ILX Parenting 6: "Put Some Goddamn Pants On Before You Go Outside!" is a thing I say now

I parked next to a beat-up car a couple of weeks ago, and on the back of the headrest among various scribbles in market was scrawled in childlike hand I <3 YOU MOMMY

*marker

Adorable!

I picked up our toddler from the childminder once and she said they'd been doing messy play in the kitchen with water and flour. I looked round her spotless kitchen in amazement.

outside, tarp, newspaper, full hazmat only way i roll

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, October 15, 2017 4:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I think I may be fully done with ever hanging out with childless friends with my kids after tonight. Granted this is an especially taxing friend.

I'm basically down to one pre-kids friend who is still childless himself that I can still deal with. And he's a very familial guy with nieces and nephews so he gets it.

Huh. What's the problem? I have a handful of childless friends

Get better childless friends.

Maybe I just had a weird way of picking friends before I had kids

I mean tbc, 50% of it is just that almost any childless person is going to be less accustomed to the rhythm of life with children, so they won't really "get" for example why plans have to be scheduled in a certain way, why you can't be as loose about things as they can etc., even if they rationally understand it via explanation/observation.

Also, I just had an especially annoying experience with a friend, so I'm coming off that.

Yeah I have given up on doing quite a lot because of lack of understanding of schedule. Christmas day last year was a particular example - family several hours late to arrive during nap time and yet surprised that I couldn't join in Christmas lunch because I now had a wide awake toddler to look after. Not bitter...

BBQs due to start at say 4 that don't get started until 2 hours later because no one can light the damn thing.
I think this is probably just my friends...

Your child-free friends may very well welcome this decision, man alive. Win-win (-win, for THE CHILDREN)

TBF I've had the opposite issue, where my child-free ass would try my best to tell newly parented friends that no, they really, really should not bring their just-walking 3 year old around because my house is full of cat litter and bongs and pointy tables and lots of breakable crap. I dont want to spend the afternoon freaking out every time they stuff something in their mouth.

(this was in days gone by, ov course)

Xp and I get that complete rigidity around naps and bedtimes can be irritating too. I'm past that at this point. I'm talking about a friend deciding to walk a total of 13 miles rather than take an Uber WHICH I OFFERED TO PAY FOR so we wouldn't have to wait around for him and we'd actually have a reasonable amount of time to hang out. I'm
simplifying the story slightly but that's the gist.

Yeah thats a bit weird.

That’s pretty terrible. I get it with naps and bedtimes, that’s something that just doesn’t register with a lot of people. It’s pretty key for remaining harmonious.

Like oh skip a nap is nothing for some people but can be disastrous for kids.

I mean tbc, 50% of it is just that almost any childless person is going to be less accustomed to the rhythm of life with children, so they won't really "get" for example why plans have to be scheduled in a certain way, why you can't be as loose about things as they can etc., even if they rationally understand it via explanation/observation.

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lack of empathy/understanding is a symptom of dicks, not childless people per se

My son insisted that was going to be a robot for Halloween (he has a cute home-sign for robot). I lovingly made him a robot costume. All week, he was signing robot robot robot. He went to school today as a robot.

At 6:45 PM tonight - just about to leave for trick or treating - he signed that he would only go as a dog. Dog all the way. Nothing but dog. Screaming on the floor while also signing dog dog dog. (Which tbh was kind of darkly hilarious.)

Fortunately we save previous years' costumes. When given three choices (robot, dog, firefighter), he went with... firefighter. Of course.

sounds about right

Um, Nora (and 46 other kids) did this: http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/toddlers-bunny-hopping-likely-caused-958447

Pre-parenting I'd be all "aww adorable bunnies", now I'm basically "omg thank christ they weren't in there, that's terrifying, jesus"

Ugh, tfw the kid opens the most expensive item you got him for xmas that you know he wants, only to have him crankily declare its the "wrong" Megatron. >:|

:(

feeling that one

took 3-year-old to outside carols and santa-appearing-on-a-roof thing (which he was in awe of). Santa shouts out 'have you been good boys and girls' and my child informs everyone 'NAUGHTY CHILDREN GET COAL'

<3

Trayce, I remember being that kid on at least two occasions and regret it terribly.

I was told that the best hanukkah present this year was the stationary bike I got for mom (no more having to deal with PEOPLE when she wants to exercise)
the REAL best hanukkah present is the little stand we got that puts our daughter's bike in neutral so she can pedal along with mom

they are both upstairs right now crushing it to peloton videos and I am just basking in my recliner with a beer, psychically patting myself on the back as admiringly as possible

every time i go to IKEA i still think about that human trafficking story i posted upthread where that mom almost lost her entire family to a pair of dudes. i was at IKEA yesterday actually and i kept winding up near the same people, some of them WOMEN with CHILDREN and i wondered if any of them thought i was going to traffick them.

Went to check on Ella last night before I went to bed, and she had gone to sleep with a pair of underpants on her head like a hat.

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On the opposite end of the spectrum, poop-withholding is a very weird behavior.

Had a baby

On the opposite end of the spectrum, poop-withholding is a very weird behavior.

― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Saturday, February 3, 2018 1:19 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god this has been a true nightmare for the entirety of our almost-3-year-old's life

it's fucking horrible

Uhm Nick congrats?!!!

Oh wow! Congratulations!

congrats!

Congrats and I hope your baby is pooping!

10lbs. Born in the kitchen with no pain relief because my wife is hardcore.

To Disintegration Loops.

Yung Basinski :D

Congrats both!! Well done E!

congrats! and sorry i missed your post before i started complaining about poop-withholding

congratulations scik!!

that's hardcore birfin'

well done mama and papa and little hardcore bebeh!

Congrats! The kitchen is a great place to be born in.