The Parenting Thread • Page 191

My wife and oldest son got me 2 more sets of Dungeons and Dragons dice and a handmade card that my oldest absolutely allowed no input from anyone else on. I was flattered.

 

Juneteenth is coming up in a few days

 

Feel like this might be the best place to ask this. My son is turning 6 and wants to go to a concert with me, still trying to decide if it’s time or not, but I’m wondering if anyone has any recs on either bringing kids to concerts / good ear protection?

 

I'm mad at this thread for not properly preparing me for the chaos of having a 2.5 year old and a 6 month old at the same time

 

We lucked out it wasn’t too bad. Now having a 6 yo and a 3yo is a different story. Utter chaos at all times

 

3, 5, 7, 9 at once is great!

 

And by great I mean absolute madness at all times.

 

Literally nothing can prepare you for that but if it helps to take it out on the thread we’re here for you

 

Elliot turned 2 on Friday and I feel like he went from generally calm 99% of the time to insane ball of constant energy literally over the weekend.

 

We are on summer vacation, 4th grade is officially in the books! And my son’s 10th birthday is next week and still need to do some shopping and party planning ahhh!

 

we had to take holly to the hospital in richmond. she was having trouble breathing over night. they think she has croup.

 

they told us it was croup and gave her a steroid and sent us home around 2. she woke up at 8 like okay let’s start our day why are you guys tired???

 

Hahaha oh man. Glad she's good, kids are wild

 

Went through this exact thing with my son a few years ago. Kind of scary at the time, but we often bring it up as a positive memory now. It was fun being out in the middle of the night, just us two.

 

Damn glad she's ok!! But yep gonna be a long day lol

 

Had the croup ER trips like 5 times between the two kids. Never gets easier, glad she’s ok!

one of my two had 3 episodes and they gave us a medicine that’s a preventative to give him when he starts showing signs of a cold. So far it’s worked at preventing it.

 

thanks yall

she still has a bit of a cough but much less worse. her breathing was the main issue last night but it seems like that has totally gone away. just hoping it doesn’t return during nap/bedtime

 

Croup is always worse at night. Did they give you a breathing machine with medicine?

My kids had to do that so many times when they were younger.

 

they didn’t. she was fine at nap time. we’ll see how tonight goes but i’m hopeful that the steroid just worked for her and we can treat whatever tonight as we would a normal cold

she hasn’t had any stridor since about 9 this morning

 

The steroid typically does the trick in our experience.

I’d ask about that medicine mentioned above that I and another post. I’m not home now but can look up what it’s called if you’d like.

 

she seems fine now but yeah please

 

It’s budesonide. You put it in a nebulizer and they breathe it in.

 

Our plan was to have a 2-3 year old and a newborn but fertility issues ruined that, so now we have a 6 year old and 6 month old and it’s interesting. On one hand I’m extremely thankful for having one kid that is relatively “self sufficient” since the baby needs to be taken care of, but on the other hand i keep thinking about how they’ll be requiring two different “dad modes” and interests and etc for the next like 14 years lol.

 

Hey all, never had an infant at the beach before, and it’s particularly hot the next couple days (90, heat index over 100)…is there any safe way to have our 6 month old at the beach today? Our idea was bringing his tub down to the beach and filling it with ocean water, and getting one of those mist fan thingies to spray him periodically. Would that work?

I figure something has to work because this is the weather in Florida like every day for 4 months and babies presumably go outside there without dying