Nuked by my toddler today

If I were you I would leave it that way until the event is over that way you can find elf's easily and redecorate after the event is done when there is no more snow. You can always contact EA and ask them to bring it back for you.

I call shenanigans on this one! 118% of toddlers on this planet have actual toys to play with. Even if it's a stick(my childhood)! I would not force feed a Kindle to a kid while I'm stepping on Legos!

News flash, folks. Much as we like to think parents know what we're doing ... We're winging it. It's terrifying when we first realize it. (I, for one, had always assumed my parents knew what they were doing). Best just to go along for the ride.

We need a"dumbest thing I've ever done as a parent" contest.

I'll go first.

In 1983, when our kids were little (ages 3, 5 and 6) I bribed them on Halloween. (Mother-of-the-Year I ain't.) I told them that if I didn't have to make costumes and go Trick-or-Treating with them, I would give each of them money to go buy whatever candy they wanted the next day. We negotiated a while, and settled on a buy-off of $5 per kid. I figured we'd go to the store the next day, they'd each buy a big bag of Halloween candy and everyone would be happy. Got to the store and there was a "sales spectacular!" ... Full-sized candy bars were five-for-a-dollar. Three Musketeers, Milky Ways, Almond Joys, etc. To this day, they reminisce fondly about it: " Remember that time Mom bought us the seventy-five candy bars?"

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now when I scan the threads and I'm often a skim reader , I see this post as I nuked my toddler.
:mrgreen:

annettemarc wrote:
News flash, folks. Much as we like to think parents know what we're doing ... We're winging it. It's terrifying when we first realize it. (I, for one, had always assumed my parents knew what they were doing). Best just to go along for the ride.

We need a"dumbest thing I've ever done as a parent" contest.

I'll go first.

In 1983, when our kids were little (ages 3, 5 and 6) I bribed them on Halloween. (Mother-of-the-Year I ain't.) I told them that if I didn't have to make costumes and go Trick-or-Treating with them, I would give each of them money to go buy whatever candy they wanted the next day. We negotiated a while, and settled on a buy-off of $5 per kid. I figured we'd go to the store the next day, they'd each buy a big bag of Halloween candy and everyone would be happy. Got to the store and there was a "sales spectacular!" ... Full-sized candy bars were five-for-a-dollar. Three Musketeers, Milky Ways, Almond Joys, etc. To this day, they reminisce fondly about it: " Remember that time Mom bought us the seventy-five candy bars?"

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Love!

I have 8 kids. One day my brother in law comes storming in my house asking me if I knew what jamokes my kids were. Apparently my 7 yr & 6 yr old decided it would be faster to ride their bikes on the freeway. Now my children have been told never to do that. But...I can only hope & pray that something I say sticks in their heads. These same two wonderful children had been taken to watch their older sister play volleyball. They went to get a drink & the police came asking who these two children belong to. Apparently they dialed 911. When asked why, they said because the sign said it was a free call. Now looking at my grandchildren & what they can do with technology...we will never be truly safe.

bren1960 wrote:
I have 8 kids. .

Omg this explains much

annettemarc wrote:

OP mentioned that she was sitting reading a book, with the 2-year old in her lap, playing with the device. I agree with your overall premise, and I know you specified that you were generalizing. Your statement that you didn't know what her circumstances were led me to think you missed her description in her later post.

BTW, I saw a kid riding a bike the other day. Haven't seen a kid riding a bike in ages. Reminder me of when I was a little kid and on Saturday mornings my parents would say "go find someone to play with" and we kids would spend the day God knows where doing God knows what with God knows who. We knew that when it got dark, we had to go home for dinner. And we'd spend all day having a blast, making up our own things to do. It's a wonder any of us survived. But we had to be creative, and nobody intervened. :)

- yeah if I read about sitting in laps I forgot it by the time I was typing. But heck, I've had kids rip glasses right off my face and break'em, how did I not stop that? Kids definitely get into things. I trust them as far as I can throw 'em. But that's only because I don't want to get caught giving them enough rope to hang themselves. Not on my watch.

And I definitely remember being forced out of the house and expected back at dusk. That was when kids on a milk carton was not taken as the norm, no one shot up schools for attention, and they didn't issue brain drugs for rambunctious behavior, they made you pick out the stick they were going to beat you with.

bren1960 wrote:
I have 8 kids. One day my brother in law comes storming in my house asking me if I knew what jamokes my kids were. Apparently my 7 yr & 6 yr old decided it would be faster to ride their bikes on the freeway. Now my children have been told never to do that. But...I can only hope & pray that something I say sticks in their heads. These same two wonderful children had been taken to watch their older sister play volleyball. They went to get a drink & the police came asking who these two children belong to. Apparently they dialed 911. When asked why, they said because the sign said it was a free call. Now looking at my grandchildren & what they can do with technology...we will never be truly safe.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

annettemarc wrote:
News flash, folks. Much as we like to think parents know what we're doing ... We're winging it. It's terrifying when we first realize it. (I, for one, had always assumed my parents knew what they were doing). Best just to go along for the ride.

We need a"dumbest thing I've ever done as a parent" contest.

I'll go first.

In 1983, when our kids were little (ages 3, 5 and 6) I bribed them on Halloween. (Mother-of-the-Year I ain't.) I told them that if I didn't have to make costumes and go Trick-or-Treating with them, I would give each of them money to go buy whatever candy they wanted the next day. We negotiated a while, and settled on a buy-off of $5 per kid. I figured we'd go to the store the next day, they'd each buy a big bag of Halloween candy and everyone would be happy. Got to the store and there was a "sales spectacular!" ... Full-sized candy bars were five-for-a-dollar. Three Musketeers, Milky Ways, Almond Joys, etc. To this day, they reminisce fondly about it: " Remember that time Mom bought us the seventy-five candy bars?"

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This was so funny I just shared it with Mrs. Drumnman! Lol!

annettemarc wrote:

In 1983, when our kids were little (ages 3, 5 and 6) I bribed them on Halloween. (Mother-of-the-Year I ain't.) I told them that if I didn't have to make costumes and go Trick-or-Treating with them, I would give each of them money to go buy whatever candy they wanted the next day. We negotiated a while, and settled on a buy-off of $5 per kid. I figured we'd go to the store the next day, they'd each buy a big bag of Halloween candy and everyone would be happy. Got to the store and there was a "sales spectacular!" ... Full-sized candy bars were five-for-a-dollar. Three Musketeers, Milky Ways, Almond Joys, etc. To this day, they reminisce fondly about it: " Remember that time Mom bought us the seventy-five candy bars?"

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Sounds like a win-win. You had an easier (and cheaper) Halloween, and they got more than they otherwise would have. :mrgreen:

Of course, they probably got way more than was good for them...