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@charity78777 Well, we have a boat and are only just considering taking our 2yo out this summer!

@omadaze It’s so important that our kids learn to feel discomfort, dissatisfaction, sadness and regret in our safe place. Stopping your kid from crying is not necessarily what’s best for them. I read a quote somewhere that said something along the lines of ‘don’t damage your child’s...

@kirwinnar You guys are amazing - and I’ve also seen friends who’ve had fertility issues who make it look so easy! Maybe a byproduct of the absolute desire and gratefulness to finally have them! I’m 5m postpartum with our second and we have a bigger (easier) age gap of 2y4m. It’s a lot. My...

@vl32 No, that’s blatantly untrue. My recommendation is to do it gradually but my girl kind of weaned herself around 11/12mo and I was nothing but delighted to get my bodily autonomy back!

@jdthcstl Just as an example - here in Australia you get 18 weeks (over 4 months) paid government leave AND most employers offer some sort of paid leave on top of that! I had 10 months PAID leave - take every single hour you can wangle because you should be getting even more.

@brione Fear is a tool to be used where necessary. It definitely has a place but justifying it by simply saying”that’s how it’s been done for generations” gives serious boomer survivors bias vibes. Like, not the same but same issue - ‘my parents hit me and I turned out ok’. For me, that’s any...

@brione This is a really quick way to make your kid stop sleeping…. Awful advice. Fear is never a good parenting method.

@guidance Me and my daughter have dry sensitive skin and I swear by dermaveen. It’s oat based, smells lovely but is fragrance free and I also use their shower and bath oil too and my skin has never been better.

@coachlittlez23 My baby mostly watches me do housework and I chat to her about WHS I’m doing, and her favourite spot is lying staring at the trees moving through our dining room window. The internet is such a mess sometimes - EVERYTHING is stimulating and a learning experience for a 3 month...

@manga006 My second is 4 weeks old and my first is 2.5yo… I absolutely HATE the newborn stage - it’s awful and if I could birth a toddler I’d give a kidney. It’s by far the worst part but your brain just tricks you into forgetting it by 5ish months post partum. I hate the sleep from 4ish to...

@dog_nurse I’ve just lent all our big items to my sis in law and brother, I feel so good doing it as they struggle for $. Clothes are also going to them, I’ll get the newborn stuff back as they’re only used for a short time and the rest I won’t mind buying again if/when we decide to have another!

@henryjoshua I read the other day and 100% agree with this statement: Do not let YOUR anxieties or trauma impede your child’s development and opportunities. My girls LOVE going to see and stay with their grandparents, and I wholeheartedly believe that’s because we, as parents, have helped them...

@banlawya It was horrific but we got through it and honestly, it feels like it lasted a week now. She’s 2.5yo now, since 1yo she slept through the night and we do a bath, read 3 stories, say night night, love you and she falls asleep on her own and sleeps through every night.

@banlawya 6-7 months was absolute hell on earth for us with our first. She didn’t have a 4 month ‘regression’, she just didn’t sleep from 5-7.5 months. She’d go to sleep till like 11 in her cot then would wake every 45 minutes to 1.5hrs continuously, all night. I never wanted to bed share but...

@diademjewel Does he enjoy being around/playing with little bro? If so, there’s your consequence. He doesn’t get to play with him for the rest of the afternoon/morning or similar. But it needs to be something he values. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the...

@laurie4321 There is no ‘appropriate’, it completely depends on the child and many kids drop to 1 at 12 months. My daughter’s bestie dropped to 1 nap at around 10mo - admittedly VERY early! My daughter literally dropped it the month after turning 1, along with most of her peers from our mums...

@sherbetmayhem It really wasn’t bad for us, she just had to go to bed a little earlier a couple of nights from memory whilst she extended her nap from the 30 minute cat naps. I love one nap schedule, so much more freedom!

@yesterday987g I get you - in my opinion it sucks for us and them but they get over it so fast. It’s just their way of learning, testing and it’s our job as good parents to teach them that sometimes we HAVE to do things we don’t want to. I truly believe that otherwise we’ll end up with kids...

@yesterday987g I appreciate respecting children’s autonomy but ultimately - a 2 year old most of the time cannot rationalise WHY something needs to happen. As parents we HAVE to do things they don’t like sometimes - brushing teeth tsp they don’t fall out, not eating all the chocolate/ice...

@sherbetmayhem It’s all possible! All you can do is try but I will say, stick with the one nap for a few days at least, it took my little one a week to properly transition from 2 to 1 and she went from a 30 min nap to taking 2hr naps. It was SUCH a relief!