Do your 4 yo go to any classes/activities without parents (apart from nursery/childcare)? Is this to prep for school or just normal?

As steps for school our nursery says encourage interactions with new people. But im not sure how to. Like we meet new ppl at parties but im always with him. And he gets to know his nursery teachers v well when he moves class… surely thats enough?

in our community

Argument with husband

Would you be annoyed/upset if you were meeting some friends for a drink and you’d got yourself and your son ready and as you were putting your shoes on and getting your toddler’s bag of things together, your husband just left the house with your son and didn’t communicate he was going to start walking ahead? I phoned him and he said he was on his way to the pub. I’d got our son ready and was getting my own shoes on and his snacks and bag together and he didn’t have the decency to wait for me so we could walk to the pub together, or even communicate he was going to walk ahead.

How would you handle your friends 4 yo being greedy with toys, hitting your almost 21 month old, catching her doing mean things?

I tell her don’t hit her or for example she was in my daughters stroller lifting her feet to my daughters face and I tell her don’t put your feet in her face . Her mom tells her to not hit or share or she will literally give her the same toy and she will still
Want the one my daughter has. She has an 11 yo older sister idk if she’s mean to her and that’s where she learns it from but she’s in daycare I would think she would know how to play w younger kids

Help, advice.

Im currently going thru a phase (i hope) with my 7 year old. Hes very mouthy and sarcastic. When speaking to me my daughter. Hes always in a demanding tone. He doesn't talk to hus father like that but he has tried. I try to talk, take certain toys or activities away but I always break and give in. I feel/know that he knows he can get over on me and he uses that to his advantage. When he decides not to listen or starts being mouthy. I will try to redirect him or say things like we don't talk like that in this house. We respect and show love in this house hold. Even then he will stomp shout. Then his father will intervene and then this Lil boy wants to get some act right but why does it take for his father to get involved for him to listen to me?? I on the other hand will get upset and cry because at that moment I feel overwhelmed out of touch. Like why can't the child ive carried and birth not respect me or listen.

To the parents who don't pop their kids. How do you get them to listen??

Pushing my buttons

My MIL likes to push boundaries. Most recent is I was feeding little one and she was getting distracted by the noise of the tv. So I shut it off. My MIL then goes “she just wants to watch” and proceeds to hold a phone up to my baby with some baby video playing. I told her we won’t be doing that. She can see TVs obvs for a quick second but we rather her be read a book or play with toys. She laughed and said “you’ll get to a point where you’ll put her down and let her watch tv so you can do stuff. That how we used to do it”

I just don’t get it. She always pushes things we don’t want and brings up what she did 25 years ago. My husband has spoken to her as well as myself. It is just baffling

2 year age gap advice

I’ve only just found out I’m pregnant so excuse me mildly crashing out out of pure fear and anxiety.
Of course I’m over the moon and so blessed that I get to do this all over again and make my son a big brother but it’s really just hit me how the hell am I going to do this. I know people do very often have more than 1 child but he’ll be just over 2 by the time this baby is born and he’ll still need me so much I’ve got so many thoughts going round my head of how I’ll cope as I know how time and life consuming newborns are and I don’t ever want him to feel left out. Please tell me these are normal thoughts and it will all work out somehow 😅

What's your picky toddlers favorite food?

I need more ideas on what to cook for my picky toddlers (with hidden veggies).