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@jdn2604 I faced a similar dilemma. My oldest is the oldest of all the cousins and it seemed unfair that we always bought for her but handed down for the others. Here’s what worked for us. Every single child gets to “shop” from hand me downs. This means that every 6 months we put all the hand...

@dp797 Kids shower with me!! Absolute game changer. Older kids get some tablet time and my three kids under 5 come to the bathroom with me. I got an extender shower head thing and I have it shower straight down on me. That way 2yo and 4yo sit on the floor without water in their face. Hubby...

@luke We felt the same! A couple of our adult children are in quarantine with us because of various circumstances so even two weeks of grocery shopping looks like we’re preparing for the apocalypse! I promise it really does take this much food to feed 3 20-something boys but people throw us so...

@ajewelinhiscrown That is exactly as I would have done. Most situations I try to allow the kids to face the natural consequences, but the natural consequence here is for them to get run over by a car. Mine have gone through this phase too. Our solution was that they must hold my hand from the...

@1011 We have found that it isn’t so much an issue of being unfair (we are the parent, they can whine all the want about it being unfair, different ages warrant different bedtimes) but when they share a room it’s very likely the older one will wake up the younger one when he goes to bed, or he...