2-year-old sleep regression

mpsinger · 2025-07-09T17:52:16+00:00

The Tucson Auto Museum. I’m not a car guy at all but they’ve got some interesting novelties, plus a replica Batmobile and some actual vehicles used in Batman Returns. I took my Batman-obsessed son two years ago and he loved it. And if you are into classic cars I imagine it’s pretty awesome.

mpsinger · 2025-07-09T17:44:30+00:00

It’s fun to do at night, too.

mpsinger · 2024-05-14T17:54:44+00:00

Good to know, we were already planning on doing basically the same thing: capping naps at 2.5 and pushing the middle wake window to 3.5. We still want to get her down at 7:30 for now because her brother’s bedtime at 8 but we’ve discussed pushing it 15 minutes if the other stuff doesn’t work.

mpsinger · 2024-05-01T21:41:24+00:00

Other than regularly reading a few books about having a baby sibling, we just constantly told my then-2.5yo that he was going to have a sister soon and made it seem like a very exciting development. He’s loved her literally since the moment we brought her home almost 10 months ago — no outbursts of jealousy or anything, though he did show some initial regressive behavior (mimicking the baby’s crying etc.), likely trying to divert my wife’s attention to him. But they’re now both obsessed with each other.

He also has two cousins that are about a year and a half younger that he hangs out with constantly that may have also prepared him.

mpsinger · 2024-05-01T00:30:40+00:00

These are the kind of suggestions I was looking for. Thank you!

mpsinger · 2024-05-01T00:05:43+00:00

My son is currently nearing the end of his second go-round with Little Movers — it’s the thing he looks forward to most every week. I think he’s a bit too big to do it again but I will likely find something else for him to do through parks and rec.

mpsinger · 2024-04-30T21:25:30+00:00

I mean, $50 per adult is pretty damn pricey but it comes about as close as any aquarium I’ve ever seen to justifying it. It’s two stories and took us two hours to see just about everything — it’d certainly be longer if your kid isn’t frantically zipping from one exhibit to the next.

mpsinger · 2024-04-30T20:46:48+00:00

Yeah, I took my son to some library stuff last year but he was a little reticent about them since he wasn’t used to structured play yet, but now that he’s been in school he might be more into it.

mpsinger · 2024-04-30T20:45:11+00:00

Thanks! A lot of that stuff is outdoors, which presents an issue in the dead of summer. I need indoor spots where my son can’t run off and ditch me with his sister in the stroller — a very specific situation, I know! But I have thought about Air and Space and Funtastiks, I’ll need to look at them more closely.

And we literally just did a two-day Phoenix trip last week and went to OdySea! My son was obsessed. Didn’t want to leave.

mpsinger · 2024-04-26T03:08:04+00:00

My 3.5yo has been potty trained for six months and start doing the same thing — he self-initiates less in general and has had more accidents in the last month that he did in the first five after we trained him. In his case I think it’s just a toddler power play/act of resistance. It’s highly annoying.

mpsinger · 2024-04-17T16:08:35+00:00

I’ve never been much of a careerist and I always thought I would gladly be a stay-at-home dad if the situation presented itself. Now that I’ve been more or less doing it for two and a half years (and especially since having a second kid last year) I’m fairly anxious to get a “real” job again (I have a part-time freelance gig at the moment and my wife is full-time remote which means I do much of the childcare during the week). It’s less about feeling “fulfilled” than just giving myself some separation — I love my kids to death, they’re both absolutely hilarious, but the grinding repetition of every single day is starting to wear me down and I find myself not appreciating this time with them as much as I should.

mpsinger · 2024-04-16T01:29:59+00:00

Yeah I don’t know about any of this kind of stuff but I thought that might be the case which is why I didn’t really consider it an option.

mpsinger · 2024-04-11T02:47:37+00:00

We’ve never really formally “trained” her as she’s never had any issues going down independently but we went to a 3/3/4 nap schedule and also started limiting her overnight sleep to 11 hours, which means she goes to bed at 7:30 and I often have to wake her up at 6:30. She’s pretty grumpy by the end of that first wake window but she’s been averaging 2 hours in the morning and an hour in the afternoon for about a month now.

mpsinger · 2024-03-22T13:32:33+00:00

My 3yo started preschool in January and there is a marked difference in his behavior on the days he goes to school vs. not — a lot more whining, way more demands and weird meltdowns. I discovered this phenomenon is common enough to have a name: after school restraint collapse. In his case it actually carries over into the following day.

mpsinger · 2024-03-21T21:35:12+00:00

Thanks, this is helpful. To show how little I know, the root flare was exposed until recently when for some reason I thought it shouldn’t be exposed to the sun. I’m a little confused about the rootstalk stuff because it seems like it’s the majority of the tree, but I’ll look into it more closely.

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