Surly Dad Thread

[4thgenhorn 38]

My 14 yo has entered full teenage stage. Total DA, does nothing we ask, back talking, yelling and general jackass. Every time we turn our back he’s sneaking Nintendo or iPhone when he’s supposed to be doing something else. Simple things take hours. He takes his phone into bathroom for 8 “shits” per day. We haven’t even gotten into the sneaking out and drinking phase, yet. Had to pray to the Lord today to ensure I didn’t beat his ass. Please tell me this will pass. Enjoy those early years as long as you can. 

[tbone_ 14254]

It may or may not pass. Prepare your anus.

[BurntOrange&White 40434]

Wife made him do this and he lost his shit as soon as she sat him in there

Yesterday we had our first full blown laugh while we were giving him a bath and he’s starting to roll back to tummy and tummy to back. Pretty good milestones. 

[Jerry Callo 8827]

8 hours ago, 4thgenhorn said:

My 14 yo has entered full teenage stage. Total DA, does nothing we ask, back talking, yelling and general jackass. Every time we turn our back he’s sneaking Nintendo or iPhone when he’s supposed to be doing something else. Simple things take hours. He takes his phone into bathroom for 8 “shits” per day. We haven’t even gotten into the sneaking out and drinking phase, yet. Had to pray to the Lord today to ensure I didn’t beat his ass. Please tell me this will pass. Enjoy those early years as long as you can. 

This too shall pass . . . although it might be like passing a kidney stone.

[SurlyGator 901]

11 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

Do you do the Heimlich on small kids/toddlers? I could have sworn they said not to in a cpr class. Said it was better to hit them on the back.

Yes.  Everyone, but especially new parents, should take a basic diary aid course.  Know the different techniques based on age, and even how to do it on yourself if you are home alone.

[Jerry Callo 8827]

7 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

Yes.  Everyone, but especially new parents, should take a basic diary aid course.  Know the different techniques based on age, and even how to do it on yourself if you are home alone.

[Celery Man 21026]

Look at this absolute unit of an almost 11 month old. Ready to start on the offensive line for the Texans

 

[jimmyjazz 46469]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

Look at this absolute unit of an almost 11 month old. Ready to start on the offensive line for the Texans

I'll bet that Vandy LB wouldn't have gotten through to tip that pass.

Too soon?

[HornPhD 1372]

Just received notification that our daughter made the JV soccer team as a 9th grader (there are three teams: Varsity, JV, and Frosh). The team has a lot of good players with one playing for a US national team. Our daughter is stoked that she made the cut despite not doing well during the tryouts (according to her). Very proud of my girl. 

[F250 28938]

On 10/29/2024 at 9:59 PM, 4thgenhorn said:

My 14 yo has entered full teenage stage. Total DA, does nothing we ask, back talking, yelling and general jackass. Every time we turn our back he’s sneaking Nintendo or iPhone when he’s supposed to be doing something else. Simple things take hours. He takes his phone into bathroom for 8 “shits” per day. We haven’t even gotten into the sneaking out and drinking phase, yet. Had to pray to the Lord today to ensure I didn’t beat his ass. Please tell me this will pass. Enjoy those early years as long as you can. 

I have four kids, three older sons, two in college and my eldest a college graduate serving as an officer in the Air Force.

Me when my boys were 14.

 

Me with my youngest, a daughter being 14 years old.

[ocugolf 1215]

I’ve somehow kept this little miracle alive for a month now. Man this is hard. The sleep is a joke at this point, but when he looks into your eyes, you can’t help but melt. 
Tried our first night in his Snoo, and he slept for 3 hours straight. I almost started crying. Had his monthly checkup. In 99th percentile in size. I’m 6’5” and wife is 5’10.5” ish. He’s got a good chance to be massive.

its funny that the stuff you worried about before don’t seem to matter as much. I used to wish that i could wake up and they were 3. Now, I don’t want to miss a thing. He’s made all the pain, anger, sadness, bitterness, and suffering go away. Love having my little buddy.

[hookem2010 2644]

While the newborn enters the 6-week fussy stage, the toddler is at the blowing bubbles in soup stage, apparently.

[mdmost 43286]

Saw this last night and found it fairly amusing and very accurate with the time our first one was in this stage.

 

[NoName 16603]

8 hours ago, ocugolf said:

I’ve somehow kept this little miracle alive for a month now. Man this is hard. The sleep is a joke at this point, but when he looks into your eyes, you can’t help but melt. 
Tried our first night in his Snoo, and he slept for 3 hours straight. I almost started crying. Had his monthly checkup. In 99th percentile in size. I’m 6’5” and wife is 5’10.5” ish. He’s got a good chance to be massive.

its funny that the stuff you worried about before don’t seem to matter as much. I used to wish that i could wake up and they were 3. Now, I don’t want to miss a thing. He’s made all the pain, anger, sadness, bitterness, and suffering go away. Love having my little buddy.

Snoo is hard just DON'T GIVE UP 

It takes a while for them to get their circadian rhythm but once they do and sleep 8+ hours consistently it's so so so worth it. 

Do you guys do the double swaddle? Some of the velcro ones inside the snoo one?.made a gigantic difference for both of ours!

[Jkwellborn 6877]

I’ve somehow kept this little miracle alive for a month now. Man this is hard. The sleep is a joke at this point, but when he looks into your eyes, you can’t help but melt. 
Tried our first night in his Snoo, and he slept for 3 hours straight. I almost started crying. Had his monthly checkup. In 99th percentile in size. I’m 6’5” and wife is 5’10.5” ish. He’s got a good chance to be massive.
its funny that the stuff you worried about before don’t seem to matter as much. I used to wish that i could wake up and they were 3. Now, I don’t want to miss a thing. He’s made all the pain, anger, sadness, bitterness, and suffering go away. Love having my little buddy.

Man, don’t ever want to speed it up. Soak it all in and take a ton of pictures and video. It won’t be long, you’ll start wishing he was little again.

[Celery Man 21026]

my daughter was good in just the regular snoo swaddle. son has been very strong and very much wanting to move around since day 1, he got the bat wing swaddle and even sometimes a towel around his legs to keep them still and give them a little bit of elevation.

the book we read for both of them was 12 Hours Sleep by 12 Weeks Old. We didn't get quite to 12 hours but it was successful with both of them. The girl we were catching up after a bad start when we needed to figure out how we could all sleep. The boy we started right off the bat and it was a piece of cake, just slowly stretching out the time between nighttime feeds until he was sleeping through the night. Lol that shitty 2am wakeup/feed, kinda miss it now.

 

\m/ to you ocugolf, glad it has worked out for you guys and you get to have that little buddy

 

Edited November 14 by Celery Man

[ocugolf 1215]

2 hours ago, NoName said:

Snoo is hard just DON'T GIVE UP 

It takes a while for them to get their circadian rhythm but once they do and sleep 8+ hours consistently it's so so so worth it. 

Do you guys do the double swaddle? Some of the velcro ones inside the snoo one?.made a gigantic difference for both of ours!

Is that the elastic straps inside and then the rest of the swaddle goes on top? Like to keep them in place? He seems to do ok with it so far.

[BurntOrange&White 40434]

4 months down 

 

[Celery Man 21026]

Brb googling how to clean spit up out of a chair made of shag carpet 

[BurntOrange&White 40434]

1 minute ago, Celery Man said:

Brb googling how to clean spit up out of a chair made of shag carpet 

[Iceman 2794]

On 10/29/2024 at 9:59 PM, 4thgenhorn said:

My 14 yo has entered full teenage stage. Total DA, does nothing we ask, back talking, yelling and general jackass. Every time we turn our back he’s sneaking Nintendo or iPhone when he’s supposed to be doing something else. Simple things take hours. He takes his phone into bathroom for 8 “shits” per day. We haven’t even gotten into the sneaking out and drinking phase, yet. Had to pray to the Lord today to ensure I didn’t beat his ass. Please tell me this will pass. Enjoy those early years as long as you can. 

seems like lots of good boundaries have been set.

It'll improve from here...

[South Austin 52685]

36 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

4 months down 

 

[Celery Man 21026]

39 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

[NoName 16603]

11 hours ago, ocugolf said:

Is that the elastic straps inside and then the rest of the swaddle goes on top? Like to keep them in place? He seems to do ok with it so far.

Good! Then don't worry about it

Batwing / velcro swaddle, then those inside straps, then the snoo zip thing is what we had to do to keep them from . breaking out

[dcbc 14568]

2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Brb googling how to clean spit up out of a chair made of shag carpet 

My older son ate a lot of peanut butter sandwiches as a child.  I'll never forget trying to clean up peanut-butter puke out of the carpet in the middle of the night when he was about 8 years old.  

 

[theaveragejon 994]

Arrived 11/6. 

[Jkwellborn 6877]

Arrived 11/6. 

1-0 so far.

[workswithseed 2139]

I obviously want here for my daughter's birth, but here we go.

 

[Al_4_ISU 12526]

I think I’m raising a squirrel. She just ran behind the garage bar and emerged with a cracker of the type we had been eating in here Sunday. Obviously she stashed it somewhere and retrieved for later snacking.