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8,101 | daddit | Good work |
8,102 | daddit | Brought some schmatas when he was stroller age all the time. People act like you're fucking da Vinci |
8,103 | daddit | I’ve been using old diapers that the kids sized out of before we could use them. One diaper is more than enough for all the slides, swings, and steps. Like the squeegee you don’t have to deal with drying the old towel. |
8,104 | daddit | TIL what a squeegee is. |
8,105 | daddit | And a “wiping down the slide” towel. Had kids in Florida. The amount of wet, muddy butts I’ve avoided is uncountable. |
8,106 | daddit | What a great idea! Though my daughter wears a snow suit for jumping in puddles and it goes really fast on a wet slide |
8,107 | daddit | My guy's out here in the pro leagues... I just found out I've been am-dadding all this time. |
8,108 | daddit | But water makes it quicker lol |
8,109 | daddit | I felt clever bringing a tea towel to dry slides. This is much much better! |
8,110 | daddit | Let the kid get a bit wet and dirt. Don’t dress your kid in designer clothing when going to the playground. |
8,111 | daddit | This is GENIUS |
8,112 | daddit | I bring an old grocery bag and a trash grabber. Pick up trash on walks. Leave your surroundings cleaner than you found it. |
8,113 | daddit | Great idea! And when the nappie/diaper/etc suddenly leaks unexpectedly, you can also now clean the mess off the slide. That never happened to me when my son was 2. No, never. With no squeegee or wet wipes. Badly prepared. |
8,114 | daddit | Nah it’s a teaching moment for the kids. Some things aren’t worth doing because you’ll get all wet. |
8,115 | daddit | This ~~is~~ was the way |
8,116 | daddit | Now you no longer have to walk around the park looking like you wet yourself! |
8,117 | daddit | The human squeegee. |
8,118 | daddit | On the job training |
8,119 | daddit | I grab a few handfuls of sand from the playground and pour it on the wet spots then sweep it off with my hand. Works great. |
8,120 | daddit | I always bring a Beach towel with me and wipe the slides off. Keep it on the bottom of the stroller or put it in a backpack |
8,121 | daddit | this is evolution in real time! |
8,122 | daddit | There are dozens of us! |
8,123 | daddit | How wet could that even really be?” Narrator: it was really friggen wet |
8,124 | daddit | I got first no matter what to assert dominance |
8,125 | daddit | I thought of a large beach towel but this makes way more sense! |
8,126 | daddit | The trail of yellow liquid had a better ending than I thought. |
8,127 | daddit | I used to be in a dad's group and a mom showed up one day and said she had been in a mom's group but didn't fit in and could she hang out with us. She fit like a glove and was one of my best friends for many years. Welcome! |
8,128 | daddit | >yellow liquid slide down after my kid Hmmm.... |
8,129 | daddit | >[in daddit as a mom](https://i.imgur.com/yGdlXGA.jpg) (as a dad who is suuuper awkward going to mom events occasionally, please take this as the joke it's meant to be) |
8,130 | daddit | I live in Wichita (we were just ranked as the #1 worst city to live in if you have pollen allergies, yay!) I completely feel this pain. When May rolls around everything will be dusted |
8,131 | daddit | I never said you couldn't replace the water with grease... |
8,132 | daddit | A wet slide and a kid in a rain suit, the perfect match! |
8,133 | daddit | Modern day Prometheus coming down from Olympus to school us all |
8,134 | daddit | I've used a towel before but this is definitely a good first step |
8,135 | daddit | 100% team hang dry. The clothes last a lot longer this way, too. |
8,136 | daddit | I think I need a photo or diagram... |
8,137 | daddit | I don't understand how that setup could be viable with multiple kids. I much prefer my 30min dryer cycle over hanging a bunch a clothes for 12h. |
8,138 | daddit | I was way more on top of laundry when our dryer was broken for a year and a half. Having to hang dry outside and plan around the weather it was easier to actually do the laundry and not let it languish in the dryer. I miss it, I need to get the line strung up again. Except towels. Crunchy line dried towels can fuck... |
8,139 | daddit | I had to look up what a puddle suit is and I'm seriously contemplating this for my toddler. Thank you for bringing this to my attention lol |
8,140 | daddit | You can use a straight one if it can be swooshed back and forth as you descend the half pipe |
8,141 | daddit | this one's straight with a T-bar profile |
8,142 | daddit | Bought [this](https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005005273216053.html) a year ago and I think it'll be perfect as it's very flexible. |
8,143 | daddit | We're a towel family too. And yes, I always quote South Park's Towelie, "always bring a towel". |
8,144 | daddit | Same, I keep a towel in the car but I always end up leaving it in there and just using my jacket. |
8,145 | daddit | Yeah I hate carrying so much stuff too so I’ve tried chucking sandbox sand down the slide to consolidate the water, then push the wet sand away. Works mostly well tho it’s hard to get the water clinging on the vertical parts of the slide. |
8,146 | daddit | <something something teflon sheeting> |
8,147 | daddit | Came here to say this. |
8,148 | daddit | This is Britain. Sun is generally not an issue. |
8,149 | daddit | Home Counties/ish |
8,150 | daddit | Such is the nature of professional tips. |
8,151 | daddit | Southern England (Hampshire) |
8,152 | daddit | Single and writing encryption code for Facebook |
8,153 | daddit | England |
8,154 | daddit | I agree, but I also suspect that someone like Terry Pratchett would observe the benefit of either deploying a practical solution like the above, or else: letting someone else be more noble than you. |
8,155 | daddit | "and then stash/carry a large wet towel home" |
8,156 | daddit | Hampshire UK |
8,157 | daddit | You must live somewhere with nice weather and where kids dry out before they get home? |
8,158 | daddit | And if your kid doesn’t want to get wet? Because they know from experience that wet trousers are uncomfortable? |
8,159 | daddit | This was the way. |
8,160 | daddit | I don't have to... but I will. |
8,161 | daddit | I’m a father of 4 young daughters. Stopped being self conscious a long time ago and now we just have a fucking ball while other parents look at me like I’m a crazy person |
8,162 | daddit | MaNsQuEeg |
8,163 | daddit | In the Pacific Northwest I’m not sure that would work lol definitely going to try though. |
8,164 | daddit | Don’t forget to bring a towel! |
8,165 | daddit | I'm recommending both. We've done towels before, but they just get soaked and then you have to carry around a wet towel. A human hand can only wipe away so much, so the squeegee makes more sense. |
8,166 | daddit | Towel still works better for those curvy slides |
8,167 | daddit | Yeah. I keep playground towels in the car, squeegee is a great addition though! |
8,168 | daddit | We do flat cloth diapers and I’m never altering this decision |
8,169 | daddit | If you had to breathe it you might not be so sure. |
8,170 | daddit | I had to kinda force my way into the local Mom's Facebook meetup group while I was on parental leave and then proceeded to pry it open to all caregivers. This was the "hey, let's meet at the park this afternoon with our infants to get out of the house" Facebook Group. It required you to be a member of the corresponding... |
8,171 | daddit | >She fit like a glove and was one of my best friends for many years. Username checks out |
8,172 | daddit | It's less funny because we're excluded from the momsub even if we've done nothing wrong besides exist |
8,173 | daddit | Try furniture polish |
8,174 | daddit | Or just plant a few banana peels on that sucker and let ‘er rip! |
8,175 | daddit | always pack a can of ptfe spray |
8,176 | daddit | A little paste wax will also keep the slide from rusting as quickly |
8,177 | daddit | Prosqueegeus |
8,178 | daddit | Something like this, I assume: https://imgur.com/gallery/1SI7O3n |
8,179 | daddit | Conversely I cannot imagine how many clothes you are drying at once, because I'm drying 3 to 4 washer loads all overnight at once. |
8,180 | daddit | Snow suits are also great. Just a puddle suit but poofy and warm |
8,181 | daddit | me too! Then I beep the theme to funky town! |
8,182 | daddit | Also good, but more expensive. When I was at UPS, we had liquid wax to spray on the conveyor slides, and that seems like a pretty cheap option, but wax paper is cheap and won't spill. |
8,183 | daddit | Ok, so what I’m hearing you say is that you helped in other ways, so thanks. |
8,184 | daddit | Maybe mom? |
8,185 | daddit | I didn’t know that you had stainless steel slides over there! I thought it was a uniquely Aussie thing. Man, those things get hot in summer. |
8,186 | daddit | 1) I always dressed up my kids in old, play clothes- not something new 2) Getting wet & dirty is part of the fun , but I was never a “helicopter” dad. |
8,187 | daddit | This is the … “HEY!” |
8,188 | daddit | This was the way. |
8,189 | daddit | Username checks out… depending on texture, I guess. |
8,190 | daddit | It's a lifestyle choice! |
8,191 | daddit | Sand would probably be wet too lol |
8,192 | daddit | Personally, I tend to panic, but I compensate by bringing two towels! |
8,193 | daddit | Get a shamwow to do the initial wipe. It gets 95% of it and can wring out very well. Then a beach towel or something for the last bit. Can get a whole playground that way. |
8,194 | daddit | Yeah was gonna say…what about the curvy ones |
8,195 | daddit | Prefolds ftw. |
8,196 | daddit | What the heck u/HilariousSpill with that username I expected a pee joke from you |
8,197 | daddit | I’m a woman but not my kids mom and I do really appreciate this subreddit. I will say regarding women’s groups as a women. This subreddit has intentionally cultivated its culture and its admirable. I have found that many women (myself included) have sought women-only groups for my reasons including having space they ... |
8,198 | daddit | > TL;DR - I have found moms groups to be way more awkward and exclusionary towards dads than dads groups towards moms. I have experienced the same too and heard so from others anecdotally. So many groups seem to assume that the woman is the ~~primary~~ only caregiver. As a dad I want to know things about infants, scho... |
8,199 | daddit | Please don't let people on a subreddit live rent free in your head. It's not worth the energy. |
8,200 | daddit | This reminds me of when I was a kid, we would use trays to slide down the McDonald’s playground slide |
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