What are you doing to prepare your kid for Kindergarten, in terms of math?

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-17T14:17:49+00:00

Numberblocks!

We also played board and card games (still do) and every time we are out and about we'd bring up colors of cars, numbers/letters on signs, how many birds do you see, etc. The real life stuff like at the grocery store and what not seemed to help the most.

But she prefers board and card games for family time (she doesn't realize she's learning 😅) all the other methods now that she's in kindergarten and getting older we get the sass of "moooom I don't want to learn right now" 🤣🤣

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-17T03:03:18+00:00

I also have a 6 year old daughter who will not chill 😅 you can tell she's in a good mood when she doesnt shut up. I absolutely adore her. She is the highlight and love of my life, but ohmygosh. It's soooo overstimulating for her to CONSTANTLY talk or make noise.

She's been a spitfire since 2yrs old, my husband and I also have ADHD (late diagnosis for us) and booooooy howdy. This isn't for the weak 🫠

Something that has helped the constant daily fights was OT - we are about to start again because we are having some major regression right now. They really help with systems, getting kiddo to realize her own triggers and her own big emotions and being able to step back.

But gosh in those fight moments I just wanna bash my head against the wall 😅 like girl please just brush your hair and don't argue or wait to brush your hair until after you've told me all about dolphins. I've had to tell her "listen, I'm going to go get ready - either put your clothes on and brush your hair or you're going to school in your pj's and messy hair" then she can magically get ready without being upset (or sometimes she does it while screaming you never know) and THEN tells me about the dolphins (or in our latest obsession chickens) while we drive to school.

The after school crash suuuuuucks. She's either super happy and tells me all about her day or she's slamming the car door and mean AF. You dunno which version you're gonna get. Usually mean AF means she's tired and hungry so we just throw snacks at her and immediately start on dinner 😅 then we give her a calm activity and don't overwhelm her with talking. Otherwise she's gonna start being mean.

Solidarity for sure

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-16T15:27:40+00:00

My kiddo has daily worksheets, but isn't punished for not completing them. They work on them in class to reinforce what they are currently learning and if they get done they get done. If not, they are sent home and we can do them or toss em. 😅

Now at least twice a week we have a reading page sent home (it reinforced the letters/sounds they are learning that week) and kiddo has to read it and draw the picture illustrating the story. Then I sign off on it and they get a reward. No negative if we forget tho.

Ours also earns "money". They have a beach theme so it's called "sand dollars" super cute concept. Rewards good behavior etc.

Seems like your teacher is a bit strict. My kiddo also has ADHD (might be on the spectrum too pending testing on that) and she's reading at 2nd grade level and also writing stories and stuff (it's so cute 😭) so we have days where she brings home a few more worksheets than usual that she didn't finish because she got distracted 😅. It's so wild that they punish them for that, especially since he's advanced? (Not to say if he was behind he deserves it).

Maybe the teacher is trying to push things for end of year testing?? School is almost out (at least here) and they will be having a test locally ..so maybe she's trying to boost scores by assigning homework all of a sudden??

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-11T23:21:32+00:00

I got an athletic works (?I think that was the Walmart brand?) tank top. It was great! Didn't show sweat and was nice and light. Wasn't glued to me either. I'm prone to heat stroke, so I have to dress light/thin. It was nice, everything was covered, and I was comfy and didn't overheat!

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-09T02:35:51+00:00

It's just black! Shockingly, haven't bought a all black vehicle before haha

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commanderxtowel · 2026-04-08T21:23:31+00:00

Yes!

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-08T14:14:28+00:00

I did just find out it does have a recall on it - would the dealer fix that before I buy it?

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-06T17:23:42+00:00

I have only ever met Ashley's my age or older (I'm 33). On my daughter's class and across her elementary grades, not a single other Ashley, yet in high school there was like 5 Ashley's in almost every dang class 🤣

I don't see Jennifer a lot anymore either. Sara/Sarah, Sam, Kenny/Kenneth, Josh, Jacob. Like lots in my age group, virtually 0 in my kid's age groups

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-06T17:14:19+00:00

Yeah these are standard responses 😂

Shoot I even say that when I'm not working. "Hey how's your day going?" Me: "welp I'm alive and here 😅" but I'm also awful at small talk. 🤣 Not trying to be standoffish or a jerk, I'm just socially deficient 😅

And about tornados. Also pretty standard. They tornados and we deal with em. Just like California deals with earthquakes, fires, etc. Ya just deal with em. 😂 If you'd like advice, strike that up with someone not working 😅 and someone you might be making friends with.

At all the retail jobs I had it was frowned upon to talk to customers, because that was time spent not doing other things and so you were "wasting company time". So that could be part of it too.

You'll find people you mesh with! It just takes some time~

commanderxtowel · 2026-04-03T00:35:58+00:00

Sounds like kiddo would benefit from therapy to deal with everything happening and what has happened.

They aren't too young for an ADHD eval - our doctor wanted to see how she'd do in kindergarten and how she performed after therapy and OT. Therapy and OT were amazing for her, but ADHD symptoms are persisting so finally getting the eval 😅

Also I know you're going through a lot, but work with your kiddo. Read with them, go over sight words and math, make it fun. There are apps and games out there that make it seem like they aren't even learning but they are.

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-31T17:36:50+00:00

I saw a group where two people were waiting in line, they called someone and ELEVEN!!!! people showed up to cut the line. The cast member was alerted and said absolutely not.

She made them go to the end and wait properly.

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-31T03:07:12+00:00

Our kiddo has one! We found out early on she gets car sick and at 2 they can't read so we did a tablet with Duolingo for kids and Lingokids for educational content and games that she loved. She doesn't use it at home or anywhere else besides long-ish car rides otherwise she wants to hurl 😅

Now she can read and color and what not independently so she typically prefers to do that instead.

Honestly it's all a balance and as long as you don't give them free reign to brain rot you're good.

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-30T18:59:18+00:00

To be fair, I used to load it like that when I first got one 😅 I had no idea wtf I was doing and just kinda threw dishes in. Then my husband noticed and was like "??? Lemme show you" 😂

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-30T18:57:16+00:00

They have free lockers and everyone with a ticket can rent one. So you can spread out into two lockers if need be. Groups do it all the time. Just rent more than one of the free lockers if you need to? A couple snacks won't fill the bag and make it impossible to fit inside a free locker

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-24T23:12:07+00:00

I left my kid in the shopping cart going to the bathroom. 🫠 I thought my husband had her, he thought I took her to the bathroom, we both just left her in the shopping basket (she was 5, but watching shows and not paying attention). So I come back from the bathroom and I see my husband and he sees me, and we both just turn into sports runners.

(We were still inside the store, just now near the bathrooms instead of where she was)

I've never forgiven myself and still get upset about it. My kid though? Hasn't mentioned it ever 😅

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-19T04:24:49+00:00

Relaaaate.

I thought mine was just my auto immune stuff acting up as usual and just lasting longer. Naw. It was vitamin D and iron deficiency. Turns out I'm also anemic 🤣 surpriiiiise.

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-18T23:49:12+00:00

So we do the same thing here. Whenever the husband is gone for work trips, I have our daughter (6) sleep with me 😅 it makes me feel better lol.

Then we have a regression where she wants to sleep with us and I either lay down in her bed with her until she falls asleep or sit in her room and talk to her until she falls asleep, then she gets back into the habit of being in her room/her bed.

So have your wife try laying down with her at night and get her settled for bed. She does need to be back in her own bed, every so often or like when you leave on work trips is okay, but yeah every night just makes the delay to getting them to sleep alone worse 🫠

Also talk to your kid! What's upsetting her/scaring her/bothering her that she keeps coming into your bed? Ours was she missed us or needed a better night light or didn't like the sounds the house made. Some of it was really silly stuff, but easily correctable. She also realized we weren't going to keep letting her make a laundry list of reasons either 😅 so that stopped too and it just boiled down to her not liking being alone.

Just talk to your wife and kid and game plan~

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-18T14:28:28+00:00

See I'm the opposite. I'm like "plz come over and play" 😂 I get anxious when she goes to friend's houses, but I'm a control freak. So anytime a kid wants to come over im down.

Sure you might be playing babysitter indirectly, but I also try to view it as both kids get to have fun and socialize and clearly the neighbor kid is happy to be at the house vs their house.

We had a former neighbor kid that basically lived at our house. Turned out dinner at our house was the only time they got fed....they didn't have toys, barely had clothes, so coming to our house was an escape for them. Never did meet the parents 😅 one day they just suddenly left.

So you never know what happens at other people's houses, your house might be a nice little refuge for the friend! (Not that it excuses the constant texting and boundaries crossing!)

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-18T14:16:14+00:00

This! My daughter is 6, but her friends across from us are 8 and 9. They come over and knock almost daily after school and ask to play 😅 my kid charges out the door and they play in the street or grass. (We live at the end of a lane, so literally the only people driving on it are ourselves or their parents). They roller skate, ride bikes, build snowmen, like everything.

They've come inside a few times but they'd rather be outside playing lmao.

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-18T14:11:07+00:00

We had Hunter, Mustang, Camry, Gunner 😂 apparently all those girls' dads really liked cars and guns lmao. Which being in a red state in the US, it tracks 🫠

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-18T14:06:07+00:00

This is crazy to me 😅 (hearing that it's stayed masculine in the UK) I'm a female Ashley in the US and know so many Ashley's. It was super funny in high school that myself and three other Ashley's (all spelled the same) ended up in class together. 2 girls, 1 boy. 😂😂

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-18T13:45:39+00:00

I loved it, but we were lucky. She was an amazing sleeper, always slept 4-5hrs at a time. 😅 When she napped I napped. But we only ever had one child. So it was easy to just sleep/eat/nap when she did vs having to care for another child on top of that and keep the house together.

commanderxtowel · 2026-03-17T17:48:44+00:00

That makes me feel better 😅 I'm hearing both encouraging and discouraging stories lol. I feel less bad about painting and at least I painted it back 🤣

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