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🥳🥳 More than 170,000 people in schools, clubs and organisations across Ireland got involved in Safer Internet Day 2022! 🇮🇪 📸 Here are just some of the fantastic activities to promote a better, safer, internet ⤵️ #TalkListenLearn #SID2022 #Edchatie https://t.co/WMq7epADqu

From paying student-teachers to using virtual classroom simulations, here are five strategies for training new teachers. @becky_koenig https://t.co/5o83KrFG9x

Praise can backfire unless earned & deserved. It doesn't have to be lavish. When is your child most tenacious, more eager, learn easier? Praising kids for legitimate things they enjoy & work hard at go a long way in boosting #confidence. Tune in! #parenting

First Cell Phone Sign Daddy's Little Girl Is No More https://t.co/LDaCP4rnQJ by @HossmanAtHome #CityDads #DadLife #Parenting #humor https://t.co/1nNrDa7zN6

I have never felt so betrayed.

I thought my husband and I were on the same page. 4 years married with a 3 year old. And now I find out that my husband is okay giving our child dry toast and setting him to wander around the house.

When teens go silent, the sting of rejection feels personal. Fortunately it's usually not about us. Our teenagers still need us. So here are tips for opening up the lines of communication. #tuesdaytips #parenting https://t.co/DaRyzwNkWp

Why is rice cereal so controversial?

My doctor recommended giving my little bean rice cereal mixed with purée for breakfast starting from 7 months (he’s now 10 months). Baby seams to enjoy it, and the Geber brand that we use has many of the needed daily vitamins and nutrients. He obviously gets other food for lunch and dinner, as well as for snacks. But I keep reading on various threads that baby cereal is *outdated* and *empty calories*, yet I havent really been able to get insight as to why baby cereal is so contraversial. I’ve heard of people putting a small amount of cereal into baby’s bottle, which is a HUGE NO-NO and I would never do; but other than that I haven’t had much luck in finding out why baby cereal gets so many mixed reviews. Is anyone able to offer some insight?

Why are we given so many blankets?

Infants have to use sleep sacks or swaddles. Why do people give so many blankets that just sit in the closet?

"We never shy away from history, but we don’t want to traumatize. We want to learn and take them further into the history incrementally, over time." @CaitJGibson https://t.co/PnFfrXCWs1

New father

So my son was born a few days ago I'm happy and surprisingly not scared or worried . But was wondering is it normal not to feel the overwhelming joy and love everyone always talks about ? Everyone I talked to before he came always said how they will change your life nothing else will matter, you don't know what love is untill you hold them etc. But I didn't feel any of that I was happy the first time I held him even had to hold back some tears but nothing overwhelming or life changing just a sense of duty if that makes sense

Fears are catchable.Beware that you don’t pass them. You: ~hide when lightning strikes.Don’t be surprised if your child trembles. ~tell your terror of snakes.Don’t be taken back if your kid is terrified. Kids watch & may adopt our fears. #resilience #parenting

I have COVID

I’ve successfully dodged it for 2 years. I’m double vaxxed and boosted. I didn’t even catch it when my daughter had it TWICE over the last year. And now here I am laying on the couch in a mask so I don’t get her sick (she’s got no symptoms so far), feeling miserable. Fuck this.

Find it hard to chat to your teen about their life online? 📒The #TalkListenLearn Talking Points from the Webwise Youth Panel will help you start the chat: https://t.co/uZE6hMYJQP #SID2022 https://t.co/ap41LRndf3

The latest KiddyCharts Parenting Daily! https://t.co/kyzdM7WM4e Thanks to @GetOutKids #parenting #blog

On #ValentinesDay, I show my kids I love them in silly and sincere ways. Here are some ideas that you might try, too. @witt_writes https://t.co/2f4eL0pEra