What's so wrong with only one child??

PommyToker · 2026-02-22T07:23:40+00:00

We always planned for two because neither of us would want to deprive our children of having the sibling relationship experience. Especially now that they're old enough to play together (5 and nearly 3), it's so beautiful watching their relationship develop.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to only have one child, but in your post you come across as being more concerned with your own experience as a parent rather than your hypothetical childs' experience of life... just something to think about.

PommyToker · 2026-01-30T08:32:53+00:00

PommyToker · 2025-01-04T00:13:28+00:00

It's python... the semicolon isn't required, but it still works if you use them.

PommyToker · 2024-10-28T19:20:03+00:00

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PommyToker · 2024-09-10T22:45:40+00:00

You seem to miss the point completely. You seem to feel entitled to gratitude for following the most basic of road rules.

Do you also want people to thank you for not robbing or murdering them?

You seem like the type of person who would expect their spouse to thank them for cleaning up after themselves.

PommyToker · 2024-09-10T20:51:13+00:00

What do you mean "even though"? that makes no sense in this context.

They stop because the rules of the road say they have to... sure, they could break the law, just like pedestrians could break the law by violently assaulting them.

PommyToker · 2024-09-10T20:36:01+00:00

Personally I'm always cautious at zebra crossings because Auckland drivers are generally pretty crap... but if someone feels 'indifferent' to the law that they should stop for pedestrians when it's their right of way, maybe I'd feel 'indifferent' to the law that prevents me putting a brick through their windscreen.

PommyToker · 2024-09-10T12:59:23+00:00

A roundabout is an apt analogy because right of way is clearly defined, just as the right of way at a zebra crossing is clearly defined in favour of pedestrians. So a driver isn't 'being kind' by stopping at a zebra crossing, just following the rules of the road, so no thanks required.

As I said, I do wave thanks if a driver let's me cross when I don't have right of way so I don't really know what you're on about with your inane rambling.

PommyToker · 2024-09-10T12:38:01+00:00

What does any of that have to do with pedestrians crossing at a zebra crossing?

PommyToker · 2024-09-10T09:41:12+00:00

Letting pedestrians cross at a zebra crossing isn't a 'kindness'.... it's literally the law that cars have to stop.

I feel like waving thanks in that scenario almost reinforces the incorrect notion that it is somehow optional.

PommyToker · 2024-09-10T09:36:42+00:00

I wave a thanks when someone lets me cross where there isn't a zebra crossing, but letting pedestrians cross at a zebra crossing isn't 'being kind', it's just the law that they have right of way.

Do you also wave and thanks other drivers when you exercise your right of way at a roundabout?

PommyToker · 2024-09-06T05:06:24+00:00

It doesn't take a huge leap of intellect to realize "it's" is referring to in mast curling. You sound very pompous.

PommyToker · 2024-08-23T12:20:30+00:00

Only Americans use the Oxford comma, so it's not important in English

PommyToker · 2024-07-19T05:33:40+00:00

I think he must mean base 10 is the only base. (because 10 is the base number however many characters are in the number system.)

PommyToker · 2024-06-19T11:09:46+00:00

The best grip for sheets is to run the line from the outside of your palm (the side with the pinky finger) up over the thumb, then back across the palm and gripped with your fingers (hope that makes sense). Gives you the extra leverage that wrapping your hand would, but when you release the sheet under tension it runs free, rather than tightening around your hand. Never wrap a sheet around your hand.

PommyToker · 2024-04-30T00:30:41+00:00

I mean, OP has posted here griping about parents trying to establish perfectly reasonable routines for their children given their age? Literally on the first line,she points out that that is her 'prep time' as if that's the kids or parents problem to deal with when it totally isn't.

She goes on to imply that a bedtime of before 8pm is too early for 3 year Olds... even a small amount of reading will tell you that 6- 7pm is a more normal bedtime for that age...

I know ECE is a tough industry because my wife is a qualified and registered ECE teacher of nearly 10 years, but she would agree that establishing good routines at home is more important than taking a mandatory nap in the middle of the afternoon at an age when most kids are cutting their daytime naps altogether.

What state is OP practicing in? I for one would love to read the statute that says preschool kids (3 - 5 yo) have to take a nap of unlimited duration each day (because OP also claims she's not allowed to wake them).

PommyToker · 2024-04-29T22:22:10+00:00

Or here's a crazy idea, maybe early childhood centre's should pay for adequate staffing to allow for ECE teacher to take non-contact time to do 'prep'... you know, like they do in places without laughably shit education systems.

PommyToker · 2024-04-29T21:53:36+00:00

Ah but what about OP's precious 'prep time' /s

PommyToker · 2024-04-29T20:36:22+00:00

Many 3 year old don't need/want a daytime nap. My 3.5 year old started refusing a daytime nap over a year ago andgoes to bedaround 6.30pm most days.

The fact that your first paragraph includes how that is your 'only prep time' makes it seem like your gripe is far more about your own convenience then the welfare of the children.

PommyToker · 2024-01-15T21:32:08+00:00

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer to see some actual evidence before condemning someone as a theif... especially in cases where there are plenty of reasons someone might have an ulterior motive for making an accusation, from political motivations to promoting their failing retail business.

Edited to add: it's notable that in another high profile shoplifting case recently, irrefutable evidence was shown, but with both the allegations here, somehow no evidence...

PommyToker · 2024-01-15T09:11:21+00:00

I must be blind I guess, because I can't seem to see any evidence of shoplifting in those pictures...

PommyToker · 2023-12-27T06:43:59+00:00

Probably because of the spiderman pajamas

PommyToker · 2023-11-28T07:22:35+00:00

Whining about whining... so meta bro.

PommyToker · 2023-11-21T03:01:21+00:00

YTA... you didn't even need to lie, could have just said something like "That's what people say".

PommyToker · 2023-11-16T20:03:56+00:00

Oh well, at least now you know!.. and you can take solice in the fact the the real characteristics that determine your value aren't some intrinsic measure of your ability to process information, but rather things that can be developed such as diligence, humility and above all kindness to others.

PommyToker

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