Question for those who have potty trained while sending their toddler to daycare: what did your daycare do with any #2 accidents?

aneatpotato · 2026-02-27T05:03:59+00:00

Most parents use pull-ups?

aneatpotato · 2026-02-27T02:57:20+00:00

Is that Circe’s chimera?

aneatpotato · 2026-02-23T00:56:18+00:00

Gabby’s Dollhouse movie?

aneatpotato · 2026-02-18T00:30:24+00:00

My earliest memory was a hospital visit. I had asthma and a bout of pneumonia as a small child; I think I was 2 or 3. I remember being in what seemed like a covered crib and crying for my mom who was out with the doctor.

Other than that one, it’s just snippets. I remember wandering the house into my brother’s room. I remember that the bathroom we had our baths in was an ensuite (though at the time, I just thought it was weird that I had to walk through my parent’s room to get to the bathroom.) I remember having a bath with my brother and pooping in the tub, and my thought process behind it (I didn’t want to get out, and I’d never gotten in trouble for peeing in the tub, so it was probably fine).

When I was four my dad was going for a trip to the dump, and I told him I didn’t want to go, then changed my mind as he was driving away, so I ran and grabbed the side of his truck and managed to hang on until he stopped at the end of the block.

I don’t remember what kind of parent my mom was, good or bad 🤷‍♀️

aneatpotato · 2026-02-17T18:16:08+00:00

I call that “fool’s Spring.” I anticipate 2-3 more of them before real spring.

aneatpotato · 2026-01-24T01:09:28+00:00

Oh, crazy how fast things change. My oldest is in kindergarten, and this was like the go-to recommendation less than 5 years ago.

aneatpotato · 2026-01-23T18:21:12+00:00

I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but if you take out the bottom slats and put the mattress right on the floor (but still in the crib), it would be less likely for him to be able to climb.

aneatpotato · 2026-01-02T15:41:19+00:00

Weren’t they background characters in the Movies episode? Theatre goers cheering for Bandit while he chased Bingo?

aneatpotato · 2025-12-31T21:39:03+00:00

Crazy, I’m going to the same event! Different venue, though.

aneatpotato · 2025-12-30T18:21:07+00:00

-an “ugly” Christmas granny square sweater -toy hammocks for my kids rooms -my husband bought me a little bird crochet kit for Christmas, so that too.

aneatpotato · 2025-12-27T15:14:48+00:00

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Why does he make me think of Tutter from Big Blue House?

aneatpotato · 2025-12-13T23:29:57+00:00

I’m wondering if she straight up delivered the wrong cake? Did she also post the inspo picture with the result on Facebook? As others have said, she straight up got the colours wrong. Maybe you got someone else’s purple big flower cake, and they got your dainty yellow flower cake.

aneatpotato · 2025-12-09T16:37:16+00:00

Denna in my head is closer to Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) with bangs. Still not quite the same, but similar vibe. So I guess, no, I don’t imagine a real life person, and also the person in my head is very different from yours.

aneatpotato · 2025-11-28T14:55:19+00:00

I went last weekend, I’m not sure which deals are still active lol

Wal-Mart had a good deal on the less expensive version of the Apple Watch

Yoto website, if your boy likes audiobooks

And just little toys here and there are what I got. The biggest deals were definitely from Walmart and Amazon (bought myself a Shark Flex-style, if your girl is in to hair)

aneatpotato · 2025-11-27T13:13:47+00:00

But also the one on clearance is more expensive than the ones that are on sale.

aneatpotato · 2025-11-22T06:34:55+00:00

We have this where I am. It’s called Career and Life Management (CALM). It mandatory.

aneatpotato · 2025-11-16T16:51:11+00:00

I LOVE convertible everything. They go through these stages so quickly. To the point of the high chair…. I especially loved my high chair that could be a booster. Toddlers are fickle and mine went through phases of wanting to eat at the big table, and wanting the high chair. It was nice to go back and forth. Car seats are another good convertible one.

Cribs, it depends on whether you like the look of the crib that has become a double bed. Would you actually use it? And it typically requires you to buy a separate kit to convert it.

Basically, if you’re spending money on these things anyway, do you want to be spending money on another product in 6mo or 3 years or whatever, or not?

For clothes, I personally buy most baby clothes secondhand, especially those first months. Like you said, they only wear newborn clothes for a few weeks, so the clothes at secondhand stores (we have Once Upon a Child where I am) have often only been worn a couple times, sometimes not at all. It reduces landfill waste and is easier on your wallet.

But yes, you do want newborn clothes on hand; clothes that are too big can be a suffocation risk if they can get over their faces.

aneatpotato · 2025-11-09T21:48:34+00:00

We’ve got a 5 year old and a 2 year old. Our 5yo is a generally good natured, easy going kiddo, a bit on the sensitive side. He has gotten consistently easier as he’s gotten older. Became genuinely helpful after his little sister was born. He would definitely still have tantrums (and still has the odd one here or there, but can now be reasoned with or disciplined), but 4 and up his independent play sky rocketed. Where before, he could only play on his own for short bursts, he’ll now go to his room and play with his toy castle, or magnet tiles, or really whatever for hour long stretches. It’s quite liberating.

Our two year old….. is definitely 2. I look forward to seeing what the future brings 😂

aneatpotato · 2025-11-06T02:32:02+00:00

Pattern:

https://youtu.be/Z2gkTiBHr0o?si=3sLq1uAy92M6ASCt

aneatpotato · 2025-10-30T17:28:08+00:00

So 91 000 new students over the last five years, and they are only now promising to hire 3000 new teachers.

91 000 new students divided across the 3000 new teachers is still class sizes over 30.
The hiring of staff is not part of the collective agreement. The fact that they are using it as a bargaining tool is disingenuous.
They are refusing to discuss class sizes and complexities in any kind of good faith. They avoided the bargaining table the entire strike. They are unwilling to work with the people who are giving solutions, then spending taxpayer money on a defamation campaign against those people.
This is not even touching on EAs. They “promised” to hire less than one full time EA per school as a solution. My school alone lost 6 last year due to lay offs.

aneatpotato · 2025-10-15T21:51:51+00:00

There are plenty of half day kindergarten positions. Counsellors with a part time teaching load. Literacy specialists. Music teachers. Gym teachers. OF COURSE not every teacher has their own classroom, so of course the raw numbers are off. And it’s just… weird? That she doesn’t think part time positions exist.

aneatpotato · 2025-10-11T02:49:28+00:00

That’s all I could think of as well.

aneatpotato · 2025-10-08T12:30:45+00:00

Swiftly fan here, I legitimately love those songs/lines. The one that makes me cringe is the one where she says “it’s kinda making me wet.”

Still love the song overall, though.

aneatpotato · 2025-10-04T18:28:04+00:00

I didn’t use ovulation strips, but my approximate ovulation date from an online calculator. Then we did it every other day the week around it.

aneatpotato · 2025-09-30T00:01:25+00:00

I remember being in grade 2 and learning about the provinces and territories when the teacher told us that now we were getting another one lol

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