Potty training

Is anyone else working on potty training?

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Uhm not really. My little one is only 15 months old 😅 I don't really try potty training until closer to 2 years old.

in may im going to be attempting

Im waiting until he shows me he’s ready. I made the mistake of trying to soon with my daughter and it was no fun.

I’m trying to associate the bathroom with elimination by telling my 15 month old “peepee” and “poopoo”. I also bidet his butt when it’s an explosion. I let him look and flush the toilet since he’s in there anyways lol when I googled potty training it said that kids aren’t ready until they’ve had a dry diaper for 2 hours or more, which isn’t the case for my son yet, but every little thing helps!

No
4th kid and its around 2 to 2.5 for mine.

Nope, but she's already very aware of when she's going and will come to me when she's done. 🤷 Maybe she'll be ready early, but I'm not in a hurry

Yeah I’m attempting. I had my oldest fully potty trained by 2 so I’m hoping I can do the same with my 15 month old 😂

Not yet

I’ve introduced a kids toilet and letting him flush it and I’ve sat him on for a bit but nothing serious

He watches us use the toilet and we explain the steps and why we love potties more than diapers. Make it seem very cool and grown up. Hes practicing his handwashing as well but thats about it. We arent gonna push it and just keep an eye out for cues that hes ready and interested.

in our community

Fuss over nothing?

My son went to a birthday party on Saturday and he was given one of those paper wristbands to wear.
Fast forward to Tuesday and he won't take it off. He's going into preschool today and his friends from the party will be there and I just want to cut it off him. I don't want people to think he hasn't had a bath since Saturday (which he hasn't 🤣 every night his dad has gone to give him a bath and been exhausted so he's been sponging him down and throwing him into bed).
His dad says I am upsetting him for no reason and we should just let him wear it.
I don't know, I just wish he'd had a bath yesterday? It feels wrong sending him into school but he is only 4.

Is this wrong?

My boyfriend and I will fight, if I cry or panic and I go to him because he is still what I consider my safe space at the end of the day. Even though he sucks at comforting me I still give him the benefit of the doubt because of how he grew up. When my boyfriend and I fight if he starts to cry or panic he goes straight to his mom.

He started doing this like 5 minutes ago while arguing and I told him he needs to stop going to his mom and come to me weather we are fighting or not because I am supposed to be his safe space. He kinda just ignored me so I walked away.

Am I wrong? Or is this wrong?

I've had enough.

Has anyone else left their partner after having their first child?

After two years of feeling like a single parent in a marriage (together 8 years, married for 4years.)
I've had enough...

We had a blow up a couple weeks ago where I told him that if things didn't change, I want a divorce.

He has made an effort with somethings, but it doesn't feel like enough. And feels like it's to little to late...

I do all the house work, take care of all the bills minus the mortgage, I take care of the food shopping, childcare arrangements, meals....pretty much all of it as well as working a rotating roster of late and night shifts at work... which I have to drive an hour to get to.

He works 6 days a week.
He has started to do dishes a couple times a week, started to shower a little more often. And had stopped body shaming me... masked as "jokes"...yes, I'm a curvy/heavier set lady... but I'm happy with my body and currently weigh less than I did when I got pregnant.
He used to nag me for sex all the time even though I never wanted it.
I have started to try making the effort to have sex with him more often... but it's difficult when I simply am not interested.

I've come to the realisation that, although I love him as our child's father... I am no longer IN love with him.

I'm scared and sad about it, but I know I have to do something about it....
Please help 🙁🥺

MIL more of a hindrance than a help - what would you do?

My Mother in Law is a lovely woman with such a kind heart and loves her grandchildren so much.

I like her and don’t mind spending time with her (in small doses!).

She is SO loud and has no awareness (can’t read a room) and since having my youngest baby (I have 3 kids) she keeps on assisting on coming over to ‘help’ every Tuesday for the WHOLE day.

But she doesn’t help 🙈 her personality is choatic, she is clumsy and just adds to my stress.
She tries to help bless her but ends up making a mess, it is impossible to get my baby to sleep because she is so loud and doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal when she wakes the baby.

I have tried in subtle ways to put a stop to it but because I know her intentions are good, I don’t want to offend her.

What would you do?

Curious! SAHM, how much does hubby bring in?

Cause i wanna be sahm but idk if my husbands income is enough

Meal ideas for 9 month old!

Anyone got any good meal ideas they’re doing for their little ones?

I feel like me and my partner tend to have the same meals a lot, mostly pasta dishes and occasionally chicken and mince meat for spaghetti bolognaise.

Little one has lots of different pasta dishes usually like broccoli pasta bake, spinach and pea pasta etc but trying to find other stuff