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submitted 2 years ago by Servais@dormi.zone to c/parenting@lemmy.world
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[-] okasen@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago

If your freshly born newborn doesn’t poop because she’s constipated, well they work surprisingly like toothpaste tubes if you hold their knees to their chest.

I’m sorry for the image. I’ve earned my “grit your teeth and do what you gotta” merit badge at just a week and a half postpartum, so I’m… happy?

[-] Servais@dormi.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Seems quite practical actually!

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

I ask my four year old if anger is at the control panel when she is starting to have a tantrum and it has actually been working to defuse the tantrums before they really get going.

[-] Servais@dormi.zone 3 points 2 years ago
[-] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

anger is at the control panel

Sorry, I don't get it. Could you explain that for a non-native speaker?

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

It's a reference to a movie she likes, Inside Out.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

When I ask my kid to clean it seems to work well (minimal complaining) to focus on getting small sections totally clean instead of saying something like, "Clean up your Lego," which might be everywhere.

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Getting a dog has done more for my mental health than years of talk therapy.

[-] Servais@dormi.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Is that in the context of parenting?

[-] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I didn't leave the original comment, but I would say it certainly makes some parts of parenting easier. We just adopted a dog, and it has helped in strange ways. Expected ways such as my kid is much better about picking up his toys, putting away his laundry, and not leaving his shoes random places, but also it gives him something else to interact with that isn't a glowing rectangle, or asking me a million questions.

[-] Servais@dormi.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing!

[-] theinfamousj@parenti.sh 1 points 2 years ago

I finally perfected my cloth diaper poop dunk-n-swish technique to un-brown diapers while out on the go, so as not to have to spray so much in the evening when we get home. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to be effective at removing the brown solids from a cloth diaper with a dunk-n-swish.

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