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But seriously, the result is not the point of children's drawings, it's the process plus hopefully the joy of giving that counts.
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El Mero Mero posted:we’ve got one set of grandparents who are old and keep promising things and then delivering 1/3rd of what they promise, leaving us in the lurch. They’re like we’ll babysit two days and then we book a hotel for a wedding and they let us know the day before they can only do 1 because babysitting is so hard and then we have to scramble to fill the gap last second. the question is how are they still alive. your spouse didnt kill them?
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Apr 27, 2024 18:02
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my daughters new favorite activity is dropping her food on the floor and saying "uh oh! bye bye!" its very cute also too messy.
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Apr 27, 2024 19:21
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lobster shirt posted:my daughters new favorite activity is dropping her food on the floor and saying "uh oh! bye bye!" its very cute also too messy. Get a dog
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Apr 27, 2024 20:03
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When we feed the baby anywhere other than our house I have the bad habit of just leaving food on the floor because I'm used to our dog cleaning it up
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Apr 27, 2024 20:09
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my cat will eat food on the ground lol, like any random crumb of whatever
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Apr 27, 2024 20:11
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i have never fed my cats people food and i don't think they are aware that it's edible
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Apr 27, 2024 20:42
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lobster shirt posted:i have never fed my cats people food and i don't think they are aware that it's edible hosed up
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Apr 27, 2024 20:45
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cinci goons, we’re coming for a long weekend in a few weeks. are the zoo, aquarium in KY, and science center all worth going to?
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Apr 28, 2024 02:22
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El Mero Mero posted:grandparents chat: oh god, my inlaws are here and I feel your pain. Like,my parents don't promise anything, they are also not physically capable of really chasing a kid around, or much if it isn't quiet activities. But my inlaws are in excellent shape, and keep coming super eager about how much they'll help. And they try! But they are duds. Yesterday I come out of 30 minutes of putting the baby to sleep, and I find my toddler covered in pee, and playing around, instead of in bed. "The toddler peed. What do I do?" So in the last half hour changing the toddler, pulling off the sheets or examining the 3 (three!) Drawers in the room see if there were any clean sheets were unfathomable activities? At this point I just want them to not say that they'll help. And certainly not the only example of they being useless about following simple instructions, or even drat looking at water bottles for a second to see if they were for babies or what. They came to me the other day with a crying baby who was thirsthy as heck because they had been holding a toddler botle upside down, as a baby bottle, to the baby. The plastic straw was up in the air, above the water. For 15minutes or so. God wth.
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Apr 28, 2024 11:59
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/\/\/\ lol jesus Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:the question is how are they still alive. your spouse didnt kill them? they’re lucky I didn’t need or want to go to this wedding that badly and I eventually intervened to save them and just skipped part of the wedding to take the kid for the pre-event day.
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Apr 28, 2024 12:18
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It's quite striking how useless grandparents are at looking after a child, despite the fact that by definition they have plenty of experience doing so The brain must dump all that information directly into the bin as soon as the kids fly the nest
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Apr 28, 2024 14:26
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I don't think it's dumped or different. I think this is just what we got and we just didn't know enough to be outraged. Inlaw dud moments give me flashbacks to direct behaviours my spouse does or believes in. It's so easy to trace a pathway to some specific things my spouse does that I think sucks rear end, like for example they glorify biting.
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Apr 28, 2024 14:45
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Wth does "glorify biting" mean? Also don't tell me if it will scar me.
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Apr 28, 2024 14:59
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Hungry hungry hippos glorifies biting
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Apr 28, 2024 15:24
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They in law family member sees cute things they are compelled to bite them. They think it is natural and correct response to like stuffed animals or cute food. For the children it is like munching toes or shoulder. In law brother married someone who sees eye to eye with him on biting and surprise surprise their child is getting called out of day care for biting. The child free auntie gets real dark and psychopathic about it and the last time (Thanksgiving I think, Gramma snuck the kid into aunties arms despite our ongoing feud) she used teeth and left a mark and I remain upset. I have made my stance known: biting is hosed up. Don't bite your friends. Then I hijack all available screens with my cell phone to blast this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6UWNA-WQgI If you wanna do biting do that in private and be ashamed. Dad will fight all vampires like Blade!
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Apr 28, 2024 15:33
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Microplastics posted:Hungry hungry hippos glorifies biting That's right! Hippos are dangerous animals! They kill the most humans out of any animal in their environment. Way more dangerous than gaters.
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Apr 28, 2024 15:35
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KirbyKhan posted:They in law family member sees cute things they are compelled to bite them. They think it is natural and correct response to like stuffed animals or cute food. For the children it is like munching toes or shoulder. In law brother married someone who sees eye to eye with him on biting and surprise surprise their child is getting called out of day care for biting. The child free auntie gets real dark and psychopathic about it and the last time (Thanksgiving I think, Gramma snuck the kid into aunties arms despite our ongoing feud) she used teeth and left a mark and I remain upset. What in the fresh hell..
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Apr 28, 2024 16:54
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here is a grandparent story from today. for background my father in law is living with us. my wife has to work today so my mom came over to help watch the two kids. we were all in the back yard, my kids playing on the side of the house, grandparents sitting on the porch. i see my daughter wander from the side of the house into the back yard. thinking to myself that grandparents can handle watching her i continue playing with my son. like ten minutes later my mom comes out all indignant that i left my 16 month old daughter all alone in the back yard (which is horrifying and i feel guilty and am glad nothing bad happened) but i was like where the heck were y'all and she said "oh we just decided to go inside where it's cooler." like wtf lady the reason you're here is to help watch the kids!!! you can't go inside when they're outside and especially you can't do that without telling me!!!!!!!!! thank goodness nothing bad happened at least
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Apr 28, 2024 17:10
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KirbyKhan posted:They in law family member sees cute things they are compelled to bite them. They think it is natural and correct response to like stuffed animals or cute food. For the children it is like munching toes or shoulder. In law brother married someone who sees eye to eye with him on biting and surprise surprise their child is getting called out of day care for biting. The child free auntie gets real dark and psychopathic about it and the last time (Thanksgiving I think, Gramma snuck the kid into aunties arms despite our ongoing feud) she used teeth and left a mark and I remain upset. what in the sam hill
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Apr 28, 2024 17:14
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Grandparent story my cousin's wife told me about her in-laws (my aunt and uncle) watching their kids over night a few months back. Their kids are 11 and 5. My aunt insisting on putting them to bed at 8pm on a Saturday night. The 11 yo was understandably not tired at all and not on board with this! So my aunt gave him melatonin to make him fall asleep. I sometimes have to check my dad because he has well-intentioned but potentially dangerous ideas, but good lord between this thread and some friends/family grandparent stories I'm very thankful for both sets being local and good with the kids
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Apr 28, 2024 17:20
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sure grandparents, you can come over and help out today, come as soon as you can because the chaos starts basically at 7. 30 min before noon nap time: we’ll be there soon. thanks guys.
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Apr 29, 2024 00:09
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its astounding how my daughter can find the exact perfect foot position to make putting on pants incredibly difficult
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Apr 29, 2024 00:16
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since we are ranting my older childless sibling makes huge overtures to help with our 5mo old, talking about how she is amazing with kids and is dying to spend more time with him. we say "ok we need coverage for two days you can stay on our couch" and she agrees ez pz no problem, she shows up at the end of day 1 and then on day 2 only plays with our baby for an hour then gets tired and goes on her phone. no diapers changed, no feedings, no putting down for naps after begging us for months - we end up calling in our grandma to do the real childcare then said sibling posts all over social media what an amazing caregiver she is and how she is so excited to be a super aunt blah blah blah families man, we just needed some coverage after daycare fell thru
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Apr 29, 2024 00:26
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lobster shirt posted:its astounding how my daughter can find the exact perfect foot position to make putting on pants incredibly difficult YES I’m not the only one. it’s usually the second foot after the first goes in 200% without issue.
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Apr 29, 2024 00:32
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I can’t have my father in law watch my kid because dude is 81, spaces out, and naps with his eyes open so I thought one day dude was fuckin dead.
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Apr 29, 2024 00:49
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i will say my mom and father in law are normally a lot more attentive than that, i was so surprised! the reason i didn't follow my daughter is because i expected them to still be out there. but now i know i gotta double check.
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Apr 29, 2024 00:56
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lobster shirt posted:its astounding how my daughter can find the exact perfect foot position to make putting on pants incredibly difficult my daughter was color coordinating by age four. even at six my son's mode of dressing consists of throwing clothes at his body and flailing his arms/legs in the hopes that they will suddenly attach.
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Apr 29, 2024 01:33
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lobster shirt posted:i will say my mom and father in law are normally a lot more attentive than that, i was so surprised! the reason i didn't follow my daughter is because i expected them to still be out there. but now i know i gotta double check. Sucks it happened but at least it was only a miscommunication. My MIL always talks about helping out but we never leave her alone with the toddler because that situation would happen guaranteed. We don't even bother rolling the dice.
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Apr 29, 2024 01:56
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Without my father in law babysitting, how would my toddler get any YouTube education on world war 2, trains, or classic cars? poo poo, sometimes the same video has all three!
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Apr 29, 2024 02:03
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My FIL just this morning tried to calm the baby in all the ways he could, including sitting him in the high chair for food. I take over and immediately change his poopy diaper. He comes to me lates and says "was his diaper full"? And when I say yes he tells me that he had tried to guess if it was that but couldn't figure it out. -"Sure but you can do a diaper check" -"Oh but that's more work" At this point I'd be happy if they just said "sorry didn't think of that!" Than hearing the weak, harebrained excuses they come up with for things, man.
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Apr 29, 2024 10:45
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Lol literally just lift the kid and smell. So time consuming.
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Apr 29, 2024 11:38
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Chad Sexington posted:Lol literally just lift the kid and smell. So time consuming. Ew, gross
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Apr 29, 2024 12:02
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I do not put my nose to butt. Makes no sense to me. There is non zero chance of poop, ew. Just visually check for poop by pulling at waistband or by noticing poop bulge and squishy butt.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:09
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For the sensory impaired parent or babysitter I recommend the Blowouts Only brand diap.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:54
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My second (~1yr) is almost entirely operating on solid food, has been for a while, and has a tendency to drop solid, dry, tiny poops that you literally need to check thoroughly to find. They don't even smell much and he doesn't even seem to mind them
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Apr 29, 2024 13:14
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Poocrumbs
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Apr 29, 2024 13:15
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loquacius posted:My second (~1yr) is almost entirely operating on solid food, has been for a while, and has a tendency to drop solid, dry, tiny poops that you literally need to check thoroughly to find. They don't even smell much and he doesn't even seem to mind them Is he a goat or goat type Satan?
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Apr 29, 2024 13:21
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I didn't know it was possible to not be immune to poosmell after a year of toddler. I don't even have a particularly lovely child, she only ever had maybe 1-2 blowouts ever. (KNOCK ON TURD)
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Apr 29, 2024 13:32
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When my kids were like 3 and 8 months my parents came over to visit and my wife and I took the opportunity for like the first date night in a year. Shortly after we left my dad texted me with a picture of himself with poop all over his shirt. I was like " lol you can borrow one of my shirts look in the cupboard and you can leave that shirt in the sink. Thanks see you at 10."
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