This is the thread where we judge other people's parenting

A friend of mine boasted after their baby announcement, "It's cool - I'm up at five anyway getting ready for my daily bike ride."

And I was just all quiet and heh.

Oh cute, he has a daily recreation routine he likes to follow?

lol

tbf his routine does not appear to have changed at all (if 5am bike trail facebook photos are to be believed) but this guy is totes high on life

I wonder if the mom's routine has changed...

hmph.

My kids have both decided that they like to stay up late this summer. REAL FRICKIN' LATE. I mean, what are you gonna do, tell an 11-year-old he has to go to sleep at 9 o'clock in the summer? He's up until the wee hours watching Netflix. The 4-year-old isn't much better. She'll just sit there giggling and yodeling in her bed until like 9:30 or 10. I have to wake up between 4 and 5 every day for work, so trying to stay up later than these guys is like crawling through the desert on my hands and knees in search of water. It has put a serious cramp in downtime with Mrs. Life.

I give your post a D- for lack of judgmental content

Oh shit, I thought this was the regular parenting thread. My bad!

i read some of that blog :/

she may shame me into laying off my allcaps ranting bcz hoo boy

maybe i'm alone here but i think it's not cool to link to that on here

you're not alone

I'm going to nuke it.

You are SO desperate to get back out on the piss that you will, despite protestations about wanting to breastfeed, suddenly switch to formula at 9 months and force a giant bottle down your baby's gullet at 6pm, and then have the temerity to have a go at other mums in the group for judging you because you don't breastfeed anymore despite none of them having said anything about it because, y'know, every baby's different? Also, despite living 9 miles away from most mums in the group you always insist on gather-ups being as close to your house as possible, despite one of the other mums, who has twins, living 9 miles away in the OTHER direction, so having to travel 15-18 miles, WITH TWINS, and never moaning about it? And you're A TEACHER?

/ vent

That's kind of mainly on behalf of E.

hanging with cousins + their kids for the holidays and the amount of casual junk food consumption is thru. the. mafackin. roof. pointless to fight it much - when in rome - but dang dog. dang. coupled with hot dogs/pizza/burgers for every meal i've taken to sneaking off and handing my kids fruit on the D.L just so their guts still work.

parents who removed their kid from tiny pre-pre-school co-op thing we just joined because the coordinator insisted on the right to serve kids both fruit AND vegetables and you don't let your kids eat fruit I say wtf

San Francisco in a nutshell

don't even start with nutshells

lol

I like how me and Tracer's posts are like polar opposites of the same problem

Overweight slouching unkempt hillbilly at the playground who whined like a spoiled child when his sweet 3 year old asked him to push her on the swing interrupting his cell phone call.

"Push me, daddy?"
"Graciiiiiiiiiie! Gawwwwwwwwd! Uuuuuunnnnnnnhhhhhhh!"

Man, how did you even get somebody pregnant?

embarrassed to admit how often that question pops into my mind

It was like the scene from wet hot american summer where Paul Rudd refuses to pick up his dishes, but with a Mudvayne fan instead of Paul Rudd.

lol

Overweight slouching unkempt hillbilly

Come on, now.

not to be mistaken for the overweight slouching well-dressed hillbilly

Xp: good point. Not relevant. I'm hella overweight too. I'm just mad at this bozo.

Mum I ranted about the other week has no announced she won't be going to anymore NCT meet-ups and has left the WhatsApp group they had.

Sounds like she has stuff going on. tbf I am quite desperate to drink a lot of gin atm. switching to formula seems like more effort though.
J seems to be cutting 4 teeth in quick succession :/

i've heard qualifications and arguments against this but it is just so fucked up to keep hearing stories about parents leaving their kids in hot cars, like do you fucking get it?

I just read a stat somewhere that like half of the deaths from that every year are actually the result of parents FORGETTING the child is in the car (and often due to forgetting to drop the kid off at daycare on the way to work). Which is unfathomable to me, and seems like it has to be either the result of total exhaustion (working 100 hour weeks or something) or being high/drunk.

it was unfathomable to me as well until the day that we were driving somewhere with the boys in the car, I don't remember where, and I dropped my wife off at a fast food restaurant to get us some food and then parked and went inside to help her carry stuff out and she looked at me like I was insane and said "WHERE ARE OUR CHILDREN" and I went "oh yeah, we have kids now" because since they were asleep and facing backwards in the back seat, I had completely forgotten they were there

Total exhaustion fairly common ime
Although the idea of having a nice quiet baby in the car is lol to me

^^^ yeah my kids are never silent in the car (unless Judah has fallen asleep)

like so
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sleeps like a boss

I think a lot of it is sleep deprivation.

xp awwww

so my wife's friend that we were concerned would turn out to be a horrible parent is apparently well on her way to turning into a horrible parent - against that admonitions of her friends/family/doctors/the internet since giving birth a little less than a year ago she has the kid watch TV with her (no matter what she's watching), parks the kid in front of the TV on their own, etc. And this is a woman who watches a lot of TV. She is unswayed by arguments about cognitive development - hope yr kid doesn't turn out to be a behavioral nightmare + moro! Glad we live in another city ayiyyiyi

Welp, the kid will probably grow up to be a heavy consumer of television, just like her/his mom.

a safe bet

Miraculous society really, where you can get through life that way and still live to a fairly old age by historical standards.

allow me my petty feelings of superiority

growing up we had these neighbors down the block. the dad i never saw, the mom would park herself in front of the television all day and long into the night. there wasn't a single night i drove home past their house that the light from the television couldn't be glimpsed through the window. they had three daughters, each of whom got into increasingly crazy amounts of trouble, and i'm pretty sure the parents never really kept a single eye on them. i just heard that a few days back the mom died sitting on the couch in that same house while watching tv. i hadn't driven by that house since i was 18.

That has an almost folk tragedy quality to it. She was the John Henry of television watching.

What are the developmental disadvantages to kids watching tv?

What are the developmental disadvantages to kids watching tv?

standard line I hear from childcare professionals (ed directors, Kaiser pediatrics, etc.) is that any screentime prior to the age of 2 or so is not recommended

American Academy of Pediatrics statement (2011): http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/5/1040

How is your baby supposed to become an Einstein without watching a video?

I was raised in a limited-television household and my children who have as much access to media (tv, games, phones, computers, tablets) as they want are far more intelligent and mature than I was at their respective ages. Also we keep sweets openly around the house and they eat them rarely, rather than bingeing on them out of scarcity on the rare occasions when they come around. I dunno. I realize that's anecdotal and correlation doesn't equal causation, but it's worked well for us.