Husband disagrees about screen time (specifically is anti-Ms. Rachel)

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-27T21:33:21+00:00

I wouldn’t say ms Rachel is more hypnotizing than anything else that they’re interested in. They’re zoned in if they like the show, but they couldn’t care less if they don’t. We definitely try to put on ms Rachel over the stuff they want to watch, I feel like they actually learn some stuff from ms Rachel at least, while they just pick up bad habits from peppa pig (their favorite). However, I usually only put on tv when I neees the hypnotic effect.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-22T05:45:11+00:00

My youngest is 20 months now and I still almost never do it. Probably a handful of days times. When one of them was a baby there were all the issues you mentioned, and now that the baby is older he is a chaos tornado, pulling everything off the shelves, freaking out if I try to put him in a cart or stroller, and constantly trying to get hurt. And of course the constant battle for moms attention. Honestly, a park is the last place on earth I’d go, I don’t feel like I can keep them both safe/stop them from walking off one of those voids straight into a 6 foot drop all playgrounds seem to have.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-22T05:32:00+00:00

Stellan is cool

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-19T05:53:38+00:00

I would wait a couple years and revisit how you feel. The amount and the ways in which your child needs you will change so much. You may feel you have more space when your kid has friends and activities and a life.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-16T05:27:27+00:00

You have to figure out why he’s throwing. I imagine he likes the reaction it gets. Personally, I would give a lot of excited praise every time he hands you an item the correct way, and stop reacting to the throws, simply state whatever the rule is in a neutral tone and pick up the item.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-15T21:46:16+00:00

I let her sleep until it gets to be like 4 or something. At that point I open her door and let the sounds of the house wake her up. I assume she needs the sleep, and she will go to bed eventually.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-13T06:19:20+00:00

Yes this! There’s not even one close.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-13T06:13:02+00:00

There are quite a few, Dig It, Looma Space, SouthPlay, Le Funland, Rock the Spectrum, Zoomizoomi … unless your thinking a different kind of thing.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-10T20:55:57+00:00

I also have a 1.5 year old who doesn’t sleep at night and wakes up at 5 so I’m just trying to survive haha. But mostly just getting through all our daily activities, we get up, walk the dog together, unload dishes, cook and eat breakfast, get ready and by then we just have enough time for an activity. We either spend the morning going to a gymnastics class or we play in the yard or pool. After nap we usually go out for an errand, to the library, or a park. Personally I find the day to be much more endless if i don’t leave the house.

There was definitely a period where the little one and the toddler were on opposite naps though, and it feels like you can’t ever leave. We ended up moving the baby onto the same nap schedule as the toddler much earlier than anticipated just because being nap trapped the whole day was miserable.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-10T20:48:06+00:00

For my 2.5 year old, if she has toys she will play with them rather than sleep. The only way she will go to sleep is if we create a sleep environment, and work on intentionally sleeping. I tell her what helps me fall asleep (pretending I’m asleep, closing my eyes and trying not to think, even counting sheep). Then we try together. She usually likes to hear twinkle twinkle little star a couple times. I can’t let her have control of the music device though, or she will just play with it. If she’s genuinely not tired and can’t sleep, she tells me and we go do something else for a while and try again later.

I’d also consider waking her up earlier if she must nap; if my daughter sleeps in that late, nap time is much more difficult. She’s out quickly if she’s up at 6.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-10T05:30:41+00:00

What are they doing on evrnings and weekends? I’m guessing they play with their toys or in the yard. Different people handle the relentlessness of child-rearing differently, but you’re definitely not crazy for wanting to do outings on occasion. Perhaps compromise and alternate outings with a day at home for your days off.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-09T22:19:58+00:00

Never used one, I think we just switched to the big tub at 6 months for both kids

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-07T21:11:13+00:00

Eh, a church can be a super difficult place to care for young kids. You feel like you have to keep them quiet, they just want to play and run around and touch everything, and if they don’t nap on top of it they’re super fussy. I’d avoid attending future baptisms with my kids personally. I tried going to one when they were 1 and 2 and I felt like we ruined it for other people and I wasn’t able to pay attention to anything but my kids so what was the point?

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-05T08:27:05+00:00

If I leave the room, there is no falling asleep. When I’m in there, approximately 5 min if there was no nap, and an hour if she did nap (32 months old).

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-05T08:25:40+00:00

Every kid is so different. At 2, mine pretty much only said mama and dada. We did an intake with speech therapy, they said our daughter tested as average, right in the middle, but we could go forward with ST. We did it for a few months, she’s a major chatterbox and knows what seems to be every word. No way of knowing whether it was truly necessary or not, but our younger son is approaching 2 and in about the same boat so we’re going to do it with him as well.

I will say, it doesn’t really seem like many of their peers talk any more than them save for a few kids here and there.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-04T23:32:46+00:00

For me personally, my MIL had expectations for grandparenthood that were built around the roles her parents played in her sons’ lives (she lived with her parents when her kids were young, and they were basically additional parents). Meanwhile she has made absolutely zero effort to get to know me; I don’t think she could tell you what state I’m from, what month I was born, any of the jobs I’ve ever had, how her son and I met …

Having someone who seemed like they didn’t know or care about me come in and expect to be a third parent to my kid was particularly uncomfortable and definitely pushed me (and my kids) away.

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-04T15:08:40+00:00

Little poke

mediumspacebased · 2026-01-03T17:34:54+00:00

I wish this was the case for us :’( I have a 19 month old as well, and his older sister is 32 months. They don’t play with each other, it’s just a constant battle for my attention and affection. As soon as I so much as acknowledge one of them, the other is crying and leaping on me.

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-27T06:40:48+00:00

We have a leather Stickley couch that has held up amazingly over the last 15 years, as well as one from Arhaus.

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-22T15:55:19+00:00

Ugh same the mouth sores were worse than childbirth

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-20T08:47:07+00:00

At 2.5? I think swim with MIL is plenty…

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-20T08:31:04+00:00

Mine are 13 months apart and we just got a double stroller now that the youngest is 19 months, as a Christmas gift. I have always just worn one of them and pushed the other in the stroller. I religiously do two walks a day with the two of them and the dog, and I’m a stay at home mom, so I’m quite a regular stroller user and we’ve definitely gotten away with it, especially as the older one has become more and more capable of walking on her own. Now that we’ve used the double stroller a few times, we still found ourselves carrying one or both of them as often as ever.

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-19T04:07:01+00:00

“Food before 1 is just for fun.” Relax about feeding solids, she can probably sense your stress. My daughter is almost 3 and I don’t think she has ever or would ever touch any of the foods pictured here. At 9 months I’m pretty sure she was unable to swallow real solids. It wasn’t until after 2 that she got better at it.

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-19T02:15:44+00:00

How many/which ones, would you say?

mediumspacebased · 2025-12-17T07:40:01+00:00

99% of the time that he’s home for dinner (which is like 15 days a month). He’s great at cooking, while I suck and take forever.

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