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    My kid wakes up every day at 4am and I’m drowning

    @diadiemnhaban2023 For a while my son would have a yogurt pouch before bed. (After PJs but before he brushed his teeth.)
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    Redshirting in preschool

    @tgia413 Exactly. I would be in support of some sort of rule limited redshirting to kids who were born a few weeks within the deadline and had some sort of note from their doctor or teacher in support of holding them back.
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    Redshirting in preschool

    @tgia413 I agree that this seems absurd. I remember when my brother was a kid my mom was trying to figure out what to do (he was born Sept 17th and the cut off was the end of Sept.) in the end he went to school and was the youngest. He did well academically and socially. Moms I know now are...
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    I feel like a failure as a parent for not being ready for second kid

    @kimbob5688 There is nothing wrong with 1. My son is an ideal/east kid and I still don’t want another, even if I could guarantee that they would also be a healthy happy toddler. Two toddlers is just not what I want.
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    Reasons for having another child?

    @hktm16 Legitimate reasons: My husband- “it feels like someone is missing from our family.” Me- “ I have always imagined our family as a family of four and finally feel that I am in a good place (career, financial, health, mental state, time) to have a second child.”
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    Sudden change of heart

    @katharina800 I am 8 years older than my brother. We have a good relationship (not negative) but very different than my relationship with my sister (two year gap). My sister and I played together, most of my memories of my brother’s childhood are of me driving him places as a teenager.
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    A matter of when not if…

    @leah_talbot We are thinking a 4 year gap. It’s much easier financially (since we have to pay for care from infant to kindergarten) and 3 is the first age that has seemed “easy”. I’m hoping that by 4-5 my son will be more mature and adapt to a sibling without jealousy. Many parents I know have a...
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