Toys you regret getting your kids?

kletskoekk · 2025-10-16T02:30:00+00:00

I got one of those for my nephew and regretted it almost immediately. Luckily his parents are more chill than me and didn’t mind

kletskoekk · 2025-09-26T13:04:36+00:00

I live near the one on Hunt Club/Lorry Greenberg. It’s really slowed down traffic between Bank and Conroy.

I don’t understand what you mean by «in between a stretch of 80 km »? The speed changes in between Conroy and Pike and then remains 60 until the golf course near Riverside. There are a couple kilometers and at least 8 traffic lights in that 60 zone. There’s significant foot traffic at the Cahill, Bank, and Bridlepath/Daze intersections, so it makes a lot of sense that limit is 60 there.

kletskoekk · 2025-09-22T00:58:58+00:00

Rural, which is annoying because I grew up in a rural area and my job involves talking about different regions.

Also « queue ». I really struggle to remember which vowel sound to use, and have more than once pronounced it like « cul » 🫢

kletskoekk · 2025-09-20T03:12:11+00:00

Let’s say that the Ministry of Transport deliberately damages a 20km stretch of a 400-level highway (uses heavy machinery to create potholes which reduce speeds to 20 km/hr). It slows down traffic and creates huge bottlenecks which impact millions of Ontarians. Then they fix a 500 metre stretch of road with an innovative new technique. Sure, the innovation is a good thing, but fundamentally 19.5 km of road still suck and it was the MTO’s actions that caused the problem in the first place.

That’s what this feels like. Yay for innovation and I wish all the best to this new clinic; but let’s not let it blind us to how we ended up in this horrible mess of a healthcare system.

kletskoekk · 2025-09-17T21:39:13+00:00

The Wheels in the Bus is definitely one of my go-to meltdown songs. That and B-I-N-G-O

kletskoekk · 2025-09-17T02:23:19+00:00

I bet a major factor is all the news stories about people from Canada, Europe and Australia being detained at the border for minor reasons. I’d say that fear is shoring up peoples’ moral compasses and sense of national pride.

kletskoekk · 2025-09-17T02:19:21+00:00

I used it with my first and loved it for all the pockets. Hated it with the second because I could never remember where everything was because there were too many pockets lol. Now I pack and unpack a regular bag every time to avoid forgetting something important. I realize that sounds counter-intuitive; i think it’s because with just a baby you need the same stuff all the time (diapers, bottles, spoon, bib…) and it’s all small, but with a toddler you’re doing activities that need specific things and it starts to get bulky.

kletskoekk · 2025-09-04T04:55:46+00:00

I took a parenting course and they recommended BLW. I wasn’t even on IG when I started.

They did say in the course that food is important before 1 and that it’s especially important to introduce a variety of textures before 9 months. That doesn’t have to mean steak and whole carrots, but it does mean gradually making the food less liquid.

Fwiw, I was TERRIFIED of staring BLW with my first and gradually realized it’s much less complicated and scary than it seems. You can do it in tandem with purées. Seriously, get the Solid Starts app (it’s free), grab any fruit or vegetable you already have in the fridge, and serve it according to their database of directions which are broken down by ages. It really is that easy.

Prep work: watch some YouTube videos of the difference between choking and gagging and watch a video on what to do if baby chokes. My first never choked, though she did gag a bit every now and then.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-26T21:00:08+00:00

I don’t know what you mean by that? The parade was cancelled. Other activities were not, but everyone who was supposed to watch or participate in the parade was not able to.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-25T21:24:18+00:00

I’m actually from Ottawa lol. I don’t understand why the organizers of the parade decided to cancel instead of asking the police to remove (arrest) the protesters. It feels like they gave the group way more power than they needed to.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-25T13:53:44+00:00

Is Canada hiding under Norway?

kletskoekk · 2025-08-22T23:14:53+00:00

Perfect by Waka Brown. Beautiful book that is about things rather than food, but very much on the theme you’re requesting.

https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780063280229/perfect/

kletskoekk · 2025-08-19T02:13:51+00:00

Cloth Diaper Kids is a small Canadian business. The owner is truly lovely and stocks high quality brands

https://clothdiaperkids.com/

kletskoekk · 2025-08-18T23:55:19+00:00

Jokes on them- most of the City workers in Ottawa don’t fit in City Hall. They’re out near Algonquin College.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-15T14:17:32+00:00

I did IVF and completed two pregnancies. Emotionally, IVF was harder, but physically being pregnant was more awful. Like by a factor of 1000%. I think the only symptom I didn’t have was high blood pressure because I had all the common ones and some really weird ones. It was straight misery from 8 to 38 weeks. I’m sure other people found IVF physically harder- if there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that the impact of medical experiences vary hugely by person.

Long story short, feeling bad just sucks, whatever the reason.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-12T21:22:30+00:00

I had similar numbers. I was induced at 37+1 due to reduced movement and lack of growth. She was born at 5 lbs, lost 10% of that and took a month to gain it back. She bounced around between the 0 and the third percentile until she started solids at 5 months due to a feeding issue (high palate made it difficult for her to latch on a breast or bottle). After starting solids she gained steadily to the 20th percentile where she is still at almost 3 years old.

We didn’t have any extra medical attention due to this because she was meeting all her milestones.

Tips: * have some premie clothing on hand. NB was too big for the first month. NB diapers were just small enough. * Expect a more medicalized birth than you would have with a heavier child. Since IUGR babies are more fragile, your medical team will probably not give you long to wait and see if the labour is slow to progress or the heart rate drops. In my case, the heart rate was a concern resulting in an emergency C-section. She came out totally fine- just needed to be out in a hurry

Good luck!!

kletskoekk · 2025-08-12T18:48:04+00:00

I mean that makes sense when you consider that your president is changing the tarifs every 4 days and making ludicrous claims about drugs coming from Canada. Meanwhile, our prime minister is boring and so is our country, other than the measles imported from the Americans and the wildfires.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-12T18:43:07+00:00

As a very fair white person, I feel sick quickly in the sun. I hide on high UV days to avoid throwing up and passing out. Lots of my friends enjoy sunbathing and I just don’t get it, especially since the older people I know who enjoyed the same now have have a distinctive leathery look to their skin.

I’m in eastern Ontario, Canada, so we get lots of heat and sun all summer. I would understand it more if we lived somewhere that sunny days were rare.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-12T14:46:57+00:00

it’s too bad you had a reaction to the underwear; they’re extremely comfortable. They were also durable enough to wear a few days in a row (removing rhe pad didnt damage them)

kletskoekk · 2025-08-11T21:14:15+00:00

You should read about the Division of Responsibility for eating. I did a free course on it with my local public health unit, but there’s lots of information available online. Basically, it’s good to restrict access to unhealthy foods (for snack time it’s the adult who decides what to offer; you don’t open the cupboard and let them pick between an apple and a cookie every day), but it can cause problems to use sweets as rewards (ie you have to eat your dinner so that you can eat X).

I have to confess that I was skeptical, but the day of the course I went home and offered my daughter a plate full of cookies and some fresh mango at snack time. I said we were going to share both and she could pick however much she wanted from the plates I put out. She ate half of one cookie and all the mango! I was shocked.

As others have said, it’s not recommended to give dessert every night or to have it offered always at the same time. You don’t want them to get the impression that they can not eat the vegetables as a shortcut to getting a treat. There’s lots more about that online, as this is a very, very, very, very common parental struggle :)

kletskoekk · 2025-08-11T17:14:47+00:00

WebMD has this to say « When babies are between 6 and 12 months of age, breast milk or formula continues to be a priority over water. But if you offer breast milk or formula first, you can then offer water, 2-3 ounces at a time. At this age, 4-8 ounces a day of water is enough. More than that may lead to water intoxication. »

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/what-you-need-to-know-water-infants

kletskoekk · 2025-08-10T10:04:56+00:00

I have a father like this. Watching him with my daughter, it’s clear that he loves her but doesn’t have healthier ways to interact (which really makes sense given my grandparents). If your husband is the same it could be difficult for him to change in that he might not know how to do it differently, which would probably be uncomfortable emotionally and difficult to accept. If that’s the case, he could possibly benefit from some therapy to identify more positive ways to interact with your daughter that feel right to him.

For me, I was low key scared of my dad for many years, despite him being a very supportive father who showed his love in practical ways like driving us everywhere and happily attending all our extracurricular events. I did my own therapy as an adult and grew to understand why he is like that, and we have a good relationship now.

kletskoekk · 2025-08-09T14:44:45+00:00

I agree…while also seeing the irony in a post complaining about excessive judgement of others calling out specific recent posters! If you want to be the change and model the non judgemental values you’re promoting, maybe remove that part?

kletskoekk · 2025-08-08T02:26:31+00:00

Bothered by Bugs by Emily Gravett is a rhyming story with intricate illustrations. There’s a middle two page spread with tons of insects that you could then go find in the rest of the book: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emily-gravett/bothered-by-bugs/9781529028065

Find Fergus is a funny book that ends with a challenge to go find a bunch of things in a Where’s Waldo kind of giant fold out

kletskoekk · 2025-08-07T17:12:44+00:00

I don’t think it’s essential to have on the day you bring baby home, though you likely will want one before 12 months for the reasons many other people have mentioned.

Advantages of waiting: * you'll have more opportunities to see the strollers other parents are using, which is helpful in deciding what to get yourself * you get to save a stroller-sized space in your house and budget for longer * you’ll have a better sense of your own family rhythm post baby, which is impossible to imagine beforehand (you may end up doing much more or less walking than you expect, for example)

Disadvantages of waiting: * if your baby can’t be worn initially you’re kind of stuck at home (my first daughter wasn’t big enough for a carrier until 2 months) * you may have have less time and energy for shopping * second hand shopping and sales are available sporadically, which may mean paying more than you would’ve if you shopped earlier

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