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space uncle posted:My 2 year old was not interested in trick or treating but did enjoy just getting pushed around in a stroller and gawking at costumes. He ate one Kit Kat and one Reese’s and smeared a remarkable quantity of chocolate on himself before also dumping half a white claw on himself too. I’m no doctor, but before 72 months you really shouldn’t be giving children anything more than a Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
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My wife was Hook, I was Smee, son was Peter Pan, daughter was Tink. It worked pretty well except for the rain, and the neighbors loved seeing us / having anyone come by for candy. We had teal pumpkin signs out for food allergies, but no one else seems to have issues. If you or a kid is allergic to eggs, snickers and york peppermint patties are out. Otherwise, quite the haul of Reese's.
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Nov 1, 2022 05:28
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c355n4 posted:Just for anyone in the US. This is true for eggs everywhere else where they don't wash off the protective layer on eggs. Any commercial eggs in the US are washed before being packaged and that removes the protective layer and is why we need to refrigerate them. :-O
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Nov 1, 2022 08:49
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Though in the end, that bothered me less than the old woman nearby who took it upon herself to start telling a stranger's child, mine, that it was "time to act like a big girl". Mind your business, coffin-warmer. My mom does poo poo like this and it drives me bonkers. I’ve had to call her out a couple of times to knock it off because no mom, you are not the loving coach or their parent, it is not your job to police their behavior. You are here to see your granddaughter and that is it.
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I can't get "Spooky Scary Skeletons" out of my head. Please send help.
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I think we broke my daughter last night. We completely messed with her routine so we could go trick or treating. She is 19 months old. Fed her about 45 minutes early. put her in a dragon costume, and took her around the neighborhood for candy. She mostly got the trick or treating. At least she understood to go up, take a piece of candy from a bucket, and then put it in her bucket (mostly). She got spooked by one kids skeleton costume and I'm not sure how much she liked seeing people dressed up in general. She kept wanting to walk so we were out later than expected, well past dark and in the rain which are two things she doesn't really experience much if at all. Got her back home a little past bedtime and she was just a huge mess. Screaming, crying, snot everywhere. Was a huge battle to get her changed into pajamas and we had to skip story time and just put her directly to bed where she cried herself to sleep pretty quickly. I was hoping she would have reset for this morning but nope, huge fight to get her dressed and get going today and big tears at the daycare drop off. I hope we didn't break our toddler!
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Nov 1, 2022 14:10
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November 1st, National day of neon green poop.
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My daughter turns two in January and she had more fun running to the door to greet trick or treaters than actually going out and getting candy 
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Ugh now my son has diarrhea. Probably the same stomach bug my daughter had a few days ago. Apparently the daycare said a few other kids have had something too. Just hoping he doesn’t get a diaper rash because my daughter’s was really bad on Sunday, though it’s pretty much healed now.
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nesbit37 posted:I think we broke my daughter last night. We completely messed with her routine so we could go trick or treating. She is 19 months old. Fed her about 45 minutes early. put her in a dragon costume, and took her around the neighborhood for candy. She mostly got the trick or treating. At least she understood to go up, take a piece of candy from a bucket, and then put it in her bucket (mostly). She got spooked by one kids skeleton costume and I'm not sure how much she liked seeing people dressed up in general. She kept wanting to walk so we were out later than expected, well past dark and in the rain which are two things she doesn't really experience much if at all. Got her back home a little past bedtime and she was just a huge mess. Screaming, crying, snot everywhere. Was a huge battle to get her changed into pajamas and we had to skip story time and just put her directly to bed where she cried herself to sleep pretty quickly. We had a minor fit before bed too, she didn’t want to take her Dino costume off. We tried to talk it off as soon as we got back, but she cried then too so she ate noodles in it. We had to watch extra tablet to calm her down when we took it off before bed. loving daylight savings is next week? gently caress me.
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Nov 2, 2022 01:31
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The Halloween / daylight savings combo is pretty rough. My kid just wants to eat candy and wear costumes all day and now they are going to be waking up an hour earlier for a few days.
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Hadlock posted:Child absolutely refused to sleep by herself tonight In retrospect this was probably due to copious amounts of Halloween candy in a child unaccustomed to eating processed sugar Today: "I want more caaaandyyyy" 
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Halloween candy has turned my 5yo into a huge loving rear end in a top hat and my 3yo just alternates between "my belly hurts" and "can I have candyyyyyy????" Every 15 min.
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nachos posted:The Halloween / daylight savings combo is pretty rough. My kid just wants to eat candy and wear costumes all day and now they are going to be waking up an hour earlier for a few days. The toddler's skeleton costume is more like a uniform at this point. Luckily we're all goths so it's not like he doesn't fit in.
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Nov 2, 2022 03:00
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Our kiddo doesn't seem all that interested in his candy? He's eaten 2 of the bite size snickers and was like "this ok. I like this" and then didn't ask for more.
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negativeneil posted:Halloween candy has turned my 5yo into a huge loving rear end in a top hat and my 3yo just alternates between "my belly hurts" and "can I have candyyyyyy????" Every 15 min. Already had to start threatening to throw one piece away from the bag every time they ask. If they get some special full-sizes those are set aside, but otherwise all three buckets go into the same communal bag.
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Nov 2, 2022 09:31
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Daylight savings hit the UK at the weekend, and same as every other year it can get squarely into the loving bin. 4am is not a time I wish to see when I am rudely awaken by a small child.
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Yeah my 16mo has recently settled into a good night time routine, now I have to start pushing it back little by little to try and adjust for the upcoming weekend change. There was some legislation in the US that was going to finally get rid of daylight savings but after it was introduced it looks like no one took it up.
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Nov 2, 2022 13:50
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meanolmrcloud posted:loving daylight savings is next week? gently caress me.
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Nov 2, 2022 13:55
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When I took my kid trick-or-treating, she was particular about the houses we were allowed to go to and would point in the direction she wanted to go. She also made me carry her most of the way and my arms are still sore. She was a pretty cute gnome though. I accompanied her as a mushroom fairy. I got her a little, red, gnome toque on Amazon and she loves the thing — wants to wear it to bed. I just gently take it off her after she falls asleep. It’s nice that it’s a warm hat that covers her ears, so she’ll be able to wear it all winter. She wore the hat to the toy store the other day and one of the workers had to stop and comment on how adorable she is and tried to say hi to her. There were so many houses not participating in trick-or-treat, even those that had porch lights on, so we had to walk quite a ways to even fill the treat bag half way. I took out all the stuff she can’t have or doesn’t like, like gummy candies, M&Ms, caramel corn, and chips (she doesn’t seem to care for them) and those will get eaten by my husband and I. She has plenty of little chocolates she can eat though. The winner this year was Kit Kats. She got 7 Kit Kats, including a full size bar and then 2 additional ones that were the last candy left in our candy cauldron for trick-or-treaters. I had a little Haunted House advent calendar and she was always excited to have her small chocolate of the day. She’d often end up asking for a second one later, so I’d give her another piece from a bowl on top of the fridge. Now she gets to pick one from her treat bag. She already ate both her bags of cheese puffs the past couple days. Fortunately, winter kept at bay until after Halloween because we just woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground. Kiddo wants to go “ow-sai pway” but I’m cold and don’t wanna.
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I'm actually looking forward to DST this year as my kids bed time has steadily crept forward an hour and now they're late waking up for anything. I mean, it's still going to be hell, but we might not be late for stuff for a few weeks.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I'm actually looking forward to DST this year as my kids bed time has steadily crept forward an hour and now they're late waking up for anything. This is the third year in a row my kid has done this. When it starts getting dark around 7 or 8, she takes her cues from the sun and gets sleepy at a reasonable time. Then as the season turns and it gets dark by 5, she says "chaos reigns, I rule the night" and pushes bedtime back to like 9:30pm. By the time fall DST arrives, it's a welcome reset. Until bedtime begins creeping up again...
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Nov 2, 2022 16:48
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Just got a call from daycare, looks like she has hand foot and mouth!
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nesbit37 posted:Just got a call from daycare, looks like she has hand foot and mouth! Good luck. Buy some popsicles and Tylenol/ibuprofen.
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Kingtheninja posted:There was some legislation in the US that was going to finally get rid of daylight savings but after it was introduced it looks like no one took it up. This is neither the first nor the last time that someone in Congress has tried to remove the biannual time changes in the US. They did permanent DST back in the 70's but it was repealed due to safety concerns for school children. The history around DST is interesting to read about.
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Kingtheninja posted:There was some legislation in the US that was going to finally get rid of daylight savings but after it was introduced it looks like no one took it up. It was going to make daylight savings permanent, which is way worse. States are already free to stay on permanent standard time, like Arizona and Hawaii do.
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Muir posted:It was going to make daylight savings permanent, which is way worse. States are already free to stay on permanent standard time, like Arizona and Hawaii do. No please, I want daylight savings time to be permanent. We are currently on daylight saving time. When it ends this weekend we go back to standard time. I live in Wisconsin which means it gets dark in the 4:00 hour in a couple weeks after we fall back. No one wants that.
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Squats posted:My kid just started doing this a month ago at 2.5yo, and I hate it. Especially because he suddenly started protesting basic hygiene habits like bathing, brushing his teeth, or washing his hands. So we'd try to get him to take a bath -> cry -> vomit -> bath again -> crying harder. I try to get ours to wash hands but at this point, if I have sick kids I wash my hands about 30x a day on weekends when they're home, wear an n95 mask, open windows when I can, turn on bathroom extractor fans all the time, and have hepa filters running non stop. I get sick a LOT less these days. Is it overkill and do I feel like I'm going too far? No it's not and yes I do, but as Kate moss said: "no viruses taste as good as healthy feels". You can't stop your kids getting sick at daycare but you can stop getting sick from them, unless they sneeze on your face at 6 am while you're asleep, an example I am for sure making up instead of pulling from my life.
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redreader posted:you can stop getting sick from them
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I managed to not get COVID despite my son being sick with it sitting on my lap 3-8 hours a day while he was sick. N95 and careful hygiene goes a long way
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sheri posted:No please, I want daylight savings time to be permanent. Aw hey wisco buddy. Am currently in Chicago burbs but I'm from Madison and yeah the 4pm sunset is no good.
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Also in Wisconsin (Madison!) and the time change in the fall sucks the will to live out of my soul every time. I am lucky to be a stay at home parent so it's less of a big deal with the sleep schedule thankfully. But that seasonal depression boyyyyy
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Madison  Gotta take my kid up there next summer.
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Baby is behind my back slapping her cute fists against me and moving away from my sight when I turn to look at her. She thinks she is hiding and is laughing her rear end off when I finally "find" her each time
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nesbit37 posted:Just got a call from daycare, looks like she has hand foot and mouth! Congratulations!
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Kingtheninja posted:but I'm from Madison and yeah the 4pm sunset is no good. why do you people do this to yourselves if it were me, when nov 1 came around, i'd move the clocks forward two hours, not back one i've lived way far south from you my whole life and can't understand why you'd put up with this poo poo. i've walked away from job offers that involved moving that far north my good buddy moved back to madison at the beginning of covid, for reasons I don't understand
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My 2yo after pooping on the potty and then flushing it down the toilet: "Bye poop!" Then, few seconds later, "Seeya later!"
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Lead out in cuffs posted:My 2yo after pooping on the potty and then flushing it down the toilet:  We (I) shot ourselves in the foot recently. My 2yo loves this book, The Wonky Donkey. I, the idiot, looked up the music that accompanies the book, and started playing it along with reading the book. It's now the only music that plays in our house.
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