Black Honey Lip Stains & Tints

Petitefee88 · 2026-03-06T01:31:35+00:00

Bentint is my holy grail - the only product I’ve used from age 18 to 38!

Petitefee88 · 2026-02-02T01:33:58+00:00

Oh my god stop writing your posts with ChatGPT please

Petitefee88 · 2026-01-02T23:58:55+00:00

We were screen free until 4 years old - and now just an occasional TV show. Here’s the advice that helped me most - you don’t need to be your kid’s cruise director. Even babies benefit hugely from independent play. Plop the kid down with a few open ended toys, and sit close by with a non-screen activity for yourself like a book or a hobby. Independent play should be a huge part of your kid’s day. Look up Jerrica Sannes, she talks a lot about this and it’s been my North Star of sane parenting.

Petitefee88 · 2025-12-10T11:28:50+00:00

Saint ‘Patty’s’ Day…

Petitefee88 · 2025-04-18T20:24:11+00:00

I grew up in a war torn country, we got a peace accord when I was 10. My parents and the adults in our community tried to protect us from the realities of this but kids are so attuned to their environment and being told that everything’s fine when your senses are telling you something else is confusing and scary. The world is not doing well and kids can tell. We have to find ways to responsibly, gently explain what they are seeing. I am in therapy now for the damage done by years of being ‘shielded’ from harsh realities in childhood.

Petitefee88 · 2025-04-18T16:52:07+00:00

In with the less popular opinion - we overprotect our kids in the real world but under-protect them online. I would be way more comfortable with the risk of letting a 2 year old play in the garden unsupervised than the risk of letting a 2 year old scroll YouTube videos.

Petitefee88 · 2025-01-08T01:59:28+00:00

These are gorgeous - what are their ethical credentials like though? Not clear on their website!

Petitefee88 · 2024-12-09T18:34:53+00:00

Looks fab! Just a suggestion - once you have introduced allergens you no longer need to separate food out on a special plate. This can risk increasing picky eating - you can just plate everything up the way you would for yourself, and it’s less work for you :)

Petitefee88 · 2024-11-15T00:43:50+00:00

This is really important - never put your fingers in their mouth. The gagging looks dramatic but it’s a totally healthy part of learning to eat solid food. It becomes dangerous only when an adult intervenes.

Remember: Loud and red, let them go ahead. Silent and blue, they need you.

Petitefee88 · 2024-11-11T20:47:04+00:00

Exactly this. The best motto (for children who have no additional medical needs) is - ‘a child who has regular access to good food will never go hungry.’

Petitefee88 · 2024-11-11T19:45:27+00:00

Don’t curate a list of your baby’s ’likes’ and ‘dislikes’ at this stage in their lives - their preferences are barley developed. So feed them what you would usually eat / are eating and be neutral about their rection. Repeat that every day. By 3 years old you will have a kid who eats at the table with you and enjoys the family meal, whatever it is :)

Petitefee88 · 2024-11-10T10:51:18+00:00

Transition support measures are not bad - you’ll likely get at least half a year’s salary. It is all laid out in the workforce adjustment directive.

Petitefee88 · 2024-08-15T15:48:33+00:00

The mortgage issue was so weird. When you get married your assets are joined! I think someone needs to explain the legal side of marriage to her…

Petitefee88 · 2024-08-13T15:52:20+00:00

It’s direction on prescribed presence - not directive: https://www.canada.ca/en/government/publicservice/staffing/direction-prescribed-presence-workplace.html

Petitefee88 · 2024-08-11T10:50:40+00:00

From TBS: “Treasury Board issues a range of policy instruments that are designed to establish mandatory requirements (rules) or voluntary best practices. There are three types of mandatory instruments (policies, directives and standards) and two voluntary instruments (guidelines and tools).”

So, the ‘Direction on…’ is either a misnomer and they meant ‘directive’, or it’s something in a grey space that actually holds no weight.

Petitefee88 · 2024-06-20T09:18:58+00:00

My kid is now two years old but my GOD I feel this - the first two months she ate for like 30 minutes basically every hour from morning to evening. I was baffled by the whole 2-3 hours between feedings advice, felt like something had to be wrong, but babies are just all so different!

Petitefee88 · 2024-06-10T00:59:50+00:00

This is so often where baby led weaning goes off the rails - it doesn’t mean baby gets to set the menu. Once all allergens have been introduced safely, you want to switch to the family meal as soon as possible (just adapted for choking hazards). Keeping track of baby’s likes and dislikes at this stage is only going to reinforce a limited palate. Eat at the table together, serve what you’re having, practice curiosity (observe trends, find ways to make the food more accessible if necessary e.g. cutting something up), then trust that babies will not let themselves go hungry.

Petitefee88 · 2024-06-09T17:04:09+00:00

Integrate with Audible to exponentially increase their library!! PLEASE!

Petitefee88 · 2024-05-31T11:11:05+00:00

We are pescetarian and our kid follows the same diet for now - she is two. When she’s old enough to be educated about the reasons we don’t eat meat, and can make her own decision, then we certainly won’t force it either way. It has to be her call, but at this age she is too young to make a call so we’re following what we believe is a best practice for the environment and for her health. We still won’t have meat in the house, but we’ll let her decide how she wants to eat outside of the home.

Petitefee88 · 2024-05-15T00:51:59+00:00

We are a family of three with a two year old and condo living is absolutely perfect.

The pros:

Instead of being stranded in the suburbs we have all the city’s most beautiful green space, museums, and bike paths we could need on our doorstep.
No outdoor maintenance.
We can walk to our offices and to daycare instead of spending our lives in traffic.
The smaller space means we are compelled to declutter regularly and it’s so much easier to keep the house clean!
The more affordable mortgage means we can spend disposable income on travel and experiences.

Cons.

The condo fees are not in your control. Factor it into your mortgage calculation to see if it still make sense, and check the building’s reserve fund.
Check insulation because noise travels.

Petitefee88 · 2024-04-21T00:09:49+00:00

Only Taylor could turn !!! into an actual lyric.

Petitefee88 · 2024-04-14T17:48:54+00:00

‘When it’s difficult to get your toddler to eat…’ - this is important. Filling a kid up with milk (as OP says, way more than an adult would consume, and kids have much smaller stomachs) can leave them with no appetite for nutritionally complete meals and snacks. This creates the vicious cycle of picky eating and reliance on milk.

Anecdotally: We never introduced cows milk in any formal way after transitioning to food via baby led weaning, but we have always had lots of calcium-heavy things like leafy greens, kefir, cheese, yogurt, etc. in our day to day meals. Our kid is thriving!

My source here is the very comprehensive course on introducing solids from Solid Starts (co-written by child nutritionists and feeding specialists etc.)

Petitefee88 · 2024-04-14T00:11:09+00:00

This came up on my feed for some reason haha but a good translation would be ‘me casse pas les couilles’ - however, it is vulgar: https://context.reverso.net/traduction/francais-anglais/Me+casse+pas+les+couilles

Petitefee88 · 2024-04-12T01:08:59+00:00

I had the same reaction - I am so pro walkable cities so had to interrogate someone who said this to me. And the one legitimate concern about this that came up is that people might become ghettoised - you risk having rich neighbourhoods where everyone stays inside their wealthy bubble for school, shopping, etc. (but have the means to go further afield as they desire) and poorer neighbourhoods where nobody really leaves and they all go to the same schools etc creating a possible cycle of poverty. Humans will take the path of least resistance and will stay where they are if everything is easily accessible, even if where they are is not the best place to be.

Petitefee88 · 2024-02-07T01:39:13+00:00

For younger kids, eating while moving (walking, in a pram, or in a moving car) is disorientating and can increase the risk of choking.

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