Surly Dad Thread

[4thgenhorn 42]

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_ 14436]

It may or may not pass. Prepare your anus.

[BurntOrange&White 41840]

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 8958]

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 959]

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 8958]

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 21090]

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

 

[jimmyjazz 47071]

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 1389]

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 29193]

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 1225]

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 2700]

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

[mdmost 43915]

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

 

[NoName 17146]

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 7026]

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 21090]

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 1225]

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 41840]

4 months down 

 

[Celery Man 21090]

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

[BurntOrange&White 41840]

1 minute ago, Celery Man said:

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

[Iceman 2978]

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 53213]

36 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

4 months down 

 

[Celery Man 21090]

39 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

[NoName 17146]

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 14644]

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 1104]

Arrived 11/6. 

[Jkwellborn 7026]

Arrived 11/6. 

1-0 so far.

[workswithseed 2203]

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

 

[Al_4_ISU 12622]

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.

[atomheartbevo 90611]

Those of you just venturing into the world of children's TV, normally I wouldn't recommend a subreddit, but..

Daniel Tiger Conspiracy

A place for parents (or anyone really) who are exposed to "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" and other little kid shows to post crazy theories, jokes and other amusing interpretive content. General reactions and commiserations (AKA mild shitposting) to kid's being hooked on these nifty-galifty shows are also welcomed.

[Iceman 2978]

My 2YO grandson just wants to watch firetrucks/police cars/ airplanes on YoutubeTV; Firebuds( tolerable,) Bluey( some good hidden adult humor,) and Blippy( love the content, but the execution makes me wish for my own.)

There's a lot more good stuff out there compared to the late 90's with our kids. 

[Celery Man 21090]

Had to recreate this one on our visit

[atomheartbevo 90611]

17 hours ago, Iceman said:

My 2YO grandson just wants to watch firetrucks/police cars/ airplanes on YoutubeTV; Firebuds( tolerable,) Bluey( some good hidden adult humor,) and Blippy( love the content, but the execution makes me wish for my own.)

Don't let him watch the one where Blippy shits on his friend's chest.  I get that he apologized and it was years ago and we've all done things we regret, but at least we weren't filming ourselves doing the stupid shit.

17 hours ago, Iceman said:

There's a lot more good stuff out there compared to the late 90's with our kids. 

Check out the PBS Kids app - it's fantastic.

He seems like he's a prime candidate for the Thomas the Train stuff.  I had the chance to take my oldest to Toys R Us a few times, to the Thomas the Train/Tank Engine aisle, and picked him up way too many trains, but he loved the hell out of them.

And you'll be watching Bluey for years to come.

[workswithseed 2203]

I thought to take my daughter on a nice day in the pnw to the park. I get there and see this.

[Al_4_ISU 12622]

10 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

I thought to take my daughter on a nice day in the pnw to the park. I get there and see this.

Stroller = insta nap in our world.  

[workswithseed 2203]

8 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Stroller = insta nap in our world.  

She doesn't usually, but she woke up early to today. 

[Celery Man 21090]

We travelled to Texas for Thanksgiving, and 4 different times (including absolute strangers at the airport) parents of older children asked me to explain what kind of dark magic our stroller was

But really it was great - the little guy didn’t even have to get out of his seat after the plane landed. Out the car, rolled through he airport, down the jetway, carried onto the plane, strapped into the plane seat, carried out, strolled through the airport, and then seatbelt installled in the rental.

Edited December 7 by Celery Man

[hookem2010 2700]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

We travelled to Texas for Thanksgiving, and 4 different times (including absolute strangers at the airport) parents of older children asked me to explain what kind of dark magic our stroller was

But really it was great - the little guy didn’t even have to get out of his seat after the plane landed. Out the car, rolled through he airport, down the jetway, carried onto the plane, strapped into the plane seat, carried out, strolled through the airport, and then seatbelt installled in the rental.

We inherited one of those from a friend for our 2nd child. They're great, but I probably looked like a kidnapper when I tried to fold it up the first time. Because why figure it out before being in public?

[High Plains Drifter 11185]

On 11/29/2024 at 12:00 PM, Al_4_ISU said:

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.

 

 

My God, you're letting her drink that Yuengling crap?

Midwesterners, smdh

[Al_4_ISU 12622]

4 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

 

My God, you're letting her drink that Yuengling crap?

Midwesterners, smdh

They don't sell it here.  It's an exotic treat.

[hookem2010 2700]

Our 2 1/2 year old watching Moana in a scene where she's upset...

"Moana sad. Want hug."

"That's nice of you, big guy."

"She pretty. I want kiss Moana."

"Hahaha oh, ok. We're at this stage already."

[hornian 5284]

43 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Our 2 1/2 year old watching Moana in a scene where she's upset...

"Moana sad. Want hug."

"That's nice of you, big guy."

"She pretty. I want kiss Moana."

"Hahaha oh, ok. We're at this stage already."

My oldest was about that age and watching Lilo and Stitch. There is a scene where Stitch falls off a high point into some clouds (presumably to his death) and my kiddo yelled “Stitch, NO!!!”

It was the first time I remember her actually being able to follow a movie - before that they were too long for her. 

[ocugolf 1225]

This 2 month old just checked in at 13.8 pounds, 25 inches. 99% head size. 99% in size. Just an absolute unit for being born 4 weeks early. A lot of the infant stage sucks; however, daily there’s something where you can’t imagine life without him. Makes all the pain, struggle, frustration, and angst go away.z His first real smile. Somehow had the phone out to capture.  Heart is so full looking at it!