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Re: Kids
« Reply #1325 on: December 02, 2015, 03:36:53 PM »
Are half birthdays only for the kids who have summer birthdays and otherwise wouldn't get to celebrate with their friends at school? If so, it doesn't sound terrible at all.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1326 on: December 02, 2015, 03:38:18 PM »
I doubt the October birthday kids celebrate twice.

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« Reply #1327 on: December 02, 2015, 03:40:18 PM »
That's when you start using halves and almost and just turned.

I think you're supposed to stop using halves around 10 or so

I think you should stop much sooner then that.  And who celebrates half birthdays?  I'll tell you who.  Olathe Unified School District 233 that's who.  Yep in Olathe it's considered proper to bring in treats on your kids "half-birthday"  So like the week before Thanksgiving I had to go run to Price Chopper at 10:00 at night to buy rough ridin' cupcakes for 25 third graders and you know what that means?  Three dozen cupcakes.  that's right couldn't be 24 kids in the class had to be 25 so I had to buy an extra dozen and no I didn't want the leftover cupcakes because they were shitty Price Chopper cupcakes    :curse:

You should refuse to participate.

The only kid I know that celebrates his half birthday has his real birthday on Christmas and that is still questionable.

Some parents do refuse to participate but I/we are not one of them.  While I think it's stupid and we certainly don't celebrate half birthdays at home, it was important to my daughter and it didn't hurt anything to bring in cupcakes.  It only inconvenienced me which I can live with because I'm a good dad :)
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1328 on: December 02, 2015, 03:42:18 PM »
Are half birthdays only for the kids who have summer birthdays and otherwise wouldn't get to celebrate with their friends at school? If so, it doesn't sound terrible at all.

No it's for everyone.  My daughter's birthday is in May (while school is still in session) So in May I will buy another three dozen cupcakes and throw 11 of them away. 10 away because I'll save one for my youngest daughter.
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1329 on: December 02, 2015, 03:44:39 PM »
Yeah that's dumb.

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« Reply #1330 on: December 02, 2015, 03:45:32 PM »
That's when you start using halves and almost and just turned.

I think you're supposed to stop using halves around 10 or so

I think you should stop much sooner then that.  And who celebrates half birthdays?  I'll tell you who.  Olathe Unified School District 233 that's who.  Yep in Olathe it's considered proper to bring in treats on your kids "half-birthday"  So like the week before Thanksgiving I had to go run to Price Chopper at 10:00 at night to buy rough ridin' cupcakes for 25 third graders and you know what that means?  Three dozen cupcakes.  that's right couldn't be 24 kids in the class had to be 25 so I had to buy an extra dozen and no I didn't want the leftover cupcakes because they were shitty Price Chopper cupcakes    :curse:

You should refuse to participate.

The only kid I know that celebrates his half birthday has his real birthday on Christmas and that is still questionable.

Some parents do refuse to participate but I/we are not one of them.  While I think it's stupid and we certainly don't celebrate half birthdays at home, it was important to my daughter and it didn't hurt anything to bring in cupcakes.  It only inconvenienced me which I can live with because I'm a good dad :)

Was it truly important to your daughter, or was she worried about other kids shaming her for not bringing in cupcakes?

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1331 on: December 02, 2015, 03:46:31 PM »
It sounds like parents with kids born between Dec 24-Jan 1 or June 24-July 1 hit the sweet spot.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1332 on: December 02, 2015, 03:50:16 PM »
That's when you start using halves and almost and just turned.

I think you're supposed to stop using halves around 10 or so

I think you should stop much sooner then that.  And who celebrates half birthdays?  I'll tell you who.  Olathe Unified School District 233 that's who.  Yep in Olathe it's considered proper to bring in treats on your kids "half-birthday"  So like the week before Thanksgiving I had to go run to Price Chopper at 10:00 at night to buy rough ridin' cupcakes for 25 third graders and you know what that means?  Three dozen cupcakes.  that's right couldn't be 24 kids in the class had to be 25 so I had to buy an extra dozen and no I didn't want the leftover cupcakes because they were shitty Price Chopper cupcakes    :curse:

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1333 on: December 02, 2015, 04:11:02 PM »
I hope not was gonna bake some sweet potatoes for dinner tonight
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1334 on: December 02, 2015, 04:14:33 PM »
I thought taking treats to your kids' class was not a thing anymore because half the kids are allergic to peanuts and half are gluten intolerant and half are lactose intolerant so you never know who can have what treats.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1335 on: December 02, 2015, 04:54:15 PM »
I hope not was gonna bake some sweet potatoes for dinner tonight

Tell wife to bake cupcakes

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1336 on: December 02, 2015, 04:55:08 PM »
I thought taking treats to your kids' class was not a thing anymore because half the kids are allergic to peanuts and half are gluten intolerant and half are lactose intolerant so you never know who can have what treats.

My kids school doesn't allow home made stuff for those reasons.  Has to be store bought and still sealed when it hits the school.  No one brings anything anymore because of that.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1337 on: December 02, 2015, 05:00:40 PM »
I think kids might make me realize how the world sucks even more than I thought it did.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1338 on: December 02, 2015, 05:11:16 PM »
Either that or your empathy for it sucking has gone up.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1339 on: December 02, 2015, 05:19:52 PM »
The Pussifacation of Emo EMAW
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1340 on: December 02, 2015, 06:24:29 PM »
Damn... Wrong thread

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1341 on: December 02, 2015, 06:25:55 PM »

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1342 on: December 02, 2015, 06:31:31 PM »
I hope not was gonna bake some sweet potatoes for dinner tonight

Tell wife to bake cupcakes

have I not shared stories of my wife's cooking failures before?

Well there was the time she made pumpkin pie and forgot to add the sugar.  Then there was also the infamous biscuits and gravy fiasco of Christmas 2006 where she thought it would be 'healthier' to use water instead of whole milk for the gravy.  Tasted like what you'd expect it to taste like....wet flour.  And bless her heart when she tried to cook me a steak and baked potato dinner and only cooked the potato it in the oven for 10 minutes 'because that's how long it takes in the microwave' Fortunately she countered out the undercooking of the baked potato by overcooking the steak.  What a wonderful combination of raw potato and a hockey puck steak that meal was.

Wanna come over for dinner sometime?
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1343 on: December 02, 2015, 07:22:28 PM »

I hope not was gonna bake some sweet potatoes for dinner tonight

Tell wife to bake cupcakes

have I not shared stories of my wife's cooking failures before?

Well there was the time she made pumpkin pie and forgot to add the sugar.  Then there was also the infamous biscuits and gravy fiasco of Christmas 2006 where she thought it would be 'healthier' to use water instead of whole milk for the gravy.  Tasted like what you'd expect it to taste like....wet flour.  And bless her heart when she tried to cook me a steak and baked potato dinner and only cooked the potato it in the oven for 10 minutes 'because that's how long it takes in the microwave' Fortunately she countered out the undercooking of the baked potato by overcooking the steak.  What a wonderful combination of raw potato and a hockey puck steak that meal was.

Wanna come over for dinner sometime?
Sounds like somebody is a pretty shitty dad to me.


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Re: Kids
« Reply #1344 on: December 02, 2015, 07:42:18 PM »
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1345 on: December 02, 2015, 08:36:52 PM »

I hope not was gonna bake some sweet potatoes for dinner tonight

Tell wife to bake cupcakes

have I not shared stories of my wife's cooking failures before?

Well there was the time she made pumpkin pie and forgot to add the sugar.  Then there was also the infamous biscuits and gravy fiasco of Christmas 2006 where she thought it would be 'healthier' to use water instead of whole milk for the gravy.  Tasted like what you'd expect it to taste like....wet flour.  And bless her heart when she tried to cook me a steak and baked potato dinner and only cooked the potato it in the oven for 10 minutes 'because that's how long it takes in the microwave' Fortunately she countered out the undercooking of the baked potato by overcooking the steak.  What a wonderful combination of raw potato and a hockey puck steak that meal was.

Wanna come over for dinner sometime?
Sounds like somebody is a pretty shitty dad to me.


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Re: Kids
« Reply #1346 on: December 21, 2015, 10:55:15 AM »
Ugh.  A friend of mine gave birth to her son in a very emergency type way at 25 weeks.  Of course there were difficulties.  Poor kid has been in and out of the hospital for 2 years, mostly lung infections.  Most recently during Thanksgiving he got another infection, crashed at the hospital when they were trying to put him on a ventilator, suffered some minor brain damage, but still mostly dealing with the infections the last few weeks.  Well he finally succumbed this weekend.  Breaks my heart that they had to go through that for two years, only to have it end in tragedy. 

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« Reply #1347 on: December 21, 2015, 11:07:48 AM »
Ugh.  A friend of mine gave birth to her son in a very emergency type way at 25 weeks.  Of course there were difficulties.  Poor kid has been in and out of the hospital for 2 years, mostly lung infections.  Most recently during Thanksgiving he got another infection, crashed at the hospital when they were trying to put him on a ventilator, suffered some minor brain damage, but still mostly dealing with the infections the last few weeks.  Well he finally succumbed this weekend.  Breaks my heart that they had to go through that for two years, only to have it end in tragedy.
Very sad.

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« Reply #1348 on: December 21, 2015, 11:10:34 AM »
Ugh.  A friend of mine gave birth to her son in a very emergency type way at 25 weeks.  Of course there were difficulties.  Poor kid has been in and out of the hospital for 2 years, mostly lung infections.  Most recently during Thanksgiving he got another infection, crashed at the hospital when they were trying to put him on a ventilator, suffered some minor brain damage, but still mostly dealing with the infections the last few weeks.  Well he finally succumbed this weekend.  Breaks my heart that they had to go through that for two years, only to have it end in tragedy.

I can't even imagine

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« Reply #1349 on: December 21, 2015, 12:07:55 PM »
Oh crap. That sucks.