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@katrina2017 Haha, it’s such a good framework for when you’re hunched under an umbrella over a smoldering campfire, protecting it and not really you from the pouring rain and praying the food you brought will be bare-minimum-acceptably cooked before the wet wind puts it out, everything around...

@janzee You’ve got this! We camped twice this summer with our 1.5 and 3.5 year olds. All in all, it went well. My tips are: 1) Keep your expectations fluid, haha. Think if this first foray not as a test, but as an experiment. Open a note on your phone and jot down things along the way that...

@hammertime33 Haha, somehow I guess that still what I mean? Even the parents with the harder kids I know mostly dont feel like their lives are (more) miserable (unless they’re struggling with depression or a truly unusually high needs kid). Their lives are their lives, and even venting about the...

@hammertime33 I know your post is 2 months old, but chiming in late to say this was my fear as well. My first was a unicorn sleeper and a chill little guy who rarely cried. What finally soothed my anxiety was looking around at all my new-parent friends and observing that they ALL loved their...

@daviddale3 I am finding that even when you gain that more relaxed second-time-mom attitude with a new baby, you never quite lose the FTM worry aspect with your first lol! After all, you/they're still doing everything for the first time! Hope it goes well.

@daviddale3 Our public 3K and preK have about a 50 minute nap period scheduled—that’s scheduled, mind, so if it takes you 10 min to fall asleep and some kids start stirring and making noise 10 min early, you’ve only got a half hour of sleep in there. Basically a power nap… My 3K kid, who...