My little girl has a mountain of shoes, but she only ever wears one pair on rotation for a while. She picks one pair until she gets sick of them and moves on. There is no fucking way youâd get a pair on her she didnât want to wear. Sheâs 3.
Do kids need shoes at this time of year?
The sicknesses that they bring home in the first few months of starting creche are insane. Croppy Junior was battling a serious dose of a cold for the last two weeks and a couple of bugs have gone through the house here in the six weeks since he started.
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Dose yourself & Mrs croppy up on every multi vitamin possible.
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A nightmare time. After his first 3 days in creche my lad was out for 2 weeks including a visit plus overnight stay at A&E and that pattern continued for the guts of nine months.
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He had a week in creche before Mrs Croppy went back to work and she decided to get his 6 month injections on the Friday of it.
Worst. Decision. Ever.
Iâve a fever and ear infection now. Neglected to take the multivitamins last week @Mac Iâll never make that mistake again.
This a rough turn of events for the modern day dads in fairness. I donât know how they do it.
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Yeah the bugs they pass on have some kick in them. 
Thanks @fagan. Your concern is appreciated. Itâs a much tougher life for modern dads. Weâre not even allowed beat the shit out of them for little or no reason. I donât know how I do it.
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They gave them to the Christian Brothers to beat the shit out of them.
Very true, I seen my older brother get a âwhalingâ from the aul lad once. While I never got the same treatment the threat was always there and kept me in line. Luckily my little lad pays no heed to me and actually hits me when I tell him off.
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Modern fathers also have to contend with this modern notion that kids should have a âhappy childhoodâ.
Thereâs also some talk suggesting that they should express themselves and that they should have qualities like âcreativityâ and âconfidenceâ.
Where do you start.
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They must have very low resistance to disease. Thatâs modern living I suppose.
Happy childhood? Very posh!
Not enough spuds and Guinness.
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Its all those airtight houses.
itâs people disinfecting everything all the time.
Fair enough if youâve cooked a chicken, disinfect the counters but for fuck sake, disinfecting everything all the time is overkill
you need to build up immunity like you would a body
Clear who is boss there!
My mother broke the wodden spoon off me before. The fucking thing broke.
The father did three laps running around the house after me with a Hurley doing mad swinging before after some incident as a young lad. I told him off that I was going to call Childline and my sister gave me an awful bollocking as apparently my auld lad was upset about it.
All in all, a few clippings here and there did me no harm. The father rarely lifted a hand but the mother was lethal with the wodden spoon. A serious threat that kept me in check.
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