Parenting

[Matt]

Katie and the kids used to get sick for 2ish days. I was down for 2ish weeks. Every time.

[long_john86]

I was a bit lost this morning with what to do with my 4 1/2 year old son, with the wife needing to catch up on some work.
Ended up printing out one of these free forestry hunt sheets from the net - 4 hours later and I’m not sure where the time has gone! Turns out there a lots of these types of ‘check list’ children’s pdfs online for free covering various topics and themes.

Absolutely freezing outside so we were both layered up to the hills; but I always think the cold weather makes coming back home so much nicer and instils that sense of gratitude in him of actually having a warm home to come back to.

The sheet (crosses and ticks both permitted apparently)

Looking for insects under a rock

Of course the opportunity to layer up some IH (295, 293, 888, M51)

Chilling by the lake (those two Canadian Geese were aptly named Mr. Wet and Mr. Angry - they are clearly used to being fed and weren’t happy that we weren’t feeding them!)

Interesting/thought-provoking sign on a big old tree

[long_john86]

The only present that my wife requested today for Mother’s Day…. Child-free time

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[SKT]

Anyone ever thrown their kid’s phone in a lake?

[long_john86]

Haha I shudder at the thought of the day when my son is old enough to want a phone 🫠

How was your throw - did it get far?

[scarfmace]

This is a fact!

[SKT]

@long_john86 haven’t done it yet but the time is nigh

[Brian]

just started our lad this school term doing Chinese classes one afternoon after school and he's starting football ( soccer) and basketball, which is all costing extra but not as much as the OHSC fees were, just love how I seem to work full time for nothing with all the fees and charges he racks up for me

[Matt]

When Katie went back to work and the girls started going to daycare we broke even. Fucking ridiculous.

[long_john86]

Channelling the sentiment of @SKT earlier post… anyone ever thrown their kid in a lake?

Been one of those days/weekends….

[A Former User]

@long_john86 would it help? In there eyes.. the more water the more fun.. i never forget we went to the forest for a big stroll with our daughter who’s 2 years old. She saw a big big puddle of water and she ran straight to it. From that moment everything was in slow motion.. my life flew by.. mental breakdown.. all of that in seconds. And then she went for the big puddle.. for like 110%.. running, jumping like there was no joy in her life till that moment. She laughs and laughs and laughs and suddenly she realizes the effect of water and the dirt. She cried, and said now i’m all wet and dirty(in her own vocabulary) and that’s the moment where you think.. told you so but hey.. you don’t wanna be rude and just ask her: and who’s idea was this?? Satisfying mind, crying daughter and no stroll.

[long_john86]

@Heavy_blue ah what a memory. Very heartwarming! Man they always manage to find the muddiest of the puddles, right?
Unfortunately not so much of that this weekend - just pure 4.5 year old defiance! 🫠🫠🫠

[Matt]

Forget terrible twos… fucked up fours was by far the worst.

[GraemeE]

Can confirm - our twins are currently four and complete balls of chaos

[DeeDee85]

@Matt thanks for this cos my daughter turns 4 in a month..

[long_john86]

@Matt Haha ’fuck up fours’ definitely sums it all up for us.

@DeeDee85 We have found it worse than Threenagers… enjoy got anything nice planned for her birthday?

@GraemeE We only have one child and are very much one-and-done. Juggling two of the same age you must have all the skills and the tricks to share with us!?

[Tago Mago]

@Matt when I have kids I'm gonna come to you with all my questions

[DeeDee85]

@long_john86 great we live quite close to Wentworth Woodhouse and the small farm and garden centre there is pretty much my little ones favourite place in the world so we’ve booked her and her nursery buddies a party there, they will have a couple of hours of private time handling the small furries and lizards/snakes etc then hand washing time and sandwiches and cake then time to play in the parks.
This is all a good thing as the cafe serves just about the best sausage rolls and cream cakes in the business and it allows me plenty of time to sneak off and try a few I’ll make sure to upload some pics into the food thread..

[long_john86]

@DeeDee85 nice, sounds like you’ve nailed it! Always good to sneak in a bit of something for yourselves too if you can - and can’t beat a good sausage roll! We’ve started going to a particular soft play a bit more because the coffee there is actually quite decent and the bacon barms are a hidden gem! Problem being our boy just wants to sit at the table and eat with us rather than burning off steam in the actual soft play!

[SKT]

@DeeDee85 @long_john86

In between throwing my kid’s and their stuff into various lakes, creeks and rivers we did find some time to pet some small furry things at a local farm last week. It was a fun little outing and we all needed to touch some grass after a cooped up “staycation” during our spring break