Proud dads...
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- cruddlebub4
i am super proud of my 7 year old, his school report puts him far achieving his goals set for his age and not only that he helps the other children who struggle with maths or other subjects when he has finished his own work.
all the teachers rave about how kind, sensible and thoughtful he is and it makes me feel all warm inside knowing that he behaves like this without ever being told to!
love the little punk!
- fooler0
^^^^
Holy Crap!
We just found out we are expecting our second child. Due in April, one day away from my wives birthday. We'll be totally thrilled if it's a boy or a girl but my wife wants a girl so we have one of each. We thought we were done since were getting tooooo old to have kids. HAHAHAdue date is 420 dude!
- slinky0
We just found out this last week we are expecting our second child. Probably due in April, near my birthday. We'll be totally thrilled if its a boy or girl, but since we think we are done after this, we'd kinda like a girl and have one of each. :)
I'm getting tooooo old to have kids, ha.
- https://www.youtube.…zaq
- the force is strong with you...pango
- such a great commercial thoslinky
- I'm living that commercial right nowfooler
- slinky0
any other dads here have Twice Exceptional children? Our 3.5 yr old son was diagnosed this last week as PG (Profoundly Gifted) as well as on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (very high functioning).
We've got a ton to learn though as parents about how to help him adjust to challenges as he grows up and develops through schools.
- wow thats awesome! proud moment indeed.cruddlebub
- yea, very proud, but BIG challenges ahead.slinky
- 3.5 yrs old, can read as well as 6+ year old, writes well (cursive too). taught himself.slinky
- damnmoldero
- wowsine
- keep him entertained!cruddlebub
- tough to keep him entertained... we're trying to find the balance of what affects him on the autism issues and what affects him on gifted issues.slinky
- gifted issues. For those that know, gifted sounds great (and it is), but there are definite obstacles to over come, especially sensory related.slinky
- especially sensory related.slinky
- mg330
Looking forward to joining this club in January! My wife and I are finally spreading the news and just found out we are having a girl. She's due January 3rd! So excited for this next chapter in our lives!
- awesome!moldero
- congrats! girls are awesome. :)sea_sea
- woop woop nice one!cruddlebub
- Congrats mg!stoplying
- stoplying0
- so.... did you name him tyrone?pango
- well done indeed!cruddlebub
- ++moldero
- aww hello little one. so cute, congrats.sea_sea
- zaq0
This is how I feel now
- zaq0
It's a girl.. Now I have full package
- trooperbill0
this thread makes me want to shoot myself. if i ever post pictures of my child/ren online someone please kill me.
- can we kill you before then?autoflavour
- there is nothing wrong with being a happy dad/mum/mom...if you dont like it then why are you on this thread?cruddlebub
- thread?cruddlebub
- he doesn't have a kid yet he just barely got engaged.moldero
- watch, in 9 months, his kid will have his own threadmoldero
- Most likely a virgin - how can he even prove he's had sex?SlashPeckham
- 4040
- Glitterati_Duane0
- Georgiasll?JG_LB
- jk they're cuteJG_LB
- Thanks :)Glitterati_Duane
- cuteutopian
- beauties :)sea_sea
- mg332
Nice to see this thread for the first time in a while.
My daughter will be 8 in January, and when I picked her up at school today she was raving about a neighborhood friend getting her ears pierced. And asking if I could take her to Target right away because she knows the name of the place where they pierce ears. She asked so many times! :D
My wife showed me something she made at school... she made her own iPhone. It cracked me up. These little things are so special to me, just these pieces of evidence of her personality, skills, thoughts, imagination. I have a box where I keep so many of these things so I never lose them.
Also, we go indoor climbing every now and then and my daughter is an absolute natural. No fear, and I've got her climbing actual routes now instead of using whatever features she needs. Never gets discouraged, wants to figure the problem out - she'd climb till she passed out. To anyone else who climbs (because I have no gauge of this beyond her) is that good / impressive / skilled that a 7 year old can do it so well? She LOVES bouldering. We've been watching all sorts of videos and documentaries and the other day she said she wanted to go as a particular Slovenian climber for Halloween next year! :D
Here's my son, he's 5 and doesn't quite have the skills or the bravery for it yet.
- Climbing is such an awesome thing to do as a family.JackRyan
- Nairn-1
Hey Dads, past and present... well, not past, but having had a wee one in the past. er.. that's not a good start.
Anyway.
Any recommendations for how best to teach my kid numbers and letters? She's bright in many ways, but I'm increasingly worried that she might also be a total moron. She seems to really hate the number 13, and consistently misses it out for some reason. Probably just to annoy me. She selectively recognises letters, but othertimes not. Again - perhaps she's just messing with me.
Perhaps I'm entirely misjudging how far along a <4 year old should be?
Asian kids are starting their dissertations at 4 is all.
- Dont worry about it. All kids are different, My son is 4.5 he learned how to write his name and counting up to 20. I dont know how, he just started school andBeeswax
- probably behind a lot of kids but he's learning at his own pace. Don't ever compare, I bet she's amazing in her own way.Beeswax
- https://image.shutte…pango
- My son (5 now) skipped one particular number all the time, can't remember which one. He's got it down now, but I can't remember when he got it right.mg33
- Nairn, as said above each kid is different and each has their own things they are brilliant at. My wife is chinese so she's always comparing our kids to othermicrokorg
- asian kids that are reading in multiple languages, playing piano, playing chess etc. But fuck that - those kids don't have half the creativity and imaginationmicrokorg
- our kids do. Or the same sense of daring and adventure.
When they get to school it's all a level playing ground and they soak up learning like a spongemicrokorg - Our 5yo (started school this summer) is learning to read/write and has been blowing me away with little sentences she's trying to writemicrokorg
- literally went from zero to very competent in a couple of weeks.microkorg
- Nairn2
My phone keeps giving me Storage Space warnings. It doesn't have a great capacity, but I don't put a lot on there, so I had a quick spring clean and copied off and then deleted all of the photos.
Going through them I think I now realise why I had so little space - my daughter's clearly been stealing my phone when I'm not paying attention and then taking shitloads of photos. There are literally hundreds of the fuckers, blurry, chaotic, terrible. It's brilliant. Like I've found a secret life...
- lol! My son does the same thing and it's amazing.monospaced
- Nairn0
After she helped me empty the washing I let my guard down for a minute or two but I've just had to say to my daughter "Dear, please don't eat the washing machine" after I turned to see her chomping on the rubber door seal. Strange child.