Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Silicone Toy Cars
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Babies put everything in their mouths — these food-grade silicone toy cars are safe for them to do so.
Both flexible and durable, these double-duty toys also work as teethers. Their one-piece design ensures there aren’t any tiny pieces to swallow. Roll them along the floor, outside, or even in the tub. And if they need a little scrub after a day out, just throw them in the dishwasher.
These silicone toy cars are available at Amazon starting at under $30 for a set of three.
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I have two kids with a five-year age difference. They are at the age when both are at fault in contributing to most conflicts. I am tired of being a referee, and it doesn’t work well anyway. Is there a better way to mediate? I guess I want them to reflect on their behavior and how they contributed to the problem without it turning into a brand-new conflict.
And, is it OK to use that instead of punishing every infraction, provided that major household rules haven’t been broken? I feel very different about hitting and pushing, especially when inflicted by the older one, and egregious name-calling that seems exceptionally mean or harsh.
My youngest is actually much better at letting go of conflict than the older one, which is another tough dynamic to manage. (Like dude, she is five years younger than you. How are you really being damaged here? You’re not. Move on.)
my son is doing 2 weeks of sleepaway camp in maine this summer for the first time. Any sleepaway camp tips?
Any swimmers out there, Costco has a 3 pack of TYR goggles, both kids and adult sizes, for $15 in stores.
How much money would it take for you to deal with a hassle of two dropoff/pickups, plus signing up for summer camp? We are considering switching our daughter to a new school for pre K this fall, but my twins aren’t old enough this year for the new school’s preschool program. So I’d drop them off at current school, then drop my daughter off at the new school. This will only be for a year because she’ll go to public kindergarten on the bus next fall.
Given my husband’s work schedule, I handle most pickups and dropoffs solo. I WFH and have a flexible schedule; the second dropoff/pickup add about 10-15 mins each trip. (5-7 mins driving)
At new school, we’d sign her up for aftercare and summer camp. Even with that, we’d save about $4,000 a year. We’ll move the twins next year (fall 2027) when they’re 3, but debating if the hassle of two schools plus the transition for our daughter is worth it.
DD (5) has had a rash on her face for three days, we think from some face paint that got washed off after ~6 hours on her face, but the rash has stayed on. At this point, do we just wait for it to go away or is there a child-safe treatment? It doesn’t seem to be itchy or painful, just…rashy. We tried benadryl last night but no change.
I am mosquito-bait; I always have been. The disease risks in my area don’t warrant the chemical exposure it takes for bug spray to protect me (IMHO). But therefore, I spend a lot of time covered with golf-ball sized welts, many of which break the skin.
What is the social convention for showing my arms and legs? I am out-and-about more in the summer as a mom, and I want to be intentional about modeling body values for my kids. I’m trying to find the line where I am ignoring unreasonable beauty standards but following social grooming rule.
Related to the question below – do you let your kids wear sweats to school or out and about (besides errands or athletic stuff)?
I’m not a formal or old fashioned person (currently in the office in jeans and Birkenstocks!) but I just don’t think sweats (even “nicer ones”) are appropriate for school, going to someone’s house, or going out to eat at a sit down restaurant,.
This decision is not super popular with my kid (9). FYI, they do change for gym class and I’m very clear that I expect “play clothes” to come home dirty, with grass stains or with a torn knee or paint all over them – as my mother said coming home from a day of school looking like a mess means you had fun that day. My kids play hard, which is what I want them to do, so the clothes I do prefer them in don’t hold them back from recess or other fun.
Help me shop! My 11 year old daughter wears sweats and sportswear everyday but we’re going to London for spring break and will have some activities where sweats won’t cut it. Most of her clothes are from target, old navy, and Costco … so not very fashionable. Where can I get comfy, elevated outfits? Links would’ve really helpful, bc I’m clearly challenged here!
Grimm’s toys have been following me around instagram and I am obsessed, but sadly they don’t ship to the US rn. Looks like a few US stores still have some Grimm’s toys but they’re majorly marked up. The toys I’m loving most are the wooden stacking rainbows and rainbow colored bowls.
Any recommendations for US-based sellers that have beautiful wooden toys that don’t use toxic paints/dyes? I’m afraid to get just anything from Etsy because any toy will immediately go in LO’s mouth.
Passing along this NYT article that touches on recent threads here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/nyregion/students-school-screen-time-parents-concern.html
The title is “iPads in Kindergarten, YouTube on Breaks: The School Screen-Time Battle.”
Eighty-one percent of elementary teachers across the United States who were surveyed by The New York Times in October said that at their schools, students receive devices in class by kindergarten. Parents and experts say too many schools have become reliant on screens to teach and entertain children and, in some cases, just to keep them quiet.
Spring break is coming up and DH will just be coming out of a cast for a broken leg, so our typical trips (either serious hiking or urban adventuring) are off the table for now. He will be mobile but not have much stamina. Any ideas for sedentary-ish activities that we could do? We will go to the movies one day and then to a local board game studio another day. DC area, could probably drive up to 3 hours each way for a brief overnight trip.
Californians –
We’re spending Easter in California and I asked my son what he wanted to do – Jelly Bean Factory, Barnes and Noble, Trader Jos, and Panera Bread… I don’t understand how he knows these places exist?
We fly out of SFO so will have a day in the city on each end of the trip, and are going to Yosemite for 2 nights, but generally just bopping about up north. What other quintessential Californian/American things should we do? Channel my Californian childhood and go to Sutter’s Fort?
Why do I bother sending my retired boomer parents our school and break schedules months in advance when they are just going to wait until the last minute to try scheduling a visit based on what’s convenient for them? Also feeling salty because my parents and siblings just planned a family vacation without us and they have not even acknowledged that we are being left out… because we can’t randomly take a week off school and work in the middle of April, just after spring break. In the scheme of things my extended family is fine and my complaints are minor, but I still sometimes feel like quiet quitting them.
I’m the person who posted about the piano teacher who seemed to expect me to be overly involved. It’s been going much better than I expected! The teacher does not ask me to interact during the lesson, so I just sit there and read a book. She did ask me if I’m closely supervising practice and I told her directly that my daughter doesn’t take correction from me well and although I’m happy to make sure she’s practicing, I don’t think it would end well if I try to give her advice about how to play. The teacher seemed ok with that.
Knock on wood, but so far my daughter is doing a great job with practice on her own. She loves for me to be her audience but I don’t say anything critical – and I wouldn’t know what to say even if I wanted to. The teacher commented at the last lesson that my daughter has improved so much and she can tell she’s practicing a lot. Not that she’s some kind of prodigy or anything, but it’s nice to see her hard work leading to improvement.
I’m the poster from yesterday with a 2E (ADHD) 4th grader that’s having problems in math. I spent some time with her after school yesterday and saw the kinds of mistakes she’s making and wanted to see if anyone had suggestions in terms of if these are math problems or ADHD problems and what kind of help we ought to pursue. Assume that the school has been useless (she’s not failing, they don’t see a problem).
– In doing subtraction with regrouping, she was often doing things like failing to realize she had to regroup. Eg. “3-7=4” I had her walk through the problems out loud, step by step, and she kept seeing “3-7” and saying 4. I asked her finally to do it on her fingers and she was like ooooh yeah duh.
– For some word problems where you have to write the problem then solve it, she would sometimes just mis-copy the numbers. Eg. “There were 123 sandwiches and Bob ate 25, how many are left?” She’d write “125-25=100 sandwiches.”
– When writing an equation she would sometimes not align the places correctly and then when she solved it, it was way off.
– There was a problem set that asked them to rewrite a subtraction equation vertically, solve it, then check with with addition. She really struggled to understand what to do, even though just one problem set above she was using addition to check her subtraction no problem.
Thoughts? DH and I were brainstorming possible accommodations or general tips/strategies to help her, such as maybe using graph paper would help her keep her equations organized (but runs the risk of transposing numbers if she has to copy everything over).
Her teacher has said that she just needs practice with basic math facts, which I did not see at all in this type of work. I have seen her not understanding concepts in the past (eg. place value) but this seems much more tied to organization and focus and I’m not sure what kind of help to look for.