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Votskomit posted:My 20 month old has suddenly gotten super picky about food, and refuses to sleep if she can help it. Tough times. Sounds exactly like my 16 month old. We just started cutting the bottle and sleep training so we'll see how that goes.
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Toddler is drat near on hunger strike. Wife gets ultra demoralized by it. I just chant "All we can do it put the food in front of him, he will eat eventually".
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Jan 2, 2024 23:19
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KirbyKhan posted:Toddler is drat near on hunger strike. Wife gets ultra demoralized by it. I just chant "All we can do it put the food in front of him, he will eat eventually". We felt a lot better when one of my wife's good friends remembered that as a kid she ate basically nothing for a year, her mom took her to some specialists and she just grew out of it and is now a chef. Our kid eats enough things that it's not too worrying but I definitely get your wife being demoralized because it is really frustrating.
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Jan 3, 2024 02:05
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KirbyKhan posted:Toddler is drat near on hunger strike. Wife gets ultra demoralized by it. I just chant "All we can do it put the food in front of him, he will eat eventually". I sympathize greatly, your kid not eating is enough to drive anyone crazy
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Jan 3, 2024 02:25
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toddlers slow down in growth rate too so you may see an appetite drop that goes with it lovely combo with their taste buds changing every week
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Jan 3, 2024 02:35
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our kid as a toddler started eating a lot during growth spurts.
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Jan 3, 2024 04:01
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Votskomit posted:My 20 month old has suddenly gotten super picky about food, and refuses to sleep if she can help it. Tough times. That's actually a pretty decent number of things. With our 17 month old we're down to babybel cheese, beans, cheerios, yogurts, blackberries, dinosaur nugs. She'll randomly do poo poo like sit in my lap and steal my pad thai so we're constantly offering whatever we're eating in the event it happens, but mostly I think she survives on photosynthesis.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:10
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when my kid was six months old we learned he was intolerant of almost every food and we had to introduce ingredients one at a time on a weekly basis until we ruled everything out (and as he grew out of FPIES). now we are down to just eggs, milk, and peanuts. anyway, there's a lot of weird ways to feed a kid it turns out.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:38
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Chad Sexington posted:That's actually a pretty decent number of things. She struck spaghetti from the list today. I fear next month.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:56
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As long as beans remain on the list you good
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Jan 3, 2024 20:39
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:when my kid was six months old we learned he was intolerant of almost every food and we had to introduce ingredients one at a time on a weekly basis until we ruled everything out (and as he grew out of FPIES). yeah our kid had a milk allergy which ended up explaining so much when she was an infant. it's incredibly easy to feed a kid non-dairy these days as it turns out
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Jan 3, 2024 20:40
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we’ve entered into the phase where my newly 3 year old will start a sentence with ‘sometimes….’ or ‘daddy did you know umm….’ and then spout a torrent of loving nonsense that starts off somewhat coherent and then rapidly devolves and it’s adorable.
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Jan 3, 2024 21:14
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meanolmrcloud posted:we’ve entered into the phase where my newly 3 year old will start a sentence with ‘sometimes….’ or ‘daddy did you know umm….’ and then spout a torrent of loving nonsense that starts off somewhat coherent and then rapidly devolves and it’s adorable. Sounds hilarious and I look forward to when that happens with my kid I need examples, gimme
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Jan 4, 2024 00:16
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The brief time where your kid still works on toddler logic but has the ability to verbalise it is magical.
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Jan 4, 2024 06:24
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Elissimpark posted:The brief time where your kid still works on toddler logic but has the ability to verbalise it is magical. My 3yo loves to blurt out any random thought or just repeat other people just to feel he's contributing to the conversation, and he's irrationally happy when doing so.
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Jan 4, 2024 06:38
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My kid interrupted a story I was telling about my own life to correct me on a totally mundane detail about the weather, when they had no idea what the weather would have been that day because it was 25 years before they were born. And then kept arguing with me that it wasn't as cold as I said it was that day. ???
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Jan 4, 2024 06:43
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Yeah right, it was "snowing", a thing that actually happens
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Jan 4, 2024 07:24
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Option this puppy to Netflix, IMO
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Jan 4, 2024 07:47
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Another Bill posted:My kid interrupted a story I was telling about my own life to correct me on a totally mundane detail about the weather, when they had no idea what the weather would have been that day because it was 25 years before they were born. lol
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Jan 4, 2024 13:42
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Offering new parent goons a glimpse of the other side: the five year old started judo in December and it is amazing. The exercise and learning how to fall is reward itself, but it's so much more. The look of pride and accomplishment on her face after she successfully tossed a nine year old boy on his rear end was right up there with first steps and bike riding with proud parent moments. Literally every step in parenthood is better than the last and you've got so much fun stuff coming.
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Jan 4, 2024 17:11
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The worst part of the ER is when they say your kid is fine and you can go, and then you need to wait an hour and a half for someone to come check you out.
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Jan 7, 2024 19:21
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yesterday my son was drinking some water and i said "good job staying hydrated buddy" and he said "im not! dont call me that!" wonder what he thinks it means...
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Jan 7, 2024 20:02
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ask him then report back here because I want to know too
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Jan 7, 2024 20:06
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Kids get insulted by the weirdest things. When my kid was live three, he told our four year old neighbour kid that he (the neighbour) lived in number 6. This was entirely correct, but he almost began crying over this grave perceived insult. (My kid did not understand the situation at all and kept going. That's because he's not very good at picking up subtle clues like crying)
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Jan 7, 2024 20:21
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it’s super cool that I have to get my kids summer break plans done in about a week or it will be filled up for the 3 different places we’re looking at near us. some weeks are full already at one camp but gonna wait list them anyway.
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Jan 7, 2024 23:30
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Microplastics posted:ask him then report back here because I want to know too i asked him earlier what hydrated means and he said he didnt know
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Jan 8, 2024 00:21
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BonHair posted:Kids get insulted by the weirdest things. When my kid was live three, he told our four year old neighbour kid that he (the neighbour) lived in number 6. This was entirely correct, but he almost began crying over this grave perceived insult. (My kid did not understand the situation at all and kept going. That's because he's not very good at picking up subtle clues like crying) My kids both get really mad if someone says "sorry" to them.
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Jan 8, 2024 00:46
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Kind of crazy to think that about 2 years ago my daughter was sometimes confined to her playpen for her own safety, and today she helped me reassemble it for her little brother and was legitimately helpful
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Jan 8, 2024 00:59
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loquacius posted:Kind of crazy to think that about 2 years ago my daughter was sometimes confined to her playpen for her own safety, and today she helped me reassemble it for her little brother and was legitimately helpful Yeah being able to ask the 8yo to do things and it...happens, they help, it's cool that way
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Jan 8, 2024 03:03
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2 years ago my daughter was a tiny thing i carried around in one arm while prepping her bottle, today she got her apron on, got up on her toddler tower and helped mix pancake batter for breakfast the first few years are crazy
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Jan 8, 2024 03:21
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PerniciousKnid posted:The worst part of the ER is when they say your kid is fine and you can go, and then you need to wait an hour and a half for someone to come check you out. Yeah our recent RSV visit was like that. Got caught by the shift change around midnight. She at least finally passed out and I was lulled to sleep on the bed by the Spanish game show on the television we could neither mute nor turn off. Go go American healthcare system.
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Jan 8, 2024 17:56
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I walked my dog up to meet the kids after school and saw my 12yr old daughter walking home with a boy  I'm not going to say anything to her about it, don't want to make it weird...
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Jan 8, 2024 22:04
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My big "victory" this morning was keeping 17 month old in her crib somewhat quietly until 5:30 before getting up after a 4:30 wakeup. I still think about the rage I felt when my wife's cousin complained that his kid woke up at 7am all the time, including weekends!
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Jan 10, 2024 11:37
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my older son woke up at 4:30 today to start watching something on the iPad and he was very disappointed when I shut that down.
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Jan 10, 2024 14:39
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Chad Sexington posted:Yeah our recent RSV visit was like that. Got caught by the shift change around midnight. We've had it half a dozen times, it's always like that. I understand the wait to be seen but they don't have anyone available qualified to take insurance information and let us leave? Do you need a special cert to push the little computer around on the cart?
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Jan 10, 2024 14:56
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Snow day...oh gently caress
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Jan 10, 2024 14:57
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Our 3-year-old is waking up at 6:30 every day because we got her one of those Ok To Wake clocks (or "reverse alarm clocks" I think?) Basically it's a clock that turns on a light when you press a button, and it's yellow by default but is green during an "ok to wake" time window when you have declared it an acceptable time to be woken. I'd recommend getting one to everyone whose kid is waking them up too early every day. We've tried to convince her that when the clock turns green she should feel free to just get up and play with toys rather than yelling for us before even getting out of bed, but she will have none of that. This routine was annoying but acceptable up until we started getting woken up in the middle of the night by her little brother. He is now "sleeping through the night" but that just means he's up for the day at 5:00 and so far cannot be persuaded to go back to sleep. When his sister was this age we were able to do a "snooze feed" wherein she breastfed for 5 minutes and went back to sleep for two hours. Given this opportunity he'll just nurse for half an hour and then not go back to sleep. There does not appear to be a solution other than "wait until he gets older and will eat more solid food." This morning he wouldn't eat jack poo poo at breakfast because he was exhausted from being awake since 5 AM. 
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Jan 10, 2024 16:16
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loquacius posted:Our 3-year-old is waking up at 6:30 every day because we got her one of those Ok To Wake clocks (or "reverse alarm clocks" I think?) Basically it's a clock that turns on a light when you press a button, and it's yellow by default but is green during an "ok to wake" time window when you have declared it an acceptable time to be woken. I'd recommend getting one to everyone whose kid is waking them up too early every day. We've tried to convince her that when the clock turns green she should feel free to just get up and play with toys rather than yelling for us before even getting out of bed, but she will have none of that. It took until she was 5 1/2 or 6, but our daughter finally started just going downstairs and turning cartoons on when her clock turns green. 7am on the dot all winter break, we heard her scamper downstairs. For the first year, "clock turns green" definitely meant to her "go wake up mom and dad"
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Jan 10, 2024 16:27
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Me to the 4yo: pooping is not a spectator sport!!! gently caress he's 4?
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Mustached Demon posted:Me to the 4yo: pooping is not a spectator sport!!! Where did you get the idea it wasn't? I'm just glad I'm early morning regular, so any potential audience is usually asleep.
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