5AF Parenting Thread

[Morkle]

I've heard that song at least once a day for almost 11 months. I'm still amazed it doesn't bother me.

[mac5155]

1 year old's birthday party. At a state park pavilion. Tomorrow.

Can't wait for all the kids to end up with pneumonia

[Ted]

1 year old's birthday party. At a state park pavilion. Tomorrow.

Can't wait for all the kids to end up with pneumonia

Any one year old birthday party that involves more than grandparents, at the kid’s home, is a total failure of the father to reign in the mother.

[Kane]

Wow.

[Morkle]

I've been a part of the few, that more or less have a bigger first birthday party, and then nothing but small family ones after that until friends pick-up.

I think that's the route we're taking, I see nothing wrong with it. There's no need for big parties every year, that's for sure.

[NTP66]

Birthday parties? Children should just be glad they have life, amiright?

[shafnutz05]

1 year old's birthday party. At a state park pavilion. Tomorrow.

Can't wait for all the kids to end up with pneumonia

Any one year old birthday party that involves more than grandparents, at the kid’s home, is a total failure of the father to reign in the mother.

Our daughter's first birthday party was a costume kegger, since she is the day before Halloween. But yeah, obviously we are not inviting day care classmates at that age.

[mac5155]

1 year old's birthday party. At a state park pavilion. Tomorrow.

Can't wait for all the kids to end up with pneumonia

Any one year old birthday party that involves more than grandparents, at the kid’s home, is a total failure of the father to reign in the mother.

I had a banger at my house for lil mac's first birthday. It was fun.

[count2infinity]

I'm not an overly emotional/sensitive kind of guy... my dad beat that out of me as a kid. But I did have a little tear well up last night when putting my kiddo to bed.

I put her down at her normal bed time, and my wife was doing some of her work to prep for Monday, so I was playing xbox and had the baby monitor with me. Kiddo tossed and turned for about an hour and then started crying, so I went in to sooth her. As soon as I walked in she screamed "DADDDYYYYY!!!" and then giggled real loud. So I took her over to the rocking chair and held her cross body and just rocked her for a bit. After about 5 minutes, she reached up and rubbed my face gently, sat up and gave me a really tight hug, said "night night dada" and pointed to her crib. I put her down and she slept pretty much the whole night from there.

Just the big hug and saying night night got me. Toddlers are the best.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Enjoy it while it lasts. You think it will last forever, and some days it feels like they will be little forever, but you wake up one morning to sullen moody pre-teens.

I miss the running hugs I'd get when I'd pick up my boys at daycare.

[count2infinity]

Oh man... the day I came home from a weeklong work trip and picked her up from daycare. She was so freaking excited to see me. She's only 1.5 years old (as of last week actually), so I've got some time with her being little, but I'm sure the days/years are going to start flying by.

[NTP66]

Source of the post She's only 1.5 years old

But how many weeks is that?

[count2infinity]

52+26 = 78

78 weeks.

[robbiestoupe]

A report of lice at my son's kindergarten.

When this happened when I was a kid, every kid went to the nurse's office and was checked for lice. Now? A mass email saying check it yourself. No explanation of how, or what the lice looks like, just "check it yourself".

I know how to google, but wow is that a horrible way to deal with this.

[NTP66]

A report of lice at my son's kindergarten.

When this happened when I was a kid, every kid went to the nurse's office and was checked for lice. Now? A mass email saying check it yourself. No explanation of how, or what the lice looks like, just "check it yourself".

I know how to google, but wow is that a horrible way to deal with this.

That must vary school district to school district. A kid in a neighboring class had lice last year and the nurse checked every single kindergartner in all three classes.

[Morkle]

Oh man... the day I came home from a weeklong work trip and picked her up from daycare. She was so freaking excited to see me. She's only 1.5 years old (as of last week actually), so I've got some time with her being little, but I'm sure the days/years are going to start flying by.

I'm not one for emotion either, but my son is starting to become more independent already and that whole "you may not know it, but this could be the last time you do it with/for them, rings true" He's starting to hold the bottle more freely on his own, and that popped in my head that there's going to be a time where I don't feed him anymore with assistance and you can't stop it.

I never thought something as small as that would impact me in the way it does now.

[Beveridge]

I think yours is close to mine? Mine turned 8 months about 2 weeks ago. He did that for a while but is back to letting us do all the work. I have to bring his hands up to remind him that you've done it before.

Lazy kid.

[mac5155]

Wait until he's a little older than 1. Carries the sippy cup around, takes a swig, throws it on the ground. Repeat for half hour until finished.

[Morkle]

I think yours is close to mine? Mine turned 8 months about 2 weeks ago. He did that for a while but is back to letting us do all the work. I have to bring his hands up to remind him that you've done it before.

Lazy kid.

Yea just turned 11 months. He was the same, did it for a while around 7-8 months, then stopped for a month/month and a half, and is now doing it again.

[shafnutz05]

@NTP66

Do your kiddos like Wild Kratts? I just realized they are coming to Kimmel Center on April 18. I decided to just make it her big Christmas present and get the VIP tickets, where she will actually be able to meet them after the show. She absolutely loves that show, when we were in the OBX this year she would spend a lot of time every day "saving" those salps (jellyfish-looking things but harmless) by picking them up and putting them back in the water

[NTP66]

If you asked me to guess which channel PBS was on, I doubt I'd come within 20 of it. I've never heard of that show, and know that my daughter likely doesn't watch it. Outside of Spongebob, she's mostly out of cartoon-like shows and moved onto stuff like The Thundermans, iCarly, etc.

[shafnutz05]

My daughter loves Transformers - Rescue Bots. I've actually gotten her way into Pokemon now (the very first season of Indigo League is on Netflix). To the extent that she had the Scholastic Book Fair yesterday, thought she was only allowed to get one book, and brought home the Pokemon encyclopedia

[bhflyhigh]

Enjoy it while it lasts. You think it will last forever, and some days it feels like they will be little forever, but you wake up one morning to sullen moody pre-teens.

That is hitting home now. My daughter is starting to get that way. Just turned 11. I asked her why she punched her little brother and she answers me with "because I can!" Sigh. I miss the running hugs as well.

[CBear3]

@NTP66

Do your kiddos like Wild Kratts? I just realized they are coming to Kimmel Center on April 18. I decided to just make it her big Christmas present and get the VIP tickets, where she will actually be able to meet them after the show. She absolutely loves that show, when we were in the OBX this year she would spend a lot of time every day "saving" those salps (jellyfish-looking things but harmless) by picking them up and putting them back in the water

Oh man, we were without cable and internet for the first two months we were in the new house, and Wild Kratts was a huge hit.

[mac5155]

I just got the EOB for lil mac's AUVI-Q injector.

WOW

Uh thank god for insurance?

$7,358 for two of them. That.Is.Ridiculous.