Mine was wearing a helmet when she faceplanted. They need motorcycle helmets for rollerblading. Kidding, sorta.
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I broke my front tooth when I was 11. Still have my original crown. I call it ole toilet tooth
Yeah. Iām trying to stay fact based on things to be chill about vs things to be OTT about.
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If you want to learn to chill about raising a child, have a second child. Then have more if you really want to let them go feral.
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So of course my wife and 8-month-old son also got COVID, and my son tested positive on multiple tests starting around May 30th until finally testing negative on June 8th.
ā¦And then he had a fever start up last Sunday night that he still has, so we made a doctorās appointment and brought him in today. They did a nasal swab andā¦he fucking has COVID again.
Iāve been back at work for about 5 weeks and have had to stay home for just under a third of the time because either I or my son was sick, and my wife alternated work days so sheās also missed around 8 of the last 25 workdays and is stressing out about what will happen next week if he stays sick. Her parents agreed to watch the kiddo for us while weāre at work but theyāre in their early 70s so of course we werenāt like āHereās this COVID positive baby, the CDC says heās fine to be aroundā but so far theyāve only been able to watch him for 10 days because of this.
How do parents do this shit? Are we just all going to be varying levels of sick at all times for the next 17 years and 3 months?
Pretty much. Welcome to the club.
Lol, yes. Just wait until they go to school. Kids are walking, breathing disease vectors. I was more sick in the first 13 years of my sonās life than any other time in my life.
Meh, there was a lot of that when our kids were little, but it wasnāt really that bad once they were both like 3rd or 4th grade+ or something.
This is why my wife doesnāt work basically. It fucking sucks.
This is such a rude awakening moment for so many couples with their first kid.
You finally start day care and think āOh we get to have our normal lives and routine backā but your life just looks so different after kids. For dual income couples, it doesnāt require one to quit their jobs, but often one parent just needs to have a job with more flexibility built in for these types of scenarios.
First kid in school both the kid and parents get the rash of illnesses the first few months. Now that our 2nd kid is in that phase, heās getting sick quite a few times but it seems like my wife and I are mostly avoiding the illnesses that heās getting, so at least that part gets easier the 2nd time around.
Itās a really frustrating point to hit, and Iād imagine most parents here can empathize with it.
Somehow this winter felt like there were almost no illnesses, but for the last 2 months our kids have just been sick constantly. Just fed my 9 month old 8 ounces of formula trying to get him to sleep because he kept eating it. When i put him on the changing table he vomited it all up plus some strawberries he ate a few hours ago.
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Facing a bit of a tough spot
We are all in the Philippines now where itās better for little Rugby
Iāve booked two seperate work conferences in Australia later in July and in August.
Looks like I canāt take the family, so Iāll be going in my own in two separate trips.
Really not looking forward to being away from the baby for that long. I went on a two night trip last month and he was distraught the whole time.
Because Iām doing the business, Iām very hands on, so heās used to having me there all day everyday
I guess this is just the trade offs we have to make if we want to earn money?
Fucking sucks.
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yes
How long are these trips?
Probably going to be about 8 days each. I also need to go check in on old man rugby whoās 86 now and in a care home.
Parents of high schoolers, donāt forget that your kids might have summer assignments. In the excitement of our oldest getting ready to go off to college and also going to Greece this summer, we totally forgot to check on summer assignments for dlk9s jr.
He has about 3.5 weeks before school starts and has two weeks of marching band camp starting next week (hours are 9-4 and 9-9). Has to read two books and a 10-page social studies thing, annotate at least some of them, and write a short-ish essay.
Fortunately, he didnāt get pissy about it and started tonight. His new (first) girlfriend was over tonight and she didnāt know she had summer assignments, so I probably saved her first-week grades, too.
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Except that I forgot until more than half his summer break was done.
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You might try getting little Rugby used to seeing you on face time or Zoom or something so you can try and do that to check in while youāre gone.
8 days is rough. The reason I asked is that you mentioned having trouble with a two-day trip, which sounds like a bit of a red flag. Taking a few days to get some solid sleep and do some grown-up stuff is a good thing to do