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Cad
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At 14 months they're probably not smart enough to realize they shouldn't eat dirt, even when it tastes bad. At 4? Sure. And we can't protect them from the world, but thats no reason to throw them outside in a dirt pile at 14 months, either.
chaos
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At 14 months I wouldn't leave them unsupervised with it, but i doubt they will continue to actually eat it. Put it in their mouths, sure, but that isn't really dangerous, just gross. I wouldn't leave my 5 year old unsupervised with it, but I am crazy, I don't even like to let her out of the room unsupervised.
The park by my house has mulch under the play equipment, at around that age my daughters were constantly putting that shit in their mouths. And I know where that shit comes from, the county has a huge area at the dump where they make mulch and you can get it for free if you want. But it never hurt them, they are just curious and that is how they explore the world.
The park by my house has mulch under the play equipment, at around that age my daughters were constantly putting that shit in their mouths. And I know where that shit comes from, the county has a huge area at the dump where they make mulch and you can get it for free if you want. But it never hurt them, they are just curious and that is how they explore the world.
OneofOne
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Just got back from camping with the family, and I have some advice. Ignore me as needed.
We could have fit all 7 of us in the van along with our camping gear. That would have been cramped and miserable. Instead, we took the van and the car, and every time we were driving, everyone had some "alone" time in that no one had to sit right next to another, and there was absolutely zero car bickering, and the time camping was probably the happiest, least arguing we've ever had. Yeah, we spent more on gas and tolls, but that was money well spent, I think.
In other news, my youngest has picked up a new phrase from who the hell knows where. When he eats something he doesn't like, he says, "That tastes like cancer!"
smh
We could have fit all 7 of us in the van along with our camping gear. That would have been cramped and miserable. Instead, we took the van and the car, and every time we were driving, everyone had some "alone" time in that no one had to sit right next to another, and there was absolutely zero car bickering, and the time camping was probably the happiest, least arguing we've ever had. Yeah, we spent more on gas and tolls, but that was money well spent, I think.
In other news, my youngest has picked up a new phrase from who the hell knows where. When he eats something he doesn't like, he says, "That tastes like cancer!"
smh
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Abefroman
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Didn't know where to put this, figured this was as good a spot as any.
Teenage son discovers his deceased father's ghost car in Xbox rally game | Motoramic - Yahoo Autos
Well, when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together - until he died, when i was just 6.
i couldnt touch that console for 10 years.
but once i did, i noticed something.
we used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. actually pretty awesome for the time it came.
and once i started meddling around... i found a GHOST.
literaly.
you know, when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? yep, you guessed it - his ghost still rolls around the track today.
and so i played and played, and played, untill i was almost able to beat the ghost. until one day i got ahead of it, i surpassed it, and...
i stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure i wouldnt delete it.
Bliss.
Teenage son discovers his deceased father's ghost car in Xbox rally game | Motoramic - Yahoo Autos
Well, when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together - until he died, when i was just 6.
i couldnt touch that console for 10 years.
but once i did, i noticed something.
we used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. actually pretty awesome for the time it came.
and once i started meddling around... i found a GHOST.
literaly.
you know, when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? yep, you guessed it - his ghost still rolls around the track today.
and so i played and played, and played, untill i was almost able to beat the ghost. until one day i got ahead of it, i surpassed it, and...
i stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure i wouldnt delete it.
Bliss.
Falstaff
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There was a Game Boy game back in the day, something simple like F1 Racing maybe, that had time trials and recorded the three best times. My brother played in the high school World Series one year for baseball and his friend rode with us. He got the best time on one of the tracks. He died like a year later. We never played that track again so we could preserve his name JOE at the top forever.
Ronaan
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I wouldn't say I was lamenting... more like "bitching". I get the part about people only having so much vacation time, but so do I, and the dozen other parents who have a sick kid when the patient-zero guys send their little one to daycare.
Anyway, sand is ok if you're around to watch. Marie played with sand before she could even walk (took her on a beach holiday when she was 10 months old), didn't really try to eat it.
BrutulTM
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I think staying home from work/school/daycare to avoid spreading viruses is a waste of time. Most colds last a week or more and nobody would take that much time off for a cold so why bother staying home for 1 or 2 days of it when you're just going to expose everyone when you come back or you already did for a couple days before?
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iannis
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Most colds/flus do last a week, but the most virulent stage is only about a day. And that's usually the part where your eyes are just starting to feel big and you can tell that next week is gonna suck.
Honestly you wouldn't even have to have sick people stay home in most jobs. You'd just have to have everyone wash their hands every 10-15 minutes and pay attention. Very simple things work.
But you might as well have people stay home because productivity is gonna be complete garbage when you're fighting off a flu. And you combine that with the productivity that you lose from your other workers, it makes more sense to pay somebody to stay home.
Honestly you wouldn't even have to have sick people stay home in most jobs. You'd just have to have everyone wash their hands every 10-15 minutes and pay attention. Very simple things work.
But you might as well have people stay home because productivity is gonna be complete garbage when you're fighting off a flu. And you combine that with the productivity that you lose from your other workers, it makes more sense to pay somebody to stay home.
Whoever it was in this thread that gave me the recommendation for these a few months ago
Melissa Us
you are fucking awesome. My kid loves these, other people's kids love these, my mother has shotgunned this as a future present for my sister's twin boys. 100 percent recommend. My kid loves it when I run them off the couch and into stuff on the floor, they work on carpet....highly recommend.
Melissa Us
you are fucking awesome. My kid loves these, other people's kids love these, my mother has shotgunned this as a future present for my sister's twin boys. 100 percent recommend. My kid loves it when I run them off the couch and into stuff on the floor, they work on carpet....highly recommend.
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Done by Oxford. 5k sample. 1 to 3 hours a day actually improves many factors for kids.
Done by Oxford. 5k sample. 1 to 3 hours a day actually improves many factors for kids.
Mures
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Not as depressing as the guy who's mom sent him letters and things in animal crossing on gc, that one got me right in the feels.
Crone
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Opinions... my son is 16 months old, and I can't tell if he's restless and bored, or being defiant, or just being an ass but he won't listen to anything my wife or I say to him. He either has to get yelled at, or swatted on his ass, which of course then he gets upset.
Today according to my stay at home wife it's just non stop. But he'll get in trouble for one thing, and then move right on to something else that he shouldn't get in to.
My first thought is that our move from a house to an apartment is effecting him. He doesn't have a baby safe place he can just mess around, so it's hard, because he's constantly getting into things that he shouldn't, but there isn't any space for him anymore. That's at least a good excuse... but he's still not listening to us.
I'm having trouble, as is the wife, trying to figure out how get him to listen, so we hence don't have to keep yelling at him, or redirecting him towards other things. Problem is, we have 0 space anymore to create for just him. It's all filled up with stuff. So he's either rolling all over the dogs, which is no good, because we have small dogs, or getting into stuff.
Ugh, I hate small apartments with a kid. Not sure how to do this.
Today according to my stay at home wife it's just non stop. But he'll get in trouble for one thing, and then move right on to something else that he shouldn't get in to.
My first thought is that our move from a house to an apartment is effecting him. He doesn't have a baby safe place he can just mess around, so it's hard, because he's constantly getting into things that he shouldn't, but there isn't any space for him anymore. That's at least a good excuse... but he's still not listening to us.
I'm having trouble, as is the wife, trying to figure out how get him to listen, so we hence don't have to keep yelling at him, or redirecting him towards other things. Problem is, we have 0 space anymore to create for just him. It's all filled up with stuff. So he's either rolling all over the dogs, which is no good, because we have small dogs, or getting into stuff.
Ugh, I hate small apartments with a kid. Not sure how to do this.