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I just found out that baby crying hoarsely because of a sore throat is somehow kinda worse than baby crying loudly. Less ear pain, more heart pain. Daycare is good, but also bad. Luckily we get the best of both worlds now, full sickness with none of the relief.
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Girl is one now and her first word was "no." Or more specifically, "No, no, no," while shaking her head in a sassy fashion. Which I assume she picked up from daycare. My wife has ascribed intent in her saying "dadada" or "mamama" for a while, which I have long interpreted as just pre-speech babble. She has lots of good sounds really. Then yesterday she looked up at me from the ground, reached to be picked up and hit me with a purposeful "dada" and it about knocked me on my rear end.
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Oct 2, 2023 21:13
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Ma, ba, pa, and da are all early monosyllables that kids develop early, which is why we use them as parent words in so many languages. I think I've heard that if you treat the things your kids babble as having meaning, they pick up language faster
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Oct 2, 2023 21:26
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Having two kids is like high intensity language camp for the youngest. There's a gigantic difference in what my 2 year old can say vs his firstborn peers. It also helps that he's huge for his age, so he plays a lot with the older kids. Usually we progress from daycare to kindergarten around age 3, but he's been playing with them since he turned two.
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Oct 3, 2023 10:19
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Dog has opened up to his baby sister. Which is good, because when she spits up he's on it.
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Oct 3, 2023 13:08
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HootTheOwl posted:Dog has opened up to his baby sister. Which is good, because when she spits up he's on it. Same. First, dog just avoided baby. At one year, baby fed dog and dog loved it, but dog disrespected her and knocked her down when she was walking sometimes. At 15 months, she started playing with dog aggressively. Had to teach her to play gently, but it instilled some respect in dog. Now at 18 months they seem to be at a good place and they just go outside and run around each other joyously, barking and laughing.
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Oct 3, 2023 18:31
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Votskomit posted:At 15 months, she started playing with dog aggressively. Had to teach her to play gently, but it instilled some respect in dog. Dog is a klingon and baby gave it the vulcan hello
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Oct 3, 2023 18:37
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Mom made some turmeric tea for herself. Baby took the teacup and drank it. Didn't like it, so gently put the teacup on the bed and walked away. We're probably never going to get the yellow stain off of the sheets now. Microplastics posted:Dog is a klingon and baby gave it the vulcan hello Heh. Gonna have to make my kid watch star trek for her moral education.
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Oct 3, 2023 18:47
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[Parenting] We're probably never going to get the yellow stain off of the sheets now.
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Oct 3, 2023 18:49
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Microplastics posted:[Parenting] We're probably never going to get the yellow stain off of the sheets now.
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Oct 3, 2023 19:17
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Votskomit posted:Mom made some turmeric tea for herself. Baby took the teacup and drank it. Didn't like it, so gently put the teacup on the bed and walked away. Stains are just bonus memories.
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Oct 3, 2023 19:36
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Baby is on a str build and using con as a dump stat because she can easily lift her head or roll over during tummy time but still only growing a few ounces
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Oct 7, 2023 20:45
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Active babies don't put on weight as quickly as lazy babies. Our 5mo is super active - rolling everywhere, muscling herself around and sometimes kicking like a beached fish for the sheer joy of it. As a result, she's a long thin baby, not a fatty chubbster.
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Oct 7, 2023 21:04
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Our 6 M/O is dex build also
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Oct 7, 2023 21:26
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Twin b is the tank and a is swifty dps it's kind of weird how B's so much bigger and toned
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Oct 7, 2023 21:41
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my 11 month old got covid 
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Oct 7, 2023 21:47
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bitmap posted:my 11 month old got covid ahh they'll make a fine wizard
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Oct 7, 2023 21:48
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Elissimpark posted:Active babies don't put on weight as quickly as lazy babies. Our 5mo is super active - rolling everywhere, muscling herself around and sometimes kicking like a beached fish for the sheer joy of it. As a result, she's a long thin baby, not a fatty chubbster. Our almost 8-month old has finally mastered rolling around. Perhaps too much, because everytime we try to nudge her into crawling, she just rolls. Seems like she has decided that rolling around is the superior way of moving around. And it's been two months since I had to order the soft puzzle-like play mats from the internet because no one around had them. And just yesterday, we walk into a store, and there's all kind of the soft floor play mats: big, medium, with letters, small.
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Oct 8, 2023 08:53
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My 18 month old is suddenly fast. Goes up and down stairs on her feet. Opens doors. Jiggles keys in doors. Climbs railings and trees. Now every now and then in the house you just hear "DO YOU HAVE HER?" and another voice "YES SHES HERE NOW"
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Oct 8, 2023 09:35
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Lol yeah my 23mo can outrun his mother now. And he has a habit of running to the exit of whatever establishment we're in, and somehow knows exactly where that exit is every time. It sure makes restaurant visits stressful
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Oct 8, 2023 12:47
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Microplastics posted:Lol yeah my 23mo can outrun his mother now. And he has a habit of running to the exit of whatever establishment we're in, and somehow knows exactly where that exit is every time. It sure makes restaurant visits stressful 
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Oct 8, 2023 13:35
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Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies
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Oct 8, 2023 15:12
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Twins had their 9mo check ups today A's perfectly in the middle percentile in size metrics B's >95 in all categories, like a 3lb difference between the two Amazing how different they are
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Oct 9, 2023 20:52
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Me: are you putting your clothes on? Six year old: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 [pause] 2048 [longer pause] 4096 I'm pretty sure this kid is gonna be bored in maths class... Also he will never get laid on account of not being able to focus on changing clothes.
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Oct 10, 2023 14:12
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Found my younger kid reading "My Little Pony: The Manga" on the library app. It's what I get for teaching them how to use the computer and to read.
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Oct 10, 2023 14:41
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BonHair posted:Me: are you putting your clothes on? *Taps head* if you're always naked you don't need to change clothes
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Oct 10, 2023 14:46
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60-90 minute feeding schedule is maddening. Wife is gonna die.
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Oct 10, 2023 14:56
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number 2 is nearly 8 months and still only takes a bottle only under very specific circumstances, hates sleeping alone and barely eats or sleeps at daycare two days a week. this has been going on long enough that it’s all normalized and we can deal, but nearly every day I’m hit with waves of anguish and anxiety that I have to teach another human what knees are, not to eat random berries etc. we just did all that like a year ago.
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Oct 11, 2023 19:09
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I feel like a real dad today. I just knocked a tooth out of my 6 year old! The baby was crying, so I put down the guitar on the floor and picked up the baby. And within that maneuver, the six year old crawled under me, so that when i sat down it was on top of him and somehow his mouth hit the guitar and knocked out a tooth. I did a quick panic before remembering it was loose already.
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Oct 12, 2023 18:38
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Trying to potty-train the 3-year-old this weekend is going about as badly as it possibly could. She knows when she has to pee, is capable of holding it in, but is simply refusing to sit on the potty and is instead opting to pee on the floor no matter what we promise her. Like, I know you're supposed to stay positive, but none of the articles etc are written with a kid in mind who announces to you "I'm going to pee on the floor" and then does so, and who throws screaming tantrums if you try to guide her toward the potty instead. We're restricting her to her playroom (playmat is easy to clean), refusing to give her screen-time or story-time or any of the most fun toys until she sits on the potty, at which point she can eat M&Ms and do all her favorite stuff all the time, and she has chosen instead to pee on the floor, repeatedly. I'm pretty sure we're doing this wrong but I don't know what the right way is at this point.
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Oct 14, 2023 16:27
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is it a muscle control thing? my younger son can NOT pee standing up because for whatever reason he can't relax his core muscles enough to let it flow while standing.
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Oct 14, 2023 16:46
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No, she is able to tell us when she has to pee, while not peeing, and simply will not go sit on the potty as a response. She's napping now (unusual, she dropped nap a couple weeks ago) and we're thinking when she wakes up we're just gonna drop it for now because at the end of the day you need your kid's cooperation in this process and she's not ready to give it
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Oct 14, 2023 16:50
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Where's the potty at?
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Oct 14, 2023 16:52
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Several different locations. Upstairs bathroom, downstairs bathroom, right next to her, discreet corner. No matter
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Oct 14, 2023 16:53
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loquacius posted:No, she is able to tell us when she has to pee, while not peeing, and simply will not go sit on the potty as a response. My 3yo does great keeping dry at school but he doesn't poop on the potty, and it's a fight to get him to go potty at home. Kind of debating giving up for now but he's doing so well at school it feels like a waste. Or just switch to diapers at home, which seems like it would lead to confusion, but he's treating his underwear like diapers at home anyway. My first kid had a false start, regressed, and at 7 she's still dealing with constipation issues and accidents and still needs a pull-up at night. My middle child I just waited until around 4 when he decided to switch to underwear and that was basically that, my 7yo still has more accidents than he ever did. In short, I dunno.
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Oct 14, 2023 17:16
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our first it was a single weekend our second took four tries and was terrible
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Oct 14, 2023 17:23
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loquacius posted:Several different locations. Upstairs bathroom, downstairs bathroom, right next to her, discreet corner. No matter drat I'm sorry
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Oct 14, 2023 17:50
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loquacius posted:No, she is able to tell us when she has to pee, while not peeing, and simply will not go sit on the potty as a response. isn't the normal technique to just sit them on the toilet for a few minutes once an hour (or half hour) on a timer and then when they happen to pee you give them praise/candy/etc.?
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Oct 14, 2023 18:40
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She has in fact peed on the potty that way before and has decided that it's not particularly for her
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The "3-day method", where your kid just goes bottomless for a weekend and there's (hopefully metaphorical) blood or glory, is the currently favored method for if being casual about it just kinda doesn't work. This one's gonna take a few false starts though
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