5AF Parenting Thread

Postby **NTP66** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:48 am

Source of the post I'm assuming you can cash that summer school check
All of this is in my DFSA, so I can't cash **** right now. I never paid for camp out of pocket, so at least I'm not out double the money.
Bad wording on my part. As long as you are working and getting paid, you are paying into the DFSA. If your child goes to summer camp, that's $2000 you can withdrawal at some point.

This qualified as a life change event, so I was able to stop future contributions. My daughter is definitely not going to camp this year, and I don't even know if the center will open for camp anyway. I'm hoping that they make exceptions and allow us to withdraw that money somehow. I don't want to go the route of 'paying a parent' and having them claim it as income. Though I guess I could as a last resort.

Postby **Beveridge** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:54 am

Got word today that as long as Governor has non essential businesses closed, daycare is staying closed.

Postby **Morkle** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:57 am

Got word today that as long as Governor has non essential businesses closed, daycare is staying closed.

Yea our Daycare sent an e-mail that their responses are going to stop for the most part due to them now being closed until the state gets the OK and they're all filing unemployment.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:53 am

Our daycare is closed through April. She's also stopped charging us, so I guess that's good.

Soo.. Any ideas to keep a 1.5 year old kid occupied and maybe learning something?

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:37 am

Our daycare is closed through April. She's also stopped charging us, so I guess that's good.

Soo.. Any ideas to keep a 1.5 year old kid occupied and maybe learning something?

First two weeks were decent.

Start of the third week? We're in do whatever we can to keep him occupied for more than 5 minutes territory.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:42 am

Day one of eLearning was difficult, if only because I had to figure out how to access everything. We're using Google Classrooms as the facilitator, but within have to open Google Slides that have links, etc. Very confusing for most, based on the comments, but we got through it. I barely did anything at work yesterday because of this, but today should be a little better.

Postby **meow** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:53 am

We are on week three of eLearning. My number one piece of advice would be don't stress getting everything in that is scheduled for that day. We've had really good days where we do more than is scheduled and we've had really bad days that we barely get half of what is scheduled.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:15 am

Our daycare is closed through April. She's also stopped charging us, so I guess that's good.

Soo.. Any ideas to keep a 1.5 year old kid occupied and maybe learning something?
First two weeks were decent.

Start of the third week? We're in do whatever we can to keep him occupied for more than 5 minutes territory.

I bought a Wyze cam and mounted it in his playroom. We've resorted to locking him in it for like 20 minutes for some work time. #noshame

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:20 am

haha we can't even do that, this kid crawls/walks to open everything, always wants to be around us, and is just a straight animal these days.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:25 am

It was already wrestlemania in our house with two older boys and a newborn. My wife doesn't have time to watch the older kids, and I'm working. It's now complete anarchy with no end in sight.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:26 am

lil mac is running around wearing a bib and eating a pretzel rod for breakfast. It's just whatever you want at this point man.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:27 am

My boys take turns breastfeeding each other and "having babies" with their stuffed animals in their shirts. This pandemic is going to make an interesting generation of kids

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:31 am

lolol

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:51 am

Evidently, the entire state of Florida started eLearning yesterday, which explains why Schoology is getting pwned this week. My wife is trying to update their second batch of eLearning assignments and has to re-login to each teacher/student account multiple times to get in to make updates. Not good.

Postby **mac5155** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:46 am

Anyone else's kids just eating hot dogs daily?

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 11:31 am

Rotation of hot dogs, mac n cheese, pb&j (really pb& honey) and chicken nuggets. Occasional grilled cheese with lunch meat if I'm feeling the urge

Postby **mac5155** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 12:37 pm

We talked him into PB&J

Dairy allergy so no grilled cheese here as we're out of his fake cheese and I can't find any locally.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 12:59 pm

I've actually been cooking a lot of special meals during the quarantine. Things like chili, grilling a bunch of marinated chicken, etc... Stuff with lots of leftovers. Our daughter has always been a great eater in terms of different things and wouldn't want to ruin all of that progress now.

Postby **mac5155** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:00 pm

Good for you dad.

My kid wants hot dogs for breakfast lunch and dinner

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:21 am

Good for you dad.

My kid wants hot dogs for breakfast lunch and dinner

We have a big pack of Sahlens hot dogs (Buffalo staple) that we've been breaking out too. Those are good stuff.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:35 am

Yesterday my wife and I had hot dogs and mac n cheese while the kids ate leftover spaghetti. Felt good to be the kid again.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:42 am

A few weeks ago, my wife ordered a couple of "Cups of Caterpillars" from Insectlore.com...basically, it is an Eric Carle themed thing. Each cup comes with food at the bottom and five baby caterpillars in there. Over the last couple of weeks, we have watched them grow, and last night, the last one just attached itself to the bottom of the lid and we literally watched spellbound as they formed a chrysalis and went motionless once it was completed. Now, we wait a few days and get ready to release them as butterflies.

The reason why I mention this is for anyone with children, this is a really, really fun thing to order. It has been pretty cool watching life happen right on the counter top of our island. Highly recommend, especially during this quarantine.

https://www.insectlore.com/products/but ... terpillars

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:00 pm

April 6 is turning out to not be a good day in the c2i household. 2 years ago my wife got sent to the hospital because her blood pressure spiked and we thought we were going to have to either get induced or other methods of getting the kid out. Last year we have a couple trips to the ER (one via ambulance) for a kid that has pneumonia, and this year my little one was helping me cook and decided to grab a hot pan. 2nd degree burns on her thumb and index finger.

Next year I’m just wrapping her in bubble wrap and making her sit in her room all day.

Postby **NTP66** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:56 pm

Oof. Did you go to the pediatrician or ER? I’m assuming the former given the current climate.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:24 pm

We emailed pictures to the pediatrician. She gave us instructions and we have wellness visit next week. So we’ll monitor and then let her take a look next week at her check up. Luckily she slept at nap time after it. I remember nights of pretty bad burns from my time in restaurant kitchens that they can be enough to keep you awake from the pain.