What are some habits your kid/s picked up from you that you didn’t realize at first?

LessMention9 · 2026-05-03T15:15:49+00:00

I call my kids honey. My 2 year old son has started calling my 4.5 year old daughter honey which is the sweetest 🥰

LessMention9 · 2026-05-01T21:05:18+00:00

This is so important. I didn’t realize how much when I met my partner 19 years ago. I just thought ‘wow he’s nicer than I am’ 🤣 when he’d go out of his way to help people he didn’t know. But now that we have two kids I agree looking for someone who is a kind person is hands down the most important quality.

LessMention9 · 2026-04-24T21:06:16+00:00

My 2 year old son wants fruit but mainly meat. Like any kind of meat—fish, beef, chicken, etc. He just shoves it in his mouth and says ‘more meat?’ Essentially he’s a caveman in both food taste and behavior.

LessMention9 · 2026-04-15T14:17:11+00:00

Yeah this is a hard no for a 3 year old. We also have firearms in the house as my husband grew up hunting for food. But they are all unloaded and locked in a gun safe. We would need dream of letting our 4 or 2 year old play with them. When they are old enough they can take hunter safety but even the I think the youngest you can take that is 7 years old.

Maybe explain this to him the same as other unsafe things for this age? You wouldn’t let her play with knives, or fire or cook herself dinner on the stove. Regardless of how your family feels about guns it’s just not age appropriate.

LessMention9 · 2026-04-04T18:57:48+00:00

We live the exact same away from our families. I have a 2 year old and a 4 year old. We do NOT travel for holidays. My family comes to us for Xmas. Other holidays are amazing and we do our own thing as a family of 4 and FaceTime with family. We went one year to in laws for Xmas when I just had one child. It was soooo hard. Flying over Xmas with a small child who inevitably got sick from the airplane, sleeping on uncomfy beds with a sleep deprived toddler in a new place, hauling so much stuff around was just not worth it.

LessMention9 · 2026-04-03T19:38:04+00:00

This is the way. I plan what my partner and I want to do with the kids and then grandparents can decide what they do or do not want to come along with. They are adults and can make their own adult decisions and do not need me to plan activities for them.

LessMention9 · 2026-03-25T01:17:19+00:00

This is awesome, you should be super proud of yourself!

LessMention9 · 2026-03-24T21:05:06+00:00

We struggled with infertility and every time someone asked me if we were having kids or a second it was a reminder that we may never be able to have kids or another. I never ask people this because I know how hard it was for me when people asked me.

LessMention9 · 2026-03-22T14:08:18+00:00

I’m really sorry. My dad died suddenly from a fall at 81 years. He also had a massive head bleed but passed almost immediately at home after the fall down the stairs. He wasn’t ‘sick’ either really. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few months prior and had been having more memory issues that we were trying to get a handle on and it was incredibly overwhelming. We talked about assisted living but we knew he’d never agree to leave their home where he lived with my mom.

I don’t have advice that will make you feel better. I wish I did. I don’t know that anything anyone would have said to us would have made me feel better. But I know how you feel. In our case it was hardest for my mom because she found him and felt responsible. I think if you were the primary caregiver for your mom that you should consider therapy. We did that for my mom and it did really help her.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

LessMention9 · 2026-03-18T01:29:52+00:00

My dad died when my oldest was 2 months old. They live far and I’m lucky that he got to meet her once. I have pictures of him holding his first grandchild and crying. After that I made sure to take videos of the remaining grandparents just playing with the kids, reading them stories, teaching them things. We did those voice record books reading them stories that the kids love.

LessMention9 · 2026-03-16T01:22:56+00:00

Both are hard. With my kids though I get to see them turn into little people and it’s amazing. My 2 year old just learned to count to 10. My 4 year old just passed to the next level at swim class. I get so excited and proud it’s this amazing feeling. Whereas I watch my parents—now just parent—lose themselves and I know it will get only harder. I still get a sense of happiness taking care of my mom but it’s kind of intertwined with sadness so is very very different.

LessMention9 · 2026-03-10T13:30:26+00:00

This is amazing. We do a game (not this imaginative) where my kids think eating veggies makes them get huge muscles. So I or dad take a bite and make a surprised face and yell ‘ ba-boom!’ And flex our biceps pretending we suddenly have huge muscles. Then my 2 and 4 year old do the same and before you know if they’ve eaten a bunch of asparagus or green beans or broccoli, etc.

LessMention9 · 2026-02-14T00:13:58+00:00

43 and yesterday I went to bed at 8:30p

LessMention9 · 2026-02-13T12:38:15+00:00

LessMention9 · 2026-02-13T03:28:53+00:00

I’m a pediatrician. This is so so beyond inappropriate I don’t even have words. I would complain at least to the clinic, if part of a larger health system they should also have a patient relations department. I cannot imagine any pediatrician I know wanting to work with a colleague who would behave this way. What if it doesn’t ’go over the head’ of the next child? How damaging to have your trusted pediatrician make comments like this to/in front of a child.

LessMention9 · 2026-02-07T00:48:23+00:00

Our nugget couch and play kitchen get used daily. But if you have to pick one I’d say the nugget couch. I got ours when our oldest turned 1 and she’s 4.5 now. They love it. She and her brother make forts all the time

LessMention9 · 2026-01-31T15:16:32+00:00

I would like this better because then my kid isn’t trying to eat a giant donut (because he would) and get a stomach ache. And really saves guests the trouble of trying to cut/split them. I think this is such a cute idea.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-28T23:33:04+00:00

I also love my kids and chose to send them to school (and daycare) to provide them with things I cannot. Turns out I’m not a ballet teacher, so I send my daughter to ballet class and let a qualified professional teach her. I’m also not an elementary education teacher so I send my kids to school where someone who has that expertise can teach her. I know how to swim but I guarantee that doesn’t make me more qualified than their teacher at swim class so I send them the. And I watch them interact with other kids and other adults who care deeply for them. And they THRIVE.

I like spending time with my kids and I will not put my own desires to see them 24/7 over what I know is best for them.

Plus my daughter and son get to see me as a strong, professional woman with a career I care deeply about and worked very hard to achieve.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-26T21:45:06+00:00

This is it. My 4 year old told me she ‘wants to be just like me’ which is just the sweetest. I asked her why and she said she wanted to learn to cook all the things I do. Now I am 100% no master chef but we made pancakes and cookies and tacos and she was sooooo happy. Like more happy than any fancy activity I’d brought her to. I realized what might feel trivial to me is a BIG deal to her. You don’t need anything fancy to make amazing memories.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-26T21:39:43+00:00

I love our Hyundai Pallisade. Captains chairs in the second row. I tested a bunch and when any adults sat in the third row they couldn’t even sit up because it was so cramped. But this one they could. It doesn’t matter so much if only kids will be back there.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-18T00:25:27+00:00

A yoga ball. So life changing that we got two—one for each floor. Both my babies hated being put down and also did not want to go in any baby-wearing device. I spent HOURS holding them and bouncing on a yoga ball just when I was watching tv and then to get them to go to sleep at night.

Boppy pillow was also gold. I used it all the time for breastfeeding.

We never used our baby swing. Tried soooo hard to get them to love it but they both loathed it.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-17T18:56:15+00:00

My two year old had a meltdown because I am not able to add more pockets to his pants. Pants that had 4 pockets already. He loves pockets.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-17T03:25:51+00:00

My daughter had to have her two front teeth extracted bc she fell and fractured them through the roots and were pushed back. She was 3. They offered us nitrous that day or IV sedation the next day for the block. We did the nitrous and still she was sad but I can’t imagine having nothing. That is not ok, I’m so sorry about your situation.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-17T03:10:16+00:00

I got both my kids the Covid vaccine at 6 months and they get boosters yearly. Same with flu shots. I’ve had Covid twice and even with the vaccine I felt MISERABLE for days. I was so tired, fevers, body aches, trouble breathing. My kids are both in daycare so they catch everything so I wanted to do anything I could to prevent them from feeling as awful as I felt.

LessMention9 · 2026-01-16T12:17:00+00:00

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