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Alterian posted:One of the ones I had to deal with made me take forms to the daycare to sign for each reciept to verify and I had to scan each one in induvidually. And then fax them in. One at a time. With a minimum 1 week dwell period between.
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sheri posted:I was the treasurer on the board of directors on the daycare my son went to (it was set up as a non profit so it needed a board). It's bonkers. My wife is a director, she doesn't see the budget but knows enough that the building's owner had to open 3 franchises before he made enough to quit his day job. She makes a lot of money for her position and I still make more than her. From what I'm told though, most of the teachers don't mind the crazy. You don't go into a field like that unless you love kids. Then the kids turn into the easy part, it's those drat parents that cause all the grief. Plus once you get into 2s, you can start building routines and structure which makes the day flow easier. Before that, it's just a bunch of babies, and babies own so much who doesn't love babies.
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Alterian posted:One of the ones I had to deal with made me take forms to the daycare to sign for each reciept to verify and I had to scan each one in induvidually. I never did a dependent care FSA but I did medical once. They gave me grief over hospital bills because we had a god drat baby and didn't like the way it was itemized. I guess a bill from a hospital isn't proof enough that it's a medical expense? Never again. I'd rather just pay the loving taxes on it.
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Oct 19, 2022 02:21
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My DCFSA is I guess somewhere in between, but not too bad. I have to earn it per-paycheck, but then the receipt I get from daycare every month is apparently sufficient for reimbursement. So once I accrue more than 1 month of daycare tuition I upload my latest statement with a very quick blurb about it being daycare for my kid, and a few days later I get money in my checking account. Should have enough for another reimbursement in a month or so. Then a few hundo left over to get reimbursed after the new year before it all starts over again.
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Oct 19, 2022 02:29
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Ours was born... Like a couple days after normal healthcare insurance "open enrollment" closed and it took us like two months to get her retroactively covered from birth. Some moron/penny pincher was trying to deny all of her hospital bills because we didn't enroll her during open enrollment. Which had ended before she was born. Also being born is an exemption from open enrollment. Like, over a million babies are born each year in the US alone, getting coverage started is not at all an uncommon thing. I'm just  over here at the idea that onboarding newborns would have this many bugs. It's a brand new life/medical record, there's no historical data to gently caress up your process
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Oct 19, 2022 02:35
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fourwood posted:My DCFSA is I guess somewhere in between, but not too bad. I have to earn it per-paycheck, but then the receipt I get from daycare every month is apparently sufficient for reimbursement. So once I accrue more than 1 month of daycare tuition I upload my latest statement with a very quick blurb about it being daycare for my kid, and a few days later I get money in my checking account. Should have enough for another reimbursement in a month or so. Then a few hundo left over to get reimbursed after the new year before it all starts over again. We have it pretty easy, relatively, although I think we’re about the only family that uses it - work-run daycare had no idea what we were talking about. It gets pulled from my paycheck and loaded onto a Mastercard my wife swipes every two weeks or so. Never had to muck with receipts or anything. It’s our first year using it so we’ll see if it becomes a giant pain in the rear end at the end of the year.
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Oct 19, 2022 03:09
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Yeah, I think it’s extremely vendor dependent ( ). My dependent FSA is really easy to use- I submit receipts up front because we max out the benefit in about 2 months, but then I just get a reimbursement direct deposited each week the day after my paycheck hits. We also have extremely inexpensive, comprehensive, and easy to use health insurance, and for real I think it’s my company’s version of golden handcuffs because it sure ain’t the pay.
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Oct 19, 2022 13:12
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Halloween provokes a lot of really weird conversations with my daughter. The other day we were at Target and there was a huge inflatable gate with WELCOME MORTALS on it. She asks what a mortal is, so I explain they're those who die like us and like animals do. "Okay... why does the gate say that?" I guess it's a gate to the underworld, where in myths weird demons that don't die exist. Apparently the gate is welcoming the dead mortals to the underworld. "That's weird." It is a little weird! It makes more sense in context, but it's also a weird context. "Let's move on." Yes, let's.
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Oct 19, 2022 14:41
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All I can say about our insurance is that it's orders of magnitude cheaper (like $20 vs. $200) to take the kiddos to the ED than to the after hours care clinic. Guess where we go all the time. (Bonus when it turns out to be a legitimate medical emergency.)
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Oct 19, 2022 14:42
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The other morning our kid picked up my partners water glass and took a drink from it, then announced: "me drink glass water!" Only, he can't quite pronounce 'L's or hard 'G's. So what came out was a very cheerful "me drink rear end water!"
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Oct 19, 2022 18:01
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Lead out in cuffs posted:"me drink rear end water!" wicked same
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Oct 19, 2022 18:29
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$5k a year?! Wow!! That only leaves $33k of daycare costs that need to be taxed out of our income but at least we get so much in return for our taxes, like police overtime! The government sure is great!
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Oct 19, 2022 19:01
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Lead out in cuffs posted:The other morning our kid picked up my partners water glass and took a drink from it, then announced: "me drink glass water!" Our kid does something similar in that he pronounces “ah” like “uh.” When he asks us to read him Fox in Socks, which is all the time since it’s his favorite book, it comes out as something….inappropriate.
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Oct 20, 2022 00:04
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There was a period when mine would make the words "fork" and "frog" sound hilariously inappropriate.
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Oct 20, 2022 00:24
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My son will yell loudly whenever he sees a clock, but he is not good at L’s yet. It’s pretty funny.
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Oct 20, 2022 00:50
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My kid calls trucks cucks, which is great whenever she's pointing at some shithead with a lifted Ford f-150
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Oct 20, 2022 01:00
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Just hit a major developmental milestone and couldn’t be more proud. Big ole turd in the bathtub.
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Oct 20, 2022 01:31
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Ah, the Hunt for Turd October
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Yeah we went 15 months with no pooping in the tub, then bam, 3 times in the span of a couple weeks
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Brawnfire posted:Ah, the Hunt for Turd October Unfortunately, children take dumps without plans.
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Oct 20, 2022 03:42
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Ugh, kid has RSV.  Lots of quiet quitting and not a lot of sleeping for me this week I guess. Poor thing seems like she feels really bad.
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Just got off a long flight EVERYONE had a cough the stewardess in my section freely offered that she had covid (and no mask on) nice raspy voice Top off your family on your boosters ahead of holiday travel Edit: also projectile vomit at 40,000 ft. I just threw that set of clothes away. Not worth it. All over the car seat too.
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Oct 20, 2022 06:20
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I remember a time when my oldest was still a baby. My husband was dropping his car off at Walmart to get tires or something and I followed in my car to take him home. He had him in his car. When we got there he got out and had a look on his face. He said "it sounded like he was dumping a gallon of milk". In the car ride there, he had thrown up all the formula he just drank all over himself, the car seat, and back of the car. It was also pretty cold out. Of course it was just a quick there and back so I didn't bring the diaper bag. We found an old gym shirt in the car that he wore into Walmart so I could buy him new clothes and dress him in the bathroom.
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Oct 20, 2022 10:49
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There are few worse feelings than driving around and hearing The Burp from the backseat, knowing what will inevitably follow.
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Oct 20, 2022 11:35
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Yup. Had that once while driving home from my parent's house, halfway into an hour and half drive You clean it the best you can but there's only so much you can do without ripping the entire car seat apart and throwing it all in the washing machine, so poor kiddo had to sit in stinky cheesy car seat the rest of the way. Nothing beats wiping barf off your kid in some random gas station in an unfamiliar neighborhood at 9 in the evening. The only saving grace is that my wife was with in the back seat with him, so she was able to catch most of it. We don't give him milk in the car anymore.
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Oct 20, 2022 11:52
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I feel lucky that my kid ended up vomiting on only two occasions in three years: when she was about a year old and we introduced peanut butter, and on the recent trip abroad, when she projectile vomited into my wife's mouth due to norovirus or something. She made up for the lack of vomit in spades by totally destroying the sleep schedule tho. 
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Oct 20, 2022 13:39
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This is great. Oldest son had HFM, missed preschool…gave it to infant so he was kicked out of daycare. Oldest son went back on Monday to school. Two days ago he had a fever and was sent home. Dr appointment yesterday with a sinus infection-given antibiotics. Our preschool is run by the government and their policy is any fever-not coming back for 3 days even though the pediatrician gave him a clean bill of health to return friday. I love paying for daycare and preschool we hardly use. It’s great. My wife is really enjoying all the free time she has to apply for jobs /s
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My daughter, my wife and me have been ill now for about three weeks, just with back-to-back colds. TV time and sleep routine have gone out the window, we're all exhausted. What age did you get your kids a tablet or other screen-interaction device?
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jabby posted:My daughter, my wife and me have been ill now for about three weeks, just with back-to-back colds. TV time and sleep routine have gone out the window, we're all exhausted.
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jabby posted:My daughter, my wife and me have been ill now for about three weeks, just with back-to-back colds. TV time and sleep routine have gone out the window, we're all exhausted. Are you also me?
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Oct 20, 2022 18:16
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This thread is obviously a single Parent projecting themselves through time and space.
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gbut posted:This thread is obviously a single Parent projecting themselves through time and space. A sleep deficit so severe it breaks time and space itself.
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Oct 20, 2022 18:29
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jabby posted:What age did you get your kids a tablet or other screen-interaction device? That said, if you're a Disney+ subscriber the upgraded storage model holds a shitload of downloaded content--like entire TV series and multiple movies--and there's a handful of Dr. Panda games we were comfortable with him playing with. Once you have it loaded up just kill the WiFi and they can't really do anything to seriously screw it up. Also the battery lasts all day. Since then we've gone on multiple 10+ hour trips and we don't hear a peep out of him the entire time.
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jabby posted:What age did you get your kids a tablet or other screen-interaction device? Not yet, at nearly 4. I have no idea when it is going to happen though. We feel like it’s inevitable but can’t think of a reason.
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While we are on the subject of devices, my nearly two year old was given a switch. I know, it’s a bit absurd. It was a hand me down from a friend’s kid, so it’s pretty beat to poo poo already. I haven’t given it to my son just yet, but I’m wondering if there are any games I can turn on for him that would be easy for him to just button mash and wander around in. Or feel free to tell me that’s crazy and just hold onto it for a few more years first.
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Oct 20, 2022 23:09
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I think at that age the best you're gonna get is them watching you play Fall Guys. Kirby Forgotten Land also has a cute lil sidekick mode. Not even two is real young though.
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Agreed. Two is probably too young. That's more of a sit and watch age. If you are a gamer and haven't had a Switch yet, get Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey. My daughter loved watching me play those when she was 2.5.
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Awww yeah I bet he would love watching me play Mario galaxy, it’s so colorful 
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Good-Natured Filth posted:Agreed. Two is probably too young. That's more of a sit and watch age. If you are a gamer and haven't had a Switch yet, get Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey. My daughter loved watching me play those when she was 2.5. My little toddler loved watching/directing Untitled Goose Game.
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BadSamaritan posted:My little toddler loved watching/directing Untitled Goose Game. My daughter was almost 5 when that came out. We played together and she loved running around, honking at people, and stealing their poo poo. It's a great game to play with little kids.
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