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Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Thu August 17, 2023 3:43 pm
by Monkey_Driven
wease wrote:dad wrote: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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 4:30 pm
by 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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 4:31 pm
by tommy
spike wrote: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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 4:44 pm
by Bammer
spike wrote:the trauma of starting school.
Wut
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 5:26 pm
by Chris_H_2
spike wrote: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
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 5:27 pm
by Coach
spike wrote: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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 6:47 pm
by spike
Bammer wrote:spike wrote:the trauma of starting school.
Wut
Pretty normal for kids to struggle through adjustment the first week or two.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 6:48 pm
by spike
Chris_H_2 wrote:spike wrote: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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 7:16 pm
by dad
spike wrote:Bammer wrote:spike wrote: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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 7:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote: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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 7:42 pm
by dad
tragabigzanda wrote:Love EMDR. That shit is tight.
heck yeah, man. I'm so glad I had the opportunity.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 7:47 pm
by Bammer
Sorry your kids don’t like school
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 8:16 pm
by 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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 8:40 pm
by spike
Makes sense Bammer’s kids can’t wait to get away from him.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 9:14 pm
by Bammer
Summer camp actually runs later into the afternoon than when school gets out, player.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 9:51 pm
by 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.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 10:12 pm
by Bammer
Anxiety is one thing.
Trauma … you guys need a dictionary.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Mon August 21, 2023 10:34 pm
by spike
Bammer wrote:Anxiety is one thing.
Trauma … you guys need a dictionary.
That’s fair.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Tue August 22, 2023 9:59 pm
by B
Oh, I thought of another horrible parenting experience. Listening to your kids talk about their dreams. Ugh. Painfully boring.
Re: RMers with kids
Posted: Tue August 22, 2023 10:09 pm
by Chris_H_2
B wrote: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?