Dads Only

My youngest isn't old enough to be a scout but still wants to keep up with the older siblings. So we are including a siblings-only class at this year's Pinewood Derby, and this first-timer is getting a little extra help from dad.

Are there any other scout dads here on Lemmy? I don't imagine it's a large demographic here.

Guess we'll find out lol

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33980419

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29910764

We have a rather unique Christmas tradition in our family. Some people like to get those gingerbread house kits and decorate them. We like to decorate them and then turn them into a cookie catastrophe. We call them "gingerbread crime scenes" but they're really more along the lines of Shrek meets Apocalypse Now.

It's something we started doing when our oldest child was probably 10 years old so she wouldn't feel bad about accidentally wrecking her gingerbread house. It just became an annual tradition after that and we have a lot of fun doing it. They actually seem to get more creative every year.

This years episode is "Gummy Bears vs. Peanut Butter Perps" (the 'ginger bread men' are actually peanut butter cookies).

One of my guys asked for a music player for Christmas. So I'm adding all the music I think he'll like and tossing in some stuff I enjoy.

It's really nice. I've never made mixtapes, but I'm guessing it's the same.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22785445

What the hell goes on during the ten month that ruins sleep?

My child so far only knows how to say baba and started to cuddle me last week :) very sweet moment

Hi Dads,

I made a post over in [email protected] about possibly consolidating the many dad groups down to just one (at least for now) to encourage activity.

The general consensus was that we focus discussion over at [email protected] because, among some other reasons, it’s the only community that seems to have an active mod.

I hope you’ll join me in posting over there!

I just became dad last month. So from more experienced fathers: What are best ways to express love to your family?

I was laid off earlier this month from my job as an HVAC service tech due to lack of work, a first in the 8 years I've been in the industry. I'm looking for work but the mild winter in California has made my job obsolete until it gets hot and I'm feeling ROUGH.

My wife became pregnant with our second child last month, and my hours have been slashed since last October, so money is tight, and our relationship is strained.

I'm considering a career change but I have a couple thousand dollars worth of specialized tools and experience that I'm loathe to put aside. I'm feeling hopeless and I just wanted to reach out to other dads to vent and see if there's other ideas out there.

Can I just say, I’m really happy how successfully my kids appreciate a huge variety of foods, and I’ll pat myself on the back for part of it.

We had a bit of a rough start with one kid allergic to everything and the other just not eating. Now they’re teenagers and not only know how to eat healthily, but enjoy a huge variety from many cuisines (and are almost at my level for hot sauce)

Today one kid was home and he thoroughly enjoyed:

• breakfast: cilbir
• lunch: pupusas with avocado mash (and when I offered my hot sauce selection, he picked ghost pepper sauce!!!!)
• dinner: tuna steak and halloumi over salad in a sesame dressing with nori

At my house: dinner around the world!

Edit: or maybe I need to rephrase …. As Americans with no other cultural heritage and whose families eat “American” food, my kid in one day had food inspired by Mediterranean cuisine, Central American, and Asian. Polished his plate and asked for more!

Feels like yesterday I had a two year old and a newborn. And yet, here I am planning their third and first birthdays. Where does the time go?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11775142

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owenfromcanada.bedtime

For your toddler, or for you! Customize your routine from a list of options, and enjoy the cute icons, fun sounds, and general dopamine of accomplishment.

I created this app for my daughter, who thrives on routine but was having a rough time getting to bed at night. It's not the most polished, but she loves it and maybe someone else will too!

Later this month we’ll be taking our 2.5 year old daughter to Disney World.

Any dad tips? Or any fun Disney stories?

If so we should revive it

I wanted to be one of the first to wish all of you dads a Happy 2024. May you do great dad things this year, and every year!

Over Christmas my oldest who is six months pregnant brought with her a home heart monitor device that lets you hear the baby's heart. I heard my granddaughters heart for the first time the other day and yeah, happy tears!

Mind sharing any piece of advice that you felt particularly useful? Thank you in advance. I’m so excited!

Let’s get some conversation going, and share the laughs.

It's surreal. I am sitting here with her sleeping on my lap as mom gets some much needed rest.

It’s bittersweet

We're trapped indoors for the weekend due to a hurricane, so we've put an intermittent screen time limit on the kids (two under tens). They can stare at screens for an hour, then they need to spend a couple of hours doing something else.

My wife and I are both adhering to the same rules and it's good. There's a natural time to spend time together, and some time on our own.

Over the weekend my wife snapped a few pictures of our 22mo running around splashing in a lake wearing nothing except a shirt and a swim diaper. My wife was quite taken aback when she uploaded the photo to Facebook, and had the picture removed for nudity / inappropriate content. We all rolled our eyes and figured this was just an overtrained AI being an overtrained AI, but it's got me wondering - is this attire getting to the point at this age where it really is inappropriate, and I'm just too fuzzed out from taking care of babies to notice? Curious to hear ya'lls thoughts.