:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
And of the ones that tie, I leave the tennis shoes tied and just slip them on 90% of the time.
Having loose shoes or a loose belt drives me crazy.
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@Polygeekery tight belt, but I've gotten good about having the shoes reasonably tight while loose enough to slip on/off. Horrible for them, but
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
And of the ones that tie, I leave the tennis shoes tied and just slip them on 90% of the time.
Having loose shoes or a loose belt drives me crazy.
I can't be bothered with belts. Sweatpants with ties...will eventually come out.
Which means any clothes I bought when heavier, or up-sized when I ordered online because I'd rather too big than risk too small (and I hate shopping and trying on clothes--and any place I could is probably not as cheap as Amazon) are constantly falling off of me.
I'm probably pretty funny when I'm running around catching Pokemon and pulling up my pants.
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@boomzilla During my childhood, I had a friend from a family which was very much like mine. We were four brothers, they were 4 brothers, even roughly the same age each (plus/minus a few months).
The oldest (my friend & me) were more serious, quiet. The second ones were a bit ... slow. The third ones were the complete opposite and prime candidates for an ADHD diagnosis. And the fourth ones were the pudges.
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My oldest really, really wanted a Minecraft wallet. So I got him one.
Then he wanted bills to put in it, so I told him if he would count out change from his piggy bank I would cash them in for him.
Holy shit, he has squirreled away a lot of change. So I tell him that I might need to go to the safe to get cash if he keeps trading in change.
Now he wants his own safe.
I already bought him a $10 wallet to put $35 in. He is pushing his luck if he wants his own safe.
Still a proud papa. We talked about how he should save some, invest some (I told him that each month I would pay him for any of "his money" he keeps in our safe, and that he could spend some.
Sending him to a Jewish daycare was money well spent.
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My (now) four year old wants a rainbow birthday cake, my four year old gets a rainbow birthday cake.
Six layers in total. Red, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple. It should look like a light show was turned on when we cut in to this thing. I am icing it with stabilized whipped cream for a super white icing to contrast.
I also have rainbow sprinkles to put on it, but might not.
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Here's the trimmings from the leveling cuts:
The colors turned out awesome. I'm happy.
On the other hand, I don't think it is going to fit in my cake box. Six layers, plus icing, makes for a tall cake.
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Fuck, this cake is really tall. I need something for scale to put in a photo.
-Looks around-
This'll do
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He was jazzed.
"Rainbow birthday cake!! You made that just for me??"
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Parents, you gotta respect them...
From Wumo
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
My (now) four year old wants a rainbow birthday cake, my four year old gets a rainbow birthday cake.
Six layers in total. Red, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple. It should look like a light show was turned on when we cut in to this thing. I am icing it with stabilized whipped cream for a super white icing to contrast.
I also have rainbow sprinkles to put on it, but might not.
None of that looks appetizing.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
None of that looks appetizing.
Well, it tastes like sugar and it was super colorful. Also, you're not 4.
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
, you're not 4.
Don't assume her age
Hasn't she previously revealed having a daughter?
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@PleegWat said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
, you're not 4.
Don't assume her age
Hasn't she previously revealed having a daughter?
In addition to posting on the internet in complete sentences and admitting to having a job.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
None of that looks appetizing.
Well, it tastes like sugar and it was super colorful.
While I like sweet...not straight sweet.
Also, you're not 4.
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So my 6 yo comes up to me very excitedly and says:
Mom, I'm ready to get my ears pierced, I'm really, really ready!!!
I'm at a slight disadvantage because her older sisters had theirs done when they were babies (partially because they were twins and it helped to tell them apart-but it is also very common in Hispanic/black families so many of her friends at school have them). And I am quite against it (for babies).
You know it takes a lot of work to take care of them when you first get them and I'm not so sure you are mature enough for that.
But I'm 6 years old!
<explaining some of the work involved> I think we can talk about it when you are 10 years old.
Maybe 9, 9 and half?
maybe.I though it was adorable.
She did try and bring it up again just before bed time.
Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
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@JBert said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Poor parents.
Who do you think taught him to sing?
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We took 6 yo to gymnastics class for the first time since the end of the spring session.
While getting her ready, taking socks and shoes off, another little boy comes in with his dad and says:
I've been thinking about you all summer
And then then they started running around chasing each other and laughing.
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Carved Jack 'O' Lanterns with the kids tonight.
The themes were Minecraft and "Spooky".
While searching for designs I came across this:
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@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A picture says more than 1000 words... But I don't know which ones to pick.
Care to give some context?
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@JBert I let sound analyser running while I dressed the babies after their bath, when they usually cry loudly.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Moments ago the wife is talking to the almost 8 year old about how he needs to be tying his shoes on his own. She tells him that before long we won't be able to buy him shoes with Velcro closures.
"But grandpa has Velcro shoes."
The kid has a point. It is also amazing how much kids and senior citizens have in common.
I have Velcroโข shoes, and I'm pretty sure I don't fit into either category.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery
I would be very tempted to get shoes with Velcro myself if they were something readily available at ye olde standard shoe shopI got mine at Walmart.
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@djls45 My shoes have those strings, but I just tuck it in, no tieing
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That could almost be me and my next two brothers.
Once when we were fishing as little kids, we didn't have a bucket to put the rainbow trout into, we would just toss them up away from the lake. The third boy was too young to hold a fishing pole, but he was content to crawl around behind us and play with the flopping fish. He got quiet for "too long," so we looked back and found that he had caught one of the fish and was sucking on its head. My dad took it away from him, but he had already sucked out the eyeballs and swallowed them.
Apparently it didn't affect his health...
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
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have taughtam teaching my kids to be nearly as much of a clean-freak as I am. The 4yo is pretty good. The 2yo still uses his whole hand instead of just a finger to push food onto his fork (or to grab food and stuff it into his mouth directly โ we're still working on that). The 1yo still mostly eats from a bottle, though he is able to feed himself cheerios and other small chunks of soft or softenable food. He does also love mushy stuff (applesauce, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, etc.) that we feed him using a spoon.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Also, she is adamant that doesn't want to go to high school. I just tell her we'll talk about that later. Depending upon the school system, I may not want her to either.
Homeschooling FTW!
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
We talked about how he should save some, invest some (I told him that each month I would pay him for any of "his money" he keeps in our safe, and that he could spend some.
So here is what I came up with:
Three tiers of "investing". We keep track of all of it in a Google spreadsheet that he has read-only access to from his tablet. Money is kept in three separate envelopes in our safe.
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The equivalent of a checking account. No interest, but any money in this lump is always available and he can have (basically) immediate access. If we are at a store and he wants to purchase something then we deduct it from his total and later on that day we open the envelope and remove the money in front of him and "pay ourselves back" so that the loss becomes tangible for him.
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The equivalent of a Money Market account. We pay him 5% per month on it based on the lowest balance it had during the month. Money kept in here is not immediately available. There is a one week lag. If he wants to remove money from this envelope it will occur one week from when he tells us.
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The equivalent of a mutual fund or other investment account. Money in this envelope pays 10% per month. (yes, that would triple it on an annual basis if left in there) Any money in this envelope has a one month lag on availability. So he has to decide on the first of the month if he wants to withdraw or deposit any money. Withdrawals would happen on the following first.
We've discussed balancing out accounts so that money is working for you as much as possible but always keeping money readily available for immediate "expenses".
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@djls45 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That could almost be me and my next two brothers.
Once when we were fishing as little kids, we didn't have a bucket to put the rainbow trout into, we would just toss them up away from the lake. The third boy was too young to hold a fishing pole, but he was content to crawl around behind us and play with the flopping fish. He got quiet for "too long," so we looked back and found that he had caught one of the fish and was sucking on its head. My dad took it away from him, but he had already sucked out the eyeballs and swallowed them.
Apparently it didn't affect his health...โWhat, were you dropped on your head as a kid?โ
โNo, but I did suck the eyeballs out of a live trout...โ
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@Polygeekery
Hopefully you send him to public school. If he learns actual math heโs gonna bankrupt you right quick
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@izzion Yeah, I get that tripling money annually is not tenable long term. But for right now it illustrates the point. I did tell him that at some point these numbers would have to be adjusted and that he shouldn't expect me to pay him thousands in interest when he is a teenager.
1% interest per month to an 8 year old would have elicited a "Why even bother?" from an 8 year old.
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@Polygeekery
On the other hand, if he did start up a fractional reserve bank for his friends to arbitrage your interest rates, wouldn't you be at least a little proud of him before you savagely beat him for exploiting you?