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B-Rock452 posted:I would never judge a parent for using a screen because let's face it everyone is just hanging on by a thread right now. Although I think I am cursed since it's really crappy out today and I am feeling pretty run down from working out/having a single beer last night with dinner and figured today would be a good movie day but neither child wanted that so I am currently lying on the floor while both kids are running around like banshees and the Magic School bus plays on the tv. Yes. Yes. The struggle.
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Flavius Aetass posted:your baby is super cute oxsnard yeah she's adorable. And, all things considered, she's a really good baby too. Just much more easy going than the first 2
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just now my 4 year old excitedly ran up to me and handed to me what appeared to be a small twig "oh, what's this?" i asked her as i twirled it between my fingers "it was in my butt" 
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my 4.5 yr old is at that stage where scatological humor is the pinnacle of jokes and everyone is called a variations of tooting or whatever, have had to tell her that calling people after farts and yelling at them to let them(from across the street) know their name is now tooting is not nice. or tell dog owners to their face their dog's name is not correct and it's some made up poo poo she just said on the spot lol
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U-DO Burger posted:just now my 4 year old excitedly ran up to me and handed to me what appeared to be a small twig lmao owned my kids do this but it's with random dried up cat turds they find. but it's like a game where they say "hey what's that? over there?" and I go check it out and it's a turd the geriatric cat left behind and everyone (but me) laughs and laughs.
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U-DO Burger posted:just now my 4 year old excitedly ran up to me and handed to me what appeared to be a small twig 
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Over the weekend my 3 year old told me she was going to the store and she would see me later. What I didn't realize is she took the keys to my work car that also has my office key fob on it and hid them somewhere. No idea where it is and the amount of paperwork I have to do to replace them is insane.
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Apr 29, 2021 11:59
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I lost my dad's wedding ring as a small boy. Classic.
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B-Rock452 posted:Over the weekend my 3 year old told me she was going to the store and she would see me later. What I didn't realize is she took the keys to my work car that also has my office key fob on it and hid them somewhere. No idea where it is and the amount of paperwork I have to do to replace them is insane. did you check the store? sounds like she may have left them there
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fosborb posted:did you check the store? sounds like she may have left them there I tried to but she only said she was going to the "chip store" and I don't know where that is. I asked her to draw me a map and she made a fart noise and ran away.
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B-Rock452 posted:I tried to but she only said she was going to the "chip store" and I don't know where that is. I asked her to draw me a map and she made a fart noise and ran away. Show me the lie.
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Who the hell thought up dependent care FSA accounts instead of just having the same things that you can use a dependent care FSA for be deductible on your taxes. As far as I can tell they exist solely to add a layer of complexity and make you risk wasting money. I'm already mad at them and I haven't even opened one yet.
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Thoguh posted:Who the hell thought up dependent care FSA accounts instead of just having the same things that you can use a dependent care FSA for be deductible on your taxes. As far as I can tell they exist solely to add a layer of complexity and make you risk wasting money. I'm already mad at them and I haven't even opened one yet. liberals, dude
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Apr 30, 2021 21:52
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and lol that $5000 covers daycare for a year
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Yeah I just opened up one from work and I have no idea how to even access it and it's all just a giant pain
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yeah dude I love being a loving accountant in my free time with mine and my spouses dependent FSA scanning invoices and poo poo using two different payment systems and keeping track of how much paid for what invoice
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my employer offers a FSA and always brags about how awesome the benefit is during our yearly benefits fair, but ive never bothered with any of that poo poo because they don't pay me enough for me to be able to afford diverting any portion of my paycheck lol
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it's a lovely benefit, but fairly easy to take. spend more than $5000 a year on dependent care (this counts for old people care too)? send that to the account and you can pay for a chunk of your daycare with pretax dollars you'll probably get a debit card. this can be a real pain but daycares are used to dealing with it at this point. if you auto debit, you will never have enough in your account to sustain it throughout the year. so you have to split the payments between your FSA and your normal account. you might have a little left over at the end of the year that you need to claim directly. alternatively, you pay your daycare like normal and every once in awhile, you submit a receipt from your daycare to your FSA and they pay you directly. you can do that every cycle, or even only once a year if you can float it it is a use it or lose it account, but what could possibly happen where you wouldn't need daycare for a year+?, I said as I was setting my 2020 contributions
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B-Rock452 posted:Over the weekend my 3 year old told me she was going to the store and she would see me later. What I didn't realize is she took the keys to my work car that also has my office key fob on it and hid them somewhere. No idea where it is and the amount of paperwork I have to do to replace them is insane. Update, it took a week but I found my keys. I should have used three year old logic and checked the bottom of the diaper bag because that is where she put them. She does know we always take the diaper bag when we go out so I am proud of her logic but could have done without the four hours of paperwork I did prior.
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The animals play The animals play The animals play all day The animals play The animals play The animals play all day 
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"It's not a cartoon, DAD. It's anime."
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My kid's teacher has a migraine so he can't run a remote class today. His solution was to email an impossibly long link to my personal email address to join a different teacher's Teams call. Tried a few times but couldn't get it working. We just said it was an unseasonal snow day in May.
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U-DO Burger posted:my employer offers a FSA and always brags about how awesome the benefit is during our yearly benefits fair, but ive never bothered with any of that poo poo because they don't pay me enough for me to be able to afford diverting any portion of my paycheck lol
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This sleep regression is brutal
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Good soup! posted:This sleep regression is brutal My youngest kids last sleep regression was not great. And she still randomly wakes up and gives a cry but generally goes back to sleep but I am immediately awake and will just lay there for an hour waiting for another cry. It hasn't been great.
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Is it the four month one That one sucked Or is it one of the hojillion teeth related ones, those suck too
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Don't forget the nap strikes.
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Organic Lube User posted:Don't forget the nap strikes. I'm going to hear "baba baba baba BABA BABA BABA BABAAAAAAA" in my dreams for a decade I suspect
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zero sleep regressions in almost two years after we got the kid onto a 730pm-630am schedule, it stuck feels good
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I would murder another human for a 730 bedtime.
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I have a four year old who sometimes won't go to sleep until 11:00. sucks rear end
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:I would murder another human for a 730 bedtime. I wouldn’t have any time to feel human with a later bedtime #blessed
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the other day my buddy who has a two year old was asking me about my kids' bedtimes because he was having trouble getting him to sleep before 9 and I was like "oh sometimes we go to 11 o'clock. especially if I'm handling both kids solo". and he said "so when do you have time to yourself?" and I said "oh I don't. or I stay up until 3 am watching KITH and regret it."
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we moved heaven and earth to make sure our kid’s sleep time was consistent, at 4.5 yrs it’s going well but there were hiccups of course like one day it was 10:30 and I shut the door to block light from the hallway and my kid screams”don’t lock me in!” I’m like oh poo poo you’re still awake 2.5 hrs later being in Michigan it can be tough when it doesn’t get dark until like 10pm during the summer so had to move bed around.
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we were really good about 8:30 bedtimes with the first one and then it all fell apart when the second one moved into a big bed and they started sharing a room. pandemic lockdown just made it worse. oh yeah and they both want to be cuddled to sleep but neither of them want dad. just mom. cool. these days I feel successful if I'm out of there by 10.
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the stalling tactics of kids are remarkable, that combo of kid ingenuity, desperation, and hyper tiredness can make bed time an ordeal
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I also remember being yelled at to GO TO BED as a kid and then just sitting in the dark alone feeling abandoned and then falling asleep feeling sad and I don't want to do that to my kids. most of the things I refuse to discipline my children over are things that I was disciplined over that I now realize don't matter at all. like here, my house: "don't give a gently caress if you eat the food I made. I'm eating this soup it's delicious. you can wait ten minutes for chicken nuggets Dude, be patient." and my house growing up: "eat that soup. you cannot leave the table until you eat the soup. see you in an hour."
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sonatinas posted:the stalling tactics of kids are remarkable, that combo of kid ingenuity, desperation, and hyper tiredness can make bed time an ordeal 
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My kiddo has decided to quit her nap time routine so lately she's been deliriously tired by 8 and dead asleep by 9. In short, sleep deprivation works. Don't do this, I wish she would nap.
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sonatinas posted:we moved heaven and earth to make sure our kid’s sleep time was consistent, at 4.5 yrs it’s going well but there were hiccups of course like one day it was 10:30 and I shut the door to block light from the hallway and my kid screams”don’t lock me in!” I’m like oh poo poo you’re still awake 2.5 hrs later lately with my K aged kid, telling them to "pretend to go to sleep" gets them to close their eyes super hard and then within minutes they're passed out lmao fuckin moron, get owned, time to play some BoTW until 2am and regret it in the morning
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