#22

Current top is attempting to get a toddler in the buggy when they’re planking, and suddenly freakishly strong

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#23

cafes
parks
inside the house
outside the house
in the garden
meeting with other children
meeting other adults
bedtime
morning time

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#24

Only have one child but had to complete a purchase at a SS till yesterday where, in order to restrain him, I got him in a head lock using my knees as he punched me in the fanny.

It was more funny than stressful I suppose.
The only things I find truly stressful are ones involving traffic, and him on the loose, because he’s a bolter and runs off and won’t come back, even if you’re shaking a tub of haribo (I know, he’s not a dog.)

Got him these earlier in the summer to use when going on holiday but he’s fucking Houdini and can get out of them in approx. 0.000089765 seconds. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074Z7DSN2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Complete waste of money.

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#25

I was really against reigns, as I didn’t want it to look like I was walking a dog. But then we had the second one and he gives zero shits about ever coming back to you ever again if he walks off. So we got a cute little backpack that has a giraffe on it that we’ve used…once. Because all he does is just use his entire strength to pull forward, so then you’re just worried you’re actually hurting him (because you probably are), as it rides up under his arms and he puts his entire being into moving away from you for his new life in the road, or other end of the park, supermarket etc

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#26

Tell you what struck me when we were on our holidays (and particularly in Germany): how terrifyingly well-behaved children were in public. Pretty-much silent, with neat hair and clothes. We’d be trying to break up arguments between the two of them, or stopping them marauding their way round public transport (or whatever) and there’d just be eyes watching us the whole time. Then back at the Eurostar there were British kids running amok with exasperated parents trailing behind them.

Mind you, I saw a older German man absolutely lose his shit with his grandson for trying to climb in a fountain. Chasing him round the fountain, gesticulating wildly, moustache bristling with pure rage.

(Appreciate that this is a massive generalisation but I definitely felt much more self-aware)

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#27

Beautiful

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#28

And they sit or lean or breathe on the weighing part.

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#29

Good to hear Balonz is getting out the house though eh

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#30

For me it’s lunchboxes. Last school year was our first year of not having the free lunches at school and the hassle of deciding what to put in the bloody thing every day, the frustration of loads of it coming back uneaten (though this is getting better) and having to wash them out every day and do it all over again drives me up the wall. But if I do school dinners she’ll eat a cheese sandwich and nothing else and I can buy a lot of cheese sandwiches for £2.35 a day!

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#31

The drudge of those lunches, every morning make the same, every night wash them up urrrrrrggggh. Hate it.

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#32

I came downstairs this morning and found her dad has made her lunchbox for holiday club and frankly he’s never looked more attractive than he did in that moment.

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#33

so much this.

My youngest currently seems to think he can walk into the road with his hands up saying thank you and all cars will stop for him. Fucking terrifying!

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#34

my 2 year old running out the back door, jumping on the lawn and rolling about before i’ve had chance to check for any cat shit is proving to be, well, shit

(our cat seems to take pride in shitting in the open on the back lawn)

#35

MrS has never made their lunches. He does wash them up most of the time though.

#36

Oh the constant low level bicker of the summer holidays us starting to properly irk me.
Worst thing is they do it on purpose because they find it funny, even worse I know me and my sisters did the exact same.

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#37

This but a car seat.

Although The Child has been freakishly strong for quite a while now.

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#38

It’s a rare enough occasion but he has at least stopped asking me what he should put in it!

#39

No longer being the #1 tall person in the house is proving mildly stressful. Also GCSE results to come this week!

#40

What is up with the strength? Our kid is 5 and she’s like Jean Valjean - at least if I ever get trapped under a boulder or something I know who to call. I remember trying to get her in her pushchair when she was younger and she didn’t want to go in, can remember a few times where I just carried her under my arm for a bit like a piece of wood until she finally relaxed. Unreal.

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#41

Don’t worry fella that wears off after 3 or 4 years.