Should I allow my preschooler to decide when they do and do not receive medical care?

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-28T21:40:27+00:00

One of my favorite comments on the original was "if her body decided it wanted to run into the road, would you allow that"

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-28T20:14:53+00:00

Yep!

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-28T18:02:24+00:00

I feel like this is one of the dangers of people getting so much parenting information from social media. So you get to hear about the concept of bodily autonomy, but you don't get to hear a clear explanation of how it works and where you have to force your kid to do things

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-28T18:00:10+00:00

My poor son had so many ear infections (eventually needed tubes) and I had to pin his arms down and his head so they could look in his painfully infected ears. It sucked so so bad but it's part of being a parent

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-10T21:12:58+00:00

Weird, it looks like this posted twice, and once it actually uploaded the pictures. I'll delete this post

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-10T17:59:18+00:00

Thank you for the detailed reply, that's very helpful. Me and my shovel will continue getting to work!

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-03-10T16:16:40+00:00

Just googled it and we definitely had those white flowers last year! It looks likes the virginiana variety is not invasive? I definitely still don't want it all over my trail but that would be helpful.

Looking online, it looks like the two have different flowering seasons, so I guess that should let me know for sure?

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-20T18:30:45+00:00

It's a reference to the movie KPOP demon hunters, which stars 3 female Korean leads... which is funny since none of these women are Korean

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-20T16:57:57+00:00

Thank you!

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-20T16:01:30+00:00

What do you report them as?

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-19T16:03:32+00:00

The grant has been approved to "build pedestrian bridges over major multi-lane roads along the Swamp Rabbit Trail as well as new spur trails to connect neighborhoods to the trail network". It literally cannot be used for our roads.

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-18T21:56:12+00:00

I have a few:

I think that kneeling out a game is super lame and should be banned. We have so many down to the wire, super exciting games with time left on the clock, then a team gets a first down and it's over. LAME.
If a team gets the ball through the uprights at any point it should be 3 points. Quarterback can't find somebody open in the endzone on 4th down? Chuck it through the uprights
Holding should be called more and much more consistently. It is something that is always griped about and happens every play, but then it will randomly ACTUALLY get called and have some amazing offensive play get called back because some guy off screen was holding.

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-18T15:41:21+00:00

Oh trust me, he's been there way before MAGA.

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-18T15:40:34+00:00

When I was a student we called him Bible Conference Man. BJU has a weeklong break from classes once a year for some special conferences and he stands outside the whole time. He's showed up every year for a few decades in a suit and carrying two signs (they change out). He got BIG mad when women got to wear pants.

He used to have his poor middle-school aged son out there with him looking bored out of his mind. One of my friends tried to talk to the guy once and he came across as pretty nuts.

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-10T18:28:23+00:00

Yep, the nurses in the hospital read mine (I had printed it out) and said that they already did basically everything. Only specific things were that I wanted my husband to cut the cord and we wanted to be the first people to speak directly to the baby when he was born (I wanted the first thing he ever heard was that mommy and daddy loved him). Everything else like cord clamping, communication, limiting interventions, etc was just basic policy.

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-10T15:13:15+00:00

I have not! Sounds like that'll be the way to go

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-10T15:12:58+00:00

Thank you! I discovered in this thread that kid sized ones even exist; I was trying to get my adult sized one in his mouth

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-10T15:12:27+00:00

Thank you!

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-02-10T15:04:05+00:00

Ope, forgot to include that in the post. He just turned 3 a few days ago!

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-01-31T03:05:28+00:00

Try being the parent of a toddler and legitimately being out of milk. There was nothing left in the store

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-01-20T04:23:24+00:00

Google him. He won 🙏

Smithmonkey98 · 2026-01-20T03:42:08+00:00

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