Potty training backslide

We’ve been potty training for three weeks with a gentler approach (the pants off all weekend just did not work for us and our daughter responded well to doing things gradually). The past two days she’s not let us know when she needs to go, when previously she would tell us. She regularly wees in her pull up when before she was dry in between sitting on the potty. We’ve tried introducing training pants but she absolutely hates them and gets so upset when she has an accident in them. I don’t want to force her to wear them or do anything that causes distress because I don’t want to put her off using the potty. It seems like we were doing so well and now she seems to prefer to use her nappy again.

I feel like I’m asking her a million times a day if she needs to go and that’s just putting her off. We all go stir crazy if we stay home all day and I’m trying to get her to go before we leave but she’s so stubborn. She won’t go in her potty if we bring it with us either.

I know she’ll get it eventually—I just feel like all the advice I’m finding doesn’t work for us or is behind a paywall! Just looking for solidarity or advice from other mums if your toddlers are the same!

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I am right to be annoyed?

Me and my husband have a nearly 3 year old and a 4 month old
The only day we get as a family is a Saturday because every Sunday is taken up with him at golf. He promised when we had our second he would do it every other weekend. That happened for aboir a month then back to old habits.
I never tell him he can't go but I will make it obvious I am not impressed every week. Now my son is old enough to be upset when daddy goes off to golf its becoming hard.
Am I right in being annoyed or shall I just let him get on with it? I don't want to stop him doing things he enjoys, it makes him happy. I think even if I tried to stop him he'd still go.

Husband left 8mo. unattended in high chair at hotel breakfast

Husband went to hotel breakfast buffet with our 8 month old a few minutes to get set up. When I walked in I saw my husband on his own getting some fruit.

Our baby was strapped in the high chair about 10m across the room from him. When my husband walked over I said “caught you, you left our baby unattended in the high chair”.

My husband then immediately got quiet, claimed he wasn’t hungry anymore and was generally in a bad mood. I said “why aren’t you hungry anymore? Is it because I called you out on leaving our baby alone?”

He then stormed off and said “good luck with breakfast”, before sending a flurry of angry texts saying he did nothing wrong, he’s a great dad, and I treat him like a fucking child, telling him off like I’m his mum. He said “our baby has never even looked close to falling out”, to which I responded “it only takes two seconds”.

Husband now not talking to me and our last day on holiday is ruined.

Context: the high chair is an ikea one with only a 3 point harness.

So frustrated and feeling very depressed

I had been alone for 2 months just me and the baby , my husband comes home and he’s working 6 am to 7-8 pm so basically all day it’s just me and the baby he’s now been gone since Wednesday and doesn’t come back till tomorrow night .

I don’t like the way I’m feeling but it’s like I’ve been having strong emotions of going to sleep and not wanting to wake up

How much do you share with people in your family or friends?

Is so interesting when I look at my siblings on my mom's side we don't really share information with each other unless we have to but when I look at the supplies on my dad's side they expect for you to share everything with them and they share everything with you. If so different when I look at it how does it work for you?

WWYD. Would this bother you?

I have a friend who is always checking out what we do, what we buy, how we do this or that, etc... When she comes to our home she mentions how nice this, how nice that, asks where we buy stuff, mentions how we “don't settle for regular things”. Every single time.

Comments about our shelves, towels, napkins, tablecloth, chairs, clothes, toys, plants, bag, mats, water bottles, Keychain, anything...

At the beginning I didn't think anything about it, I thought it was her way of giving a compliment. But after making the same comments every time we meet, it is a bit much and it feels like I am being scrutinized.

After we visit my family she asks my toddler - not me- how big is my parents house, how many rooms... I thought that was so weird and inappropriate. I am starting to feel she is getting kind of privy to our life and a bit obsessed.

Later I started noticing she would try to copy the same things. Again, at the beginning it didn't bother me, but after a while I found it weird she would want to buy the same things and I feel it is not normal.

I know it is not the end of the world but it has made me want to avoid her.

Does your 4.5 year old have bad separation anxiety?

If I even leave the room or my daughter can't see me, she hysterically cries. We can't leave her with anyone without her crying and getting upset and constantly asking about when we're coming back.
She cries and has to carried into preschool everyday.

Is it this normal at this age?