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@godblessed777 Are you talking about an education system where only the exam grades count? Attendance and homework don’t? Or the American system where it’s not possible to get As and in fact it’s illegal to be truant so much?

@spiritualgrowth First check if the two children were in the bath at the same time? Or was it one after the other? If it’s one after the other, then it could be intended as nice gesture to help you out when you’re sick. For a 5 yo kid, J might just have stayed outside the bathroom with the...

@mahyrah No thanks, I'm just not that desperate. I feel that working from home without childcare is something that is a last resort, you know? It's burning the candle at both ends, and either the job or the kid will suffer. Probably both.

@josephtheprotector Ah, I’ve completely misunderstood the nature of her help. If she only comes over once or twice a week to help, then that’s just being family shouldn’t be this big burden that you originally saw it as.

@josephtheprotector Your daughter gets to live in your house rent-free, right? I’m being cold and blunt about it, but basically in past generations, this was a common and expected living arrangement. In multi-generation families, adult children (or one adult child) would just gradually take over...

@butterfly123 You don't know for sure that he really got drunk and high. He could have been lying to excuse his kissing, or to seem cool when actually his parents allowed him to have an alcoholic lemonade while on vacation plus he breathed in some secondhand weed smoke. Kids exaggerate. The...

@keety Introduce slowly. When cooking, you might scoop out the kid's portion before adding the spice to the rest (I mean the chili pepper; other spices that don't burn are ok). But you might offer them a little dab/nibble of yours and see if they like it. And then after awhile, you might add a...

@worshipguitar Well, if your kid had no idea what the word stealing meant, then they wouldn’t have felt as traumatised as if they already knew that stealing is A Very Bad Thing or What Bad Guys Do. They would just have been confused but also worried because of the teacher’s tone.

@worshipguitar I would have gone with the middle path, which is to tell the kid that taking things from the classroom is considered as stealing; we don’t do that. The teacher is wrong to scold the child without taking into account that a kid that young would likely not understand this “rule”...

@keepy Seriously? After scrolling to the bottom of the thread and being full of sympathy for you having to wake up at 530 am, it turns out that you could just leave home at 640 am, so wake up at 600 or 615 am? Surely your dad thinks that the current bedtime of 8 pm can’t be shifted later...

@jahncrish https://kellymom.com/nutrition/starting-solids/babyfoodcalories/ You can see from this table that breastmilk and formula generally have more calories per oz than any jarred baby food or prepared oatmeal. Only more solid stuff like banana or avocado are more calorie-dense. And most...

@jahncrish Stop filling his tummy and satiating his thirst with watery soup! He should still be having 4 (or more) bottles of formula a day, 6-8 oz each. So maybe 7 am, 11 am, 3 pm, 8 pm. Then the meals come after or in between these times and are less important than the formula e.g. breakfast...

@chinita1416 To be fair, what your toddler is doing is rote counting (reciting 1 2 3) and not actual counting with one-to-one correspondence, which is a skill that develops in preschool.If you put 7 blocks in front of your toddler, he will likely not be able to count them reliably without your...

@wonderstruck 1) Are you Indian? 2) You will find little understanding from the mostly US-based Reddit community because tests in America work very differently. And they don't grasp that UK exams are much more challenging and with essay questions (not in Physics though) so that getting 90% is...

@partyof9 If you put your kid in a daycare center, you wouldn’t expect to be able to call at any time and get to talk to the teacher in charge of your kid right away either. She’ll call you back when she has a spare moment.

@partyof9 This is the first time you mentioned her being late in returning your baby though.

@kath26 The sound of a crying baby is evolutionarily selected to spur us into action. And to a lot of people, it goes beyond that and is very anxiety-inducing and stressful. That’s okay. Wear ear plugs to take the edge off. Newborn babies don’t do much except require care. Wait another month...

@chicodog If OP didn’t exist, the parents would rent out his room for $800-1000. There’s no easy right answer here. It just sucks to be poor and poorly educated (the parents) in a country (Singapore) that has gone from developing to developed in a short time.

@partyof9 You know not everyone carries their phone with them all over their house, right? Especially if they have no pockets and are occupied taking care of a baby.

@inverno80 The $550 IS his contribution towards the monthly mortgage payment. It’s just that Americans would call that paying rent to your parents, while Singaporeans would call it “allowance”. Basically most of this won’t make a lick of sense to someone who doesn’t live in Singapore. The norm...