General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
No 2 son was born last week, so now we finally have butts to put in the seats of the 9-5. The boys are 19 months apart: before the birth we worked very hard to let No. 1 know that the baby who was coming was his baby and that he had to protect and love him.

So far, it's been fine, but I've heard horror stories about older sibs turning on their little brothers/sisters. Any tips or suggestions?

I tried to kill my brother with a tooth pick when he was 6 weeks old and I was 20 1/2 months. Three adults were supposedly "watching" the kids, and yet I managed to get him in the eye.

He lived.

Good luck!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
So after going back and forth, we bought a Phil & Teds Sport (the successor to the e3), and I tried it for the first time this weekend (albeit with only 1 kid, because No. 2 isn't scheduled to make an appearance until August). It's light, agile, and my kid was comfortable, which si all you can ask for.

We ended up getting a Peg Perego Pliko P3 with the matching car seat so you just pop the carseat out and click it onto the stroller. The stroller is slightly heavy so I don't really wrangle with it.

Babies are such a blessing and they stay little for such a short time, Congrats! and enjoy.

[viet_mom]

Originally posted by viet_mom
Hi everyone. Vietbabe turned 9 months the other day and though she's 28 inches, I can't get her over 15 lbs. She's "clinging to the 5th percentile" on the weight charts. Still has no teeth but still won't let me put pureed food in her mouth and she can't put it in herself (and doesn't want to). She wants to eat food she can hold and put in her own mouth.

I'm having a hard time and I don't want her to drop weight.

This was one of my earliest posts, sometime before the frantic "She had a 106.7 fever last night" posts. I looked back because tomorrow, Vietbabe (31 lbs, healthy and in the 25th percentile) is starting her first day of kindergarten. All the other Moms on my street are teary-eyed today but part of me is just astonished I've kept the 7 lb four month-old I was handed, alive for almost 5 years and that I could ever love someone this much! Just wanted to say that this board has been so helpful to me, especially in the early early months when I'd post at 4 am and have responses by 7 am (thank God for different time zones). Thanks to everyone again. Feel free to share your "First Day of School" stories. And now, I return to inscribing her name on everything with a permanent marker.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by viet_mom
This was one of my earliest posts, sometime before the frantic "She had a 106.7 fever last night" posts. I looked back because tomorrow, Vietbabe (31 lbs, healthy and in the 25th percentile) is starting her first day of kindergarten. All the other Moms on my street are teary-eyed today but part of me is just astonished I've kept the 7 lb four month-old I was handed, alive for almost 5 years and that I could ever love someone this much! Just wanted to say that this board has been so helpful to me, especially in the early early months when I'd post at 4 am and have responses by 7 am (thank God for different time zones). Thanks to everyone again. Feel free to share your "First Day of School" stories. And now, I return to inscribing her name on everything with a permanent marker.

Thank you.

As you can imagine, I win awards and accolades frequently, weekly actually. but stil, to this day, the award that gives me the most pride was being voted "Most Helpful" here on the parents board.

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Thank you.

As you can imagine, I win awards and accolades frequently, weekly actually. but stil, to this day, the award that gives me the most pride was being voted "Most Helpful" here on the parents board.

Maybe you can help with this.

The neighbor down the street leaves for work early and drops her daughter off with us in the morning so she can walk to school with my kid and her grandmother.

The neighbor's kid has the habit of hiding and not responding to calls, whether or not a game of hide and seek has been officially declared. She freaked us out at my daughter's birthday party over the summer by doing this, since the house was full, the doors were open, kids were in the backyard and she could have been hitching a ride on the highway by the time we found her, hiding quietly behind a sofa and ignoring our increasingly frantic summons.

Today she was dropped off, I came downstairs and was getting ready to leave when my wife asked where she was. I found this odd because I had heard my wife talking with the girl's mother and assumed somebody knew where she was. So we both hunted around for a few minutes, calling (she doesn't answer) until we found her.

This annoys the shit out of me. If she ends up down in the basement drinking bleach because I can't be fucking arsed to search for her after the fiftieth time she does this, where should I ask the trial venue be moved to?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
Maybe you can help with this.

The neighbor down the street leaves for work early and drops her daughter off with us in the morning so she can walk to school with my kid and her grandmother.

The neighbor's kid has the habit of hiding and not responding to calls, whether or not a game of hide and seek has been officially declared. She freaked us out at my daughter's birthday party over the summer by doing this, since the house was full, the doors were open, kids were in the backyard and she could have been hitching a ride on the highway by the time we found her, hiding quietly behind a sofa and ignoring our increasingly frantic summons.

Today she was dropped off, I came downstairs and was getting ready to leave when my wife asked where she was. I found this odd because I had heard my wife talking with the girl's mother and assumed somebody knew where she was. So we both hunted around for a few minutes, calling (she doesn't answer) until we found her.

This annoys the shit out of me. If she ends up down in the basement drinking bleach because I can't be fucking arsed to search for her after the fiftieth time she does this, where should I ask the trial venue be moved to?

often children have remarkable self-preservation skills. this could actually be a finely honed survival technique. Has anyone ever mentioned that you might have split personalities with one half possessing anti-social tendancies?

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
often children have remarkable self-preservation skills. this could actually be a finely honed survival technique. Has anyone ever mentioned that you might have split personalities with one half possessing anti-social tendancies?

I hardly ever drink in the mornings anymore, so I don't think that's it. But thanks anyway.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ironweed
I hardly ever drink in the mornings anymore, so I don't think that's it. But thanks anyway.

Did anyone ever tell you that blackouts are one of the big warning signs?

[mommylawyer]

Originally posted by ironweed
Maybe you can help with this.

The neighbor down the street leaves for work early and drops her daughter off with us in the morning so she can walk to school with my kid and her grandmother.

The neighbor's kid has the habit of hiding and not responding to calls, whether or not a game of hide and seek has been officially declared. She freaked us out at my daughter's birthday party over the summer by doing this, since the house was full, the doors were open, kids were in the backyard and she could have been hitching a ride on the highway by the time we found her, hiding quietly behind a sofa and ignoring our increasingly frantic summons.

Today she was dropped off, I came downstairs and was getting ready to leave when my wife asked where she was. I found this odd because I had heard my wife talking with the girl's mother and assumed somebody knew where she was. So we both hunted around for a few minutes, calling (she doesn't answer) until we found her.

This annoys the shit out of me. If she ends up down in the basement drinking bleach because I can't be fucking arsed to search for her after the fiftieth time she does this, where should I ask the trial venue be moved to?

As a mom of a kid with special needs, this actually sounds like possibley a hearing problem, or maybe even sensory issues. Have you talked to the mom about the kiddos lack of responsiveness? Mom could be in denial about it.....

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by viet_mom
While it will depend on state/munipality laws, I'd love general thoughts on the legals of tree removal. The houses behind my house (and all others on my street) sit way up higher and many have ridiculously tall/thick trees at the far end of their back yards (abutting our back yards). The trees are always infringing on our side and we cut them back as best we can. This month, a HUGE trunk from the tree on my back neighbor's house crashed down on my property, hitting my fence and some other structures. I'm not looking for $$ to fix anything but the neighbor won't even remove the portions of their tree lying on top of my stuff. I finally just went out and did it myself, borrowing a chain saw and then cutting it up into small pieces to haul away. Strangely, the neighbor saw all this and suggested I (and other lowland neighbors) should foot the cost of removing the highland neighbors's big trees since we lowlanders are the ones who are going to suffer when the big trees fall on us. That doesn't seem right to me. Anyhow, in this area, it would cost me over $1,000 to just remove one of the big trees on my back neighbor's property. Thoughts?

Can you sue in Virginia

[Atticus Grinch]

My 6 y.o. was on an AYSO team last year that was about 50% Latino. This year, not so much. And the coach is German. I mean German-German. He looks like Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, only about 15% less handsome maybe. It's a bit unsettling when he coaches his own son in German. "Julian, schnell!" "Julian, achtung!" "Nein, Julian!" "Julian, gunter glieben glauchen globen!"

Anyway, I need advice: Should I tell him that some of us are still a little raw about the Holocaust?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
My 6 y.o. was on an AYSO team last year that was about 50% Latino. This year, not so much. And the coach is German. I mean German-German. He looks like Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, only about 15% less handsome maybe. It's a bit unsettling when he coaches his own son in German. "Julian, schnell!" "Julian, achtung!" "Nein, Julian!" "Julian, gunter glieben glauchen globen!"

Anyway, I need advice: Should I tell him that some of us are still a little raw about the Holocaust?

Is his name Jay Goppingen by chance?

[viet_mom]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
My 6 y.o. was on an AYSO team last year that was about 50% Latino. This year, not so much. And the coach is German. I mean German-German. He looks like Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, only about 15% less handsome maybe. It's a bit unsettling when he coaches his own son in German. "Julian, schnell!" "Julian, achtung!" "Nein, Julian!" "Julian, gunter glieben glauchen globen!"

Anyway, I need advice: Should I tell him that some of us are still a little raw about the Holocaust?

It can be strange to hear it, I know. I took German in high school from an elderly lady and she sounded like Hitler too and I winced when I first heard it. Except she was Jewish and had lost every single one of her relatives at one of the big death camps. Still hate the language, though.

[viet_mom]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Can you sue in Virginia

Interesting article. My favorite part was the picture's caption that says "Arborist hangs from a crane to trim branches from the tree after a neighbor refused to give property access."

For now, I've already disposed of the part of their tree that smashed down on our treehouse and fence. But the rest of that tree is coming down on me in the future (and it's a Sweet Gum tree too!). I think I'll I'll do what Atticus said and do a note to the people saying as much and that "I assume, therefore, you'll be removing the tree". These people have the money to trim that tree. Why are people so cheap! I should start sending the bills I get twice a year for cleanup of those prickly gum ball things that fall from their tree! They are murderous on Vietbabe's bare feet!

[Icky Thump]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
My 6 y.o. was on an AYSO team last year that was about 50% Latino. This year, not so much. And the coach is German. I mean German-German. He looks like Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, only about 15% less handsome maybe. It's a bit unsettling when he coaches his own son in German. "Julian, schnell!" "Julian, achtung!" "Nein, Julian!" "Julian, gunter glieben glauchen globen!"

Anyway, I need advice: Should I tell him that some of us are still a little raw about the Holocaust?

Only if you want your kid to sit on the bench.