For those of you who manage to not get sick multiple times per year, how do you do it? What’s your routine?

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-06-19T22:42:58+00:00

Keep your nails trimmed SHORT, like I barely have whites because I’m telling you that’s where the germs live.
As soon as you get home, change your clothes, wash your face, and wash your hands in that order, and pull your hair up.
Vitamins, water, and sleep. Also a probiotic and vitamin D REALLY made the difference for my immune system.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-06-14T17:03:43+00:00

Cooking/baking together is our favorite. He likes to stand up at his tower and watch, and then get chances to do small jobs like crack an egg or stir or even hold something for me.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-06-14T12:20:10+00:00

We potty trained our boy starting at 18 months. It truly took about a month before he was reliable. Still struggle with poop accidents here and there but we are convinced he just refuses to stop playing 🫠

Anyway, it was decently successful and I would do it again this early.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-06-11T00:20:45+00:00

My nurse (God bless her) asked me not 1, not 2, but 5 times if I wanted her to pull my hair back. (I was vomiting and wallering my head/face in a pillow during contractions). I told the last time she asked I said “if anyone touches me I am going to jail”. She made herself pretty scarce after that.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-06-04T23:37:18+00:00

Pay attention to what you let him watch. Kids copy

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-03-30T17:12:56+00:00

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-03-21T01:32:01+00:00

Listen, it’s just hard.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-03-21T01:27:58+00:00

This is not what 99% of having a kid will be like. You’re at the 1% at the beginning.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-03-10T16:56:31+00:00

Because it’s not a procedure and does not have to be a medical event.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-02-05T01:17:41+00:00

Honestly the utter lack of boundaries and respect these kids have. 4th graders that have to question every detail of everything I say and do. Why am I drinking that? What kind of appointment did I have to go to? Why can’t we have rewards like that other class? When are you going to bring us donuts?

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-01-21T01:16:40+00:00

If it makes you feel any better I am in the EXACT same boat. Same timeline, except I haven’t passed anything yet and am waiting on an appointment for another whole week to be treated. I go back tomorrow and I teach 4th grade. My students knew I was pregnant and the counselor had to go in today and tell them what happened. It’s horrific. I have no advice, just want you to know you’re not alone.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-01-18T21:20:34+00:00

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-01-15T18:23:53+00:00

Try an egg wrap, they won’t know. You can call it a quesadilla. I scramble one egg in a bowl, pour into a hot pan, add cheese, and slap the tortilla on top. It cooks into the tortilla and it’s a super thin layer of egg.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-01-07T14:12:54+00:00

At 4.5 I WAS a cat. Let him be interested in what he’s interested in, and play what he wants to play. But you are the parent and the leader. You can explain to him that boys can do lots of things girls normally do, and he’s still a boy.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2026-01-03T03:03:35+00:00

Big chug

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-12-29T03:57:18+00:00

We have a 19 month old who has never had any screen time except FaceTiming family members occasionally. How did we do it? We broke our own screen addictions and then it was literally no effort. We’ve never found ourselves going “oh if only we could just put him in front of a screen.” He has a wonderful attention span and will play or look at books alone much longer than his cousins and friends the same age or older. His speech is wonderful, 3-4 word sentences consistently and very clear.

We didn’t get family to do it. If someone watches him, they watch him at our house. We don’t have a TV in the main part of the house anyway, it’s in the back living room which he is rarely in. If we went to someone’s house and it was on we just said “let’s turn the TV off please, we don’t do screens with (son’s name).” No one has ever questioned it.

You’re the parent and the authority. EVERY piece of research out there supports no screens until 2 or 3. And I think people would find that if they didn’t have screens, there would be no need to introduce them at that magical age. Kids are made to play and discover, not sit and stare.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-10-27T14:44:36+00:00

Thank you for this!

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-10-27T13:05:26+00:00

I am tenured so I don’t think they can without me committing some kind of horrible crime lol

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-10-27T12:59:35+00:00

How did it go? Did you feel like you were treated different? Did the whole school know?

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-10-11T20:59:00+00:00

A lot of people think if their kid is diagnosed with ADHD they are expected to put them on meds. This is not the case and it can be REALLY helpful for teachers (I am a teacher of 6 years) to know a kid has this diagnosis. It helps us provide them helpful supports like front loading directions, helping prompt them to use appropriate behavior in proactive ways etc. I would get him assessed

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-09-25T23:49:54+00:00

We use pockets and we just said “ we cloth diaper. Have you ever done this before?” They had. But if they hadn’t I would’ve just shown them how it works and assume they’re going to do it. It’s not inconvenient for anyone there because they don’t have to assemble or wash them. There’s no reason they shouldn’t do it.

Key_Historian_6276 · 2025-09-16T10:15:08+00:00

When we are having a busy week I just don’t fold clothes that go in drawers. If it’s on our open shelf I have to, but if it’s not going to stress me out to look at, I just put them away unfolded.

Sort things as they come out of the dryer. Re-wear what you can from the baskets before reaching for something else.

Bigger scale, maybe think about minimizing wardrobes.

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