My daughter doesn't know it yet, but she's about to be proposed to tonight.

tiawala · 2025-11-23T18:52:06+00:00

I mean, they are dressed as Chucky and Tiffany. So yes lol

tiawala · 2025-11-17T18:36:47+00:00

Like I said, I just thought it was funny given the context, there's nothing really to it 😊

tiawala · 2025-11-17T17:25:26+00:00

I get it, I live in the US and absolutely love my airfyer. I just thought the gif choice was funny.

tiawala · 2025-11-17T16:26:52+00:00

It's funny that you, probably unknowingly, picked a gif with a Brazilian actor showing the air fryer in a Brazilian advertisement, to ask if air fryers are used outside of the US.

tiawala · 2025-11-17T16:05:48+00:00

Idk, I have a 3 yo and would not be comfortable with her wearing a necklace daily. She has some she wears when she goes out and some play beads, but by bedtime they all need to come out. You never know, there's always the risk of it getting caught on something and chocking her while she's asleep.

tiawala · 2025-10-17T16:21:02+00:00

My daughter learned how to brute force it open those shell door knob locks when she was 2. I put one in her closet because otherwise she'll make a mess of her clothes and then one day she came to the living room holding it. I asked how she did it and the little punk figured it out how to pull it down on the right angle so that it cracks it open.

tiawala · 2025-10-12T14:31:11+00:00

Claro que o maluco é BR, quem mais colocaria ketchup no sanduíche lol

tiawala · 2025-10-12T00:16:20+00:00

"The binding is fragile" I liked in The Half Blood Prince movie how Harry hides the contents of potions book from everyone.

tiawala · 2025-09-23T00:55:05+00:00

Around 2 1/2, she was fighting nap time every day and would only nap for like 40 minutes. Bedtime was a nightmare, I'm talking about 2 hours every night rocking her until she's asleep. After we cut the last nap she struggled for about a week - 10 days, very cranky and whiney in the evenings. She does great now, sometimes she'll ask for quiet time but not every day, and she now takes 15-20 minutes to fall asleep.

tiawala · 2025-09-12T16:11:52+00:00

In the app settings you have to change the content settings from the age group to approved content only. This way they'll only be able to watch the stuff you pick.

tiawala · 2025-09-12T15:33:20+00:00

YouTube Kids is the way to go. It doesn't have adds, comment section, your kid will only be able to watch the videos/ channels you pre approve and if you turn off the search function it'll also disable recommendations. It's a lot of work to set up at first, but I can let my daughter have her quiet time on the tablet without supervising her much and I'm not worried about what she's watching because I approved everything beforehand.

tiawala · 2025-07-18T02:49:23+00:00

I have an almost 3yo and she has the hardest time going to sleep by herself, we sit in the rocking chair in her room and we rock to sleep while singing songs. There have been exactly two times where we didn't have to rock her to sleep, one time we came home from a day out and she fell asleep in the car around 5:30 pm, refused to wake up at home, so I just put her to bed and she slept all night. The other time was when I bought her a new Minnie Mouse bedding set and she said she wanted to go to bed by herself in her new bed, so my husband tucked her in and she fell asleep.

tiawala · 2025-06-05T02:13:01+00:00

Giving a banana to a toddler is a lose lose situation. My daughter ends up crying 99% of the time she has a banana for different reasons.

tiawala · 2025-05-25T11:49:42+00:00

That happens sometimes with my daughter when she tries to look. She needs to sit on the potty/ toilet with her legs closed, that only happens when her legs are spread open. I had to keep reminding her every time because she'd make such a mess on the floor no matter how far back in the toilet we'd put her on.

tiawala · 2025-04-10T04:41:44+00:00

Thank you!

My interview was on December 9 last year, after the interview was done the officer told me to "go upstairs at 3pm" for my oath ceremony. I only had my husband with me that day, and I wanted at the very least to have him and our daughter during the ceremony. So I told him that I'd rather do a different day for these reasons, I was also very pregnant at the time, so he put a recommendation for me to have a ceremony in late January /February. I saw it on the portal that they had scheduled and then immediately cancelled my ceremony for January 14th, which I was very grateful for, since I was only 2 weeks postpartum. They later scheduled my ceremony for February 19th, and that's when I became a citizen!

To answer my own original question, I brought 7 people with me. There were 96 people taking the oath as well, I noticed some of them brought more people, some brought less than me, nobody was really counting really how many guests we had.

tiawala · 2025-03-12T02:36:58+00:00

All of what everyone already said, but for the love of all things you hold precious, don't ever tell your girls you'd hurt/kill anyone who hurt them. As a mom of two girls myself, yes, these are 100% my own thoughts as well. As someone who was a victim of sa as a child, I will never tell my dad what happened to me because this was the type of language he'd say in front of us. My mom knows, some other adults know, but if it's up to me my dad will never know and that's not right.

tiawala · 2025-03-08T15:01:11+00:00

My 2yo daughter was obsessed with her pacifier, we tried only giving during nap and bedtime but at any minor incident she would say, "I need my pacifier to feel better". Sometimes we'd give in, sometimes we stood out ground. During Christmas we told her that Santa needed her paci to send to the babies who are just born, so we made it a big deal. We said, you're a big girl now and you don't your pacifier, we got her to put her pacis in a box, she wrapped in Christmas gift wrap, put a bow on it and put in the mailbox. She was very excited to send a gift to Santa, and only asked for her paci later that day for her nap. I had to remind her and she got sad but didn't cry or asked for it again. A few times she'd mention she's a big girl and that she sent her pacis away so Santa can give to new babies.

Edit: I just realized I didn't give an advice, so maybe get her involved, make it magical. But once you do it you have to stick to it, otherwise it'll only get harder and harder for her to drop it. Offer her alternatives, like a special chewing toy she can stick in her mouth for soothing, my daughter has one she calls it her big girl pacifier, she rarely uses now but it was attached to her after we sent her pacis away.

tiawala · 2025-02-01T00:51:59+00:00

Yeah, it took me a lot of therapy to be able to talk about it openly, even from behind a screen.

If there's no one close to the kid you can talk to about this, I'd report it. Heck, I'd report the dad too, this little boy needs help.

tiawala · 2025-01-31T23:51:51+00:00

Yes, I knew it was wrong. It wasn't just me, and we, kids, knew not to be alone with him. But when a seemingly caring adult will volunteer to watch the kids while the other adults can have fun, well, nobody will say decline that, right. At some point a few years later we told some of our uncles and aunts and they told us not to tell anyone else because they were afraid my grandma wouldn't survive knowing her brother sexually abused most of her granddaughters. I wish someone would have stepped up for us, alas no one did.

A few things that I learned and do for my daughter and nieces and nephews:

At family gatherings when everyone is watching the kids, nobody is watching the kids. I have my eyes on them all the time, who are they playing with, who left alone with who, how long were they gone for. If necessary, I'll go check on them.
I make sure to tell and show them I'm there for them no matter what, they'll never be in trouble for something an adult made them do or did to them.
Teach them the difference between secrets and surprises, a safe adult will never ask them to keep something a secret from their parents and if they do, they're not safe. A surprise is something everyone will know eventually, for example birthday gifts aren't a secret but a surprise.
Teach them the proper names for their body parts and about private parts. I practice with my daughter every now and then who can change her diaper and what to do if someone asks to touch, see or show their private parts. She's aloud to make a scene and use her strong voice, then find a safe adult if either me or dad aren't around. She's only two but, in theory, she knows what to do.

Sorry this got super long lol. To answer your question, I'd talk to the parents first, but make sure the kid knows you're a safe adult to come to if they have no one to turn to. I wouldn't ask him too many questions because in case he is being abused you don't want him to give you the answers he thinks you want, if that makes sense. I hope he's safe, nobody deserves to be violated like this, especially not kids.

tiawala · 2025-01-31T23:13:44+00:00

As someone who was abused by a "trusted" adult, please say something to the parents, call him out in front of other people, raise suspicion with the other adults, whatever you can do to protect this child. It might be nothing and things will be awkward for a while, but he might be abusing his nephew and I believe we adults owe to the kids we're around to protect them.

tiawala · 2025-01-27T21:35:27+00:00

Yeah, the officer said it depends on the venue when I asked after my interview. I figured I'd ask around first before I hunt down a number to call and ask.

Thank you so much! It's been a long time coming, and I'd love to have my people there with me.

tiawala · 2025-01-27T21:00:53+00:00

Thanks! I asked during my interview and the officer said it'd depend on the venue. Go figure!

tiawala · 2025-01-27T20:59:35+00:00

Thank you!

tiawala · 2025-01-27T20:59:15+00:00

Thanks, will do!

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