RMers with kids

[Monkey_Driven]

damn is right. that's early, wease!

And we started a week later this year!

We start on Tuesday and it can't come soon enough. Open house/orientation is tonight.

[spike]

With the trauma of starting school, some suspicions I’ve had for awhile have been confirmed. My kid eats her feelings. She’s not chubby now, but it’ll be something we’ll have to watch and tend to soon.

[tommy]

With the trauma of starting school, some suspicions I’ve had for awhile have been confirmed. My kid eats her feelings. She’s not chubby now, but it’ll be something we’ll have to watch and tend to soon.

I say lean into it and have her pursue a career in Sumo.

[Bammer]

the trauma of starting school.

Wut

[Chris_H_2]

With the trauma of starting school, some suspicions I’ve had for awhile have been confirmed. My kid eats her feelings. She’s not chubby now, but it’ll be something we’ll have to watch and tend to soon.

i hate that word so much

[Coach]

With the trauma of starting school, some suspicions I’ve had for awhile have been confirmed. My kid eats her feelings. She’s not chubby now, but it’ll be something we’ll have to watch and tend to soon.

The Weight Loss Thread can be used for RM kids, too. Some of the guys there might have some advice.

[spike]

the trauma of starting school.

Wut

Pretty normal for kids to struggle through adjustment the first week or two.

[spike]

With the trauma of starting school, some suspicions I’ve had for awhile have been confirmed. My kid eats her feelings. She’s not chubby now, but it’ll be something we’ll have to watch and tend to soon.

i hate that word so much

Chubby? I’d never refer to an adult or even an older kid that way, but seems appropriate for infants/toddlers.

[dad]

the trauma of starting school.

Wut

Pretty normal for kids to struggle through adjustment the first week or two.

trauma comes in all forms, bam bam. funny enough, we can carry a lot of childhood trauma into adolescence and adulthood, and it sometimes comes out in f*cked up ways.

full disclosure, but i recently did some EMDR to work through a lot of my own childhood trauma.

kudos to spike for acknowledging.

[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.

[dad]

Love EMDR. That shit is tight.

heck yeah, man. I'm so glad I had the opportunity.

[Bammer]

Sorry your kids don’t like school

[Coach]

my elementary school aged kiddo gets anxiety the first few weeks leading up to the new school year. Once it starts she's good but I totally understand the weeks leading up to.

[spike]

Makes sense Bammer’s kids can’t wait to get away from him.

[Bammer]

Summer camp actually runs later into the afternoon than when school gets out, player.

[Monkey_Driven]

My 1st grader has had 7 different daytime arrangements this summer (i.e. camps/summer school/weeks with grandparents). I'm ready for the routine of the school year.

[Bammer]

Anxiety is one thing.

Trauma … you guys need a dictionary.

[spike]

Anxiety is one thing.

Trauma … you guys need a dictionary.

That’s fair.

[B]

Oh, I thought of another horrible parenting experience. Listening to your kids talk about their dreams. Ugh. Painfully boring.

[Chris_H_2]

Oh, I thought of another horrible parenting experience. Listening to your kids talk about their dreams. Ugh. Painfully boring.

you mean, like, one day going to a good college and becoming a doctor or hedge fund manager?