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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- If you’re a working parent of an infant with low sleep needs, how do you function at work when you’re in the throes of baby’s sleep regression?
- Should I cut my childcare down to 12 hours a month if I work from home?
- Will my baby have speech delays if we raise her bilingual?
- Has anyone given birth in a teaching hospital?
- My child eats everything, and my friends’ kids do not – how should I handle? In general, what is the best way to handle when your child has some skill/ability and your friend’s child doesn’t have that skill/ability?
- ADHD moms, give me your tips to help with things like behavior in the classroom, attention to detail, etc?
- I think I suffer from mom rage…
- My husband and kids are gone this weekend – how should I enjoy my free time?
- I’m struggling to be compassionate with a SAHM friend who complains she doesn’t have enough hours of childcare.
- If you exclusively formula fed, what tips do you have for in the hospital and coming home?
- Could I take my 4-yo and 8-yo on a 7-8 day trip to Paris, Lyon, and Madrid?
AnonATL says
I’m watching my 7 and 9 yo nieces for a full day while their parents take care of a medical issue (nothing scary, just time consuming). What should I do to keep them entertained? So far I have baking cookies, maybe watching a movie, and I was thinking of getting some fun nail decals. Are there any fun crafts we could do for not a ton of junk or money? Maybe tie-dye?
My husband and my 8 month old son will also be home.
Cb says
Maybe have them bring a few toys along? But I think the novelty of a new place, a few fun things to do and a baby around should keep them entertained.
Pogo says
They’ll probably be entertained just playing with the baby! I think that’s plenty to keep them busy. 9 year old might get bored, I think movie is a good idea.
Anonymous says
Take the baby for a walk with them to the local playground? They might enjoy pushing the stroller and holding him while going down the slide or pushing him in the baby swing. He might enjoy watching them play.
Anon says
I’m so sorry, I hate to be this person, but my niece’s leg was broken this way a decade ago when she was 2, and so I feel like I have to always make a PSA about it: please don’t go down a slide, or let anyone else go down a slide, with a small child. Her leg got caught on the slide while my sister’s body kept sliding down – it happened incredibly quickly. We had no idea, but it’s apparently a very common cause of broken bones in little kids.
Anonymous says
I always stand next to the slide so the baby’s is in arm’s reach if necessary. I can see how it would be dangerous if an adult wasn’t closely supervising or if it was one of the larger slides vs. the 4 ft smaller slides.
Anon Lawyer says
I think this might be talking about a different thing – small kids on small slides is fine; it’s an adult or older kid putting a baby on their lap and going down that can be a problem.
Anon says
Happened to my cousin’s daughter a few years ago as well. I would have made the same PSA if you hadn’t.
anon says
yes, holding a child while going down the slide is one of the most dangerous things you can do at a playground. I am a suuuuper laissez-faire parent and this is one thing I don’t permit.
Anonymous says
+1. I stupidly did this with my son and his leg got caught for a second and he wasn’t hurt long term but I felt like a moron
Anon says
Ehhhh, there are ways to do it safely. I take my 18 month old down the slide on my lap all the time. One arm goes around his waist, the other hand goes under his ankles, elevating them slightly and holding them together. Depends on the wiggliness of the kid, I guess, but we’ve never had an issue.
NYCer says
+1. It definitely can be unsafe, so I understand the warning about letting a 7-9 year old do it, but I held my kids on the slide when they were little the way Anon described above and it felt safe enough to me. My kids loved it.
fallen says
I have an almost 8 year. We love board games together (Catan is our favorite currently, also love Monopoly/Clue/Sequence) and could spend hours doing just that. Spending lots of time outside (bike/scooter riding, getting ice cream, etc). Cooking/baking is great too, we love making lemonade, muffins, etc.
anne-on says
It might be helpful to think of the day in chunks – morning activity, lunch, quiet time (so you can put the baby down for a nap?) afternoon activity, dinner. Can you have a big family breakfast in the morning, ask them to play with the baby while you clean up, and then do something outdoors (local park, nature trail, kick a soccer ball around, etc.). Home for lunch, make cookies in the afternoon, give them some quiet time (games/reading/ipad time), craft, then dinner (btw – they are definitely old enough to help set the table and some simple dinner prep if you want to make that an activity). You know them best my my 9yr old introvert needs some quiet time to himself or he can get a little overwhelmed.
Anonymous says
Maybe have them make individual pizzas for dinner?
OP says
These are great ideas. Thank you! Entertaining big kids is a whole different ball game than a baby.
They live on a farm so they can basically run wild and entertain themselves at home, but we are very much picket fence suburbia. I needed to have some ideas and structure to keep them busy. And of course I want to be the cool aunt that they like hanging out with :)
Clementine says
Honestly, with kids from the country? Taking a drive with *just* the girls to Starbucks and getting cocoa or juice drinks in the drive thru and then sitting in a park and drinking them and being oh so grown up?
Things like take out Chinese/Indian/things other than pizza food being delivered to your door? How cool!
I grew up in a REALLY rural location and I still get a kick of those things after 15 years of living in cities and suburbs.
Anonymous says
Yes to Starbucks drive-through! They will make Frappuccinos without the coffee, too.
I grew up in the suburbs but my parents never once had food delivered or went through the drive-through, so I still get a kick out of these things too.
EDAnon says
I agree. I live in a city mostly for coffee shops and takeout.
Anonymous says
I would take them outside for some physical activity. It could be a playground, soccer, a walk, or something else.
Anonymous says
For the love of god do not do tie dye. My kids are 5,7,9. Crafts are great and they love them but really…pack up your baby and go play on the playground. Don’t make more work for yourself. Maybe have some chalk on hand so the girls can go draw on the driveway if your baby needs to nap, etc.
My kids entertain themselves for hours.
Cb says
What is everyone up to this weekend? I’m meeting my husband/son at the beach after nursery. My son asked last weekend if we could go and eat fish and chips, and it was so nice to be able to say yes to something. I’ll cycle to the beach (and then back – ugh – since my husband didn’t get time to put the roof-rack on the car) and it’s a beautiful day – only 55C but bright sunshine. And then some friends are coming over for an outdoor playdate on Saturday, it’s the first time we’ve been able to cross the county border since Christmas, so we haven’t seen them for ages.
Pogo says
Assuming you mean 55F? :P Meanwhile, we have snow here today.
I’m doing outdoor book club on Sunday which will be the first time seeing some of my friends in person in a long, long time.
Cb says
Haha, I tried to do the conversion from my office thermometer and clearly failed :) In Scotland, not Dubai. Oh outdoor book club sounds fun! But boo to snow, we’ve still been freezing overnight and I just want to plant out the seedlings that are taking over my office.
Ani says
Non-US lawyer: I am studying for an oral exam next Wednesday. If I do well on it I have a good enough grade in my country’s State Examination that I could apply for a judgeship. Now, do I want to become a judge? That I do not know.
Also my son is getting sick so studying will be extra hard but my husband has been amazing throughout the past year of exams. Come Thursday I need to think of something to show him how much I appreciate him.
AwayEmily says
After the kids go to bed tonight, we are having people over for dinner! For the first time in over a year! (they are fully vaccinated and so are we). It’s a new colleague and her partner — she started work with us in August and still hasn’t met anyone in person. I’m a little worried I forgot how to socialize, but I suppose that’s nothing some wine can’t fix.
Anon says
It’s my first weekend as a fully vaccinated person and I have plans! Today is a self care day (haircut, pedicure, massage), tomorrow I’m going to my city’s first in person ballet performance and we’re having dinner with my husband’s colleague and his family, and then Sunday we’re going to visit college friends with a same age kid a couple hours away. We were excessively cautious about Covid (mostly because keeping our kid in school was our main goal) and didn’t have a roaring social life before the pandemic, so this will be the first in person socializing we’ve done in over a year (other than running into people we know while out and about). I’m so excited! And it will probably be enough to last me another year because I’m an introvert haha.
Anon says
DH and I are fully vaccinated as of yesterday. So we are going to eat (outdoors) at a restaurant with my daughter (3.5) for the first time since late January (we were sick in early February and then heard about Covid through work so we stopped going out about a month before everything really shut down). She is so excited. I am so excited. DH and I have only eaten at a restaurant since then once outdoors in November for our anniversary, so it will be “newish” to us too. Weather is supposed to be lovely (low 60s and sun), so we will probably get a lot of outside time in too, even if it’s just me drinking coffee in the backyard in the sun while DD runs around chasing squirrels and looking for worms (thanks preschool!). We might try and do a playdate as well, but its been a busy week so we may just continue being hermits and relax.
Anon says
DH and I celebrated two weeks after our second dose with a day date on a restaurant patio a couple days ago. It was glorious! We’re not ready to deal with crowds (restaurants in our area have no distance between tables) so we’re going to avoid weekends for now, but just to be able to sit outside and eat on real silverware with someone waiting on us was amazing.
Anonamama says
Had grand plans of socializing but LO’s daycare had a covid case – first one since this whole thing started- so we are laying low for a few days out of caution. DH and I are vaccinated, but we have no clue which class it happened in. Chances are low but I feel better this way.
avocado says
I am now fully vaxxed and took the morning off to visit my fully vaxxed stylist. My beloved pixie cut is back for the first time in 13 months. I feel almost like myself again.
Our weekend plans are to take any possible excuse to get outdoors. It is beautiful here and the mosquitoes haven’t taken over yet.
Spirograph says
“Our weekend plans are to take any possible excuse to get outdoors. It is beautiful here and the mosquitoes haven’t taken over yet.”
This exactly. I’m still a couple weeks out from my second jab, and my husband gets his second today, so our weekend plans are pretty low key in case he’s out of commission tomorrow. Tentatively planning on a little hike, some firepit time with friends, and yardwork. As long as I’m taking advantage of the magical, warm but pre-mosquito window, I’m good.
AnonATL says
Sounds like our weekend too. We may go to this local brewery that has a huge outdoor lot with picnic tables. It can get crowded in the evenings so we might be having beer plus food truck for lunch tomorrow.
Katala says
It’s hubby’s first weekend fully vaxxed, so we planned a date night (with a sitter!). Then, a small group, one of whom is moving, of people I haven’t seen since last March planned an outdoor get together. It’s crazy to have conflicting social engagements after having zero for over a year. I plan to see the friends then meet up with husband. Time will tell whether my third trimester exhaustion will allow for such merriment.
Anonymous says
Daycare officially announced there’s no end of the year party this summer. I guess it’s not surprising but it doesn’t seem that unsafe since it’s outdoors and everyone could wear masks (the kids wear them at school). I want so badly to start getting to know other parents in daycare but I have no idea when that will happen since events and parties aren’t happening. I guess maybe after the kids are vaccinated? Although even then I don’t know, it seems like the era of whole class birthday parties might be over.
Spirograph says
Yes, that is sad. How old is your child? If they’re wearing mask, I assume 2+ and that’s old enough that you could reach out about weekend playdates. Maybe not as efficient as a whole-class birthday party, but we’ve invited 2-3 daycare kids at a time to meet at a playground a few times this year. I’m not sure I could pick the parents out of a lineup, since we were all masked up the whole time, but it was better than all of daycare being a total black box.
If you have an email list for parents, that makes things easy, otherwise put a note in your kid’s backpack, ask the teacher to transfer to target kid’s backpack and hope for the best.
Anonymous says
I will be so happy if school and day care parent events never come back. It’s just not logistically possible for me to attend these things during the workday, and I do not miss all the guilt trips one bit.
Anon says
Ok that’s nice for you but this seems like a heartless thing to say to someone who is sad about it. I’ve looked forward to reading to my kid’s preschool class since before I saw two lines on the stick and now I won’t get to (no visitors next school year and she goes to K in 2022). It’s a real loss, though obviously not a huge one in the grand scheme of things, and it’s not nice to minimize someone’s feelings just because it’s not a loss for you.
Anon says
+1. While Anon 11:42 I hear what you are saying, it is a little akin to saying “if I can’t have fun, no one should be able to”.
Plus OP doesn’t specify, for all we know daycare hosts this specific party on the weekend.
Anon says
Sorry : (
If they are willing to give you the contact list, definitely reach out to individual folks and just invite ’em over for an outdoor playdate. Just start with anyone your LO mentions (hey, LO talks about your LO! Let’s get together) or do what I did and google who lives closest to you and reach out saying exactly that (hey, we’re in daycare together and we live by each other, come on over! : ) I think a lot of people are likely in your boat (want to meet others).
If it helps to know, as a veteran multiple daycare/preschool mom, the school wide parties are nice to at least start putting faces to names, but I find it still takes one step further than that to go from acquaintances to actual starting-to-be-friends. Missing that first step is a bummer, but maybe is not the end-all solution you would hope it to be.
Anonymous says
Jumping off this, has anyone figured out a good way to meet daycare parents? Since we can’t go into the classroom, I don’t even know the other kids’ names, let alone their parents. We’ve bumped into some parents randomly during pick up and introduced ourselves, but people don’t want to hang around and chat like they used to.
FVNC says
I asked my son’s daycare teacher to pass along a note to the parents of his little bestie! My son was 3.5 at the time (last fall), so old enough to talk about this friend and request a play date himself.
I wonder if you could do some version of this for younger kids — ask the teacher to pass along your contact information to some of the kids your little one likes to play with? Or maybe host a playdate at a park where parents who are comfortable socializing outside, and ask the teacher to pass out invitations?
Anon says
No advice but following. I know the names of the kids in her class because my 3 year old has told me/I’ve heard the teachers use the kids names at dropoff and pickup. But I don’t know other parents’ names (other than one mom of a kid in her previous room) and have never talked to them at drop-off or pick-up other than to wave and say hello. I have the emails of a couple parents who are PTA representatives and I emailed them in the fall about outdoor playdates, one never responded and one responded by inviting me to an indoor birthday party (!?) with kids in their neighborhood, which was not within our risk tolerance at the time, so we declined. She suggested getting together outdoors the next time I saw her but when I emailed her to follow up she said her kid was under the weather and neither of us ever contacted each other again. I don’t know how to get contact info for the other parents. We don’t have a class email list and are not permitted to send a physical note in to school. I guess I could ask the teacher for the other parents’ emails but it feels like I’m putting too much work on the teacher’s plate. It’s so different than the way daycare was in before times when there were organized mixers for parents and chit-chat at drop-off and birthday party invitations. My kid asks all the time if her friend can come over and play with her toys and I feel so guilty that she’s never had a real playdate. I’m already dreading her fourth birthday in the fall because I don’t see how we can have any kind of outdoor party if we don’t know any kids her age. Finding playmates outside daycare is next to impossible because all the kids activities here have no Covid precautions at all. I feel like a pandemic Goldilocks with everyone around me either too cautious or not cautious enough.
Anonymous says
spitballing here, but could you send an email and ask the teacher or someone in the front office to forward it to the parents in your kid’s class? Something simple expressing that you’d like to meet up with other kids outdoors on weekends occasionally, blah blah, here’s my email address and phone, please get in touch if you’re interested.
Anon says
This will definitely not be universally true, but you probably increase your chances of success if you target parents where their kid your kid’s age is their oldest (or only). I just find that a lot of parents have already kind of made friends with their oldest kid’s friend’s parents and therefore naturally don’t “need” as many new friendships; or an older one is busier with sports etc. that can make trying to get together with them a little more demoralizing because they will have to turn you down more (and won’t reach out as much); and finally if you try to do whole family get togethers it is harder to entertain a kid at your house that is meaningfully older than your kid(s).
Now, here is where I am going to speak out of both sides of my mouth: I would be thrilled if a parent in my youngest’s class invited us over. But the above issues are issues I’ve encountered when making friends with others.
Spirograph says
I agree with all of this. I knew all of the other families in my oldest’s preschool class, and only knew a couple of those in my youngest’s class even before the pandemic (but that didn’t help). Part of it is that we switched to a bigger center, but a lot of it is the things you mentioned. It was easy to wear a baby to a thing for 3 year olds; it’s more challenging to account for siblings when they’re older and have opinions, even leaving aside the logistics of conflicts with other activities.
We have had good luck with playground meetups, though. Especially at larger playgrounds that have equipment suitable for wide age range – the big kids just run off by themselves if they have to tag along.
Anon says
This has been my experience too. My daycare is hard to get into unless you have sibling priority so my DD was the only kid in her infant-toddler room who didn’t have an older sibling in the center. The other parents were perfectly friendly, but it was clear that they weren’t interested in play dates or getting to know us, because they all had lots of connections through their older children and the older children were more opinionated and were actually asking for play dates, unlike the babies. When we moved into the 2 year old room there were suddenly lots of oldest/only children and it was a lot easier to meet people.
Anonymous says
I have 3 kiddos and with all 3 of them, I generally make some plans then invite the daycare class. Anyone that wants to come, great! we meet new people. if nobody comes, my 3 kids still have weekend plans. Usually it’s a park, blueberry picking, farm, whatever. Outdoors. This is inclusive of Before Times but works even better now.
GCA says
We discussed this with the director. Apparently enough parents were asking, that our center is going to do electronic class yearbooks – a list of the kids in each class, with photos and parent-supplied contact information, sent only to the families in that class. We moved shortly before Covid hit and know very few people in the neighborhood, and we have been at this center only since the start of 2021, so this will be a huge help!
GCA says
We asked the director about this. Apparently enough parents were asking that the center is now going to do electronic class yearbooks for each class – a class list with kids’ names and pictures, as well as parent contact info, sent only to the families in that class. We moved right before Covid hit and know very few people in the neighborhood, plus kid 2 has been at the center for only a few months, so this will be a great help.
Pogo says
So far the only way was posting in my local mom’s group and saying, “Hey, LO is going to be in Miss [Teacher]’s class – anybody else there?” I got two affirmatives, one of whom PM’d me and we struck up a convo. So far that’s the extent of my actual “friends” but we’ve never met IRL.
Now that the weather is nicer (except for today, ha), some parents walk to pick up their kids and chat socially distanced in the parking lot. Since LO yelled at them through the closed window, I now know 2 of the other kids’ parents by sight at least. Some day when it’s nice and I have a few extra minutes I’ll jog to pickup and hopefully meet a few people that way.
Anonymous says
Email the class for a playground meetup in town. People that are comfortable with it will come, people that won’t will stay home, and the daycare isn’t liable for anything.
Bette says
Hello hive mind! Would love some travel advice… we will be flying with our baby for the first time this summer. We have a choice between (1) taking a direct flight and then driving a rental car 3-4 hours to our destination, or (2) taking two flights with a 90 minute connection, and then a 30 minute cab ride to our destination.
All flights are around 2-2.5 hours, and the total travel time will likely be the same for either option. Babe will be 9.5 months at the time, so not really walking or talking but definitely wiggly and squawky.
What’s the least painful option here? Unfortunately the destination is set and not up for debate – we are meeting extended family for a long-delayed memorial service of someone we lost last year, and their wish was for their ashes to be scattered in this particular location. My husband and I will be fully vaccinated but obviously the baby will not.
Anon says
I’d take the one flight plus car. Flights are just unpredictable and I’d want to minimize my time waiting in an airport
SC says
I would probably choose Option 1 because having a rental car at the destination seems handy. I also feel like having to make a connection is an invitation for things to go wrong, and the airport is a tough place to be off schedule with a baby.
Anon says
+1. Even without a baby I move hell and high water to avoid connections. Just need that first flight to go out a little late, and yeah….
Anonymous says
… or to get stuck waiting for them to push out the jet bridge at DTW. I lost count of how many times I had to sprint through that airport to make a connection. Why oh why are the ground crews so slow?
TheElms says
Option 1 because it has fewer transitions. Transitions with babies and baby gear are tough.
Anon says
Do you know how your kid does on a long car ride? I’m in the minority I guess, but at 9 months, two flights and a layover was so much easier for us than a 4 hour drive. My kid did great on flights and airports where she could get out and play (she was a late walker and we didn’t let her crawl in airports/airplanes but she loved to stand up on our laps and look around, bounce up and down, sit up and swing her legs etc.). She screamed bloody murder in the car because she hated being restrained in the car seat. We could not do car rides over half an hour unless we wanted to listen to non-stop screaming. Once she got to around 1.5 or so and could be more entertained by books and toys, driving got better, and it got a lot better around 2 when we could make extensive use of screens. But in the 6-18 month window flying was much, much easier for us, even with layovers. We did multiple flights that involved connections, and never had any crying at all other than one time she had an ear infection and we didn’t know it.
NYC says
I would say the answer depends on your baby’s tolerance for the car. My younger daughter hated the car and her infant car seat, so a 4 hour drive would have been 3.5 hours of screaming. On the other hand, she was an easy baby on planes when she wasn’t constrained the entire time (we never used a car seat on planes).
Pogo says
+1 Such a know your baby situation – mine would have been the opposite at that age! Passed out in the car, but on the plane he was super wiggly and wanted to touch everything/crawl which bothered me even pre-COVID, so we took turns walking him up and down the aisles the only time we flew with him in that age range.
Bette says
Based on this advice, we’re leaning heavily toward Option 1. Another benefit is that Option 1 puts us in a major fun city where we might spend a few extra days, if the COVID situation is not too scary.
Thank you all so much for taking the time to respond – my husband is amazed there’s a place I can go on the internet to get such fast and thorough advice. If anyone wants to throw any travel gear recs my way I’m all ears…
Toddler masks says
Any recommendations for toddler masks? I have a just-turned-two year old (big head, but not quite little kid size) and we’ll need to figure out masking for him for at least the next couple of months. TIA!
TheElms says
There are some Skip Hop ones from Amazon that work on my almost 2 year old with room to spare. I tried Old Navy kids and they were definitely too big. Friends have liked Hanna Anderson and Primary masks for younger toddlers.
Anon says
The Crayola mask packs are good for that age. The ear straps are adjustable. They fit my 2 and 5 year olds well, though my oldest is starting to outgrow them
Anonymous says
The primary ones worked great from 2-2.5 for my large headed toddler. They still fit him but now he can also wear the same ones his six year old sibling wears (Thompson Tees).
Lorelei Gilmore says
How do I get started with sending finger food to daycare for our 7MO? She mostly eats what we’re eating at home for dinner or has some left over baby-safe food like cooked carrots or Bambas. Instagram accounts to follow? Baby bento boxes to recommend? I’m trying to not use as many plastic ziploc bags but my husband complains about the stasher bags not keeping things fresh so open to ideas there as well. Thank you!
TheElms says
Instagram – Feeding Littles is great and Kids Eat in Color is great too. When our kid was at that stage daycare kept a container of puffs and I sent: canned beans that I had rinsed and drained, roasted vegetable sticks (carrots, sweet potato, parsnip, peppers), cut up fruit, slices of avocado, fusilli cut in half, toast sticks with a thin spread of cream cheese, cheese sticks cut into strips.
EB says
I can’t tell if you’re asking what kind of food to send, or what vessel to use, but either way, it doesn’t have to be complicated! Just send a little tupperware of what you ate the night before! And some fruit. I use frozen veg a lot too – so easy to heat in the morning. When they’re that little, it’s just for playing with anyways, so you can literally send anything. In terms of vessel, I would say something dishwasher safe is most important so you don’t have to wash it yourself every night.
AnonATL says
I usually go the lazy route and send puffs or pouches for a snack, but he also gets steamed veggies for lunch at daycare. You could send whatever you give her for dinner if she will eat it cold. My kid will happily eat cold chopped up penne or veggies.
We use the Philips Avent Powder Formula Dispenser and Snack Cup for puffs and small foods. I just took the formula separator out of it.
Katala says
We often did frozen or leftover veggies and a fruit. Something easy for us and appealing enough to the kiddo. Some days we also didn’t send anything and just did the finger foods at breakfast and/or dinner when he was home. It sounds like you want to send stuff, but if not, it’s totally fine at that age to just do finger foods at home!
Pogo says
Mine is 7mo right now and due to laziness on my part I send purees to daycare and he gets finger food at home.
OP says
Thanks all – she does get purees at daycare, but we do finger foods at home and want to continue encouraging that.
Anon says
Has anyone had a kid who potty trained really late, like after 3.5? My daughter is 3 years 4 months and absolutely resistant to any kind of potty-training, whether it’s gently being encouraged to sit on the potty or the no pants method. At her 3 year appointment, the ped told us to relax and “she’ll train when she wants to” but this kid is so stubborn I’m really starting to get worried about what happens if she never wants to?! Her daycare teachers are frustrated, and as the world is opening up post-Covid it’s starting to impact our lives (I was going to sign her up for religious school in the fall, but we can’t do that if she’s not potty-trained). We’ve tried every kind of reward we can think of from small (chocolate) to big (planning a trip) and nothing has motivated her. She says she’s scared of sitting on the potty, so we tried multiple different potty chairs and potty seats, but nothing has made her comfortable. I can coax her into sitting on the potty in a diaper but not taking the diaper off, and she’s resistant to using the diaper while she’s on the potty. She knows she’s the only kid in her class who isn’t potty trained, but seems content to stay in diapers forever. She has hit most milestones on the later side of the normal range, so I’ve gotten pretty good at not comparing her development to others, but this feels different because people blame the kid (and the parents) when it’s not achieved on time and there’s so much stigma about preschoolers in diapers. I don’t know what to do!
Anonymous says
I would back off completely for now. I would start to be concerned closer to age 4, but that’s just because I have a nephew who had to be held back from starting K because he refused to be poop trained at 5.
Anonymous says
This happened to my brother too! Started K at 6 because he would not poop anywhere but his pants.
Anon says
As a data point, yes, I was really worried, and it worked out fine. Kiddo potty trained in time for kindergarten. I think it really helped that kiddo’s body was more physically ready when kiddo chose to start wearing underwear.
Absent a formal policy at the school, the teachers need to lay off with the frustration over potty training. Kids develop differently.
Mary Moo Cow says
Yes- my kid will be in 4 in August and she’s only been fully trained for a month or so. She started peeing in the toilet consistently last August but had no interest in pooping and did not respond to any bribes, peer pressure, or external motivation. We gave up the hard push in February and a few weeks later, she just decided it was time. We were at our wits end and I wanted to punch people who told me to just relax and let her do it on her own time because where were they when I was tossing yet another pair of underwear in the trash, but turns out, they were right. Good luck- it is so emotional, so difficult.
SC says
Yes. My son is also very stubborn. He was unmotivated by rewards systems. He didn’t care that his friends at school were potty trained. He didn’t seem to mind wet diapers or pullups. He wasn’t excited about underwear with characters on it. In his case, it wasn’t fear, but resistance to a transition and also resistance to doing anything that he thinks we’d like him to do (both still issues in our house). He was certainly physically ready–he woke up dry, and he could hold his pee for hours, including not peeing on the potty so he could go in the pullup 2 minutes later.
What eventually worked was going cold turkey on diapers/pullups, plus lessening the appearance that we wanted him to pee in the toilet or that we were in charge of when he went. We got a potty watch, which went off automatically at certain intervals, and then it was time to go. With the teachers’ permission, we sent him to school in just underwear, plus 10 changes of clothes and some plastic grocery bags. If he had an accident, we had absolutely no reaction whatsoever, other than to blankly clean him up and change his clothes. Two weeks later, I guess he was convinced the diapers weren’t coming back, and he was mostly potty trained–no more accidents at school and only occasionally at home. Even the occasional accidents stopped around the time he turned 4, I believe.
Artemis says
Bad Mom Confession
I am desperate to confess this here (ha!) because I feel bad about this and yet not (and I didn’t even tell my husband).
So I usually do laundry over the weekend. Last week, i did every stitch of the kids’ laundry by Thursday because I left on a weekend trip and didn’t want to worry about doing laundry right away when I got back.
This morning, my three kids somehow, despite my best efforts to count properly, did not have clean shirts in their drawers for school (they wear uniforms).
I pulled three shirts out of the dirty laundry sorter in the basement and distributed them. The kids don’t know the shirts were dirty. They didn’t smell and were not stained.
Look, I don’t know if I counted wrong, or if they had clothes on the floor and put them in the dirty pile instead of their drawer, or left their shirts strewn somewhere in the house that I haven’t discovered yet, or WHY DO THEY NEVER put away the basket of folded clothes I leave outside their bedrooms before I nag them at the end of the week to do it . . . .
Anyway. I failed on the Laundry Fairy front this week and am sorry/not sorry about it.
anon says
Let it go. It’s one harmless slip-up and it will not hurt your children. You’re still a good mom. TBH, we adults re-wear sweaters or whatever sometimes. Enjoy the weekend. And just buy some extra uniform shirts to stash somewhere so you don’t have to stress if you leave for a weekend. Signed, a mom who just bought more kid underwear because I hate scrambling for laundry if I skip a few days and I don’t care if that makes me sound lazy.
Again, you’re still a good mom!
Anonymous says
My family had a French exchange student stay with us for a summer when I was in high school. She wore the same things at least 3 times before washing them. I assume she had new underwear each day, but the rest? nah.
You’re good! Not a bad mom at all, just advanced implementation of Bringing Up Bebe.
SC says
Ha! We’ve done that. My son also wears uniforms. The shirts are hella expensive, and I really didn’t want to overbuy only to have him grow out of them. We ended up with 7 shirts, which gives us an extra for his backpack (though, of course it was missing the one day he had a bloody nose!) and a little leeway if we need to do laundry on Thursday or Monday. Also, joke’s on me because he hasn’t grown in 2 years.
Anonymous says
I would not feel bad about that at all. The shirts were clearly clean enough to wear again. You saved water and energy – good for you! There is no rule that you have to wear a fresh shirt every day.