Please restrain your giant toddlers,
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Anonymous
| This post made me laugh, because my 2.5 yo IS giant. She's 99% for height and 80% for weight. She wears a 4T. And at our local Easter egg hunt, the big dressed up bunny and all the kids running and screaming freaked her out so bad she spent the whole thing on her dad's shoulders, holding on for dear life. Total eggs grabbed by this big burly lug? 0! |
Anonymous
| OPs post was funny but there are some huge kids- I mean- 200% percentile.. that's fat. |
Anonymous
You suckers are doing it all wrong. I don't feed mine 24 hours prior to The Wvent (aka, the Egg Hunt). That way they are good and hungry when the hunt begins. Eye of the Tiger, baby! PS -- my 2.5 year old, who is by all accounts a tall "lug," spent most of egg hunt standing in place as if she was pooping. So despite the eye of the tiger, she didn't railroad your kid. |
Anonymous
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http://www.flixya.com/photo/1993897/Tragic-toddler-weighs-nine-stone
My giant toddler can do whatever the fuck he wants to. |
Anonymous
Wow, he must be such a little joy. Sweet, well mannered, well behaved, respectful little joy. Good luck. |
Anonymous
LOL. when I saw OP's title I had visions of these GIANTS stomping around, putting small humans and dogs in their mouths, etc. Oh the horror! |
Anonymous
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Poor OP, she must be new to DC. Straight in from either California or Iowa.
Get used to it, because if you can't survive the Easter egg hunt, how are you going to handle..... PRESCHOOL LOTTERY!!!!!!!! |
Anonymous
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I understand your frustration, and I get it since I have a little guy who is the sweetest and gentlest little dude you'll ever meet, and who regularly gets run over by the other boys (even though he is bigger than some of them!). It hurts me every time, but that's life, and they're not going to learn to be self-sufficient and do for themselves if they don't take a few knocks. Now, if a kid is being deliberately too rough, that is one thing, but if your kid gets knocked down by another kid who is just overly exuberant, well, that's just how it goes when you're a kid. I just tell him wow, good thing you're tough! And off he goes.
I think we all have a tendency to helicopter these days, even if we think we aren't hovering. It's a hard but necessary thing to take a step back sometimes and let your kid find his or her own way and figure out a way to deal with life's little frustrations, including not getting enough eggs or getting knocked down. |
Anonymous
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omg this thread is everything i love about dcum.
and OP, clearly you should start your own Pipsqueak Egg Hunt to keep out all the enormous riffraff. |
Anonymous
How about posting in the GENERAL PARENTING FORUM. Obviously your little one isn't pulling from a full gene pool. |
Anonymous
Happy Easter to you too. I am so glad I am not Christian so I don't have to demonstrate "Christian" values. |
Anonymous
What's Christian about a giant bunny and eggs? |
Anonymous
| I'll keep my giant toddler from taking all the eggs if you don't call your petite toddler "sweet and gentle," by way of suggesting that mine is mean and rough. Being small isn't the same as being kind and being meek isn't obviously better than being bold. |
Anonymous
| To answer one of your questions, OP, my huge, burly, but not fat toddler doesn't eat very much. His genes are what they are. |