October 2021 Babies 🇬🇧

I am struggling! A lot!

His behaviour these days is awful. Hitting people during his first week at school, yesterday was being boisterous towards others at this swimming lesson, couldn’t even take him to the coop without him kicking random things in there and us making a scene.

I’ve tried being firm (yesterday was practically me shouting all day) but it doesn’t achieve anything.

He’s just made sure that my 18 month old can’t get back to sleep so now I’ve got them both awake from 5am and all I want to do is go back to bed because I’m anticipating another horrible day.

I don’t know how to move forward like this. Has anyone managed to get the behaviour to improve? I’m at the point where I don’t want to be around him at all. I just want to have a good cry and go to sleep but I can’t because he won’t let me have any time to myself.

My little boy wants a Gabbys Dollhouse themed birthday party. And I’m fine with that. We had already decided we’re sticking to a family party and not inviting school friends as I don’t think we’ll know who his friends are before his birthday. But today when he told my mum that was the theme I got the ‘but he’s a boy’ comment (luckily he wasn’t listening) He has so many different interests but Gabby is his current favourite. I get that a lot of the promo and colours used in the show are pink/purple but I don’t see why the show is deemed as being for girls. Even looking on Vinted a few things I’ve seen have been labelled as ‘girls’ but I don’t understand why. Maybe I’m just being sensitive 🤷🏻‍♀️

With our children turning 5 early into the school year how are you managing birthday party invites? Will you be inviting the whole class or just the few they make friends with in the first couple of weeks? My son already wants to invite some friends from his preschool who he won’t be at school with and if we invite the whole class that could potentially be a lot of children.

October ‘21 mums, how are we all feeling about our babies starting school in the next week or two? I feel heartbroken, I’m going to miss my lo so much 😭. He’s so ready though!

My October 21 baby is my eldest and he is pretty sensible for his age. I also have an almost 18 month old who seems to be going through some sort of regression and so the nights are exhausting. I then look after them all day on my own and my husband doesn’t get home until 6:30pm.

So this morning when my littlest was still asleep at 6:30 but my eldest woke up I let him go downstairs and watch some tv. I’m now feeling really guilty because the little one ended up sleeping in til 7 and I fell back asleep so he’s been on his own watching tv for 30 mins.

He was fine but I’m wondering if this is something I should be letting him do. It probably won’t be an option once he starts school anyway so I guess it could only happen for the next few weeks and in the holidays. And it’s not likely the little one will sleep on often anyway. But should I be getting up with my eldest or prioritising getting some extra sleep?