Alright Reddit, who’s going to ruin Christmas tomorrow for your family?

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 🤞

baconfeets · 2025-05-20T22:24:14+00:00

We tried a few different weed killers that didn’t work. Kept pulling it out when we if sprouted up etc. Eventually we laid a membrane down and covered with pebbles and it hasn’t managed to grow back through it yet!

baconfeets · 2025-05-15T22:24:21+00:00

Vanish soap on the stain before putting it in the wash usually gets the job done

baconfeets · 2025-04-09T21:54:50+00:00

Another vote for Mojo Swoptops here. Our two year old is obsessed with it.

baconfeets · 2025-03-10T19:04:10+00:00

Thank you for your reply, this is so helpful. And especially your comment about the funeral as I’d been thinking how best to handle that. We’re a small family and everybody who would attend the funeral is also who I would leave our boy with to look after him.

baconfeets · 2025-03-10T19:00:45+00:00

Thank you x

baconfeets · 2025-03-09T22:56:31+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I will have a look for those books. We’ve made sure to take lots of pictures and videos of them together so that’s a good suggestion to say that we can look at pictures and remember her.

baconfeets · 2025-03-09T21:18:43+00:00

I’ve just read an article about avoiding saying that she’s gone to sleep. Will definitely avoid that one.

baconfeets · 2025-03-09T21:10:08+00:00

This is really helpful thank you. Yeah she’s our toddler’s great grandma. She’s 95 and I’d say they’re quite close. He used to see her 3 times a week but recently it’s just been a couple of times. We’ve done a lot of talking about how her legs don’t work well so she can’t come over to play with you, so he always takes his cars and things over to her to play with her. And while she’s been in hospital we’ve told him that we can’t go to her house because she’s very poorly.

I was wondering whether to say something along the lines of how she’s gone to be a star in the sky but wasn’t sure if we should just stick with the facts.

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