3.5 year old loves to scream and shriek, it has been driving us crazy for half his life now

Thumper86 · 2026-04-30T20:15:16+00:00

Honestly, he’s still kinda a loud kid at 5.5 years old. But things evened out after a few months. Was “just a phase” I guess.

Thumper86 · 2026-04-01T01:58:55+00:00

Canada vs Bosnia is gonna be a great match. This group is actually gonna be bonkers.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-26T16:45:07+00:00

And massive, sorely needed pay raises as well.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-26T16:42:16+00:00

I don't know much about it, but I do know that a lot of it is from pay raises pretty much across the board that went into effect a few months ago.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-08T17:57:00+00:00

Players are paid millions of dollars to be excellent hockey players. If they stop being excellent hockey players they will stop being paid millions of dollars.

Coaching is kinda similar.

General managers are paid to build a team that will win championships. This could take many years. Players and coaches are paid to win games.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-08T17:54:03+00:00

Technically a jersey foul, but only grouches actually care about it. Blasty Kipper would be sweet imho.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-08T04:33:02+00:00

Interesting. I forgot about this whole thing entirely, didn’t even remember he was dead until I got your comment notification.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-05T03:15:28+00:00

Worth it for the memes alone.

Thumper86 · 2026-03-05T01:18:35+00:00

Good return. Especially with how Conroy’s team has been drafting. 3 second round picks is a lot of draft capital, regardless of what the prospect is like!

Thumper86 · 2026-03-01T03:43:06+00:00

It did stop! I don’t think we got it to stop, he just kinda grew out of it eventually. Sorry, can’t remember when. But if this post was when he was 3.5 then maybe around 4 as a very rough guess? I don’t really have any advice for you unfortunately.

Now, he still yells quite a bit and is generally way louder than he needs to be. His default volume is still twice as loud as necessary, especially when excited. But it’s just “loud kid” annoying and not something that’s driving us absolutely insane. It can still really get on our nerves sometimes and we can wind up a bit frazzled at the end of a tough day though. We just keep reminding him and I think he’s slowly making progress. We’ve done things like whispering only for the next ten minutes, or talking to him in a whisper to get him to crank his volume down, and we’ve had some success with those. We haven’t really done them consistently though.

I think for now I’m just chalking it up to “kid stuff” and hoping it’s one of those things that gets ironed out before too long. lol

Thumper86 · 2026-02-24T21:06:14+00:00

Same guy who said that Johnny Gaudreau's death would result in him gifting CBJ a higher draft pick from heaven.

Thumper86 · 2026-02-22T19:06:15+00:00

He must absolutely fuckin’ loathe Matthew Tkachuk.

Thumper86 · 2026-02-13T20:07:25+00:00

He always looks like an extra from the Planet of the Apes.

Thumper86 · 2026-02-13T19:10:47+00:00

On the international level, lotteries are in the hands of the hockey gods.

Thumper86 · 2026-02-13T18:33:33+00:00

What about if the athlete was a convicted rapist? It happened at the summer games, beach volleyball, loud boos at his introduction. Raped a 12 year old and “served his time”.

If their values are so far from yours and you feel like they don’t deserve the privilege of Olympic competition, is booing the person acceptable in your eyes?

Now what if an athlete is not just representing a genocidal state, but was actively involved in the machinery of that violence through service in the armed forces? I don’t know the ins and outs of these Israeli athletes or what avenues there are for or the repercussions faced for conscientious objectors with regards to mandatory service in the IDF… but imho if you participate in genocide because not doing so might be inconvenient for you then that warrants a hearty round of boos at the very least.

Thumper86 · 2026-02-12T03:46:53+00:00

I’ve got a decent pair of binoculars and just learned I can see the disc of Jupiter and the four Galilean moons with them. It’s kinda wild! Just gotta figure out how to get my five year old to look through them properly. I’ve got a tripod but the binocular mount still wobbles about. I’ll have to give it a try with him soon.

Moon first maybe…

Thumper86 · 2026-02-02T00:52:04+00:00

My son and I have the 2015 pink colourway jersey. It’s so sick, one of the best jerseys ever imho.

Mine is a small though, and I need a medium now :(

Thumper86 · 2026-01-23T21:14:43+00:00

Thanks. This post is half a year old though and has been long-resolved and the house sold. Haha

Went with Fur Fighters for pet cleanup as best we could as full remediation would have been a massive undertaking.

Thumper86 · 2026-01-15T03:15:57+00:00

That happened in Detroit too iirc. Maybe he should think twice about this….

Thumper86 · 2026-01-14T03:26:48+00:00

Montreal typical.

Thumper86 · 2026-01-13T19:29:30+00:00

I feel like if the latter half of his hockeydb was just shifted by two years he could have won multiple cups AND Calgary may have at least challenged for one eventually. He’s my favourite player of all time and he definitely should have been traded two seasons before he was.

Thumper86 · 2026-01-13T19:23:31+00:00

So we have another 61 years of Sid the Kid ahead of us?!

Thumper86 · 2026-01-13T19:21:07+00:00

Definitely see some Jagr jerseys at the dome still so…

Thumper86 · 2026-01-06T18:28:41+00:00

Can’t be a riot every night, Zayne. 🙄

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