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Postby Morkle » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:24 pm

Come make dinner at my house. My toddler and I will appreciate your food. My wife maybe not so much, but I can smooth that over.

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Postby count2infinity » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:35 pm

Yeah... many of the wives tales are 50:50 at best. The Egyptian pregnancy test was actually statistically significant.
You wonder how they figured that one out.
I was curious as well... apparently in the ancient days peeing on stuff and trying to see if there was any difference was quite common for a lot of medical conditions. :lol:

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Postby robbiestoupe » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:57 pm

It appears Moises Alou was born in the wrong century then.

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Postby King Colby » Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:59 pm

My 3.5 yr old is hit or miss. Tonight we're eating chicken salads... he will eat some grilled chicken and some of the components of the salad (i.e. not lettuce). Other nights he won't touch the main and just picks at the sides. How we proceed depends how much we feel like fighting and/or negotiating. If we don't, he usually gets a fruit/veggie or a PBJ or a yogurt or some nuts/cheese. Very rarely start with the BS "kid food" though. And never just accept that he won't eat and give chicken nugs or Mac n chee.

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Postby meow » Tue Jul 06, 2021 5:26 pm

Our 7 year old eats nothing
Our 3 year old eats anything

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Postby mac5155 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:24 pm

My teenagers dodint and moan about any homecooked meal. If it ain't pizza or fast food, then it sucks. It's tiresome and has only gotten worse during the pandemic. We're very limited in dining out options, as most are not healthy or are poorly run (or both). We build in 2-3 dining out nights, to give me a break from cooking, and my kids say that's the best thing I cook. :cry: (My wife and various dinner guests say I cook just fine).

Like last night, we originally planned to go out to eat. But, most local places are closed this week for summer vacation. So I moved up "Breakfast for Dinner" - pancakes (with either chocolate chips or homegrown blueberries), cheese grits, fresh fruit, and bacon - instead of eating shite Wendy's or whatever. You would have thought I was feeding them dog food. So we took away the 15 year old's driving practice, and that changed his attitude a bit.
I will come be your son for a week or two if you need me.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:26 pm

Oh and Mrs Mac has had straight nausea for a week. Like I get it and I'm not saying a word to her but she's always been kind of a softie when it comes to sulking and stuff but it's even worse with a toddler.

Please note I am VENTING to you guys so i can support her and pick up the slack. So easy on the flame.

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Postby Shyster » Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:24 pm

I was curious as well... apparently in the ancient days peeing on stuff and trying to see if there was any difference was quite common for a lot of medical conditions. :lol:

I would imagine that with no books, TV, or internet, they had more free time to fill. :lol:

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:42 am

My sister-in-law - a virulent anti-vaxxer back when her kids were young, over fears of autism - just had her second of three children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. 2 out of 3. It's not the vaccines, folks. :face:

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:46 am

Source of the post It's not the vaccines, folks.
Everyone knows this... except antivaxxers. They're the only ones that just don't get it.

It's interesting though. How terrible of a person do you have to be to look at preventable disease and suffering vs. maybe somewhere on the spectrum and go, "OH MY GOD! I'm not having an autistic child! Here... have some measles."

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:27 pm

So my kid starts his Freshman year at PSU this fall. To get your classes scheduled you have to do your online (due to COVID) orientation and meet with your advisor first. We encouraged him to do this early, as in two months ago. We of course were full of crap and had no idea what we were talking about so he put the orientation off to last week and met with his advisor today.

Congrats on your Monday schedule that starts at 8 AM and ends at 9 PM, kid.

To be fair it does get his bad day out of the way early and he has like one class on Thursday, at 4 PM. Dat Monday doe.....

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Postby mac5155 » Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:54 am

Hopefully it's something simple like Econ1.

I had calculus at 8am my freshman year.

I'd venture a guess even if he did schedule on time he'd still have the 8am.

Its like a rite of passage.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sun Jul 25, 2021 8:42 pm

Our 22 month old suffered his first sting tonight. At least we know he isn't allergic. The fcking bastard got stuck in his ring finger and we had to shake/swat it off. It was killed, so vengeance was ours.

He screamed/cried for a surprisingly short amount of time. Although he kept looking down at his finger and making loud, pissed off toddler curses for a lot longer :lol: He's learning early and forging his hatred.

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Postby tjand72 » Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:52 pm

A membership to any of the Carnegie museums gets you into all four of them (Natural History, Art, Science Center/SportsWorks, and Warhol). I just discovered this last week. Our first trip to the Science Center would have been over $50 anyway, so the $150 membership will be well worth it.

As an aside, there was a dirtbag at the Science Center yesterday that was drinking Miller Light from a glass bottle in the play area on the top floor. At least he put his empty in his stroller instead of on the ground.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:10 am

Dirtbag because glass bottle or because booze?

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:12 am

Drinking at a museum in the play area. Not a great look.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:12 pm

Drinking at a museum in the play area. Not a great look.
This is undoubtedly alcoholic behavior.

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Postby Morkle » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:30 pm

I don't know who would even think that's a logical idea to begin with. As a parent, there are times when drinking is acceptable around kids. At the freaking children's museum, is not one of them.

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Postby count2infinity » Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:49 pm

I mean... at the very least, hide your alcohol in a mcdonald's cup or something.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:04 pm

Yeah, like the rest of us.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:05 pm

For what it's worth I was only asking because I didn't know if they actually sold beer at the science center or he snuck it in. :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:16 pm

Liar…

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:17 pm

Very European tbh

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Postby Shyster » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:47 pm

I would expect a parent with a kid young enough to be in a stroller to be chugging whiskey straight from the bottle.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:42 pm

Hard to believe, but the Girl Scout trip with my daughter is coming up in a few days. We are driving up to Camp Archibald Monday and staying there until Wednesday for their Splash Spectacular. Weather will be beautiful, although only in the mid to upper 70s. Will be great Smores/campfire song weather. It's 30 miles north of Scranton in the middle of nowhere Susquehanna County.

I am already assuming I will be one of the only dads there, but who knows. The fact that this is during the work week tells me that it caters more to stay at home moms that want to take their kids away for a couple of days. In any event, really looking forward to it.

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