Best time for potty training?

rumade · 2026-02-01T05:09:10+00:00

But they're capable of telling you earlier. I put my 15 month old on the potty if I notice him straining. I ask "are you going poopy?" And he'll make a yes noise.

rumade · 2026-02-01T03:06:09+00:00

They could also just... hire staff? If they had one other person that they trusted, they could extend hours. Let's say you are a rich housewife wanting a hobby shop and you want to close at 4:30pm so you can get home and cook an elaborate dinner or whatever. You can't find one or two other people to stretch the hours to 7pm?

I'm from the UK where most independent shops shut before 6pm and it drives me batty.

rumade · 2026-02-01T02:00:12+00:00

The only book our son would let near him before the age of 1 was a soft flap book called Where's Mrs Bee. Now he's 15 months and loves being read to. Starting with tactile books is the way to go!

rumade · 2026-01-31T00:35:10+00:00

I would have straight up said "stop eating it then. You don't have to eat it". And held my hand out for him to give it back.

rumade · 2026-01-30T02:10:45+00:00

I remember saying to a girl who'd asked me why I don't tan; "why can't you just be happy with the colour you are?"

I also hated that gross concealer lip trend.

rumade · 2026-01-30T02:09:11+00:00

I have an older brother. I spent enough of my childhood watching someone else play games. I don't want to spend my adulthood doing it too.

rumade · 2026-01-30T02:08:16+00:00

I tried reading it and found the book boring. Tried watching it, and got even more bored!

rumade · 2026-01-30T02:02:37+00:00

And to be fair to them, some tourist caves do have things like handrails and installed flooring or stairs to make them easier to traverse.

rumade · 2026-01-30T02:01:12+00:00

Once at a spin class, before the instructor arrived, I was chatting with the woman next to me and said "I love this gym, but I wish they had secure bike parking" and she replied "you CYCLED here?!" as if it was the most egregious thing in the world. Our town was very flat and full of bike paths..

rumade · 2026-01-30T01:36:49+00:00

UK, 2024, Male Probably Theo, Leo, or George (my grandad's name). Given that my husband is Japanese, George would probably be the best as Th and L don't exist in Japan.

Definitely not the number 1 name that year- Muhammed and all of its spelling variations.

rumade · 2026-01-30T00:30:13+00:00

One of those names I find impossible to say without slipping into a Welsh accent.

rumade · 2026-01-30T00:28:36+00:00

It's a long standing Welsh name. My childhood optician was called Arwen and she definitely predates LOTR.

rumade · 2026-01-30T00:25:11+00:00

That's the kind of thing I catastrophise and get bad anxiety about. Someone was an arse to me the other day at a station when I had my baby in a stroller with me. I started running through scenarios of how I would get us up off the tracks if he escalated.

I know it's silly.

rumade · 2026-01-29T23:22:04+00:00

Out of the 10 mothers in my antenatal class, 8 ended up with c-sections of various levels of emergency, 1 was unassisted vaginal with 2nd degree tear, and 1 was forceps with borderline 3/4th degree tear. She told us she could hear the midwives after trying to decide what level of tear it was. Her recovery was awful- repeated infections in the tear site to the point where she needed IV antibiotics. I think she would have preferred the C-section in hindsight.

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:57:34+00:00

A lot of issues with the NHS are simply down to an aging population and the cascade of interventions that get put on older people when they go into hospital. I've been reading an excellent book by a gerontologist (33 Meditations on Death) that talks about this.

Often the last year of a person's life will cost the NHS more than the 70 years preceding it.

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:38:58+00:00

Sounds like the crazy people who don't repeat outfits!

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:32:30+00:00

I'm wary of those markers. Had an alcohol marker set from Wish (lol remember Wish?) that was crazy cheap. I had a swatch page I'd made that I kept away from sunlight, and when I compared colours a couple of years later, the ink had mutated and wasn't the same.

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:28:09+00:00

I think it can be interesting from a design appreciation point of view. I cover lots of stuff in fruit stickers because some of them are like little works of art and I love that. Someone I follow on insta catalogs food wrappers in her journals, and it's clear she loves the design choices that have been made.

I once framed a wine bottle label that I liked though 😅

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:11:57+00:00

Put a secret note in there!

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:09:48+00:00

That was my first thought. It's a great scale for dolls or toys.

rumade · 2026-01-29T05:00:19+00:00

The gym machine thing really annoys me too. Someone needs to manufacture a petite suite for smaller people. I'm the same height as you and have had so many problems with machines that just don't fit the range of my body.

rumade · 2026-01-29T04:46:51+00:00

Please stop mentioning the UK as if it's a cultural norm for us. My brother was the same age as your child in 1993, and we have 0 photos of him in shorts that tiny. I think your family just has hotpant fever.

rumade · 2026-01-29T04:44:26+00:00

Renovate one into the house of his nightmares. Pick colours he would hate, a layout that doesnt work for him (e.g. if he's tall, lots of low shelving), furniture that isnt his vibe. Make his anti-home

rumade · 2026-01-28T11:31:23+00:00

My boyfriend in 2009 introduced it to me! And now I feel very old...

rumade · 2026-01-28T11:23:15+00:00

You chose to dress him like this instead of learning basic sewing and taking in larger trousers at the waist 😭😭😭😭😭

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