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@kittymeow1919 I’m right there with you. I got so frustrated with the downright shaming I got for giving my baby a pacifier and a swaddle. “Your baby doesn’t need them.” Narrator: that was a lie. I did my best to push it out of my mind and my now 9mo has been the one to drop the crutch. He...

@nicolestevens84 My son is 3.5 and he has a pretty good memory. I don’t know if he remembers all of his trips, but when we were approaching Easter, he remembered absolutely everything from the year prior. The main thing for us is to take pictures and put them into a physical book. Our son loves...

@jackiecline Yayy, more shit

@tobyharba My wife and I would regularly tell each other that we were on our phones too much. We very rarely would disagree with each other saying so. I noticed it was happening so much that I needed to do something else. So I started reading instead. Starting with comic books because they’re...

@stassit Good on you. There is no need to “make up for it”. Every day is just the next step in us being better parents. Also, don’t let great be the enemy of good. TV is a tool. If there is shit you need to do, don’t hesitate to use TV to get it done. When we’re sick, we watch TV. When I need...

@gankutsuou Disagree Learning-based television series has been shown to have an effect on vocabulary size for kids aged 3-5, but there have been no studies showing any benefit’s of television for kids under 3. I would argue that books and songs also have the same effect on vocabulary as...

@aziluv5 Good tips for the games. We’re approaching 3 as well and while he loves playing Kirby dream buffet, he can’t do the controls at all. Will check out those games.

@stassit I think you’re leaning on the TV too hard. It is unlikely that your kid will get tired of TV. You could watch 6 hours a day and he’ll still be fine with it. You can tell yourself all you want that it’s educational content and it talks about emotions and numbers and words, but 1 year...

@richardy We made my parents life a nightmare, but we’re super good to our teachers/others. When my mom asked my brother why, his response was, “well, if we have to act out around someone, would you rather it be someone else or at home?” She seemed content with that