The Parenting Thread

Been up most of the night so not looking good Got to try to keep her away from the other two but it may already be too late.

I’m exhausted. Bloody kids.

Yeah sure she’ll be fine. Got so much on at work though, could really do without it! Oh well.

How’s you and the fam coping with covid dougs?

Had this Friday before last with our little girl. My wife and son came down with it 4 days later and then me 3 days after that, thought I'd dodged it.

Was also our first taste of what something like gastroenteritis does to our son's glucose levels since being diagnosed with diabetes. Absolute nightmare.

One of the hardest things about having small children is not being able to take a time out when we're ill. I had to do the school runs last Friday inbetween bouts of dry heaving bile into the loo. Lovely.

Sorry that was meant for Dougs but same applies!

Yeah being ill is fine if you can just lie in bed and get over it. Having to deal with kids at the same time is a bloody nightmare. Not sure where she would have picked up something like that though. She's not really been anywhere last week or so. There seems to a be a lot of nasty stuff around this year. Consequence of being locked down for so long then suddenly all together again maybe. Either way it sucks. 

I'm hoping the other two can avoid it. The vomiting was pretty much restricted to our bedroom (we're about 4 - 5 hours since the last bout so hopefully she is done) so I'll keep them out of there and try to keep their distance from the kid for a while. My fear is it hits me when at work or on the train. Meant to be going into London tomorrow, don't really fancy that at all.

We think we both had it last March too and this variant definitely gives you a bit more of a kicking. In many ways it's demystified it to a degree. It's nasty but we've managed. Not in a hurry to catch it again though, I have to admit.

Wee man back at school today after nearly 2 weeks off with Covid. He was so nervous about going back. His self confidence was at an all time low even before he got this, and now the isolating away from his class has made him feel even worse. I really hope he has a good day.

As I said in the "bald" thread, I went to trim my hair, while way too tired over the weekend and picked up the wrong guard. Light purple is apparently grade 2 and I meant to pick up dark purple which is a grade 6. I can see my skin shining throw what is left of my hair now as I had no other choice but to do a grade 2 all over (with grade 1 to cut in). I've never had so short hair.

Kidswise, I got annoyed with my eldest who wouldn't take "no" for an answer. They kept answering back even after I'd said to pack it in and do as they are told. When I said "I'm no longer listening" after they continued, they carried on until I finally snapped and told them to shut up. At that point my wife jumped in (finally) and had a go at me for losing my patience. Apparently I should have just sat there and taken all the backchat.

My middle child (10) has a haircut that's long-ish at the front. When he first got it, he was spiking it up with a bit of gel, which looked fine. More recently he's taken to plastering it to the side across his forehead.

He looks like Hitler youth, and I really don't know how to broach it with him because he seems to like it.

My 11 year old does not give 2 hoots about style and fashion at the moment. He grabs whatever is at the top of his drawer and usually cycles to school so doesn't do much with his hair. Won't last...just hope the mullet phase has passed by the time he does care!

That a hobby that I didn't know existed! I've got a niece who is super-crafty and would love that sort of thing. Perhaps not weeb enough yet though.

My youngest is all about what she's wearing etc. She might get it a bit wrong at times but she knows what she likes. She wants to go full on punk-goth when she's older, and it'll suit her down to the ground given her facial differences. Lean in to being different imo.

how was your night?

It is funny (or not). I dont think the girl got ill at all last year but this year, sans masks, its like 12 months worth of pent up bacteria just exploded over her school. She now has a cold AND an ear infection.

That's what happened to my boy as well. Got the worst cold I've probably seen him have, all LFT and PCR came back negative, chesty cough, felt like shit, he said it was like he was having a constant out of body experience, limb pain, the works. Lasted best part of three weeks. Week after that, doing one of our random LFT at home and we get a postive, so in he goes for a PCR, postive. Then I get his cold, do a PCR, negative but I swear I've never felt so shit as I did a couple of weeks back. Seemingly it is to do with the fact we've not really been giving each other anything much at all over the last 12 - 18 months and now there's more mingling than ever, everything is coming at once.

This is weird. No vomiting since the bout about this time last night. Then again tonight. Fine after naps in day as well.

Seemed much better today and now in a bad way again. Very strange.

Might have to call dr in the morning, not sure they’ll see her though.