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Preschool potty training time

My little one will be 3 in May and I have enrolled her to start preschool in August. They have a hard rule to be potty trained and independent by school. Is this possible? My girl will go occasionally on the toilet when I ask her. And we cheer and reward for doing it. But it’s like she knows it’s a “grown up” thing to do and she wants to stay a “baby”. I know she will love preschool so she can play with other kids and make new friends, so I would hate to see her not ready by then. Has anyone gone through that stage where your baby wants to just stay baby? Not sure how to phrase that.

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I went through the same thing. From experience you’ll have to go absolutely cold turkey with diapers and pulls ups if you want her to get there. Pulls up for bedtime is okay but form wake up to bedtime only undies or naked at home. And sit her on the toliet every 30 minutes. You can buy a series of prizes that she can earn. 5 stickers for going potty gets a tiny prize. 10 gets a bigger one etc etc. and line the prizes up where she can see when going potty for motivation. Make sure to bring a little potty in the car when going out and sit her on a public toilet first thing when you get to stores. It’s hard but doable.

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We potty train at our daycare/preschool. We have one kiddo in early preschool who is basically potty trained at this point and about to head of to the regular preschool room. The majority of our regular preschool room is potty trained. Some still do pull ups at nap. Almost everyone still had an accident here or there. Some more than others (the amount of malicious accidents we get is obnoxious. And by that I just mean on purpose. Either to stay awake and keep getting up from nap or more recently to change clothes for specific character underwear) we start standing changes in the toddler room and really only do a change on the changing table if it’s poopy. And we start having kids sit on the potty usually around 2. Often when they can start telling us they have a soiled diaper.

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Is it bad of me to think this or no?

My husband has been abroad for work (1 day and exploring for 1 day) for 2 and a half days which means I’ve had both kids (1 year and 4 year old) for 2 and a half days plus cooking, cleaning, taking them to clubs, bedtimes!
He came home late afternoon and said I’m so tired, I just need to chill. I said can you wash up whilst I sort kids dinner out, he said he’ll do it later which means he won’t do it and I’ll end up doing it so I said no do it now please otherwise I’ll end up doing it and he said well you have been home and I’ve been away so you’ve just been relaxing.
Don’t know what planet he is on but having the kids alone for 2.5 days is not relaxing. I was stressed!

When he was away, I did miss him and wanted him to come back but now he’s back, I want him to go away again😂
Is that bad?

Post partum dad

I have a 2 month old. A few weeks ago my husband crashed out because he didn't feel like he was getting to bond with her. I started exclusively breastfeeding around that time and honestly didnt see the big deal. Baby and I left for a few days and when we got back home, everything was fine. He was extremely hands-on. He helped with my meals, her bedtime, bath, stories.....for a few weeks it was great. Then he randomly sounds depressed af. He says our lo is better off without him, he wants to sleep all day , he asks me not to watch tv then tried playing a video game. He refused to reply to me when i asked any follow-up questions. Then he woke up our baby trying to race me to the bathroom first thing in the morning . He's doing a weird mix of crying, trying, and giving up. Im starting to feel like I cant handle him not being able to handle life with baby and just want to be alone. Are there resources for men?

Feeding

My son is coming up to five months and I just started giving him oatmeal and rice cereal. When can you start trying veggies or fruits? I only give him the oatmeal or rice cereal once a day right now which is what the paediatrician had said to do. I’m just curious to when anybody tried anything else with their kids cause my son eats a lot of formula and he’s VERY curious when I eat.

Really bothered by this

A friend posted this and it really bothers me because that is exactly how she parents her kid, and it's rather unfortunate because when our kids hang out together, her kid has a meltdown at least 5x within an hour. We have know them for years and it's only gotten worse. My kids will concede to hers, because they don't want to see their friend crying, but it sucks because they give up so much of their toys and enjoyment to keep the peace. We aren't hanging out as much anymore but it's rather sad to think she doesn't intervene more in her child tantrums and just let's it slide

My 2 year old won’t eat nothing but snacks

Is this normal ? He won’t even try anything I eat .. he really only like pizza fries and spaghetti… nuggets and snacks bananas some other fruit but like anything else he won’t eat if try but I don’t want to force him I’m just I feel like bad I mean he isn’t losing weight I breastfeed mostly still

Is this normal

Let’s say you’re at a softplay with your 2 year old, and some friends & their toddlers.
You buy your 2 year old a kids meal - chicken nuggets, beans, and chips. They’re very happy with it and have almost eaten it all.
They’re sat at the table, fork in hand, consistently eating, and have one chicken nugget left.
Your adult friend comes over from behind you, picks up the last chicken nugget, and eats it.
There was no indication that your child wasn’t going to eat it, and they didn’t ask. They just took it with no warning and ate it right in front of you and your toddler.
How you reacting?