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Daughter’s friend lives in a mansion and I’m freaking out about them coming to my house.

My daughter (8) goes to private school with a mix of kids. Her BFF lives in a mansion. We live in a normal house in a slightly bad part of town. Our immediate neighboring house is owned by a slumlord. The renters there park five cars on the lawn. The house behind me had an amateur mariachi band that puts on “concerts” some weekends. BFF is coming over Saturday and mom wants to pick her up on the way elsewhere in the afternoon. I’m kind of freaking out that I will be embarrassed by my neighborhood. How do I calm down about it? I just feel panicked. I invited them over thinking I was going to transport both ways.

It cannot be triggering to only me when someone say my baby is "flirting" with people.

Like, he's a baby. Cut it out. It's just... gross.

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Educators have long been working on how to develop a more equitable curriculum that caters to all learners. Many times, however, teachers don’t consider gifted students when they plan and implement differentiated learning strategies. @edutopia https://t.co/hyfVbZkUiY

Biggest pregnancy fear: Water breaking at work

Has anyone's water broken (like Hollywood gush) while at work? I have this fear that it's going to happen to me (32+2) and it's probably irrational but like I don't even know what I would do! I plan on working all the way up until my due date (or until the day LO decides his due date is), so maybe it's possible? Idk, I just worry! What do you even do?

New dad here. Any tips on calming yourself down when newborn is screaming?

Obviously I'm not upset with him or anything, I know crying is pretty much the only way he can communicate right now..but man oh man it's a really upsetting sound when he really gets going. Like nails on a chalk board. Any tips how to deal with the uncomfortable emotions it stirs up? Ways to calm yourself?

Why do random strangers ask me how I’m going to birth my baby?

Is it just a way to relate? A “how’s the weather today” question? Why do people keep asking me if I’m going to/ have given birth “naturally” or via c-section?

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Back-to-back pregnancy: Replying to unkind comments

Young couple here with a 5 month baby and we just found out that we're expecting another one! We're super excited and happy because we want to grow our family and thankfully it all went pretty smoothly during the previous pregnancy/recovery. We didn't intentionally *try* to have another baby so soon, but this isn't an "unplanned" pregnancy either. We discussed the risks of back-to-back pregnancies beforehand, and still decided not to use birth control. So this is purely good news to us! We've only told two people so far (Hoping to keep it quiet till farther along) but their reactions honestly shocked us. They "tactfully" tried to clue us in that there's something called birth control. Super irritating! Duh, we're not stupid. (Why can't people allow us to make our own decisions about how fast to grow our family?!) Trying to think how to respond and/or curtail that type of response from others in the future. Any ideas??

LO just eats her books

I feel dumb having this problem, but, my 11m old just eats her books. Her books are kept away in a cupboard and I just don't take them out to read to her that often because she just takes them from me and eats them, doesn't really follow along when I'm reading anyway. Everything says to read to your baby everyday but she just wants to eat them... I talk to her and try to read when I can. But I have this little bit of guilt that I'm ruining her by not reading as much as I'd like to. I got those indestructible books but she just likes chewing the board and paper books. And she has plenty of teethers to chew on. Idk olif this is more of a rant, but if anyone has suggestions that'd be cool. Thanks for reading.

looking for scientific data/facts on why visitors to a newborn should be vaccinated

Long story short, everyone I know is vaccinated except for my stepfather, I'm currently pregnant and due in October (so the beginning of flu season/ when covid usually starts to spike). I mentioned that visitors will need to be vaccinated to protect baby, so he should really just go get the vaccine. This was met with the argument that anyone can bring covid to the baby including the vaccinated, and when I'm pregnant my brain turns to mush so I literally didn't know what to say. Basically I just need arguments to back up why I would prefer any visitors to be vaccinated.

Think I had a breakthrough with my 3yo today

Have a 1yo(girl), 3yo(boy). The 3yo has been acting up, screaming rather than using words etc. So he had another meltdown today at home when I took a piece of cereal out of the cereal bag he was holding, cereal everywhere, refused to clean it up. My wife/his mom tried to help but as usual just got frustrated and threw cereal at him. I hugged him, he calmed down, still didn't want to clean up despite asking him. I cleaned up the mess. Then he wanted some playdoh from the closet. I told him "Why should we say yes? If we see good behavior over time we will give you things like this, but as of now how do we know you won't throw it everywhere and scream?" Then he thought for a few seconds and said, "Sorry". I told him to tell his mom this, he ran over to tell her sorry. He didn't tell her want he wanted, I did, and she agreed to give him the playdoh. When he was playing with it he yelled "Thank you!" unprompted, which is new, usually that only happens when asked to do so. So, progress.

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Is Love Enough? [OC] Something I made and hope you will also find meaningful to you