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Urgh I’m feeling the constant meltdowns over nothing. “I want monster trucks!” Ok, I put on monster trucks “I want Zombie” I put a best of zombie video “No I want grave digger!” But then it has to specifically be the blippi episode with grave digger. I’m about to have my own drat meltdown.
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remigious posted:Urgh I’m feeling the constant meltdowns over nothing. This except substitute my own kids weird specific poo poo: "Ice cream kitty cat Christmas tree" - the first Gabby's Dollhouse Xmas special "Kitty cat pool Christmas swimming" - the second one "Bolf" song - "Give that Wolf a Banana" song Robot song - "Harder Better Faster Stronger" by daft punk David Bowie - specifically "Modern Love" god help me if I put something else on And like 10-12 different weird rear end names for songs she has totally made up
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Oodles posted:I’ll have my wife’s brother and sister and all their children staying nearby. And they’ll all want to do activities during the day, as they’re older and have less children than me. hiking is my go to. they get to maybe get mauled by bears at worst and tired at best, also free in the US. Everything else costs money. I just looked at Disneyland tickets for the grandparents and holy moly they want a kidney
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This is the most unrealistic game of cops and robbers ever. He's refusing to accept any bribes
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Got woken up at 5am on my birthday by my 2.5 old jumping on my face yelling HAPPY BIRTHDAY. But mostly because my wife couldn’t wait any longer to tell anyone that number 2 is on the way 
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Cais posted:Got woken up at 5am on my birthday by my 2.5 old jumping on my face yelling HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Aww congratulations
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Dec 21, 2023 02:43
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apple is apple. plum is also apple. banana is apple. orange is orange. lemon is also apple
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hallo spacedog posted:This except substitute my own kids weird specific poo poo: Lol, at least when my kids say "Dancing Legs" the video for Herbie Hancock's Rockit has goddamn dancing legs in it.
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One of my kid's favorite songs is actually one I co-wrote and it's called Lemon Bounce but my daughter calls it Apple Jump and laughs really hard
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GoutPatrol posted:apple is apple. plum is also apple. banana is apple. orange is orange. In which language though.
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harperdc posted:In which language though. Kid still has like 90% English vocabulary even though he's getting 90% Chinese. Only specific words that we only do in Chinese together (hug, blanket, milk) are Chinese to him. I think he gets more words from Miss Rachel than his actual daycare teachers.
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Sweeper posted:Does anyone have any experience with suppositories for getting medicine into a 1 year old who just hates the syringe? She screams and violently twists around when I get it to her mouth. I have to hold her mouth open and squeeze her cheeks to make sure she doesn’t just spit the medicine all out. Overall it sucks and breaks my heart In regards to syringes, we have some success with paracetamol and ibuprofen if we take a sip first. If we both take a bit first, baby is more likely to have some, 0.1ml never hurt anyone. Or you could just pretend, but deep down they know. Also giving baby the sticky remnants of an old syringe to play with (in between actual medication) got her sticking it in her mouth herself. It was much easier once we got over that hurdle, although some antibiotics liquid flavour is awful and we had a lot of that spat back up in protest. I think the stickiness is the worst part, if you don't catch it it gets on their hands and neck and onesie, smells strong, and stays sticky for hours.
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I was not prepared for my currently-pottytraining three year old to look me in the eyes and very seriously tell me that she wants to watch poop come out of my butt.
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Inferior Third Season posted:I was not prepared for my currently-pottytraining three year old to look me in the eyes and very seriously tell me that she wants to watch poop come out of my butt. If she can't see it happen, how will she know you're telling the truth when you say everybody poops?
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harperdc posted:In which language though. You kid, but in French, potatoes are called pommes de terre, which is apples of the earth. In German/Dutch/Nordics, Orange (the fruit) is called appelsin, which means Chinese apple.
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Inferior Third Season posted:I was not prepared for my currently-pottytraining three year old to look me in the eyes and very seriously tell me that she wants to watch poop come out of my butt. Same boat Happened at 5am today and his face was so goddamn serious
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Brawnfire posted:I can't put enough attention into my son. He always wants more! I am finite, please This is really tough! On one hand, I'm glad our daughter loves our attention. On the other hand, god almighty please learn to self-entertain already. I understand why people have kids young; there's just not enough energy to go around when you're 40+ and have a 3 yr old.
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Mealtime has become a war of attrition. We are reduced to negotiating with a terrorist. The terrorist always wins.
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The toddler has finally ended her obsession with Cocomelon after 1.5 years  She replaced it with Pinkfong. Baby steps, I guess. 
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Aside from my manager, nobody on my team has kids. We shut down for the week between Christmas and New Years, and it has been such a struggle to make my upcoming week sound even remotely interesting or fun, or even that I’m looking forward to it. I’m imminently moving with two kids under 5 and managing a renovation. Please, please, please don’t tell me how you’re planning to curl up with a cup of hot cocoa and catch up on some good books.
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Sundae posted:I understand why people have kids young; there's just not enough energy to go around when you're 40+ and have a 3 yr old. I turned 38 2 weeks after our 2nd was born. I'm so tired. I can't imagine what it's gonna be like when I'm 48 and they are just getting to the teenage years  Slaan posted:
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Slaan posted:The toddler has finally ended her obsession with Cocomelon after 1.5 years We are going through the exact same thing! I think cocomelon was more palatable 
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bolind posted:You kid, but in French, potatoes are called pommes de terre, which is apples of the earth. In German/Dutch/Nordics, Orange (the fruit) is called appelsin, which means Chinese apple. yeah I asked because I believe Gout has a bilingual situation like I do. my little one is speaking mostly her mother tongue but has picked up "No" and "bye bye" pretty well. She charms my dad with "Good morning" as well. BadSamaritan posted:Aside from my manager, nobody on my team has kids. We shut down for the week between Christmas and New Years, and it has been such a struggle to make my upcoming week sound even remotely interesting or fun, or even that I’m looking forward to it. a year/two years ago my team at work was a manager with one toddler and another due, and another woman on my team in the same situation, and me trying with my wife (and then succeeding). After a re-shuffle earlier this year, my manager is a 40-ish bachelor, another team member is a 20-something single guy, and an almost-retirement-aged Japanese salaryman who I doubt did any childcare. going from a situation where we all supported one another on staggered maternity/paternity leave and also understood "oops little guy is sick today, I'm going to be available occasionally" to now others who absolutely Do Not Understand is kind of rough, especially since this has been our little one's rough patch of developing her immune system (thanks daycare).
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Two things are absurd: 1 - how easy it is to get annoyed at parental humblebragging on social media. Yes I’m sure your outings are fun, Cathy, you always have at least one set of grandparents with you who take point on baby wrangling. 2 - how good Bluey is. Sometimes I learn more than my kid does.
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since folks are talking about kid media, I'm starting to populate a plex server with kid's TV and some key youtube channels. I know about Ms. Rachel, but is there anything else of value on Youtube that's good for kids under 3?
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Sundae posted:This is really tough! On one hand, I'm glad our daughter loves our attention. On the other hand, god almighty please learn to self-entertain already. I'm 46 and have 4 7yo and under. I feel I'm lucky my body has proved resilient to aging and I'm still capable of rolling about on the floor and chasing the toddler.
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El Mero Mero posted:also, when did you start introducing screens? Is screens just phones and tablets, or also TV Ours has always had an interest in tablets and phones but it's sorta died off more recently Ours started watching some TV around 2.5 and now she's watching 30-60 minutes a day (2 or 3 episodes before bed) but if we need a distraction to get things done I've put on a Disney movie before She only gets the tablet for plane rides over three hours so far. We have the kid proof Amazon 7" tablet it's perfectly adequate and comes with a 1 hour timer and somehow she just accepts it when the timer is done for the day
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El Mero Mero posted:since folks are talking about kid media, I'm starting to populate a plex server with kid's TV and some key youtube channels. I know about Ms. Rachel, but is there anything else of value on Youtube that's good for kids under 3? We like yoga/exercise videos sometimes. Miss Linky has two dinosaur exercise videos that are a hit. Cosmic kids yoga seems to trend a little older but some videos can hold a toddler’s attention. For screens - for us, tablets are reserved long trips (plane rides, 4+ hour car rides). Both girls (4 and 2) get glued to them so it saves our sanity on long trips, but we have to lay down the hammer for when they go away. iPads are ideal but obviously $$$. We have fire tablets that can be unintuitive sometimes but work ok. They both have our old Nintendo DSs when in the car whenever. Mario Kart and Nintendogs are great. The 4yo surprised me by getting into the GBA yoshi’s island.
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I started working on a full on plex collection populated with kids TV, mostly older stuff like the magic school bus and bill nye but quickly just leaned into the pbs kids app which has enough episodes of everything current to keep both the 6 and 3 year old occupied when its screen time, and a UI that's easily navigable for them.
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El Mero Mero posted:since folks are talking about kid media, I'm starting to populate a plex server with kid's TV and some key youtube channels. I know about Ms. Rachel, but is there anything else of value on Youtube that's good for kids under 3? Danny go is really good. On youtube, its a lot of dance-along stuff thats varied and high quality, and i've seen snippets of blippy-esque explainer videos (like, touring a firehouse) that are way more palatable than blippy. We introduced some screen around 2, which was probably a mistake. Someone somewhere said there is incredible value in boredom at this age, and its true. If i remove the screens, it takes my 3yo like 1.5 minutes to think of something more creative/less passive to do and thats absolutely the vibe im shooting for.
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Amazon fire tablet, YouTube premium and the YouTube kids app with an account and very broad with blocking/banning channels actually makes for a decent experience and let's you go and view the past videos they've seen. Premium gets rid of the advertising, kids app stops all the "click to subscribe" buttons from working, fire tablet is cheap on sale and banning channels really does influence the algorithm so the crap channels don't get suggested. (I'm surprised at how many parents there are who have created channels for their kids playtime with all the latest toys/etc that live in the middle of nowhere/on a ranch/huge house so the kid can become the newest influencer or something).
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El Mero Mero posted:since folks are talking about kid media, I'm starting to populate a plex server with kid's TV and some key youtube channels. I know about Ms. Rachel, but is there anything else of value on Youtube that's good for kids under 3? Caitie's Classroom Kids Learning Tube Learn Bright Free School Our oldest is 3.5 and we watch probably too much TV since sometimes we gotta distract him to put down the baby but he has never played with a tablet before. We're trying to delay phones and tablets for as long as we can. If he needs to do something on a car ride we give him his little LCD drawing pad.
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Also did the Plex kid’s media thing because it seems like a perfect use case for it. I hate advertising and don’t allow it in my house, and using Plex also means it’s possible to know the kiddo is watching normal things and not whatever horrifying stuff that sneaks into YouTube for kids.
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Why don't I want to go outside right now? Well, one, you have a snack you haven't even begun to eat. I have the oven on and cooking. Also, you soaked your pants with pee the second I looked away. It doesn't seem like the best time, does it? So yeah stop putting your boots on. No, we don't have any candy right now...
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Son tells me today: "For Christmas, I only want three things. A stuffed Bluey, a smelly marker, and $1000." None of these things were on his Christmas list nor did he tell either of the Santas he has seen. And his ask for cash is my move, so I appreciate that.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:Son tells me today: "For Christmas, I only want three things. A stuffed Bluey, a smelly marker, and $1000." All markers are smelly, but not all markers should be smelled.
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Tom Smykowski posted:Same boat Come to think of it, my daughter also requested this, around age 3 or so. I had forgotten about it!
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Rufio posted:little LCD drawing pad. Product link please?
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