Right. I didn't mean they were showing hole. Maybe it was a thing where I was too, and I was just too naive to know it.
Raising kids today is so different than how we grew up. Social media is a total monster. All the information at kids hands that is makes parenting so hard. Not to mention that cameras and video cameras are everywhere. my only recommendation is to try and create an open discussion with your kids where they can come with no judgement. It can be super hard at times and I fail at times but it’s so important.
That looks infinitely more comfortable and inviting than what I had. I used a chair that extended out into a small bed. It was like a cement slab.
I had a chair like you describe for my second kid, first kid was the pull out sofa like the picture. Both equally sucked. In my case the chair was at least level
I’m solo dad today. I was trying to feed a bottle to kid3 when kid2 came walking in with her pants at her ankles and a turd hanging out of her butt cheeks. Kid1 is yelling “no don’t” as kid2 tries to pull it out. This happens at 8:20am. Kid3 won’t stop crying. I may die today
Sounds to me like kid1 has kid2 covered pretty well. I'm a grown man with 2 of my own and that would also be my reaction
We were shown this big beautiful suite when we toured the birthing hospital (whatever they are called) and was told that was where we would be. Fast-forward to day Levi was born and preeclampsia, emergency c-section, and a stay in the NICU which is also where they place people where the mom has issues during birthing. The room was smaller than a standard hospital room and my bed was a “recliner,” it was a fucking chair, that folded semi flat with barely enough space to “flatten” it in. Every 2 hours I would have to wake up and put the chair into the upright position when the nurse came in or she would not have room to work. Add to that it was during start of Covid so if I left I could not re-enter for 72 hours if I left and no visitors were allowed other than me. I just had to suck it up and take it and boy did it suck.
My guess is this is what I had, my sister's kid likely gave it to her and she gave it to me and my brother before she was symptomatic when I was visiting last week. I didn't throw up much but had the worst diarrhea of my life. Somehow I avoided giving it to my wife and my daughter. Sounds like it's going around everywhere all over the freaking country right now.
It went through our daycare a couple of weeks ago and I got it bad. I'm serious when I say I think I set a record for most shits in 36 hours. I slept downstairs 2 night in a row and ended up putting a few towels down to sleep on in the guest bathroom. My first daycare sickness and it was devastating
I had to just fight the constant urge, it honestly sounded like a water hose was being turned on every time I took a liquid shit. I couldn't get in with my normal doctor so I went to an urgent care. They said if I wasn't better after the night (which would have been 3 days) then I needed to get an IV.
Glad you document the journey to an extent here. Years away but feel like I’ll be searching Simon Templar posts like they’re a video game strategy guide before too long
Not too worried today though. We were out wine tasting today and my guy was running around hugging and naming the various 150 year old olive trees on the property. Feel like that will pay off karmically for him down the line when he starts doing mushrooms
About 36 hours in and we will likely have to replace the couch (and maybe carpet). Nobody else has gotten sick yet, but my kid has puked and pooped all over the place. He shit himself in his sleep, the puppy pads caught most of it, but some seeped out onto the couch.
I guess yes. My wife makes him a bed on the couch and the bottom layer is puppy pads. It’s the same as in a hospital. The pads are just called chucks there.
Start with educational videos. Walk away for a few minutes and YouTube’s deranged algorithm has started auto playing poorly animated videos of Thomas the Train with spider legs instead of wheels and blood gushing out his mouth from a fresh kill
If you get a queen sized mattress pee liner you can wrap it under the bottom cushions and the back cushions and nothing hits the couch.
I’ve been reading this thread and taking note of the norovirus cases mentioned. This morning I woke up to an article stating that it’s hitting NJ, NY and PA hard. Here it comes…. Going to go straight from a week of no school (winter break) , to having no school because everyone is shitting their pants #bartscott
I brought one of our booster car seats in the house a few days ago. the kids are using it non stop to lounge, move it around, build forts with it, eat and stare outside, etc. makes me think of these chairs my brother and I had when we were younger. our butts didn't move from these chairs while playing video games. I can also remember that feeling of when someone else rocks on your finger or toe.
Just got home from taking my son and 7 of his friends, all of which are 1st graders, to a trampoline park. Whoo boy was that an experience.
I had Chipotle for lunch today and for whatever reason it rain straight thru me causing me to have two very long shitting sessions pretty close to back to back. My 5 year old daughter took note of how much I was shitting and at some point during the second one said, "Daddy your butt is gonna be real tiny after all of this pooping". So apparently she thinks we store our shit in our ass cheeks.
Somewhat related. I've never been self conscious about my own dump sizes, but I can't get over the size of the logs that exit my 5 year old. Am I an inadequate pooper?
While talking to my wife on the phone earlier, I heard her yell at one of our boys after they got out of the bath, “Ew, he literally just had that in his hiney, and you just put it in your mouth!” So that’s cool. At least they were fresh out of the bath, I guess.
How do you discipline a 3.5 year old? Serious. I'm at wits ends. He just bullys me. Laughs when I tell him to do something. Laughs when I'm getting serious and frustrated. Then says he'll do it and acts like a sarcastic asshole and does it in excruciating slow motion thinking he's funny. He has absolutely zero fear of me and I don't know how to instill it. Tonight the last straw today was he wouldn't brush his teeth. So I held hom down, brushed his teeth, all while him crying, then put him in bed without any stories. Feel like a huge asshole and now going to sleep all pissed off.
Follow up to this, there was this other kid, no clue who he was that was using the foam blocks to build a wall along the edge of the foam block bit. My group of kids were horsing around and knocked over the wall accidentally. Didn't think anything of it. Bob the builder went and found his mom who then came up and started yelling at my sons friend for knocking over his wall. I walked over to figure out wtf was going on. She started lighting me up about how this kid was bullying her son by knocking over the wall. (Not sure why she only locked on to his one friend). I told her I apologize about the wall, but to call that bullying is diminishing the actual bullying problem. It was an accident nothing more. She didn't like that response. She started bitching to me about how I needed to show her some respect. I just laughed at her and it pissed her off even more. She started in on me again so I just shrugged my shoulders and asked her what she was looking for from me. She didn't say anything so I just turned around, told the kids to move to another area and walked away.
Started the transition of 5 month old to his rooms a crib and sleep training. Went on night one but had a blow out at 1 am and an “early mornjng awkening” he is still currently fighting. It was nice to have my and and I room back though even though though I’m running on like 3 hours of sleep right now
I know it’s recommended to share until 6 months but wife and I were having some dangerous sleep habits during the middle of the night and we tried sleep training some but it didn’t work when we shared a room. He can roll over both ways so we made the decision to go ahead to make the transition
I know recommendations are based on best practices over time, but if you even compare what was a recommended practice 17 years ago and how we did it to todays we’d be considered even worse parents than we are. My son slept in his own room from two weeks old. Don’t feel like you need to check all the boxes to feel like you’re doing the right thing. I think that’s one thing I’ve struggled with the most throughout parenthood. Looking at the way others do it or did it and trying to measure up against that. Your situation is your own and entirely unique. Do your best and it all works out is what I’ve found to be the best way to do things. Glad you’re getting some expected rest coming up.
Our 4 year olds go back and forth acting like this but currently our son has been like a model kid, letting his sister take turns with things, listening when we ask him to do stuff, etc. so maybe there is hope or maybe I just fucked myself by putting this in writing
We don't do time out and obviously don't spank, but the best way we have disciplined is taking privileges away. No "special treat" after dinner because of poor behavior at the table. No special book or story before bed because you wouldn't brush your teeth when asked. No screentime after school because you were bad in the car. It has to be quick consequences as their little brains aren't developed enough to learn about long term consequences. Yelling or visible frustration doesn't work at their age (or really ever). FWIW i think you handled the toothbrush thing fine. calm request, calm request, stern request, use force to get what you need done without harming the child. I think kids become much more fun around age 4 so the light is at the end of the tunnel.