Nursery screentime

My 2.5 year old goes to a Grandir group nursery. This is a new setting since Jan as we moved areas. He came home onw day obsessed with the wiggle song by danny go and new all the moves. I assumed they taught this at nursery and then i find out they showed the YouTube video and do this for dancing. I assumed nurseries are screen free and i would expect a nursery setting to be. I’m not against screens at home but i try to limit it and i certainly would not want anythinf to be shown in an educational day care setting. Has anyone experienced this and how did you tackle it? I find it v disappointing the staff are relying on YouTube for activities. Thanks!

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Is this a reasonable take or do you feel judged?

My opinion is that you can do whatever you want as a parent, given your circumstances and your goals. But for me, giving my baby / toddler screentime doesn’t match my personal goals as a parent. I don’t even have my phone on me when I’m with her - it’s never in my hand or my pocket. It’s either sitting on a shelf somewhere out of sight or it’s in my backpack. It definitely affects the way she interacts with me and others, and her ability to focus and not get side tracked.

Starting to come to the conclusion my daughter will be a only child, just like me 😭💔

Me and my partner have been together for almost 14 years. We waited so long to have kids, and then we went through infertility struggles for a while before finally having our daughter. I always dreamed of having a big family, at least 3 kids, and I truly thought we would build that life together.

But now, things feel so different. We barely get along anymore, and he has become such a miserable person. It feels like he’s constantly unhappy and always bringing up negative things , many of them situations that he created himself, but now he wants to play the victim in.

Before I had my daughter, I used to stay quiet and be more compliant just to keep the peace. But now that I’m older, and especially now that I’m a mother, I’m exhausted from pretending his behavior doesn’t affect me. It does affect me deeply, and I can’t keep carrying everything like this anymore.

What makes me even sadder is that I still want more children, but now I’m scared. Even if I were to go through IVF with a donor, part of me feels like he would make our lives miserable anyway. It hurts so much because the dream I had for my future and my family feels like it’s slipping away, and I feel overwhelmed and heartbroken.

Text message draft to MIL

I hate confrontation but for my own mental health, I feel I need to send this to my MIL. Would appreciate your thoughts before I send?

Hi XXX, I really appreciate you looking after XXX on Wednesdays, but I wanted to mention something so that our relationship can remain positive moving forward.

A few comments about our parenting choices recently have left me feeling like I need to defend our decisions as parents. For example, comments about his diet like “babybels are the worst thing you can possibly give him” and “sweetcorn has no nutritional value”, comparisons around breastfeeding timelines, suggestions about offering him cool drinks when he’s asking for milk, and comments about car seats such as “he’ll have to forward face soon or he’ll feel sick / it won’t be good for his hips.”

We make our parenting decisions carefully based on current guidance and research, so I’d really appreciate it if you could avoid giving unsolicited advice or negative commentary about our choices going forward. Thank you.

IM FREEEEE!!! (Kinda)

My kidZZZZZZZZZZZZ (emphasis in plurality) start their summer program in a couple weeks! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Yall! My daughter hasn’t even ever been to preschool! And when she was an infant she wouldn’t take a bottle 😭😭😭

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I’m bout to have afternoon independence there’s too many options of things to do!!!!!

So angry..

I don't get along with my sister in law but we live in the same household.. which is my in-laws home. They always leave their kids at home and she tells them to not let my son in their room. So today my son just wanted to show them his costume and her son slammed the door on my son I heard him cry so I went. I knocked their door and I said he just wants to show his costume to you guys and he slammed the door in my FACE. and I hate that he sneaks in and tries to be in my room but he doesn't let my son be in theirs. Just yesterday my son told him get out and he has the audacity to tell my son "get out" while he was inside OUR ROOM.

Baby dinner

so my baby is 9 months old already and it’s being really hard for me to implement dinner to him. I am so tired during that time that I don’t want to cook more. What are the best ideas for dinners ? what is the simplest and beneficial at the same time for them?