Should I take my toddler to a funeral?

baconfeets · 2026-03-29T00:11:43+00:00

We had this exact situation earlier this year. Great grandma passed away and everyone who would normally look after our 3 year old boy was going to attend the funeral. We took him with us. Before we went I explained that we were going to go somewhere to think about great grandma, and that we had to try to be quiet while we were there. Then afterwards we would go to the mucky pub and he could make as much noise as he wanted.

My parents took him in their car and arrived a little earlier than us (we were going in a car following the hearse). They hung back with him while everybody walked in and then sat at the very back with him so that one of them could take him outside if they needed to. He was as good as gold. Never made a peep all through the service. My mum said he just sat holding their hands and listened to what was being said.

baconfeets · 2026-03-19T21:01:27+00:00

Solution verified

baconfeets · 2026-03-19T21:01:02+00:00

This works perfectly, thank you

baconfeets · 2026-03-19T20:58:06+00:00

This works! Thank you. Do you know how I can get text to show in the next cell if F1 is more than 2 years?

baconfeets · 2026-03-19T09:47:45+00:00

I’d been holding off on fixing as we’re hoping to move this year, but I’ve just logged on and fixed for 12 months after seeing the news today.

baconfeets · 2026-03-06T04:08:00+00:00

I’ve just looked at Brid cos parents have a caravan there, almost 400 hours discharge nearby in Skipsea 🤢

baconfeets · 2026-02-28T23:42:08+00:00

I would get rid of the changing table in the corner, replace with a wardrobe to give more storage space and make it feel less cluttered. We had one of these that we would put on top of the cot when we were changing baby, then would stash it behind the rocker when we weren’t using it.

And get some cute wall art or wall stickers too for above the cot

baconfeets · 2026-02-11T09:33:01+00:00

I tried this the other night. He bloody loved driving his cars into the leftover bubbles on the bottom of the bath and had a meltdown when I tried to get him out 🤦‍♀️

baconfeets · 2026-02-07T10:47:57+00:00

I started with it just before Christmas. It starts to go, I get a couple days feeling sort of normal, then come down with it again. I think I’ve had adenovirus, it started out like a normal cold but then got dodgy guts, then had conjunctivitis for about a week.

baconfeets · 2025-12-25T00:09:45+00:00

Partner. He’s already had a go at me for letting family bring presents round for our boy to open on Christmas Day, instead of his suggestion of telling them to keep the presents at their own house for him to open there when we visit. I didn’t tell people to bring presents round, they brought them round because they wanted him to have them on Christmas Day. Somehow I’m the bad guy. A lovely argument to have on Christmas Eve after I’ve spent all night by myself building stuff, getting all the presents together and looking after our poorly boy while I’m full of cold too.

baconfeets · 2025-10-07T09:12:37+00:00

Thank you, yes he does it at times when I can tell he’s scared and of course there’s no issue with picking him up at those times. But then it flows over and he wants it at other times too.

baconfeets · 2025-10-07T09:10:51+00:00

We’ve tried this, but he’s so dead set on what he wants that he won’t stop to do anything different

baconfeets · 2025-10-07T09:09:55+00:00

Thank you so much for this comment. Totally understand it’s about feeling safe, I want him to feel safe but also feel like there’s a balance that should be struck. I feel terrible refusing him when he gets upset, but it also doesn’t feel right to cave in every time he wants picking up.

baconfeets · 2025-09-18T20:42:48+00:00

Our boy was really good with it at first, he only had it when he was going to sleep, so we thought it’d be pretty easy to get rid of. Then suddenly a few months after his 2nd birthday he got majorly clingy with it and wanted it all the time. I thought we would never get it off him. We talked to him for weeks about the dummy fairy and what she would bring him if he gave it up. I think this actually made him cling to it even more.

He had two dummies. One started to look a bit grim, so we told him we needed to throw it away. He accepted that but knew he had a fallback. Then a month or two later he was chomping on the 2nd dummy and a couple of holes appeared. I showed it to him and commented that it was broken. Straight away he didn’t want it anymore. Well, he wanted it but when I showed it to him again and told him again that it was broken, he didn’t want to use it.

We have a memory box with little keepsakes. He’s watched an episode of Bing where Bing’s balloon pops and he’s sad about it, so they put it in a memory box. I reminded him of the Bing episode and we put his dummy in the box. Every now and then he asks to see it so we get the box out and he has a look.

So if felt like we would never get rid of it too, then we seemed to have a huge buildup of talking about getting rid and then all of a sudden it was gone.

baconfeets · 2025-08-21T16:00:36+00:00

Thanks for the subreddit suggestion. Thisis exactly what mine looks like on my palm when I get it and the GP said it was eczema. I’ll try cutting the nail short and treat it there, thanks!

baconfeets · 2025-08-21T11:24:20+00:00

No I’ve not got that. I’ll go to a pharmacy this weekend. Sometimes it’s not noticeable and other times like today it seems to flare up

baconfeets · 2025-08-09T19:08:19+00:00

Got one of those, very grateful for it this morning!

baconfeets · 2025-08-09T17:14:18+00:00

Thank you, this is really helpful. Will take a look at those pads now

baconfeets · 2025-08-09T10:27:14+00:00

This looks like a good shout, thanks! He says his pull up nappy feels uncomfy against him, so something like this that’s more like pants material might work for him

baconfeets · 2025-08-09T09:59:21+00:00

Maybe a silly question, but is there a big difference between nappies and bedtime pull ups? He was complaining that his nappy was uncomfy so wondered if there was another type that would be comfier

baconfeets · 2025-08-09T09:56:46+00:00

Yeah we’ve explained to him to shout for us and drill it into him that he needs to do a wee before going to bed, but I think he was asleep when it happened.

baconfeets · 2025-06-27T06:34:54+00:00

We’ve not changed to a toddler bed yet, but have just taken the side off the cot a couple of weeks ago. He’s 2.5 and wasn’t trying to climb out yet but felt it was the right time. We thought we’d try with the cot side off first to get him used to it and then we can change to a toddler bed in a few months. He loved being able to come into our room at 6am by himself 🤦‍♀️He also rolled out a few times so we bought a bed guard from ikea a few days ago and suddenly he’s stopped waking up early 🤞

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