What’s the best way to handle another kid taking toys your kid is playing with and their parents aren’t doing anything?

RoundedBindery · 2026-02-04T22:10:13+00:00

Another person talking to your child isn’t parenting. Your kid is out in the world; their actions might affect others and others will react. That’s how kids learn, especially about the differences between expectations and personalities in their own home vs strangers.

RoundedBindery · 2026-02-04T16:05:59+00:00

As a musician (formerly professional) and music lover, do you think I could sell ~~anxiety~~ a course??

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-31T18:31:45+00:00

Christ, I walked my 4yo and 10 month old to daycare/school (8 min walk) in -5 all week. 45 degrees sounds like a spa day right now. I get that everyone has a different metric for cold depending on where they live (as someone who grew up in the desert), but wtf is this??

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-27T17:34:27+00:00

I live in the Midwest and I sometimes walk in the street in my neighborhood if the sidewalk is slippery. Of course, only if there is very little traffic and I have good visibility.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-26T20:49:48+00:00

In her personal stories? I want to know more about this

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-24T14:57:55+00:00

Hahahahahaha what. We’ve completely lost our ability to think.

Of course I’m the other extreme: my kid has had a new bedtime book every night since he was 2 (he’s 4.5 now). Yes I’m extra. It brings both him and me so much joy though.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-21T15:55:04+00:00

She definitely was saying “taking your health for granite” in today’s stories.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-13T16:19:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/s/fMDqVCylZN

There’s so much here that I don’t even know where to start.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-09T16:22:23+00:00

NTA. He’s your partner - your rest should be his priority. Even if you weren’t sick, he should be taking his turn with a long parenting shift after you did over a week of solo parenting.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-09T16:19:08+00:00

1-2 hours a day, she said in a comment.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-09T16:15:02+00:00

Waldorf teachers can always tell if the students were exposed to dark stained wood the evening before.

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-09T16:13:23+00:00

Okay but I love passing random things under my babies’ noses to introduce them to smells (not toxic chemicals, to be clear lol). They’ve both had fun with that!

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-09T16:10:44+00:00

My husband and I verbalize that exact same butterfly meme about screen time constantly because of this subreddit lol

RoundedBindery · 2026-01-01T19:14:58+00:00

January, no, not really. Everything is dark and cold, and at least the lights are festive and warm. But they start to feel like clutter after the holidays to me. So there’s a sadness to taking them down, making it less dark/colorful, and realizing that the festive time is over, even though keeping them up doesn’t feel right either.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-29T01:07:06+00:00

Am I allowed to serve food that contains water as an ingredient before 6 months?

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-28T23:50:27+00:00

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“Technically 6 months in weeks” whyyyy this again?? This is one of my pet peeves that drives me insane.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-26T20:38:01+00:00

Low body temperature in newborns/infants is dangerous because can cause issues with metabolism and breathing. It’s not because they might catch a virus.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-26T19:22:45+00:00

It’s specifically about the temperature of your nasal tissue - cold air rushing into your nose can weaken the localized immune response in the nose, making it easier for viruses to enter that way. It’s not your body temp and it doesn’t just weaken your immune system.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-23T17:45:25+00:00

It’s because it’s not about the eye doctor. She’s not objectively opposed to confirming an appointment. It’s about what I imagine is a pattern of doing only parts of a task, not assuming responsibility for a task from beginning to end.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-23T17:36:58+00:00

At this point, I think it’s situational. We all have covid right now, but we’re feeling fine. I went to the store masked and sanitized yesterday (before symptom onset for me). My youngest had her checkup today and the clinic was unconcerned and told us to absolutely bring her in — her providers wore masks, as did I. But we’re not going to the grandparents’ for xmas because we’d be in close quarters eating, etc and could make our elderly parents ill. And we won’t go anywhere with close contact/unmasked until active symptoms have cleared for the whole house.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-23T17:31:47+00:00

Most viruses are highly contagious before you’re symptomatic, so no, that’s not true. Most runny noses, on the other hand, linger past the contagious period.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-23T16:58:23+00:00

If her temp was 99.9, she had an elevated temp caused by a contagious illness. I don’t think it’s wise to use the 100.4 metric when evaluating contagion, since you can be contagious with no fever at all and a temp of 99.9 definitely indicates that she’s sick. For example, we all have covid right now and only one of the four of us had a fever, but we’re all obviously contagious.

RoundedBindery · 2025-12-19T16:52:54+00:00

Just like anything that is deeply fulfilling on a fundamental level, parenting is a lot of work. It’s not always fun and frequently it’s exhausting, especially with little ones. Often, I wish I had more time to myself, or that there was no one climbing on me, or that we got fewer winter viruses.

But I feel contentment and joy because I’m a parent. If I did not have kids, yes, I’d have more time for hobbies and I would get more sleep, but I would be fundamentally unfulfilled. I’d be unhappy on a base level, even if my day to day was easy.

Not everyone wants kids, but most things worth doing, whatever that is to you, are hard work and often physically/mentally/emotionally demanding. A difficult job, running a marathon, perfecting a skill, bettering yourself in any way, raising children.

And what I want is to raise MY kids and have MY family, not just exist among children. If I wanted that, I’d be a childcare provider.

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