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Helpful Tips for New Parents

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May 11, 2018, 10:36 AM
parabellum
Helpful Tips for New Parents

May 11, 2018, 10:42 AM
Fdan
Thank you for sharing these - several had me laughing out loud. Just recently became a grand parent for the first time and all these "opportunities" have resurfaced after almost 40 years. Great Friday AM laugh!! Smile


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May 11, 2018, 12:26 PM
egregore
My niece had a baby a year ago. I thought about sending those to her, but she doesn't share my twisted sense of humor, so I didn't.





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May 11, 2018, 12:38 PM
arfmel
Solid info there.
May 11, 2018, 12:58 PM
1967Goat
My boys are 6 & 7, I could've used this years ago. Mad
May 11, 2018, 01:03 PM
kz1000
Worked for my parents...


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May 11, 2018, 01:15 PM
reloader-1
Thanks Para - we just had our first child on Monday, I’ll some of these with my wife after she heals a bit Big Grin

Side note: laughing after a C-section brings tears, and not the good kind!
May 11, 2018, 01:32 PM
rusbro
I like how they show two options for everything. Very helpful!
May 11, 2018, 01:35 PM
LS1 GTO
You mean that wasn't the correct way to put a baby to bed?






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May 11, 2018, 01:43 PM
blueye
I would like to add that a shot of whiskey added to the baby bottle of milk will help the little tyke sleep at night. That was told to me by an alky many years ago.
May 11, 2018, 01:45 PM
Loswsmith
I must be a great parent, I got 90% right, smack in the butter zone for an A!


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May 11, 2018, 01:48 PM
corsair
Seeing some parents these days, they need this enlarged and laminated.
May 11, 2018, 01:50 PM
redstone




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May 11, 2018, 02:52 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Someone forgot to cover trips to the Laundromat where you actually watch your toddler. Here is the story with a positive outcome:

http://wgntv.com/2018/05/11/3-...ndromat-in-palatine/
May 11, 2018, 02:53 PM
newtoSig765
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
My niece had a baby a year ago. I thought about sending those to her, but she doesn't share my twisted sense of humor, so I didn't.

I think you owe it to her. Believe me, the kid will thank you when it grows up. You may be saving its life!


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May 11, 2018, 03:07 PM
229DAK
Too funny!


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May 11, 2018, 03:16 PM
dusty3030
Reminds me of when my wife and I took the new parent / baby class. You take it and you got something for free or something or another I can't remember.

The instructor I don't think cared for men all that much to begin with. All she really wanted was to do was push breast feeding and cloth diapers to save the earth and whatnot.

We had to retrieve a baby doll (piled up in a 55 gallon metal trash by the door can mind you) at the beginning of the class.

During the cloth diaper part after we put the diaper on the instructor told us to check and make sure the diaper was on securely. So I grabbed the baby doll by the head and shook it up and down to see if the diaper would stay on. The instructor lady flipped the f out. Like veins popping out of her head ballistic about baby shaking at me in from of this room full of people. When I finally was able to get a word in I calmly told her "lady, its a doll and this is practice. When I get in the real game I know you don't shake babies. If we were playing for real then you really ought to be questioning who threw this little bastard in that trash can over there to begin with."
May 11, 2018, 03:19 PM
Edmond
Clearing baby's nose on the lower left, the supposed wrong way to do it works. If it works, is it really wrong? Big Grin


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May 11, 2018, 03:47 PM
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May 11, 2018, 04:24 PM
Kravashera
I have a one-and-a-half year old and I kind of want to send these to my in-laws. Big Grin



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