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Any cool tricks for plane travel with an 18 month old?
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Mar 18, 2022 21:31
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I already hosed up then, because we bought last minute flights with a layover in both directions. But that “downloaded video on the iPad”idea is good. I’m normally trying to keep him away from screens and TV, but fuckit, I’ll do anything to keep him happy on this plane trip.
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Mar 19, 2022 05:03
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Plane Trip Report Things went super easy. No screaming, no problems with pressure changes. He actually went to sleep as soon as we took off on the first leg, and on the second leg he was frustrating but handleable, he just needed to have his distractions rotated every five minutes. The biggest help was borrowing a Cosco Scenera car seat. 10lbs and 16” wide, it was easy to carry and install. I’m going to shill for this car seat so hard they should pay me.
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Mar 22, 2022 17:46
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I’ll never read “Moo, Baa, La La La” the same way again.
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Mar 25, 2022 17:03
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When my kid turned one I got rid of pacifiers everywhere except in the crib. I’ll fight that battle some other day.
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Apr 2, 2022 21:25
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That’s my big fear with my kid.
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Apr 5, 2022 04:28
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His Divine Shadow posted:Both boys (twins) have ADHD and even with medication and assistants they've been unable to be in a class of kids, just too distracting, so the school has made for them their own class room where they get dedicated teachers and lessons so they can learn in ways that work for them. That’s amazing. Is this a public school doing all this?
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Apr 8, 2022 13:57
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Do kids actually believe in the Easter bunny the same way they believe in Santa?
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Apr 10, 2022 18:56
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I’m not a seasoned traveler with kids, but my go to advice is no layovers, check your luggage, bring a tablet, and, for small enough kids, bring a roll of masking tape (it keeps them occupied for a long time, I don’t understand it).
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Feb 20, 2024 05:20
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For my two US domestic flights we were required to put our car seat facing front.
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Feb 21, 2024 03:29
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:My wife and I made it a daily top priority goal to go outside every day. It's pretty easy to lose sight of it if you're at home with the baby. Having a dog who needs two walks a day is the only reason I leave the house some days.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:46
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Good for you. My oldest is 3.5 and barely pooping in the potty.
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Feb 23, 2024 22:55
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The General is a good movie about trains. Old, black and white, bit of slapstick. Pity the hero is a confederate, but that knowledge only comes up in intertitles so I just read it aloud differently.
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Feb 24, 2024 17:56
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And of all the problems you shouldn’t try solve for someone unasked, a kid’s bedtime routine has to be pretty high up there. It can be illogical and painful and ever-shifting, and even if you figure it out for one kid, that knowledge doesn’t mean anything for the other sibling WHO MUST SHARE AT LEAST SOME OF THE SAME GENES WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS so just being supportive is sometimes the way to go.
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Feb 27, 2024 04:25
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Jose Valasquez posted:Thank you to whoever recommended number blocks. After a few weeks of being obsessed with it my 3 year old is running around saying "10 is 5 + 5!" and knows that 9 is 3x3 and 4 is 2x2 Like, toy blocks with numbers?
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Feb 29, 2024 13:15
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We watched some Number Blocks. My son looked at the number one and said, “Does she miss her mom?” Looked at the number 2 and said, “Is that her mom?”
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Mar 1, 2024 00:49
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I hate Thomas the Train and I hate Super Wings.
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Mar 5, 2024 01:46
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“I only pass gas once a year, for an hour, atop a mountain in Switzerland.” – Jack Donaghy
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Mar 17, 2024 01:41
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The Johnny Cash Sugartime cover is top tier.
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Mar 21, 2024 22:05
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Dinner time. Time for the daily Negotiation Of The Silverware. “I don’t want a fork. I want a spoon. A bigger spoon. I want mommy’s fork. I want daddy have mommy’s fork. I want chopsticks. Other chopsticks. You can’t have a fork.” *takes one bite* “I don’t like it.”
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Mar 22, 2024 22:41
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:We had this phase. I feel ya. Luckily it passed rather quickly. Hope it does for you, too. I kinda zone it out. I went through my own phases of, “this is cute,” to, “this is really annoying,” to, “I completely disassociate and think about other things while it’s happening.”
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Mar 22, 2024 23:57
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On the other hand, you all understand more of your child’s grunts and sounds and word-like noises than you know. I was on a train with my son and a friend, and my son clearly said, “I’m on a train.” I said, “yes we are.” My friend looked at me and said, “I have no idea what he just said.” But, like, it was very clear to me, and it made me wonder if I’m subconsciously interpreting things without knowing it.
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Mar 23, 2024 17:35
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Time to watch a lot of Moomins?
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Mar 23, 2024 22:56
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Holy poo poo, is that how it works? This is horrifying.
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Mar 26, 2024 03:53
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Having kids is like being in an abusive narcissistic relationship, but you know what, I appreciate the love bombing.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:06
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cuber posted:Little guy (2.5yo) was mopey tonight, kept complaining, got mad about any of the food I tried to make for him, would go to his room and cry, come out 15 minutes later to tell me, "I'm sad!" We'd try to get what's wrong out of him, but figured he was just tired from not having a nap. I fear this for my kids. But I didn’t have a lot of friends in daycare either, and I weirdly have one strong memory of being absolutely excluded, so I hope I’ll be able to help.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:13
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The key to a happy life, especially as a parent, is to develop a taste for the things that other people hate. I love peeps, so everyone gives me theirs.
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Apr 1, 2024 00:00
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My kids/toddlers are learning about death from ladybugs. Earlier in the year there were living ladybugs in our house. Now there are dead ladybugs in our house. It feels good to get the basics of this conversation done early.
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Apr 2, 2024 00:53
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I’ve found that sleeping is illogical. I can’t make seemingly logical statements like, “if I wake them up earlier in the morning then they’ll go to sleep earlier at night.” Hell, I can’t even say, “if my kid is tired then they’ll sleep.” I don’t know that kids connect the problem of being tired with the solution of sleep. Sometimes the solution is to scream about it.
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Apr 2, 2024 20:15
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Scene: early morning. 3yo: “Mommy, wake up, I have the cat’s toy!” *hands my wife a dead mouse*
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Apr 5, 2024 13:27
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I just successfully pulled off an old trick and I’m proud of myself and want to share it. Kid was melting down. I kept telling him that he could do whatever he wanted, but he wasn’t allowed to smile. I don’t want to see him smiling. Absolutely not allowed to smile. He couldn’t smile. No smiling here. We’re a no smiling house. Result: 
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Apr 11, 2024 02:50
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And remember you can download movies on a lot of iPad apps, like Disney. Also the Khan Academy app is pretty fun.
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Apr 20, 2024 15:04
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My toddler’s into the Spider-Man show on Disney. On one hand, yay! Spider-Man! On the other hand, now he’s asking me to draw Spider-Man, and it is not easy. I know he doesn’t really care, but I have a bit of pride and want to learn to draw this correctly, and it’s a lot harder than when he was into trains.
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Apr 22, 2024 00:31
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Muir posted:Spidey and His Amazing Friends? My 3 and 6 year old both love it. I was just playing Doc Ock vs Spin and Ghosty as their bedtime roughhousing game. That’s the one. Does roughhousing make them tired for bedtime?
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Apr 22, 2024 15:25
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That is nice of the bees!
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Apr 23, 2024 23:30
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I enjoy how kids will sometimes, accidentally, say something with perfect comedic timing. My son walked into my room this morning with binoculars and said, “with binoculars I can see you from far away.” Then he puts them up to his eyes the wrong way, and says, “see, you’re far away.”
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Apr 29, 2024 01:13
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I have one from Harppa, had it for a year I think. Dunno how long it will last, it’s fine so far. But I have to keep a hex key nearby because the screws will slowly unscrew from being folded back and forth so often.
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May 2, 2024 20:49
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Any good books or articles on bedtime? My 3.5 yo hasn’t gone down easily to bed in probably 6 months. I’d like to fix this. We have an okay routine, but not it’s not exact every night, and I don’t know if that’s the problem. I don’t think he’s getting enough sleep in general. He doesn’t nap anymore. I don’t know how strict to be about it all.
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May 3, 2024 01:57
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I took my kid to his friend’s fourth birthday party, and it took place at a trampoline park, and I was about as happy as I could be. I love those places.
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May 5, 2024 22:05
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Cimber posted:No idea what that is. My kids are past the kiddie movie stage. You’ve never talked bout Bruno no no no?
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May 6, 2024 00:09
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