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Tom Smykowski posted:I remember being 5 and begging people to reveal the f word to me and I was disappointed to find out it was a word I already knew We watched Christmas Story all the time so I thought it was literally “fudge” Of course I was in a house where gosh and darn were high crimes. Btw has anyone used the new Duolingo ABC app? I did a test run with kiddo and he thought it was cool but he is too impatient to listen to instructions and just wants to button mash 😅 He’s pretty good at identifying individual letters but hasn’t really figured out what sounds they make. I learned to read VERY early so I’m not sure what’s normal for a just-turned-four year old who hasn’t started pre-k yet.
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CherryCola posted:We watched Christmas Story all the time so I thought it was literally “fudge” i think the best way to approach it, particularly before school age, is to keep at it as long as the kid shows interest but don't force it. he's four, it's okay if he stays illiterate for a little while longer.
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remigious posted:Thank you, I really needed to hear that. All of my childless friends have made me feel crazy for wanting to rehome the dog. Like they just don’t get that it’s a big loving deal and I can’t risk this ever happening again. I'm really late to the party on this but I did the exact same thing with my dog of 7 years when he ran across the room and bit my son on the leg because he ....laughed when he was playing with his dad. When the threshold is that low it's just untenable, no matter how stringent your management of dog/child interactions are; and I love that dog but if he bit anyone unprovoked and it landed them in hospital I would have euthanised him. Rehoming was a protective measure so he never got into a situation where euthanasia was actually on the table. We rehomed him to an elderly couple with grandkids over 10 years old so he never had to be around small children again. He's much happier.
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My son loves playing with his magnet blocks. We started with 100 as a present a couple years ago and are now up to 400 after more presents. He always seems to run out of blocks and want more because his buildings keep getting more elaborate. We tell him to use his imagination for things he can't build either due to a lack of blocks or the unchangeable laws of physics. He's started to say, "Daddy, I've run out of imagination. You need to buy me more blocks."
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Feb 22, 2023 15:10
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Brawnfire posted:My daughter is overnight at Nana's for the first time and I feel SO weird She had a really great time and made waffles with Nana. Yay!
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Husband gets covid: - two kids and I don't catch it - he stays in bed undisturbed for 3 days (albeit feeling like poo poo) - I handle work, parenting and household without losing it I get covid: - spend day 1 in bed trying to finish work while husband stresses out trying to deal with work and wrangle kids who won't listen to him - looking forward to an undisturbed day 2 in bed feeling like poo poo, but - one kid tests positive this morning and has 0 symptoms but won't leave me alone
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Jumpsuit posted:Husband gets covid: I had to take care of my kids for 10+ days solo twice because only my wife had COVID in the first instance, and then in the second instance me and both kids but not my wife got COVID. It sucked
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Feb 23, 2023 01:01
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Good-Natured Filth posted:My son loves playing with his magnet blocks. We started with 100 as a present a couple years ago and are now up to 400 after more presents. He always seems to run out of blocks and want more because his buildings keep getting more elaborate. We tell him to use his imagination for things he can't build either due to a lack of blocks or the unchangeable laws of physics. Been thinking about getting these*, although for now we already have a large quantity of Duplo. Are there better brands of them? There seem to be a million different "compatible" clones, but I imagine some have stronger magnets, etc. * Partly so I can gently caress around making weird polyhedra. Small rhombicuboctahedron anyone? Small rhombicosidodecahedron maybe? Can you get ones with decagons and octagons?
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Feb 23, 2023 01:53
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We've been extremely lucky so far. The kid and my wife manage to fall first and I then usually get it about a week later. Thankfully that means one of is left standing to tend to the kid, cook, run errands, etc. Not looking forward to the day we both fall ill at the same time. Speaking of illness. As someone looking to have a second kid in the next year, how much of that first year at daycare crud immunity carries over to you as a parent? Do you end up getting sick all of the time all over again? Or is it just the second kid mostly getting sick?
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Been thinking about getting these*, although for now we already have a large quantity of Duplo. MagnaTiles is the original brand and probably the highest quality. I don't have experience with those because we bought into a knock-off brand called PicassoTiles. We've been happy for the couple years we've had them. Our sets all came with basic shapes (squares, triangles, trapezoids, etc). I'm sure there are some out there with more advanced ones, though.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Speaking of illness. As someone looking to have a second kid in the next year, how much of that first year at daycare crud immunity carries over to you as a parent? Do you end up getting sick all of the time all over again? Or is it just the second kid mostly getting sick? This might not answer your question but my second kid went through every daycare disease (HFM, gastro, impetigo, a billion colds) before she even started daycare at age 1 - big sister was bringing the bugs home. It was a blessing in disguise because when she started daycare her immune system was rock solid so she barely missed any days, compared to kid 1. Second kid is also still testing negative to covid funnily enough. Although it's likely she was patient 0 and brought it home asymptomatically...
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BaseballPCHiker posted:We've been extremely lucky so far. The kid and my wife manage to fall first and I then usually get it about a week later. Thankfully that means one of is left standing to tend to the kid, cook, run errands, etc. I have found no difference in how often we are sick from one kid to two. It’s still constant. Only with two kids it’s twice as miserable.
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Yeah I was a duplo/Lego household growing up. I think I had starter sets of Lincoln logs and ... Pinwheels? Round wooden circles with 8 holes Anyways I think when my daughter was 6 months old I went overboard and bought a set of duplos because that was going to be The Thing In reality the best "builder" toy for 2.5 years and under is magnatiles. By far. There's no dexterity needed for sticking two tiles together. It just works. Highly recommend magna-tiles. They're the gold standard name brand. I've even stepped on a few and they didn't instantly shatter into a million pieces. My daughter is coming up on 2.5yo and can build cubes by herself now. Duplos are still a struggle Edit: actually I got this off brand 72 piece set for...$30 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07HMZT2V2 I might buy a second one, works great. Daughter really loves the window pieces Keep in mind you need 6 pieces to make one cube, so 72 pieces would allow for a max of 12 cubes. With the various triangle pieces you get more like 4 or 5 cubes from a 72 piece kit. You can make stuff besides cubes but... You're gonna be building a lot of cubes Hadlock fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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Feb 23, 2023 04:24
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Hadlock posted:but... You're gonna be building a lot of cubes Thread title
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Hadlock posted:Yeah I was a duplo/Lego household growing up. I think I had starter sets of Lincoln logs and ... Pinwheels? Round wooden circles with 8 holes Maybe Tinker Toys?
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Fml. Had Covid from Friday-Monday. 4 year old has a stomach bug Tuesday through today. My wife and I both woke up tonight and started violently puking. Our 2 year old has been coughing but that’s been it.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Been thinking about getting these*, although for now we already have a large quantity of Duplo. The name brand Magna Tiles are way higher quality than any of the others we've seen. Knock-offs have issues like the magnets only being able to connect in certain orientations (i.e. polarity has to match), or the tolerances/sizes being off so you can't make complete shapes (e.g. the isosceles triangle piece for knock-offs doesn't fully make a 360 degree shape when you connect the right number). The brand name ones just... work. Doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you compare them to knock-offs you can tell they put an insane amount of engineering effort in to the small details.
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Feb 23, 2023 13:21
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We use Mag-Genius knockoffs and have no complaints, but I haven't compared them directly to the real thing.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Maybe Tinker Toys? Yeah those. I had just enough to make like, two cubes I think so I hardly ever used them. Even as a kid they felt antiquated next to my legos and duplos The problem with building toys is you almost always need like, 2x starter kits. As parents, you don't even want to splash out $50 for a starter kit just to find out they don't like them, and buying two kits ($100) to have enough to build with feels really excessive
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I like to attempt to build polyhedra with magnatiles while my kids build pyramids (or just "roads"). It's hard though. If you can get one complete it has enough structural integrity to withstand five seconds of "ooh!" before a tiny hand smashes through it, but usually you don't get that far because a partially built rhombicuboctahedron (or whatever) is really drat unstable.
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We love Keva planks. Expensive but my kid still plays with them at 9.5 and has for years.
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Hadlock posted:Yeah those. I had just enough to make like, two cubes I think so I hardly ever used them. Even as a kid they felt antiquated next to my legos and duplos and then you have to clean them up
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Hadlock posted:You can make stuff besides cubes but... You're gonna be building a lot of cubes You eventually graduate from cubes (to essentially bigger cubes). https://imgur.com/a/gOs8oQO Good-Natured Filth fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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We have a bunch of those $15 fabric "collapsable" toy boxes from amazon. At first i was organizing poo poo but now I just scoop it up indiscriminately and dump toys, socks, shoes in whatever bin is closest. It still takes like, 90 seconds but i'm fine with it
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Hadlock posted:scoop it up indiscriminately and dump toys, socks, shoes in whatever bin is closest. Another thread title contender. This is such a universal example of the best laid plans...
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Are you guys thinking of Picasso Tiles? They're little magnet shaped things that link together to build poo poo?
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We have Magna Tiles, daycare has one of the knockoffs (pretty sure it is this set by Playvibe). I've only been able to mess with the knockoffs for a brief time, but my impression has been: Magna Tiles have MUCH stronger magnets. You can easily hang chains of five squares down from another block, six if you are very careful and have a slightly stronger block at the top. The knock off could manage two, maybe three. The knock off has more shape variety. As far as I can tell all Magna Tiles have sides that are multiples of the side of a standard square (with two magnets per side), but the knockoff has things like L-shapes and half-height blocks. I am for the most part happy we have the Magna Tiles. Even though they were more expensive in terms of dollars per hour of play they probably only lose out to the cheap brio-compatible trains we bought. My only complaints are that you can't buy sets of a single type of block and the colors aren't consistent across the various sets (the red, blue, purple, green, yellow, and orange in the standard set are all much darker than the same colors in the "metropolis" set despite both having the same "Clear Colors" branding).
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What does everyone do for summer care for school age kids? Our day care has a school age summer program, and we have a year to figure it out. But there are also a bazillion other summer camps/etc. around here, some are like a week long and others go all summer. Mainly curious. Day care is the obvious/easiest answer rather than trying to coordinate one or more other options, but I'm interested to see what other people do.
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Hadlock posted:We have a bunch of those $15 fabric "collapsable" toy boxes from amazon. At first i was organizing poo poo but now I just scoop it up indiscriminately and dump toys, socks, shoes in whatever bin is closest. It still takes like, 90 seconds but i'm fine with it This post speaks to me. Eventually we hit critical mass and I do need to sort them to some extent, but for the most part yeah the living room rug has about 3 bins of "poo poo I don't feel like putting away for real". When nobody's looking I'll fill one up with cheap garbage toys or little knick knacks from long separated sets and just dump it all directly in the trash. My kid has way too many toys, it's a problem.
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Shifty Pony posted:Magna Tiles have MUCH stronger magnets. You can easily hang chains of five squares down from another block, six if you are very careful and have a slightly stronger block at the top. The knock off could manage two, maybe three. This intrigued me, so I tested out our PicassoTiles. I was able to hang 6 square tiles before they lost their strength and started breaking apart. I think PicassoTiles are a strong contender for decent quality off-brand at a reasonable price point if you don't wanna pay premium for MagnaTiles.
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We have a blend of PicassoTiles and MagnaTiles, and other than being slightly different colors they're pretty interchangeable. Same shapes, same sizes, same general strength of magnet. But the Magna tiles do have a magnet in the center of the squares as well as two along each edge. And the edge magnets seem like they're better fixed in their housing. But the PicassoTiles are *much* cheaper, so it seems like a pretty reasonable trade off to me. Our 4 year old is making pretty complex shapes now, it's really cool. And they're easily the most fun thing to play with as a parent.
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And yet all they want to do is take all the flip flops and put them in a line
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Fuuuck. So I’m pretty sure It was noravirus and not just a stomach bug my kid got and passed to us because there’s reports of it hitting New Jersey and now Connecticut where I’m at. I would much rather have Covid than this poo poo.
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nwin posted:I would much rather have Covid than this poo poo. I'm in a position to directly compare them because my whole family got hit with both within the space of a month. Norovirus was absolutely worse, just the most miserable I've felt in years.
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wizzardstaff posted:I'm in a position to directly compare them because my whole family got hit with both within the space of a month. Norovirus was absolutely worse, just the most miserable I've felt in years. I’ve had Covid twice now. The second time was just a week ago right before I got Norovirus. I’m a teacher and my kids are in day care so I’m kinda setup for failure.
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Oh good yeah news search results showing norovirus outbreaks in the NE over the last two weeks Looking forward to making GBS threads my guts out for five days here in about a month
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DaveSauce posted:What does everyone do for summer care for school age kids? This was skipped over, but I wanted to respond. My wife stays at home, so our summers are thankfully taken care of. That being said, we have a few different offerings in our area that we would take advantage of if our situation were different: several daycares have summer care options; the local YMCA has a summer camp; and the school district offers a summer camp as well. There are also many organizations that do week-long camps throughout the summer that we could juggle around if we needed to. I think the YMCA, school, and organizational camps are closer to school hours (8 - 3), whereas daycare supports a typical "9 to 5" job. We'll probably sign our kids up for a couple of the week-long organization based ones just to get them involved and active.
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Daycare is taking a week off for Spring Break, but for only several hundred additional dollars, you can still send your kid! Oh wait? What’s that? You’re full? It’s a game of musical chairs and due to my inattentiveness and sloth in returning the Sign Up Form the music has stopped and I am standing, chairless, with no childcare for a week? At the daycare I go to full time? gently caress
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Blood, blood blood everywhere! I dunno how common this is for other parents, but I feel I've had to spend a lot of time wiping up nosebleeds from my boys and help them staunch them. Just now finished hosing down the sink and floor.... He'd been kicked in the nose (dose!) by his brother he confessed, apparently by mistake instead of a fight. Not the first time they have given each other nosebleeds, and the other twin has a problem with picking his nose which had me up at 5AM this morning, that was a small amount though.
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Parenting a high anxiety toddler is so exhausting. The recommended strategy is exposure so it’s just nonstop tantrums if we decide we aren’t going to let the OCD poo poo run our lives. And then you get the looks from other parents who have no idea how easy they have it.
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