Toddler
- Toddler Which states pay teachers well? i have to get out of nyc!!!!!
- My
- Ny , nj but depends on district
- My
- Toddler I'm not gonna lie. It took me a few months to become as attached and in love w/ my baby in comparison to the attachment i had with my 3 year old. the deepest love takes time...(more)
- I am sure you aren’t the only one
- and i had no bad feelings towards the baby. no ppd. easy baby. it's just in the case of hypothetical question of "which child would you give up first?" the answer easily would...(more)
- I am sure you aren’t the only one
- Toddler What is your favorite beach bag? I have the perfect one that I bought in tj maxx years ago and it is falling apart. I even paid to replace the zipper at one point but it's time to...(more)
- Llbean boat bags for me.
- Ditto
- what brand is the one you love, did you look on ebay
- It's so worn I can't even find a tag. And so old. That's my problem- im trying to replace it and can't.
- Llbean boat bags for me.
- Toddler Staying at a house in the Catskill area. We keep finding giant bugs and my little kids are freaking out. I keep texting Dh when I see one so he can get it and I distract the kids....(more)
- No idea what kind of bugs they are?
- No. And I’m not usually nuts about that kind of crap but they are creepy. Dh took a pic and will look it up
- Np: stink bugs? If so, don't squish them or they will attract more. You need to take them outside or flush them
- No. And I’m not usually nuts about that kind of crap but they are creepy. Dh took a pic and will look it up
- Delicate and prone to drama. Good times.
- Did you try a spray ?
- We are just here for the weekend. Didn’t start seeing a lot till last night.
- Get some raid
- We are just here for the weekend. Didn’t start seeing a lot till last night.
- you are ridiculous
- exactly
- No idea what kind of bugs they are?
- Toddler My life has son very hard things in it but I feel so lucky,...(more)
- Toddler I love Lady Louise. She seems like a sweet child...(more)
- Toddler Well this is not the Bville I was expecting...(more)
- Why? I live here. My friend helped organize this walkout (and the last one).
- Who is this Price?
- *Prince
- I have no idea! Honestly there are SO FEW black kids here but I have never seen him! in my oldest dc's grade there is ONE black student
- Do you like the school?
- Who is this Price?
- Then you don't understand what well-educated kids care about
- Why? I live here. My friend helped organize this walkout (and the last one).
- Toddler I have a nice air mattress but it loses air overnight. can't figure out if there is a leak or if they normally depress and need to be refilled middle of night. cannot find the...(more)
- I slept on an air mattress for 2 months and it lost no air the entire time. Your mattress has a leak
- Ditto
- I slept on an air mattress for 2 months and it lost no air the entire time. Your mattress has a leak
- Toddler I went for a chemical face peel Friday and had a terrible reaction. When I walked onto the street, a kid actually screamed at my face
- Did a dr do it?
- Yes, a derm
- Wow
- Yes, a derm
- What kind and strength ?
- Hi Samantha. Time to go back to datalounge.
- This. LOL
- Did a dr do it?
- Toddler In New York, you're always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment. Why does only having 2/3 make you feel bad?
- Some people have a husband
- i'll take the job and the boyfriend.
- Where will you live?
- somewhere. it doesn't have to be perfect
- Where will you live?
- Jesus. Some crazed Sex and the City fan is posting like a maniac this morning.
- Bc you measure your value by your posessions
- a job and a boyfriend are not posessions
- omg quoting SATC?
- Toddler Do you like San Francisco?
- Yes
- love love love
- People were saying it's grubby and dirty
- it's gritty in some parts. it's a big city in the USA. they're like that
- People were saying it's grubby and dirty
- i love it's access to nearby nature
- Yes. The homelessness is pretty out of control though.
- I thought so too when I visited last summer.
- NYC is rapidly becoming the same. I am shocked at how pervasive homelessness has become in NYC.
- I thought so too when I visited last summer.
- I like New York in June. How about you?
- Toddler This post has been disliked 4 times. What celebrity does this person resemble most?...(more)
- STOP! IT'S TOO EARLY TO KEEP POSTING THE SAME PICTURES.
- Haha
- You already said Kim k
- Most? It is a bad Halloween mask of Michael Jackson.
- no one gives a shit.
- OP: It's my skank step dd
- Is she a nice girl?
- STOP! IT'S TOO EARLY TO KEEP POSTING THE SAME PICTURES.
- Toddler ThisNYTimes article form 2014 on the Hanley and Michael Mellon is like an Onion article. They are such clueless drips...(more)
- super wealthy bubble
- Toddler Wow this woman looks exactly like Kim Kardashian...(more)
- No she doesn’t
- omg i hate those eyebrows
- this is such a hideous makeup style. i don't get it.
- I can’t believe that is a Laura mercier ad campaign. That is terrible! Her eyebrows? The photoshopping? Wow.
- Yup I was surprised Kim k would be who they used but turns out it’s just a Kim k lookalike
- She doesnt t look like her
- She looks exactly like her to me but we have different opinions
- Do you ever get accused of not noticing details?
- You ever accused of not noticing the picture?
- This doesn’t make any sense
- You ever accused of not noticing the picture?
- Np: I think she does too
- Do you ever get accused of not noticing details?
- She looks exactly like her to me but we have different opinions
- She doesnt t look like her
- she looks like there is a actually mask placed over her entire face except for her eyeballs
- I thought the same thing! I like Laura M, too
- Yup I was surprised Kim k would be who they used but turns out it’s just a Kim k lookalike
- Ahe looks so fake
- i think it's supposed to.
- OP: It's my skank step dd
- Lol notbop
- i would be so bummed if my ds fell for a girl who looked like this.
- Toddler This post has been deleted.
- Yes
- Too early.
- Toddler I did not grow up in the US and have always lived in the NY area since I got here. What is the difference between NY culture and Mid West culture or the Southern culture?
- Everything
- ny culture has a heavy jewish influence (which im not saying is a negative thing) the rest of the country does not.
- This is not true for so many people.
- individuals? of course not. the feeling of the area on the whole? i think it does
- I don’t agree at all
- completely inaccurate description and i'm j
- I don’t agree at all
- individuals? of course not. the feeling of the area on the whole? i think it does
- I live in south Florida and it’s super jewy here
- or- true and parts of california. neither of which are anything like the mid west or the south, and both of which are more like ny area. case in point
- Uh you said the rest of the country doesn’t have jewish influence, there are plenty of jewish pockets outside of ny
- I live inEvanston IL and my area is very Jewish.
- Yup my sil used to live there, she’s orthodox
- Skokie (next town over) is heavily orthodox.
- Oh yeah I’ve heard of that area
- Big KKK rally there back in the day...
- Yes remember reading about that. I live in a small , very jewish town in Florida that used to be full of kkk too.
- Big KKK rally there back in the day...
- Oh yeah I’ve heard of that area
- Skokie (next town over) is heavily orthodox.
- Yup my sil used to live there, she’s orthodox
- I live inEvanston IL and my area is very Jewish.
- Uh you said the rest of the country doesn’t have jewish influence, there are plenty of jewish pockets outside of ny
- or- true and parts of california. neither of which are anything like the mid west or the south, and both of which are more like ny area. case in point
- I'm not sure I get that either.
- How so?
- people are more out spoken, its a success/money driven vibe, more secular, more individualistic....pros and cons to all of these things
- This is not true for so many people.
- So, what is Midwest culture?op
- Wide
- I have lived In Canada, NYC, New Hampshire, Charleston and NJ. Each place is so different. People are so laid back in NH, polite, kind. NY were distant, reserved, very little...(more)
- Chicago here. Culture: friendly, kind, low key, nonjugemental.
- Corrupt, gang ridden, always trying to prove itself as being as good as New York.
- New York is the Babylon of the United States. Whores and all.
- Toddler Selling our home to downsize and move into an apartment. Feeling sad because we did a gut renovation...but it is a finanacially sound move. Older dd is off to college in the fall...(more)
- Good luck with all of it
- You will be so happy down the road.
- I built this home to die in. Can't take it from me even though it's 6k sq ft
- unless you can't pay the 30k RE taxes
- We're closer to 40 and I made sure we properly set ourselves up so we could pay those
- unless you can't pay the 30k RE taxes
- i struggle with this as well. dd is a junior in hs. how much is this saving you financially?
- Well...we are in a Brooklyn brownstone...which appreciated quite a bit...and it is large. So we are getting quite a lot for it. And given that dd will be gone and I will have only...(more)
- so you are moving with younger dc into an apt? or just you and dh?
- dh, younger dd and me.
- are you using money from the sale of the house to finance college? i would never do that.
- No...not just college. Long story...but dh also stared his own business and we need more capital. That is a big reason actually.
- oy, what's your HHI?
- i dream of doing this!
- Toddler Do New Yorkers still wear all black? Is that still chic?
- No
- When did this change?
- I don’t know
- When did this change?
- Yup..that will never change.
- when in doubt go black
- It was never chic. It was practical.
- No
- Toddler I live in an affluent burb and there is this bar that gets packed with 40 year olds drinking heavily. WTF
- I don’t get why this is remarkable
- Me either. It’s a bar?
- Yes, and who goes out on a Saturday night drinking at a bar like that? And not just having 1 glass of wine either...
- Lol!
- OR people who want to do that. I do g drink, I don’t get the appeal at all but I accept that other people like it and they are usually still okay .
- This post has been deleted.
- Disliker needs to pull the stick out.
- Yes, and who goes out on a Saturday night drinking at a bar like that? And not just having 1 glass of wine either...
- Me either. It’s a bar?
- im only 35 and my tolerance has really taken a nose-dive. i was never a heavy drinker but now even two glasses of wine and i feel like garbage the next day. i am amazed that...(more)
- np we don’t all have the same body chemistry
- The key to your mystery is, you were never a heavy drinker. Those who were can still throw them back.
- But what 40 yo still does shots etc? Weird
- Plenty.
- or- it makes me sad. i literally had two glasses of wine at freaking book club and i was up at 5am, i had anxiety, i felt foggy the next day. i dont feel more than buzzed but i...(more)
- You're drinking cheap shit
- But what 40 yo still does shots etc? Weird
- About 20% of the population drinks heavily so a crowded bar makes sense on a regular basis. Not all the people drink to access although a bar attracts the type that do certainly
- ^excess
- I don’t get why this is remarkable
- Toddler I think it was very rude and disrespectful that trump did not go to barbara bush's funeral. however, i am sure the bushes were totally relieved.
- No one wanted him there, no one
- Not even Melania?
- I was mostly talking about her
- op: esp no melania! she probably enjoyed the break.
- well, of course. it is just sad that this is the state of affairs.
- Not even Melania?
- I don’t think it was rude. He wasn’t wanted.
- This ride would be showing up
- rude
- This ride would be showing up
- I hate him but apparently it’s customary. Only Michelle went to Nancy Reagan’s.
- i did not know that! wow.
- Yes. This is evidence of how stupid and biased ybm is. I hate Trump but I do know protocol. It would have been inappropriate for him to attend.
- God this. I was reading all the comments yesterday about Trump should be at the funeral. Idiots all
- not at all uncommon for a sitting president, with Obama opting not to attend the funerals of both Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford. Mrs Bush's son was not at the funeral for Lady Bird...(more)
- too much security/too much of a distraction--presidents send FLOTUS to funerals.
- No one wanted him there, no one
- Toddler I just got a divorce and ordered a book about it on Amazon. Now it's giving me all these self-help recommendations with these depressing book titles!
- You shouldn’t have told it your business
- Toddler The other day a poster was mad because she ordered tires that were delivered at her house and needed him to help her load than in the car to bring them to the auto shop. That was...(more)
- What am I missing here
- Mad at her dh ^^
- But why was she mad and why is that weird
- He was annoyed with her. I would be annoyed too.
- Still not seeing it, I guess you’re my wtf moment this weekend.
- Sorry. She bought tires at one place and then was moving them to another place to have them put on. That is insane to me.
- Oh. I do that, based on price. And I swap my tires in winter anyway and take them to the mechanic to put them on. So that scenario is common in my household. Tires are heavy and...(more)
- Sorry. She bought tires at one place and then was moving them to another place to have them put on. That is insane to me.
- Still not seeing it, I guess you’re my wtf moment this weekend.
- He was annoyed with her. I would be annoyed too.
- But why was she mad and why is that weird
- Toddler Packing my child spaghetti with sauce for lunch. I don't have any thermos type container and was going to wrap container in kitchen towel and put in an insulated bag. Any other...(more)
- Pack a different lunch -it will be cold without a thermos
- Too late. It's a done deal. And I've tried those thermos containers in the past and I don't think they keep them warm - do they really work?
- The green Stanley ones do
- TY -- I'll look into it
- Yes but you have to our boiling water inside for a few minutes (close the top) and then pour out and put hot food in immediately.
- The green Stanley ones do
- Too late. It's a done deal. And I've tried those thermos containers in the past and I don't think they keep them warm - do they really work?
- lord that is just so gross. like would you ever do this for yourself? why do people feed kids this way? just send something truly packable like a sandwich
- He is a royal pain in the ass
- i have no time for that. if he wants a hot lunch, he can buy
- He eats a simple lunch everyday so I can't complain. This is for between 2 sports games - not a school day
- again, nfw. if youre old enough to have two games in one day, you're old enough to be flexible and eat a sandwich or eat something from the snack shack
- He eats a simple lunch everyday so I can't complain. This is for between 2 sports games - not a school day
- i have no time for that. if he wants a hot lunch, he can buy
- Np why is it gross?
- He is a royal pain in the ass
- spaghetti is good at room temp
- It might. It won’t spoil, it just will be tepid not not.
- .hot
- It will be fine room temp or send him with plain pasta. And just do little pasta - spaghetti is such a mess.
- Pack a different lunch -it will be cold without a thermos
- Toddler Teen dc just drops clothes on floor when taking off. 1,000 x i've said, walk back there and place in laundry - 2 feet away) and still does not.
- I stopped washing my teens clothes because she is the same way. It didn’t change her and now I just close her door
- yep they do not care if they leave house naked or smell from dirty all day. W.t.f.
- My DD just can't get any good habits. She is 13yo
- I gave up on this years ago. This is their problem.
- meaning you don't wash their things ?^
- No. They do their own laundry and room, their way.
- meaning you don't wash their things ?^
- I stopped washing my teens clothes because she is the same way. It didn’t change her and now I just close her door
- Toddler What's the going rate for a nanny or babysitter for the after school pick up until 6/630? I guess if you can't find a babysitter for that time you have to get a nanny. So what's f...(more)
- $20 if you are lucky. $25 the norm. up to $30 if you're having a hard time finding one.