What are your favorite and/or most useful Daniel Tiger jingles? Which ones work the best for your child?

The last couple of days this group has been deep in the throes of the bedsharing vs. cot sleeping debate. Lots of numbers and statistics have been thrown around. This post is different. This is my personal opinion and my observations on the emotional and social side of the debate.

So let's talk about blueberries. Blueberries are a choking hazard for babies and young toddlers because of their shape and size. Parents who are given this information respond in a variety of ways, ranging from the lax to the risk averse. It's obviously a spectrum, but it could be categorized as something like this:

Parent 1 doesn't think too much of it, they trust their childs chewing capabilities and keep giving them whole blueberries. Parent 2 cuts blueberries in half. Parent 3 decides to not feed their child blueberries until age 3, just in case. Parent 4 worries about the inherent choking hazard to all solid foods and decides to only feed their child purees.

This is a personality trait. Through our genetics and our upbringning we all develop different risk aversion profiles and different baseline levels of fear/anxiety. We have different coping mechanisms. We respond differently to real or perceived threats. I never bring an umbrella, when I take my sons for a walk. Once, when it started pouring down, my umbrella-bringing friend was visibly gloating over their own foresight and planning skills and my complete lack there of. When it doesn't rain, I shake my head and laugh a bit at my needlessly umbrella-bringing friend. You could tell me the weather forecast just as I was walking out the door, and I still wouldn't bring an umbrella "just in case". It's not about the facts, it never was. That's not how this works. Our behaviour is not guided by facts. Otherwise we would all be fit, succesfull millionaires.

Now, on to part two of this post, "playing well with others". This subreddit is huge. It's also very unspecific. That means there are people from different countries, cultures, ages, socio-economic backgrounds and parenting styles. Overall, I think this is great. It means I can read about a wide variety of baby related topics and hear many different opinions. There are some topics that I am very emotionally triggered by, such as sleep training. Regardless of how many studies show that it's not harmful to babies, I will never think it's okay. So I don't read those posts. Because it hurts me to think about the crying babies. I also don't comment on sleep training re

A common piece of advice for the HL partner in a dead bedroom is to, "Stop initiating already!" It is excellent advice and some of the more frequent, more eloquent contributors on this sub have put a lot of effort into explaining why this is a good idea--bad sex leads to aversions, initiation is a kind of pressure, desire can't be forced, etc.

And yet, so many HL's still don't seem to understand how important it is to stop initiating. Which I honestly get, as it seems so counter intuitive. How can not addressing the problem possibly fix the problem? If we don't talk about the problem and work on the problem then how can it get better? So I wrote this wacky analogy to explain it that was so fun to write I had to share it...

The Banana Split Analogy

You and your partner are big fans of sharing a banana split. Your first date as awkward teenagers was at the local ice cream shop and it's been a tradition ever since to hit the place up every Friday if possible, but every other week worse case scenario. Those ice cream shop dates are really important to you because they remind you of how much fun it was to be young and in love for the first time, they're a reminder of your commitment to one another, it's fun and connective and romantic. And who doesn't love a banana split? It's an awesome dessert, and it's fun to share the dessert together. You spoon feed each other and then get to laugh when someone ends up with whipper cream on their face. You get to playfully fight over the cherry.

Then one week, something happens--you're overwhelmed with your to-do list, your depression/anxiety is being particularly sensitive for some reason, you are on a new medication that affects your appetite and can make you nauseous, or any number of other stressors come up. Maybe you just don't feel like a banana split this week. But as per usual each Friday night, your partner comes up to you all excited and ready to go to the ice cream shop. They've got your coat ready to go, they've dressed up for the occasion, and they bought you flowers.

"I'm so sorry," you say. "I'm just not up for it this week. Maybe next week?"

"Oh, okay..."

Your partner is visibly disappointed, but they understand. Sometimes you skip a week, but you always make sure to go to the ice cream shop every other week, worst case scenario. Your partner puts your flowers in a vase and you stay in for the night. The two of you order a pizza, put on your favorite TV show, and binge it. It's not the ice cream

On a recent post about a girlfriend tripping too hard and saying too much one of the top comments was some "🌷✨✨🌷🌷🧞‍♀️🧞‍♀️💜💜" lovey-dovey stuff with a bunch of replies saying "wow so true," "this is beautiful," etc. The words were sweet and all but not helpful or cute.

I think many people don't understand that it's not just a myth that people can legitimately go into psychosis for long periods of time or even have schizophrenia be triggered from psychedelics. This includes shrooms, no matter how many people don't want to accept it.

Obviously in a time of crisis it's important to stay positive but literally when someone is having a bad or concerning trip, it doesn't help to just ✨go with the flow⚡️dance🌟love yourself💫.

Sometimes you do have to do what the actual top comment said and sit a person down and try to ground them. Tell them they are safe, put on the most calming sounds for them, have them eat food from the earth, turn off the lights and tuck them in, or anything to help bring them out of the state in a quick and calming manner.

Psychotic breaks are not just something you can ❤️peace🌷and🌸love🌍 your way out of.

I don't know I just want people to respect shrooms and psychedelics.

They are very powerful and spiritual drugs. In certain rare cases, PLUR is not going to bring someone out of a very damaging trip.

Quite honestly if you think this way, you might just not have gone through enough shit to understand.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Man, I have debated writing this post for several months. I left you all on an unexpectedly hotly debated cliffhanger 5 months ago and disappeared from SLF, SA, and the bowl altogether. But now, I think I'm ready to tell the rest of the story.

LB and I did not end up working out. Some of the SD's who were seething with rage at my last post are probably thrilled hearing this, thinking that my firm expectations for an increased allowance for monogamy contributed to the demise of what could've otherwise been a beautiful SR.

Just keep reading.

LB took me on a camping trip in Tahoe in an RV. The day started off well enough, with him picking me up, us grabbing groceries for the trip, and heading off to hopefully enjoy a starry summer night in the next few hours. Oh, how lovey that would've been.

Instead, we spent the first couple of hours of the drive talking almost exclusively about him. His job, his family, his life experiences. What little we did talk about regarding my life and interests somehow morphed into him telling me that I was focusing my attention in the wrong areas and, if I wanted any chance of legitimate success, I should follow in his footsteps of doing x, y, and z. Don't get me wrong, I love advice and constructive criticism, but this was one of those conversations you have with someone that leave you feeling more belittled and deflated than encouraged and empowered.

We had been driving continuously for about 4 hours by the time we arrived in Tahoe, and we were low on gas. I suggested multiple times that we turn around and ask someone for help since there were no visible gas stations, but LB was insistent that we were "almost there" and that turning around would be a waste. Fine, whatever. I was nervous, but the worst that could happen was that we would end up on the side of the road for a couple of hours, allowing me to take a nap.

That was not the worst that could happen.

As the RV was pushing past E, not only were we in danger of stopping in the middle of the road all together, but we were headed straight into a forest fire while doing so. At first, the smell of smoke was faint and there was no sign of it in the sky, but quickly, we found ourselves driving through grey smog while watching OTHER cars drive out of it. It was by the grace of the sugar gods (and perhaps even the real God™️) that, while we were running on absolute fumes, there was a truck pulled onto the side of the road that LB was able to siphon gas from. Never t

TLDR Lets make a super list of things to do in KL, what would you include?

Hello friends

Recently I've read, heard and seen the plights of monyets in trying to find interesting things to do in the Greater Klang Valley (and by extension an hour drive out of KL), and I thought well maybe it's time we made a super list of things to do and see especially considering the disturbances in our lives over the past two years. [Note: We should eventually do all the cities in Malaysia, I just happen to live in KL so it's what I started with]

So drop by your suggestions, local haunts, interesting but unexpected things, or anything at all really to give your fellow monyets or tourists some inspiration or a master cheat sheet of the many interesting things in KL's backyard! Then I'll compose it into some incomprehensible wall of text with some pictures, maybe even subheadings. I'll start with some of the things I've seen people do over the weeks- this list is by no means exhaustive nor constructed in particular order

But do mention stuff like if you've attended those sip and paint events, pottery classes, went to Aquaria and so on! Lets make a super list!

PS: I'm not including food as that is it's own article, but hey if there's anything in particular you want to recommend go for it

Hiking

Skywalk FRIM (siraplimau.com)

Price - Free to RM20ish (Like the Skywalk at FRIM)

Locations - There are a few trails like Bukit Gasing, KL Forest Eco Park, Bukit Sri Bintang, FRIM and etc. More trails like Bukit Fraser, Japanese Village and Broga open up about an hours drive from KL.

Time - 2-5 hours depending on the trail

Hiking is an activity many people enjoy. There's something about walking in nature and getting to know the wondrous fauna of Malaysia that intrigues people. At the end of it, there's always a fantastic view, a milestone to mark the apex of your journey; a reward to those who endured the humidity of the jungle and the trail. There's also that oh so fresh air, and truly this is just one of those things that can be difficult to properly find elsewhere.

Depending on the trail your experience may vary but definitely if you enjoy the outdoors hiking is something you can ideally do once a month, rotating between the different trails that we have. It's also one that you can get to know a person as you walk, as everybody

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

I’m new here, I’ve never posted anything here before but now I really need to lean on strangers, I need to vent and I need to hear what other people think.

I’m a 25 year old girl who really struggle with how hard I love and how dependent I become of people I have relationships with. My whole world falls apart if someone doesn’t like me the same way I do or if they lie to me over feelings. I need to feel like I mean the world at all times. I’m currently getting professional help for it cause I know it need it.

3 years ago, I went on tinder and I met this girl that I really hit it off with. She was only in my country for a short period of time cause she was only here to play hockey. We met each other and it was awkward, but a good kind of awkward, you could tell she was nervous and she tried very hard for me to like her. I did like her and we saw each other two more times until she flew back home to her country. We kept talking every single day, we got more serious with each other and eventually we told each other “I love you” over the phone. She was so soft to me. I’ve never met anyone so pure and kind hearted.

After a while I realized that the conversations started to die out easily. I was in a bad place where I lost one of my friends and I needed support and love, even if it only meant over the phone. She started getting more distant and one day she told me she can’t do the long distance thing. I accepted it and tried to move on.

Then we started talking again after a month, everything got back to normal and we started being lovey-dovey with each other again. I was floating on clouds. I felt so good.

She called me one day to tell me she is coming back to play hockey in my country again and was happy cause then we could be together. I was so pumped. Then she arrived, 5 hours away from my city and she started settling in at her new place. We didn’t see each other but I was really on her about meeting. Once again things were fine. Then one day she got distant again, we didn’t talk as much and we never met up. She gave me false hope about meeting up but never made any effort or let me do any effort to make it happen. Things died out and she eventually flew back home again.

AGAIN we started talking again, she promised me she cares for me and loved me and I believed it. I’ve always trusted her, even though I’ve had my doubts. She has always given me reasons to trust her and the more we talked the more serious we got. I was planning on movin

My 2yo is so funny, just wanted to share a bit and hear your stories!

He has started proclaiming his appreciation for food by holding his index finger up in the air and proclaiming “Lee-see!” (Delicious). He also proclaims “yike-a” (like it), and imitates Cookie Monster, shoving food into his mouth and growling 😂

If he trips or something and we ask “are you ok?”, he replies brightly, backwards: “K, me!”. He also has funny tenses- he announces he’s hungry by saying “eating”.

He’s very attached to his sloth lovey and rubs it on his eye to snuggle it, esp when tired, or violently squeezes it.

He insists on being helpful- he always brings me my phone if it’s lying around… once when I was cleaning up a pot of soup that boiled over, he hefted his toy vacuum up onto the stove 😂

https://youtu.be/j7oQEPfe-O8

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rem/theoneilove.html

Hello everyone, I hope the week is treating you well! Last week we discussed I’ve Been High and I was pleasantly surprise to not only see a ton of people discussing the meaning of the song, but also how much they love the song overall. It seems it’s a high point for a lot of people when it comes to Reveal. This week however, we will be talking about a song that needs no introduction as I’m sure all of you are quite familiar with it.

Release as the lead single from Document on August 24th, 1987, this song became the band’s first top single by hitting number 9 on the U.S. Billboard Top 100. It also reached number 14 and 16 on the Canada and U.K. singles charts respectively and became one of the band’s most recognizable songs.

The song begins by a simple but energetic drum intro by Bill that launches into Peter’s electric riff that to me, makes the whole song. The riff is fairly simple but it’s perfect to me by how catchy it, and how well it sets up a mood. The riff begins with a couple plucks of the low E string to accent the Em chord in the verse, before it goes to a more melodic part on the B and big E strings. It’s a simple riff because a lot of the notes are just open strings but yet it’s able to create a dark and yet catchy melody that fits perfectly for the rest of the instrumentation and lyrics. And when you get to the verse, you get those wonderful patent pending Peter arpeggios.

Now it’s important to note that this song’s structure is interesting as I know everyone is aware. You have an intro, and then a fair short verse, a pre chorus, a chorus (that only contains backing vocals and Michael yelling “fire!”) and then it just repeats other than a short solo. The lyrics in every verse, pre chorus and chorus, are all almost the same minus a small change in the last pre chorus. I think it’s the simplicity of the structure and lyrics though that makes this song so powerful.

When you hear the verse “this one goes out to the one I love, this one goes out to the one I’ve left behind” you might think this is a love song. Mainly because he sings “the one I love” which is not past tense even though he’s had to leave them behind for some reason. But when we get to the pre chorus, things don’t seem so lovey dovey anymore. “A simple prop to occupy my time” seems like he’s using something to keep himself busy and I think he’s using people to “occupy” his time.

Michael is u

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

anyway. hi. sorry for the wall of text but i genuinely feel like i'm going insane here. i want to include all possible information about this

also possible CW for sexual assault.

what A did to me does not meet my personal definition of sexual assault, and it feels like more of a very unfortunate miscommunication about consent, but i understand that not everyone here will feel the same, so i will be putting a spoiler tag around all discussion of that subject.

names

A - my ex-partner, who i started dating in september 2021

B - my friend and ex-metamour, who was in a triad with A, and started dating around december 2020

C - my friend and ex-metamour, who was in a triad with A, and started dating them in late november 2021

everyone involved uses they/them pronouns.

here's the timeline leading up to my relationship with A, and their triad with my friends B and C:

sometime in 2018/2019 - i meet A, we start talking daily almost immediately, they gradually become my closest friend. they develop a crush on me, it's not mutual, we deal with it like adults and move on.

December 2020 - A starts dating B, i get jealous and anxious about it because i feel like our friendship is suffering for a number of reasons.

I realize a lot of my feelings are toxic and I should just give their new relationship room to breathe, we talk through it, things get resolved. I learn along the way that A is no longer interested in dating or cohabitating with me and just wants to focus on their existing relationship, and de-escalate from our fairly intense friendship (which was starting to become an unrequited crush in the other direction, even if i didn't want to admit it at the time) so they could focus on themselves and their new relationship for a bit. I was cool with this and saw as a sign of emotional maturity and honesty.

B starts messaging me daily, at length, both looking for reassurance that I was okay with them dating my best friend, and reassuring me that my friendship with A will not be impacted and everything will be fine.

I also begin to feel compersion for the first time somewhere around here, both between A and B and A and D... which was a very confusing feeling, and led to a lot of talks with D, my longterm monogamous partner of 8 years, about how to deal with emotions like this.

February 2021 - i break up with D failing to find a common ground on future ro

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

I graduated mid November with a gorgeous baby girl 5lbs 11.

TW for consent issues and bullying.

I spent a lot of pregnancy immersed in positive birth stories, hypnobirthing, and really educating myself on the choices I might need to make - also prepped my birth partner to be my advocate. I was aiming for physiological birth, in a pool with gas and air - did not get that!

Contractions started early hours on a Sunday morning, the discomfort woke me up, and I couldn’t get back to sleep so cracked open a book and felt the power in the surges. They were erratic all day. They got stronger through the night. Around 3 am on the Monday I ran a bath and took paracetamol. Birth partner got up and made me French toast. By 7 am they were regular so we called the ward who invited us in. First midwife seemed clueless. I was 2cm so she sent us home to progress.

Continued riding the waves on my pregnancy ball and using all the breathing techniques I’d learned. I kept active moving around the house. Very tired by this point.

Back to hospital at about 8pm. Met the loveliest midwife ever who talked me through everything, read my birth preferences and asked me questions about it. She found I was now 4cm. She sent off a PCR test at 9.30 as I needed to be negative to use the pool. She sent an intern to hand deliver it in the hopes of faster results. (I later found out the negative result was available 45 mins later but due to admin error in the hospital my midwife could not access the result and kept chasing it up)

I keep riding the waves, swaying and moving and bouncing, positively exhausted by this point. By 2.30 am it got too much and I asked for some pain relief, resigned to the fact I was not going to be allowed in the pool once I’d taken it. They gave me diamorphine. It slowed my baby’s heart so I then had to be strapped to a monitor and have IV fluids for hydration. There were wires and tubes all over and the canula in my hand kept catching and pulling on things.

At some point the midwife broke my waters as I was well in established labour but progressing slowly. The morphine made me feel so sleepy, I would almost nod off for a minute between contractions but the pain would wake me right back up. I felt so out of it and so out of control and unable to understand what was happening.

Someone came to take my food order for breakfast. I’m coeliac so ordered gluten free, but they brought regular bread with my food so I didn’t trust anything they served me. I ate fr

BamBOO!

A play on words.

They’re on standbi