UO's all around... 07/23

[liziz]

I don't get having your baby watch TV. I get that they're sometimes in a place where the TV is on, but putting on programming for a baby just doesn't make sense to me.

[Liv]

Jul 23, 2015 10:55:10 GMT -5 liziz said:

I don't get having your baby watch TV. I get that they're sometimes in a place where the TV is on, but putting on programming for a baby just doesn't make sense to me.

but they love it! seriously. and sometimes mama's gotta get stuff done. 

[Lola]

Jul 23, 2015 11:01:45 GMT -5 Liv said:

Jul 23, 2015 10:55:10 GMT -5 liziz said:

I don't get having your baby watch TV. I get that they're sometimes in a place where the TV is on, but putting on programming for a baby just doesn't make sense to me.

but they love it! seriously. and sometimes mama's gotta get stuff done. 

This. We played Elmo on our vacation car ride. It saved a lot of screaming. 

[lablover13]

Jul 23, 2015 11:15:27 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

Jul 23, 2015 10:55:10 GMT -5 liziz said:

I don't get having your baby watch TV. I get that they're sometimes in a place where the TV is on, but putting on programming for a baby just doesn't make sense to me.

DH puts on Planet Earth while he's taking a shower and it keeps DS quiet. Sometimes the baby isn't content in the PNP and you need 10 minutes of peace while showering.

I wish C would watch TV for longer than 10 seconds for these exact reasons

I can't think of an UO at the moment, but maybe one will come to me later.

[jnnfrrose6]

Apparently UO where I live: using turn signals. You're supposed to use them to indicate you are turning or changing lanes people!

[hurricanerek]

My kid can't focus on TV for longer than about 5 minutes. Music though...

My uo: I hate scrabble. bananagrams is way better.

[honeybee434]

I've been away from my job for over a week and I still feel absolute dread at going back in 4 days. I know I should be thankful for the vacation and ready to go back.

I think this means it's time I start looking for a new job.

[honeybee434]

My UO: I wish LO was entertained by the TV. I would totally use it periodically to get things done around the house or entertain her on the plane. She doesn't care about it at all. I'll get maybe 2 minutes of her paying attention before she's over it.

[Lola]

I have an UO question. Does anyone else think its odd that while you are down talking to someone, they stand the whole time??

[littlemissmarla]

Jul 23, 2015 14:10:03 GMT -5 hurricanerek said:

My kid can't focus on TV for longer than about 5 minutes. Music though...

My uo: I hate scrabble. bananagrams is way better.

Yasssss. Bananagrams is the best.


My UO: I can't get on board with screaming at someone else's kid - in reference to the restaurant owner and the child throwing a tantrum. I haven't read through all of the facts/whatnots but it doesn't sit well with me. 

[liziz]

I read this, and then realized I might have an UO about it. (Cdnfroggy, I'm helping you around the pay wall!)

Dear Prudie,
What is proper etiquette for disposing of baby diapers in public? I am a first-time mom and have noticed that other mommies often have a small disposable garbage bag that they put the baby’s diaper in and often take these wrapped up diapers with them to dispose of later when in public. I have not been participating in this practice and often at people’s homes, shopping malls, restaurants, coffee shops, etc., dispose of the dirty diaper in the trash receptacles. Only when I was at the pediatrician’s office and they informed me that I was unable to dispose of the dirty diaper at the office that I thought perhaps I have been committing a faux pas.

—Mommy Doodies

Dear Doodies,
Thank you, other mommies, for wrapping up your children’s droppings and thinking about the most appropriate place to deposit these offerings. First-time mom, please don’t make people want to evacuate a restaurant or mall because of your child’s evacuation. No one wants to go over to the milk and sugar station at your local coffee shop and get a whiff from the refuse bin of something freshly brewed by your kid. If your pediatrician is telling you to take your unwrapped waste elsewhere, you know you’re violating an unwritten code—and common sense. When traveling with a diapered child, it is necessary to have plastic bags to tightly seal the dirty diaper when disposing of it in a public place. And these should be the kind of receptacles where such waste would be appropriate—so restrooms or outdoor trash bins. If you’re visiting friends, wrap the diaper up and put it in your bag for later disposal, unless you’re visiting someone with small children and you can ask if there’s a place you can toss it. You’re in charge of a baby, and this is an instance in which you just can’t let the chips fall where they may.

—Prudie

I would for sure seal up a #2 diaper and make sure it was in a trash can that wouldn't bother anyone, but a diaper that's just wet? I will throw them out anywhere!

[walterjenne]

Jul 23, 2015 16:36:04 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

Jul 23, 2015 16:09:18 GMT -5 liziz said:

I read this, and then realized I might have an UO about it. (Cdnfroggy, I'm helping you around the pay wall!)

Dear Prudie,
What is proper etiquette for disposing of baby diapers in public? I am a first-time mom and have noticed that other mommies often have a small disposable garbage bag that they put the baby’s diaper in and often take these wrapped up diapers with them to dispose of later when in public. I have not been participating in this practice and often at people’s homes, shopping malls, restaurants, coffee shops, etc., dispose of the dirty diaper in the trash receptacles. Only when I was at the pediatrician’s office and they informed me that I was unable to dispose of the dirty diaper at the office that I thought perhaps I have been committing a faux pas.

—Mommy Doodies

Dear Doodies,
Thank you, other mommies, for wrapping up your children’s droppings and thinking about the most appropriate place to deposit these offerings. First-time mom, please don’t make people want to evacuate a restaurant or mall because of your child’s evacuation. No one wants to go over to the milk and sugar station at your local coffee shop and get a whiff from the refuse bin of something freshly brewed by your kid. If your pediatrician is telling you to take your unwrapped waste elsewhere, you know you’re violating an unwritten code—and common sense. When traveling with a diapered child, it is necessary to have plastic bags to tightly seal the dirty diaper when disposing of it in a public place. And these should be the kind of receptacles where such waste would be appropriate—so restrooms or outdoor trash bins. If you’re visiting friends, wrap the diaper up and put it in your bag for later disposal, unless you’re visiting someone with small children and you can ask if there’s a place you can toss it. You’re in charge of a baby, and this is an instance in which you just can’t let the chips fall where they may.

—Prudie

I would for sure seal up a #2 diaper and make sure it was in a trash can that wouldn't bother anyone, but a diaper that's just wet? I will throw them out anywhere!

Every diaper I've ever changed in public has ended up in a bathroom garage. Wrapped up in itself but not wrapped into another bag. FFFC?

I have bags that I use when throwing a #2 away where it might bother someone else. I don't do this if throwing it away outside or in a bathroom though. If we are visiting friends or family for a weekend we always wrap the diaper in a grocery bag and take it out. #1 diapers go anywhere though.

[littlemissmarla]

Jul 23, 2015 16:36:04 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

Jul 23, 2015 16:09:18 GMT -5 liziz said:

I read this, and then realized I might have an UO about it. (Cdnfroggy, I'm helping you around the pay wall!)

Dear Prudie,
What is proper etiquette for disposing of baby diapers in public? I am a first-time mom and have noticed that other mommies often have a small disposable garbage bag that they put the baby’s diaper in and often take these wrapped up diapers with them to dispose of later when in public. I have not been participating in this practice and often at people’s homes, shopping malls, restaurants, coffee shops, etc., dispose of the dirty diaper in the trash receptacles. Only when I was at the pediatrician’s office and they informed me that I was unable to dispose of the dirty diaper at the office that I thought perhaps I have been committing a faux pas.

—Mommy Doodies

Dear Doodies,
Thank you, other mommies, for wrapping up your children’s droppings and thinking about the most appropriate place to deposit these offerings. First-time mom, please don’t make people want to evacuate a restaurant or mall because of your child’s evacuation. No one wants to go over to the milk and sugar station at your local coffee shop and get a whiff from the refuse bin of something freshly brewed by your kid. If your pediatrician is telling you to take your unwrapped waste elsewhere, you know you’re violating an unwritten code—and common sense. When traveling with a diapered child, it is necessary to have plastic bags to tightly seal the dirty diaper when disposing of it in a public place. And these should be the kind of receptacles where such waste would be appropriate—so restrooms or outdoor trash bins. If you’re visiting friends, wrap the diaper up and put it in your bag for later disposal, unless you’re visiting someone with small children and you can ask if there’s a place you can toss it. You’re in charge of a baby, and this is an instance in which you just can’t let the chips fall where they may.

—Prudie

I would for sure seal up a #2 diaper and make sure it was in a trash can that wouldn't bother anyone, but a diaper that's just wet? I will throw them out anywhere!

Every diaper I've ever changed in public has ended up in a bathroom garage. Wrapped up in itself but not wrapped into another bag. FFFC?

Ditto. I don't go out of my way to seal up diapers.

[lea]

I keep small bags in my bag for wrapping a poop diaper in but I still just toss it in a bathroom garbage if we're in public. If we're at someone's house, we take it outside, unless they have a diaper pail they let us use.

[rlb]

Jul 23, 2015 14:30:25 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

Jul 23, 2015 14:10:03 GMT -5 hurricanerek said:

My kid can't focus on TV for longer than about 5 minutes. Music though...

My uo: I hate scrabble. bananagrams is way better.

I love bananagrams. rlb is kicking my ass in Words at the moment.

It's the one thing my plethora of useless knowledge is good for. That and Trivia Crack, of course. 

[jnnfrrose6]

Jul 23, 2015 18:37:52 GMT -5 lea said:

I keep small bags in my bag for wrapping a poop diaper in but I still just toss it in a bathroom garbage if we're in public. If we're at someone's house, we take it outside, unless they have a diaper pail they let us use.

This. I keep a roll of doggy poop bags in the diaper bag just for this. Compact and easy to get one when needed.