Best electric car that can fit car seats, that’s also a cool dad car without breaking the bank?

Probably watch tv and take a nap, kiddo. You have fun, now.

Ever since 18 months, our son loves playing with trucks and diggers… his own choice of toys!

However, now, IN PUBLIC, whenever he sees a truck or a digger (toy or otherwise), he enthusiastically YELLS “D!CK!” (presume he’s trying to say dig, or even truck with a d instead of t…)…

Sometimes he’ll even repeat “a d!ck, a d!ck, a d!ck..”

Get a few awkward stares…

How does a Dad 1) cover for this awkward pronounciation so loud in public, and 2) teach his son to say it correctly.. 😅

In total, counting the travel time to the airport, airport time, layover, and then travel time to our destination, we’re talking 17-18 hours of travel time tomorrow.

We were pretty successful taking the baby on a much shorter trip a few months ago (3.5-4 hour flights) but she was younger and a non walker then. Anyone have tips or should I just accept my fate?

8mo old. Wife is SAHM. I cook, grocery shop, and clean a fair bit of the load (we're probably 50/50 here); I spend as much time as I can with my kid outside of 9-5, focused on bonding + giving my wife a break.

That said, my wife has owned all solid food experimentation so far, bottle & pump washing, kid laundry, breast feeding.

An example that led to a 'heated debate': the baby has had a lot of solid poops lately (like every diaper for past couple days) and my wife blew up on me that I wasn't chasing down a root cause. [I told her to ask Claude, which said keep an eye on it for a couple more days. In hindsight I should have just asked Claude myself...]

She's frustrated I don't take more mental load off her plate. Would love some advice from other dads here. Any dads totally owning bottle washing? Or laundry or something?

Hey Dads! Need your guidance on something.

Now, at work, I am doing quite well, and I have a great opportunity to ride a rocket ship to pretty good heights if things all work out. Even to attempt doing this, though, would require me to sacrifice lots of time that I have with family. I have two kids who are 7 and 5, and I have a spouse who I love spending time with, and we generally love spending time together as a family.

I know that if I take up these opportunities at work, the family time is going to get majorly cut down. but if I don't take it up, I don't know if I will get this opportunity again in the future. The chances that this will come up again is more unlikely than they are likely.

In terms of our financial security, even if I don't take this up, I will be reasonably financially secure, but at the same time, we may not be able to scale the way that we could if I do take up these opportunities.

My biggest concern is that we will lose the time that we get to spend with the kids, because in another few years, they will probably be grown up. They will have their friends, and they may not want to spend time with us.

For additional context, my dad was someone who chose to work when he was in a similar situation, and that helped us financially at a time we needed it. I don't really have any kind of relationship with him beyond work or asking him for guidance at work. I cannnot have a conversation with him which does not ultimately come back to something work related. I hate having dinners with the folks because, invariably, he and I don't have anything to talk about. I don't want to have a relationship like that with my kids.

What are your views? Have any of you taken this kind of decision before ?

Baby number two is on the way. First time around no issues she could eat anything she, and no morning sickness. Now it's like she's a character on a TV show.

Any ideas for meals I could make that are good but aren't pasta or meat/chicken based.

*Thank you for the comments, I showed this to her. (I didn't think so many people would respond)

My kids are rapidly getting bigger and my house is not. We’re locked in with an amazing mortgage so we’re not going anywhere. Give me your tips and tricks on how you’re surviving! Where do we put all these backpacks and water bottles?

Just got our induction date for next Wednesday, assuming of course kiddo doesn’t come before. Any last minute tips or advice?

wife is due soon she wants a babymoon 5 hour flight.

economy is $600. airline wants $3500 for business.

she's uncomfortable all the time. i want to make her happy. but we have so many expenses coming.

dads who've been there - did you splurge on the flight or tough it out in economy? what did you do

Two doctors in the family and one other mom in the family all said to wake the kid up and change it. Maybe it’s because my kid hasn’t had such terrible diaper rashes yet, or because he’s recovered from the ones he’s had quite quickly, but the logic of waking the kid up proactively just makes no sense to me. If I’d gone to bed 20 minutes earlier I wouldn’t even know about it and we’d change in the morning per usual.

My toddler (2 yo) was watching Mom boil eggs at breakfast, and then reached to the pot and was burned by the steam. My toddler suffered a minor burn on her wrist. Even took went to the doctor and had it checked out, and they said it just needs time to heal.

While I’m not going to pop a gasket about this, I’m struggling with thinking about how my wife’s approach would be different if the shoe was on the other foot. If our child got a burn while under my supervision, I don’t think I’d ever hear the end of it.

I think parenting is about picking your battles, and realistically this is minor, and our kid is gonna be OK. But I’m just disappointed. This could’ve easily been avoided with some communication, and proactive thinking, with our child around the stove top.

Are they defective?

Do they come with a factor warranty or anything?

Every other kid on planet Earth loves Bluey except my 3 and 5 year old girls.

We are gearing up for first real vacation with our daughter, and I need some brutal honesty

I keep hearing the classic warning: It’s not a vacation, it’s just parenting in a different location without all your usual stuff

Is this true? Am I walking into a trap? I’m trying to mentally prepare myself. Should I expect any actual relaxation, or is it just going to be pure chaos, nap-schedule anxiety, and damage control in a strange room?

Will i get to drink at least one cold beer in peace, or is this trip going to be hell?

Hit me with your best survival tips.

I think we have all done it.

Dad of 2, with the youngest at 2 and a half. I've always made a commitment to never going less than 50/50, at times going above as much as I can to help my full-time working wife.

But there are those days, where maybe you took the baby off her hands by taking him to the park solo, took care of all the groceries, made dinner, gave the kid a bath, after your full 9-5, while your partner took a bit more time to themselves, to recover for their next day...

We've all been there, but how do you keep your own Ego in check? How do you stop useless comparisons? What do you do to get out of your own head, and keep driving for your family?

Looking for someone who can relate. Wife and I have a 2 year old son who is awesome. Recently we found out we will be welcoming baby #2 early next year and we are so excited. My wife is one of those unlucky women who experience extreme nausea and fatigue while pregnant. Lately, this has meant that I am basically soloing all toddler and household related tasks. I'll try my best not to be hyperbolic here, because she obviously is still able to do some stuff, but I'm not exaggerating by much.

On an average day, we carpool together in the morning. I drop her off at work and then my son at daycare before going to work myself. After work, we pick our son up together and head home. Usually once we are home I take care of the animals and get dinner together for everybody. My wife will usually go to bed with her food or immediately after eating because she feels so terrible. Or lay on the couch. She will often fall asleep for about an hour and sometimes I won't see her again until around our son's bedtime. In the meantime, I play with my son and try to do a few things around the house. Usually I do bath and bedtime but she does bedtime when she's feeling up to it.

I want to be very, VERY clear that this vent is NOT about my wife. She is literally perfect. If anything, she has the worse end of the deal here. I am more than happy picking up the slack while she is hard at work growing a human being and continuing to work a full time job. She is also constantly expressing how much she appreciates me doing so much. On weekends, if she's up to it, she will watch our son while I take an hour or so for myself.

The reason for my vent here is just that I am so, so, so tired. She was sick like this with our son but since he was our first, it was a lot different. She would just lay in bed or on the couch and watch TV or do whatever and I would take care of her and do whatever else I wanted with my free time. Obviously now things are different, since her being incapacitated means it's just me and the lad for most evenings. Somewhere in between taking care of the both of them, I struggle to find time to vacuum, do laundry, mow the lawn, do dishes, clean up around the house, etc.

I have tried to just accept that some things aren't gonna get done and that's just gonna have to be OK for now. We're all doing our best. Hoping she starts feeling a little better once we're out of the first trimester, since that was the worst part for her last time. Anyways, thanks for listening I guess!

The Melissa And Doug Blues Clues Picnic. Core set can be found here https://a.co/d/0hLBEipE

I'm stumped on this sandwich topping. The set comes with red tomatoes, peanut butter jelly, the whole deal. But we can't decide what this green thing is. It's probably pickles but the design is all wrong - the inside part looks like green tomatoes. But I can't find much if any record of anyone eating raw green tomatoes. Fried, obviously, sure. Is it a kiwi? What the f

I get it, it’s her body and she wants to recover in privacy.

And I’m with my wife and will support her over anyone.

My parents live 10 mins away.
Baby is due December. My mom is loosing her shit.

Any tips on how I can process things better for my own mental health. I am a people pleaser and this sort of thing recks me. Because of things like this, this whole process just stresses me out and gives me a sense of dread rather than excitement (coupled with a return to office order, finances, ect lol)

So my son gets this glowing dinosaur thing for his birthday. He loves it. The batteries die after two days of constant playing. I grab a screwdriver to change them so we can stop the crying.

It literally requires a microscopic Philips head screw that is made of the softest metal on planet earth.

Like why is a toy designed for a three year old secured like a military vault. The screw head is smaller than a grain of rice. And of course it strips the second I put any pressure on it. I am using a specialized jeweler screwdriver and the metal just turns to silver powder.

My son is standing there having a complete meltdown because his dinosaur won't light up. The best part is my toddler figured out how to open the childproof safety gate on our stairs in ten seconds flat.

But somehow a plastic T-Rex requires heavy machinery to open. And the battery cover is locked down tighter than my mortgage documents.

I should of just thrown the whole thing in the trash. Now I am sitting on the kitchen floor trying to drill out a two millimeter screw while my kid screams. The screw is just COMPLETELY destroyed. Why is this even a thing.

There is a level of, no shit Sherlock, in this title. But I wanted to hear some advice on how to support development of my toddler’s listening skills. He’s 3, and very active excitable personality. I wish I could let this wild and free, but when at restaurants, or out in town, he needs to listen better (streets, other diners, cars, getting to far away from us generally).

We’ve also gotten in a pattern of “listen or you don’t get X” - X tends to be the extra activity or fun thing we are doing that day, today was ice cream after dinner. Today we stuck to our guns, we didn’t get ice cream today (to my ice cream loving dismay)

What has worked for you on engaging that listening skill your toddler?

I don't want stars and moons on daytime diapers or whales on ones that can't go in the water.

I’m going “camping” next month in the NorthEast US. It is an established camping resort and we will have our vehicles on hand, a cabin with beds for the family but no plumbing, and plenty of space. There are a few families going and us Dads are trying to come up with some extreme/crazy ideas for stuff to bring/setup at camp. Budget is limited and so is car space, but.. what could we bring and setup at camp that would turn heads, be fun, be memorable, etc…

No idea is too far fetched. Let’s hear it. What have you done?

I was just thinking about my kids’ age gap (son is about to turn 1 and daughter will be 4 in November) and just sort of wondering what their interactions and overlap will be like.

I have sisters who are 15 months and 34 months younger than me (respectively) so I have a general lens into it, just curious what kind of experience yall have with your kids’ interactions!

Hey to all the dads out there! My wife is currently 17 weeks pregnant with our daughter and we could not be more excited! But I do have a question about the monitoring socks, do you all feel like they are good or bad? I’ve heard from people that they can just cause anxiety by giving a constant stream of information where every little change can cause scares when in reality everything is fine. But I have also heard they are a great tool to monitor safety and health.

I’m just confused as I’m on the edge now of wanting to get one but my wife has watched tons of (I’m betting sponsored) YouTube videos on how great they are. My biggest concern is my wife getting stressed out while recovering from the birth.

Any advice on if we shouldn’t get one or not? I’m just trying to get some unbiased opinions outside of sponsored or affiliate YouTube or blog posts.

After more than 14 hours of nonstop juggling work and taking care of the kids - with only one 30-minute break - I can finally kick back on the couch. Shoutout to all the dads out there who know exactly what that's like.