Are your toddlers still taking naps?

If so, do they have a hard time going to bed at night?

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Mine is because she’s at an at-home daycare and they rest for two hours 😵‍💫 so weekdays it takes an hour to get her to sleep, sometimes longer - and it’s usually by 9:30 but sometimes 10! She does not ever nap if she’s home with us and hasn’t for a year now..it’s just at the daycare. But it’s clearly too long. I’m excited for her to start pre-k because they rest for 30 mins. What’s your situation like?

Yes! In school(he was in prek-3 this past year & starts prek-4 in august) they nap for an hour. So Saturday & Sunday I try to maintain that if we are home and bedtime is 7-730. If we are not home I dont force it and bedtime is 630-7pm.

For the first half of the school year(Aug 2025-Dec) we started BT by 6pm & he was asleep by 630....he would wake up around 6/615am and get ready for school. After Xmas break we pushed BT and started around 630 so he's asleep by 7/715pm. If there's school I'll wake him at 6ish...if there isn't he'll be up by 730-8am.

Wow! He gets amazing sleep!!!
My daughters school has two sessions of morning & afternoon class, I was in my first trimester when she started so i definitely couldn’t get up that early & get her breakfast & be on time for school so will probably do afternoon classes again but what time should I do bedtime since no naps will be happening?

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Am I the a**hole?

So our baby is 8 months old, not a great sleeper but I'm not used to waking up every hour/2 hours ever night 😭😂
Basically partner works Monday -Friday 9-3:30 which I understand is still draining, my partner doesn't have to wake up for anything at night as I breastfeed so it's just me that baby will settle for at the moment (I sleep in the same room as baby )
As I don't get much time to myself day or night as baby goes to bed around 6:30pm and I stay with her for the night, sometimes on the weekend I just want an hour or 2 just to relax but my partner says "well I haven't had any time to myself"
But they have from 6:30 until they go to sleep every night plus uninterrupted sleep?!
Am I the a hole for wanting a little time to myself?

Hair cut

I have all four boys and they only got there first hair cut at age 1. I’m determined for my last LO to do the same but all the comments I get from family are rude. But I’m standing my ground. With that being said when did you do the first hair cut. Picture attached for tax.

Do you style your school aged child's hair or just comb/brush it? Not your toddler

I know I send my child to school with her hair styled, but however she looks at the end of the school day is always a mystery. So I wonder are there parents who don't style at all?

also realize this demographic may bring about different answers because we don't all have the same hair or hair needs~

Stranger touched my newborns hand

I was out for a coffee today and an old lady touched my 4 week old baby's hand. I know she was well intentioned & I belive she had a learning disability, but I've been completely freaking out since getting home.

I used wet wipes on his hands when I was at the cafe and put his scratch mittens on so that he couldnt put his hands in his mouth. When we got home I put some hand sanitizer on my hands and the rubbed the excess onto his hands, but before wiping it off with another wet wipe.

I'm so scared that he's going to get sick and I cannot stop myself from spiralling. I know its irrational and that this type of thing happens to lots of babies, but I feel sick with worry right now & can't stop crying. Has anyone else had a similar experience and did things turn out okay?

Make it make sense

How am I the one with a baby who keep in mind is 6 months old but yet my friend who was like literally my soulmate who doesn’t have kids just a boyfriend now who btw swears things like soda are made from babies only can reach out like once every two weeks if I’m even lucky bc she’s so busy? We have each other on Life360 and idk if she thinks I’m an idiot but I can see when she’s home and I know she can’t be that busy she can’t reply to a text like come on we went from hanging out every single day to this crap this is why I’m so over getting close to people like I’m so tired of finally thinking I have a friend for life then out of no where stupid crap like this happens

Help

Anyone else finding 4 month old sooo hard not just the sleep and naps the constant entertaining the crying all of it I’m struggling so much.