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📌Explore the influences and pressures students may face while using #socialmedia. 📌The impact it may have on their #selfesteem online. 📌Empower them with strategies to manage their #onlinewellbeing. #TheFullPicture lesson is available here➡️https://t.co/0zammnCmaZ #Edchatie https://t.co/oj4WjBVhPf

Parents may not be able to control how social media works, but they can ease the effects of images that might make kids feel worse about themselves. @JessGrose https://t.co/uceidqIypD

Can you love your daughter too much?

My wife says I love our 18month old too much to the point that I'm spoiling her and making her too dependant on me. Is this a thing? Can loving my daughter cause that? How can I balance it? Side note- I'm constantly checking on her, and I don't entertain the idea of leaving her with her grandparents.

Big feelings from Dad (long-ish post)

This is my first post here, hello all 👋. I created a reddit account because I am at a loss for what else to do than ask strangers on the internet for advice... Our LO is 7 months old. Last night while I was still at work, my husband messaged me that he "can't tolerate" our baby crying anymore. That "he can't live like this" and he feels "trapped". After I got home, I let him talk it it out. I knew he had a lot to say, and he voiced something that really hit hard. He said something about searching desperately for that awesome feeling of being a parent and not finding it, and that it's killing him. Hearing him talk about what's going on in his mind makes me wonder if maybe he is undiagnosed with something. The audio processing and need for control of his environment is so high... Long story short; my husband feels lost and stuck and I just want to help him. Any advice?

Please explain multiple children to me

I always wanted more than one child, but now my first child is here and I am struggling to fathom how I could handle more than one. I mean, my 8 month old is fairly chill, she’s a happy and smiley baby. As a newborn things were really rough for a long time, but now I’m starting to feel rested and hopeful again, and I am more “on top of things” around the house again. YET I STILL don’t know how I could take care of two of them. My one child takes 100% of my attention and energy every day! I have a friend who just had her 4th and it hurts my brain to try to figure out what a typical day looks like for her?! This is partially a rant, but partially a question. How did you come around to feeling “ready” for a second child? Or parents of multiples, how do you do it?

What age can you take your kid to a family movie for the first time?

My daughter will be 4 in February and I've never taken her because she can't sit still. Wondering if she is old enough to sit through a Disney movie as long as she has snacks.

Daily toddler drama

When was the first time you left your baby with someone else?

ie grandparent. We did quite soon (within 2 weeks) at thier House so we could have a nap (we live very close)

My 16 year old has been saying just doesn't care about anything...

He has been saying this the last couple of months. I am concerned that the things I have tried aren't helping. We have regular one-on-one conversations. He has told me that I am one of the only people he feels he can open up to... So we can end up talking for hours and hours. I've tried vitamin supplements. We go out regularly to try a new restaurant, spend time outdoors, and board games, go to the movies, etc. on the weeks I have them. He asks how I am I so happy when this world is so full of people who don't actually care about you. We've talked through this. I've advised counseling. We go to church and spend some time with the people there. He has also said he doesn't want to be in high school anymore because the people there are so fake and only chase girls. He said they talk about drinking and smoking and doesn't want to get caught up in their mess because he is wanting to become an officer for the Air Force. Any advice/insight is greatly appreciated.

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Toddler keeps taking off diaper-Help

My 19 month old has learned how to take off her diapers. Doesn’t matter if they’re fresh and clean or have a little pee in them. Last night, it happened. She ripped off a diaper with a fresh turd in it. It was a nightmare. Any advice on what this means or how to deal with it?

Other people posting kids pictures on social media

Does anyone else have this problem? Mine and my husband's side of the family do this, without our permission. I've spoken with my family and the day after, my sister did it anyway! I talked her her and she took the pictures down, but my goodness! My SIL does the same, posts pictures of our kid without even asking. Does anyone else have this problem? Does it bother you? How do you handle it?

Wouldn’t life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of? -Magda Gerber, #parenting

Anyone else have a gymnast / psychic for a baby?!

Okay so..not only does LO effectively turn her entire self around in her crib (meaning we put her down feet facing one way and she wakes up with her feet facing the complete opposite way at times even laying completely horizontal bar to bar). Is this safe?! And also, she knows were watching her through the monitor the moment she wakes up she looks directly at the monitor and smiles like “hey im ready!!! Pick me me up”.

Rolling bassinet

I have epilepsy and one of the precautions that I have to take when we bring baby home is not carrying him by myself for the first few weeks until my hormones and seizures stabilize. Luckily the majority of my house is on one floor so there won't be too many other accommodations needed. However I'm looking for a really good rolling bassinet to move around the house with baby in it. So if anyone has any good recommendations I'd really appreciate it!