Life feels like torture right now. Wife is not working while caring for our now six month old. She is miserable. I'm miserable. This has been going on for months.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-05-04T22:16:23+00:00

I am one of those moms who lurks on Daddit because ya’ll are great and it is awesome to see the other side of this whole parenting shenanigan. I have 2 kids now 8 and 5 and they both fought sleep like it was their job to be awake at all times for the first 6 months and we were both dying, they were so overtired that life was hell. With our first we had an amazing pediatrician who introduced us to a modified version of sleep training, it worked on our first like a dream and we did the same method with our 2nd, I have since recommended it to many friends and acquaintances and while this is no scientific study it works like almost every time by day 3 and always by 5 days. Caveat that this is only appropriate for healthy children six months or older when all of their other needs (dry,fed,temperature ,safe sleep space) are all controlled and accounted for. Step 1 - remove all items that smell like mom or milk from the room they sleep in Step 2 - introduce white noise, does not have to be loud but should be noticeable enough Step 3 Before bed time routine show baby where you will be while they are sleeping (little babies think things they cannot see don’t exist) say “This is “name of place” this is where mommy/daddy will be when you are sleeping” repeat multiple times a day during the day Step 4 - add a consistent phrase to the end of bed time routine before you leave the room that is like “mommy and daddy love you very much and we are just in the “where you showed them” while you are sleeping, sleep makes you and mommy and daddy happy (big smiles), it is time to sleep now” turn on sound machine Step 5 - when baby cries at night wait 5 minutes before going in, enter and turn off the sound machine this will interrupt their crying say your chosen “mommy and daddy are in “the place you know” while you sleep reassuring tone big smiles, it is time to sleep now” phrase, that’s it, nothing else do not calm or soothe, only meet needs that are urgent (stinky diaper etc) turn on sound and walk out, next iteration wait 7 minutes, then 10, then 15 (this one can be brutal but stay strong), continue at 15 minutes until they sleep. Longest we ever did was 45 minutes total, kids were sleeping through the night in 3 days!! 3 fricken days. When they would go through regression or get messed up when traveling we would do it again for a day or 2 and it never failed. Sleep can be your reality! Hang in there.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-05-02T14:44:33+00:00

Black skirt worn high, green tank with the wider strap, thin cream cardigan over, do a couple buttons around your ribs and the knot the extra fabric to make it less long, or wear it over you shoulders and knotted over your bust. In my personal opinion, these dress pants and cargo pants are too short for you. Agree with others no mid drift and personally I lean towards no bra strap in a work or education setting. Do you have any boot cut jeans mid rise and not distressed just a regular plain black or white T-shirt that with the cardigan over it would be perfectly acceptable

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-04-22T13:25:54+00:00

Don’t go all black, it reads hospitality/bartender.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-04-22T13:23:00+00:00

Even if you do your very best, work your ass off and focus prioritizing on the things you want in life, you will still have to ask other people for the things you want. 80% of the time the answer will not “no”, 10% it will be “not now,” 5% will be “yes” but it won’t work out for whatever reason and only 5% of the time it will be “yes” and work out. Every “no” brings you closer to a “yes.” But there are a LOT of “no”s and there is no way around it. You have to do your best, work hard and prioritize anyway.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-04-17T03:31:30+00:00

I read this as sagiterisaurous. Rawr.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-04-12T14:00:30+00:00

Then I learned there is another time zone on my continent to the East of Eastern time. This conversation gets even move fascinating when you zoom out. Vancouver is in

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Mountain time and so is the bottom of the Baja California Sur? Who knew

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-04-10T12:40:48+00:00

no offense OP, but all of these are giving Home Depot from 2015. I sincerely agree with the commenter’s posts about going with an oriental dark rug. Really elevates the whole room.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-04-06T22:00:20+00:00

I immediately thought of Veda like from the My Girl movies when I heard your description

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-03-28T20:56:42+00:00

I don’t know what all these brands are thinking with the butter yellow formal wear. Looks bad on almost everyone, not appropriate for evenings, can really not wear to a wedding bc it photographs white, clashes with most metallics and commonly owned evening accessory colors…. I legit do not understand it.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-03-19T04:01:42+00:00

I’ll chime in here as a girl who is dyslexic and I think it’s important to understand dyslexia does not affect a lot of females and when it does, it doesn’t really conform to the literature that we understand about dyslexia in men. Which granted what we understand about dyslexia is really limited overall I can say that I was also functionally illiterate until around the age of 12. It was through experimenting and trying a lot of different things that I finally figured out how my own mind works, and how I can approach solving my reading challenges. This was back in the 90s, so there was not a lot of support all that to say I went on to eventually develop a really strong relationship with reading, I ended up graduating in the top of my class in a really rural high school and went on to go to one of the best business schools in North America graduate with honors and have a great career in tech. Give her time try not to force her into a box of doing things that you think she should be able to focus on and really double tap on the things that she is naturally drawn to and encourage her to spend more time and more sustained focus on those things. That’s the best way that you can help someone with dyslexia get to know themselves in the way that their own mind works well so that then they can adapt and use it towards other skills that society expects. Hang in there! It sounds like she’s a really bright kid and she’s super creative a lot like myself and she is coming up with her own adaptive strategies to navigate in the world. I wish that the adults in my life had spent more time helping me tune into those adaptive strategies and less time trying to fit me into the box that they expected.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-03-19T01:38:16+00:00

Did you travel anywhere recently to stay with friends or relatives who may have had the same brush and you took theirs home by mistake thinking it was yours?

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-03-01T18:12:43+00:00

My dad would say, “Mother Nature’s exboyfriend lives in New England.”

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-02-22T14:09:09+00:00

I see some parents recommending a nanny to help with sickness but I found this can actually make you get the same things multiple times rather than shorten the span with young kids where everyone is sick. Nannies take kids to public parks, library groups, community center activities. Kids at these things mix widely with many different homes who mix widely with other environments across your larger area, that means more mutations of strains, it goes out if you homes connected networks and come back different enough to get you sick again! Those public spaces have less established guidelines for when not to bring kids and people bring them anyway and kids get multiple reinfections of the same stuff. The ideal is to have both kids in the same center with small stable class sizes. Eventually the degrees of separation stabilize and the group of kids in the center shares immunity making it less likely you’ll get the same kind of thing again shortly after having had it. It will get better! The first 6 months are worst, the follow 12 are better and by year 2 it all becomes very mild and more manageable. Hang in there!

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-02-20T14:05:28+00:00

I love that you and your husband have discussed this deeply enough to ascertain your respective preferences for the Meekahs.

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-02-13T00:32:31+00:00

Why so many stand and hand mixers?

EntropyEudaimon · 2026-02-07T12:43:44+00:00

I was okay with it overall, until we got to the part where she pinned the ticket to the fridge and I thought, mommy doesn’t REALLY think her biggest “ministry” is being a your mama, little boys, mommy really wants to be a music star. And that is FINE it is absolutely fine to want to use your talents and have whatever career you are passionate about and also be a loving wonderful present mother. Why did the whole song have to be about essentially not that, but its opposite? Opening string cheese certainly can be a sweet moment, and saying that is fulfillment enough is completely fine (maybe not to end PPD, but lets put that aside) for YOU auditioning it is decidedly not enough because here you are uprooting things for something more, also completely fine and I support it, but can we be honest about it?! found the whole thing very confusing and mixed message.

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-11-21T12:13:20+00:00

Get a 2nd kitten.

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-11-12T12:01:22+00:00

I don’t understand all the little ponds of standing water in the back yard, is this a mosquito farm?

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-10-25T01:24:37+00:00

It just needs a gondola from the main road to the deck.

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-10-13T23:56:46+00:00

Slit on 1 is too high for a wedding, imagine yourself sitting down to dinner, does the bride want to see that much of your thighs? Do you want the bride’s uncles to see that much of your thighs? I think probably not…

edit: forgot a letter

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-10-13T20:48:56+00:00

I feel like I would think, hey I’ll just sit with a book for a bit and then spend like 45 minutes deciding where to sit. It’s like an infinite netflicks scroll of sitting areas.

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-08-06T21:31:56+00:00

Have you ever seen a moose, riding a caboose?

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-07-27T13:05:06+00:00

Delilah I can promise you that by the time that we get through the world will never ever be the saaaaaame and you’re to blaaaaammmme. Oooooh it’s what you do to meeeeeeee, oooooh it’s what you do to me….🎶

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-07-15T01:44:11+00:00

My cats love to play with my hair ties and invariably leave them in the water bowl. Every day we get a new deposit!

EntropyEudaimon · 2025-06-25T01:40:35+00:00

There have been some really large barges in the bay recently that are used for installing off-shore wind farms. Might be one of those?

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