Never a truer sentence spoken.
Verge?
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I’m pretty sure I asked my parents (successfully) for an Arsenal jersey from Paddy’s before I even watched an Arsenal game (To be fair, I was 8 and unlikely to be able to stay up for it), because my brother was already into them.
Surely giving a kid an Arsenal shirt is a form of child abuse?
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High-larity
Anyone have a smol child whose head they want to keep warm? This was in a member pack for one of my nieces back in 2017-18, but it’s unused.
I have a 2 year old (3 in Feb) who would love this.
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I’ll be at Unite Round games all weekend, the double header tomorrow at Leichhardt and our men’s and women’s games on Saturday and Sunday. I’ll put it in my bag.
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Is ABC Kids defaulting to Audio Description language for anyone else? I’ve been through my tv settings and it makes no sense… Everytime we turn it on there’s random descriptions of what’s happening on screen
I had a simple headache once at Jets Stadium so I went & asked for a panadol from the first aid people. They sat me down, took down my details & gave me a medical checkup including blood pressure. I figure they must have been bored shitless that day.
Pretty sure they have to do a full check. Otherwise they may be liable if it was something more serious that they missed
So I today managed to convince the 3 years old to throw out her dummies. 1st full night ahead of no dummy. Pray for me
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My not quite 3yo was sitting on my lap in the corner of the stadium as Doka lined up the penalty for the Mariners tonight.
I told her “he’s going to kick the ball and if it goes in the goal, everyone is going to cheer and clap - are you going to cheer and clap too?”
She looked nervous but she nodded, and sure enough when he scored she pumped her little fists and clapped, and gave me a big cuddle.
Such a happy dad moment!
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Yeah it was my five year olds first game last night… he had a similar reaction (minus the cuddle!) when Fabio scored last night… very cool feeling
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Good luck.
The wife and I want to start weening off our twins their dummies before they’re two.
It’s the child equivalent of heroin. Cold Turkey is not going to be an option unless we want tantrums 24/7.
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We weened our daughter off her dummy around 20 months. Was tough but so worth it.
I also tried the ‘3 Day potty training method’ as I was off work this week (daughter is 2 and a half). First day is hard but they pick it up so quickly!
So night was a big success. Big one slept through the whole night, considering two nights earlier she woke up at 6am crying because the dummy fell out. Definitely had huge regrets though. We were meant to do it earlier, but our doctor recommended not taking the dummy away around the same time as number 2 was being born, otherwise she would associate it with the birth of the little one.
We started off by cutting it down during the day and then only for naps. Then as the dummies started to break, we stopped replacing them.
We found the start was really good, but then had a bit of a regression after a few months, before we came through.
Physically cutting the dummy until there’s nothing left works well too. We cut a bit off each day until there was basically nothing left, and the little one realised she couldn’t suck on it anymore.
My daughter is in preschool as a 3 year old. She’s doing 2 days a week and, while it’s not a government run one, we need to bring in our own food for her etc. My wife was saying that she doesn’t think the teachers help the kids to wipe their own arses after a poop. Am I the only one that thinks that it’s just completely wierd that they dont?
I only ask because my daughter came home the other day and gave me a hug. She did a pretty wet fart that I didn’t think further about, but then at bathtime, there was poo in her underwear. We couldn’t figure out if it was a shart, or if she hadn’t wiped properly. She did say to us that she’d done a poo in preschool though.
I don’t expect the carers to particularly wipe a toilet trained kid - that is what we are meant to train them to do - and they will still do it badly and there will be remnants in there at bath time because they cant do it correctly. So I dont think that is strange.
I DO however think it is very strange that you need to send your own food - never heard that one before. We need to send crunch and sip each day, but that’s only now that my youngest is in the last stage before starting kindy next year. We have been to two child cares in the last 8 years, none we had to supply food (aside from baby fomula) - first one we had to supply nappies, second one we didn’t - they provided nappies (and the child care was cheaper, mostly because it was not in the Eastern Suburbs like the first one)