:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@Zerosquare As a counterexample, I can state that my (then) wife definitely did not find the rocking of the ship on the last night of our cruise very soothing. Quite the opposite.
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@HardwareGeek was it gentle and soothing? Or was it the rocking of the cruise ship my folks were on when they were young, sailing in force-8 winds and the ship was pulling figure-of-eight motions in the sea? (My father in particular was perturbed that they'd closed the bar.)
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@Arantor Hey, the post I replied to just said "moderately slow", not "gentle and soothing". I don't really remember, but I'd guess that one of those descriptions applied but not the other. Determining which one did and which one didn't is left as an exercise for the reader.
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@HardwareGeek Same. Some people get motion-sick easily. And those same people tend to be quick to forget all about it. Every damn time we go to an amusement park, my wife picks a "looks tame enough" machine, ignores my warning, and then spends the rest of the day trying to hold her breakfast in.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I can state that my (then) wife definitely did not find the rocking of the ship on the last night of our cruise very soothing. Quite the opposite.
The soothing effect only works for some ranges of amplitudes and frequencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayQ455FCFdcOr if you prefer cheaper and more Polygeekeric solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMVUSgC3ULk
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek Same. Some people get motion-sick easily. And those same people tend to be quick to forget all about it. Every damn time we go to an amusement park, my wife picks a "looks tame enough" machine, ignores my warning, and then spends the rest of the day trying to hold her breakfast in.
I know from long experience that ships are not a problem but I'm good for about one(1) trip in a rollercoaster. Two trips are pushing it and three will put me right out of order.
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
put me right out of order.
Do you need @Zerosquare to reboot you?
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A bit extreme, but I do actually know someone who tattooed twin #1 with one very small dot on the bottom of the foot, and twin #2 with two of them.
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Sickness ravages my household. My preschooler has allergies, my infant has a cold and an ear infection (in that order), and I have some kind of coughing-disease.
But my little
petri dishes disease vectorsplague-bringers are cute, so there's that.(I'm unfamiliar with allergies causing coughing, so I'm looking at my preschooler a bit askance, but apparently it's a thing, and we got an Official Diagnosis so she can go back to preschool while coughing.)
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
(I'm unfamiliar with allergies causing coughing, so I'm looking at my preschooler a bit askance, but apparently it's a thing, and we got an Official Diagnosis so she can go back to preschool while coughing.)
Yes, it's a thing.
OTOH, thought mine was allergies but then it wasn't. Tested positive this morning.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
(I'm unfamiliar with allergies causing coughing, so I'm looking at my preschooler a bit askance, but apparently it's a thing, and we got an Official Diagnosis so she can go back to preschool while coughing.)
Yes, it's a thing.
OTOH, thought mine was allergies but then it wasn't. Tested positive this morning.
I've got a bunch of government tests, but I've only gone through three so far (one yesterday), and I keep failing them. Ah, well, I get more tries later.
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@PotatoEngineer be patient! Your turn will come.
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Status: preschooler is running around with a magnet word that says "yellow." Am trying very hard not to make The King In Yellow references, because nobody in the house but me would get them.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer be patient! Your turn will come.
like that:
@cheong said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ„¢:
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Am trying very hard not to make The King In Yellow references, because nobody in the house but me would get them.
It's never too early to learn about Hastur. How else for most to bear the sight of his glory?
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek Same. Some people get motion-sick easily. And those same people tend to be quick to forget all about it. Every damn time we go to an amusement park, my wife picks a "looks tame enough" machine, ignores my warning, and then spends the rest of the day trying to hold her breakfast in.
I love all the rides. I remember in HS at a state fair there was this ride that spun on 3-axis. I couldn't get anyone to go with me, so I tried to go myself but the pod (for lack of a better term) required two people. I eventually got someone to go with me.
Years ago, we took the kids to Coney Island. The boys have made it clear the wildest ride they will go on is the Log Flume.
We took the girls on the roller coaster. They were barely tall enough, one with me, the other with my husband.
The first downhill, they're screaming "I want to get off."
The safety features are a bar, no seat belt. The first hill I realized they are each thin enough to fall out. I put my arm across her to hold on to the other side. Yeah, I realize my arm is probably not strong enough to stop her from falling out.
We get a bit of food after that excitement. Then go on something more tame.
The tilt-a-whirl sounds perfect. They both left their chocolate milk on the ride. I told the kid running the ride, he's like it isn't chunks, no worries.
I love the loop to loops, upside down, straight drops, spinning in every direction (which is funny now that I get vertigo-relating to my hearing).
The only rides I don't like are the boring ones.
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@Karla I used to love this ride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MyDOqFEMgIt would sometimes pause, almost perfectly balanced, for as much as 20 or 30 seconds at the top of the swing. Unfortunately, quite a number of years ago, they adjusted it so that it would either stop short of or pass through top dead center without balancing there.
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@Arantor said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
(My father in particular was perturbed that they'd closed the bar.)
In such a situation I would just tell the bartender that I do not intend the drink to be around long enough to be spilled and offer large tips.
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Our oldest asked me the other day what my favorite word is. Without a thought I told him. He did not even believe me that it was a real word until I showed him in a dictionary. Now he is doing his best to insert the word "defenestrate" in every sentence that he can.
His mother is not as amused as I am. I am sure that this will have negative consequences once school resumes.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Our oldest asked me the other day what my favorite word is. Without a thought I told him. He did not even believe me that it was a real word until I showed him in a dictionary. Now he is doing his best to insert the word "defenestrate" in every sentence that he can.
His mother is not as amused as I am. I am sure that this will have negative consequences once school resumes.
I would love if my daughter used the word properly at school.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Our oldest asked me the other day what my favorite word is. Without a thought I told him. He did not even believe me that it was a real word until I showed him in a dictionary. Now he is doing his best to insert the word "defenestrate" in every sentence that he can.
His mother is not as amused as I am. I am sure that this will have negative consequences once school resumes.
I would love if my daughter used the word properly at school.
Would it matter if she used the word by demonstration?
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
They both left their chocolate milk on the ride.
Those are the kinds of rides I always gravitate towards. Even the tame ones can be ... um ... fun! You know the spinny teacup thing? I almost made my brother puke in that by spinning it as fast as I could - had to change the spin rate to "make it boring" so I won't end up with puke on me.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"defenestrate"
(Googles to make sure) Oh, the "rare" definition is even better!
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@dcon and that is linguistic change in action.
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"the overwhelming view is that he should be defenestrated before the next election by defenstration"
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"defenestrate"
(Googles to make sure) Oh, the "rare" definition is even better!
I thought the "rare" definition was the only definition.
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@loopback0 same.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Our oldest asked me the other day what my favorite word is. Without a thought I told him. He did not even believe me that it was a real word until I showed him in a dictionary. Now he is doing his best to insert the word "defenestrate" in every sentence that he can.
His mother is not as amused as I am. I am sure that this will have negative consequences once school resumes.
Depends on how big a sense of humor the teacher has. I guess most won't, but I did have one teacher in high school who would regularly joke "class, shut up now or tomorrow's newspapers are going to have a headline on page 15 'Teacher jumps out of window... on ground floor', though quite frankly my back isn't what it used to be". People did tend to shut up after that.
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The dad superpower is to be totally
obliviousimmune to this sort of thing.
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
had to change the spin rate to "make it boring" so I won't end up with puke on me.I hate when I have to do that.
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"the overwhelming view is that he should be defenestrated before the next election by defenstration"
Do not do so in Prague. That one 30-years-war was bad enough for Europe.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
had to change the spin rate to "make it boring" so I won't end up with puke on me.I hate when I have to do that.
You just need to change the spin rate so that the centrifugal force sends the puke outside the ride.
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@Boner At least they had plastic bags to handle the poo with.
Pro tip: Always keep a roll of plastic bags in your car.
Other things that make sense to keep in your car if you have kids:
- Paper towels
- Flashlight
- A towel (get a towel big enough to cover the baby seat with, while the car is parked, to keep it from getting hot in sunshine - dual use for the win)
- A pair of walkie talkies (hand radios phones), with straps attached
- Straps with quick-locks - keep some in the backpack with the kids' water bottles.
- An extra canteen
- A roll of duct tape
- A pack of chopsticks
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@acrow also a full set of clean clothes for each child.
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@Boner
and yourself
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Pro tip: Always keep a roll of plastic bags in your car.
Other things that make sense to keep in your car if you had, but will soon no longer have kids:
- Paper towels
- Flashlight
- A towel (get a towel big enough to cover the baby seat with, while the car is parked, to keep it from getting hot in sunshine - dual use for the win)
- A pair of walkie talkies (hand radios phones), with straps attached
- Straps with quick-locks - keep some in the backpack with the kids' water bottles.
- An extra canteen
- A roll of duct tape
- A pack of chopsticks
FTFY
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A roll of duct tape
Because every family has that uncooperative child.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A roll of duct tape
Because every family has that uncooperative child.
Isn't that what the chopsticks are for?
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@Gribnit said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A roll of duct tape
Because every family has that uncooperative child.
Isn't that what the chopsticks are for?
No, that's for getting the bean out of the nose before it sprouts
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Also, you don't need to train toddlers to fight. Have you ever seen what happens at daycare?
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@Zerosquare
Oi, I was promised that would stay at daycare!
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@Boner said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow also a full set of clean clothes for each child.
I often needed it for a bus ride.
I managed to get a plastic bag from someone else on the bus (I did have baby wipes and wee-wee pads for cleanup). And luckily we were going somewhere I could by an overpriced shirt to replace the one she puked on.
I'm a sympathetic vomiter. It could be a struggle for me to keep it together.
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@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Gribnit said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
A roll of duct tape
Because every family has that uncooperative child.
Isn't that what the chopsticks are for?
No, that's for getting the bean out of the nose before it sprouts
Oh, right.
- Tweezers. Thin and long.
Forgot about that one. I carry a Leatherman multi-tool in my belt. The plier part is thin enough that I can dig most things out of orifices as needed. But I suppose tweezers would be better if you need to detach ticks.