Ms. Rachel is not good for toddlers!!

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Totally agreed. Toddlers should be learning these things with real humans. Not through screens.

Disagree - she has helped both me and my son a lot when it comes to speech development. He doesn’t watch it all the time of course but it gives us lots of activities and games and things that have helped his speech come a long way.

Disagree. I think ms Rachel is a good tool to have for babies and toddlers. It encourages speech and overall communication. I think what goes wrong is tired parents use screen time to replace one on one attention their kids need.

We don’t watch her videos on purpose and will generally purposefully skip them but I don’t mind something of hers coming on randomly from time to time. I prefer to watch her myself and try to use her techniques.

To supplement whatever we’re working on we watch Miss Monica for multi-subject learning and Ms. Zoey for speech.

Agree, babies and toddlers should not be watching tv full stop !

I don't watch Ms Rachel but, some of the toys that she's brought out seem to be really helpful & educational. I bought the potty training bear for my youngest. Its just a shame that it wasn't out when I had my eldest as I think that it would've been helpful for her, as its got the picture cards.

In regards to TV time, my eldest has had it since she was a baby but, with my youngest I'm doing things differently & waiting until she's 2. We'll probably start with Bluey but, won't likely watch Ms Rachel.

As far as shows go, I think ms Rachel is one of the best. And she seems to be a very good person too so we live supporting her

I personally don’t like her voice so along with peppa pig she’s banned in my house

Also with it being American there are some pronunciation problems that I don’t want my son picking up on

How she repeats words multiple times & says them super slow is annoying. My toddler has mimicked that & uses it for everything it seems! Even putting things in, she’ll go “put it in put it in put it INNNN” instead of just doing it without saying it first. & will even randomly start talking about herbie the puppet like omgoodness

Regret ever putting Ms. Rachel on

We watch 10-15 mins of it. However my daughter is going through chemo so we will be doing whatever is necessary to keep her calm and relaxed. I was anti tv but a few mins here n there and she’s actually learning so I will take it

She’s not a real teacher, at least not when she started filming the content. Her husband was a musical director in Broadway for a Disney adaptation & she was a MUSIC teacher- not a real academic teacher as they falsely claimed. She’s working on her Early Childhood Education master’s degree UNTIL NOW, but I repeat, at the time she was not qualified to teach young children. I’m a former preschool teacher, so I understand. My baby has watched her stuff but is not really interested. My baby’s vocabulary is very advanced from watching Baby Einstein, Baby First (even tho their programming changed this year so we stopped watching), and Vooks. My husband plays Super Simple Songs on YouTube for her but I do not approve of it- to me it’s not truly educational. I’m actively trying to reduce her screen time out of mom guilt.

By the time she got popular my kids were too old for her. But I absolutely can't stand her voice when she pops up in my reels. And I don't like her style of teaching either

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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.

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

Jealous of my husband

I’m so jealous of him and it’s making me resentful. We have a ten week old and I’m jealous that he is at work all day. I’m jealous he can leave for lunch and actually eat an uninterrupted lunch. Take a phone call uninterrupted. Chat with a friend he runs in to uninterrupted. Even go to the bathroom when he wants uninterrupted. He comes home from work when he wants. He’s not on a set schedule. Some days are late some are early. It depends on when he’s done. I’m jealous he can come home at 10pm and shower, eat and go right to bed uninterrupted because I already have the baby asleep. He doesn’t have to worry about anything house wise or baby wise because I’ve done it all. Meanwhile I’m covered in puke and crap and smell like rotten milk. When he is home he is VERY active and helpful. So it’s not that. I’m just jealous his world hasn’t changed and mine has I guess. This isn’t something he’s doing wrong so I’m not sure how to get past this. I wish I could keep him home all day because that’s how helpful he is, but I understand he obv needs to work.