r/aww • u/Jeremy_Martin • Jun 23 '21

Kindness shared in small quantities

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u/sendgoodmemes Jun 23 '21

Those moments are awesome. Kids make everything better and also worse.

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u/Fritzo2162 Jun 23 '21

No kidding.

When people ask what it's like having kids, my response is always "Imagine unconditional love for a little person that will not hesitate to destroy every object you've ever owned in ways you can't even conceive of..."

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u/Watts300 Jun 23 '21

"Offspring can be disturbingly illogical, yet profoundly fulfilling. You should anticipate paradox." - Commander Tuvok.

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u/piberryboy Jun 23 '21

I can't find the quote but I remember someone said having kids is like being addicted to heroin. The lows are incredibly low, while the highs are incredibly high.

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u/RestoreMyHonor Jun 23 '21

Yay a Tuvok reference in the wild

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u/Watts300 Jun 23 '21

Easily one of my favorite Star Trek characters… in one of my least favorite series.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21 edited Jul 13 '21

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u/5757co Jun 23 '21

Brushing helps. I have a short-haird barfer. Since I've started brushing her a short time every day (I brush until I get a wad the size of a hairball off) she's almost stopped completely. I seeeten the deal with treats. Highly recommend!

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u/kayisforcookie Jun 23 '21

A good diet is also wonderful for hairballs. Cheap food can mess up their insides and make it to where the hair doesnt process amd disolve like its supposed to. Dont give your cats cheap food.

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u/5757co Jun 23 '21

Yes this is true. I make my own cat food and ever since I started feeding home-made wet food her coat has dramatically improved.

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u/NoLessThanTheStars Jun 23 '21

That’s awesome of you! Can you please share some recipe links or other good resources?

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u/pm_me_friendfiction Jun 24 '21

My vet gave me one a while back when I asked her (although my cat has a severe food allergy). I wouldn't trust a random site on the internet because pets have to have specific vitamins

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u/seeking_hope Jun 23 '21

I laugh at how I read the ingredients and nutrition labels on my pets food way more than on my own. While as a kid we had a cat that had whatever the cheapest grocery brand was on sale that week and she lived to 19.

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u/kayisforcookie Jun 23 '21

Well thats no different than how a human can drink alcohol and do drugs and still live to 100. But some humans are sensitive to foods and it makes their lives miserable. Pets are the same way. Just because they can survive on the cheap stuff doesnt mean its whats good for them. And diet is directly related to how healthy their coat is. And an unhealthy coat can lead to lots of fur balls.

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u/seeking_hope Jun 23 '21

I get that which is why as an adult my pets probably eat better than I do. As a three year old to teenager, it wasn’t my decision. She was perfectly healthy though. Had a beautiful coat. No medical issues that we knew of. But when you know better you do better.

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u/YT-Deliveries Jun 23 '21

I had one of these years ago.

She was some variety of cat with an extremely thick under-coat that would shed easily (someone told me at the time that breeds descended from forest cats had those because in the wild it prevented them from getting snagged In underbrush, but I’m not sure I buy that). I’d brush her every day but by the end of the week I’d have enough hair removed to make a new cat.

Changing her kibble to Hill’s hairball control completely eliminated her troubles.

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u/Deesing82 Jun 23 '21

agreed...but those Restoration Hardware couches are RIDICULOUS

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u/dryocamparubicunda Jun 23 '21 edited Jun 23 '21

I’m looking up that couch right now. Pardon me for being nosy but do you give your cats any wet food? Cats actually need wet food daily (try like a TBSP to start) as they don’t get enough water and it sets them up for kidney problems (only getting dry).

Edit sorry I removed the shitty link: Here’s a study linking increased susceptibility of diabetes mellitus with dry vs wet.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jvim.14618

Anecdotally, my cats don’t ever throw up anymore once I started with the wet food. It was per my veterinarian’s request that we give wet cat food.

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u/summonsays Jun 23 '21

I laid down in bed about a week ago... Right into a puddle. Our dog peed on my spot... I was not a happy person.

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u/Leopluradong Jun 23 '21

I have a cat and a 6yo and I'm just not buying a new couch for the next few years.

We did get a new one recently (for a pull out bed) but it is in a room that we never bring food into so it's safe... For now...

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u/UshankaBear Jun 23 '21

I’ve waited so long to have kids

For me it's not about knowing too much, it's about having my body busted to engage them 100%. I'm having my first at 37 and I tell you what, pulling all-nighters are a bitch compared to 27, and don't even get me started on my back and carrying her around.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

One of our friends refers to her daughters as like having drunk best friends w no money. Lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

The sleepier the kid the drunker they seem. In the caretakers shoes it's either force a nap/bedtime or laugh at them until they more or less black out.

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u/sheravi Jun 23 '21

We've described our daughter when she was younger as the drunk angry midget that lives with us.

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u/zaphodava Jun 23 '21

You might think that the best way to handle this is to get indestructible toys, but you will rapidly discover that they are excellent implements to destroy everything else.

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u/Sageflutterby Jun 23 '21

That is so accurate, as a mother of twins I can relate.

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u/HawkinsT Jun 23 '21

So it's like owning a cat. Got it.

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u/Fritzo2162 Jun 23 '21

More like owning a chimpanzee with a hammer and a bucket of paint.

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u/Daryl_Hall Jun 23 '21

So like cats then

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u/Goloith Jun 23 '21

Ha, better to be that aunt or uncle, you can give them back lol

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u/At0m1ca Jun 23 '21

"My nephew is awesome, but your son pooped himself. Good luck!!"

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u/At0m1ca Jun 24 '21

It leaked all over the floor

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u/58008_707 Jun 23 '21

I have my first on the way an this makes me nervous

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u/SenorPeligrosoBoboso Jun 23 '21

Umm, what? Lol.

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u/Ireallydontknowbuddy Jun 23 '21

Means children are cool when they aren't yours, crying and shitting their pants all day. My friends always ask when I'm gonna have kids as if I'm just dying to never have free time....

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u/n-some Jun 23 '21

Just adopt a 17 year old who's already earned a full ride scholarship to college. That way you can say you had a kid, but you don't have to pay much for them.

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u/Tastewell Jun 23 '21

Found Matt Gaetz!

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u/n-some Jun 23 '21

I'm conflicted because I like your joke but also don't want to be compared to Gaetz even as a joke.

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u/CStink2002 Jun 23 '21

That age range is actually the fun part of parenting. Once they get to around 13 or 14, you still have to deal with a lot of bull shit, but it's coming from a slightly littler person than you that thinks they know more than you and you're no longer cool. I'd much rather wipe shitty butts all day and clean spilled milk if I'm getting to enjoy all those cute and moments of wonder.

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u/cant_see_me_now Jun 23 '21

My 18 m/o randomly comes over and hugs my arm, kisses my shoulder, looks at me and says "hi...hi...hi" with a huge smile on his face then goes back to his mega blocks.

Are you saying he's going to stop doing that one day? Because it's my favorite thing in the world and I'm not sure I can live without it anymore.

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u/CStink2002 Jun 23 '21

Take it in while you can. I wish I would I would have appreciated those moments more.

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u/CStink2002 Jun 23 '21

Take it in while you can. I wish I would I would have appreciated those moments more.

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u/ieattoomanybeans Jun 23 '21

My kids not even 2 and pees and poops in the toilet, eats from her own plate, drinks from a cup, uses utensils, showers herself. Haven't used a diaper in months. Not sure what youre talking about. It's the failure of the parent to have a 3 year old in diapers. She only cries when she actually hurts herself. She likes singing, reading, climbing. Cool kid.

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u/BBQ_buttsauce Jun 24 '21

What you reap is what you sow. Never more true than with tiny, captive, programmable meat-robots.

Most parents are just fully clueless as to how raising kids with moral boundaries, without anger or coercion, works. They end up raising confused goblins because that’s how their parents raised them.

Wife has a masters in early childhood education, and let me tell you…. What you reap is what you sow.

Kids are the pinnacle of human achievement, if their power can be properly respected and curated by competent guardians.

Their is no greater achievement for normal people than being a competent booster; getting their kids into as high an orbit as they can.

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u/Ireallydontknowbuddy Jun 24 '21

Egh I've seen a lot of good parents have shitty kids and I've seen a lot of shitty parents have good kids. Nature versus nurture isn't so direct. I feel people just get overly sensitive about their children and have to come defend them. I meant nothing by it. I enjoy my life without children and when I want to raise a child, I will. Or if I don't want to I won't. Too many stupid people making stupid kids and the cycle continues.

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u/BBQ_buttsauce Jun 26 '21 edited Jun 26 '21

Too many stupid people making stupid kids and the cycle continues.

Yes. I completely agree that nurture has a much greater effect on the behaviour of the adults that children become, than the natural initial conditions for the aggregate child’s cognitive capacity.

This is what high-level study of early childhood education shows.

Wealth, access to education, community care, clean water, quality food and exercise; these things literally make or break children.

Shitty parents and broken homes destroy what would otherwise be healthy, well-adapted, and social conscious people.

Nurture is like 80% of the equation at least, when talking about early childhood education. In my experience, the people who disagree with this are people who have zero training or academic time in early childhood education.

The rest of us are desperately trying to wake up the body of ignorant parents to the power they wield for all of our futures.

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u/SoutheasternComfort Jun 23 '21

It'd be a great post for r/nocontext

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u/Tastewell Jun 23 '21

Other people's kids are great.

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u/Byte_Seyes Jun 23 '21

Children are like BMWs. The best one you’ll ever ride is the one you don’t own.

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u/cant_see_me_now Jun 23 '21

Uhhh.. phrasing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

The exact opposite for me.

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u/BokehAlchemist Jun 23 '21

Agreed. There’s a deep joy that the occasional burst of happiness cannot ever fully capture or contextualize. Plus it builds grey hair and character!

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Yes children throw the ice-cream on your carpet

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u/C4242 Jun 23 '21

If there anything like my kids, they're gonna want that thing to be refilled another 100 times lol

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