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Children forced to be Vegan.

My step daughters mother has forced her to be vegan since birth. Never thought anything of it till friends and family of mine would ask me if she was 6 y/o. She is 10. Then, noticing her at school events next to her class, she is well underdeveloped. I'm all for veganism and vegetarianism for many reasons, but I don't understand why someone would force something (like controlling food intake) onto a child. I have tired to increase her protein intake when she is with us but she has this instilled fear of meat and dairy because of her Mom's obsession with controlling what she eats. She has her 100% convinced that meat and dairy are very unhealthy. I don't really know where to start with her except trying to turn her onto some type of food educational information. Any good books? YouTube Channels? Anything with basic facts about the food pyramid and why a balanced diet is best.

Where do you buy cotton stuffed animals?

I’ve become so concerned about polyester fabrics and their negative health effects. But the options for cotton plushies seem really limited - and a lot of what is available is not very cute. And pricey! I can make my own stuffed animals but it’s a time-consuming process. Polyester fiberfill is fine, because I can easily open a seam, remove it, fill with cotton, and close up. Where can you find safe, cotton plushies?

how is everyone navigating not letting people hold your baby during the holidays?

So many babies are being hospitalized due to RSV, COVID, and flu. We want to see family, but I don't want people holding my 6 month old when children's hospitals are over capacity.

Update to leaving my husband

It’s been a few weeks since I posted. I’m an idiot and I let him convince me to stay and we would go to counseling. He would set it up. I held my ground for about a week and then caved. Fast forward to a couple nights ago, he says to me that he really needs my help because he isn’t getting any responses. I asked him how many people he contacted and he said about 5. So that’s it. 5 attempts to get a counselor and he gives up and wants me to do it. I didn’t agree to do it but I didn’t disagree either which in our relationship means he is going to assume I’ll take over the effort and he will put no more effort into it.

Being non toxic parent

How do you be a loving, caring, & non toxic parent when you grew up in a household that was the complete opposite? I grew up with 2 parents who were emotionally abusive. I truly believe my parents destroyed me & I suffer to this day because of my upbringing. I don’t want to repeat the cycle with my kid, but I don’t how to break it. A few examples-my parents rarely told me they loved me, so I try to tell my LO I love him, but it just sounds so forced, even though I love him to pieces. My parents always criticized me, so I try to praise my kid, but I don’t even know how to without sounding fake. I am at a loss and I’m so scared I’m failing my baby.

Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. @shruti_rajkumar https://t.co/7Tj7CkB830

Here are some of the benefits of a play based learning approach in a child's #earlyyears https://t.co/aflM3084qT #PlayBasedLearning

Trust your baby's competence: she wants to do things for herself, and she can do things for herself. Let her be the initiator and problem solver. -Magda Gerber #parenting

It's getting to be that time of year - is your son still wearing shorts? #parenting https://t.co/EJNs2iUpX0

Anyone's newborn sleep on the upper level of a pack and play?.

My Graco PMP comes with this folding mattress thing, but I was thinking about getting a Dream On Me Foam Portable Mattress to put on top of it. Did anyone do that? The folding Mattress thing seems so thin and uncomfortable.

(UPDATE) Our 3wk newborn daughter was just diagnosed and admitted to the ER with RSV

Just following up to my post from Friday ( [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/yykwg5/our_3wk_newborn_daughter](https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/yykwg5/our_3wk_newborn_daughter_was_just_diagnosed_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)) Our girl is heading in the right direction and coming home tonight. Thank you everyone for you support and thoughtful comments - reading eveything really helped my spirits. [Here she is now, happy and alert](https://ibb.co/D7zZS0F)

“Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.” — Carrie Fisher https://t.co/Bphr9Zm0J3

The decline in NAEP scores were due to student scores in suburban areas and small towns, not cities or rural communities. @jillbarshay @hechingerreport https://t.co/9P9ipOQLnL

How to accept getting nothing done

Father of 2m LO. Getting at the end of my parental leave. At some point I could also do house chores and home renovations on top of caring for LO....taking turn with SO and MIL taking care of baby. Then when my turn came I would also care for LO. This week I hit a wall when both SO and MIL got too exhausted to care for LO. Now I hold her day and night so she can sleep (bad reflux), I change her, rock her to sleep, bring back and forth to mom. I am ok with all that but not being able to do any of the other work is killing me. On top of going back to work tomorrow XD Any tips welcomed!!

Ideas for talking games with Speech Delayed toddler

So my Boy has this learning delay and is doing really well with the lessions and help we are getting from therapy and Doctors. He was already making slow progress before the help up now its even more noticable. I just wanted to talk to some parents with exprience, we have been at this for about 3 months or so. Covid killed any chance of this getting help early. Even though 3.5 yrs isnt to bad. Anyways im looking for helpful tips and ideas for games and lessions we can use to help form words and to keep him wanting to practise with us. He has a brother and sister ages 10 and 9 so they read a lot to him and stuff but i just feel i need to stay ahead of him. Some days it just doesnt happen and thats OK, he works very hard when he is into it and has tons of fun. Thanks