Might be the kid is a cryer and the adults are de-sensitized or exhausted.

Also, people do tend to be oblivious. My wife has poured boiling hot water into our kid's water bottle a couple of times, to mix with cold water from the fridge.

Our toddler screams and she thinks he's just complaining and he should just drink his water.

I pour it on my wrist and it's scorching hot.

I'm like "you can't mix 100C water 50/50 with cold water, it doesn't work like that. Even if that was ice-cold water, the result is still 50C!!"

Her eyes glaze over.

It's happened 3 times. It's still happening. My wife won't listen.

She gets mad if I just give our kid cold water straight from the fridge. "No it's too cold!!!! He'll cough!!"

...then why are you pouring him cold glasses of milk in his cup? That's from the fridge too. It's literally the same temperature.

Her eyes glaze over.

The skin have all peeled. If it was just red I'd have agreed with you. Maybe West can chime in since he's in the kitchen and probably way more familiar with hot liquid burns.

Maybe I'm over reacting, but I feel like they would have kept going if they can get the kid calmed down enough.

First the bubbles thing two days ago, now the hot water burn, I sound like an over protective maniac.

Oh here's another "people" thing: something is only happening if you acknowledge that it's happening. Ignore your child's burn, and the burn doesn't exist. Skin peeling? Oops, no, look away.

Seems like they're sick? Noooooo ignore, ignore. If you think about it, it might become true.

Pulling out into oncoming traffic? Naaaah, look the other way.

I used to have eczema -- it is probably in remission for now, but I know how itchy and uncomfortable it gets when it flares up, or even just when your skin is very dry. So when my kid was much younger back at the toddler stage, I was extremely attentive to his skin condition as well since he had some amount of eczema as well. If the moisturization is well controlled, flare ups are far less likely to happen.

Imagine the horror I saw when some of my friends' (toddler aged) children and my niece / nephew were showing signs of really dry skin / eczema flare ups. In one of my friend's case, she just didn't think it was that big of a deal. That time, the condition of the dry skin irked me so much that I waved the toddler over and put some CeraVe on her face (just as I would have done for my own kid). With my niece / nephew, my SIL seems to think they will just deal with it by applying hydrocortisone when the flare up gets bad. So I just :blueguy: in my head and shut up.

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The only Aston that most of us can afford?

2nd hand Astons honestly AREN'T that bad, the depreciation curve is brutal.

You're a good human for doing that. That said, ultimately, you can't control what other parents choose to do, and the risk of getting involved is people can get offended and take it personally that you are not minding your own business, then some nutjob crazyness might surface and suddenly all hell breaks loose. No good deed goes unpunished (unfortunately). Just by showing concern and bringing some ice is the best thing you can do and shows you're a good guy.

Should cross post to the weight-loss thread.

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Joke's on me.

Bridgeview Elementary School in Surrey called me today to tell me my non-existent kid did not come to school today. I told them they have the wrong number and that I don't have a kid, and I don't live in Surrey. They asked me if I was sure.

:pokerface:

thats excellent you should have said yes and that you will beat your kid until he comes to school.

p.s. why the fuck am i reading this thread? i dont have little shits to give a shit about.

My kids also had eczema to varying degrees. My wife used to slather my older kid (being the firstborn) in various OTC/prescription creams to keep it in check. Now at 17, it's under control and he has quite the skin care routine. Always putting on cream, carries a small tube of vaseline for lips, etc. When going out, it takes him forever to get ready, like a girl! :lol

Meanwhile my younger son at 11 has really bad skin on his hands, dry lips, etc. We don't have time to dote on him so he does the bare minimum with moisturizing...

You just don't have any kids that you know about. :p

Same goes with badhobz (kids that aren't covered in fur).

At work, people think my wife is Indian. I keep insisting my wife is not Indian.

The school was looking for an Indian lady. :pokerface:

I used to get wrong number calls from local people that are clearly of South Asian descent looking for someone...and I always say "Try 778 instead of 604". After a while, I no longer get those calls anymore.

They totally missed naming it the Lance Stroller.

The flu shot can't come quick enough. We are back to school for one week and the kids are already sick.

Lots of people at work getting sick too. And back to office mandates! Ugh!

Listening to the radio this morning and they were saying we might be in for a bad flu season because Australia is already bad.

My office has been hit already too. I'm hiding out in the shop as much as I can lol.

In my parent chat group for my kid's class the parents are already saying their kids are getting sick - lot of back to school bugs going around.

How have folks found the first two weeks of return to school so far? My kid is in grade 1 now and it's gone a lot smoother - we switched after school programs and are much happier with it. It's a larger group of kids and the facility is so much bigger and brighter (versus the tiny dungeon she used to be in) - we used to pick her up early as much as we could but now she wants to stay till 5:30 every day.

It's a church run program which does do a bit of bible study that my wife isn't thrilled about it but it's not overly religious in nature - they're just trying to teach the kids about good values (instead of radicalising them like Charlie Kirk).

My biggest takeaway from the first 2 weeks of school so far is -- parents absolutely give no fxxks about how they park or stop when dropping off their kids. It is as though they think they own that stretch of road in front of the school, and can thus do whatever they want. And it spills over to the side streets as well. And bcos of that, it's traffic jam city right in front of the school.

While we are on the topic, it also seems to me that there are far more drivers back on the road again this September. September has always seen more drivers on the road, but this year the difference in volume is even more pronounced, and I am 1000% certain that there are more cars on the road this September than there were in Sept last year. I guess it is the result of all those back-to-school mandates?

The school itself also seemed more packed than last year.

Maybe back-to-office mandates too?

Teacher noted that there were a few absences already due to illness on Monday when my son stayed home from being sick. There does seem to be less kids in class overall. One of the notable class disruptors has been absent this whole week.

We are debating about after school care. My son seems mostly content coming home after school, and I am home everyday which helps. But I don't know how long this WFH arrangement is going to last as I am job searching and my next job will most likely be hybrid.

I've seen you around, are you dropping off at Cook? Champlain was relatively tame last year, helps that school size is a bit smaller and it's on a side street. We transferred back to Oppenheimer this year and drop off at Oppenheimer is an absolute SHIT SHOW. Parents dropping off in the middle of the road, and then people speeding around them on the opposite lane. I've had instances where a parent stopped in the middle of the intersection to drop off, which is utterly insane.

There does seem to be more cars. More and more of the gov't offices are mandating back to work. WSBC just went from full remote to 3 days in office in Sept, I believe CRA just did the same as well. All the tech companies have mandated it as well so have quite a few other firms. At least they've completed the clusterfuck that is Knight Street water main. There's also always more cars as parents try to figure out their dropoff and pick up situations, and kids need to get settled in back in school, once a routine is set up then the number of cars shrink a little bit. It's always been, and we'll see the same pattern after winter break and spring break.