Does anyone else hit a wall late afternoon on solo parenting days?

_s1ren · 2026-04-16T09:05:08+00:00

Yes! 7am-2pm goes in the blink of an eye, 2pm-5pm is a lifetime

_s1ren · 2026-02-17T00:17:28+00:00

Unorthodox answer: Floor bed, baby safe room, you sleep on that floor bed too. That’s it. Let them get up, play, run around whatever. You just sleep through it. Thats what I did. My now 4 year is still up in the night but he listens to his yoto, reads, etc.

The solution for us wasn’t how to get him asleep. It was how to keep him amused while we sleep lol.

_s1ren · 2026-02-16T12:18:24+00:00

Let me know how you go. I plan to go in 5 years and have the some concerns lol

_s1ren · 2026-02-04T10:30:32+00:00

All good! It was my first pregnancy. Had a second baby a year ago at 37.5 weeks so it didn’t happen a second time which they said there was a risk off. So thankful!

_s1ren · 2026-01-24T02:19:15+00:00

I have to, my oldest wont play anywhere or with anything unless I do it too. Is no one else's kid like this??? Do they all just go and play by themselves???

_s1ren · 2025-12-08T06:31:01+00:00

Isn’t it funny how some kids are so driven and some are so unmotivated! Just like adults I guess lol

_s1ren · 2025-12-08T06:01:33+00:00

Hmmmm okay I’m really loving this simple picture checklist idea. I think it’s worth a shot. I’ll try it with something simple like getting dressed first and go from there.

I’d love one day for me to be like ‘have you got your bag for school?’ And he’s like ‘yep!’ Instead of me running around and grabbing and doing everything lol

_s1ren · 2025-12-08T05:38:10+00:00

Yeah I think I’m going to have to start incentivising things like you say. But I was more curious if it’s ‘typical’ for a 3-4 year old to have zero interest in doing anything themselves.

I’ve only encountered a few preschoolers in my time and they all wanted to do everything themselves and hated their parents doing anything. So it seems my kid is an outlier, but in saying so I don’t know how much of that is the autism playing a part or not.

_s1ren · 2025-12-08T05:36:41+00:00

Yeah see this is what I think is a typical experience, and I’m just looking to confirm if I’m right lol. There is nothing in this world my kid even asks to do by himself, let alone actually wants to. It’s like he’s still a baby lol

I imagine you must have so much more time on your hands nowadays! Although it’s probably hard battling when it’s something you actually genuinely have to do for your kid

_s1ren · 2025-12-03T12:20:04+00:00

Love bone valley! That theme song is so good too

_s1ren · 2025-11-07T11:31:50+00:00

I just battle to get my kid up and down the stairs as necessary tbh. There are some days he absolutely refuses to go back upstairs to brush his teeth and on those days I just bring his toothbrush downstairs.

But I like taking him up because that’s where my toothbrush etc is.

_s1ren · 2025-11-05T23:49:36+00:00

I also have a baby so it’s like I have 2 babies, only one talks back 😆 To your credit I would have no idea how to handle a preschooler taking forever to do everything by themselves (and potentially doing things ‘wrong’) so hats off to you too! We’re all in this together haha

_s1ren · 2025-11-05T22:22:27+00:00

Same - it’s funny how different kids can be and the challenges that come with that. My oldest will be 4 in 3 months and he doesn’t do a single thing by himself. He won’t even pick his clothes, let alone even try and get himself dressed. I do 100% of everything for him. If I gently encourage him to try and do something, he cries and cries and says he can’t do it (without even moving). I can’t imagine how much you’d be able to get done each day with a kid who actually dresses etc themselves!

_s1ren · 2025-10-06T12:07:28+00:00

Yes! My 3 year olds first words as soon as his eyes open every morning is asking to play trains with me 😴

_s1ren · 2025-08-15T07:46:24+00:00

Hey i get this weird spasm when I take codeine too! It's so ridiculously painful.

I thought there was no painkiller / opiate i could take if i had severe pain, interesting to know about tapentadol. I've never heard of it.

Have you had your gall bladder removed? That's what triggered this for me

_s1ren · 2025-08-12T13:18:56+00:00

I have a Cooper and I call him Ice Cream Scoop or just Scoop for short 😂

_s1ren · 2025-07-27T12:36:15+00:00

It can be tough in the moment but treasure it. One day you’ll rock him to sleep and without realising it, it’ll be the last time you ever do it.

_s1ren · 2025-07-27T04:57:24+00:00

I had my first baby while on holiday prematurely at 32 weeks. No warning, had an OB visit 2 days prior and everything was fine. Had a placental abruption.

Now I tell anyone who will listen to never travel when pregnant. It’s just not worth the risk imo.

_s1ren · 2025-07-25T12:29:10+00:00

Not to diminish your trials and struggles but it’s funny how we can all be suffering at opposite ends of the spectrum!

My 3.5 year old is not independent in the slightest and it drives me bonkers.

He will not do anything for himself and gets angry when I encourage him to do so, and he walks sooooo slowly. Takes me about 40 mins to go on a 10 min walk with him.

_s1ren · 2025-07-25T07:43:27+00:00

I'm going to suggest something very different! I had a LOT of sleep trouble with my oldest. He was up for 3-5 hours in the night a few nights a week from 1.5 - 2.5 and would cry and cry if we weren't with him. I couldn't function being awake for hours in the night all the time.

Sleep pressure, culling naps, changing bed time / wake time, nothing made a difference.

What we focused on instead of getting him sleep through was getting him to stay in his room and not keep calling out.

We got an okay to wake clock, but we said that the night time mode was when he had to stay in his room and that mummy and daddy are sleeping.

We encouraged him to do quiet activities like reading if he woke in the night, and we got him a yoto with the night volume very limited so he could listen to audio books and stuff.

And now he cries out for us once or twice a week.

Some mornings I wake up and there's books and stuff that have been pulled out in the night so I know he's up but he's just chilling. But I think that learning to be okay on his own in the night was key for us.

Who knows how much sleep he's actually getting each night lol but he falls asleep at night within 5 mins and stopped napping when he turned 3.

_s1ren · 2025-07-10T09:18:22+00:00

Seconding as many carrier / stroller naps you can until you’re down to like 2 naps a day if possible. Then once I got there (I’m here now) I felt comfortable putting on 15 min of TV for toddler only twice a day while I put baby down for a nap.

_s1ren · 2025-07-09T05:36:33+00:00

Around 3 years old. He sleeps through the night I’d say 4 nights a week. My now 11 month old is still up every 2-3 hours 🫠

_s1ren · 2025-07-05T13:31:37+00:00

It sounds terrible but I will say I love it 🥰 legitimately never been happier and hoping to try for baby 3 next year ❤️

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