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Pooster says: "When we were younger my little brother had a tantrum which ended when he threw a fork and it stuck in my other brother's cheek for a bit." Tell us your tales of screaming kids, and adults acting like children.
( , Thu 19 Jul 2012, 12:48)
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Ever get the feeling there's witchcraft at work? I'm 6' tall and 13 stone, fairly fit from an early career in moving cast steel brackets around a CNC machinery jig (between my Maplin and Flambards career posts) and even so, a 2-year old who doesn't want to get back into a pushchair when asked can be quite a physical challenge. They seem to be able to magically make themselves go as rigid as a plank and so cannot be manoeuvred through the straps to get them buckled in. Damned if there's anything you can do about it other than wait for them to pass out from holding their breath.
The only relief is that holding breath means a temporary cessation of the screeching fit drawing looks from all in a 200 foot radius who assume the child is being murdered.
( , Thu 19 Jul 2012, 15:30, 16 replies)
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generally deflates them long enough to get the straps on, then if they "plank" again, vigorously tip the pram backwards so they grip the sides with fear.
Soon learns 'em.
( , Thu 19 Jul 2012, 15:45, closed)
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A common technique, I believe, that went somewhat awry when I was only holding onto him via his backpack, meaning that he fell, face first, onto the gravel, breaking his front teeth
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Trying to pick up a doggo child is like trying to lift a sack of jelly. Ok in principle, impossible in practice.
( , Thu 19 Jul 2012, 16:24, closed)
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usually changes their mind. Or dislocates an ankle.
( , Thu 19 Jul 2012, 16:33, closed)
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of making a frantic grab and having them dangle by one leg from my outstretched arm. Chuckle chuckle, silly daddy, yes, wasn't that fun, DON'T DO IT AGAIN, ha ha, silly daddy.
( , Thu 19 Jul 2012, 19:23, closed)
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On occasions I carried my toddlers around like small angry handbags.
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I found the harness and reins sold in mothercare shops to be sufficiently strong to use as a lifting sling, it was really funny watching my little lad trying to run whilst hoisted up 2 foot off the ground.
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They seem to also magically dislocate their shoulders at the same time so they slip right through your hands.
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When my daughter does this, I always feel like a ’70s orderly holding down a patient for electro-shock therapy.
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metalworkingtool.net/2011/03/18/cnc-milling-machine/
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Made enough screaming noises to warrant a police and social services visit if anyone had been mindful to call them. It took my ex wife and myself to hold him down. Why? He was having his nails cut.
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they'll soon unplank and, if they're really ticklish, they may well stop screaming and start laughing.
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