RMers with kids

[Monkey_Driven]

Ugh, 2 year molars are the worst.

How liberal are you guys with the ibuprofen ?

We believe in medication.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[tree_]

my 4 year old is finally putting on his own underwear after peeing

[Monkey_Driven]

The 5 year old still won't hold a fork correctly even though we've been working on it for years.

[Coach]

My 8-year-old has had an up and down fever for three days. She has all her shots. Taking her to the doc tomorrow if not better!

[tree_]

what's the degrees?

[Coach]

She's been 100 - 102 but now under 100.

[tree_]

could be covid

[Coach]

she's not testing positive for covid so we shall see....

[spike]

Either my kid has reached the phase where all of a sudden she’s a picky eater, or she’s constipated (hasn’t pooped since the weekend). So I’m also not letting her have a lot of the stuff she usually goes for, because those foods can be constipating, and she is not shy about expressing her displeasure. Just a lot of this today.

[spike]

My brother and sister in law got my kid a keyboard for her birthday, so it’s been non stop demo tracks for days.

[wease]

My brother and sister in law got my kid a keyboard for her birthday, so it’s been non stop demo tracks for days.

Fuck yeah. Now you guys can jam. She may be the next Stevie Wonder.

[spike]

My brother and sister in law got my kid a keyboard for her birthday, so it’s been non stop demo tracks for days.

Fuck yeah. Now you guys can jam. She may be the next Stevie Wonder.

Her favorite yesterday was Beethoven’s Fur Elise, so perhaps a more classical mind.

[knee tunes]

My brother and sister in law got my kid a keyboard for her birthday, so it’s been non stop demo tracks for days.

Fuck yeah. Now you guys can jam. She may be the next Stevie Wonder.

Her favorite yesterday was Beethoven’s Fur Elise, so perhaps a more classical mind.

Do the keys light up white playing the demos?

[spike]

My brother and sister in law got my kid a keyboard for her birthday, so it’s been non stop demo tracks for days.

Fuck yeah. Now you guys can jam. She may be the next Stevie Wonder.

Her favorite yesterday was Beethoven’s Fur Elise, so perhaps a more classical mind.

Do the keys light up white playing the demos?

They do not

[Bammer]

I was requested as coach by more kids than the team roster has room for in little league baseball this season

[Higgs]

Nice on Bammer. That's the best sort of validation you can get. Restepc.

[wease]

I was requested as coach by more kids than the team roster has room for in little league baseball this season

Rigged election!

[Coach]

I was requested as coach by more kids than the team roster has room for in little league baseball this season

Rigged election!

Coaching youngsters is an honorable measure.

[Bammer]

I was requested as coach by more kids than the team roster has room for in little league baseball this season

Rigged election!

Coaching youngsters is an honorable measure.

After the first practice, I emailed the parents individually about their son. It is starting to get a little more competitive and there is a widening gap between the good players and the terrible ones. My evaluations of each player (strengths, things to work on) were overwhelmingly positive and encouraging. For the three kids that are fucking hopeless I did everything in my power not to just say “they should quit.” I did however say they could have used another year in the level below. Oh man I hope they quit. I painted it as a safety issue. If they can’t get the glove up in front of a ball coming toward their face, they are not playing any infield.