Introduce yourself new members

I'm sure at some point in time I have talked to some of you via chat. However, for those of us who do not know each other let's all take a moment and introduce ourselves and say something about our kids. Let's make this fun and tell everyone what you love about summer and what you look forward to most.

I'm Hannah I'm 31 and I love being tan and wearing less clothes, short and tanks and sandles (no huge winter coats). I love going on walks with the dog and playing with my boys (age 3 and 6). They are typical boys who love monster trucks, legos, tv, playing outside and being wild.

Hope we can all learn something new about each other and hopefully make a friend or two.

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Mother-in-law trauma

So mother-in-law is coming to stay for the weekend after multiple years I get her reasons for wanting to spend time with her grandson, but we also moved away for a reason when I first had my son. She walked around a whole baseball game claiming it was her kid one time she told me she would stab me and my fiancé and our kid without us. Said that I was just such a selfish person for madding the decision to move to a state that is only an hour away after coming back from a state 14 hours away when her son decided it and then proceeds to tell me I can’t call her son baby who I’ve been married to for seven years…. Now she’s staying for the weekend after years of not seeing her. I don’t know how to react. I don’t want to fake and be happy while she oversteps her boundaries with my son. I also don’t wanna fight. And don’t wanna talk to her. What if she gets offended if I don’t wanna talk to her. What would you do?

Anyone else want dirt?

I am eating a lot of potatoes right now because I want dirt but there's no way I am gonna eat dirt. Raw potatoes 🤤🤤 they're so good

Potty training tips PUH-LEASEE

I'm starting potty training with my toddler since she was showing multiple signs of being ready. She was doing great until it actually came time to SIT on her potty. We've been at it a few weeks loosely cus I don't want to stress her and her have a regression but OH MY GOSHHHH. I've tried the sticker reward thing and sis just accepted she wasn't getting any more stickers I guess. 🥴😅 I've tried trying to make a game of it, she wasn't trying to play apparently. 🤣 im not sure what else to try yall. PLEASE gimme ideas on how to make her sit on her dang potty 🤣

Is this man neurodivergence or just has bad hygiene and lazy and disrespectful and disgusting !!?

Can someone help me understand this? I genuinely don’t know whether my partner is neurodivergent, has some kind of compulsive behaviour, or is just being unhygienic/lazy/nasty.

Some of the things he does:

He has a towel that he uses only for his bum.

He uses wipes when he poos, then uses the towel to “dry the wetness” before putting talcum powder there.

He has nailed hooks/nails into our living room walls to hang his work clothes because he doesn’t want to fold them. He says they need to “air out” and doesn’t want to hang them anywhere else.

He urinates in bottles next to our bed and will apparently keep using the same bottle until it’s full.

He spits into clothes that are sitting in the dirty laundry basket.

If he washes his hands in the kitchen sink, he has to remove every single plate, spoon, etc. first because he feels like the “dirt from his hands is running into the plates and forks, and they’re already dirty.”

His showers take around 25 minutes and he has to soap himself up THREE times because otherwise, in his words, “he won’t feel clean.”

If he sees a fly, he cannot relax until it’s either dead or out of the house. He’ll run around trying to get it, jump around, throw things and even throw shoes at the ceiling. There are literally shoe marks/footprints on the ceiling/walls from this.

Last night I left some milk out because it was already bad and I intended to throw it away. He woke up 6–7 hours later and put it back in the fridge because he said he didn’t know whether I was throwing it away and “it wasn’t that hot last night.”

He’ll wipe his bum and then go around touching drawers and cupboards without washing his hands. When I point it out, he says, “Only one hand is dirty,” despite using both hands to fold the wipes/tissues while cleaning himself.

And just to clarify, this is a 26-year-old man.
I’m not trying to diagnose him, but I’m genuinely struggling to understand what is going on here. Some of these behaviours seem like they could be compulsive or related to sensory issues/neurodivergence, while others just seem like basic hygiene and cleanliness that he should know better about.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any insight into what could explain this kind of behaviour?

Two year old activities

I have a two year old boy that’s not speaking and now a four month old as well any activities that would keep him entertained or toys that will as it’s not easy trying to juggle both, and leaving the house is still really daunting and feel like he’s really bored, any ideas?

Baby eating purées

My son will be 5 months old on the 22 and at his 4 month check up his pediatrician cleared him for purées and he has been actually eating it since the second go at it. He is still drinking his bottles but will also eat 2oz of purées sometime even more when I mix formula and rice milk into it. Is anyone else’s baby doing this? Am I over feeding him? He is still showing signs of being hungry but I’ve read I’m not supposed to give him more than 2tbsp a day?