which was cute as heck :3 edit: other phrase was NO I DON'T HAVE TO, though... CherryCola fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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CherryCola posted:So...kind of parenting adjacent question. Are there/have there been any threads specifically for step parents/partners of people with children? I realize a lot of the things I'm dealing with (unexpectedly met the kid's mother for the first time this weekend) are along those lines and I definitely don't want to take away from the Real Parents in this thread. 
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CherryCola posted:So...kind of parenting adjacent question. Are there/have there been any threads specifically for step parents/partners of people with children? I realize a lot of the things I'm dealing with (unexpectedly met the kid's mother for the first time this weekend) are along those lines and I definitely don't want to take away from the Real Parents in this thread. I doubt any of us mind at all. It’s just nice to have a place that isn’t influencer or influencer-adjacent dominated to chat about parenting (and also situations like yours). King Hong Kong fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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boquiabierta posted:Any advice for how to sleep train while sharing a room? We’re still room-sharing with our four-month-old but are starting to think about moving him into his brother (3 year old)‘s room. But how tf do we do sleep training without torturing the toddler, and by extension us? Do we sleep train him in our room and only move him out when he’s trained? I haven’t sleep trained my kids ever, but in my experience of moving the little kid into the bigger kid’s room, I was surprised how much my older kid can sleep through. Because I haven’t sleep trained, my 22 month old still wakes up 1-2x a night, and while he makes enough noise to wake me up in the next room (with ear plugs and a fan), he rarely wakes up his sister. I imagine it would be really hard to sleep train with the baby right there, with them knowing you are close to them. If your older kid sleeps pretty deeply it might not be too bad? Re: non-parent thread: I don’t think it exists, but you are certainly welcome here. Dating someone who has a child whose life you are involved with is definitely close enough to parenting, especially if that child sees you in that kind of role. It’s helpful to hear different perspectives on raising/experiencing kids, even if they aren’t your own.
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boquiabierta posted:Any advice for how to sleep train while sharing a room? We’re still room-sharing with our four-month-old but are starting to think about moving him into his brother (3 year old)‘s room. But how tf do we do sleep training without torturing the toddler, and by extension us? Do we sleep train him in our room and only move him out when he’s trained? We are in the process of sleep training our 3-month old and it isn’t too bad. We trained in our room. First night she cried for 50 minutes before sleeping, woke up at 4am and cried for 20 minutes. Second night she cried for 20 minutes, woke up again at 2am, cried for 10 minutes. Third night she cried for 5 minutes, then she cried for about 10 minutes at 5am. All in all it hasn’t been that bad, I thought it was going to be much worse. Hardest part is not interfering with her as it can cause regressions in training. She is now napping longer and putting herself back to sleep more easily during the day. That could be because she started rolling into her stomach last night, which made sleep training even more stressful, and seems to be tiring her out as she can’t stop doing it during back time… So I guess all in all I would say you can do it in your room, might get woken up a couple times, but hopefully it goes well for you like it has for us! Sweeper fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Status: At 4 year old soccer practice This is the funniest poo poo
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Renegret posted:Status: Kids + Organized Exercise is an amazing combination I'd require stretch breaks during programming class, I'd run them through a few exercises and then let some students pick exercises. Without fail, a boy would call "pushups!" because machismo then I'd get a room of 10 kids completely failing to do an actual push-up in 10 different ways while I tried to stifle my laughter Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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tonight's lesson: The proper way to leave the table is to ask "May I please be excused?", wipe your hands and face then take your plate to the kitchen. It is not to yell "BYE BYE BOOTY-FACE" then run out of the room
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Xand_Man posted:tonight's lesson: The proper way to leave the table is to ask "May I please be excused?", wipe your hands and face then take your plate to the kitchen. Hard disagree here
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Xand_Man posted:Kids + Organized Exercise is an amazing combination We didn't know this going in but coach has a prosthetic leg. My kid has never seen someone with an amputation before so of course he asked a million questions. Coach told him that a shark bit it off and the kids lost their god drat minds. My kid still won't stop talking about the shark. He plays on a pro amputee team so he takes his leg off when it's time for him to run around and kick the ball which was pretty cool to watch, not gonna lie.
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