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Mustached Demon posted:my mother in law fills the emptiness in her heart by buying endless piles of poo poo for her grandkids Boomers and their "hobby" of collecting just tons of poo poo.
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On that subject, don't do birthday parties for kids so young the only thing to do is invite all their classmates
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ikanreed posted:On that subject, don't do birthday parties for kids so young the only thing to do is invite all their classmates wrong
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Dec 25, 2023 19:36
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ikanreed posted:On that subject, don't do birthday parties for kids so young the only thing to do is invite all their classmates its a good way to make friends with other parents
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Dec 25, 2023 19:39
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lobster shirt posted:its a good way to make friends with other parents It is but it also inundates you with presents especially if you picked a bit of a bougie preschool. Ridiculous amounts of things.
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Dec 25, 2023 19:44
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ikanreed posted:It is but it also inundates you with presents especially if you picked a bit of a bougie preschool. Ridiculous amounts of things. ??? you can just say "no presents" problem solved
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Dec 25, 2023 19:46
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we did exactly that, 'just turn up please but no gifts thanks'. bing bong so simple
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Oh no, physical objects. Nooooooooooooo
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Geniuses itt
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Gifts are treasures, even if the only thing I'm gonna do with it is disposal.
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Dec 25, 2023 19:50
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its nice to make friends imo
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Six year old unpacking what is clearly box 1 of 2 containing Lego sets: "actually I already have quite a lot of Lego, so I don't think I need this". Of course, he did end up playing with it the next day, but still... Also no giant cheese 
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Dec 25, 2023 20:04
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after taking a huge number of christmas pictures it is proving very difficult to find one where both kids are smiling lol. there are a ton where e.g. my daughter is smiling but my son is picking his nose or my son is smiling but my daughter has turned her head around and is looking at something behind us. anyway. kids ftw.
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kecske posted:we did exactly that, 'just turn up please but no gifts thanks'. This is the way. KirbyKhan posted:Oh no, physical objects. Nooooooooooooo Can't believe I'm the only parent that doesn't want to engrain consumerism into my child's brain.
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Dec 25, 2023 20:08
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There's a difference between some gifts and an onslaught
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BonHair posted:Six year old unpacking what is clearly box 1 of 2 containing Lego sets: "actually I already have quite a lot of Lego, so I don't think I need this". weird as hell lol
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:weird as hell lol Kid is extremely bad at capitalism. It's great really.
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:??? you can just say "no presents" problem solved My 5yo got an invite just recently saying this. The family is moving to the Tiwi islands from Tasmania two days after the party, so it's understandable.
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Dec 25, 2023 23:30
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lobster shirt posted:its a good way to make friends with other parents It's literally how we made friends with everyone in our neighborhood. We had a pitcher of cocktails ready at post-party pickup when my lid was in kindergarten, the cool people self selected to stay and hang out for a bit. e: not everyone had cocktails BTW, we had coffee/sodas for people who didn't want to drink.
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Our youngest has been obsessed with roombas for about 2 years. Everything in the house is a roomba. There's the remote roomba, the pedometer roomba, the clock roomba, etc. He has even named the roomba that we have in the house for cat hair and he used to ride around on it. When we watch TV he wants to watch youtube videos of roombas. He keeps the lids of containers to play with them as though they were roombas. He was so overjoyed when he found out that the little toy roomba his meemaw gave him actually moves around like a real roomba that I thought he was going to explode. He loves it so much he napped with it.
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Greg Legg posted:Our youngest has been obsessed with roombas for about 2 years. Everything in the house is a roomba. There's the remote roomba, the pedometer roomba, the clock roomba, etc. He has even named the roomba that we have in the house for cat hair and he used to ride around on it. When we watch TV he wants to watch youtube videos of roombas. He keeps the lids of containers to play with them as though they were roombas. He was so overjoyed when he found out that the little toy roomba his meemaw gave him actually moves around like a real roomba that I thought he was going to explode. He loves it so much he napped with it. This kid is going places (on top of a roomba)
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My kids, unwrapping a MakerBot: "Programming!!!" Nerds!
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:my kid always knew santa et al were fake but enjoys pretending they're real, so we play along, it's pretty cool i just never did santa. my 8 year old has literally never gotten a present from him and she really does not give a poo poo. she just thinks its a fun thing that grown ups do to tease them, or sometimes dress up as. its like she's the one who's just playing along with her corny grandparents
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Our 1 year old definitely got overstimulated and had to take a nap mid-presents. Our wounds were mostly self inflicted though. Grandparents got big stuff we asked for like a playhouse and play kitchen. We topped with toys that I am now systematically stealing back and hiding. E: the hit toy is just boxes of tissues. Girl learned to blow her nose so proud Chad Sexington has issued a correction as of 12:32 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Daughter ran face first into a door corner, now she's wearing a big bandage around her head like some Laurel and Hardy bit and getting all the snacks and toys she asks for.
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An update, the kids got spoiled. A few garbage toys from their main grandparents (my parents) and lots of clothes. I guess it’s mostly self inflicted since we didn’t specify what to get them and the kids didn’t ask for much (the clothes are very much wanted). They don’t watch commercials or go to toy stores. Long gone are the days where a kid would research the toy ads in the newspaper or the toys r us booklet. I guess Amazon gives one out every year now but they didn’t really know what to do with it yet(3 and 6). I’m sure as they get older there will be specific lists especially once their friends get older too and they share what they got for Christmas. We got them more thoughtful gifts and a big toy each but they haven’t opened them yet as we let my mom’s gifts have their day. The kids went wild over her gifts which made her happy. The bane of my existence are loving Hatchimal’s and L.O.L. surprise poo poo. Our oldest got some Hatchimals because the neighbor girl had some and there were plastic egg pieces everywhere. Plus you just toss the drat plastic egg it comes in. Nothing but waste and they don’t even do anything, just tiny little plastic toys with plastic accessories.
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Is there anywhere I can Livestream coverage of London NYE this year?
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PerniciousKnid posted:Is there anywhere I can Livestream coverage of London NYE this year? I think the BBC stream it on their YouTube channel
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Votskomit posted:Daughter ran face first into a door corner, now she's wearing a big bandage around her head like some Laurel and Hardy bit and getting all the snacks and toys she asks for. Oh no, I did something similar when I was a little kid and it was so scary. I bet she learned the same lesson I did at least.
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It would be weird if she learned a different lesson.
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The six year old just got the birth of Jesus story for the first time. He had one question: how many people were there in the world then? I tried to avoid telling it because there's so much context he doesn't get, care about or need, but my wife for some reason decided he needed to know.
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"huh... so all those folks who just didn't hear about him went to hell?" YEP.
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See, that's some of the context he's gonna wait a few years for. He was just interested in the census more than the saviour
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what animals showed up? did you teach them about the medicinal properties of myrrh?
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a 9 year old in 2023 talks about "Rick Rolling" but truly has no concept of what it was/is and thinks it amounts to singing Rick Astley at yourself in the bathroom mirror.
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My kids are similar. They email a youtube link to the Rick Astley song and then come to me and yell "I rick rolled you!!!" before I even get the email
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:a 9 year old in 2023 talks about "Rick Rolling" but truly has no concept of what it was/is and thinks it amounts to singing Rick Astley at yourself in the bathroom mirror. Truely Bloody Mary still goes on
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:a 9 year old in 2023 talks about "Rick Rolling" but truly has no concept of what it was/is and thinks it amounts to singing Rick Astley at yourself in the bathroom mirror. Owned Another Bill posted:My kids are similar. They email a youtube link to the Rick Astley song and then come to me and yell "I rick rolled you!!!" before I even get the email Owned
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