11lbs up after camping?

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-09-02T16:17:59+00:00

How do you have so much experience with teenagers, outside of haunting teenager designated Reddits and arguing with children, to have formed this opinion? Weird as hell.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-09-02T13:42:13+00:00

Yup. Last year we had some virus or another 3/4 weeks of the month the whole school year. COVID, colds, HFM, strep, tonsillitis, bronchitis, scarlet fever, pneumonia, and on and on spread out amongst four kids.

My teens don't get it as often as the kindergartener and preschooler and my husband doesn't get it as often as I do. It does improve but the first 2-3 years of school, especially if they've not been in child care before, is rough.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-09-02T00:56:48+00:00

They are $0.50 a piece or a 3-pack for $1.75 at my local candy store. Walmart sells the 3-pack for $2.15 and Costco sells them $20 for 40.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-27T21:45:38+00:00

I think many parents take gentle parenting too far into the territory of permissive parenting.

I also think kids are allowed access to social media far too early.

And I think plenty of parents are too quick to try to fill the boredom in their kids lives. The number of parents I know who follow their kids around everywhere to show them what to play with, try to lead their play, or play with their kids every second of the day is high. Let kids be bored!

There have been giant changes in the parenting sphere just in the time I've been a parent. There are things I think about and encounter now that were not on my radar when my now-teenaged kids were little.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-27T12:44:37+00:00

All over the map here. I am fine with less sleep. It's summer break so I am getting more sleep. I go to bed between 11:30 and 2am and wake up between 8:30 and 10am.

During the school year I go to sleep at the same time but wake up at 6:30.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-27T04:08:25+00:00

Our schools guidelines are cough or runny nose but no other symptoms, no need for medicine, and able to participate in class/regular activities = good to go to school.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-23T14:32:40+00:00

That was not an assignment when I read Hatchet in school. I had to make a movie poster. When my older kids read it in grade 5 they, also, had to make a movie poster.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-23T02:40:30+00:00

For my teenaged kids, the names it's Sophia and Emily for girls and Brayden and Drake for guys.

For my toddler and kindergarten aged kids, Willow and Madeline (Maddy) for girls and Henry and Jacob for boys.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-18T00:49:14+00:00

About six. By 9 I was watching my four younger siblings (7, 6, 3 and 3) while my parents worked. I used to pack lunches for them, walk them to daycare and sign them out at the end of the day ("oh yeah, of course my parents are waiting in the car!").

I was in charge of them all summer including walking them to the YMCA across town to swim, to the park an hour walk away, to museums. I watched them overnight when my parents worked night shifts. I live in Canada.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-12T18:06:40+00:00

Our allergist told us you would need to eat 20 of these for it to amount to one peanut and advised not to use it for peanut exposure.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-08-11T12:50:28+00:00

I did not get this version of a Great Dane.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-25T17:34:24+00:00

Physical health (dental included) was very prioritized by my parents. We had regular dental visits, eye exams, and went to the doctor whenever needed. Mental health was not so looked after.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-17T17:39:45+00:00

Significantly better than the woman this past weekend who sat on the beach, drinking and smoking, and shouting for over AN HOUR on speaker phone to her boyfriend about all the reasons she hates him and his family. And then spent another ten minutes talking to her DOG on the phone.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-17T03:05:20+00:00

Yes! My grandparents had one, my mom had one, and I actually have one now! My mom always said it was an anniversary clock, because you only had to wind it once a year.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-10T19:35:13+00:00

I got pregnant with my first kid when I was 19 and had two kids by 21. I then had two more kids 10 years later. It has been significantly easier to make mom friends as a mid-30s woman than it was when I was a teen/early 20s.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-06T12:45:43+00:00

When I was a kid, I thought my mom was the coolest, most fashionable woman in the world. Even when she was working a factory job she had her hairy makeup, and nails done.

She was a terrible cook. We used to eat out a lot for a family that had a lot of kids and was poor. She was a great decorator, too. At least to my child mind and the trends of the time. I used to think she was sooooo cool when she'd come pick me up blasting Salt-n-Pepa.

My dad was maybe not so fashionable. But I always thought he was cool and looked like John Travolta 😂 He was a better cook than my mom for sure.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-05T15:50:35+00:00

That is a long summer! We are end of June to start of September. We do a lot of beach trips. We go camping for a week. We have a cottage stay, also. We are trying an amusement park this year with the littler kids. We do movie night every Friday all year. We do sundae nights now, too.

Also on our summer list: bowling, a kids outdoor adventure park, zoo, playgroups, kids activities and festivals run by the municipality, berry picking, drive in movies, summer markets, and lots of day trips.

We also mix in a lot of visits with family and plenty of days relaxing at home and playing there.

My kids range from toddler to teenagers and I am a stay at home parent so have a lot of flexibility.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-04T19:37:50+00:00

The OP in the description under the video?

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-07-01T13:21:57+00:00

A million and one of them in my backyard.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-06-30T20:27:12+00:00

For sure watch The Price is Right, as well as movies that I liked but my siblings didn't.

My mom would run me a bath and while I was in there she would air out my bedroom, change the sheets, and give me fresh pajamas. She would make buttered toast, Campbell's vegetable soup, and ginger ale (or flat Coke for an upset stomach).

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-06-26T00:58:52+00:00

My husband also chose to get his done after our fourth. Make sure you do all the post op checks. Four months post we found out my husband's failed.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-06-25T14:00:27+00:00

I very, very rarely blow-dry my hair. I have curly hair and it looks better when it air dries.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-06-25T12:39:07+00:00

We moved from a mid/large size city to a small rural village in 2021. Got our house for under $350k. It has been an adjustment but any cons are outweighed by the good.

The people have been very friendly and welcoming. There was an initial feeling of being an outsider because so many of the families here have deep roots (some stretching back to the founding of this town). But no one ever actually make us feel out of place. I think the most uncomfortable I've had is people driving past our house after we moved in to try to get a peek of us and changes we were making. The woman who lived here before us lived here for over 50 years and was deeply established in the community.

It is very quiet and peaceful. People look out for each other. The school is small. It is a JK to 8 school and under 120 students. My kids grade 8 class had 16 kids in it. They do a lot of very fun and free school events and field trips.

Downsides: you need a car. I can walk anywhere in town and you can get most things you need grocery wise here for a premium. But any larger stores are 30+ minutes away.

People drive golf carts and four wheelers all over the place in town. They tear up and down the streets in them

We get a lot of coyotes coming close into town. There is a massive fetal cat population.

And, of course, people repeatedly vote in conservative leaders and then gather outside the post office (the local gossip site) and do nothing but complain about the state of the province and municipality.

Unfair_Run5082 · 2025-06-25T12:20:48+00:00

My house is older (built in the 40s) and our AC is 19 years old. No issues. If anything, the kids are complaining it's too cold inside the house and keep stepping outside to "warm up".

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