The Parenting Thread

I tried the first episode a few years back based on praise on here, and it seemed pretty awful. But then one short episode often isn't enough to gel with a comedy's style. 
The weird annoying neighbor character in particular seemed like they were from a different show. (A worse one) 

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It does seem weirdly hard to find 'family viewing' shows. (I know I've gone on about it on here before). 
My eldest is just 14 and that's getting to the age where more things are ok, but the youngest being 10 limits stuff dramatically. 

There's so little live-action kids/teen stuff being made these days, and they've already mined it all on CBBC about 5 times, so it's basically limited to 'game show ish' stuff that's easy background viewing at dinnertime (Gladiators, Junior Bakeoff, Crystal Maze, Somewhere's Got Talent, etc..)

Either that, or the parents have to suck it up and watch another 3d animated kids show...  

I wouldn't claim it's the height of comedy, but we have recently been watching some Young Sheldon on C4. It's light enough viewing, and has just about enough relatable parent/marriage jokes that will raise a small chuckle and fly over the kids' heads. 

We're enjoying Ludwig right now.
And if you want other easy watching with many episodes, have you tried Death in Paradise?

Yep, we're working our way through TM, great fun shouting at the TV during the tasks!

The Clone Wars if you have Disney Plus?

If they are old enough for the horror elements, Stranger Things.

Turns out after everyone was joking about OTT an inflatable and trampoline centre was in making us sign waivers and watch a briefing video before letting the kids loose, one of group has broken his arm.

I’d seen him crying and got his mam to come help/take over but figure he was just overwhelmed by the place being massive and loud.

I suppose its just one of those things. He’s 5 but could be mistaken for as young as 3 he’s so small and shy compared to the rest of the class. The organising parents must feel pretty rough about it too, we were all just in the coffee and stare at your phone zone off at the side*




*the place crawling with safety staff (teenagers in polo shirts) so parents generally aren’t allowed in.

The only injury I knowingly witnessed during the day was when my son and a friend were pushing each other during the safety briefing and fell off their bench. I figured it for being a little ironic but no actual damage done.

Until we got a message from one of the mams who is in the class parents’ facebook group (me and mrs simple both deleted our accounts years ago) telling us what had happened.

Given mrs simple can have some extreme dips into anxiety and intrusive thoughts about what calamity could happen to our boy its probably good that I do all the parties and she misses out on this kind of stuff. She’d have gone completely crazy if she’d been at the one at the social club where the kids ran the length of the room along the coppered tabletops in their socks.

Kids can break arms doing the most random daily things though, so it's pretty unavoidable if it's fated to happen. 
I'm not even going to talk about 2 of the ways I broke my arm as a kid, because they're embarrassingly dumb/pathetic. The 3rd one was playing British Bulldog, so I think that's acceptably tough. 

A few years ago we went to a pub garden with friends and one of their kids fell off the bottom-step of the treehouse ladder (so about 6 inches) and broke her arm. 

Took mine to a group picnic in the park when they were little, and one of the dads swung her around by her arms. Worked out after we got home that she'd dislocated an elbow. The dad was mortified when he found out. 

Kids huh.. 

I used to hear from the woman I know in our campus shop that they regularly get new students asking if they can buy Calpol anywhere at the university when they’re sick.

Probably showing my bad parenting here, I introduced my boys to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at probably a too young age, but it's something we have really bonded on. 15yr old has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of it. The females hate it though (we all love FND!). Still Game has always been popular too, but being Scottish helps for that...

Just wait until next time we need to get otto on a plane. It'll be time to bring out the Calpol again.

Actually I’m half expecting him to vom himself awake at some point in the night. I was in the kitchen while he and his mum were out playing in the garden, glanced out of the window and she was letting him drink stagnant water that had been hanging around for days out of a flower pot. Immediately yelled at her asking what the fuck she was doing and she was like “it’s just rain water”.

This idiot went to Cambridge! I’m still steaming about it now and can’t believe between the two of us that I’m the one who has to have some common fucking sense.

Exactly!

And all you need to do is to repeat that to them with a smile as you hold up a saucepan for them to puke into while their insides scutter away into the toilet.

Yeah I’ve always been a “let them eat filth, it builds the immune system” kind of parent, but I’d probably at least raise an eyebrow at days old standing water. I’ve seen what that does to the inside of a kids (BPA free) plastic water bottle.

Toddler had a fall on their head on monday evening. Cried a lot but bump was small and went to sleep no probs.

Tuesday whole day was fine until 9pm where she vomited dinner then lunch and some more.
Drove to hospital. More vomit in a car. Very slow response from her so freaking out.

Doctor recommended CT scan as she threw up once more in hospital after a bottle of milk.

Results were quick. Nothing wrong with her head.

Probably some stomach bug she caught from kindergarten.

Acted normally yesterday but did threw up again in the morning but kept dinner and 120ml of milk.

But was super scared. Took a sick day from work yesterday.


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At no point anyone asked for credit card or payment. So glad we are not living in usa.