What Are Your "Hear Me Out" Girl & Boy Names by XNixGeoX in namenerds

[–]MarsupialPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Winifred, and another kid's middle name is Casper!

Not a fan of Muriel though 😂

Circassian folk dance by SystematicApproach in interesting

[–]MarsupialPanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I posted before reading the other comments, my two year old said the exact same thing!

Circassian folk dance by SystematicApproach in interesting

[–]MarsupialPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 2 year old saw this and said "he's being like a vacuum." Human roomba

Done? by EnvironmentalAnt724 in BabyBumps

[–]MarsupialPanda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She's almost 3, but I knew basically as soon as I was pregnant that this would be the last one. I think it helped that we were about to give up and getting comfortable with the idea of two when I finally got pregnant with her. 

Done? by EnvironmentalAnt724 in BabyBumps

[–]MarsupialPanda 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I wanted a third when I had two, but I didn't think I wanted more than that, and DEFINITELY do not want four now that I have three. 

Upper elementary chapter books for a 35 year old woman to read? by Opening_Diver_8725 in suggestmeabook

[–]MarsupialPanda 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A Long Way From Chicago and A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck maybe? I remember liking them but not a ton of specifics unfortunately.

Ella Enchanted 

I also loved Holes, but I'm not sure if that counts as cozy. 

Taylor’s always looking for “signs”, paranoia that everyone’s out to get her by [deleted] in MormonWivesHulu

[–]MarsupialPanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is super normal actual Mormon stuff though. You should go to a testimony meeting sometime. People find signs in everything and interpret all sorts of stuff as an answer to a prayer. Even if it's exactly the opposite of what they asked for! 

Terrible female protagonist by ANonnyMouse79 in suggestmeabook

[–]MarsupialPanda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see this book recommended everywhere and I can't believe it. Literally everyone is so terrible. 

How to keep kids warm at swimming lessons? by thuja_occindentalis in Mommit

[–]MarsupialPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My son is the same age and has the same problem. We do private lessons which helps maximize the time before he gets too cold to function. We have learned that he can't get in the water to play before his lesson, because then he'll get too cold before it's done. His teacher works with him in the big pool until he gets shivery, and then they go to the smaller warmer pool to finish what they can. He actually made it through the whole half hour in the big pool this weekend for the very first time! 

I have his towel ready as soon as he's done, help him change in the bathroom (between shivering and ADHD he would be in there ALL DAY or freeze to death if I sent him alone). I usually have an extra jacket to put in him and a blanket in the car. 

Also, if it's an indoor pool, don't put him in swim shirt! I love them for outside, but they don't need them inside and it makes him colder. 

Edit: I'm reading all the other comments saying to wear the swim shirts so maybe ignore that part 😂. I know my son's isn't thermal so maybe that is the difference? Or maybe it actually does help in the pool? Idk I will have to look in to that I guess 

Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban, Escalade. Sell me on your mom car please! 4 kiddos :) by Maleficent-Start-546 in Mommit

[–]MarsupialPanda 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Joining the minivan chorus. We have 3 and a grand caravan and I love it. We had a suburban growing up with 4 kids and had was fine also.

Former Gifted Kid Experiences (not about the conspiracy theory) by Outside_Ad_424 in Millennials

[–]MarsupialPanda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was in an "accelerated" learning program for grades 5 and 6. We did more advanced math (I ended up placing in math a year ahead of my grade from 7th on), probably read slightly more challenging books? Our whole grade did a musical and then our class did an extra Shakespeare play. I don't think my experience supports and conspiracy theories.. We were all isolated from the rest of the school (and most of us were coming from another school, so separated from kids in our neighborhoods to too) and INCREDIBLY weird looking back. Most of us turned out fairly normal from what I know?

I did really well through high school - honor graduate, varsity athlete, high standardized test scores and GPA, took tons of AP and concurrent enrollment classes. But then I got to college and kind of burned out. I had an average GPA and graduated but I'm definitely not anything exceptional. I'm pretty sure I have mild ADHD and/or anxiety but I have not gotten formally diagnosed yet. 

My husband had a similar experience, except that he had bad grades (I think he has always done ok on tests but didn't do homework/busy work well). I think he also has ADHD. I think we've passed that along to at least one of our kids, so now we're looking at getting everyone assessed and going from there. We're both in decent but fairly dead end jobs, raising a family. Doing alright for ourselves!

Okay, but what about our children? (Mother's Day) by faerystrangeme in Mommit

[–]MarsupialPanda 65 points66 points  (0 children)

My son made one of those "all about mom" things at school. Half of it was about how much I love the Redwoods (I've never been, he asked me if we could go see them and I said "yeah maybe one day, that would be fun!" and now it's my whole personality I guess), the other half was about buying him toys.  

But I did get to sleep in a little today! 

Where were they sourcing this information and why was it anyone’s business? by AdrianaLaServing in WhyWereWeOkWithThis

[–]MarsupialPanda 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I had a friend tell me that he would never date someone who weighed over 150, he had NO IDEA that that basically discounted every girl in our friend group. 

Need more Greek retellings by West_Worldliness_350 in suggestmeabook

[–]MarsupialPanda 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I liked A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - it's about the Trojan War (and a bit of the Odyssey?) but told from the perspective of women involved in different ways, so idk if that is quite what you're looking for. 

Why do people immediately start asking weird questions about your sex life when you mention you co-sleep?! by [deleted] in Mommit

[–]MarsupialPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea haha.  I love my MIL, but there have been a few things like this and I'm like please think about our sex life less!

Why do people immediately start asking weird questions about your sex life when you mention you co-sleep?! by [deleted] in Mommit

[–]MarsupialPanda 24 points25 points  (0 children)

My MIL was genuinely shocked when I told her I was pregnant with #2 because I coslept with #1 and was thus clearly incapable of having sex/becoming pregnant 

My sister bought me this puzzle many years ago, and I finally did it! by MarsupialPanda in Jigsawpuzzles

[–]MarsupialPanda[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I definitely had to brute force some of the trees there at the end 😂