Potty training ?

Have you started potty training yet? How is that going for you and if you have multiple children was it easier to potty train your boys or girls?! How did you know they were ready and did you use the potty stepstool thing on the real toilet or like the baby/ toddler floor potties ?

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We haven’t *really* started potty training the April 2024 baby yet. He’s shown some interest in the potty and we switched him to pull ups a little while ago so that we could maybe sorta start transitioning him, but (A) we have another baby arriving in a couple days, so potty training while heavily pregnant and then worrying about a regression afterwards felt like too much for me to mange personally. I already went through this (trying to potty train while pregnant) once before with his older sister and it did not work out very well, so I didn’t want to bother attempting it again this time. And (B) he’s very small for age, so when he sits on the potty currently, his feet don’t touch the floor and he sinks into the potty, and I don’t have the mental bandwidth to find a solution for that at the moment.

So I plan to wait a few more months, once we’re a little more settled with the new baby before I attempt potty training.

I just keep the potty in the living room/ play area. She usually shows interest in it if she’s naked 😂 but she doesn’t tell me before she has to go and has recently gone back to peeing in the floor instead. I give her a small piece of candy when she pees on the potty

We started when she started walking. She uses it most of the time. She's still in pull-ups and has an occasional accident. I think she'll be ready for underwear by 2.5. The Ms. Rachel potty video is incredible!

My boy has been taking his diaper off and going around the house I got him a potty we are going to transfer to pull ups when we are out of these diapers but I’m at a lost on how to do it I’m going to ask my older cousin lol

my daughter is beginning interest in the toilet, we got her a seat for the potty months ago before interest but now shes talking about the potty seat when we go in and wanting to flush the toilet. im gunna start potty training monday so we can be consistently home during the process.

im gunna try a scheduled method, bringing her to the toilet every 20-30 minutes. i’ll transition to either underwear or pull ups depending on how it goes.

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Is my child delayed ?

Recently had parent evening for my child (4 in June) and the teacher said she is not where she should be she does not know her shapes, letters or numbers.

My child is able to show me where shapes are on a poster for example if I said find the rhombus she would find it however if I i said name it she couldn’t,

On a number line if I said “find number 4 she would find it” but she is not able to count to 4 correctly but she could show on her hands 80% of the time.

She can recognise letters around 15 correctly but will not say the alphabet.

The teacher also mentioned she doesn’t hold a pen correctly but I have seen her hold a pen with pincer grip and use them in both hands correctly.

I’ll post an image of what educational based supplies we have in the Comments please tell me if we can add anything 🙂

Just venting about an ignorant irresponsible husband!

I don’t know if it’s just me or if all husbands are like this, because my husband claims that all men are like him!

He doesn’t want to help with house chores, doesn’t do what’s asked of him, and only helps with the baby on his own terms and free time. Yet, whenever I get upset about something he does, he blames me for not asking for help. Honestly, I don’t even know if I want to ask for help anymore — it feels like such a mental load just to ask!

Usually, he’ll say things like, “Oh, I was about to iron my clothes,” or “I was about to eat,” or “I was about to sleep, I have an early day tomorrow.” You see where this goes…

Even when he does agree to help, he does things in a way that makes me want to just say, “Never mind, I’ll do it myself.” For example, if I ask him to sauté some veggies, he says, “Oh, we should try raw veggies sometime.” Or if I ask him to pass a fork, he says, “You should eat with your hands.”

At this point, I don’t even know if things will ever improve. Part of me feels like I might end up leaving, but I don’t want to take any extreme step right now because it would impact my baby.

Advice?

I don’t feel like a good mom. I’m a mom but I don’t feel as present as I need to be. I have an addiction to my phone ever since my son passed. Growing up it’s how I distracted myself and it’s just gotten worse. I use to be on my phone every now and then before but now it’s constant almost. I still play with my toddler but I get bored easily and I don’t look forward to doing stuff. I’m a couch potato who scrolls. I hate it. I recognize it and I hate it. I don’t go out anymore unless needed besides outback. I don’t bake desserts anymore. I feel lazy. Yes I have a therapist but I never say what I need to when I’m there and I have to bring my toddler so it just doesn’t work out how I imagine.

I’m trying to be the best mom I can be but I struggle. I struggle so hard and at this point I am disappointed in myself because I imagined so much for our life and I can’t even be the mom I need to be. Even my mom who lived in the living room and didn’t play with us at least was a present mom. I checked out. I hate it.

8 Month food

Has anyone else baby refused taking formula?? My 8 month old has been refusing to take her milk for the past couple of weeks but will eat everything else and will even breastfed. HELPPPO

Emotional cheating?

So my husband had a longtime friend that he had said he was in love with at a time before we met, but she played around with him as a jerk and he ended their friendship right before we met. This was a year and a half ago. He had blocked her on everything but still had her number, though they were never in contact with each other. He told me she was in the past and didn’t have those feelings anymore. Well I just saw on his phone, about a month ago, he had sent her a random text of “asdf” as if he was checking to see if the messages still delivered. How should I feel about this?

What would you do?

I live with my parents and I have two kids (3 &1) my parents constantly complain about me. Talk shit to and about me saying that I could do more. My dad told me I was horrible and shitty mom for wanting to go to the navy and actually do something better for myself and my kids. Then my parents agreed to watch my kids when I go to boot camp and then the times coming up and they’re saying they don’t want to raise any kids anymore it’s too early things are moving too fast. But when I was home doing nothing smoking weed with them constantly needing their help it was never a problem but now that I’m trying to do better for myself I’m the problem. It hurts but I’m just at the point where I am willing to leave and go to the navy and not look back for months or years when it comes to my relationship with them. Am I being sensitive? There’s also a lot more that I didn’t add but just know I do financial help and give food stamps as well and whatever I do still is not good enough.