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

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I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 16 July 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link

I'm going to nuke it.

how's life, Thursday, 16 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link

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?

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 July 2015 07:09 (eight years ago) link

/ vent

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 July 2015 07:09 (eight years ago) link

That's kind of mainly on behalf of E.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 July 2015 07:09 (eight years ago) link

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.

transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link

San Francisco in a nutshell

sleeve, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

don't even start with nutshells

five six and (man alive), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link

lol

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link

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?

how's life, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link

embarrassed to admit how often that question pops into my mind

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link

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.

how's life, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link

lol

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link

Overweight slouching unkempt hillbilly

Come on, now.

carl agatha, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link

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

how's life, Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 July 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link

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 :/

kinder, Friday, 31 July 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link

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?

marcos, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link

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.

five six and (man alive), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link

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

I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link

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

kinder, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link

like so
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Οὖτις, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link

sleeps like a boss

Οὖτις, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link

I think a lot of it is sleep deprivation.

xp awwww

carl agatha, Friday, 31 July 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link

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

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link

a safe bet

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link

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

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link

allow me my petty feelings of superiority

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link

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.

nomar, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link

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

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link

What are the developmental disadvantages to kids watching tv?

Quarter measures (sunny successor), Friday, 19 August 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link

What are the developmental disadvantages to kids watching tv?

Quarter measures (sunny successor), Friday, 19 August 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 August 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 August 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link

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

schwantz, Friday, 19 August 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link

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.

how's life, Friday, 19 August 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link

have studies been done on how sub-2-yr-old children react to music?

a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Friday, 19 August 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link

I was 1 yo when TV taught me to speak English. I'd wake up at 6am, turn on the TV and watch 'English for new Australians'.

Quarter measures (sunny successor), Friday, 19 August 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link

my children who have as much access to media (tv, games, phones, computers, tablets)

how old are they? I forget. Bear in mind my comment is strictly about infants - once kids are talking/social/in school etc. it's a different story

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 August 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/ESUjomK.jpg

pplains, Saturday, 20 August 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link

IMO that's a mother who knows that making eye contact with a sleepy baby wakes them right up, and is silently cursing the well meaning stranger.

Madchen, Saturday, 20 August 2016 08:52 (seven years ago) link

Either that, or she's texting the father to ask where the hell he is, because he was meant to be back 10 minutes ago.

Madchen, Saturday, 20 August 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link

xxxp: 5 and 12, but they watched television or were exposed to it as infants/toddlers. I really wish tablets had been available back when my older kid was little though. The educational games they have now are great.

how's life, Saturday, 20 August 2016 10:34 (seven years ago) link

Updated AAP guidance on media for under-twos: http://www.aappublications.org/content/36/10/54">'Beyond 'Turn It Off''

ljubljana, Saturday, 20 August 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Guy in facebook neighborhood parent group needlessly interjects pro-gun talk into a thread about a burglary (the victim had actually thwarted the burglarly without a gun, and the burglary only happened because the burglar thought no one was home).

Among other things, he said that his own dad keeps a loaded shotgun on the dresser, and that he doesn't worry about going there with his young daughter because she "doesn't scale things."

Later he posted an unrelated thread about the experience he and his "roommates" had with Verizon fios or something. Lol you no-custody-having, responsibility-shirking manchild motherfucker how about you stop offering opinions on gun safety and home protection.

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 8 September 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

Just realized same dude also posted a pretty pathetic post in another group I'm in about issues with seeing his daughter on weekends -- it actually sounded like his ex was being difficult, but the fool also still had not bothered to get a lawyer and no official custody arrangement had even been set as a result, his ex just had the daughter during the week and then made him jump through a few hoops to get her on the weekends. Dude is just not an adult, basically.

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 8 September 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link


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