:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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Wow
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@boomzilla I knew there had to be asshat anti-vaxxers in the comments somewhere:
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Wow
Hmph, my daughter's tough she doesn't need all that.
Video is still cute.
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At the library. Beginning to think there are some educational things that are getting started too early.
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@Polygeekery quantum entanglement is what happens when they get gum in their hair.
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General relativity -> What happens in their diapers
Rocket science -> For the projectile vomiting
Optical physics -> For the extra cuteness? I got nothing
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@Polygeekery Or we're looking at "babies" wrong. Like SJW will jump on us wrong. fucking crybaby. Just study for your final.
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A friend posted this on facebook:
Nearly a year ago, after eating them regularly for about 1.5 yrs, V3.0 declared he โdid NOT wikeโ French toast sticks and refused to even deign to look in their direction.
Today, in a sleep-deprived brain scramble for the right term, I declared them โdonut sticks.โ He practically inhaled them, proclaimed them his favorite food ever and asked for seconds. My sleepless-stupid brain is smarter than my fully-functional self.
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@boomzilla Sometimes my 3 year old will adamantly refuse an offer of an omelette. The alternative, an "egg pancake" is usually fine though
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla Sometimes my 3 year old will adamantly refuse an offer of an omelette. The alternative, an "egg pancake" is usually fine though
When my little brother was small, he refused to eat quiche. But he was absolutely happy to eat "omelette tart".
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@CarrieVS egg tart here
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5 yo daughter had here 6 month checkup (about 3 months late but who's counting).
The hygienist shows that her 2 front adult teeth are grown in a significant amount behind her baby teeth. Says the baby teeth are loose and we should keep wiggling them to get them out...sooner rather than later.
I start wiggling them, tell my daughter I'm sure the one will be out by the end of the weekend and I focus on that one.
I warned her there will be blood.
I feel the first pop and stop and check on her. She says keep going. I keep working it, she needs a break, some tears, but then says, Mommy let's go.
Few more pops, and her first baby tooth is out.
Then on to the second one. More tears, more squeezing my hand (then my husband's--called in reinforcements). I ask her if she wants to stop. Through her tears, she says do it. I end up having to get latex gloves because it was too slippery.
Now she's crying loud enough that her brother comes out very concerned (don't mess with his baby sister). So brother on one side, daddy on the other, and mommy performing the surgery.
I finally just turn the tooth just right and it's out. It was rather anti-climatic compared to the first one.
What is the current going rate for teeth these days?
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@Karla
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@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla
โฌ2You laugh, but my MIL was absolutely horrified that her grandchildren were getting as much as $2 for teeth. Why, when she was but a child (60 years ago?), she only got 50 cents!
Also: economists have found that the going rate for teeth varies with how much disposable income the parents have. (How strange!) Hard economic times? $2 (Great Recession). Good times? There's a little more in the kitty, so $20.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
when she was but a child (60 years ago?), she only got 50 cents!
When I was a kid of appropriate age to lose teeth, and that was less than 60 years ago, I only got 10 cents โ maybe 25 for molars. I don't remember what we gave my kids, but I'm pretty sure it was less than $2.
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@HardwareGeek I don't think I ever got money for teeth. I think my parents always gave us (my siblings and me) some small toy, although TBH I don't really remember any more... I'm also not sure it ever was brought to us by the tooth fairy (which is a mouse in France), I think it was always clear to us that it was our parents, even if we played along (kind of like with Santa, I don't remember ever really believing in it, even though we all kind of halfway pretended to).
I know that my mother kept (still keeps?) all our baby teeth in small boxes. I find it somewhere between cute and creepy ("oh look the nice mementos" vs. "I'm keeping all the body parts I can").
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla
โฌ2You laugh, but my MIL was absolutely horrified that her grandchildren were getting as much as $2 for teeth. Why, when she was but a child (60 years ago?), she only got 50 cents!
Also: economists have found that the going rate for teeth varies with how much disposable income the parents have. (How strange!) Hard economic times? $2 (Great Recession). Good times? There's a little more in the kitty, so $20.
I posted the story on the FB and you would be surprised (or maybe not) the number of friends who suggested $10.
We gave her $1 each (I got a quarter as a kid then later my dad cheaped out and gave me $1 for 6 teeth--I'm not bitter).
So I commented to all those who think she should get $10 they can donate to my Tooth Fairy GoFundMe page.
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@remi I don't think I ever believed in the tooth fairy but we used to play the game of it where I'd put the tooth under my pillow and find money in the morning, and it was kind of fun and made losing a tooth special. When I lost my last few my parents were like "here have the money throw it away." But it wasn't about the money, I had plenty of pocket money and not much to spend it on.
I got 50p when I was little and at some point before I ran out of baby teeth it went up to ยฃ1. I think it was at least ยฃ2 by the time my little brother was past his canines, and even that was a good few years ago now. It was generally equivalent to a week's pocket money which also went up over the years.
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@CarrieVS I think we did the pillow thing as well, but my mum kept them (and at some point we skipped the middle man for the last few). I still have a little wooden container with my milk teeth. Profit was a Dutch quarter, which would later be about 11 Euro cent.
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@CarrieVS said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@remi I don't think I ever believed in the tooth fairy but we used to play the game of it where I'd put the tooth under my pillow and find money in the morning, and it was kind of fun and made losing a tooth special. When I lost my last few my parents were like "here have the money throw it away." But it wasn't about the money, I had plenty of pocket money and not much to spend it on.
I got 50p when I was little and at some point before I ran out of baby teeth it went up to ยฃ1. I think it was at least ยฃ2 by the time my little brother was past his canines, and even that was a good few years ago now. It was generally equivalent to a week's pocket money which also went up over the years.
There was a bit of time I actually believed in the tooth fairy because I didn't think I fell asleep between putting the tooth under my pillow and the money showing up.
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Our kids have never been marketed to and have never really watched commercials. Everything they have ever watched has been online and we pay extra to not have commercials wherever that is an option. As a result Lil'Dude doesn't understand even the concept of commercials. This morning he was watching Paw Patrol on the TV in our rental condo and it was constantly:
"Oh no, my bideo not working!"
"Buddy, that's just a commercial.""Oh no, my bideo not working. What happened to Marshall?"
"It's just a commercial, he will be back on in a little bit."
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So the other night I swing by the grocery to pick up a few things. Bottled water, juice boxes for the kids (our estimates for that were way off, they drink juice boxes on vacation like I do tequila), etc.
While there our oldest spots some of those premade cookies that you just put on a baking sheet and bake. They are brightly colored Easter themed things. The boy loves Easter, he loves eggs and what the hell, we are on vacation. Get the cookies. If that makes you happy let's go for it.
While on vacation the wife and I try to give each other at least one chance to sleep in. So this morning they all get up before I do. Lil'Dude comes in the bedroom where I am sleeping, it is dark and he hands me something that in the dim light I can see is brightly colored and vaguely cookie shaped.
"Ewe wan' cookie daddy?"
-stretches- "Thank you son, I would love a cookie."I take a big bite.
It does not taste like a cookie.
It tastes like...salt.
"Daddy! It's not a real cookie!! That's Play-Doh!!"
Blech!
In retrospect, eating anything a three year old hands you without first closely inspecting it was a pretty poor idea and not something I would normally do if given the chance to clear the sleep from my eyes and wake up a tiny bit.
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@Polygeekery
Of course your son is handing you a real cookie! There's no need to check it, just chow down!
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery
Of course your son is handing you a real cookie! There's no need to check it, just chow down!Especially if it is brown.
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@Karla
Who hasn't played the "is this shit or not?" Game?
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
they drink juice boxes on vacation like I do tequila
Does juice come in barrels?
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@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla
Who hasn't played the "is this shit or not?" Game?Just recently, my daughter's crayon box fell over. While we were picking it up, my oldest picks up something that could resemble shit, and was like ew whats this?
Now, I was pretty sure it was not shit.
So I grab it.
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This is a finish your own story.
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@Luhmann said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla
Who hasn't played the "is this shit or not?" Game?My grandmother had this cart with several carafes on them, filled with various spirits and liquors. Y'know, brandy, whiskey, cherry and such. We were there on a visit and my brother was still very small and had just learned to walk.
While we were all in another room, my grandmother walked by said cart and spotted a yellow-ish puddle on the tiled floor. Thinking that my brother might've spilled some brandy, she dipped her finger in it and gave it a taste.
That doesn't taste like brandy - it's rather more salty!
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The nope thread is ๏ฒ
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My wife says that I have this.
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Ahem...huh...it's dusty in here.
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Those who don't have kids will never be reminded of something they forgot they did like joining your kid's Minecraft world while they are sleeping and then the next night hearing:
"Mommy!!! I spent so much time building the perfect fort in Minecraft and Daddy filled it with thousands of sheep and now my game is so laggy that I can't do anything!!"
The best part:
"Honey, did you do that?"
"Possibly."
"Well, go help him kill all the sheep so his game will stop lagging."
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@Polygeekery
You're lucky you got off with just needing to kill the sheep. I'd have sent you to bed without dessert.
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@izzion I've been married a bit. I usually get sent to bed without dessert.
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So notification reminded me of this story:
Husband and I watching 5 y.o. doing her gymnastics
glassclass.I hope this helps her be less clumsy than I am.
Yeah, but she's still your daughter
MmmmNow leaving gymnastics:
:toddler: <~~ walks into glass door, of closed double door that hasn't changed in the 2 years we've been going here ~~>
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@Polygeekery Pause, open to LAN with cheats enabled,
/kill @e[type=sheep]
in chat
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@pie_flavor manually killing them was more fun.
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@Polygeekery you'd think that, until you hear the enormous amount of bleating.
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@pie_flavor said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery Pause, open to LAN with cheats enabled,
/kill @e[type=sheep]
in chatThat's a horrible idea!
add
,distance=..50,limit=1000
just to be safe
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@kazitor Why? They're passives, they respawn, and we don't know how big the fort is.
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@pie_flavor You might have a set of coloured sheep elsewhere that you don't want to lose. I can attest from experience that it never hurts to kill too little.
Furthermore,
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@kazitor dyes are amazingly easy to come by.
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@pie_flavor said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@kazitor dyes are amazingly easy to come by.
How about nametags for the rainbow one? Besides, even if you have all the dyes, it takes forever to organise 64 sheep into one pen for each colour.
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@boomzilla Can confirm.