The Parenting Thread

Not to uncool the board, but I thought a parenting/support thread could be therapeutic for some of us. And be a good place to swap stories.

(Backstory: I've been gone all week with work, and a week is an eternity in a kids life. The cliche is right -- they do grow up fast -- and they change so quickly).

Anyway, what I learned this morning when I returned home: there is a show called Go, Diego Go and even though Diego is Dora's brother, when my daughter demands Diego, she means this show and not Dora. I had never heard of it until this morning. Did you fathers know this?

This is also kind of sad because after a month at the top my daughter now thinks Dora the Explorer sucks. How can such an assessment be made in less than a week? I feel bad for Dora. She's just been tossed to the curb.

 

Kids are fickle. My little guy has already moved on from bottles to sippie cups. He doesn't like to even see a bottle.

It is amazing what they pickup on in a day when you're gone, much less a week

 

Say NO to Barney what ever you do!

 

You want parenting advice???????

Bust dey ass.

 

Hawkins County = child abuse capital of Tennessee.

 

If a whack on the butt is child abuse, then yes.

 

There is something that makes you proud as a father watching your son dip 5 pieces of bacon in maple syrup when he eats it.

 

My daughter eats like a truck driver and I fear, will swear like one too. But seriously, her favorite snack is roasted peanuts and favorite meal shrimp and corn. And she devours bacon like none other. No salads and sparkling water for this one.

 

I've got my 3 year old girl into liking some of the TV I did growing up. She absolutely loves Charlie Brown specials.......she wears out It's the Great Pumpkin, the Christmas episode, and the Easter Beagle. She also enjoys Scooby-Doo quite a bit and really likes A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. I've also got her into The Flintstones a bit here lately. She's slowly coming around to Fraggle Rock now too.

As for the crappy kids cartoons that are on now she makes me suffer mostly through Bubble Guppies. I hate that show with a passion. But at least there's one newer kids cartoon that is money and I enjoy and that's Phineas and Ferb. My little girl loves that one and I like that show myself. With the twins likely coming in early February I've only got a couple of months of sanity left.

 

Doof's flashbacks to Gimmelschtump are my favorite part of phineas and ferb. Hilarious. He's my favorite character by far in the shows my kids watch.

 

My 10 month old son made a 2 year old cry today. They got in a spat over a Jack-in-the-Box. He took the 2 year old's pacifier away and threw it in the floor after the 2 year old took the toy away from him.

I'm proud.

 

I took a psych class focused on the topic of fatherhood. That makes me a pro, right?

 

I have 3 kids and they all came down with the stomach virus last night. No one should ever see the volume of vomit I've dealt with today. Some days you just hope for the sweet release of death.

 

It is amazing the amount of puke that can come out of such small children.

I feel for you.

 

I'm 3 (almost 4) months in with my first. It's been interesting so far

 

That's the worst part... once they start sleeping through the night, it gets easier up until they start walking.... and then be prepared to never sit down again.

Oh, and baby gates are for sissies... we haven't had them on our stairs for either one of our boys.

 

She actually sleeps a lot during the night. Maybe wakes up a time or two. There's quite a few nights where she sleeps through

 

Saturday, Little Me was about as awesome as you could ask for. Yesterday, I just wanted to throw him through a wall he was so whiny.

Got to love 2 year olds.

 

i have two at 3 months and neither is anywhere close to sleeping through the night. of course they are probably smaller than yours since they are premature.

 

My three month old hasn't woken up in the middle of the night in about 3 weeks.