:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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Child too young to play catch? Try Balloon Volleyball .
Just fill a normal, round, childrens-football-sized party balloon with air and start throwing across the room. Surprisingly entertaining and very safe for the house until the kid learns to throw a baseball.
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@acrow yep, this is fun for the whole family.
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Tooootally don't see myself here. Nope nope nope.
Mostly because I'm not in that good of shape; tossing my kid in the air 47 times in a row is likely to result in an injury. Either mine or the kid's.
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One of the most disconcerting series of sounds as a parent:
Silence
THUMP
I'm sorry. Don't tell Daddy
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Tooootally don't see myself here. Nope nope nope.
Mostly because I'm not in that good of shape; tossing my kid in the air 47 times in a row is likely to result in an injury. Either mine or the kid's.
Why the XOR?
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
One of the most disconcerting series of sounds as a parent of a puppy:
Silence
THUMP
I'm sorry. Don't tell DaddyFixed for me (3y ago now...)
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Aggregator onebox because Bloomberg:
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
One of the most disconcerting series of sounds as a parent:
Silence
THUMP
I'm sorry. Don't tell Daddyflush
"Oh no".
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I got another one!
She seems a bit dubious about the whole idea.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
She seems a bit dubious about the whole idea.
She's not wrong.
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@boomzilla He's out of line but not wrong.
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Our oldest has quite a talent for piano and actually does enjoy his time in piano lessons and such but getting him to practice at home is like pulling teeth. So we have a rule that as soon as he gets home he has to practice for 15 minutes before he is allowed to do anything else. No time is added to electronics or anything until he does his 15 minutes of practice. This is especially important right now as he has been chosen to play a piece at a recital at a local university where he does his lessons.
This has always been enforced just by us being able to hear the piano (an electronic one) from anywhere in the house and a timer set through Google Assistant.
Today I go into the living room and he did not hear me coming. When I walk in he is on my tablet playing Minecraft. The piano is making all the appropriate notes that sound like his practice.
The little shit had learned how to record his playing, then grabbed my tablet from the charger, which does not have any time restrictions on it, and was playing Minecraft while the piano playback feature made it sound like he was actually practicing.
That is simultaneously infuriating and deviously impressive. I mean, yeah, I got into his shit pretty hard about it but in the back of my mind I was pretty impressed by the ingenuity.
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@Polygeekery life comes at you fast.
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My 8 yo daughter's school requires a uniform except on their spirit day.
Wednesday was decade day.
So I made to small braids from the side of her hair. Something like this:
She likes it so much, she wants to do variations of that all the time. Small braids like that take so much time. It was hard enough to split her hair into halves .
I can't make a straight part.
I always feel so bad when I see the other girls in her class with perfect parts. Especially when they are especially detailed with squares throughout the head.
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@Karla WTF is a spirit day? Or decade day for that matter
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@Jaloopa "spirit day" is usually short for "school spirit." In older grades it's often associated with a sports event against a local rival or something.
I assume "decade day" is where you dress like people in that decade dressed. My kids' schools never did that but they did other stuff like pajamas day or crazy hair day.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I assume "decade day" is where you dress like people in that decade dressed.
Ah, I hadn't figured that one out.
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla WTF is a spirit day? Or decade day for that matter
A day don't have to wear their uniform but have to dress as a theme.
Decade day was just, dress stereotypical of a particular decade.
Other spirit days have been, Crazy Hair day, colors of your class, crazy sock day, favorite spring outfit, dress like you are 100 years old, and during Hispanic Awareness month their favorite famous Hispanic (while Ariande Grande was her first choice, we talked her into Linda Carter and she could wear the Wonder Woman consume she already had), etc.
We try to put something together for her.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Crazy Hair day
That would be every day for me. My hair exists in one of two states — three if you include too short to matter — long enough to ponytail, or sticking up wildly in random directions. I have a catch-all email account at my domain, so the username part of the address doesn't matter, and my daughter has occasionally sent me email at the address funnyhairman@[redacted]. When I was in high school, I had a teacher who nicknamed me Woodstock (the Peanuts comic character, not the music festival); fortunately, nobody else ever used that nickname for me, and he's dead now.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Crazy Hair day
That would be every day for me. My hair exists in one of two states — three if you include too short to matter — long enough to ponytail, or sticking up wildly in random directions. I have a catch-all email account at my domain, so the username part of the address doesn't matter, and my daughter has occasionally sent me email at the address funnyhairman@[redacted]. When I was in high school, I had a teacher who nicknamed me Woodstock (the Peanuts comic character, not the music festival); fortunately, nobody else ever used that nickname for me, and he's dead now.
When she was in pre-K she barely let me brush her hair, so she went to school with crazy, bed-head hair.
I've got a lot of hair accessories for her*, so we just put as much as we could into and a few other things that wouldn't be considered a hair accessory. A couple Pokemon backpack thingies.
- As much as I'm not good at it, I like when I do. There were only a couple times that she was like, maybe we can leave it down. My husband usually does a better job, but he had daughters
since the nineties.
She has thicker hair than I do, but without repeated brushing it
gets wild, like mine did when I had long hair. I basically only wore it in a ponytail because it would be annoying and wild otherwise.
- As much as I'm not good at it, I like when I do. There were only a couple times that she was like, maybe we can leave it down. My husband usually does a better job, but he had daughters
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
This is an argument I've had with my husband. I knock, wait for an affirmative (which with my being almost deaf, they have to scream). Depending on the situation (like needing to leave for school right now), I may not really wait. But in that case, they would be expecting it (or still sleeping).
My husband, never waits. I suppose if he catches his sons it is far less embarrassing than if I do.
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@Karla Have you considered installing locks on the doors?
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla Have you considered installing locks on the doors?
The bathroom has a lock, as does our room.
We haven't any problems, just a point of contention between us.
As my daughter's bed is under our loft bed, she is more likely to walk in/wake up on us.
Since my desk is in our room, I occasionally lock it when I cannot have any interruption.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Since my desk is in our room, I occasionally lock it when I cannot have any interruption.
Women have needs also, eh?
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The bathroom has a lock,
Heard in a military field hospital from a petty officer:
: (joking) Remember, go to the toilets if you need to jerk off.
...couple of hours pass...
: People, don't actually use the toilets for jerking off. There's like 2 toilets, and there's 60 of you here. People need to go potty.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The bathroom has a lock,
Heard in a military field hospital from a petty officer:
: (joking) Remember, go to the toilets if you need to jerk off.
...couple of hours pass...
: People, don't actually use the toilets for jerking off. There's like 2 toilets, and there's 60 of you here. People need to go potty.That's a pretty bad ratio. So yeah, don't do shit that can be done elsewhere.
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@boomzilla I'm getting old. My first thought was "how to wash it off now?"
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@Gąska said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla I'm getting old. My first thought was "how to wash it off now?"
I thought it would be fun to play with her.
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Then, fuck this is a bitch to clean up.I guess my adult persona is in conflict with my inner child.
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@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I call "made up / embellished for twitter upboats". But at least it's funnier than the typical of that genre (and accurately encapsulates the experience of small kids)
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@izzion said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@boomzilla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I call "made up / embellished for twitter upboats". But at least it's funnier than the typical of that genre (and accurately encapsulates the experience of small kids)
My 8 yo just asked me why de Blasio and presidentish Biden want her to get a shot to prevent a disease that she likely had already and is of little risk to her even if she didn't.
Any debate of my above statement should be removed to the garage. I posted for the humorous value of it.
If others deem it unacceptable, I accept any change in category.
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@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The bathroom has a lock,
Heard in a military field hospital from a petty officer:
: (joking) Remember, go to the toilets if you need to jerk off.
...couple of hours pass...
: People, don't actually use the toilets for jerking off. There's like 2 toilets, and there's 60 of you here. People need to go potty.That's a pretty bad ratio. So yeah, don't do shit that can be done elsewhere.
I’d say the shit is one of the things that shouldn’t be done elsewhere
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The bathroom has a lock,
Heard in a military field hospital from a petty officer:
: (joking) Remember, go to the toilets if you need to jerk off.
...couple of hours pass...
: People, don't actually use the toilets for jerking off. There's like 2 toilets, and there's 60 of you here. People need to go potty.That's a pretty bad ratio. So yeah, don't do shit that can be done elsewhere.
I’d say the shit is one of the things that shouldn’t be done elsewhere
Watching SSSniperWolf on youtube with husband and 8 yo.
Theme is people having a worse day than you. Cut toilet with what was hopefully a child's prank were they put black color in the bowl. Then baking soda, then vinegar.
~ Yelling and pointing to the TV ~
That's a <indecipherable to me>-men there!
That's a <indecipherable to me>-men there!
That's a <indecipherable to me>-men there!
That's a <indecipherable to me>-men there!~pause video~
You need to think about your life choices.
What's so funny?
grown-up stuff, we'll explain when you are older.
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@Jaloopa said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Karla said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The bathroom has a lock,
Heard in a military field hospital from a petty officer:
: (joking) Remember, go to the toilets if you need to jerk off.
...couple of hours pass...
: People, don't actually use the toilets for jerking off. There's like 2 toilets, and there's 60 of you here. People need to go potty.That's a pretty bad ratio. So yeah, don't do shit that can be done elsewhere.
I’d say the shit is one of the things that shouldn’t be done elsewhere
Actual shit should be done there, but people do a lot of shit other than actual shit. The other shit should be done elsewhere.
Otherwise, if all the shitters are occupied, what is a person who has shit to do? They have to do it elsewhere (most of the time you can wait--but for serious shits-waiting isn't going to cut it). If you're lucky, that elsewhere is a separate structure that has plumbing. Otherwise heavily wooded.
Camps, where a number times we were told just find some place to go. I do think they mostly meant pee. It wasn't excluded and they mentioned possible wiping material.
At one point we were on an outdoor tennis court. Straight grass all around. I was not the only woman squatting down in the grass, where basically everyone can see.
Speaking of which, which brings us back to the topic of the thread.
We were at the playground (a train ride from our house) and she had to pee. I had previously noticed other parents having their child pee in a corner of the park, at the bushes outside the fence. The first time was difficult, she got over it.
Another time it was a playground with a water sprinkler and since I knew she was going to get wet I dressed her in a bathing suit that is a short sleeve top with shorts (specifically for playground usage--they are also spf 50-less area to worry about). If you really have to go and you don't want to go home, stand in the sprinkler until you feel it's all rinsed off.