LOL. There were certainly a few moments. But it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and the best moments were priceless.
17, 14, 12 and 11. all girls except the 14 year old. 17 year old is graduating in May and moving away for college and we have been talking about going out west for years so it was now or never. Got to show them the houses I lived in as a kid in El Paso, the high school I went to in Salt Lake City and the small farm towns their grandparents grew up and got married at in Kansas.
I don’t have older kids, but a road trip with those ages doesn’t seem bad. I feel like at that age you can tell them to stop complaining.
We did a similar trip when I was a kid, and it’s one of my favorite memories. I can’t wait to do it with my kids.
My version of the trip is what me and my dad did when I was 11 or 12. We went to three Halls of Fame in the span of a week. Hockey (Toronto), football and basketball. Went to a couple of baseball games since it was a summer trip. Can’t with to do wit with my kids when they are 14 and 11 or around there (7 and 4 now)
I’m pretty high right koala but road tripping with the fam. Good! Great restart with the wife. Bond with kids. Good shit do it feels good boys
My almost 3 year old is a terror. A lot of the time if I say anything corrective to him, not yelling, not scolding, he immediately looks for the closest object to chuck across the room and scream No!. It's basically this: A lot of the times I will grab the object out of his hand when he cocks it back and that really sends him. Fully expecting a hot wheels to go through the TV one of these days.
this phase lasted about 2-3 months with my now 6 year old boy and about 2 years and counting with my soon to be four year old girl
3 from a behavior standpoint was rough for us. Vocabulary was exploding (as often referenced here), and he was all about pushing boundaries. He gradually grew out of it, and is in a really sweet phase now at a little over 4. Bends over backwards for praise, does what he’s asked (mostly), and calls me the best dad ever all the time. It’s enjoyable
Three was probably the toughest age for sure and four seemed to get better. I know a lot of people struggle with junior high / early high school but outside of some knucklehead /fuckboi stuff it’s not too bad. Him and I are super close but he’s so like his mom in many aspects they butt heads more often. I’d just say it doesn’t seem like parenting ever gets easier at this point just different kinds of hard over the years
Pretty crazy how quickly “if you do X you get Y” turns into “fine here’s Y now can you do X?” And then it’s just “fine here’s Y we’ll talk about X tomorrow” and then tomorrow they want another Y and repeat
Boy popped Strep positive today. Only symptom was lymph nodes the size of golfballs. No cough, no fever, nada.
Have similar shit with our almost 3 year old. He's started to like to hit us too... obviously doesn't hurt at all, but can't be letting him hit. We figured out we can easily block his hits with our hand and we tell him "high five" each time he hits our hand and it drives him CRAZY. "No high five!".
Yup, in the last week or so if I try to talk to him down on his level I'm likely to get a smack in the face. Fun!
My 3 year old daughter and my wife fight nonstop it seems. It is a constant battle between them. Nights have been really bad although we’ve noticed a nice positive change the last couple weeks. Hopefully she is coming out of this phase. My 6 year old son never went through a naughty phase. He’s a great kid and is never gets into much trouble unless it’s he and his sister. She knows how to get under his skin.
It's not nearly as bad as some posters have shared with their kids (mostly boys) but man does it seem like my six year old daughter has been regressing the past few months. I shared about some likely sensory issues she's having with getting her clothes just getting a tiny splash of water on them. Now it seems like her emotional intelligence is back to around a 4 year old, she's having meltdowns the instant we try to do something she may not completely like (e.g. we stopped at a rest area on our way back from our vacation yesterday and she didn't want to get out). She's kind of always been behind for her age which part of why her kindergarten teacher thought she should repeat, but it seemed like it was getting better towards the end of last year. These past months have really made me worried which I have my own issues with anxiety over that absolutely aren't helping (getting help with that atm at least). /end vent
Hooo boy breaking my youngest from her pacifier has been a ride. Didn't help that she got the tummy bug from hell a day in.
Did you do a push present? If not go jewelry maybe. Doesn’t have to be expensive but some Pandora or Kendra Scott or Alex and Ani thing that has the birth stone of your kid will work.
She's 2.5. We got away with doing it at 2 with my son, but she's an entirely different beast. We're going full bandaid and getting rid of the crib this weekend
Anyone had their kid suck on their fingers instead of a pacifier? He’s starting to do it less bc he started walking but don’t think it will fully go away bc he sleeps with his fingers in his mouth. Not really sure how to stop it when the time comes.
That’s the main reason we wanted a pacifier vs thumb. Eventually we can take the pasci away. Can’t take her thumbs. Or can we??
This winter my 9 year old had it twice, 5 year old once, 3 year old had it 3 times and my wife got it once. Only I avoided it. Hell of a winter in our house.
Our oldest sucked on his index and middle finger. He is 9 and still does it from time to time. Fingers are better than thumb in terms of orthodontics, and compared to our daughter that used a pacifier it was easier because he could self soothe and never cried for a pacifier. However, it’s been way harder to break the habit.
Oldest daughter used pacifier and was extremely easy to remove that from the equation. Will see how this goes with the son and his fingers. Still have some time to figure it out.