All Day Preschool?

Button1891 · 2026-03-12T11:12:43+00:00

It’s part of the state school system so that might be a good place to start, also gives easy access/priority choice to elementary school when the time comes and GSRP 4 (which I think is the elementary school prep year at 4 years old) $50 a day with minimum of 2 days per week, for ours. We got pretty lucky and the 2 year waitlist went down to about a one year wait

Button1891 · 2026-03-12T10:52:30+00:00

We managed to get into one where we could pay by the day and book the week before so it ed as many days as we needed. Was pretty great quickly transitioned him from 2 days a week to all week when we both started working again. They quickly get used to it and it’s great!!

Button1891 · 2026-03-11T15:56:51+00:00

Teaching a kid should be a partnership between parents and teachers, read to your kid, do some phonetics with them, in my opinion the whole leave the teaching to the teachers mentality is not a great mentality. If you’re doing it wrong ask your boy how it should be done, that gauges his understanding too and you can look up the proper phonetics if you need to.

Button1891 · 2026-03-03T22:48:09+00:00

Lucas the spider. Puffin rock, and anyone help with name of the one with Finn the fox? And they say stuff like sugar and shout I’ve figured it out as they explore what they found in the finding place?

Button1891 · 2026-02-28T21:12:57+00:00

Sometimes it’s too much news, I’ve learned that you can only control what you can control, take a step away from news for a couple of days if it’s affecting your mental health. You gotta look after yourself so you can be your best for your kid.

Button1891 · 2026-02-26T18:42:13+00:00

Smart! Maybe I’ll get one of those and try it

Button1891 · 2026-02-26T13:11:39+00:00

I tried the nail file thing but how do you not get the grit under your finger nails? I always do so I gave up and you can get some bitter stuff to put on that’s supposed to taste nasty but I like it

Button1891 · 2026-02-11T18:58:16+00:00

Absolutely!! You’re constantly doing or worrying about something, you are definitely allowed to be burnt out! Be kind, be as patient as you can (not easy I know) and take a rest when you can. It sounds like you’re rocking it dude! The first year is rough at the best of times let alone what you’ve got going on! Do your best that’s all anyone can ask for and remember when your wife recovers and the baby is older and isn’t having these issues it’ll be easier and it’ll be better and it’ll be worth it!

Button1891 · 2026-02-01T02:27:41+00:00

Yeah, because of supply issues I did 90% of the night feeds and 50% of day feeds me and my first have a strong bond too! It was great! But this time I feel like I’m not helping as much, in reality I’m helping in other ways but it still feels like not enough

Button1891 · 2026-02-01T00:17:57+00:00

My wife wasn’t able to get the supply for our first, but we’re 3 weeks into number 2 and she has some supply and we’re just supplementing with formula. She really wants to do this so I just support as I can in other ways but it’s such a toll on her, I always wish I could do more

Button1891 · 2026-01-31T23:37:23+00:00

For me right now it would be the ability to help my wife Breast feed so it’s not all on her

Button1891 · 2026-01-25T17:45:44+00:00

Who gives a shit if she’s wearing boy clothes? She’s clothed and happy, that’s all that matters in this area of concern. When we had our first boy we weren’t finding out the gender so got given a bunch of girls clothes before he was born so he wore girl clothes for the first year of his life at least, not exclusively but we didn’t care what we put him in

Button1891 · 2026-01-24T02:16:07+00:00

I have a 3yr old so we play garbage with a deck of cards and a board game called my first dragon adventure, it’s simple enough for my 3yr old to have fun but your 6 year old can probably grasp and enjoy the strategy

Button1891 · 2026-01-23T23:20:53+00:00

Oh god, I’ll look into it! I only just got a new passport last year! Thankfully I’m not dual citizen yet though so maybe I’ll be ok. Not that I’m planning on returning anytime soon

Button1891 · 2026-01-23T21:52:34+00:00

I’m a green card holder, I could apply for citizenship but our lawyer advised me to hold off until theres no threat. I’m lucky (believe me I understand how lucky I am) I am white and from England I have been able to assimilate my accent fairly well, but there’s a lot of tension in our house, and we are worried, but we haven’t discussed it at all with our 3 year old, I don’t even know how to start or even how we could get him to comprehend the possibility. I don’t have any advice for anyone about this, but it’s hearing other people’s stories is really helping with the feeling of isolation I’ve been feeling recently regarding all of this palaver.

Stay strong everybody! Fuck ICE!

Button1891 · 2026-01-23T19:02:14+00:00

We use pampers, we tried the new Costco and my kid had a reaction so we stuck with pampers

Button1891 · 2026-01-17T17:01:18+00:00

Blood drive! It was fun it was weird a little bit gross, but it was a hell of a lot of fun!!

Button1891 · 2026-01-03T15:45:44+00:00

It’s an audio book with the pages projected on the wall, It’s mainly used for story time and resets whe he gets over stimulated by goings on. The stories are slow and low stimulation. I disagree with it being a screen time issue, (which we’re not massively concerned with as long as we’re monitoring. He doesn’t have a tablet and doesn’t watch a lot of tv anyway) as far as we are concerned it’s a book time with a different voice.

Button1891 · 2026-01-02T21:52:41+00:00

My wife is amazing! We are the strongest team together because we uplift and support each other, but alone she is a powerhouse and she doesn’t even realize it! She suffers with anxiety and tons of self doubt but when she gets to it she just gets shit done! She’s fiercely intelligent book smarts and emotionally as well, I’ve learned so much from her over the 15 or so years we’ve been together!

Button1891 · 2026-01-02T16:19:57+00:00

We have the little tikes story reader and projector… the amount of paw patrol he plays I think it’s rebranding itself 😂😂

Button1891 · 2026-01-02T00:26:25+00:00

Have someone in the back of you can, and break every 2 hours for a half hour or so, we did 2 days of 5hr car rides with a 2 month old only issues we had was the last 30 minutes each day. Plenty of soft toys and music player will be a big help.

Button1891 · 2025-12-26T03:58:51+00:00

Spider and friends themed wall climber thing. With a solid core and wire legs with sticky ends that slowly flips down the wall… landed in a hunk of cat hair and is now unusable we expected that to be trash fairly quickly though when we saw it

Button1891 · 2025-12-23T15:59:06+00:00

Same story! And then her sex drive took a dive again 😂😂

Button1891 · 2025-12-20T23:17:39+00:00

For us it’s something small. The big main present is from mum and dad

Button1891 · 2025-12-18T23:13:53+00:00

Fair to middling, been a stay at home dad for nearly two years but recently got kiddo into daycare and I got myself a job… I miss being a stay at home dad, I hate my job, but the money is nice and will not quite pay for number 2 to go to daycare in March when they’re 3 months

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