Nothing, really, and I can't complain. Kid is too young to know or care about fathers day, wife knows I'm not really into celebrating things like that.
I've never celebrated Father's Day (I had a shitty dad and it wasn't part of family tradition anyway). My kid's too young to know what's going on, but I did get a card from the daycare. It was more a day to treat myself a little, even if it was one of my weeks. So we went to the hardware store.
I'd like to make it more of a thing down the road but it'll probably have to be other family doing something nice for me. That's years away though.
Ah, I missed your post and made my own. I have this gripe that if it's really supposed to be important then Father's Day (and Mother's Day for that matter), should be a three-day weekend. However, this is really part of my reasoning as to why it's not actually that important. It really is just another Sunday and anyone trying to make it too much more than that is setting themselves up for disappointment, fathers and father-enjoyers alike.
Mostly it's very well written. Funny, sweet, educational for both kids and parents. The humor isn't tacked on to keep kids' attention; it's woven into the story and lesson of each episode. Bluey is one of the few shows I enjoy watching with my kids, and it's by far my favorite.
I haven’t watched it much, but my wife really likes it. My advice is simply to avoid Caillou, unless you want your kids to be bratty, whiny, and possibly bald.
Our kid is 2 1/2 and the best advice I can give (if you live in the US) is to download the PBS kids app. As you can imagine I'm concerned what shows my kid is exposed to and the stuff on PBS kids is great. Some of the stuff like Arthur seems to be targeted at kids a little older but shows like Daniel Tiger and Sesame Street are great. It's really awesome watching your kid sing along to some of the tunes. I've basically come to the conclusion that as long as it's on the PBS kids app that it's good to go.
Other shows I've shown him off the app are the OG Thomas the Tank episodes and Peppa Pig, both of which I love too.
I don't know anything about Bluey but it seems to be pretty popular with parents so I'm sure that's a good choice too.
Most kids TV is just mindless repetitive garbage. Bluey is actually just genuinely, good, well-written TV. I've heard people say that it's not really a kid's show that parents like to watch, it's a parent show that kids also like to watch.
It's a subreddit where people would share and discuss non-canon lore for various children's media. I remember a post where we speculated on the religion(s) observed in Danial Tiger, for example. (There is no god but Trolly.)
As they say, generally a repeated 'why' is not out of pure interest, it's a bit for attention. After a few of those, feel free to give nonsense answers.
We went down this route, and it’s one of my big regrets. Was AU$2 a tooth and a wish, which started as an easy and cheap soft toy (think a couple of bucks max). But it’s turned into $2/tooth cumulative, ie. Tooth 10 gets $20, tooth 11 gets $22 etc, and a wish… Cue late night runs to Kmart and lots of grumbling about why we are doing this.
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