December 2020 Babies 🇺🇸

Sometimes in the middle of the night my daughter starts to cry very loudly. She'll ask me for help but doesn't me what she needs help with.

When I try to ask for clarity she just screams and cries even more. Usually she has to pee but when I ask and try to help, it makes the crying even worse.

My 4 year son was outside at daycare. He was walking and then he just randomly fainted. We took him to the hospital . Very high fever and all his vitals were really high. He has a concussion. They said possible febrile seizure. He has had them before . But only when hes sick. He's not sick. No idea what caused the fever. Should I call his primary today.

Where are we getting clothes from now. My son is in 4t/5t and xs shirts. I swear I’ve looked everywhere and maybe I’m just picky but I hate everything. It’s always dinosaurs, trucks, or just cartoon characters. And while I’m okay with some of them I don’t want that to be his whole wardrobe. I have another little guy on the way so we will also be doing a lot of hand me downs so I’m trying to make it where when he’s in those sizes the clothes still look nice and work lol.

My 4.5 year old started shitting his pants lately... almost every day. He says i forgot (to go, to tell you, etc). We have had some life changes. A baby sister, 5 months old. He loves her but he's extremely rough, fast and loud in his approach with her. We trained him to sleep in his own bed 9 months ago, before baby came, and now hes back in our room. Mom and dad fight sometimes (stress, hormones, division of labor, messy home, exhustion) and sometimes it gets heated. He's also become very defiant and sometimes flat out disrespectful. He does the opposite of what I ask, he treats his sister roughly, talking back, disregarding house rules, etc). Ive resorted at times to corporal punishment. I've started using a rewards chart for when he sleeps in his bed all night of helps mom in extraordinary ways. But more often, I have to take away stars/ hotwheels cars, while my husband still rewards him informally (ice cream, dunkin donuts, stay up late, sleep with him in spare bed, etc) Im not sure about the WHY, but i need help to know how to make it stop. Ive tried having a friend over to take care of baby while I spend 1:1 time with him. Its temporarily better. Mom and dad apologize at "family meetings" and try to reassure him that we love each other. I keep a change of clothes in the car for accidents. We remind him his a big boy and can't have accidents anymore. He apologizes and does it again. Im afraid that we might be shaming him because we talk about it openly and directly. Any explanations or tips? Thanks

So my son’s birthday party is tomorrow. I’m a stay at home mom in the day, working in the evenings.

I legit took my kids to school, went straight to Costco with my toddler, dollar store, took a check to my landlord, just running some insane errands, and by the time I did all that… I had to pick my kids up from two different schools. Came home to make dinner and went straight to work. When I got out of work, I was obviously exhausted. My house is not messy but it did need some light cleaning and here I am cleaning the heck out of every room before the party tomorrow. My husband looks around and says “what do you need help with?” But he said it with a tone like he hoped I didn’t tell him anything. I answered “look around, it’s your house too.. we need the help” he said “oh thanks for the smart remark” and I’m like “sorry but it’s not that hard, do what you can pls”

ANYWAYS, he cleaned the dishes, left lots of food particles in the sink & went straight to play ps5.

I’m legit sitting here at 1am thinking whether I should do the goodie bags or fold the clean laundry on my couch and honestly I’m so exhausted idk what to do.

It pisses me off because he legit said yesterday that we had some light cleaning to do, making empty promises. I think what irks me more is that he’s cracking up at some reels on Instagram while I’m legit sweating from cleaning. I told him “ must be nice to be on your phone” he left to the room to sleep. Boy byeeee.

Like part of me is like “be nice, he asked you what you needed help with” but the other part of me is like “dude just act” LOL