Surly Dad Thread

[GlenFromTheMailRoom 1603]

Praise be to jesus.  The newborn is finally sleeping better after we got her reflux medicine changed.  We're a little pissed at the pediatrician for basically blindly prescribing the baby's reflux medicine.  She gave us the medicine that reduces spit up by basically making the baby shit more (from what I understand) and not the one actually reduces the acid in the stomach.  

The thing I learned was that if your baby is dealing with gas issues, pay attention to the type of cry that's coming out of them.  If they're arching their backs and pushing off of everything, odds are it's an overabundance of gas and there are specific types of meds just for this.  Fortunately we had a friend over that works as a GP and they brought it up to us.

The baby has been happy as a clam for the past few days.  She laughed for the first time this morning.  I teared up a little.

[atomheartbevo 89623]

Big community garage sale at the Jewish center on Shoal Creek in Austin. Lots of kids toys and clothes.  And tons of books.  

Started at 7am.  We were there at 7:15 and unfortunately I saw a dude on his phone looking at eBay prices, and he was trying to grab all the best toys.   

[Homercles 10205]

Wife took the 5yo boy with her out of town for the weekend. Been awesome with the 2yo, watching Peppa and building towers and overall being lazy as fuck. Had a ‘dance party’ last as I DJ’d via YouTube and she even liked my mix of kaskade, Glass Animals, Walk the Moon, etc.

Funny but I get the feeling her and I will have more similar interests than I will with her brother.

I absolutely love lazy weekends and they are very rare.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Dance partys are the bomb. .but when you go hard as a mfer right away, you realize how out of shape you are and winded in the first 25 seconds

[Jkwellborn 6686]

No kidding. Kinda reminds me of my kids wanting to be chased around the house. It’s harder to run their speed than anything.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2731]

Signing up for a Father/Son retreat to a camp in East Texas in September.  Son will have just turned 6 and he's flipping out about going camping.  No camping really involved since it has really nice cabins but you get the point.  

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4974]

Wheres it at?

[Lobwedgephil 1139]

So it is that time of year to drop kids off at school. heard it is brutal. My twins are starting what should probably be called daycare, but it is at a school. Think it will be fine, but I hear it is brutal around Kindergarten age,. Best of luck for all dads doing the drop off, 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2731]

Wheres it at?

Hawkins.

[EE2B 1565]

Allaso Ranch?

[Goofyboy 3268]

Any advice on how to get a kid to tolerate school or at least to like more than lunch, recess and fun Friday??

My son is starting second grade. He has told us more than once he hates school. Any attempt we have made on suggestions to improve his attitude have been shut down with I hate everything about school except lunch and recess. It’s going to be a long 11 years for him if he can’t find something he enjoys about it.

[kmac30 416]

So it is that time of year to drop kids off at school. heard it is brutal. My twins are starting what should probably be called daycare, but it is at a school. Think it will be fine, but I hear it is brutal around Kindergarten age,. Best of luck for all dads doing the drop off, 

Oldest is starting 1st grade. My wife was a first grade teacher for 9 years before we had twins and she “retired”. We didn’t get any of the teachers she wanted. The last 4 days have been a shit show. Meet the teacher last night could have gone better. First day is tomorrow and it’s going to be brutal. Daughter will be great. She’s ready. Just sucks she doesn’t have any friends in her class. All the kids she knows are in other classes. Wife in full freak out mode - searching for other options already. Not like her at all. Going to be a long week.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Any advice on how to get a kid to tolerate school or at least to like more than lunch, recess and fun Friday??

My son is starting second grade. He has told us more than once he hates school. Any attempt we have made on suggestions to improve his attitude have been shut down with I hate everything about school except lunch and recess. It’s going to be a long 11 years for him if he can’t find something he enjoys about it.

Lets be honest, that’s how we all felt. Unless you were a dork. Don’t worry, he’ll add chasing tail to the mix in several years.

[Goofyboy 3268]

Lets be honest, that’s how we all felt. Unless you were a dork. Don’t worry, he’ll add chasing tail to the mix in several years.

1st grade was a shit show, so I can’t really blame him. His emotional maturity was shit and his teacher was not equipped to handle him. He was suspended 3 times. We finally got through the district testing and got him moved to a behavioral class right after spring break last year. He’s there again this year. He’s improved leaps and bounds.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

1st grade was a shit show, so I can’t really blame him. His emotional maturity was shit and his teacher was not equipped to handle him. He was suspended 3 times. We finally got through the district testing and got him moved to a behavioral class right after spring break last year. He’s there again this year. He’s improved leaps and bounds.

I’m not there yet. Oldest is 3.5. I am looking forward to not paying daycare but worried about the other shit we will have to deal with.

Good luck.

[HenryJames 66035]

31 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

 

1st grade was a shit show, so I can’t really blame him. His emotional maturity was shit and his teacher was not equipped to handle him. He was suspended 3 times. We finally got through the district testing and got him moved to a behavioral class right after spring break last year. He’s there again this year. He’s improved leaps and bounds.

 

Boy sounds goofy.

[Goofyboy 3268]

Yeah - no clue where he gets it from or his hard headedness.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2731]

3 hours ago, EE2B said:

Allaso Ranch?

Yes

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

2 hours ago, kmac30 said:

Oldest is starting 1st grade. My wife was a first grade teacher for 9 years before we had twins and she “retired”. We didn’t get any of the teachers she wanted. The last 4 days have been a shit show. Meet the teacher last night could have gone better. First day is tomorrow and it’s going to be brutal. Daughter will be great. She’s ready. Just sucks she doesn’t have any friends in her class. All the kids she knows are in other classes. Wife in full freak out mode - searching for other options already. Not like her at all. Going to be a long week.

great scott!

 

god bless those day after labor day Minnesota first days of school at times like this. Mid Aug way too early for this chap

Edited August 14, 2018 by MNLonghornFUKM

[EE2B 1565]

Yes

Never been, but heard about it. Also looks pretty awesome from what I’ve seen. You definitely won’t be “roughing” it.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2731]

Never been, but heard about it. Also looks pretty awesome from what I’ve seen. You definitely won’t be “roughing” it.

Not at all. I got a sneak peek before it opened since I was volunteering at Fellowship Church a lot. Bunch of the guys went down for the day and road the bike trails, fished, had lunch and toured the place. This was in 2008. I’m sure it is better now.
For $75 each and 2 nights it’s cheaper than just about anything else I can find.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Fucking 9pm-2am. Every night. Any ideas? Not a fan of the soothing paci. I dont think it's a gas thing because it's like clock work. Obviously it's a phase but my god..

 

Wakes up at 9 and everything is good. Then between 1230 and 2 its go time and he gets piiissseedd. This is the greatest form of birth control ever made

 

 

 I think hes currently falling asleep on the boob. Survived another night and advance. Barely

 

 

 

 

 

[EE2B 1565]

How old?

[HenryJames 66035]

Twelve.

[Radical Larry 28539]

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

How old?

9 weeks. Dude sleeps like a champ once we get him down(5-6 hrs between feedings)..its just this late night surge of energy that sucks ass

[BigDHornfan 6545]

1st day of Elementary school. LilBigD just turned 6 last week and did Kindergarten at Primrose but is still a little behind the 8ball maturity wise so he’s doing it again at Public school. He was so excited this morning, he woke up at 5:30 ready to go.

[Anastasis 23458]

So y'all know what first day back to school means right?

 

 

[BigDHornfan 6545]

They wait a week to assign teachers so it will be a few days before pics of hot kindergarten teacher. But believe me the talent is there.

[HenryJames 66035]

You should send him to school with some of those plastic bags you have saved up.

[Anastasis 23458]

21 minutes ago, BigDHornfan said:

They wait a week to assign teachers so it will be a few days before pics of hot kindergarten teacher. But believe me the talent is there.

Out in the land of the MILFs and honey, the moms put on their best look for first day drop offs. Sorry guys, no pics. 

[BigDHornfan 6545]

You should send him to school with some of those plastic bags you have saved up.

I’m just glad the pile is contained to just there now, my wife should be on Hoarders.
Only thing we use these for is to empty the litter box. But heaven help us if we dont have 350 of them.

[Schulz2.0 28951]

1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

4 hours ago, EE2B said:

How old?

 

9 weeks. Dude sleeps like a champ once we get him down(5-6 hrs between feedings)..its just this late night surge of energy that sucks ass

My kid is 9 weeks and thankfully doesn’t do that shit.

[Kringelbert Fishtybuns 943]

First kid starting at AISD next week.  I got a text for AISD alerts - is this shit real or some phishing scam?

Kid is going into the Mandarin Immersion program.  I looked at some workbooks/flash cards and it completely sunk in that I will be useless in trying to help him with any of the Mandarin stuff at all.  The symbols all look the same to me.  Hope that kid is smart.  

[ChingoHorns 115]

My boys start school next Monday. Oldest is starting 4th grade and the youngest 3rd.

Good luck to all the new dads out there, it gets easier fellas. If you have boys it’ll be in no time when they just start pissing everywhere (trees, fences, AC units) cause their “boys” and girls can’t do that.

Enjoy them in all their craziness! 

[Mikey4 2476]

First kid starting at AISD next week.  I got a text for AISD alerts - is this shit real or some phishing scam?
Kid is going into the Mandarin Immersion program.  I looked at some workbooks/flash cards and it completely sunk in that I will be useless in trying to help him with any of the Mandarin stuff at all.  The symbols all look the same to me.  Hope that kid is smart.  

They do send legit text messages. I don't know about the one you got obv.

[Goofyboy 3268]

Second grade has started. He’s still in his specialized behavior class, but should be out in general education in the first 9 weeks. Here’s to hoping he gets his shit together!

[Modessit 5598]

They do send legit text messages. I don't know about the one you got obv.

Yep. If there is a delay or closure - or some event at the school - you get a text about it.

[tantric superman 4667]

My wife loved school, I hated it until I was in about 4th grade.

So key was my wife took them to school to give them the good vibe, and mostly picked them up too.  If you didn't like school you are going to give them a bad vibe.

[Goofyboy 3268]

I loved school. He has not had the best experience so far due to his own issues. The good news is that he is in a class that is helping. We hope that as he sees teachers being nice and understanding, his attitude will improve.

[txhorns 2409]

Dropped my 5 year old daughter off at school for her first day of Kindergarten today.  She's been at her daycare since she was 6 weeks old so this is her first time in a new place.  I'm a fucking nervous wreck.  They should let the parent stay with the child on the first day of kindergarten.  To my daughter's credit she was ecstatic to go.  She has been talking about it for months.  Even made her own lunch this morning.

[tbone_ 14106]

She’ll do fine

[Modessit 5598]

I was a bit nervous when my 1-yr-old son had his first day at daycare. I was a little less nervous when my 12-wk-old daughter had her first day at the same day care.

When my kids start kindergarten, I'll be too busy thinking about how I'm going to spend that extra money in my bank account rather than be nervous.

[Message Board User 12395]

After once again seeing firsthand the lazy/disinterested/crazy parents and their bratty kids, teachers don't get paid enough.  I don't know how they put up with the kids or their parents who blame them when Junior misbehaves.

[Modessit 5598]

My wife's a teacher. I could do her job, but I don't want it. Not worth the headache.

But I'm sure one of the morons will be along to tell us how they're lucky to get paid so much for only working 6.5 hrs a day and getting 3 months off.

[NorthLoop 14180]

Except they don't get paid shit

[BrazilHorn 6586]

6th grade and 3rd grade boys. Start Monday.

One observation is some of y'all are rushing the shit out of potty training. That's a lot of pressure for you and your kids.  You're starting a child raising marathon not a sprint.

The best part of back to school as a frequent traveler is the summer hordes of families that don't know what the fuck they are doing in an airport is over until the holidays.

[GlenFromTheMailRoom 1603]

Rough day in the MailRoom.  No. 2 wasn’t happy all day.  Time to visit the ENT to try to get reflux under control. 

Ironically, the wife and I are getting closer because of it.  It’s very much a “we’re in this shit together” mentality at this point. 

Kids are the best form of birth control.

[Stringer 1438]

My 22 month old sleeps from 8 to 8 every night, with a 3 hour nap.  Fucking awesome sleeper.

The last 3 nights there has been massive regression.  She seems terrified to go to bed.  If we leave the room, she flips out and starts pointing to the chair in the corner of her room for us to sit.  She will not go to bed without us in the room and if she wakes up and we're not there she starts screaming.  We're trying to balance getting her (and us) some sleep and her using us as a crutch.  If it was just her not wanting to go to bed, I don't let her pull that, but she seems legitimate terrified about us leaving her. 

Anyone else experienced this?  Any tips?  Just ride it out the best we can?

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

no tip here..When i had to pretend sleep for my girl when she was in her 2's,  Id lay on the floor by the crib then crab walk out trying not to make a peep when leaving when I thought she was asleep.

 

maybe do that and then put some stuffed animals under a blanket so shed think that was you?  she now sleeps 10ish to 11ish every day and its so awesome. whenever she has a lapse or two in a row, we feel its the end of the world.

Edited August 21, 2018 by MNLonghornFUKM