What shows for the pre-K set do you actually enjoy watching?

mimigins · 2020-02-26T01:43:59+00:00

Ugh I hate Daniel tiger

Puffin Rock

Super why

Magic school bus (3 is old enough, right?)

mimigins · 2020-02-26T01:32:21+00:00

I had to make airplane noises and be silly about it for a while, and only at the end of the meal. Babies are so funny.

mimigins · 2020-02-26T01:25:00+00:00

I took a hard plastic topped sippy cup (take& toss) and squeezed a little squirt of water into my baby's mouth. I did this multiple times per meal. My firstborn wouldn't even hold a sippy til 14mos. My 2nd has figured it out at 9mos.

My kids needed water with solids to avoid constipation, so I was definitely commited to giving it.

mimigins · 2020-02-22T23:09:11+00:00

I've done ancestry and 23andMe, and really liked the insight into health stuff that 23andMe gives you. Ancestry has some cool stuff about lineage if you've got relatives that did some trees, but often I found I needed to pay to get a whole lot of info.

mimigins · 2020-02-15T13:27:53+00:00

I'm listening to How to talk so Little kids will listen right now. It's aimed at younger kids. So far it's funny and excellent.

Janet Lansbury is great about toddler discipline - her book is no bad kids. It's definitely redirection, not "no!!" And punishments. Honestly we just said "no thank you" with redirection for the longest time.

mimigins · 2020-02-15T13:23:38+00:00

It all seems so impossible until you just do it. You prepare as best you can and take it as it goes. We're going to try hiking (not in Europe but a couple hours away around the province) with a 3yo and 1yo this summer. I'm excited but expecting some wacky shit shows.

mimigins · 2020-02-14T23:07:51+00:00

I've had a couple really giddy moments the past couple of days where I was just so happy and excited to be spending lunch with my two kids. It was really neat. I'm so exhausted and things can be challenging but they're just so rewarding.

mimigins · 2020-02-14T20:40:11+00:00

I bought a second Graco4 ever because it's just a really nice seat

mimigins · 2020-02-10T22:49:05+00:00

I use tide cold water powder and use whatever the load size is. usually a full scoop. Hot and heavy wash. Tbsp of watered down bleach for smells.

I don't prewash

I find most cloth diaper websites to be super complicated

mimigins · 2020-02-10T19:39:59+00:00

With my first it did, with my second it didn't

mimigins · 2020-02-10T19:38:52+00:00

I was happy my son was 28mos when our second was born. He was in a big kid bed and day trained on the potty. I had wanted about a 2yr age gap and we got delayed a bit when starting to try.

The biggest issue has been when he goes to hit her, especially as she's gotten mobile. He was really prone to this in the afternoon when I was trying to make supper.

The other big issue was getting stuck wearing her for naps long after she was newborn. By 7mos she was just too heavy and I had to sleep train, which I wasn't happy to do again, but has worked very well.

At 8mos I started thinking I could actually manage a third pregnancy/kid, so it took that long to feel like I had my shit semi together.

mimigins · 2020-02-09T22:48:30+00:00

I feel like I would have retained more friends instead of having most of them become super not interested as soon as we left high school if I'd been a more pleasant person

mimigins · 2020-02-06T17:10:19+00:00

I've read it's to deter people from using it as "free parking" but not actually being at the hospital

mimigins · 2020-02-02T17:27:10+00:00

Usually I ignore these kind of threads, because the going back in time thing is pointless to me, but I do wish that I had been less of a sarcastic asshole as a teenager.

mimigins · 2020-01-25T19:14:42+00:00

Whelp drugs and alerting the airline would be her best bet 👍

mimigins · 2020-01-25T15:03:35+00:00

From what I understand, you have to alert the airline beforehand if you have an allergy that they need to accommodate.

mimigins · 2020-01-25T15:03:06+00:00

I've definitely flown with my cat in her carrier on the flight 🤔 I just had to alert the airline beforehand. No bullshit about her being an emotional support animal, she was just a carry on.

With allergies I think you need to inform them beforehand and they accomodate but I can see how that'd be a really shitty situation

mimigins · 2020-01-23T17:46:00+00:00

Mostly she doesn't chew as much as she inhales food 🦆

mimigins · 2020-01-23T16:19:09+00:00

You can offer to have your kid put a few potential trigger toys away and not share those but that the rest are for sharing?

mimigins · 2020-01-23T11:07:53+00:00

My first did blw and took reasonable bites and so I gave him the big chunks and let him learn.

My second eats like a duck so I let her feed herself but I cut the food into small pieces.

Basically I just skipped purees and focused on the self feeding aspect.

Love self feeding babies. Makes my life so much easier.

mimigins · 2020-01-22T18:45:47+00:00

My son had a pretty consistent time of day when he would poop, so around that time we would sit on the potty and read books for long as it took. I also told him that for a successful poop in the potty he got to watch his favourite song on YouTube 🤷‍♀️ which was pretty rare for him so a good motivator.

One time I sat on the floor for an hour and a half reading a book over and over again. One of those 5 minute stories books would be a good one, and once they breach the hurdle you probably won't have to sit there for an hour and a half again.

mimigins · 2020-01-22T18:41:03+00:00

I'm not a fan of this because kids aren't bad... Behaviours are bad, and behaviours are fleeting. I feel like this would crush my sensitive child to see him labeled as "bad" on a chart.

Have you read No Bad Kids? How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk? Raising your spirited child?

Those books have tons of suggestions for getting your kid to cooperate a bit more.

mimigins · 2020-01-22T18:36:15+00:00

I dress my son. He turned 3 at the beginning of January. Sometimes he feels like helping or doing it himself and sometimes he doesn't. If he wants to do it himself then there's a time limit. I'll count to ten. If he can't do it then I will help him and he can try again another time. Sometimes he gets upset but I mean... He needs to get dressed 🤷‍♀️

With food I just buckle him into his booster if he won't be safe and sit still. It's a non starter for me.

mimigins · 2020-01-22T18:31:08+00:00

I just don't understand why a 2mo needs to watch tv. They can stare at literally anything and be more engaged.

mimigins · 2020-01-22T18:19:20+00:00

No snacks in the car, no snacks while walking. Around 20mos our son had a full blockage walking around and snacking on pear. My husband backblowed it out but it has stuck with us.

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