Parenting Contents Archive

There’s a lot of work ahead to figure out how to help middle schoolers heal, and their voices must be part of the discussion. @L_willen @hechingerreport @Pfagell @AMLE @Joe_Mazza @RJMotivates @CHSiddons @julie_dipilato https://t.co/lOvRpdIMQ6

Impress your littlest guests with these Thanksgiving trivia questions and answers. ☝️💭 https://t.co/b7PQPOwiXP

Boys tend to handle grief MUCH differently than their moms– we may be surprised AND concerned when we don’t see our boys cry after a major loss. https://t.co/nyOEGFM467 https://t.co/ocEue3BEBk

"If you don't pass your #values on to your kids, someone else will." - Frank Sonnenberg #familytime

Fresh air affects children’s constitutions, particularly in early years. It enters every pore of a soft and tender skin, it has a powerful effect on their young bodies. Its effects can never be destroyed. -JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, #unschool

Teaching kids how to deal with their own emotions and respect others' starts with giving them the space to express their own feelings. @TED_ED https://t.co/ud86XL30F2

“Schools that are focusing purely on academics without helping kids feel like things are back to normal, are really struggling.” https://t.co/rxTatVxppu https://t.co/wzPvY05kbg

🎬🙌Good luck to everyone involved in the @FisFilm Awards tomorrow! 📽️Tune in at 11.30AM on https://t.co/yQaqm4cgh8 ⤵️ #21Awards #filmmaking #digitalstorytelling @PDST_TechinEd

How has having a child(ren) changed your body permanently?

For me - I was an older ftm(37) so I have a permanent stomach pouch that won’t go away now. My bellybutton is way bigger. My nipples are pretty big and permanently erect (lol). My shoe size and ring size have gone up by 1 (rip all my rings that I can never wear again :().

What the absolute fuck, mom?

My baby has a heart condition and needs certain medication to you know…live, right? Insurance is being difficult because she doesn’t check one single box so we haven’t been able to start her on it yet. Were devastated about her condition. And we’ve kept ourselves locked in our house the entire four months of her life to keep her healthy. It’s stressful and heartbreaking that we can’t see family, especially with the holiday season coming up. Let me preface this by saying I have nothing against religion and I’m nothing but respectful to those who practice and believe. My mother just told me I needed to stop relying on modern medicine for my babies health and rely on God, and that if I had stronger faith my baby wouldn’t be sick. I am absolutely pissed that she would blame me in ANY context and any sliver of of hope I had to spend Christmas with them is gone.

Kindergarten boyfriend?

So my daughter is in kindergarten. She recently turned 6. Since starting in August she has apparently been through two or three “boyfriends” already. As far as I can tell, this means maybe holding hands/hugging sometimes, but mainly  standing around awkwardly being too shy to talk. she has told me she is “in love“ at least twice already. Personally I don’t remember even liking a boy until third grade. It seems in her class there are other girls vying for the boys’ attention too. Is this normal? It seems very premature to me and I am not comfortable with it, but I don’t want her not to fit in with her classmates. I have told her being “in love“ is for grown-ups and much older kids (ie teens). I don’t want to overreact. We live in a very Hispanic area and my husband thinks this is cultural, though he is not comfortable with it either.Has anyone dealt with this?

This makes a lot of sense. Do you agree? https://t.co/9CLRTsYE75 #MentalHealth #relationships

Well it finally happened, the thing all we all swear will never happen but inevitably does

I dropped my baby yesterday. Well technically I didn't drop her, she fell off her changing table. WHILE I WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE. All I did was reach over to put her dirty diaper in the diaper bin and next thing I knew her little body was flopping over and thudding stomach down on the floor. Shes 100% fine, I cried way more than she did. She didn't even do her heart breaking cry, but I freaked out and took her into my job (I work for a chiropractor) and had my boss give her a quick adjustment. She's already forgotten about it, but I'm forever traumatized LOL

TIP: Set aside one night a week or month as Family Night, when you rent a movie, pop some popcorn, light a fire and just be together. Make it sacred time. #positiveparentingsolutions

MIL wants to have our 16m old for one weekend every month

I need some advise- my MIL has asked to have our 16m old for a weekend every month. We have been doing this for the past 4 months however I feel our child is getting to an age where they knows what’s going on and now cries when we leave. I am uncomfortable leaving them for the whole weekend and for my MIL taking 1/4 of our family time every month (my husband works in the week). Am I being unreasonable? My husband thinks I am and refuses to tell her that we only want her to go for one day. Side note- she lives 2 hours away so her argument is that it’s too far to travel to have our child for just one night. She is also extremely pushy with having her and calls nearly every day to ask which weekend this month she can have her.