Most annoying things about kids books 📚

1 - the incessant rhyming
2 - nonsensical / incoherent storylines
3 - words that have no business being in a book for that age group (& that you're too tired to explain)
4 - weird grammar / sentence structures that make it hard to read

Anything else?!

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Oh my god, I thought I was delirious tonight reading my girls book. It had too many big words that didn’t fit in the book to begin with!! 🤣

We have “on the farm” by axel sheffler and it just doesn’t read well to me. I feel like I’m talking like a robot!! I was a nursery assistant for 12 years and I HATE that book!! But my two year old loves it 😩

Also- there’s a book I read a while ago - I can’t remember what it’s called - but one character called another character ‘stupid’. I refused to say it. I just think it’s so nasty!
Another variation of the vocab option. I don’t have the time for nasty words especially in children’s books.

I’ll be honest with you - I think axel sheffler needs to stay as an illustrator and not a writer. I’m not a fan of his works. I don’t find the rhymes or stories any fun. We have several of his books.

absolutely agree. My daughter loves the farm and we found it in a charity shop so I thought “great!”. Biiiig regret 🤣

😂😂😂 my son never took to that one- think I dodged a bullet!!

lol I love the incessant rhyming and big words and nonsensical storylines. I hate the Children’s books by jimmy fallon tho. The worst.

As a huge Dr. Seuss fan I love rhyming and nonsensical words lol.
I do hate when the story is too wordy and long, my children find the story boring.

The rhyming is good for their language development!

lol some of this is very intentional and important for kids’ books! Rhyming and vocabulary especially.

If the storyline is incoherent then that’s just not a great book, obviously. But there are soooo many amazing children’s books! I can’t think of any with weird structure I’ve found hard to read.

Rhyming is really good for speech development, so I’m all for it!

My son loves non fiction lift the flap books. There's just way too much info in them and they send me to sleep reading them. I love rhyming story books as these are the most enjoyable for me to read. I like reading Julia Donaldson books but it's annoying that the rhymes don't work in my (non posh) accent and so I have to change my accent or the words to make it work 😅

I find the Bluey books really hard to follow. They seem to be written exactly like the cartoon & the story just doesn't flow. The characters doing pretend play is hard to follow when written on paper in a story book.

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I've finally done it

I have finally done it. I have finally become the trope, the stereotype.

I have become bitter, resentful, and very overwhelmed and overloaded. I am very unhappy and hit burnout. And I snapped at my husband last night. I work full-time, and work has been very busy so im working late a lot. Im also in grad school. I also have a toddler that has become VERY clingy with me. My husband works shorter days but commutes, so he usually gets home after me by an hour or more. When he gets home, he usually heads to the restroom for at least 30 mins when he gets home. And now my toddler doesnt want anything to do with him. So im doing all the toddler duties until bed. I dont get 5 mins to myself. Not for almost 2 years. I finally hit my wall. I have also, somehow, become my MILs medical ride service and she somehow has an appt every week, it seems?! Shes not sick!! My husband was complaining that he needs to change routine to fit in a workout sometimes, and I lost it. I have been BEGGING for 5 mins to myself for months. I have been telling him how im not good, im going to burn out for months. And between his attitude and him complaining (which really got me b/c he blames me for not being able to work out?! Saying I need help when he gets home so he just cant workout now) I just lost it completely. I told him how unfair my life has become and I have the entire mental and emotional load and it is just not fair. He got mad at me and said "hes trying" when hes literally not trying at all. What do I do?? No one is taking the load from me! And im done and dont know what to do now.
I do not like this version of me.

Is this clever or cruel?

My husband and i were talking and with social media and the internet in general being a terrifying dumpster fire, we are trying to figure out the best way to keep our son safe while still teaching him how to safely be online and moderation.

We landed on the idea of giving him the 90's kid treatment. A computer in the living room for us to keep an eye on what hes doing online, and once we feel hes mature enough to hang with friends without adult supervision he gets a flip phone. When we feel he is responsible enough and he earns and saves up the money for the physical phone, case, and screen cover, then we will be happy to take him to get a smart phone.

I thought this was air tight, but now my brother says its cruel to give a kid a flip phone, and besides he can just use his friends phones at school.

My husband and i remember a time before the internet, and we remember having complete access to something no one understood yet. We saw unspeakable things and are always battling with the urge to put the phone and social media down. I dont want that for my son, especially with his brain so vulnerable still.

AITA?

This isn't a major issue, just wondering if I'm being a bit of an asshole.

• I do shift work, 5 out of 7 days, full-time.
• My partner works from home (mostly, sometimes he goes into the office) M-F, full-time.

Anyway, whenever I have a day off during the week he gets in his feelings when I make myself food (breakfast and lunch) but not him. His reason is he's working, I'm not - Which is fair but I've asked him how many times on a weekend has he gotten up, on his day off and made me breakfast and a lunch to take with me to work? You guessed it, 0.

So basically, just because I'm at home I don't think the responsibility to feed him should automatically fall on me when he manages to feed himself just fine while I'm at work.

If your partners parent passes away

And you and that parent didn't get along are you still go to the funeral?

Not my situation!

Partner no longer wants baby #2

Before our son was born we originally both wanted minimum 2 kids but we were hoping for 3-4. My partner found the birth traumatic to watch and also struggled a lot with the newborn/baby stage. He no longer wants to have any more children and it’s completely breaking my heart. I need another baby. We’ve spoken about it a lot and the options. He said he wasn’t COMPLETELY closed off to it so I asked him to try and work through his feelings and reconsider his decision. He eventually said he definitely doesn’t want another. I know that I will always want one and my feelings will never change. Do we have to break up or does anyone know anything else I can do to help change his mind? Has anyone else’s partner said this and then changed their mind? I don’t want to break up because I adore him and our life together and I’d hate to split up our family for “selfish” reasons and make my son miss out on having both of us together but I just don’t know what to do

Nursery funding

My child turned 9 months last week. I applied for government funded hours nearly 2 months ago and so well within the required timeframe for the April term, however upon receiving my first invoice without the funding applied and having questioned this, I have now been informed that the stretched funding doesn’t start until 4th May.

Has anyone else been told it won’t start until May?

The government site states it should start from April 1st, and so I intentionally set my nursery start and return to work as the start of April for that reason, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to afford the nursery on my sole income without the funding