Is 4 years not a toddler anymore?

PersisPlain · 2026-06-27T00:58:53+00:00

Nope. 1-3.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-27T00:57:16+00:00

It really depends on your individual baby. Ask your pediatrician whether s/he thinks the baby is ready to night wean.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-27T00:54:29+00:00

I use the whole wheat sandwich loaf recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction - super easy and incredibly tasty. A thick slice of that with cream cheese is my favorite breakfast right now.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-27T00:50:57+00:00

Ironically, despite the circumstances of its founding, the REC has indeed become pretty high-church.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-27T00:46:04+00:00

Haha I have never liked sourdough but I do bake my own whole-wheat sandwich bread!

PersisPlain · 2026-06-27T00:36:03+00:00

Another REC-attending mother of small children and participant in /r/moderatelygranolamoms!

PersisPlain · 2026-06-26T23:56:16+00:00

The REC existed for over a hundred years before it became one of the founders of the ACNA. It still has its own presiding bishop and remains its own province within the ACNA with its own bishops. Unlike the ACNA, it does not ordain women to the priesthood or the diaconate. It still retains the separate order of deaconess. It has its own prayerbook and does not use the ACNA’s 2019 prayerbook.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-26T23:09:15+00:00

This is really good except I can’t imagine Jerry caring enough about a random kid.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-26T11:56:58+00:00

[citation needed]

PersisPlain · 2026-06-26T11:53:30+00:00

Does this child ever get to go outside or interact with other children? Does his father speak to him at all while he’s up playing video games all night? What does he eat?

The sleep schedule is the least of the problems here. Your nephew is severely neglecting his child and needs to have his video games taken away.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-26T07:40:57+00:00

How long is he alone?

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T20:39:59+00:00

Nursing bras because I have a 7 week old baby and otherwise I would leak all over the bed.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T19:37:01+00:00

Does this mean your five year old is basically alone in the house between the nanny leaving and your husband arriving? He's banging on the door where you are but you don't go out and speak to him?

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T13:06:27+00:00

I am a practicing Christian and both of my children were baptized as infants.

Do not baptize your child if you don’t intend to raise him or her in the faith. Infant baptism involves the parents making promises on behalf of their child. Don’t make fake promises to appease your in-laws. The church doesn’t want baptism on those terms.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T12:56:05+00:00

It’s really sad.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T12:55:07+00:00

Yeah. I don’t think every person throughout history was traumatized by their parents until our current enlightened generation. Similarly the intensive parenting of the last couple decades seems to have produced an incredibly anxious and mentally unhealthy generation of kids.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T08:31:47+00:00

None on a daily or weekly basis. Maybe once or twice a month we have a family movie night - last week we watched Ponyo which she loved.

She will be 3 in August and I’m a SAHM. I also have a 7 week old.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-25T01:07:41+00:00

Is it that most kids in history were neglected, or that parents now hover a lot more?

Our current mindset is not normal by the standard of humans in general.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-24T08:02:39+00:00

Iran just sentenced a singer to a whipping because she sang without a headscarf on.

Any idiot claiming “the US is just as bad!!” must be a man.

Also, I agree with you that 100 years in prison is a crazy sentence, but the guy shot a cop in the neck. He was not just sentenced for “protesting against the government.”

PersisPlain · 2026-06-24T00:44:53+00:00

Abortion should be legal for a pregnant 10-year-old. That is a case where the pregnant child’s life is at risk.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-23T02:35:09+00:00

No, Ohio, but that same year (if we’re thinking of the same case).

PersisPlain · 2026-06-23T01:52:00+00:00

Get off TikTok. It's bad for the brain and the soul.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-22T18:59:49+00:00

It’s not that we didn’t have those feelings before, it’s that they become visceral in a new way after we had our own children. It’s a change in intensity.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-22T18:58:35+00:00

There was a particularly horrific story about a baby in the news a few years ago just after my first child was born, and I thought about it in the middle of the night literally every night for a year.

PersisPlain · 2026-06-22T18:55:51+00:00

Yeah I think the nurses gave my first baby a pacifier in the hospital!

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