What's something you do as a parent that nobody else seems to do as much?

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Anonymous wrote:Well this is DCUM where the majority live in the DC area. So way to post something the rest of us cannot do on the regular. Sure we have the random lake areas that are within an hour and they get filled up immediately and stay packed all day. And that’s only when it’s actually the season for it.

This is the equivalent to posting “I don’t under stand why I don’t see more families ice fishing on the weekends, We live in Alaska and do this constantly! Parenting hack!”

Sandy point is 30 minutes out

From where? Because from where I live in MD it’s an hour and a half. You do realize that that this area is composed of places other than where you personally live correct?

Also do you go there any other time than when it’s warm? It’s simply not enjoyable when it’s cold/not good weather.

From DC. Of course if you live in Hagerstown or Aberdeen or wherever all these people who aren’t from the DC area live it’ll be an hour and a half away.

There’s tons of areas in this region, where you can be in a river or even a creek.

and the majority of the water is not safe to swim in.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

They can still drown.

When we go to the river we go to a little cove that's about a foot deep, it's more for skipping rocks and cooling off our feet. The tubes, boat etc is used in a lake, though I have used the tube in the river a few times tied up to a rock, right next to my kids. If we want to really swim we swim in our pools at our apartment complex.

I don’t think the local lakes/rivers here even allow floats.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop normalizing weed.

+1

We are a 2-fed household.

Possession of marijuana is still a federal offense everywhere in the USA and D.C.

If you think you cannot get fired from your federal employment, you have not been paying attention.

Taking marijuana (in any form) or even possessing it for someone else will cost you your federal career, your security clearance, etc. Don’t do it.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

They can still drown.

When we go to the river we go to a little cove that's about a foot deep, it's more for skipping rocks and cooling off our feet. The tubes, boat etc is used in a lake, though I have used the tube in the river a few times tied up to a rock, right next to my kids. If we want to really swim we swim in our pools at our apartment complex.

I don’t think the local lakes/rivers here even allow floats.

Maybe close in to DC. I see plenty of people on the Potomac near Point of Rocks tubing, both with organized groups and DIY.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop normalizing weed.

+1

We are a 2-fed household.

Possession of marijuana is still a federal offense everywhere in the USA and D.C.

If you think you cannot get fired from your federal employment, you have not been paying attention.

Taking marijuana (in any form) or even possessing it for someone else will cost you your federal career, your security clearance, etc. Don’t do it.

Op lives in CA she said. I will say the attitude around weed in CA is just wild. Like it’s so completely normalized it’s actually scary. Also I’m so confused why someone in CA is posting in a DC area forum about local things they do. I’m
sure there are CA based forums.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

They can still drown.

When we go to the river we go to a little cove that's about a foot deep, it's more for skipping rocks and cooling off our feet. The tubes, boat etc is used in a lake, though I have used the tube in the river a few times tied up to a rock, right next to my kids. If we want to really swim we swim in our pools at our apartment complex.

I don’t think the local lakes/rivers here even allow floats.

Maybe close in to DC. I see plenty of people on the Potomac near Point of Rocks tubing, both with organized groups and DIY.

And this is possible maybe 3 months out of the year? Certainly not an every weekend activity like the OP is suggesting. And most certainly you are seeing adults and older kids tubing in that area, not very young kids like the OP implies she has.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

Lifejackets will drown a child who is unconscious and face down in the water... Hence why responsible adults watch kids in the water, even if they have water safety devices.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

Lifejackets will drown a child who is unconscious and face down in the water... Hence why responsible adults watch kids in the water, even if they have water safety devices.

Why not make better lifejackets? E.g. with the floaty material only in the front, so the child is naturally tilted back

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Anonymous wrote:For me as a co-parenting single mom (however you want to word it?) most of our days off are spent at the river, lake, or ocean. I do see other families there, but we may go to a spot 3x a week and never see the same people. I have year round parking passes for nearby beaches/recreational areas so that gets us there more often.

I feel like it's such a parenting hack. Pack up a lunch, bring some chairs, sometimes bring our 5 person raft or paddle board, some tubes (we live in CA, though I did this as a kid in MN where lake life is big). Our spring break has been spent at a river 8 minutes from our home. I usually take a few puffs from my weed pen or drink a white claw when we get there to make it a little more fun (then by the time we leave several hours later it's worn off so no I'm not driving intoxicated).

I do have friends who like to go paddleboarding when my kids are away on the weekends, but none of my kids friends do this.

Millions of people live in the area, you think just because you don't see the same people, nobody is doing what you do? There are people there right? Glad you found something you like, but its not as unique as you think it is.

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Getting high as a single parent while supervising kids playing in a river. What could go wrong?!

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Are you high now posting this? Why are you posting to a DC metropolitan area based board?

I have a few similar parenting hacks I ise for my younger kids but the older your kids get the more they see through your activities and want to do things that are genuinely fun.

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Anonymous wrote:For me as a co-parenting single mom (however you want to word it?) most of our days off are spent at the river, lake, or ocean. I do see other families there, but we may go to a spot 3x a week and never see the same people. I have year round parking passes for nearby beaches/recreational areas so that gets us there more often.

I feel like it's such a parenting hack. Pack up a lunch, bring some chairs, sometimes bring our 5 person raft or paddle board, some tubes (we live in CA, though I did this as a kid in MN where lake life is big). Our spring break has been spent at a river 8 minutes from our home. I usually take a few puffs from my weed pen or drink a white claw when we get there to make it a little more fun (then by the time we leave several hours later it's worn off so no I'm not driving intoxicated).

I do have friends who like to go paddleboarding when my kids are away on the weekends, but none of my kids friends do this.

I don't understand what you mean by "days off" -- you all have three "days off" a week? Like, what? And how old are your kids... when mine were little we did lots of things throughout the week that are the DC-area weather equivalent to this, ha. But now they are in ES and busy with ECs, homework, and my kids are very social and love to play with neighborhood and other friends. We're not over-scheduled, just a good busy. We love weekend outings, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting high as a single parent while supervising kids playing in a river. What could go wrong?!

For real for real!

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

They can still drown.

When we go to the river we go to a little cove that's about a foot deep, it's more for skipping rocks and cooling off our feet. The tubes, boat etc is used in a lake, though I have used the tube in the river a few times tied up to a rock, right next to my kids. If we want to really swim we swim in our pools at our apartment complex.

Oh so you’re white trash too

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Well that definitely sounds like a California person thing to do lol. What I do that others don't is joke around a lot. It's just my personality and my kids personality too. Also we've been going to art gallery receptions her whole life so we love to find the the ones with the really nice food and drinks (aka pellegrino)