Part time work and nursery schedules

Which schedule do you think works best for the child when working part-time — consecutive days (e.g., Mon–Wed, with Thurs–Sun at home) or alternating days to have time at home throughout the week?

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I think you should try and do what works best for you. Kids will adapt either way. We have both types at my daughter’s daycare and they are all thriving and love coming to play all day with their little friends

Whatever works for you.... My boy goes Mondays and Wednesdays and then spends thursdays and Fridays with my mum so he gets me after nursery/work, Tuesday all day and the weekends all day

it doesn’t matter to much! i’m a nursery worker and a mum to two boys. i’m going back to work beginning of november starting in a new nursery for both myself and my 5 month old. in my head, i felt like doing tuesday, wednesday, thursday so it’s done, but the nursery put me on monday, thursday, friday due to the nurseries needs and fitting my son in with me, and im actually quite happy about that as i know from past experience how exhausting it is going back to work after maternity leave, so it means i work a day, get a two day break, work two days and get another two day break, which may make it easier on me and my body xxx

I think baby’s don’t understand alternate days, they don’t know in two days is daycare day…

I had to do Monday Tuesday Thursday which I wasn’t sure about but liked that 1 day break and then you’ve got the long weekend…if I had to do mon-wed or every other day I’d defo pick the mon-wed cause it gets it out the way!

My body finds it easier to do consecutive days in nursery, it’ll all depend on the child though I think. He settles more when it’s 3 days at a time, helps his routine and feeling comfortable there. He found it difficult starting at first but this has helped

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Ughhh

I am so overwhelmed!! My baby isn’t sleeping and I’ve got a raging headache and all this legal stuff is making me feel irritated and I just want to cry.
I absolutely hate the idea of letting him just cry while I take 5 seconds

I really hate to come out here and tell my business about what’s going on with my life in my kids, but I had no choice

I just came back from a parent teachers conference meeting and they telling me that my second daughter, who just turned eight about a week ago that she barely know how to read and she has speech problems… I already feel like shit because it’s not that I’m doing my job. It’s because I worked a lot, and and every time, me and my first oldest daughter, trying to teach you how to read, she gets insecure and thinking that we making fun of her, but we’re not!! I felt like a shitty mother I don’t know what to do.

First Day/Night Out without Baby

So I’m due to go on a hen party next weekend just for the afternoon/night and I’m soo nervous to leave baby girl. She will be with her dad (my husband) and I know he’s more than capable but I’m so nervous to leave her. He struggles sometimes with bed time as baby girl really likes to fight her sleep so I end up doing bedtime 9 times out of 10. And I’m worried he will just let her “cry it out” for a while before he goes to pick her up and settle her. I really want to go out and have a good time. But I’m just nervous about going out anyway in general because I’m still not 100% loving my new mum body. But mostly I’m nervous about leaving baby as it will be the longest we’ve been apart 🙈

Nursery

What's people's thoughts on nursery? Is it better to choose somewhere closer to where you live or better to choose somewhere in the middle for different people that may be picking baby up? We've just started looking and just don't know which is better

My mil is the reason I see my husband as less of a man

LA little back story, my mil got a new bf last year and a month into dating they insisted he be called grandpa. Fast forward to a few months ago mother-in-law and her boyfriend‘s behavior has turned nasty after father-in-law has come back into the picture. After mother-in-law and her boyfriend’s behavior at family events, such as my son’s baptism, my Christmas party and my father’s Christmas party, I told my husband to tell his mom that her boyfriend is no longer to be called Grandpa. fast-forward three months and he still hasn’t told her because he doesn’t want to upset her feelings. Now her bf wants to bring his son over to my house to meet my kids or his “grandkids” and they didn’t ask my opinion. I told my husband how I feel about it and he’s not telling her no because he doesn’t want to upset her. I’m starting to see my husband as less of a man because of his mom and putter her above me.

Am I over reacting? What should I do?

Correcting eating with hands?

My 1yo eats with utensils perfectly fine, my 3yo is capable of doing it too but doesn't like to and prefers to use her hands. I don't know how to correct this at home without it sounding lowkey like nonsense. We have finger foods, other cultures eat "messy" foods with their hands, we teach to eat until your tummy feels comfortable so idk how to explain that even tho eating with her hands is the most comfortable that she isn't supposed to?? Because even as an adult I don't see a problem with it unless it'd be disrespectful to the chef/host 😅 Do I just say we need to practice at home just in case a future chef/host would be offended by it? 😭