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Does it make me a bad mom if I don't go to drop my oldest off at college?

My oldest is a senior applying to colleges. She will more than likely be anywhere from a 2 to 10 hour drive from home. We will be driving to drop her off. For the schools that are farther away, I was thinking it might make more sense for one parent to stay home with our youngest two. They are 5 and 3 and have summer birthdays so they'll be a young 6 and 4 when she goes to college. We also have a 15 year old who will be 16 by that time. If my husband, daughter, and older son go to drop her off it'll be much smoother than dragging everyone along on a long car trip, especially since the 5 year old gets car sick. So, does this make me an awful parent? We would still say goodbye at the house. She would be with her dad and brother. It would give them some nice quality time before being the drop off. I can see all the benefits but can't help but feel bad about it.

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Feeling like a failure over his first Christmas

This will be my babies first Christmas and he won’t have anything to open. Not one single present as of right now. I know he’s too young to even remember this Christmas but as a first time mom it feels like a fail on my part especially when every Christmas I had as a child was such a big deal. Some of my best memories come from Christmas and it makes me feel horrible that he might not have that experience. We’re Instacarting and Doordashing but the bills just keep coming and coming and it’s almost impossible to catch up. I’m doing everything I can to stay in the Christmas spirit but every parent wants their child to open something on Christmas morning and that just might not be possible this year. It’s really hard right now to not feel like a total failure.

Will the “oh you just wait” negative comments ever end or is this motherhood?

People warned me people would test boundaries and make irritating comments once I became a mother. Well they were right that’s for sure LOL. My daughter is 11 months and the latest one (and most of them) came from my MIL. I sent the family a few pictures of my daughter making a bunch of different faces and commented “the many faces of (daughter)” and of course my MIL responded “wait until she gets a mouth for those moods”. I responded “not our Angel! 😅” to make it light hearted and my husband “disliked” her comment and she responded “oh it’ll happen”. Like 🙄🙄🙄🙄 STFUUUUU

Teachers who assign multi-layered extensive home projects for SEVEN YEAR OLDS and not expect parents to help with the lion's share of the work are off their rocker.

Kid has a multi-page project on family culture, several pages including home recipes, historical country information, traditions... and expects my seven year old to do *****on their own**** while delivering a "neat, researched, well-composed report with drawings and descriptive sentences." Sooo I'm going to say this for the back row: I used to laugh at those projects where the parents obviously helped (*cough did it*) compared to my kid's solo work, and you know what? It isn't so funny when my kid gets a "does not meet expectations." While others get hung in the school display case. Yeahhhhh.... this has been four days straight of gentle coaching from a pretty disinterested kid. I'm sorry, maybe I'm wrong but also a bit over all the "ready for college at third grade" mental stress.

Unpopular opinion: I loved my son's "terrible twos"

He's about to turn three and I have to say, I loved two! He was an absolute delight! Not every second, of course, but overall wonderful! So much happened during his twos Potty training Becoming a big brother (x2) Learning how to communicate Weaning Moving into his big boy room I've loved seeing him grow and become the wonderful little man he is today

Feeling like a failure over his first Christmas

This will be my babies first Christmas and he won’t have anything to open. Not one single present as of right now. I know he’s too young to even remember this Christmas but as a first time mom it feels like a fail on my part especially when every Christmas I had as a child was such a big deal. Some of my best memories come from Christmas and it makes me feel horrible that he might not have that experience. We’re Instacarting and Doordashing but the bills just keep coming and coming and it’s almost impossible to catch up. I’m doing everything I can to stay in the Christmas spirit but every parent wants their child to open something on Christmas morning and that just might not be possible this year. It’s really hard right now to not feel like a total failure.

Help! My verrry active 3 year has broken his leg. He’s in a full leg cast (foot to thigh)

Has anyone ever seen any sort of mobility scooter for a *full leg* cast? There are so many designs that require him to be able to *kneel* on it but he can’t do that because he can’t bend his knee. Right now we are just carrying him everywhere!

Child is sick every other week since starting preschool, normal? what do I do?

My son started preschool a month ago and has been sick almost the entire time. He will go for a week and we notice the sickness then keep him home for the entire following week. It's mainly cough/fever/runny nose. Been in and out of the doctors office constantly and on medicine when prescribed. Is this normal? How do I know when I really need to keep him home? My fiancé says to keep him home almost anytime he's even mildly sickish. Currently he has a fever at 102 so it looks like he will be home again for the upcoming week unless the fever subsides without us needing to dose him with ibuprofen/acetaminophen every few hours.

Child away for Christmas

Hi, I need an advice. My daughter (18M) is spending this Christmas with her father. We have the agreement that each year we alternate, first Christmas were mine, this one are his. I'm fine with that. We both are expats, so as this is first post-Covid Christmas, it's the first time she will he away, and as an international trip it does not pay just to go for Christmas (24-27/12), but she'll go for cerca 10 days which is a long time away for a child of her age. I mean it's OK with me, next year I will definitely want to do something similar, but the question is: shall I have a zoom call with her? I'm not sure how to manage the split. I do not want her to miss me and I know she will, just not sure if seeing me on screen will help or make things worse. I know how to manage my longing, not sure how to help her. What do you think?

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My mom gave my one month old baby cereal without asking me and now her stomach hurts

Like the title says, my mom gave my newborn baby cereal and she's been fussy all morning. Does anyone know how long it'll take to make it's way through her system, if there's anything I can do for her to help the pain, or if I should contact a doctor. Thank you for your advice!

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Why would he make plans without asking me??

We didn't go to my families Thanksgiving with all my aunt's because of unvaccinated family members. We also weren't planning on going to my families Christmas because of those same unvaccinated family members. So why did he make all the plans to go to his families Christmas party? He also has unvaccinated family members. He said he'd thought it would be different because it's just his parents and his siblings, but he's the youngest of 8. That's just about as many people at my family Christmas. Really, he's a great dad and partner. I couldn't have asked for someone better. Which is why when shit like this happens it throws me off. Guess we're going to Christmas this year. Who's going to tell my family we're not going there but we're going to his?

"You can love your child and not love......"

I saw a post in a pregnancy sub that I am in; Mom said "You can want your baby...but not enjoy being pregnant." I COMPLETELY agree. I wanted to add to it as well and I thought this community could keep up the sentiment of not enjoying every single part of parenthood! ​ Here's mine :) You can love your child and not love every age/stage they go through.