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

they were clearly radical Islamic terrorists

Come on guys. They were ghosts and you know it.

https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/gta/2015/01/20/darwin-the-ikea-monkeys-former-owner-reportedly-living-with-two-new-monkeys/darwin-ikea.jpg.size.custom.crop.1086x678.jpg

Ghosts of her kids from the future, come back in time to warn them about their impending abduction by a sex trafficking ring.

what a coincidence that she was alarmed by reading an account of sex-trafficker stalking and then was sex traffikicker stalked herself

This harrowing dance apparently continued for the better part of an hour, so eventually, Toyos's mother made a bold move. "She made eye contact, very clearly letting them know that we saw them," Toyos wrote.

TAKEAN

"good luck" finding those guys in Ikea tbh

My mom and I decided to sit down and wait for them to move on. We had a gut feeling something was going on, but we hoped we were wrong and they would move on. So we sat in one of the little display rooms. For close to 30 minutes. And they sat too. They sat down on one of the couches on the display floor that faced us. That was when we knew our gut feeling was right and something was off. They sat the whole time we sat, and stood up right as we got up.

sorry but these are the WORST human traffickers

^^next Rob Schneider movie

"I always think, 'That could never happen to me,'" Toyos wrote, as a reminder. "But you guys, it did."

and here's why

SHOCKING: Two women and three children sit on an Ikea couch for thirty minutes near two men.

who looked at them, don't forget the looking at them part.

http://i.imgur.com/izWTd6G.jpg

hello
born may 21, a son

woohoo congratulations!!!

congrats! did u end up stayin in Japan or moving back to Canada?

also had did baby time travel back to our time from the future or what

Congratulations!!

thanks. and, march! it was march. still in tokyo, seemingly the most expensive city on the planet to give birth to and raise a child.

Congrats Dylannn!

Awwww. <3

can't bring myself to say "just pee in the frog's mouth!" to my son

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YXFI0FK/ref=sxr_pa_click_within_right_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=2957865802&pf_rd_r=XCJPYMZ763SXP8Q6FZW6&pd_rd_wg=SjAUG&pf_rd_s=desktop-rhs-carousels&pf_rd_t=301&pd_rd_w=VqC2o&pf_rd_i=potty%2Bseat%2Bbjorn&pd_rd_r=12K0AEYJ668ZT6MBA980&th=1

'yeah! make that uvula spin!'

Yesterday my 13-year-old kid fell off of his bike and fractured one of his vertebra. He's going to be ok. He's in a lot of pain, but mostly mobile. He needs to avoid strenuous activity for a month, which is going to be the worst part of it for him because he's very active.

He somehow managed to not hit his head when he landed, but if he had, he hadn't been wearing a helmet. The doctor warned us that with the force he hit the ground, a head injury would have been much more severe. We used to make him wear a helmet, but gave in because none of the other kids in the neighborhood wore one. I was excited that he was getting into bmx. I used to freestyle when I was younger and never wore helmets and managed to escape injury. So while we knew it was utterly fucking stupid to let him ride helmetless, we just got swept along.

So even though his back injury would not have been prevented by a helmet, it's been a hell of a wake-up call for me and my wife. Just wanted to put that out there for everybody.

fuck that's scary. so glad to hear he's basically ok.

yikes that is scary - glad he's (mostly, sort of) ok

Helmets are so neccesary! Hope yr boy recovers ok. A cuz of mine is only alive today cos he had a helmet on when he came off his bike head first into the road.

Best wishes, hows life, that sounds terrifying

Thanks guys.

Yeah, it was totally terrifying. He had miraculously been able to ride his bike home, thinking he just got the wind knocked out of him and some bad road rash. When he went to take his shirt off to go shower I guess it dislodged the bone fragment and he just melted down in tears - something I haven't seen him do from an injury since he was 6. So I threw him in the car and rushed him to the urgent care clinic and he's just screaming the whole time. I had to be calm and reassure him but the whole time I didn't know what was wrong - was there organ damage? Internal bleeding?

Crazy thing is, he swears he wasn't even doing some rad trick. I've watched him with his friends recently and I know the kind of stuff he tries, so I believe him. He says he just pulled up on the handlebars while going over a bump, overcompensated, and the bike went out from under him. Sometimes it's the simplest things that can lead to a bad accident.

That's horrifying and I'm glad he's okay or at least mendable. My most prominent scar is 30+ years old, from slipping and hitting my lip on my 70's hi-rise bike handlebars when I was just riding slowly and not doing any stunts.

We've been pretty strict about helmet use on his strider bike, to the point that sometimes he asks to wear it around the house for no reason. This one's easy to model because my wife and I always, always wear bike helmets based on a friend slowly losing her brother to a BMX head injury.

But then I think about skateboarding, which I loved and would have no problem with him getting into, where nobody wears a helmet except on vert ramps. I hit my head at least a couple of times falling off benches and jump ramps and it's just sheer luck that I didn't seriously injure myself, but I still would never think of wearing one while street skating.

Yeah, that's the crazy thing. No one wears them around here except little kids. I definitely made him when he was younger and I make my daughter wear one, but when he got old enough to ride around the neighborhood by himself, I'd often see him come back home with the helmet dangling off his handlebars until eventually he stopped taking it out altogether. There's even a law in our state, but cops don't even bother to enforce it.

Guys, guys, I have discovered the most amazing restaurant in the world -- Benihana! You get to sit for an hour plus meal, during much of which your children are distracted by a juggling clown chef making your food! And the food itself isn't completely terrible!

sounds like they should franchise

Yesterday my 13-year-old kid fell off of his bike and fractured one of his vertebra. He's going to be ok. He's in a lot of pain, but mostly mobile. He needs to avoid strenuous activity for a month, which is going to be the worst part of it for him because he's very active.

He somehow managed to not hit his head when he landed, but if he had, he hadn't been wearing a helmet. The doctor warned us that with the force he hit the ground, a head injury would have been much more severe. We used to make him wear a helmet, but gave in because none of the other kids in the neighborhood wore one. I was excited that he was getting into bmx. I used to freestyle when I was younger and never wore helmets and managed to escape injury. So while we knew it was utterly fucking stupid to let him ride helmetless, we just got swept along.

So even though his back injury would not have been prevented by a helmet, it's been a hell of a wake-up call for me and my wife. Just wanted to put that out there for everybody.

― how's life, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:07 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He recovered from this after about two weeks, by the way, and we've let him go back out on the bike as long as he wears a helmet. Of course twice since then he's come home crying about being the only kid to wear a helmet and how none of his 13-year-old friends had ever heard of anybody dying from not wearing a helmet. "You're taking away my freedom!" It's been fun, let me tell you. But at least his strife tells me he's wearing it.

Glad to hear hes recovered!

The arc-up reminds me of yesterday tho: bf had bouht a brand new big-boy bed for the youngest. All in flat pack parts of course so when they got home, he tells both boys they are going to help him put it together (I wasnt in a state to help much, my back's effed).

Older (12yo) kid threw an absolute shitfit, because he was being made to help his father and brother instead of spending time on the internet talking to his friends (which he'd been doing for HOURS at that point as it happens). FINE I WILL JUST HAVE TO GO WITHOUT SPEAKING TO MY BEST FRIEND IN ENGLAND WHO I NEVER GET TO TALK TO THEN he wailed dramatically (*this is complete bollocks he talks to this kid almost every effing day ad had been talking to him for hours just prior!).

Apparently having it pointed out to him that he should give helping his own family priority was "a fucking guilt trip" . I forsee the start of self-absorbed, selfish Teen Angst hoveing over the horizon and I am NOT looking forward to it. Its harder when it isnt your own kid for starters - I'm less attached, so I just get Really Fucking Annoyed. I'm worried as to how i'll deal with this shit.

😡

...did I come across like a bit of a cow with that rant? I hope not :/

HELP! My 4yo has suddenly become a frequently enraged pseudo-teenager, full of bile and insult. Is this normal? Will it pass?

Trayce: you come off fine.

James: I hope it will pass or that you'll be able to help her through it. There were a few times when we used to joke that my son was "seven, going on thirteen", but now that he's actually thirteen, the angsty teenager stuff truly is at a totally different level for us.

Trayce, I trick I've learned is that yelling does absolutely nothing to help the situation. Stay calm and just keep repeating 'You're going to help your father and your brother' in a calm voice even if he is yelling. If that doesn't work tell him if he doesn't help out he cant speak to his English friend for a week.

But, yeah, kids be frustrating as hell.

Anyone have any experience with those nighttime potty training alarms with the moisture sensors?

that sounds horrific

I know. Just not sure what else to do at this point. Will talk to his doctor first.

diaper at night til body figures it out?

That's exactly what those alarms are for. We used one for our oldest daughter, who still wet her bed several times a week when she was six years old. She just couldn't wake up when she needed to pee.

I think we has to use the alarm maybe 4 or 5 nights. After that she got it, and never wet her bed again.

*had*

well that sounds pretty good tbh

We had bed wetting with #2 until recently, age 9 or so? w some kids it seems like there's some hormone or w/e that has to kick in but doesn't until late. we just kept using pull-ups at night until it stopped. I really didn't want this to cause anxiety or worse genital loathing or something like that so we played it very mellow.

Er w #3, sorry, #2 is full ado now, night leakings more likely to be of another type for him