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lifg posted:Scene: early morning. this is a sign of respect in their culture
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kazz posted:Newborn projectile pooped while dad was changing his already poopy diaper. Dad dodged it, and now it’s all over my rug instead. Can't say I blame Dad but RIP your rug.
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Apr 5, 2024 15:22
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Surgery went well. Handoff at the OR was ROUGH. Like a first time daycare dropoff on all the steroids. My kid is naturally pretty chill, so we thought the discharge orders of “take it easy, no recess or roughhousing for a while” would be a cinch. Then a friend sent over a huge ‘get well soon’ balloon and suddenly this kid wants to run all over the house chasing it. You were knocked out with someone’s hands inside you less than 36 hours ago, take a break!!
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Democratic Pirate posted:Surgery went well. Handoff at the OR was ROUGH. Like a first time daycare dropoff on all the steroids. Godspeed. We're almost at the end of a 3 month recovery after an emergency surgery over Christmas and trying to get a toddler to chill the gently caress out is impossible
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Apr 5, 2024 23:21
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Late to sleep chat, but my wife and I ended up hiring a sleep specialist for our daughter. To be honest the specialist was more for us, so we didn't feel like absolute monsters leaving our kid to scream. All told it took about 3 nights to go from in bed with us, waking every 1.5hrs, to in her own bed sleeping uninterrupted from 6:30pm to 7am every night, with a 2 hr nap at 1230 every day. That's basically been her routine for the last 8 months and it's been a life saver
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Apr 6, 2024 09:33
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kazz posted:Newborn projectile pooped while dad was changing his already poopy diaper. Dad dodged it, and now it’s all over my rug instead. I can't help but think of projectile pooping little nuggets, pop pop pop, all over the room. Then I remembered when ours did it and it was more like the exorcist, a stream of horror that sprayed to the very edge of the change table, and somehow I managed to jump back just far enough away.
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Apr 6, 2024 10:24
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My partner and I both have food poisoning. 3 year old and 9 month old missed it. Which is good and all but also they're in full energy mode. Gonna be a long day
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Apr 6, 2024 16:13
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I'm sorry to dump this here but I just need to get this out and try to feel less heavy. My daughter and I are both home sick with covid, and today I left her in a diaper with a massive loose BM for almost four hours because I didn't smell anything even though we were playing together. I knew my nose was shot but it didn't occurr to me to check her regularly for this. Her bottom was red and she cried when I wiped her, and I had a meltdown and could not stop weeping. Right now I don't know what I hate more that I let that happen to her or that she saw me cry like this in front of her and not be able to hold it in. I haven't been sleeping because I can't breathe through my nose and I'm just so tired and when I saw her skin I could not maintain any more. She's at this age where she understands that crying is sad and means something is wrong, but there's no way i can explain everything that's going on inside my head or be able to concentrate. Has anyone dealt with this and were your kids ok later on. I can't even write what she said to me and how sweet she was because it will start all over again.
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Apr 6, 2024 17:03
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For the rash put diaper cream on it liberally and reapply as necessary for the next couple of days. Some kids have pretty sensitive skin and will get a rash if they sit in a soiled diaper for more than like five minutes. Others can go a while longer but treatment is the same.
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Apr 6, 2024 17:21
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And it’s totally ok to say “mommy/daddy is feeling sad right now.” I’ve been there, it’s rough. Hope you feel better soon!
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Apr 6, 2024 17:29
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It's not the same situation, but we had to deal with the death of a beloved pet when our kid was too young to feel emotional about it but old enough to be curious about our grief. It's okay to show them emotions and explain that you're feeling really strong right now, that it's normal, that it passes, that feelings aren't forever.
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Apr 6, 2024 17:45
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To quote John candy from home alone "kids are resilient" They are amazingly adept at understanding that mistakes can be made, emotions exist, and that you still care and love them. I think that's why second kids have the potential to be easier emotionally, you realize it's OK to make an honest mistake (to a point) and that you're not ruining your relationship or scarring the kid.
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Apr 6, 2024 19:01
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Thank you for the kind words everyone. We took a nap on the couch together, and her bottom already looks mostly normal again. (I did slather on some butt paste right afterwards, maybe too much lol) Even just from sleeping briefly I feel much less like a disaster person. We also just watched an episode of Little Bear where its Canadian writers apparently thought maracas were, in fact, an instrument originating from Morocco, all the characters dancing around to middle eastern rhythms while wearing giant sombreros. I needed the laugh.
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Apr 6, 2024 19:35
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Tom Smykowski posted:My partner and I both have food poisoning. 3 year old and 9 month old missed it. Which is good and all but also they're in full energy mode. He's never even seen someone puke so when it suddenly happened to him, he was understandably terrified Edit: goddamn so much puke Tom Smykowski fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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Apr 6, 2024 20:11
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Discussing child sleep with my brother, and we live very different lives. Our 2 year old has never slept in our bed and everyone should do whatever they want but that sounds awful, no thanks
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Apr 7, 2024 00:31
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It’s actually really healthy for you to have emotions in front of your kids that aren’t happy ones, and show them how you cope with them and that it’s not shameful to be sad or mad or whatever! One day she’s going to have those feelings and how you model for her (Mom is sad she made a mistake! Mom is yelling because I stubbed my toe and it hurt A LOT but I’m not mad at you!) will help her build her toolset to handle them herself. So - it’s okay! Accidents happen but she knows you love her and she’ll be fine.
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Apr 7, 2024 01:00
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I cry at the drop of a hat, my kids just make fun of me now
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Apr 7, 2024 01:12
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Next time either of my kids ask to go to bed I'm calling them a liar and making them stay up another hour at least Stupid me thinking they were catching on to how tired felt, they just wanted to see it in my face
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Apr 7, 2024 03:46
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So my 18mo son finished his first week of preschool (three half days a week) and the dropoffs on days two and three saw some tears, but overall they said he had good days. Not a lot of detail, and I'm not sure what to expect other than any issues coming up. With the drop-off and pick-up drive times, the days went by so quickly on our end. But he started feeling sick Thursday night, after we already did a telemed visit over a bug bite. He's had a recurring fever of 102 for two days now (ibuprofen helped though) and the worst sleep in months, and it turns out he has the flu. Only 12 hours of preschool in, already scored influenza. He got the flu shot and the flu booster before the fall, I thought starting in April would at least spare us that one! When I'm sick, I sleep way more. This boy is not sleeping any more than usual. Separately, he showed some signs of readiness so we started sitting him on the potty when he asks or he wakes up with a dry-ish diaper. But we kept him interested by letting him watch garbage truck videos on our phones, and he doesn't watch videos on our phones very often. Now he is just asking to go potty way more than he needs to because he wants to watch these videos. And I'm happy he's practicing more and showing interest, but I'm worried letting him watch these videos on our phones is backfiring on us in some way. Mistaken Frisbee fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:
Same, except we would read her a picture book for each potty visit. I wish I could say it was easy to wean her off those. It formed a habit very quickly. Pro: she was dry and fully potty trained at 2 1/2 which was more or less our goal. Con: Still struggling with getting her to use the toilet independently, at 5. These days she gets a short audio story on our Bluetooth speaker instead but once school starts after summer she’ll need to accept the boredom of solo pooping. Any advice is welcome.
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Apr 7, 2024 08:45
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I read “so my son finished his first week of preschool” and I immediately knew that him getting sick was going to be part of the story. Our second is on like illness five since starting in late January and currently has an extremely annoying lingering cough that probably will finally go away the day before he gets another cold.
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Apr 7, 2024 13:25
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My mom gave me my baby book a couple months ago, and in it was a calendar of my milestones from my first year I had two entries on the same day: quote:First day of preschool
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Apr 7, 2024 13:44
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Yeah since my son started preschool back in August of last year, it feels like we've been healthy maybe 10% of the time and the rest is runny nose and lingering cough at best. Re: potty training We did the no pants method of training and never gave him anything special to do on the potty. We used to give him one arrowroot cookie for a pee and two for a poop but just explained to him that it was only for training and that once it was expected of him, he wouldn't get it. He'd still ask for it and do a little whine sometimes after but got with the program quickly. Do y'all think that if your kid doesn't get their special entertainment that they'll just go in their pants? At 18mo I really wouldn't expect to be actually potty trained and they just happen to be doing it when sitting there. Right now you're being scammed for special videos. Get used to it cause toddlers are crafty little buggers. For the 5 year old though what happens if you just don't go with them to entertain?
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Apr 7, 2024 13:58
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Me and the kids came down with COVID the first week of daycare. I am glad they don't get sick nearly as often now (2 years later) but man those first ~6 months were difficult. Our pediatrician assured us this was normal and we would thank ourselves later when they enter kindergarten with a more robust immune system.
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Apr 7, 2024 14:02
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We used the tablet as incentive to get our toddler on the toilet and it led to about a week of saying he needed to use the bathroom just to get the tablet. But eventually something flipped and he stopped asking for it 
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Apr 7, 2024 14:55
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This morning my kid took a tiny screwdriver and scratched a smiley face in the wall. Once he realized what he did, he felt instant remorse, came clean to mommy, and cried so hard he had to be consoled. It didn't scratch the paint and instead just left a tiny indent on a wall that already looks like colossal poo poo. It has two gouges in it already (me being careless with the vacuum), and peeling paint in a few spots(me not knowing glidden is absolute garbage paint)I knew the face was there and I still couldn't find it without help. On one hand, I'm thankful that I have such a good, kindhearted and honest kid. But holy poo poo dude you need some backbone, and maybe stop being so much of a fuckin NARC. I'm not gonna defend you when you get beat up in school for reminding the teacher that they forgot to assign homework.
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Apr 7, 2024 15:11
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Renegret posted:This morning my kid took a tiny screwdriver and scratched a smiley face in the wall. Once he realized what he did, he felt instant remorse, came clean to mommy, and cried so hard he had to be consoled. Sounds pretty serious, maybe ask the pediatrician for a prescription for some ‘tude. In the meantime I recommend taking your child skateboarding and try tagging some buildings with spray paint. If the fuzz come then of course it’s every man for himself so make sure you’re faster on the board than the kid. Don’t let them wear a helmet or other kids will make fun of them.
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Apr 7, 2024 15:18
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man the problem with not wearing a helmet is that then you can't show off your totally awesome spiderman helmet that matches your totally awesome spiderman bike. Actually right by swimming lessons there's a skate park and he keeps telling me he wants to ride his bike there but it's always too cold. Maybe someday I'll let him loose to get hurt, assuming it's a nice day and there's nobody else using it that we'll be in the way for. Which is unlikely because it's always full of people even in terrible weather.
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Apr 7, 2024 15:22
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There's an organization around here that does skateboarding lessons starting as young as 2. I'm increasingly tempted to sign the toddler up for it. Also, her bangs were getting in her eyes so I'd planned on trimming them this weekend. My sister is in Ohio visiting family for the eclipse, and my cousin has a bunch of old photos from when we were all kids that my sister shared yesterday. There are a few where you can definitely see my mom's...handiwork... on my sisters' and my bangs. That was definitely on my mind when I trimmed the toddler's bangs this morning.
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Apr 7, 2024 16:39
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Any advice or guesses for why our 6 month old refuses to nap for more than 30 minutes at home, but does just fine sleeping longer at daycare? The room is dark (as it is at daycare). She sleeps fine at night.
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Apr 7, 2024 16:56
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dismas posted:Any advice or guesses for why our 6 month old refuses to nap for more than 30 minutes at home, but does just fine sleeping longer at daycare? The room is dark (as it is at daycare). She sleeps fine at night. Try spacing out the naps a little more. That was the key for us to stop the short naps around 4 months. Literally the first day we adjusted his schedule he napped for two hours straight.
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Thanks to the magic of full grandparent support and take out dinner orders my wife and I have gone to bed before midnight 3 whole days in a row. If we can keep the momentum and shift it to 10pm I might develop magic powers.
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Son is 3 1/2, been at preschool 5 months, has gotten 1 cold a month. I've avoided two of them but wife caught them all and has basically been coughing for two months straight even with some prescription meds. The last cold he got over in a day but both of us have been knocked out for three weeks. We are also in the middle of a bunch of tests for him as he is not really socializing with the kids at school and has had a speech delay since the beginning. He seems distracted by all the things going on in a larger classroom and has trouble focusing. We are going tests through both Kaiser and our school district so there is a million forms to fill out and we've already had to reschedule things because he or one of us is sick, good times. Despite that the preschool has seen a rapid increase in the amount of words he says and volunteers to say, and speech therapy has also paid off even if we only can go every 2-3 weeks. He is still way behind in both forming complex sentences and some pronunciation but I'm just grateful he didn't get stuck at nonverbal.
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Rufio posted:For the 5 year old though what happens if you just don't go with them to entertain? We tried a few times; she invariably suddenly "doesn't have to go any more". Some days, you can roll with it and take a chance that she will just go when she has to. We had a few accidents at preschool this way, and she didn't seem to learn from them unfortunately. Other days you are getting in a car/bus/bike for a long trip and you start making compromises on your lofty principles.
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Rufio posted:Yeah since my son started preschool back in August of last year, it feels like we've been healthy maybe 10% of the time and the rest is runny nose and lingering cough at best. Yeah, I've been dreading this part of the starting school phase, but I at least am relieved we were able to wait until 18 months when his immune system is stronger. I'm a little more worried when we have another and they spread everything to each other. Newborn fevers are scary, but at least there's an RSV vaccine for when the time comes. And yes, my wife and I weren't setting any expectations for potty training at 18 months. He just started showing interest in those bodily functions and intentionally peeing (unfortunately often in the tub or other non-diaper surfaces), so we figured it was worth exploring a little. Mostly I just want this kid to stop intentionally peeing outside a potty/diaper during our nightly bath/bedtime routine. We're trying hard not to create any pressure on him since apparently it can set them back, particularly when they try it this early. I will say he has peed in the potty many of these times and clearly was trying to pee other times (whether he had any in him or not), so he is upholding his end of the bargain by trying. He just doesn't always need it and he is gaining more interest in our phones, which he used to ignore.
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My daughter came out of nowhere asking me to tell her about factorials. I don't know how she heard about factorials but I had to explain them. As far as I know she's only doing multiplication in school, so this was a bit odd.
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I'll explain it as simply as I can for parents whose kids are about to start daycare. You will be sick. All. The. Time. You and your kids can be the healthiest, most nutritious, well rested, stress free family out there. It won't matter. You will be sick 90% of your days for a year easy.
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I forgot to update my tax stuff for the second kid so we’re on track to get a solid refund. Not my intention as it’s an interest free loan to the government, but after these past 6 months of medical stress we’re gonna allocate a chunk to a fancy date night and some hobby toys for mom and dad.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I'll explain it as simply as I can for parents whose kids are about to start daycare. We're starting the germ potluck this week. It's a transition session. just to see if we can kick off with a sick day before we officially attend (aka the Gifted Kids program)
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I'll explain it as simply as I can for parents whose kids are about to start daycare. can confirm, child has attended three (3) days of daycare, entire house is sick
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