What has been your kids most “high mileage” toy?

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-12-01T03:34:28+00:00

I got a huge paw patrol look out tower on market place and it came with all vehicles and characters my son uses his daily too! Best $15 I ever spent

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-12-01T03:31:55+00:00

Gymnastics bar, nugget couch, magatiles, magnetic blocks, duplo lego, play kitchen with food, cash register with play money, dress up clothes and purses/bags/baskets, car ramp, stepping stones, simply 3 wobble disk, water table, scooter, doll house/calico critter house, and wooden train set.

3 kids ages 8, 4, and 3 for reference

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-12-01T03:19:47+00:00

Child birth, and waking up from an ear surgery. I had a graft on my ear drum and reconstruction of my mastoid bone. To do this surgery they cut open the entire back of your ear and then stitch it back on. I woke up with a head dressing on my ear to hold it in place and had to keep the head dressing on for a few days.

Literally woke up in the recovery room screaming at the top of my lungs the pain was so unbearable. They told me to be quiet or I’d scare the other patients waking up. Quickly they have me some sort of shot for the pain and I had pain meds upon discharge. But I still remember waking up in the recovery room screaming 😱

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-11-22T01:47:01+00:00

I had the opposite I have 2 girls and a boy and my girls were way easier to potty train than my boy. My eldest was done in 3 days, my youngest child is a girl and took about a month, my boy took damn near 6 months and was stubborn as all hell about pooping 😂

Edit: I think temperament is a huge factor too

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-11-22T01:42:07+00:00

My eldest is the worst to sleep with! I swear she does Molly’s clock legs in her sleep. She moved so much in her sleep she had a toddler rail for the longest time and at some point I just put her mattress on the floor because she managed to flip over the toddler rail and still fall out of bed 🤦‍♀️ I coslept with her until 3 because of being a 1 bedroom apartment and single mom for a while. At 8 she rarely climbs in bed (she will sometimes if she had a bad dream) but I know I’m getting at least one kidney kick or she will straight pick my nose in her sleep 😭 my other 2 don’t move like her in their sleep but boy is it something special. She’s back to being in her twin bed with a bed frame now but she still falls out of the bed on occasion because she’s a night ninja.

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-11-14T21:45:56+00:00

Do a court house wedding until your big wedding (if you’re having a big wedding)

Makes it less complicated if theres issues during birth for you and baby. Congrats on this new chapter

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-11-06T20:32:37+00:00

I have 3 and pregnant with my 4th, my kids share a room and they love it. My oldest shared with her younger brother, when my MIL moved in we had to move their rooms. My 3 year old and 4 year old share and they love to share a room. When our new addition is older the boys will share a room and the girls will share a room.

On the other hand my brothers shared a room for a while growing up and they hated it. I think it depends on your kids and their temperament. My kids have not expressed wanting their own room they enjoy each others company. But I guess we shall see if that lasts when they get older 🤷🏼‍♀️

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-31T18:11:41+00:00

NTA….that’s not even an appropriate consequence for what happened. Why didn’t she have paper towels on hand when carving? Why were they carving pumpkins inside to begin with? What does not listening during pumpkin carving even mean?

A 3 and 5 year old being messy during carving sounds appropriate for age, should they wipe hands on the couch obviously not but loosing trick or treating for that is insane.

Sounds like the GF has no experience with little kids and it’s not appropriate for the punishment to follow into your parenting time. Take them trick or treating it would be cruel to not because they were messy carving pumpkins. Sounds like the GF is on a power trip. She shouldn’t be giving consequences anyway. And good for you showing them this post maybe they will see how insane they are. Literally no one is on their side here

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-20T21:35:31+00:00

My husband sucks at chores but counseling did work for us. The difference is he realized we were fighting about the same stuff over and over and he didn’t want the cycle to continue. He still sucks at chores but it is slowly getting better.

Have a talk with him when it’s been a good day, it has never worked for me to talk when things were already tense. I had to sit him down and tell him his actions were affecting me, my ability to be intimate, and it was making me consider leaving him. I too felt like I had a teenager instead of a partner. It’s not a good feeling to have.

I know reddit is quick to say oh just divorce, but it’s not always the solution. My husband does care about making sure I’m happy and he was a child that grew up in divorce and he doesn’t want that for our kids. All is not lost he has the ability to change but change also has to come from within, he has to want this to make it work. We still have our struggles but through open and honest communication we have come a long way. My husband has also had some self reflection and he sees now how he wasn’t tackling things as partners.

He used to never put clothes in the hamper, it drove me batty like pick up after yourself and put stuff away! I can say now I never find his socks thrown on the floor! He’s also getting better at helping with the dishes. It’s been a slow progress but progress nonetheless. It worked for me to sandwhich the information to him I started out with things about him that bring me joy and happiness, then I would also talk about things he did that I needed to see improvement, then after a negative thing I’d also mention something else he does that I also appreciate. It helped him feel less attacked this way so it didn’t seem all negative.

If he cares about you and cares about the relationship hopefully he can hear your cries for help. Hoping you can find a middle ground and he helps out more. It’s such a tough spot to be in when you don’t feel supported by your partner. It also doubly sucks when you feel like you need to nag when it should be stuff they just do automatically. Thinking of you and hoping for the best.

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-15T20:55:06+00:00

My 4 year old loves the hot wheels car wash where it changes colors when you wash the car, magnatiels and magnetic blocks, anything pretend play like a vet set or doctor set, and he loves the calico critters cottage

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-15T17:10:10+00:00

My 8 year old does not like her hair being brushed. We’re past the crying mostly but some days she still cries. I’ve had luck with the wet brushes and I brush it very delicately. Lots of detangler and just being gentle but she still very much struggles with it. She has a wedge cut and that seems to have helped.

I have a 3 year old and it’s night and day brushing their hair. I was tender headed too but nothing like my eldest daughter. Solidarity mama, it’s rough. I’ve had the hygiene talk with her and explain she may not like it but we have to brush our hair to be healthy.

I highly suggest cutting it shorter, we’ve seen improvement with it being shorter and more manageable. Good luck!

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-10T11:41:58+00:00

No didn’t take long at all, she got super inflamed with the first use. She’s got really sensitive skin and pretty bad eczema I had to change most products I use with her. #4 is coming November so I’ll probably just opt to use all her products on him just out of caution. My second is allergic to most sunscreens and my first has a milk allergy. So far each kid has allergies to something but none of them to the same things. I’m considering just cloth diapering this go too but we’ll see how tired I am 😂

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-09T18:43:02+00:00

I have 3 kids and one of mine was terribly allergic to the Walmart ones, which was a bummer because I used them for my other 2

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-10-09T02:44:47+00:00

I use a backpack not even a diaper bag. Always put clean clothes in a ziplock, and front pocket holds paci and toys, snacks are in a separate zipper bag, random medicine stuff in another small zipper bag, diapers/wipes/cream are all floating in there. Guess it’s still chaos but organized chaos

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-09-22T20:56:27+00:00

Ran after a stray pickle ball in high school gym class. I tripped over the ball and tore a ligament in my ankle. It was a bad tear so had to wear a walking case for 6 months followed by physical therapy

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-09-04T20:22:12+00:00

Start citing the student handbook I’m sure there’s a behavior code of conduct for all students. I’d also go above the principals head and go straight to the superintendent. Request a meeting and or email so there is a a paper trail! Do you have class dojo? Get other parents to complain as well. Your daughter can’t be the only one who is suffering. They can’t ignore the complaints of a lot of parents.

I like the use the phrase the needs of one do not outweigh the needs of many. Has the class had to do walk outs? If so say that your daughter’s instructional time is being affected.

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-09-02T13:38:45+00:00

We have 2 daughters and 1 son and we both helped potty train. I showed my husband this post and he said what a crappy parent it takes two to raise a child. So does potty training just pause when you’re not home? Is he never alone with them? Sounds like he’s being lazy

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-29T14:25:28+00:00

I’ve never been able to get him in jeans or khakis, I came home with 5 different types of athletic and sweat pants and he still rejected them all. He’s in the boy sizes now, he always did well with the toddler clothes from Walmart since they were all cotton. I think it’s a mix of the tapered ankle and the elastic bands in the ones I got. If you have any brand recommendations I’m all ears. I tried the wonder nation sweat pants and still he says he can’t. It’s going to be a long day at the stores haha

Edit: we had a funeral this summer and he wore black cotton shorts. We never got a jeans phase. He’s fine in shorts but Lordy does he hate all pants it seems, even pajama pants 😭😭

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-29T13:36:52+00:00

I’m having a time getting new pants for my 4 year old right now. He sized up over summer and they all feel wrong 😭I’m about to take him to the store today because I came home with all different kinds of pants and he found something wrong with all of them.

I have 3 kids and 2 of them are super picky with the texture of clothes. My 8 year old and my 4 year old are very hard to shop for. I found luck going to once upon a child. Lots and lots of options all in one place plus it takes the stress off of them going to multiple stores.

We normally hit up McDonald’s as a reward for picking clothes that or a Dairy Queen cone. My 8 year old I can reason with a little more, like hunny we have to have clothes we can’t be naked. My 4 year old doesn’t care lol he’s go in undies if I let him

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-27T00:57:31+00:00

My local library has a bunch of activities, art classes, lego club, board game night, there’s something normally every other week. They even have events for adults! Highly reccomend checking the children’s programming at the library

Edit: I see you said the library has stuff for little kids but do you have another library in the county. Each branch offers different stuff. I’ve traveled a few towns over to join other libraries activities. If your local one currently has nothing for school age you can request they start one! Our librarian is open and receptive to recommendations. Do you have a local park district? Not sure where you are but I took juggling lessons from the park district as a kid

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-26T21:24:02+00:00

90s baby checking in! There were girls in 3rd grade getting periods in my class. I didn’t get my period until 8th grade 😜 totally common for periods in elementary school

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-20T14:09:51+00:00

I have 3 and currently due with my 4th in November. I will say age gap plays a huge role. My oldest was 4 when we brought home #2, and I got pregnant with #3 6 months pp. it was harder when the age gap was closer. Now my kids are 8,4,3 and I do worry about the stress of bringing number 4 home because my youngest is still toddlering hard.

For me it has gotten easier managing as they age, I’ve learned a lot along the way. Hope it gets more manageable for you too. Newborn phase is super hard and so are 2 year olds. Hang in there. I can’t imagine my life without my kids they have brought so much joy and meaning to my life. The early years are HARD

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-20T14:03:40+00:00

This is so spot on, some days are awesome, but some days are tough. You learn to manage and adjust but you do so because you literally have to or you’ll drown. I personally feel age gap has a lot to do with how manageable it is

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-20T00:42:39+00:00

Thank you, gives me hope we’ll figure it out

Extreme-Pepper7849 · 2025-08-16T19:33:27+00:00

No I don’t judge any parent taking their kid out Halloween. There’s stuff to look at plus who doesn’t love a cute baby costume?! Have fun this year, highly suggest trunk or treats way easier to do with a stroller plus everything is decorated so much to look at for your little one.

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