Parenting Contents Archive

Students who lose a family member or friend may not be ready to talk because they need time to process. "And books about grief can help bridge that gap between being alone in your pain and reaching out to others for healing.” @KaraNewhouse https://t.co/IuP3uEefIC

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live. -Montessori, #family

"Take as long as you want. Enjoy the shower."

Said by me to the mom with a 14 month old. The wedding is today, we're both bridesmaids. She had to shower, lil one is asleep. She thought she was a huge inconvenience for asking me to sit with her because she was terrified she was going to fall off the bed. (She's a wiggler). Take as long as you want! She's passed out milk drunk and there's a Harry Potter marathon on. I'm fine!

4 boys into parenting, I have learned this: when a boy is intensely focused on something, it matters to him. - @jlwf https://t.co/l9nKmNnkmW https://t.co/bBpLbzkwvb

At what age should you get your child to brush their teeth?

I’m new to being a father and was wondering at what age I should get my child to start brushing his teeth. When their a capable age? Or when their next set of teeth come through?

Grandma sits on phone/ Facebook

Since my almost two year old was born, over had to explicitly tell (if she was supposed to be watching him) and ask her to stop surfing Facebook and sitting in her phone constantly. She lives on the other side of the country, so visits are a big deal. My recently widowed MIL is now visiting, hasn't seen him since December 2019, and by the afternoon of the second day she's here, she's sitting on her phone too. Facebook and phone games. Is this just the thing with their generation?

I wish I had known it was the last time

We’re on baby 3 and drowning. Emotionally I want more kids (crazy, I know) but there’s no way we can mentally do it. My milk supply is dwindling… lots of supplementing, but I wanted to go as long as possible since this is my last baby. She’s just shy of nine months and wouldn’t feed from my breast today. Screaming, crying, so hungry, and she finally calmed down when I gave her a bottle of formula. I guess she’s rejecting me. I can’t really blame her since she’s bottle fed breast milk and formula most of the time and only feeds from me up to three times a day at this point. I can’t stop crying. Last Sunday at noon was the last time I’ll ever feed a baby from my breast. I really want my body back - I was excited to be done in only 3 months. I just wasn’t ready to be done quite yet.

Waking up at 5:50

Everyday I wake up at 5:50 when the baby wakes up. My husband sleeps until 9 on the weekdays and 9:50 on the weekends. This initially made sense because we were taking shifts when the baby was waking up every two hours. Now the baby gets up once in the night. My husband still sleeps in. He keeps getting upset everytime I ask him to take a morning shift. And he tells me I don’t appreciate what he does. It’s infuriating. He stays up late, which is his natural rhythm, playing video games. I’m just exhausted. I have no time to myself, and I have no time for him either because I have to go to sleep at 9. Meanwhile he is over here complaining when I woke him up at 9:50 today. It’s really offensive, I feel completely taken for granted. And he is acting like he dies all this stuff that I don’t appreciate, and brings it up every ltime I ask him to take a morning shift. Anyone else have this issue and how did you fix it?

How long should we keep our adult children on our cell plan?

We just had a milestone event last week in that the first child got married. This has raised the question between my wife and I as what to do about having her on our cell plan. On the one hand, it's only $20/mo, hardly a burden for us. On the other, at what point do you need to send your kids into the real world and have them pay their own way? Any advice here?

This dad wants some specific types of "NOTHING" for #FathersDay2021 https://t.co/d41T6F0PZ1… by @thegoodbaddad #CityDads #DadLife #FathersDay #fathersdaygifts https://t.co/QEm9LbKbKq

Have you thought of teaching your little one #babysignlanguage? It's easier than you think https://t.co/GjbdFSBBw3 #languageacquisition

We all Model things to our children, we teach them without even realizing the things they’re learning from us… if we recognize it or not, here are something they’re picking up.

The "gardener" is less concerned about controlling who the child will become and instead provides a protected space to explore. Ironically, the less that mothers and fathers worry about outcomes the better their children may fare in life. https://t.co/6dZs4rOGiZ

2 1/2 YO son starting to talk

Sorry I'm not sure if I'm using the right flair. I posted here several months ago because I was starting to become worried that my son wasn't talking very much. Over the past 3 weeks or so I dont know what happened but he suddenly is so interested in words and mimicking and just learning in general. I had bought him a set of flash cards with pictures of animals and other objects, and at first he wasn't interested at all. But one day he started paying attention to them and the words I was saying. He now says ball, come, three, and a handful of other things. But what has impressed me so much is his persistence. He sits by himself and practices the words and lays in bed at night repeating the sounds. It just makes me so proud of him and how persistent he is and his efforts that he is making. I'm such a proud mom.

Ugh worst parenting day

My almost five year old has decided that today, the day of my worst headache in a while, is going to be the day he don’t listen for shit and defies me on every turn. Not to mention my two year old screamed for thirty minutes straight. Im talking red in the face bloody murder screaming because the radio was not playin what she wanted. Over this day. DH won’t be home for a while. I’m stuck. Oh on a side note, it’s Garfields Birthday and my cake day so Yay!