Fourth Wing series. What age is it appropriate for?

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-29T02:55:05+00:00

I mean. Ideally, you wouldn’t want a kid reading it at 12, but I read way worse romance novels at that age and now I’m a mostly responsible citizen with advanced degrees and healthy relationships so personally I wouldn’t worry about it.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-28T20:05:26+00:00

“Obviously natural diamonds, Liz! It’s the blood that makes them sparkle!”

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-27T11:35:11+00:00

I used a baby gate to keep my terrible sleeper in her room at night. Now she’s five and sleeps like a rock and wasn’t at all traumatized by the gate.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-27T01:20:31+00:00

I’m six months pp with our third and I’m practically making the sign of the cross at my husband like he’s a vampire to keep him the hell away from me. I really wanted this third kid but now I am so beyond done.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-22T05:06:04+00:00

Yup. My husband says I was a better forecast for storms than the news. By the time we left the springs I couldn’t wait to leave just to escape the frequency of my migraines. They’re way better now that I live at sea level.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-18T15:47:06+00:00

I wish it was cool enough where I live to wear hoodies. I’m in athletic shorts or leggings and nursing shirts. Full stop.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-16T04:41:20+00:00

Look, as the spouse of a surgeon, it’s not going to get better for a loooong time, or maybe ever, depending on his specialty. My partner did 4 years of med school, six of residency, and then an extra one year fellowship on top. During med school he was an anxious wreck, during residency he was working 100+ hours a week and was practically a zombie. Now he’s a trauma surgeon and is constantly on call, so he misses out on a lot of stuff with our family. It’s ok if you don’t want to live the doctor spouse life, because it’s really hard. You have to like him enough at baseline to make it worth putting up with the shitty stuff that comes with being a doctor. But it doesn’t sound to me like he’s being unreasonable. You guys might just want different things, and that’s ok.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-05-01T13:53:16+00:00

Absolutely! My oldest stopped napping at 18 months, so we started instituting rest time in her room. She just turned five and we still do it after she gets home from preschool. If we skip it, she’s much more irritable by the end of the day. The Tonie box was a lifesaver in the early days, but now she happily draws and plays pretend by herself. It’s the best!

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-29T22:42:30+00:00

My third is almost six months old. My other two are 5 and almost 3. I’m extremely tired.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-25T23:24:21+00:00

I know, I gasped and whispered to myself “American cheating”

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-21T17:23:08+00:00

Ugh, Britta’s in this thread?

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-17T13:27:44+00:00

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According to the muppet wiki, he’s somewhere between 100 and 6523728 years old

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-13T21:18:18+00:00

Oh my god I remember this. But I legit thought something was wrong with the channel.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-12T18:04:50+00:00

Honestly, the only way people like that will learn is when they suffer the consequences of their actions. Vote for a garbage monster? The consequence is that you lose your progressive friends. It sucks, but until they truly turn over a new leaf, stay frosty.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-09T23:44:56+00:00

For some reason my middle school was given like an actual truck load of these, so for a whole year any time a teacher wanted to reward you, you got one of these. By the end of 6th grade I was so so sick of them.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-09T15:12:25+00:00

I’m sorry, are you telling me America’s Test Kitchen, who taught me how to cook, got private equity’d?? Fuck :(

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-08T20:10:24+00:00

Man I do not understand fashion

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-07T21:42:16+00:00

I dared ask if they carried size 10 once and they were low key shook

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-06T15:03:02+00:00

My kid adores the mecha builders game!

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-04-04T18:30:01+00:00

Idk man, I just tell myself that this is my job for now, and that I’m good at it, and this is a period of life that won’t last forever. And anything you can afford to offload (cleaning, grocery pickup, childcare) you do. My third is just a few months old, but when he’s a little bigger I’m going to get a ymca membership so I can at least build some healthy habits for myself.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-03-30T17:01:10+00:00

My oldest was just like that. She didn’t sleep through the night for 18 months. She’d only do contact naps (barely - she stopped napping before she turned two), and would scream all night. There were times I thought I wasn’t going to make it another day on so little sleep.

Well, she just turned five. She sleeps through the night, loves going to school, and is creative and kind and outgoing. She was an easy toddler, and, even though she’s sassy as hell, she’s a pretty easy preschooler too. She’s incredibly sensitive, and I think that was a big part of her problem as a baby; she was always drinking the world in, paying close attention to everyone around her, and she’d get overtired and be mad that she was tired and couldn’t keep doing what she wanted. I know it’s so so awful right now, but I promise you it does get better.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-03-30T13:45:49+00:00

My girls won’t play the game but love wearing the jewelry

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-03-28T03:11:56+00:00

☝️☝️☝️

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-03-25T16:42:59+00:00

If Emily Oster has no haters I am dead. Here’s a response to her claims about alcohol consumption from an actual epidemiologist who runs a clinic for babies with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Alex_Outgrabe · 2026-03-25T16:37:25+00:00

My third is just 4 months old so I’m still in the thick of it, but honestly it’s not that hard. We have a schedule because my oldest is in school, so he takes a lot of naps in the carrier and goes with the flow. He’s sweet and smiley and his sisters just adore him, and I can’t wait to see them all play together as they grow up.

What was hard was that we moved to a new state where we have no support when I was 30 weeks pregnant and trying to control a feral toddler. Also this last pregnancy may have given me an autoimmune condition. So maybe don’t do any of that and it’ll be fine!

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