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majestic12 posted:3 year old, as she lovingly put a crown on my head: “this is your crown” Got em
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majestic12 posted:3 year old, as she lovingly put a crown on my head: “this is your crown” Heavy is the poop head that wears the crown.
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Nov 14, 2023 03:18
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majestic12 posted:3 year old, as she lovingly put a crown on my head: “this is your crown” I love little kid burns Buddy of mine was out walking with his daughter and she was assigning them numbers (she watches a LOT of Numberblocks)  :" I'll be 12 so I'll be divisible by 2,3,4 and 6. Mommy, you can be 16 so you're divisible by 2,4, and 8. ""Daddy, you're 19." absolutely savage
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Nov 14, 2023 03:30
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I'm looking forward to the funny burns instead of the current burn he's settled on which is "No! I don't love you!" followed by cackling
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Nov 14, 2023 04:23
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My kid told me my mouth was stinky today! It wasn't even
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Nov 14, 2023 04:28
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My daughter has started saying y'all and it's very funny. Soon I'll be bigger like y'all *gestures to me and mom*
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Nov 14, 2023 04:33
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I live in fear of the day that my child tops this burn.wizzardstaff posted:Standing outside on the patio this afternoon and my kid tells me not to move. She draws a chalk circle around me and says I can step out. Then she tells me the circle is so people know where to avoid because it might be full of stinky farts.
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Nov 14, 2023 04:37
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My kid told me to shut my fat mouth last week  Kid insults get less fun as they get older.
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Nov 14, 2023 05:42
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remigious posted:Urgh had to put my son in timeout because he wouldn’t stop sticking a finger up his butt! Kid got HFM last week and got it real bad on the ol' butthole, he never tried scratching there before but it has been a terrible experience trying to keep his hands out since.
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Nov 14, 2023 06:08
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Multitasking backfired today as the oven timer went off while I was mid-poo poo. Whoops.
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Nov 14, 2023 15:24
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Any goons with older kids who do allowance / pay for chores? If so, how old were your kids when you started doing it, and what's the going rate?
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Nov 14, 2023 16:11
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I have a 6 and 9 year old. I only pay for ‘exceptional’ chores. Their usual routines - dishes, cleaning up after themselves, putting their clothes away - are table stakes for being in the family and don’t get paid. I pay them $5 if they do extra chores for ~30 minutes, like cleaning the dining table and placemats + vacuuming under it. I wanted to be really clear to them that some stuff you just have to do as a part of family life. It’s the extras that get an extra reward. I’ve also paid for quiz grades on subjects they’re struggling in, as an example.
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Nov 14, 2023 17:02
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Good-Natured Filth posted:Any goons with older kids who do allowance / pay for chores? If so, how old were your kids when you started doing it, and what's the going rate? We don't pay for chores. We feel like cleaning is a part of being a human and living in a home. We pay for grades. My child's 'job' is focusing on academics. And like a job, it pays money on a consistent basis with achievable baseline pay and bonus pay for top tier performance. I also encourage him to negotiate on his own behalf. That is the extent of the simulation by the way. He will have enough time as a grownup paying taxes, dealing with shithead bosses, wage theft, etc
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Nov 14, 2023 18:52
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gbut posted:"gently caress is a bad word. We don't say gently caress" My son has been asking "Whyyyyy???" for everything we tell him. Yesterday I told him Why is a bad word and he said "Why isn't a bad word, gently caress is a bad word" and my wife and I just both broke out laughing.
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Nov 14, 2023 19:11
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Allowance started at 6 for our oldest, and we'll probably do the same for the twins when they're 6. We give $3 a week base, and our oldest can earn more by turning in homework. We'll probably have to raise the amount soon. A few months ago my oldest lost her wallet. My wife wants to hold onto our daughter's money now, keep a spreadsheet online to keep track of her money. I just don't think our daughter would understand how to interact with that money... But maybe that's just my old man opinion. I mean I don't ever use cash, and I doubt my daughter will use that cash often in her adulthood.
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Nov 14, 2023 19:23
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Gin posted:We don't pay for chores. We feel like cleaning is a part of being a human and living in a home. OK, incoming unsolicited parenting advice: Research indicates that paying for grades is counterproductive, and actually leads to worse academic outcomes. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/does-paying-kids-to-do-well-in-school-actually-work/2017/10 posted:“If the incentive is tied to the performance on the test, the effects are small if there at all,” said Livingston. “But if you tie it to the preparation for the test, the studying, like incentivizing reading a book or doing practice tests … that tends to have much bigger effects.” Some psychology researchers think they can explain why it's like this. I'm not one of those, but I read at least one book that says the key to performing well in anything (including school) is to find your intrinsic motivation. I.e. the student that wants to learn in order to learn will generally do well. If we, as adults, add external motivators, like cash, we are telling the student that learning is not fun, and is not supposed to be fun, so it needs external motivators. It's something you just have to power through. That's the theory, anyway. (You can check out the book, BTW, it's "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.)
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Nov 14, 2023 21:27
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Growing up, my cousins did lousy in school so my grandfather started to give out money for good grades. To make it fair he offered it to all of the grandchildren. It didn't really make a difference for my cousins, but my sister and I, who were already doing well in school, really cleaned up. I can't say that it motivated me to work extra hard, it was more of a bonus for what I was already doing.
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Nov 14, 2023 21:52
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:OK, incoming unsolicited parenting advice: Research indicates that paying for grades is counterproductive, and actually leads to worse academic outcomes. Thanks for that! I will.
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Nov 14, 2023 23:56
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Holy poo poo just let me make my bed and leave it made for a period of time
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Nov 15, 2023 00:06
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Oh my god we borrowed the “Dungeons and Dragons Behold! A Search and Find Adventure” book from the library because I’m a big nerd. I expected the toddler to be disinterested in it. But the (almost) 3 year old absolutely loves it! It’s melting my heart. We keep finding Myopus the Beholder in every scene (essentially the Waldo of the book) and he calls him ‘Opus. “Opus has another one eyeball!” He wants to fight all the bad guys, especially the Tarrasque, and asked if we can fight them on the TV. Unfortunately buddy there is no toddler friendly DND video game that I’m aware of. I can’t wait to get him playing some real D&D here in a few years. Too cute.
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Nov 15, 2023 05:37
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As I was putting my 3 year old daughter to bed she said "Daddy, I have a small belly and small hands and small feet..." I was fully expecting a "you have a big belly" comment but she just said "...and you're a stinky boy". Fantastic misdirection.
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Nov 15, 2023 12:02
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killer crane posted:Allowance started at 6 for our oldest, and we'll probably do the same for the twins when they're 6. We give $3 a week base, and our oldest can earn more by turning in homework. We'll probably have to raise the amount soon. Famzoo has a decent setup with prepaid cash cards that prepare kids for a debit card. I like that I can just set an age-based allowance and quickly transfer money or reimburse them when they’re out with friends or on a field trip. My kid is a good bit older, but it also worked well when I was fostering a 10-year-old.
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Nov 15, 2023 15:20
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On my hands and knees in the front room cleaning something, I hear 'How do you like this old man!'. I turn to see my 5 year old leaping off the couch, Minecraft Sword above his head. Nothing I could do, had to take the hit. Was a nice move. I am only 45 though, not that effing old.
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Nov 15, 2023 15:39
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My son (almost 3) has recently ratcheted up the intensity of his tantrums to include stomping his feet and screaming at the top of his lungs like a teakettle. Is this normal??
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Nov 15, 2023 22:17
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remigious posted:My son (almost 3) has recently ratcheted up the intensity of his tantrums to include stomping his feet and screaming at the top of his lungs like a teakettle. Is this normal?? Christ I hope so. Also, bent in half, full face-on-the-floor screaming.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:19
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Yes. I recommend buying rock concert earplugs so you can stay calm instead of getting your eardrums blown out.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:21
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Well I am relieved the hear that this is normal behavior, lol.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:41
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My wife and I have COVID. Activating emergency third parent: TV.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:46
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We've set some limits on what she can and can't do (no throwing or hitting poo poo) but other than that we tell her if she needs to calm down she can find a spot and do that and then we work around her. Obviously while also holding the ground on whatever set the tantrum off which could be literally loving anything. And she's a chill kid! She rolls with things! But she's also three so every so often she'll just melt completely down. She's moved on but for a while her calm down spot was the carpeted stairs, she'd get super mad then say I NEED TO CALM DOWN and throw herself full length across a stair and we'd just here the wails of the damned for a few minutes. Then she's totally fine. Kids!
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Nov 15, 2023 22:49
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remigious posted:My son (almost 3) has recently ratcheted up the intensity of his tantrums to include stomping his feet and screaming at the top of his lungs like a teakettle. Is this normal?? We call our kid "our little banshee" due to the above combined with some Irish heritage. I have come to know the meaning of a "blood-curdling scream."
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Nov 15, 2023 23:10
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Oof, 4 for 4 with rsv into ear infection, even the 8 month old who only has one ear. I do not recommend a whole house of cranky sick people.
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Nov 16, 2023 00:36
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External Organs posted:Activating emergency third parent: TV.
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Nov 16, 2023 03:11
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T minus 2 hours till we have our second kid. I can already feel the sleep deprivation coming
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Nov 16, 2023 16:21
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We just sprung for a year of Huckleberry plus. Making the naps easier well worth it (on sale). Good luck Olan, see you on the other side
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Nov 16, 2023 17:59
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I feel ya. We're on the last week before the predicted due date, so it's happening any time now. This will be interesting!
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Nov 16, 2023 17:59
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Congrats but also my condolences fr, but mostly congrats.
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Nov 16, 2023 18:17
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We just got the Nuchal Translucency NT exam done today at 12 weeks and passed. Sub chorionic bleed has also cleared up so we can resume exercise + bedroom exercise, which is exciting. We knew it was a boy from the NIPT but now have a nice ultrasound image of a very small weiner. My first time seeing an ultrasound of it as last time we kept the sex as a surprise. Standard caveat that I don’t care about baby’s gender, just want happy/healthy, yada yada, but I was a little sad the result was 2nd boy instead of a girl. It was fun briefly looking at girl names and imagining a little girl who looked like me and my wife, and wondering about her thoughts on princesses and patriarchy. Just a small amount of grief over “losing” a person who never existed except for in my imagination.
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Nov 16, 2023 18:20
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Olanphonia posted:T minus 2 hours till we have our second kid. I can already feel the sleep deprivation coming Congrats!
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Nov 16, 2023 18:28
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God drat this kid really likes leaf piles
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space uncle posted:We just got the Nuchal Translucency NT exam done today at 12 weeks and passed. Sub chorionic bleed has also cleared up so we can resume exercise + bedroom exercise, which is exciting. Yeah don't judge yourself too much about the feelings you have with respect to that. I definitely went through that when I found out we were having a boy (well I have some baggage about it but that's neither here nor there). Just having those thoughts doesn't mean anything about you as a person, it's the love that you show your children that is the only thing that matters. I felt disappointment for a while but I can't imagine having anyone else than my lovely little boy, he's so sweet. Having those thoughts can definitely make you feel bad, judging yourself for that just makes you feel worse imo.
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