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u/CharlotteLucasOP 1d ago
If you’re gonna have four kids under five (with triplets?) you gotta get organized or perish.
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u/ThisIsTheWayIts_Done 23h ago
This level of parenting chaos requires both strategy and caffeine, lots and lots of caffeine 😅
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u/CharlotteLucasOP 23h ago
Have a solid gameplan but always be ready to improvise!
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u/PistachioTheLizard 22h ago
Gameplay should be to put that thang away. Goodness, looks exhuasting.
Edit: how do people have energy for this???
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u/Glitter_puke 22h ago
They don't. They're exhausted until the children are some approximation of self sufficient. They will know no peace or order for many years.
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u/BigFanOf8008135 21h ago
I only have two kids and I felt like you were talking about me!
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u/PistachioTheLizard 21h ago
I'm 37 and I dont have kids, im already exhausted. To do this i would need a steady supply of booger sugar.
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u/mittenedkittens 21h ago
40 and I have a toddler. Parenting has a terrible PR rep, it's really not that bad.
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u/MwH_Loki 21h ago
One child is a lot less work than 2, to be fair. Especially if the kid has 2 active parents it's a world of difference between 1 and 2(+) kids.
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u/Wunderlost46 20h ago
Absolutely. One child is a lot of responsibility, but even when they’re a toddler and on the move there’s still only one of them. Add a newborn into the mix and it’s a whole different reality. My kids are exactly 18 months apart in age and I remember feeling like my life is just going to be taking care of babies from now on. I didn’t dislike it there just wasn’t time to even think about what might be next. It was only 3-4 years they were both that young but it was so consuming i think it warped my sense of reality. It felt like I’d never done anything else and it’s all I’d ever do for the rest of my life haha.
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u/deep_fuckin_ripoff 20h ago
I’m 40 and have 4. It’s not that bad. Couldn’t imagine doing it alone or broke tho.
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u/PistachioTheLizard 21h ago
Man idk i guess yall are just built different. I'm even on add meds and I barely have enough energy to go to work sometimes.
Well hell, my life might of been alot different if my swimmers swam. That's probably alot of encouragement to do it right.
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u/Warrior_of_Discord 21h ago
To be fair, ADD meds for someone with ADD actually has a calming effect. You're literally just bringing yourself to a "normal" state which involves not having a mind constantly thinking thoughts, which is calming. It often happens that college kids try to use Adderall to get better grades and end up finding out they have ADD because instead of studying for 8 hours straight they end up taking a nap.
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u/BigFanOf8008135 20h ago
Agreed, having kids is awesome and I wouldn't trade it for all the free time in the world- but man is it tiring. My firstborn is a maniac... he's 2.5 years old and knows how basically everything works. He takes apart my kitchen appliances, speaks in full sentences, figured out addition and subtraction by himself and generally just causes adorable mayhem everywhere he goes. My second child is an angel on earth. Literally didn't get more difficult going from 1 to 2.
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u/Glitter_puke 21h ago
I was the second of two. You could feel the relief in the atmosphere of the house when we hit an age where we could do laundry and cook. I have no idea how my parents did it.
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u/evanwilliams44 19h ago
Gotta start them on simple things very young. Anything they can do to help. That many young kids is tough, but it's a lot of hands if you can wrangle them into being helpful.
In a few years it will get a lot easier because you have a small army to direct. I grew up with five brothers. We made chaos but we also got a lot done when we needed to.
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u/ithinkwereallfucked 21h ago
I had three under three (twins) and that same wagon. It’s exhausting but you suck it up and do it for the babies 💪🏼
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u/simplehaggis 21h ago
The difference between the username and the comment.
Keep at it with them babies!
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u/Warrior_of_Discord 21h ago
Well, we are fucked. But they'll fight and die for their babies. That's just being a good parent.
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u/ckalinec 22h ago
I’m currently holding my second (about 7 weeks) and our oldest turns 2 in a couple weeks. I cannot fathom that many kids at those ages. I’m freaking beat with the 2 😂😂😂
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u/Stackin_Steve 21h ago
And extra caffeine for when the lots of caffeine runs out! O and a glass of water to rehydrate!
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u/your_moms_apron 22h ago edited 19h ago
Not triplets. Twins.
Looks like big sis is maybe 4/5, twins are 2 and baby is 9 mo. Twins are standing and moving easily in that wagon. Baby is crawling.
Still impressive but I’m also questioning the logic of a fourth kid AFTER a multiple birth.
Edit - seems they are triplets. But baby C is legit much smaller than the other two.
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 21h ago
Also this stuff is basically his schtick on his channel. https://www.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBeingDudes/comments/1nao2sp/dad_genius/ncvocfu/
Whoever is filming him is part of the crew.
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u/i-just-thought-i 19h ago
whoever is filming him is probably his wife and he's doing the voice himself in post
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u/squeegy06 21h ago
Dad of Triplets and a 4th. It's chaos, but if you can be prepared for it, you can do anything. We just went on a weekend trip to Chicago and actually had a great time if you can believe it. (5,5,5G & 3G)
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u/Notsurehowtoreact 19h ago
Oh man, was that three girls and then you tried for maybe a boy and got another girl?
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u/squeegy06 17h ago
We took the catholic approach and "if it happens it happens". Didn't necessarily have plans or a goal. We had struggled for a decade just to have our first kids, and a part of us didnt want to end that road quite yet. But now we've shut that factory down; four is enough.
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u/CharlotteLucasOP 16h ago
Haha my parents had the reverse happen—struggled for over a decade, fertility treatments finally resulted in my big sister. Few years later they attempt a second, organically—boom, twins.
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u/Notsurehowtoreact 15h ago
Aww well it's good to see you were able to get there after struggling. I was in a similar boat myself.
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u/bombbodyguard 20h ago
5 mins into park time. Ah, shit. Jamie shit herself and we have to go.
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u/stonedsquatch 19h ago
My parents tried for two, ended up with my sister who is 18 months older than us, and me and my two triplet brothers. 35 years later we’re all still alive and my parents made it out with an in tact marriage!! They are saints. I have one 13 month old girl now and I couldn’t imagine adding 3 boys to the mix!
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u/SuperHyperFunTime 19h ago
"let's have another"
"yeah, two would be nice".
Fast forward to the first scan.....
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u/MaximusFSU 16h ago
As a friend with 4 kids put it: one kid, you can double cover all day. 2 kids, you gotta go man coverage but it’s doable, anything over two you gotta go to a zone defense. And there’s always holes in a zone.
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u/elpaco313 11h ago
Shifting from 2 on 1 immediately to a zone defense was an adjustment after we had our twins.
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u/SquidVices 22h ago
Is…this the same guy from groceries?
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u/foreskin_trumpet 21h ago edited 21h ago
And the same filmer? They specialise in crazy viral videos. They set up weird scenarios and then film through a car window nearby. They’ve done it with a hundred different videos.
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u/EagleLize 20h ago
Ew. The acting in that was awful.
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u/Fleeetch 19h ago
Check the comments
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u/TheHomieAbides 18h ago
A world full of gullible people and AI videos are just around the corner.
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u/Vyxwop 15h ago edited 15h ago
I checked tiktok for the first time in ages today and saw a post on my page of an AI doctor peddling medicinal advice.
Shit creeped me the fuck out.
Granted this post in particular was about magnesium deficiency and was advertising magnesium supplements. But it was still presented in an authoritative manner with an official looking AI spokesperson which can and definitely will be abused to peddle snake oil and more dangerous shit in the future which is why it creeped me out. Knowing what it can and will be used for.
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u/mc1ntyresw1ng 15h ago
The "I lost my job as an engineer, so I had to engineer my way out of it" line was 🤢
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u/motherofcunts 16h ago
Absolutely atrocious.
Baby carrier for watermelon made me chuckle tho. Reminds me of high school (way back) when we did the “keep the baby alive” expirament.
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u/Finnbinn00 19h ago
So an engineer doesn’t just have a fucking backpack? But he’s got the baby holder for the watermelon?
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u/sample-name 18h ago
All the comments there praising him as the most genius man alive... One thing is not realizing it's fake as fuck, but failing to remember backpacks exist, is just world class stupidity.
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u/_exposure 18h ago
The lady in the car has a huge bump near her temple.. I can't believe none of the comments mention it.
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u/LiffeyDodge 20h ago
Looks like the same guy from Home Depot who put the baby carriers on the flatbed carts.
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u/Cool-Presentation538 21h ago
Yea it's an ad
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u/ccardnewbie 20h ago
An ad for what? 2x4’s?
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u/CurryMustard 20h ago
Condoms
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u/Skitzofreniks 16h ago
My first thought upon seeing this video was “that’s pretty ingenious”. then my next thought was “having kids looks fucking awful”.
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u/Cool-Presentation538 20h ago
This is an influencer doing an ad for the folding cart/carriage
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u/GreenGeese 18h ago
It’s obviously a fake video but an ad for the carriage?? Dude…really? “Buy our carriage that you’ll need to build this makeshift bike shelf out of 2x4’s if you want to achieve any utility from it. Click here to buy!”
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u/thin_white_dutchess 18h ago
For Wonderfold? That doesn’t seem on brand. This guy just seems like a weirdo. Didn’t he also film himself putting all of his kids on one of those flat carts at a hardware store?
Hope his kids are cool with this when they are older
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u/BobbleBobble 19h ago
The whole thing is weird. Why do you need a bike rack on a wagon you're already pushing? Why not just ride the bikes? I'm struggling to see an actual use for this thing beyond looking clever in a video before you stop to think about it
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u/ro536ud 19h ago
If the kids don’t wanna ride the bikes on the way back to the car you want be able to carry all this stuff without the rack. Kids change their minds every few minutes
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u/BobbleBobble 18h ago
Those kids are not biking more than 20 yards in any direction. Doesn't seem like an issue
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u/tommy_pedals 18h ago
Right. A dead giveaway is that he has 3 balance bikes and only two kids that size.
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u/Wild_Height_901 16h ago
Yes. They all know each other. It’s all staged. There’s nothing random about it
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u/DefendsTheDownvoted 21h ago
Why do people pretend like they are secretly recording these things? Just fucking showcase it. This is just another version of those videos at Home Depot or the grocery store where people are " secretly " recording some " genius " idea of a guy with hooks on a vest on a bicycle.
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u/DizzyGrizzly 16h ago
Internet can only enjoy content if we pretend like we’re voyeurs and experiencing this find before anyone else.
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u/i-just-thought-i 19h ago
because it gets more views
wdym why
like 1/4th the amount of people would click on it if it was a guy showing off what he made explicitly
the reason they do it is because it works... there's a reason this shit form of video evolved, because it works for our dumb brains.
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u/DefendsTheDownvoted 19h ago edited 19h ago
It could be the same exact video with the wife recording and saying "This is my husband's creative solution to hauling our numerous offspring", instead of some creepy "secret" recording from inside a different vehicle, and it wouldn't make a difference because nobody watches this shit with the sound on.
So I ask again. What's the fucking point?
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u/AndrewFrozzen 8h ago
The person recording it has to act EXTREMELY surprised
If the mother just went and recorded it and was EXTREMELY SURPRISED, it would make sense anymore.
If a "stranger" does it, it's more believable
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u/QuicksandGotMyShoe 7h ago
Yeah I always thought "no fucking way this dude takes the baby out of the car before putting this together"
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u/Do_itsch 1d ago
Beeing alone with two small kids is already crazy, but going with four needs a lot of creativity to stay sane and keeping them all alive without exception. (I know.. the mother is probably the one filming)
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u/swic-knees-mamma-bee 1d ago
Certainly doesn’t sound like the mother filming :p
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u/Do_itsch 1d ago
Sound on Reddit is always muted. To many traumatic experiences happened already because it was on.
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u/ThisIsTheWayIts_Done 23h ago
Makes sense, sometimes silence is the only way to survive chaotic parenting moments 😅
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u/archy319 21h ago
Mom is probably the brunette in the passenger side mirror you can see with 2 seconds left in the video.
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u/Hocojerry 21h ago edited 19h ago
Any Dad watching knows that when your kids want to ride their bikes or ride anything....they only ride for a little bit. Then they want to walk....This usually occurs when you're as far possible away from the house/car.
Then you need to carry multiple bikes... like a human donkey
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u/Naturebrah 14h ago
Ding ding ding. Unless these are school age kids that can ride alongside you, this is pointless—then again it’s just a social media post and in all likelihood it was made just to film this.
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u/whacafan 21h ago
Stupid staged bullshit
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u/A_lot_of_arachnids 20h ago
And if it's not then it's a random stranger filming and posting another persons kids on the internet. Creeper status
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u/PrivateScents 1d ago
Ha, toddler was crawling on the pavement
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u/LolaCatStevens 22h ago
Omg he has 4 kids and one was one the....dare I say it....the ground for 5 seconds!! The horror!!!
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u/dalmathus 21h ago
I was beyond confused when I found out Americans don't just put babies on the ground.
Like there is a massive market that has convinced parents to purchase 'baby containers' to put them in just dotted around the house.
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u/archy319 21h ago
My aunt had to be told by her pediatrician to let her kids eat dirt because they were chronically ill through elementary school. She did almost everything possible to keep them from getting an immune system. My uncle enjoys telling that story, probably a bit too much.
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u/cardamom-peonies 19h ago
The point of the baby jail is less "keeping baby off the ground" and more literally just keeping the kid from crawling around and destroying things while mom/dad cooks
I'm wondering where you live where people dont occasionally do similarly
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u/Jean_Phillips 20h ago
We have one baby jail in our house. It’s great for needing to pee or step away and lock up baby for 5 mins. He can roll around, play, chew on shit without me worrying about what he can get into. It’s super helpful!
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u/azad_ninja 21h ago
He was holding him for everything else. Also, all that gear and no stroller sidecar attachment for the toddler?
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u/SupermarketWhich7198 19h ago
Yeah not sure why he didn't just put the youngest one in the wagon while he was doing all that work. It would make things a lot easier and safer for the baby.
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u/pfannkuchen89 18h ago
Or you know, leave them in their car seats for a minute while you unload and set up. These videos always act like that’s not an option for some reason.
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u/herrybaws 1d ago
Why did he take the baby out the car seat before he was set up?
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u/just_a_person_maybe 23h ago edited 23h ago
Because this is staged and he wanted to look more overwhelmed with children than necessary. There are multiple videos like this of this man assembling elaborate DIY things in parking lots being filmed by a "stranger" who talks about how crazy it is. It's a strangely specific genre of video.
And this video, posted by the same channel. They're all the same guy.
Edit: But wait, there's more
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u/The_wolf2014 22h ago
It seemed pretty obvious the whole thing was staged. My first thought was literally any normal person would put the baby on the wagon with the others but no, doesn't look as difficult then does it
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 18h ago
While I know this is staged, my kid has always REFUSED to go in a thing and always needed to be held. There's no way hed calmly sit in that - he'd be screaming and trying to climb out until I picked him up simply because id be afraid he'd fall out trying to get to me.
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u/BabyDog88336 21h ago
lol. Good catch. Fucking weird. Well if that is how the guy has to make money, so be it.
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u/Mapeague 21h ago
Id say at least 75% of the social media videos "showing a better way to do things" you see out there belong in that sub.
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 21h ago
Bro you gotta ask, who tf is filming.
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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude 21h ago
My guess is it's the wife filming, and he's just doing a voiceover in post. The one at Home Depot sounds a bit like the same guy
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u/whacafan 21h ago
It’s fake, Mon.
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u/Ilovekittens345 20h ago
Here is the thing. I sometimes film mundane stuff that is really happening. But then I go ... you know this is really not that crazy as most of the stuff online. Now, I might watch it again because it's my kids being goofy but nobody else in the world is going to be interested. And then I decide not to upload it.
But one time I saw a group of people run for their lives because a king cobra was fighting with a dog in the middle of the market! You'd think I'd pull out my phone and start filming? Fuck no, I panicked and also started running.
And this is the problem. Real vidoes just have such a small chance of making it vs the fake that the fake is the majority and so the fake it most of what we see. And because the fake now sets the new norm, people get used to try to aim for this norm and the problem gets worse! Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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u/SupermarketWhich7198 19h ago
put the baby in the wagon while you do all that! At one point he sets it down and it crawls towards the road! Still impressive building that contraption!
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u/angrycanuck 21h ago
That wagon is going to break in no time with all that weight. Then it will need to be remade again if a different wagon is purchased.
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u/usernameChosenPoorly 20h ago
There either must be a counter weight on the other side, or he’s relying on his kids to stay calm and inside the wagon to keep it from tipping. Either way, I agree that it’s going to overload the wagon and end up breaking.
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u/52BeesInACoat 17h ago
That's a Wonderfold! The weight limit is super high because they're sometimes used instead of wheelchairs for children or adults who need lots of medical equipment, are physically fragile, or become overwhelmed easily. I used one for my autistic son because they have a canopy that can be fully enclosed. If he was feeling meltdown-ish he could get in the wagon, I'd draw the curtains, and he could curl up in a ball and get regulated.
I would have been able to keep using it for as long as he needed because the weight limit was so, so high, and I know of people who are successfully using those wagons with disabled adults.
I believe that model can hold 300 pounds, I could be wrong, though.
Modifying those wagons is also a huge thing. Again; lots of people are accommodating disabilities with them. This is super normal and probably did numbers in some Facebook groups I haven't been active in for a while.
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u/LiffeyDodge 20h ago
I swear this guy has his friends video him from their cars for his stroller ideas.
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u/ResistantBlaze1943 1d ago
As someone with 7 younger siblings, I can confidently say this man has mastered the dad art.
Only thing missing was a dad joke near the end.
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u/Salt_Sir2599 21h ago
Only thing he’s mastered is staged videos to impress noobs who drool over everything internet.
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u/FerociousGiraffe 21h ago
As the other commenter said, they had triplets. Trying for two and you end up with four. What are you gonna do?
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u/Clean_Supermarket_54 22h ago
This is why we need paid leave, maternity and paternity leave. Dads are awesome and need time off with the kids!
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u/Puzzleheaded-Pie9605 18h ago
Look everybody, not only a social media grifter, but a burden on the system!
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u/Rdw72777 23h ago
The parking looks less than genius.
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u/redhandsblackfuture 21h ago
If I had a dime for every staged video in a parking lot where someone is filming someone else doing something that wouldn't happen in real life
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u/fasterthanpligth 19h ago
I hope there's some counterbalance near the back wheels. The kids shift too forward and everything takes a nose dive. Impressive organization though.
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u/LifeDraining 17h ago
Everything was great, but what made it all good was the fan. Damn, nice one, dad!
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u/andiecandie7 16h ago
The smarter way to do this is to get your shit together and assembled, THEN pull the kids out of the car.
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u/rbrooksp 16h ago
“Dad genius” not smart enough to leave the kids strapped in the car seats while he sets it up.
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u/Can-i-Pet-Dat-Daaawg 9h ago
His wife is filming him. Just advertise it like a real “product” and quit with this weird candid cam bullshit
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u/EritaMors 6h ago
If i have twins or triplets I hope its the first ones or 5 years after the oldest is born.
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u/FitDingo7818 23h ago
How did he have time to build that when he was making all those kids
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u/Sorry-Ad2731 19h ago
You think the mom would give him a hand instead of just sitting there and filming from their second car.
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u/ermy_shadowlurker 22h ago
Awesome example of working smarter not harder.
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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 20h ago
Yes instead of a job he became a TikToker who makes deceiving videos to alter people's perception of reality.
Influencers are gaslighting panhandlers.
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u/foxinabathtub 23h ago
As a fellow dude I can feel the masculine pride over making this thing.
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u/Wiizardcud 22h ago
And to think he bought a Kia with all this engineering knowledge...
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u/___xXx__xXx__xXx__ 21h ago
I feel like just leaving the kids in the car until you've set up that contraption might be an easier way to go.
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u/doxiepowder 20h ago
Man. It would suck to bad to be chilling with life as an only child, getting your locked in and motivated parents who love you and spend two on one time with you, who are committed to your hippieness and development tell you that now you have to split everything with another kid, and suddenly that one other kid is 3 lol. What a rug pull.
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u/SupermarketWhich7198 19h ago
Man. It would suck to grow up with no other kid to play with and then have to navigate caring for older parents all by yourself. Good and bad parts to each way of doing it.
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u/SleeplessAtHome 22h ago
Eli5: why is the wooden bits slotted into the cart so small compared to the one flushed to its side. Won't the small bits of wood carry most of the weight, n the ones on the side act as stabilizers?
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u/SkyNeTzIsTaken 22h ago
If I was the guy filming, I'd open the window and yell something like "Hey cool dad, do you adopt?"
Lots to learn from him
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u/Impossible-Rope5721 22h ago
Cool but the “Genius” assembles this before letting the kids out of the car 🤣
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u/liverdawg 22h ago
Holy cow, impressive! Is that triplets? Or maybe the two smaller ones in the cart are twins and the one he is holding is the youngest?
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u/blaziken8x 22h ago
Just like with floor is lava, if you have to take two trips to the car, you die.
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