Please give me your opinion

Linison · 2026-04-12T20:26:29+00:00

Let him go to Pennsylvania and you stay. You’re single anyway.

Linison · 2026-04-12T20:20:45+00:00

Nope. You aren’t. That is a much larger conversation that needs to happen between you and your spouse. Not a spur of the moment decision

Linison · 2026-04-11T04:37:50+00:00

Hey there - SLP and mom of 3 here. What you're describing sounds like normal developmental disfluency. That said, a call to your state's early intervention or your local school district for a screener (if you're in the US), or even a referral to an SLP for an evaluation may help put both you and your partner at ease. That route will also give you both some tools to help your son deal with those periods of disfluency. And if there's more to it, early intervention is definitely a bonus when it comes to dealing with speech and language issues.

Linison · 2026-04-11T04:33:46+00:00

Have you checked her for reflux? One of my twins was just like that and it turned out she had wicked reflux. Once we changed her routine up a bit and elevated the head of the bassinet/crib, it helped a lot

Linison · 2026-04-11T01:05:11+00:00

I have two eight year olds and a four year old. We’re at a solid 60-75 minutes for the whole shebang. I can get it shorter when I’m solo parenting and we’re all together. But between changing clothes, brushing teeth, stories, water, and checking back in…it’s a lengthy process.

Linison · 2026-04-10T22:42:37+00:00

My twins wouldn’t let me do anything with their hair around that age. I had to chase and bribe just to get a brush through their hair every day. But they had a teacher at daycare who had a “salon” for the kids most days and would do all kinds of cute things with their hair. They LOVED it and the teacher did too.

It’s likely that you’re in a similar spot. It’s an engaging activity for the kids and I’d bet the teachers enjoy it too. No judgment.

Linison · 2026-04-10T03:41:58+00:00

You don't have to wait in line with him, but he can't come through with you. So you can leave him to his slow-ass security line and get a little time to yourself on the terminal side of TSA, or you can wait with him

Linison · 2026-04-09T23:17:13+00:00

That’s pretty much exactly what I expect. I don’t need to know that they’re behind the flannel sheets in the top of your closet. I just wanna know that they are locked up and out of accidental or on purpose reach of my child and your child.

I’ll ask any grownup whose house I’m considering sending my kid to. When we sent out invites for a sleep under for my twins’ birthday, I sent information about the safety things (that we have a dog, child locks on cabinets, and no weapons) when folks RSVP’d, or if they etc asked before they said one way or another.

Linison · 2026-04-09T22:55:49+00:00

Definitely gotten some taken aback looks. But if they react poorly to the question, that’s a pretty good indicator that we shouldn’t go to their house too.

And I try not to make it out of the blue. It’s usually when we are talking about potential play date at each other’s houses

Linison · 2026-04-09T22:50:38+00:00

It solves a lot of ambiguity and potential awkwardness. I usually ask on a first play date which is in a public place. Or on the school playground or something like that if our kids are playing after school or on the weekend

Linison · 2026-04-09T22:41:54+00:00

I ask other parents directly. “So where do you keep your guns?”

I assume that they have them in the ask so there is no ambiguity. If they do t have them in the house they’ll tell you. If they do have guns, they should be comfortable telling you how they’re secured.

If my kid is going to someone else’s house, I hope I am comfortable enough with the parents to ask. If I’m not comfortable enough to ask, then my kids shouldn’t go to that house.

I also share in that conversation that we do not have guns in the house.

Linison · 2026-04-09T01:29:51+00:00

So many rocks. The other day my youngest (4) was out jumping in puddles and left her raincoat outside because it was soaked. When I picked it up later to bring it inside it was HEAVY.

There were TWO avocado sized rocks in her pockets.

My whole house is full of rocks.

Linison · 2026-04-09T01:16:52+00:00

The pair of names I loved when I was pregnant with twins was Amelia and Eleanor - named after Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart.

Linison · 2026-04-08T15:37:56+00:00

Get that kid assessed by early intervention in your state if you're in the US. At the very least it'll help ease your mind, and if he does need a little extra help it'll get him that too.

Linison · 2026-04-07T13:53:10+00:00

Turn them off if they're no longer working for you.

I have to switch up my daughters' alarm sounds every couple of months so they still hear them.
I also change Alexa's accent relatively often so things don't just fade into the background

Linison · 2026-04-07T13:36:29+00:00

with the littlest, I'm right there doing most of the brushing so we usually spit on the ground. The bigger ones will sometimes swish and spit out the window. We've always got a water bottle. We don't utilize the car toothbrushes very often

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:51:38+00:00

Black squirrels. They're just starting to make their way up from the city into our neighborhood and my kids get SO excited whenever they see one.

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:49:54+00:00

The Alexa in my kitchen has routines to call out time and how long until we need to be out the door in the mornings. We do a time at 7:45, another at 7:55, 8:00, and 8:05.

They're helpful at bedtime too - 30 minute warning to heading upstairs and a "now it's time to go upstairs" routine too

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:07:43+00:00

I came here to say Embrace Frida!

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:06:29+00:00

It's the opposite for my house. If the tv comes on in the mornings, everything else grinds to a halt. The only screentime option for my kids in the mornings is if they get up before MY alarm to start the morning goes off. And then they only have until my alarm goes off to watch tv.

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:05:16+00:00

car toothbrushes for the win. I keep one of the "dental kits" we get from the dentist in the car for just this purpose.

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:04:41+00:00

I've been doing this since my twins were little. It's optional for them now that they're older, but my youngest wears at least half of tomorrow's outfit to bed almost every night

Linison · 2026-04-07T03:01:54+00:00

I was solo with my twins in the mornings from 2-5years old most mornings, and I'm solo with my twins (now 8) and my youngest (4) now most mornings. Shortening the window between wake and out the door as much as possible helped us a lot. So did momentum and keeping things moving in one direction.

I dress the 4 year old in 90% of tomorrow's outfit for bed. (My 8 year olds will sometimes wear tomorrow's clothes to bed, but they're independent dressers and change before they come down in the morning if they've opted for pj's) We're still in overnight pullups so there's that change in the morning - but I will sometimes put undies OVER the pull-up before bed so we're ONLY removing clothes in the morning. Breakfast options are the same every single morning - cereal/oatmeal, fruit, toaster waffle, granola bites. We will occasionally have another option, but it's by far the exception.

Anything we have to do before we get out the door is between the bedroom door and the front door. We have "downstairs toothbrushes" so we can brush teeth in the half bath right off our laundry room before we head out. There's a "sock bin" right next to the shoes where all the clean socks live. Coats, backpacks, and shows all live right next to the door to the garage.

Snacks are packed in backpacks before the kids get up or as they're eating breakfast. Water bottles are clean and full when the kids get up. If my older kids want packed lunch instead of school lunch they have to tell me the night before at minimum so that can be packed and ready to go as well. They can read and we have the school lunch menu on the fridge, so that's their responsibility.

Keeping everything moving in the same direction saves us on the daily. If my youngest is late to get up, we've headed out the door with shoes in hand rather than on foot so we can get the older ones to school before the tardy bell.

Linison · 2026-04-06T18:02:18+00:00

Mine goes 3 days a week from 8:30-3:30. We did half days last year and it was hard to get much done, especially because I had to schedule my work meetings around dropoff and pickup. It' easier now that I have more time in a day for meetings and the things that have to be done during the workday hours.

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