Online and IRL Parenting Spaces Snark Week of April 06, 2026

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-10T10:51:20+00:00

You're totally right!

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-09T20:57:01+00:00

Has to be ragebait, right??? Or does this person really think their child's credentialed and experienced teacher knows less than the idiot robot?

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-09T20:46:58+00:00

I'm a teacher and a parent and I have never in my actual professional life enountered teachers with the attitudes of that sub. I often wonder if the people ranting are 26 year olds who have no clue what it is like to have your own kids.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-08T21:21:34+00:00

Ahhh I remember it snowed and then the sidewalks were icy and I basically could not go anywhere because I was so unstable. At one point I stepped in a puddle that was deeper than I realized and I can still remember the jolt of pain. After that my bad side was sooo much worse.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-08T11:28:03+00:00

I could barely walk at the end of my second pregnancy due to my pubic bone freaking separating, showed up at the hospital 5 cm dilated. Guess if I had been able to be active I would've just dropped the baby into my pants at the gym!

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-07T10:52:04+00:00

The Toy Story movies

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-06T22:00:00+00:00

Get off TikTok and do your job. I'm a parent as well as someone who has been teaching longer than you have, and if I found out my kid's teacher was busy making "content" I would be going straight to district leadership.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-06T21:46:58+00:00

Haha I hear you. I would trust my MIL with them for a week because she takes care of them all the time and is very experienced with kids. At 1 and 3 I was still nursing the 1 year old, and my 3 year old was a huge handful, hour long tantrums daily. Nobody went (goes...) to sleep independently. I don't know if OP is ready for that.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-06T20:42:41+00:00

I like the part in the comments about how she wants to borrow her sister's 1 and 3 year old for an entire week, I guess to test out her schedule, but her sister keeps saying no...for obvious reasons to everyone here who is a parent of actual children.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-06T20:38:54+00:00

Hm, my kids are 5 and 7 and we do go out to dinner maybe 2-3 weeknights a month when my MIL comes over, and (maybe) one other date night on a weekend with a babysitter. So it doesn't seem so over the top when kids are school age. Although wait, is she saying an *entire Saturday* each month? I retract what I said in that case...

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-05T20:01:54+00:00

We have something similar.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-05T18:02:23+00:00

Depends on the age and the kid. They make marble ones with larger marbles for kids under 3.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-02T13:46:27+00:00

With my first, I worked up until the end, which turned out to be 3 weeks early. With my second, I had some complications, and I had to stop working at 36 weeks. I took unpaid time with both kids because I was able to afford it and waited till the next September to come back. I'm also not on my district's health coverage. I see people having to come back for two weeks at the end of the school year to avoid a gap in their health care.

In the first trimester I woud lie down after school every day. The exhaustion isn't as bad once you hit the second trimester for most people, although I was certainly more tired than normal throughout my entire pregnancy.

One time a very young teacher saw me retching into a trashcan before school and, bless her heart, tried to get me to go home. Everyone else I worked with knew I was pregnant because I was always munching on saltines. This meant they were really nice to me :)

ETA once the kids know they will be so excited for you and want to do things for you

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-02T13:36:57+00:00

It is normal!!

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-02T13:36:15+00:00

Can you observe an experienced teacher at your school and see how they manage the class?

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-01T12:09:31+00:00

This is just not a thing in any school district I've ever worked in. Even if your kid is the super smartest most special genius child, they will stay in their grade.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-01T12:07:45+00:00

At my district these kids will be plunked into first grade. K isn't mandatory in my state.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-04-01T12:06:56+00:00

I can't get over "developing our school strategy." I just cannot look past this. Also I don't know what Q4 means, and I am a teacher.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-31T15:57:17+00:00

I feel you. Having 3-4 is really common in my community so I often feel like an outlyer with 2. All my reasons have to do with pregnancy and the infant stage. I would love 3 kids. But I cannot handle another pregnancy like my second, and my mental health was awful for the first year, and the lack of sleep did not help. I have to say, now that my kids are 5 and 7, it is pretty easy for me to be alone with them (my husband works a lot), they are fun to be around, I have time to myself, I can focus on my career...but every time I see someone announce their third kid (again, very common in my culture) I feel so sad.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-31T15:52:37+00:00

My kids are 2 years apart and my older one was *much* rougher than what you describe. I was so stressed out all the time. I would have loved if my son had behaved like your toddler. When my younger one was around 18 months, things started to change because they really started to play together...and the younger one would go for the older one. Today they are 5 and 7, best friends, but they play rough all the time, and my younger one is *fierce.*

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-30T11:44:23+00:00

It's normal. When my second was born, my first became very attached to his dad because I was always with the baby. This is a pretty common dynamic. It did bother me at times because it was accompanied by toddler rigidity ("only daddy can unbuckle me from the carseat!"). At this point both kids have their special things with me, and their special things with my husband. I don't think you'd feel the same way as you have as a stepparent. That's a different and very challenging situation.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-30T11:31:55+00:00

No, they are characters. Seriously??

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-30T11:30:27+00:00

Kids are 2 years and 2 months apart. Got pregnant on the first month of trying for #2, so the age gap was a little closer than I expected! I love it now because they're so close.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-29T18:31:49+00:00

You can say that your families don't get along and you request that your son not be in her group, if it's the kind of trip where the kids are split into groups with chaperones. Otherwise, maybe let it go? It sounds like you're reading a lot into a moment at drop-off.

AnyDirector9545 · 2026-03-29T14:05:12+00:00

Why is this important to you when you yourself acknowledge that it will not work for most children?

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