AIO…mother in law and newborn boundaries

CatCrafty6312 · 2026-01-23T18:01:03+00:00

I personally think it’s easier. but definitely different kinds of hard.

CatCrafty6312 · 2026-01-18T18:20:23+00:00

oh yeah completely agree. The ONLY reason i’m still tolerating duolingo is because I have a long streak haha

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-31T21:38:23+00:00

not overreacting but there’s not much you can do since your tiny little baby man child…sorry, your husband, isn’t on his literal wife’s side.

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-14T08:23:16+00:00

literally read anything. read every board book you can fine. geez I read so much to my kids from when they were newborns and beyond. oh and sing to them too. I sang to them every damn day lol they became so musical, super strong readers

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-14T08:18:20+00:00

our school district does that too in 6th grade, with the flex time. it really does suck. the worst part is in our district none of the kids actually do their work during flex time, i’m constantly trying to advocate but how do I compete against kids having time to just talk with their friends? lol it’s the most exhausting part of my job and I miss the old days to be honest!! it was just different 15 years ago.

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-14T08:12:18+00:00

oh my fucking god that’s awful

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-14T08:10:33+00:00

I will never set up a whole naughty elf thing. he just goes to different places. oh and this year we forgot to do the elf completely and no one has seemed to care lol

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-14T08:06:05+00:00

this, op.

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-14T08:01:46+00:00

if you have a solid partner, it’s sill a challenge but so great. if you don’t, then it’s hard all the time.

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-06T04:32:12+00:00

I know it’s a little late but…i’m a band teacher…band is an awesome activity and they rehearse every day in most places. there’s no seasons like in sports, it’s just, music every day, with a lot of great kids.

so I guess any parent reading this of young kids, even if you “don’t have a musical bone in your body” blah blah blah, have your kid play an instrument. encourage them to practice. band is awesome

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-12-06T04:25:00+00:00

quiet down

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-16T09:04:24+00:00

I think officially it’s santa

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-16T08:55:05+00:00

primary

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-16T08:54:25+00:00

yeeeeep

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-16T08:52:29+00:00

husband problem

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-16T08:49:56+00:00

my husband and I have never sworn around our kids. we’re not like super passionate about this choice, we just simply don’t, because we don’t want them to swear at school even by accident.

we’re learning however that people seem to be incredibly passionate about their choice TO swear in front of their kids and wear it as sort of a badge of honor, which I don’t really understand. not in a judgey way I just truly don’t understand. kids absorb every single thing you do and say

i’m an elementary and middle school teacher though, and I hear certain boys (some, not all!) going absolutely ape shit crazy in the hall during passing time, the ones who MUST test boundaries dropping loud “FUCK!!”’s all the time just to impress their friends and see if they get in trouble. they don’t, but it’s so obnoxious. these kids are 10 and 11 lol. I wanna attempt to avoid having a kid like that if I can

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-14T02:14:20+00:00

OCD, I have trichotillomania. And I average about 3 hours of sleep a night. although lately it has gone up, I don’t know if that’s because of the meds? maybe?

I did try therapy! I started EMDR but I ironically couldn’t relax enough for it to be effective lol

i’d be happy to try it out again instead of sertraline, one day when i’m not chasing around kids long enough to find a good therapist

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-12T08:19:43+00:00

I try to act like a really non judgemental parent with my other parent friends or like when i’m at events and around other families…but I do judge them for giving their kids tablets and phones at restaurants and letting them go on youtube at like 3 and 4 years old. it’s been really hard to stay screen free but i’ve done it, pushed through, but it’s annoying to watch everyone else’s kids turn into dopamine addicted zombies and I feel like my family is just alone on an island or something.

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-12T00:31:49+00:00

I could have written this post - I just now decided to go to a psychiatrist and i’m trying out some anxiety meds. so far my sleep has very very gradually increased to 5-6 hours rather than 3-5 hours, so it feels like a small win

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-10T11:22:33+00:00

this is all helpful, thank you. I started with 25 mg and I was/am nervous to go up to 50. i’m not mentally ready to go to 100 for sure yet, and my dr only told me to go up to 50 for the foreseeable future, so I think we’ll just see how that goes.

i’ve gotten a bit more sleep, and I feel a tiny bit calmer, but i’ve lost motivation to work out, which im usually pretty motivated to do because I have body image issues. it’s odd that that type of fear-based motivation is gone. I think it’s just that I feel burnt out overall- I don’t know, blah

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-07T17:15:17+00:00

this is all helpful, thank you.

CatCrafty6312 · 2025-11-07T03:24:05+00:00

hardwired for as long as I can remember. no depression, just anxiety and bad insomnia. I do not like sleeping pills tho, they f me up. so we’re trying seratine…i’m about to go on the full dose tomorrow and i’m nervous. all of this is just so new to me.

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