5AF Parenting Thread

[shmenguin]

The band aids. No one ever tells you about all the band aids.

[King Colby]

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.

I'm gonna need a run down on the moms when you get home

[shafnutz05]

Girl Scout Camp was awesome. I'm exhausted and have about 250 emails to go through, but that was a special trip.

[shafnutz05]

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.

I'm gonna need a run down on the moms when you get home

It... Wasn't much to look at. My daughter befriended a pair of twins on the first day and hung out with them a lot, so I hung out with their mom most of the time.

Honestly the worst part of the trip were one or two families with kids from hell and it being plainly obvious where they got it from.

[mac5155]

THose of you who have TVs in your kids rooms... how old were they?

lil mac is turning 3 and for his third birthday we are decorating the spare bedroom to be his bedroom as we'll need his room for the nursery next year anyway. I don't really WANT to put a TV in there per se, but I was also thinking of using it as a tool to get him to stay in his bed as he is still in a crib right now.

[shafnutz05]

My daughter is turning 8 this fall and has never had a TV in her room. I would strongly advise against that...TV and bedtime do not mix.

[mac5155]

Our routine right now is bath, one episode of something on TV, brush teeth and then into bed. It wouldn't be unregulated.

[shmenguin]

We won’t do it at any point.

[mac5155]

[NTP66]

Yeah, no chance a TV goes into my daughter's bedroom until she's much older (8 now). Electronics are all turned off at 8pm and stored in our bedroom.

[meow]

Three years old. Bath. Teeth. Thirty minutes of tv in bed. Kids never make it beyond the first 10 minutes.

[count2infinity]

A TV in a 3 year old's room? That's gonna be a no for me, dawg. We don't even have a TV in our bedroom anymore. I'd imagine as she gets older and will need a desk/work space, she might get a computer or something in there that she can do work on and watch stuff on that, but that's not until teenage years.

[meow]

Yinz a bunch of stiffs. Gotta relax

[shmenguin]

My kids watch plenty of TV. But it’s usually at certain times after they’ve been active enough. I guess it doesn’t matter where they watch it, ultimately. So sure. TV in a 3 YOs room. Who cares.

[King Colby]

No TV.

Wind down time is iPad on the couch.

[King Colby]

Wait... do people bathe their kids every single night?

[count2infinity]

Wait... do people bathe their kids every single night?

We currently do as it's a routine. As she gets older that probably won't be the case anymore.

Bath, brush teeth, PJs and brush hair, 3 books, potty, bed. Every night.

[King Colby]

Mine get bathed every other, unless they were at a pool or the zoo or rolling around in the mud or something. So much effin work and we generally alternate... kinda nice only having to do it about once every 4 days lol

[mac5155]

Wait... do people bathe their kids every single night?

After daycare every night.
Days without daycare as needed.

[count2infinity]

Yup... we alternate every other night. One takes care of the kid, the other takes care of cleaning up from dinner and feeding the dogs (and any other chores like garbage, watering plants, laundry, etc)

[meow]

Oh our kids watch zero tv other than the bed time stuff. It’s just not as high a draw to them as it is to other kids I see some kids turn into zombies in front of an iPad or tv.

[meow]

And our kids get bathed every night. The seven year old showers himself and the three year old showers with an adult.

[NTP66]

My daughter is definitely a zombie on her Kindle with Roblox. School starts soon, though...

[count2infinity]

And our kids get bathed every night. The seven year old showers himself and the three year old showers with an adult.

When do you make the transition to kid showering/bathing themselves?

[NTP66]

And our kids get bathed every night. The seven year old showers himself and the three year old showers with an adult.

When do you make the transition to kid showering/bathing themselves?

For us, that was around age 6.