When should I stop taking toddler meal to restaurant ?

For context we enjoy going out for dinner. My toddler is 17 months and I always take something for her that I know she will like and will take her a while to eat so that we have some time to enjoy our mains. We've ordered twice before - once was pizza and she screamed when it came out as she was hungry but couldn't have it until it cooled (which took ages!) and another time we got something from the Thai that she would eat at home but she had 2 bites and wouldn't eat the rest. We're going for a roast on Sunday (which she doesn't like) so I was planning on taking something. Is it still acceptable to do that at 17 months?

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Am i overreacting?

Ftm to my son who is 6 weeks old, my partner has just gone back to working nights meaning I have to do them on my own, they’ve mostly been ok a few tough nights but we’ve got through it, my family have always been really supportive but recently they’ve been offering to ‘come and take him in the morning to go on a walk so I can have a break’ and I appreciate the offer but it’s making me feel really uncomfortable, I’m loving motherhood and don’t feel like I need to have a break I love being with my son. I’d be happy for them to come here and see him and watch him if I needed to sleep if I’d had an awful night but I feel uncomfortable with them taking him out without me especially as he’s ebf, I just don’t know what to say I feel bad turning down the help and support

When did you start introducing a Potty?

When did you potty train your little ones?

My little boy has been in a rush to do everything from he arrived in this world and he's very nearly found his feet at 10 months. He is getting quite predictable as to when he'll poop and it's quite obvious when he's trying, so I have been debating buying a potty and starting to just set him on it at those times to get him used to the idea. Just to clarify I'm not expecting him to be fully potty trained at this point, I just thought it might be good to start introducing even for number 2's but curious to hear what ages you all started or any tips?

Little girl being off with my daughter

So there's another mum i always chat with and our daughters have always got on (4 years old)
But the past week at drop off the other little girl has been abit off with my daughter, my daughter will run over all happy to see her and the other girl has just given her a moody look and ran off!
My daughter is very she and other os very loud so it doesn't really make sense.
Im not sure what to do as my little girl looked sad this morning

What would you do in this situation?

I was at soft play with my 2 year old yesterday. Bear in mind I’m 20 weeks pregnant so chasing her around is becoming a mission.

We climbed up to the top level and there was a massive slide with 4 lanes, my little girl got there first before I manoeuvred myself through the floor gap. I see a kid at the bottom of the slide just walking around, he looked around 18 months old, no parent in sight.

Well before I could tell my girl to wait, she slides down and as she’s sliding he walks directly in front of the end of her lane (initially he wasn’t in front of her lane but the one over) and she takes him out completely. He fell backwards and hit his head on the plastic.

I climb back down and grab my girl and we go to make sure he’s okay. His mum picked him up and he was sobbing (understandably). I told the mum that my girl took him out accidentally and I apologised.

I don’t know if that was the right thing to do or not, the woman didn’t seem too impressed with me and the whole situation was really awkward. If she had watched her child in the first place it wouldn’t have happened 😩

Screen free moms: how do you feel about working so hard to keep your kids screen free and then they go to school just for everything to be on computers and screens

This is just a random thought i had, i have no judgement for the choice to go completely screen free or not, im back and forth with it all the time. I was just thinking about how in school education has gotten so technology forward and kids don’t hardly do anything in pencil and paper anymore. Does that bother any parents or is it just kinda an issue what it is situation. I don’t have school age kids yet but I was just curious as to what other parents think about it all.

Nursery

Going on a nursery tour tomorrow, what questions did you all ask? I went on one today and was bombarded with that much information I couldn't think of anything to ask them