Family Friday: Candy Land The World of Sweets Game
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My three-year-old son, H, is not really playing board games yet, which is similar to my older son, J, who was around three and a half when he started. I recently downloaded The Orchard by HABA for $3.99 on iTunes, and it’s a very easy game — there’s no setup, which is nice, and he can play it by himself. I think that primed us for Candy Land, which is a great first game, so this app is good if you’re looking for something even easier to get them started. I’d love to hear from you guys about your favorite board games for kiddos, especially first games. Candy Land is $12.99 at Amazon. Candy Land The World of Sweets Game
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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I started working with my kids on manners at like…15 months. Please, thank you, No thank you, etc. started teaching shapes and the letters of their names during coloring time; your kids will learn this in school but my older one could write her first name alone when she started pre school 3s, and she was the only one. shes 4 now and desperately wants to read (like, gets emotional about how she can’t read words) so we’re working on really basic sight words so she can have small wins (she can read/write everyone’s name in our family and maybe 10 other words now).
My younger kid (19 months) is being “taught” an insane amount of stuff by my older one. she knows *so many* words/shapes/colors and it’s all thanks to big sister. I just sit and observe their brains at work.
Both of mine are fiercely independent and my younger one can put on her own shoes and unzip/take off/put away her own coat which she has not gotten from daycare (yet). To be fair, I buy outerwear that’s super easy for kids because o don’t have time to dress an entire family every day. Younger one wants to do everything “my own self” so sometimes getting dressed takes 500 years and her pants are backwards and her clothes don’t match.
Can’t nest comments from phone but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the csection tips. They were all very helpful and I’m feeling a bit better
The BEST toddler game by far (and I mean for little ones — 18 months or so) is “Roll and Play.” It’s a big stuffed die (maybe 6 inches a side) and six sets of cards. You roll a color on the die and pick a matching color card. There’s an action on the card (“find something blue,” “moo like a cow,” “do a silly dance,”). No scoring, no winning, just slightly organized play time.
Considering making my own expansion pack cards for it.
Any recent experience with LOFT maternity pants? I had a pair my last pregnancy that had such a tight panel that they were unbearable, but I’d love to get some maternity skinny pants and usually wear LOFT skinny ankle pants. Are the panels still so tight? (That said, they have like three pair of pants in my size currently, none of which are the skinny ankle pants, so … we’ll see if they’re just end of season low stock or what.)
I’m pretty empathetic to your sister here. I loved carrying my babies even though I had health challenges each time. I’m sad that the pregnancy phase of my life is over. DH and I went through a significant rough patch last year but we worked through it and our marriage is now better than it ever was, including pre-kids. You also don’t know if this was a planned pregnancy or not. It is planned in the sense that she is continuing it but no birth control is 100% and I know that unless my life was at risk, I would not chose to terminate a pregnancy that DH and I had conceived no matter how unplanned. I also would not likely tell anyone that it was ‘unplanned’ because it would be planned in the sense that I chose not to terminate and I would not want to risk a child overhearing something like that in the future.
You can’t ‘solve’ anything. If you want to support, ask what she would like you to do. If you don’t want to do anything additional, that’s okay too. It doesn’t make you a bad person. And I can see turning down babysitting offers as sometimes my kids do best when we stick to routine as much as possible and special days out can lead to tough behavior for days afterwards. Don’t take it personally if she doesn’t accept offers of help.
Do you guys have recommendations for books on what to teach your young children at home? I have a 2 and 3 year old, and outside of potty training, I don’t know even the basic things I should be teaching them, like colors, etc, and when. Thank you!
I need to vent here so I don’t vent my concern and worry all over a family member, but …
My sister is pregnant with kiddo #3. This also is her 3rd pregnancy with hypermesis gravidarum. She’s 9 weeks along and is already on IV fluids at home because she can’t keep up nutritionally. She literally lost 10 pounds in less than two weeks. If her previous pregnancies are any indication, she will struggle to not lose weight her entire pregnancy. Frightening stuff. She has had health issues after her first two pregnancies, some of which are related to the hypermesis, and I am scared for her. The baby is OK so far, but at what point is her body just going to say, enough already? She quit her full-time nursing job this week because physically she cannot do it without further endangering her health.
I don’t know how to best support her right now. I’ve offered to watch her kids (ages 2 and 4) so she can rest, and she brushes it off. Bringing food over is more for her family’s benefit than hers because her health issues require a very limited diet that I am not very equipped to accommodate without causing more harm than good. I’m there for her to vent and share her problems with, but there’s nothing I can actually help her *solve.*
I would never, ever, ever say this to her, but I’m somewhat angry that she and her DH decided to try for a third knowing full well what it does to her health. She and her DH were on the verge of separation last summer partly because of the stress of dealing with her health issues and their son’s. I love her dearly, and she’s a great mom, but my gosh this seems reckless. We calculate risk very differently.
I’m in the same boat with my 12.5 month old. I’ve been making stuff every other weekend or so and sending to day care. Lunch is always a meat, veggie, fruit and cheese. Snacks are usually some version of toddler muffin/cookie (sweetened with fruit only) and cheese or crackers and cheese/peanut butter.
Dr. Prager’s spinach/kale/broccoli littles
various frozen veggies
meatballs
chicken meatloaf
egg/sweet potato or banana “pancakes” – sometime as sandwich with cream cheese and date paste
toddler muffins, breads, cookies — (search for example, sweet potato banana bites, pumpkin breakfast cookies, strawberry mango and banana bread)
peanut butter or cream cheese crackers
cut up cheese with dates or some fruit
quinoa cheesy veggie bites
15 month old wants to be held constantly. He wants to be held from the time I get home from work until he goes to bed. And by me, not by my husband. Of course, this isn’t possible, so we get horrible crying, just wretched sobs. If we are playing, he will drag toys over to sit on my lap and play with them. This is new for us – normally he’s happy to play with me near by or hang out watching me put dinner together, but doesn’t need to be in physical contact with me. Has anyone dealt with this? Solved it? The only plus is that my arms are getting mad strong.
I could use some school food help for my 1 year old. He is a good eater, but I basically send the same two varieties of food to school for him because that is what is easy. Here’s what he eats:
breakfast: 1/2 a waffle and a banana
lunch: mix vegetables (from frozen bag), sweet potato tots, some kind of meat
snack: berries, cottage cheese
He literally has this every day. AND, he’s one of those kids that only eats food at school – he is on strike for dinner, but his teachers say he eats everything I sent him. So unless we go out for dinner/on the weekends – these are all the foods I feed him, which I feel bad about. I think he needs more variety, right? Any suggestions on super easy alternatives for his meals?
I just had an unplanned c-section a few months ago. Take the stool softeners on a schedule like its your job!! I didn’t take narcotics (was offered them SO MANY times, but I know from other surgeries that I don’t like them), and found the pain manageable with Ibuprofen/Tylenol combo. I stopped taking even those after maybe 7-10 days though. Take all the mesh underwear from the hospital you can, or order some on Amazon. You can wash these. I wore them for the first 6 weeks. Buy a pair of larger pajama pants, if you don’t already have some. I borrowed a few from my husband. If you aren’t already a leggings person, order a pair of black ones! These were lifesavers for those first few times I had to leave the house and look moderately respectable. I wore them all the time at home — they helped me feel a little more put together. If you can have someone stay with you for the first three weeks (to let you sleep), DO IT. My MIL stayed with me when my husband went back to work after 2 weeks — so helpful to let me rest. This is surgery–you have to recover. Also, try to get up and get moving when you can, but rest a ton too. Good luck!
My older daughter started with candy land at 2.5. It took her until almost 3 to really get it. By 3.5 she could do Chutes and Ladders, She’s not quite 4.5 now and a master of games: Chess, all kids of card games (old maid, go fish, Uno etc), tic tack toe, connect 4, Zingo, 20 questions, basically anything that doesn’t involve reading unless it’s super easy and she can do sight words).
FWIW $12.99 for candyland is a crime. You often see it for $5.
My kids are a bit over two and very interested in other kids’ bikes and scooters. I’m thinking ahead to spring, and would love to get them the next step up from the little cars they sit on and push around with their feet (whcih they love). Do kids do tricycles anymore or just balance bikes? Should we do one of those first or a scooter?
I’m thinking of introducing late spring, so they’ll be close to 2.5. Thoughts on what to do first and when?
Thanks!
My daughter is two and she got Go Away Monsters for Christmas. It’s a nice easy game – everyone has a board with a unfinished bedroom, and you pick pieces (lamp, bed, etc) out of a bag along with monsters. If you get a monster you say “go away, monster” and have a designated place to put it. It sounds pretty lame but I was impressed that she “got” it at 2.
my 3.5 year old will NOT sh*t in the can. She holds it and only does it in the diaper during nap-time or at night. We keep talking with her about going (and have offered her every reward incentive known to man), but she will not do it.
I don’t want to “discipline” or “scold” or “shame” her. So, how do I make this work?
Tips????