5AF Parenting Thread

[NTP66]

I wish my parents has my tonsils taken out. Colds and sore throats wipe me the **** out. Daycare is non-stop sickness, but it definitely gets better in elementary school. Unless you never attended daycare, like a few kids I know of.

[grunthy]

This rule, we follow. Plenty of other things, we bend on.

I wouldn’t get on your case if this was just a stray, new parent whoopsie. Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but you seem to be fine with this judgement call approach as a long term plan.

Every time our kid had a 100 degree fever he has stayed home for 24 hours after fever broke. No exception for us. Teething doesn’t cause a 100 degree fever. So I’m with you here.

[grunthy]

My wife and I have personally taken the morning off then one of us switches with them so the other can go into work in the afternoon to conserve time and not screw up work.

I personally can’t justify allowing my sick kid at daycare to **** other people because it will mess with my work if I stay home.

[shafnutz05]

Contractions happening. Coming every 10-15 minutes. 2cm dilated.

[grunthy]

Contractions happening. Coming every 10-15 minutes. 2cm dilated.

Awesome! Hopefully the kid comes quickly!

[Morkle]

Contractions happening. Coming every 10-15 minutes. 2cm dilated.

Good luck!

[Morkle]

This rule, we follow. Plenty of other things, we bend on.

I wouldn’t get on your case if this was just a stray, new parent whoopsie. Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but you seem to be fine with this judgement call approach as a long term plan.

Every time our kid had a 100 degree fever he has stayed home for 24 hours after fever broke. No exception for us. Teething doesn’t cause a 100 degree fever. So I’m with you here.

Except we played by the 100.4 rule. He was absolutely under that because we give him Tylenol and take him to the doctor if we hit that mark.

[Morkle]

Im actually interested now, you’re telling me you’ve mistaken your child’s fussiness, never checked his temperature and taken him to daycare?

I’ve never personally done that, but that seems so easy to do. A judgment call I suppose.

[grunthy]

Im actually interested now, you’re never telling me you’ve mistaken your child’s fussiness, never checked his temperature and taken him to daycare?

I’ve never personally done that, but that seems so easy to do.

I feel it’s fairly obvious when a kid has a fever. I always kiss my kids forehead in the morning when we get him up. I’m not checking his temp, just what I do. So as a side effect of doing that routine I can feel if his temperature is off. I’ll then use the forehead thermometer to check.

I can pretty confidently say I’ve never sent my kid to daycare with a fever.

[shmenguin]

If you just missed a day here or there because you didn’t sniff out a fever that’s fine. You’re doing your best. It’s when you know there WAS a fever and you decide that the 24 rule is too inconvenient to follow. That’s the problem. Maybe we’re talking about different things?

[Morkle]

No I was just asking a question.

[Morkle]

Also I admit I did not know about the 24 hour rule, I believed it to be just 100.4.

So now I know.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Yeah, our daycares used the under 100°/24 hours rule. Made sense to me.

Our university tends to attract homeschooled kids, and we had a student worker that had never attended traditional school. She was constantly sick for the entire year. Ear, nose, throat, and skin issues. She had to go home early last fall. Her body couldn't handle life in a residence hall.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Oh, good luck Mrs. Shad!

[NTP66]

Our school’s all follow the 100.4/24-hour thing, as well, if my daughter woke up with a slight fever, I’d just work from home or take the day off, not wanting to deal with going to work and having to inevitably leave early.

[Ted]

No better experience than the birth of your children. Congrats in advance.

[Morkle]

So also major problem. I don’t fit in the passenger side of my wife’s cx-5 with the forever seat installed. So either I’m the full time driver, or I sit behind my wife.

Really twisting my arm to trade my Honda in since we’ve had it longer for the truck I’ve wanted.

Being tall sucks sometimes.

[robbiestoupe]

So also major problem. I don’t fit in the passenger side of my wife’s cx-5 with the forever seat installed. So either I’m the full time driver, or I sit behind my wife.

Really twisting my arm to trade my Honda in since we’ve had it longer for the truck I’ve wanted.

Being tall sucks sometimes.

This was us 5 years ago. It wasn't that hard with 1 kid, but impossible with 2.

We also got some strange looks walking into dealerships with an empty car seat.

[Morkle]

Yea, the bummer is that we thought it would work, and didn't even really think about this next seat being even larger from a rear-facing perspective. We're going to try and give it a go, but that basically means my Honda is now a to and from work driver, and that's about it.

[Freddy Rumsen]

The scourge of the coaches son knows no end.

[shafnutz05]

Coached my second soccer practice last night. Boy...that was brutal. There must have been something in the humid, tropical air yesterday because the kids were just spacing out left and right. I had to be much more stern than I had been previously--thankfully, we seem to have some awesome parents that were all apologetic/telling their kids to stop their sht when they acted up. That hour felt like six hours

[mac5155]

Source of the post Infecting other children because you, personally, have a problematic work schedule isn’t kosher.

And if everyone played by those rules we'd never be in this situation in the first place, but here we are.

(to be clear I'm talking about sickness, e.g. cough/stuffy nose/ear infection, not fever >100*)

[mac5155]

Yea, the bummer is that we thought it would work, and didn't even really think about this next seat being even larger from a rear-facing perspective. We're going to try and give it a go, but that basically means my Honda is now a to and from work driver, and that's about it.

Is it fully reclined? I know my kid's Graco SlimFit seat has 2 positions. Once he was old enough to sit up, it would recline less, ergo providing more room for the front seat. It's super tight for me to be in the front seat of my wife's Cherokee, but we make do. Going from the Chicco KeyFit base/carrier to the Graco SlimFit afforded us about another ~2 inches of leg room.

[CBear3]

Coached my second soccer practice last night. Boy...that was brutal. There must have been something in the humid, tropical air yesterday because the kids were just spacing out left and right. I had to be much more stern than I had been previously--thankfully, we seem to have some awesome parents that were all apologetic/telling their kids to stop their sht when they acted up. That hour felt like six hours

Wait, so coaching through your wife's contractions? That's dedication to the game.

[shafnutz05]

Coached my second soccer practice last night. Boy...that was brutal. There must have been something in the humid, tropical air yesterday because the kids were just spacing out left and right. I had to be much more stern than I had been previously--thankfully, we seem to have some awesome parents that were all apologetic/telling their kids to stop their sht when they acted up. That hour felt like six hours

Wait, so coaching through your wife's contractions? That's dedication to the game.

She's in this weird limbo thing where contractions are anywhere from 3 to 45 minutes apart. It's just a waiting game at this point. The worst part of it (well, for me), is not being able to have a few beers tonight