Tips for first time fathers

[ZeroHour]

http://pizdaus.com/single.php?id=20439

 

LOL

[mattx]

No wonder my kids didn't turn out right....

[CyberNerd]

A lot easier to read than the nhs stuff. I've already been told I can't take a newborn on a motorcycle

only a week to go.....

[torledo]

http://pizdaus.com/single.php?id=20439

 

LOL

 

Now i know the way my wife 'massages' my son is definitely wrong. LOL

 

btw i hate those baby carrier things. I don't think they're a suitable way to carry a child. If you haven't got the stamina to carry an infant in you're arms when you go shopping use a pushchair, not have them strapped to you - such an annoyingly middle class thing to do. Another thing that annoys me is middle class parents riding the cycling equivalent of the bendy bus...those contraptions where the kid is sitting about 20 feet behind petrified of getting hit by a lampost as mum takes the next left - one timezone ahead.

[Joanne]

i cried with laughter

[witch]

If you haven't got the stamina to carry an infant in you're arms when you go shopping .

 

If you were just carrying the baby in a crowded shopping centre it would be really easy to have the baby knocked out of your arms by someone jostling you.

And if you ARE in a crowded shopping centre a pushchair becomes a huge hassle, both for you and others. A baby carrier is far more sensible - and it isn't middle class - peoples all over the world strap their babies to them in some way to keep them safe.

But I do agree about the 'bendy bus' thingies

[Joedetic]

I lolled then forwarded that to my mother and sister.

[elsiegee40]

Particularly like the Drying Baby tip

[torledo]

If you were just carrying the baby in a crowded shopping centre it would be really easy to have the baby knocked out of your arms by someone jostling you.

And if you ARE in a crowded shopping centre a pushchair becomes a huge hassle, both for you and others. A baby carrier is far more sensible - and it isn't middle class - peoples all over the world strap their babies to them in some way to keep them safe.

But I do agree about the 'bendy bus' thingies

 

women who strap their babies in developing countries have little choice as they often have to travel miles to fetch and carry food and water....and carrying babies this way is the most practical thing to do.

 

strapping babies in this country to go shopping or for a stroll IS a middle class thing. I agree pushchairs can be a hassle but shops, supermarkets and public buildings are very pushchair friendly these days.

[witch]

OK if you say so - as always you obviously know far more than I do about shopping with small babies.......

[Joedetic]

I wouldn't fancy pushing a pushchair around my local asda, people are far too inconsiderate these days.

[elsiegee40]

Boy! Am I glad that my kids are old enough to propel themselves these days.

 

They are at just about the right age at the moment... old enough to travel independently on the buses & young enough not to be borrowing my car!

[john]

haha no wonder kids dont like me at times

[Elky]

A lot easier to read than the nhs stuff. I've already been told I can't take a newborn on a motorcycle

only a week to go.....

 

What bike you got? Doing my DAS on 23rd Feb having passed my theory yesterday. All going well, I'll be picking up a 2005 SV650S on 1st March!

[CyberNerd]

@ Elky, I'm now on an ER5, I had to downgrade from my VFR750 to cut costs. I also had to give up a draw full of CD's to hold nappies

My mate has a SV650, very nice

There's a thread about bikes here:

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4939

[chrbb]

I have to say I always found pushchairs a great advantage over a baby carrier, you can always use a pushchair to barge your way through fellow shoppers! I will imagine I will carry on that tradition with any grandchildren I may have:D

 

young enough not to be borrowing my car!

Just wait! My husband's car is a company car which is insured for anyone he gives permission to drive it, even the cat when he gets his licence, my sons have his spare keys with their own car keys, that car is never on our drive for longer than 10 minutes!

[Andrew_C]

strapping babies in this country to go shopping or for a stroll IS a middle class thing.

Just plain bunk!

We used soft carriers, backpacks and prams and pushchairs and there's no way I'm middle class.

 

The backpack really came into it's own climbing around Malham Cove. Really rather spooked some keen climbing types who had rope in theirs...

[torledo]

Just plain bunk!

We used soft carriers, backpacks and prams and pushchairs and there's no way I'm middle class.

 

The backpack really came into it's own climbing around Malham Cove. Really rather spooked some keen climbing types who had rope in theirs...

 

......

 

funny, i was under the impression everyone in winchester was middle class.

[witch]

Just wait! My husband's car is a company car which is insured for anyone he gives permission to drive it, even the cat when he gets his licence, my sons have his spare keys with their own car keys, that car is never on our drive for longer than 10 minutes!

 

Don't they argue over whose turn it is?

[Andrew_C]

funny, i was under the impression everyone in winchester was middle class.

Hell, I can't afford to LIVE there! I live in a fairly scummy bit of Southampton; I bought a Semi here for the same money that would have got me a 1 bed "flat" above a Chinese chippy in Winchester. OK, I'll give you that there are parts of the country where I could have bought a street with the same cash...

[chrbb]

Don't they argue over whose turn it is?

 

Yes! but they solve it by going out in the car together, needless to say I don't get to use it much.

 

They have their own cars but someone else's petrol is always more attractive.

[john]

Yes! but they solve it by going out in the car together, needless to say I don't get to use it much.

 

They have their own cars but someone else's petrol is always more attractive.

Always do what we do in our house, all have cars that are too big and powerful to insure younger siblings on Really pees my sister off, the time she thought she'd get on my insurance was the year i got the car that was about 7 groups higher hehe and she expected me to pay to put her on it as well! Cheaky person! I already pay for my mum and dad on it.

[russdev]

women who strap their babies in developing countries have little choice as they often have to travel miles to fetch and carry food and water....and carrying babies this way is the most practical thing to do.

 

strapping babies in this country to go shopping or for a stroll IS a middle class thing. I agree pushchairs can be a hassle but shops, supermarkets and public buildings are very pushchair friendly these days.

 

Seriously lot of places are not child friendly certainly around Leicestershire in fact some of verge of breaking disability laws.

 

I see benefit of both and have used both and I am no way middle class as anyone who has meet me will tell you.

 

One advantage of buggies (god how Americanised I am) is that you can pick the kid up and stick your shopping in it

 

Russ

[chrbb]

We don't pay insurance on the car just a load of tax!

But having a car that anyone can drive is a real bonus when it comes to being picked up from the pub.

[witch]

Er...can I just ask what is so wrong about being middle-class? I am - middle-middle actually, and proud of it.

In this day and age, the old class labels no longer fit as people of all backgrounds, ages and incomes do much the same things as each other. One of the few ways to try and tell is to listen to them speak - not the accent, but the way they put together sentences (not easy on a forum!). And that isn't reliable any more as people move up and down one classification all the time. (my grandfather was an engine driver - 'working class' if you like, and my dad went to a grammar, on to Uni and became an undersecretary in the government (like in 'Yes Minister' - archetypal middle class))

The middle classes work too, and this job that we all do is definitely a middle class occupation, whether you like it or not. Reverse snobbery, I think. Do you think that a miner or factory worker would look at any of you and think you were working class? I think not!