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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?
UK trip with baby says
London and the North (Yorkshire Dales, Liverpool) in June for a week with an 8 month old. Crazy? If not crazy, any tips for smooth travels and what to do? We would be staying in a flat in London. Not sure about lodging up North.
Anonymous says
Not at all crazy! Are you planning to rent a car in London or take the train? Depending on what you’re doing up north I’d suggest a baby carrier rather than a stroller.
Cb says
Do it! Maybe a Yoyozen, something that you can get on the tube/bus easily. Or buy a cheap McClaren and drop it at a charity shop en route to the airport.
UK trip with baby says
Train, I think! One traveler loves the Yorkshire Dales (from TV and books haha no first hand experience, so travel tips are very welcome!) and would be happy to stroll around them with baby. Other traveler is huge Beatles fan and might peel off to Liverpool (following some of the suggestions on the main site for activities there!)
Any thoughts on best train route from London to these places? Maybe it makes sense to have Yorkshire person stay in one place for second half of the trip. Cheaper to fly back to US from an airport like Manchester or Glasgow? Or just train back down to London?
Sorry, everyone! I am frazzled and excited!
Anonymous says
Add Jane Austen to the James Herriot and Beatles sites, and I am there for this tour!
UK with baby says
How did you know? LOL huge James Herriot fans in this household.
Anonymous says
With babies I always preferred direct flights, if possible, so if you can fly LHR to home without stopping, I’d be in favor of taking the train back to London for a night and then flying home. If you have to change planes anyway, may as well go from on of the northern airports.
Anon says
Counterpoint, a baby that young will likely sleep on the plane and isn’t going to be fussed about a long trip with a layover. I think direct flights are way more important with toddlers.
Cb says
This sounds fun! My knowledge of England (in stereotypical adopted Scottish fashion, I will holiday in the Lake District and begrudgingly go to London but that’s it) but I think you’d want to do London, dispatch Beatles fan to Liverpool and back, and then travel north together. Liverpool to the Yorkshire dales would likely be 6 trains. Then come back to London (or Manchester, maybe?) for the flight home. The Aer Lingus route is a good option, you clear US customs in Dublin and it’s nice to arrive in the US as a domestic flight.
UK with baby says
These are such great tips! Thank you. That’s exactly the kind of logistics I can’t figure out from Google maps across the pond! :)
Anokha says
We took our 6 month old to London years ago, and we had such a great trip! I would second bringing a baby carrier; trying to manage the Tube with a stroller was awful.
Anon says
probiotic recs for a 3 year old? Doctor said she should start taking one but didn’t have any particular suggestions
SBJ says
My kids really like the Olly probiotic gummies and another random brand I found at Target. Basically if it comes in gummy form, they’re willing to take it and I’ve seen a real positive benefit from them so I’m ok feeding the kids gummies every morning.
AwayEmily says
This is what we use, too.
Anon says
I like Culturelle.
Anonymous says
We do a probiotic gummy (culturelle). On the plus side, my kid happily takes them. On the other hand, I don’t think it’s made any difference for us.
NYCer says
We use Mary Ruth’s Organics. It is a liquid probiotic. Sometimes the kids just squirt it straight into their mouths and sometimes I add it to their water/milk/juice.
anon in brooklyn says
The Olly kids probiotic worked great for us, but they discontinued it and I’m almost out of my stash. The Olly multivitamin with probiotic did not have the same effect as the just probiotic one.
Consequences says
Those with older kids, what do you use as consequences when your kids are rude & disrespectful? To teachers or at home. Child in question is a 3rd grade bpy with ADHD, so I’m reluctant to take away things like outside time with friends or sports that can be helpful in moderating his behavior.
Anonymous says
For kids with ADHD, immediate consequences generally have more impact than taking away privileges later on. We use a lot of “try again,” sometimes with two or three chances. If the behavior continues, the consequence depends on the context. If the kid is resisting getting started on homework, we get out the books for them, set up the homework on the kitchen table, and sit next to the kid while the homework gets done. If they are refusing to end a screentime session, we collect all the devices and put them in timeout for a day or two. If it’s just general sassiness, we send them to another room until they can be civil. Etc.
Have you consulted with the pediatrician about medication for ADHD? We noticed an immediate and dramatic improvement in attitude and behavior once the ADHD was properly treated. A lot of the oppositional behavior seemed to result from difficulty with transitions, sensory overwhelm, and exhaustion from trying to keep it together at school all day.
OP says
Thank you. General sassiness, eye-rolling, verbal and physical outbursts, etc. “Try again” and downtime used to work, but lately he’s just waking up angry and staying angry all the time, no matter what we do. I’m sure there’s some external root cause triggering it that we need to figure out and address, but meanwhile I can’t let him act like this with impunity. it’s so frustrating!
And yes, consult is the next step. We worked with a mental health practice that specializes in ADHD last year, but decided not to pursue medication at that time. I contacted them again this morning to re-evaluate and also get parent coaching set up for me and especially my husband. I’m glad to hear medication had such a quick positive effect!
Anonymous says
Our kid wakes up angry and becomes their ordinary wonderful little self as soon as the ADHD meds kick in. It’s truly amazing.
Anonymous says
The assumption that you should be able to parent your way out of this behavior is cruel to both parents and children. We spent way too many years trying to parent our way out of it. Get the consultation and get the real solutions. Parent coaching is essential but only goes so far.
OP says
Thanks for this real talk. I didn’t mean to imply that parent coaching in isolation is a solution. The practice we’ve worked with is likely to recommend medication, coaching and therapy for parents and child. Compared to last year, I’m ready to go all in with it. My husband understandably has a lot of big feelings about how son will internalize feeling like a problem that needs to be solved, but I’m regretting that we didn’t start with all of it last year as prevention before it got to a crisis point. ADHD is hard, y’all.
Anonymous says
Hugs to you, OP. My point is that you should give yourself a lot of grace if you aren’t able to stop the behavior with parenting techniques alone. You said above “meanwhile, I can’t let him continue to act like this with impunity.” You aren’t letting him get away with anything. You are doing your best in a situation that may well be impossible without formal interventions, so don’t beat yourself up. With the right interventions it does get better, I promise!
Anonymous says
Your husband needs to know that untreated ADHD is much worse for self-esteem than being “labeled.” With his current behavior, it’s likely he already feels like a problem that needs to be solved.
Anonymous says
I don’t think you can do much before the ADHD is treated.
anon says
We take away Roblox or Nintendo Switch privileges for a day at a time depending on the offense. And when we have traced certain undesirable behavior/language to certain shows, we have banned them indefinitely. We also had to cut off Youtube entirely because of the inappropriate nonsense my sons were finding there.
Anonymous says
not sure about ADHD, but I have a second grader who turned 8 in September, so she’s the same age as some young 3rd graders. She loses screen time when she is mouthy. Depending on what she does and what she is interested in doing that day/week, she may lose time on her tablet, or TV time (we don’t always allow her to use the tablet so it’s not necessarily always a good punishment.) Sometimes we have her do a chore or other thing– if she’s nasty to me when I ask her to make her bed and clean up her stuff, for example, I’ve added to the chore list. I try to frame it as “when you treat me like that, it isn’t kind and I don’t want to do kind things for you. You’ll be making your own lunch this week.” etc.
Anonymous says
For kids with ADHD who are nasty when asked to do chores because they are overwhelmed, adding chores as punishment is counterproductive. You have to address the ADHD before ordinary parenting tactics will be effective.
Anonymous says
Yes, and also, not always. Sometimes the behavior is because they are moody and grumpy, not because of ADHD. While I absolutely agree that it should be thoughtfully considered, ADHD cannot be there default excuse for bad behavior.
Anonymous says
ADHD isn’t an excuse for bad behavior, but if you tell a moody and grumpy kid with ADHD that they are going to have to do extra chores you will likely get a different result than you would from giving extra chores to a moody and grumpy kid without ADHD. You don’t want to impose a consequence that is counterproductive.
SC says
I have a 6 year old with ADHD. It’s first grade, not third, but he’s definitely old enough for rude and disrespectful behavior, and just general button pushing. I will say that we pick our battles, and we do not necessarily have a big consequence for every instance of sass. We try to focus on behavior correction in the moment–not giving him something until he asks politely, sometimes just an “excuse me?”, stopping a fun activity and explaining we don’t want to play anymore when we’re treated unkindly. If Kiddo is trying to get out of something, we’ll add time to the thing–sometimes, we’ll even send him to his room and make him do the thing without the attitude when he calms down.
I’m not as confident in this approach, but in general, when I am focusing on behavior correction and Kiddo starts complying, I let the bad attitude go. For example, if I’ve warned Kiddo that he must get himself dressed for school by a 7:30 or he loses his screen time that afternoon, and he’s now actively putting on his clothes, I’ll ignore an outburst that I’m mean. Sure, I’d rather express his feelings about getting dressed a different way, but putting on his shoes is an improvement over burying himself in the blankets on his bed.
Anonymous says
Re. school, classroom behavior is the teacher’s problem to deal with. Ask the teacher how you can support them, but don’t take on responsibility for solving it yourself.
OP says
Thanks everyone for the support and ideas to chew on. My husband also has ADHD and takes medication only when he “needs it” for work, which is not every day. I guess I didn’t mention that originally, but anyway there are some layers to his feelings about it, and also how and son interact with each other. It’s a lot.
Anonymous says
Oh, gosh, that is a lot.
Katarina says
I also have a third grader, who is newly diagnosed with ADHD, and we are awaiting a consult. My husband also has/had ADHD. He was medicated as a child, but stopped taking the medicine as soon as he was allowed a say, maybe around Middle School. From his perspective the medicine wasn’t useful.
Fallen says
I was looking for thoughts on how to work with my almost 9 year old to start thinking about contributing to society and helping to make the world a better place.
We live in a very affluent community, and sometimes I get the sense that everyone just values money/success (maybe I am wrong), and I want her to think a bit deeper than that (a lot of her conversations and those of her friends are about who has the bigger house, more toys, what prestigious college they are going to go to), but feel lost as to where to start. I guess I just want her to grow into a person who cares less about thing/prestige/success and more about deeper values/how to make the world a better place.
AIMS says
Volunteer! Go to a soup kitchen, plant stuff in a public garden, visit old people in a hospital. Some of this may be harder now, but a lot of it is still possible.
Spirograph says
A faith community can be great for this. If you are not particularly religious, but not opposed to religious influence, maybe check out a Unitarian congregation. Otherwise, check out what non-profits are in your area, or ask her what she’s interested in and seek out organizations that support those causes and ask how she can support.
EDAnon says
Our kids go to religious education at a Unitarian church and it’s excellent. Great moral education and more exploration about religion (so not ignoring but not requiring that they hold certain beliefs).
Clementine says
In addition to focusing on effort but not achievement, it’s really important to us to teach our kids to help others in the community.
We opt to do quite a bit of hands on actions that positively impact the causes we feel strongly about and engage our kids with that. For example, we bring coloring books and crayons to the children’s room at the Family Court building. When our kids are gifted coloring books (we have more than we could ever use), we work together to decide which ones will be the ‘most fun’ to share.
In general, I prefer to donate money but kids see more tangible things. We will often make a big batch of cookies and bring those cookies and a gallon or two of milk to the local center for the Homeless/Unhoused. At Christmas, we add things like socks and underwear and gloves.
This summer, we are also going to participate in an invasive species monitoring project while we’re hiking. It’s basically a bug scavenger hunt.
Anonymous says
Here are some things we do:
– Discuss current events with a focus on social justice. Listen to NPR in the car. Talk about my social justice job at the dinner table.
– Take our daughter with us to vote and then out to breakfast.
– Girl Scouts, in a troop that does a fair number of hands-on service projects. Church youth groups can also be good for this.
– Service camps/mission trips.
– Attend rallies and protests, always with safety in mind. Where direct involvement is not safe, visit the site after the fact. For example, we did not attend rallies demanding the removal of Confederate statues in our city, but we went a few days later to view the public artwork set up at the sites.
– Read books and watch movies with themes of social justice and equality (Hidden Figures was a favorite).
– Visit museums and historical sites. Point out inclusive casting at the ballet. Identify themes of racial and social justice in art we see.
Anon says
None of this has much to do with money privilege though. I’m not saying it isn’t good to also talk about social justice and racial equality, but I don’t think this gets at the heart of what OP is asking about. It also always feels a little low key racist to me when people respond to discussions about how to check a kid’s financial privilege by talking about racial equality. Black people can be wealthy too!
Anonymous says
OK, let me be a little more specific. I talk with my kid about my job working with public defenders, on criminal justice reform, and on access to civil justice in cases such as evictions that affect low-income people. We talk a lot about income inequality in the news. Our service projects and mission trips are to prepare food for the homeless, sort food at the food bank, and do home repairs for low-income people.
I mentioned our activities more generally related to social and racial justice because you can’t really fight poverty without also fighting racism, and because I assumed that if OP cared about the poor she also cared about these issues.
EDAnon says
I volunteer at the polls so my husband brings my kids to vote while I work. We all love it.
Other things we do: They asked a lot about taxes this year so we explained what taxes are and why it’s important to pay them. They also helped us decide where to make a large (for us!) charitable gift with some unexpected tax refund money. We talked a lot about who to help and why.
Anonymous says
Consider starting to volunteer with her. I feel like exposure is key. I do not have direct experience with this because I grew up in and am raising my daughter in a fairly mixed-economic-status community, but I know very wealthy friends from college who were extremely conscientious and cared deeply about economic justice, etc. It’s great that you have this on your radar. Simply talking about it is also a good first step.
anonymous says
She may be a bit young for this, but volunteering or some type of community service would give her exposure to different types of environments.
Anonymous says
My daughter once went with a friend’s family to cook for Food Not Bombs. I was a little leery of the group’s radical leanings, but taking perfectly good food that had been discarded, cooking it, and serving it directly to people from all kinds of backgrounds made quite an impact on my daughter.
LittleBigLaw says
I would also suggest looking for activities that pull her out of her bubble in a more organic way. For example, picking the park-league sports team instead of the private club team, signing her up for a summer camp that caters to a broader group of kids, etc. I’m not against volunteering at all, but there’s real value in learning to empathize through common experiences and seeing people with different values/backgrounds/advantages as peers.
Anon says
This. Volunteering is worthwhile, but I’m not sure it has much impact on the rich kids doing the volunteer work, at least not based on the super privileged kids I went to college with. A rich kid from the suburbs isn’t going to see a 50 year old homeless man from the inner city as their peer, nor is it reasonable to expect them to. What she needs is to get out of her bubble and meet people who are her actual peers who aren’t so privileged.
anon says
Yeah I have to disagree with the commenters here who think volunteering will help solve the problem OP has. I grew up in a wealthy town too and we all volunteered. We left the soup kitchen saying things like “ew that was gross.” It made us more entrenched in our privilege, to be perfectly honest. It wasn’t until I married a blue collar guy at age 27 that I truly understood wealth privilege. You guys can tell me I’m a horrible person (or I was a horrible teenager) but that was my honest experience
Anon says
You’re not a horrible person. Every privileged teen I know (me included) was the same. To me, volunteering is a way rich people pat themselves on the back for doing something good without actually checking their privilege at all. See also all the Housewives episodes where they take their ultra wealthy kids to soup kitchens for two hours to try to appear relatable to the viewers.
anonM says
Yes, this. There’s a cool outreach near our town where everyone serves food and eats together. Anyone able brings food to share, but they’re eating it too.
Anonymous says
+1. Our YMCA camps were good for this.
Spirograph says
These are great ideas, too.
Aunt Jamesina says
Yes, a HUGE issue I found when I used to work in a wealthy high school district was that students did lots of volunteer activities and felt a level of compassion for others, but they viewed people in poor neighboring communities and certain parts of the world as their volunteer projects, not as their fellow humans. Very white savior attitude. I think that getting them to actually befriend people from different backgrounds goes a long way.
Anon says
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s way more important for rich kids to interact with middle class kids than to volunteer with people in genuine poverty. It’s too easy to see people who are homeless or living in an impoverished country as “other,” which is an understandable impulse – for a rich American kid those circumstances are so foreign from what they know that it doesn’t really drive home the point about how privileged they are compared to the average person. And, let’s be real, the average person is not homeless or needing to visit a food bank. The best thing is for them to regularly play with other kids who have food and shelter but don’t live in McMansions or drive fancy cars, don’t travel internationally regularly, don’t have parents with advanced degrees, etc.
Anonymous says
Your 9 year old talks to her friends about what colleges they’ll go to? That’s a parent problem, not a kid problem.
The average HHI in my town is like, $250k. We live in a $1.5M home as do many of my kids’ friends. DH and I went to very elite and very expensive colleges and grad schools.
It has never, not once ever, come up as a point of conversation with my 9 year old and her friends. I think the only time my kids even discussed colleges was when we were talking about silly mascots and we talked about some of the silly ones tied to our colleges (go ephs! Go jumbos! ;)) or when we took the kids into Boston for the Beanpot and we talked about how many colleges there are in Boston.
My 6 year old wants to cut hair professionally and I think my 4 year old still wants to be a clown.
Anonymous says
Eh, little kids whose parents are very into college sports sometimes talk about what school they are going to.
Anon says
Eh, my 4 year old talks a lot about what college she wants to go to. Most days it’s the state university where she goes to daycare and where my husband and I work, although sometimes it’s my husband’s alma mater or mine (which she has heard us reference in passing), or the college where her aunt works. Last I heard she wants to be “a ballerina and a mom and a doctor and a construction worker and a garbage truck driver,” and only one of those five occupations requires a college degree.
These kids are probably just repeating offhand comments about certain colleges the heard from their parents. I highly doubt the actually fixated on getting into to Harvard or wherever.
Anonymous says
That is different than how I read the OP’s post. A 4 year old whose parents work at a university is not the same as 9 year old where “a lot of her conversations and those of her friends are about […] what prestigious college they are going to go to”. Unless you are talking about a bunch of 9 year olds throwing a football around the Yale Bowl during The Game because their parents are tailgating talking smack about when they get to Yale they will obviously beat Harvard. It does not sound like that’s the case here.
Cb says
My son told me he wanted to be a political scientist so he could be with me all day :) That’s really sweet kiddo but go be a plumber b/c there is no job security in academia.
He’s aware of universities, mostly because his mom and pals’ parents work at them. He likes to tell people I work for the Queen’s university…
Anonymous says
Lol, I tell my kiddo that she should be a plumber or electrician for the same reasons. I’m not in academia, but in a similarly grant-funded job.
Anon says
Aww too cute!
Anon says
I think you are unfairly extrapolating your specific experience with your specific kids and their friends onto the OP. A 9 year old is exposed directly or indirectly to a million different external influences, and it is hard to know which of those things they will digest and fixate on or why. All it would take is one of OP’s kid’s friends big sisters they all idolize to go through the college process and there you go. Or see a movie/read a book/watch a TV show where this is a topic, and same.
I’m sure there are some parents that obsess over prestigious colleges for their kids from a young age and that’s not great, but I think it’s unfair to assume that’s that’s the case here. (OR one of OP’s kid’s friend’s parents is like this which will rub off on the other kid friends).
OP says
From my daughter, “My friend said that her dad told her she needs to go to some school that starts with an H, and only losers go to other colleges” I promise I am not making this up. We live in a very wealthy burb in CT, so that may be part of it. Our house is close to 2.5M, but a lot of her friends are in 5+M homes. Moms don’t work and have nannies type of situation.
I come from a poor-to-middle class family (Ukraine, actually – a part of this feeling lately comes from the discrepancy I see in my town from family who is still there now and just being like WTF my kid will never get this). Both my H and I paid for their own college. We are well-off financially due to DH career’s choice and my private practice doing very well (I am a Psychologist), but my entire career was chosen based on helping others and making a ton of money was never the primary goal, so these kind of comments are just so upsetting.
And thank you to everyone for the suggestions! I am making a big list of to do items. We already send her to YMCA aftercare which helps, and we don’t do fancy camps so that’s always helpful. I am going to look into volunteering opportunities too, and ways to discuss some of the things going on in the world now. We used to go to church, but stopped with covid, but maybe now is the time to start again.
Anonymous says
Honestly, why don’t you move? This place sounds out of alignment with your family’s values.
Anon says
Yeah, I agree. I have a level of wealth (just by virtue of being an American and earning six figures) that I’m pretty sure puts me in the top 0.1% of global earners, and us and all of our neighbors are privileged to be able to buy everything we need as well as much of what we want (travel, fun summer camps, nice cars, etc.). But this kind of ultra-wealthy, materially-focused lifestyle your describe sounds really awful to me and it’s not an environment I would want to raise children in, even if I had the money to do so.
I think you want to be told that if you parent well your kids will turn out fine despite growing up in this toxic culture, and I’m not sure that’s true. I’m not insulting your parenting, which I’m sure is excellent, I think it’s just really hard to override this kind of pervasive societal messaging and kids, teens especially, are so influenced by their peers and the messages they hear outside the home.
Anon says
We are looking to move to Fairfield county and I am so wanting to avoid this mindset for my kids, too (I have all boys…so it feels extra important).
I read a news story where one very wealthy town proposed bussing in kids from the next door less wealthy but perfectly fine city and the whole thing felt soooo icky to me – both the part about rich people thinking they need to “save” the other kids by bussing them in, and the part where residents opposed it because they didn’t want to spend money on THOSE people.
We are, in fact, looking to move to that “worse” city, in large part for a little more diversity and level-headedness. My kids are in a diverse school now (economically, racially) and it is wonderful. I think organically interacting with and making “best friends” with people different from you is a great/ the best way to accept diversity as normal and good
Anonymous says
I would bus the rich kids out instead of just busing the less wealthy kids in. That’s how it worked where I grew up.
Anonymous says
Private school or public? If public, is there an option to be bused to a magnet or even just a less ritzy school?
S says
I’m not wealthy but have a lot more money than I grew up with and so my kids have less organic low-key deprivation than I did growing up. We’ll see how it lands long term but I try to discuss gratitude for what we have regularly and my kids definitely seem to pick up on it for now. For example, we just had a school book fair and I said that we were really lucky that I could put some extra money in her account to buy books. (And I do feel really lucky!)
Anonymous says
I worry some about the lack of “organic low-key deprivation.” We don’t have a fancy life, but my kid has unlimited food that she likes to eat, all the medical care she needs, cute clothes that she picked out herself, all the extracurriculars she has time for, and a nicely decorated bedroom with furniture that did not come from a garage sale. She has been to cool summer camps, traveled more in her first two years of life than I did before I graduated from college, correctly assumes that we will be able to afford car insurance so she can learn to drive when the time comes, and knows that even if we can’t pay full freight for Harvard we plan for her to attend a perfectly nice college with zero loans. In short, she has all the things I never had and just about everything a kid could need or want. We have tried to counter this some by making her wait for big items like a cell phone and a video game system, giving her an allowance instead of buying whatever she wants, talking openly about the budgeting tradeoffs we make, etc., but I don’t think she will truly get how cushy her childhood was until she is in grad school living the student lifestyle.
Anonymous says
I think that’s ok. She’ll get perspective eventually. I had a childhood similar to your kid and I think I turned out ok. My kids have an even more privileged upbringing than I did (for example, they’ve flown first class more than coach) but they know we’re not going to be bankrolling them past college so they’ll have the lean grad student days just like we did.
Anon says
I recommend the book How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Jerks by Melinda Wenner Moyer. Really good read on this topic.
Anon says
what are some of your favorite meals to cook for your kids (both to pack for lunch and to cook for dinner)? stuck in a rut lately with a very picky 3 year old – feel like he keeps eating the same meals over and over again.
Cb says
I like breakfast for dinner – fancy omelettes, french toast with a side of bacon. I’ve been making amazing vegan lasagne lately but my kiddo won’t have anything to do with it.
Anon says
have you tried having the three year old help you? Even just assembly (like taco bowls or rice bowls). That’s always helpful for mine.
Soup? My kids weirdly will eat most soup.
jz says
Rice and a protein plus seaweed – kid makes rice balls himself
baked ziti and vegs chopped in
noodle soup (just broth plus a veg and a protein and noodles)
AwayEmily says
Also, permission granted to just not worry about feeding him the same meals over and over again if that makes your life easier. Everyone told me that age about 3-5 is the pickiest time and that’s exactly what we found. My kid is about to turn 6, and during the first year or so of her Pickiness Journey (before age 3 she’d eat anything, then it all went downhill) I stressed a lot about it but then kind of gave up and just provided her (and her brother) with kid-friendly entree (e.g. pasta/hot dog/fish sticks) + vegetable + fruit at every dinner, plus a tiny bit of whatever adults were having. In the last few months she’s started being WAY more willing to try the “adult food” and it’s been great. She’s nowhere near being able to just eat whatever we are having (to be fair my husband is a T1 diabetic so we have a lot of kid-unfriendly meals like giant salads) but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. And overall I’m glad I didn’t spend two years continuing to try and find magical meals that everyone would eat (not saying it’s a bad thing to do this at ALL — in fact I think it’s great — but it isn’t where I wanted to spend my mental energy).
Boston Legal Eagle says
AwayEmily, once again, I am totally with you. My kids are in that pickiness stage (3 and 5.5) and especially with the little one, we mostly just serve what he’ll eat (chicken sticks, pbj, fish sticks – no pasta for this kid) and some fruit/veggie sides. I focus more on having us sit down to eat together than what specifically we’re eating, at least for now.
Anon says
Yeah, my 4 year old has about 10 foods she’ll eat, and she gets some combination of them for every meal. I assume she’ll outgrow it at some point, most people I know who were this picky as kids did. If not, it will be her responsibility to fix herself a separate dinner when she’s older. I’m not big into “gentle parenting” normally but I really don’t like the idea of starving a kid into eating your preferred foods, and it’s backfired for us anyway because if she doesn’t get enough calories at dinner she just wakes up in the middle of the night, which makes us all miserable. So we’ve just accepted it and it’s made meals (and life in general) a lot more pleasant.
Anon says
+1. My 4YO eats maybe 30 foods, half of which I do not offer regularly (like french fries, chocolate, cookies, brownies, etc.) so really 15 foods and that’s just what I serve her. As a still picky (but not nearly as picky) adult, I get where she is coming from and I repeat after myself “food is not a battle”. She gets little kid food for meals, we eat grown-up food (or sometimes kid food, let’s be real) and eventually she will either grow out of it or be old enough to cook her own meals (where I learned to cook at an early age). Literally, most days she eats some variation of pancakes (thankfully kodiak cakes made with egg and milk to up the protein and mini m and ms because I am not above bribery), open face peanut butter sandwiches, and a specific brand of chicken tenders with fruit at maybe one of those meals that she picks from the “fruit menu” of fruit she has eaten at least once in the last month (right now, apples, applesauce, grapes, bananas or strawberries) and eats maybe half the time. On occasion she will switch it up with waffles, biscuits and bacon or a particular garlic and ginger beef and rice bowl, mac and cheese or plain spaghetti (a recent add). We continue to offer adult food but I do not remember the last time she tried it. Has not eaten a vegetable of any kind in well over 2 years. Pediatrician is not concerned (her growth is off the charts) and I am confident some of it is genetic (I’m picky based on both taste and texture, my mother is picky about texture, my father is picky about taste), so we are where we are.
Anonymous says
My main worry about serving the same meals over and over is that they get sick of the repeated foods and then refuse to eat them ever again, further restricting the possibilities. This has happened to us a number of times.
Anonymous says
My default in the summer is to grill chicken, then est it all week (hot or cold) with tomatoes, cucumber, feta, spinach & balsamic. I add pasta and feed it to the kids
anon. says
I have extremely picky eaters. At that age, they hated things one day and liked them the next. A dinner food that’s also an easy to pack lunch idea for a change of routine is gnocchi; bonus can be eaten with a fork or fingers at school.
For lunch: My kids also like sunbutter sandwiches or creamcheese and jelly sandwiches cut into shapes with cookie cutters or food stamps (mixes it up!).
Garbage truck obsession says
Please tell me my middle child (4) will eventually outgrow the garbage truck obsession phase. It’s been two years of sustained, intense interest, to the exclusion of almost anything else. The only toys played with at home are trucks and bins, tiny toy bins are filled with a dizzying area of legos, scraps of paper, etc (that are organized and categorized by some Byzantine system I don’t understand but exists because I’ve violated it before and suffered the consequences). We’re asked to take specific driving routes through town for daycare drop off in the hopes that we’ll see garbage trucks (neighborhoods in town have different pick up days; this request is occasionally granted). On our bin pickup day, kid has started waking up at 4 AM panicked about missing the trucks and then it’s restless sleep until 5:45 when I get up, make a coffee, and we sit outside and watch the trucks come. I love my kiddo and I’m sure this level of interest and focus will be helpful later in life but right now… I just want to talk about something else! And get more sleep!
Spirograph says
Awww, they do outgrow it (probably pretty soon. my youngest is 5.5 and he’s done with adjusting his schedule for garbage day), and I kind of miss when my kids used to run out the door and wave at the “trash can truck” when they heard it coming.
Cb says
Aww, my son outgrew it as well which is a shame because our bin lorry drivers in our new town are really nice.
Pogo says
I relate to this, though mine has an obsession with pretty much any truck. I don’t have great advice, but please know that today’s daycare dropoff was delayed because Crane Truck needed to help Dumper right himself and then Loader needed to refill Dumper’s bin. When I tried “Can we maybe help Dumper after school?” I was met with, “Mommy, if you stop asking me that, I will get it done faster!”
The show Trash Truck on Netflix is lovely, though I believe we plowed through it in the first two days of COVID at our house.
So Anon says
My now 11 year old similarly was obsessed with tractors from about 18 months to 5/6. To be honest, I just leaned way into it. I made him a tractor blanket, he had tons of tractor toys, and his favorite excursions involved visiting various tractors. I went for a run once when he was about 2 and lost my mind because there was a giant tractor in a field, only to realize that my son was not near me and I myself was excited to see these really cool tractors. Now that he is 11, the obsession with tractors has faded though he is generally super into a few things. And, he still sleeps under a tractor blanket every night.
That being said, I would absolutely put a few guardrails around the obsession. Can you put a clock in his room with a sign of the trash truck that says 6am? Let him know that before trash night that you will come and get him at X time in the morning. I found with my son that giving him a heads up that we could not drive past the tractors today because we had a doctor’s appointment or whatever helped him understand a bit. He may have still had a tantrum but I do think it was easier. On the endless discussion, I said and still say that my ears need a break from talking about tractors/minecraft. Does he have a grandparent that he can call and just talk about trash trucks when you need a break? Someone else who will engage?
Anonymous says
So, some kids have really intense interests. Anecdotal experience based on my own home, my child who is more intense overall is the one with intense interests. That intense child also has anxiety. With the 4:30 am wake up you might keep an eye out for that overall. In general we find the intensity of interests to be a positive and it’s been fun to watch them grow and change over the years (cars, geography, etc).
jz says
OH man, i have a 2.5 yo who is obsessed with construction vehicles and other large vehicles. i guess good to hear it’s common since i think he’s the only one of his friends whose interest is THAT intense.
Pogo says
Nope. As stated above, my kid is obsessed with all trucks and has been since age 2. His 3rd birthday was his first pandemic birthday so we had one of those signs that says “Honk I’m 3!” or whatever. I had it made up to look like a construction sign with trucks etc. He STILL TO THIS DAY calls it his “men at work” sign and puts it up in the yard whenever he is “doing construction”. best $29 I ever spent at Kinko’s.
Jz says
I don’t mind it other than his obsession with Blippi. Just bracing myself for how long that will last.
Anon says
I know this is a problem for you, but as a uninterested bystander, this sounds kind of adorable.
OP says
It’s totally adorable even for me when it’s not 4-7 AM or we’re late leaving the house because the toy bins have to be emptied first! I can definitely see how adorable it is. Just not when I’m sleep deprived and uncaffeinated!
And I love hearing all the stories of similarly intense obsessions!
anonamama says
Consensus around a good brand for those personalized waterbottle label bands? Kind of like a Livestrong bracelet? Inchbug? Prefer something with fast turnaround. thanks ladies, happy Friday!
FP says
Not sure if you have looked into this but I bought my kids Yeti water bottles when they had a free personalization promo and just got their first name etched on them (seems often enough during gift-giving holidays), and never looked back to labels. I’m in the south and my kids are outside a ton during the spring/summer so I like how cold the water stays during their days – there is usually still ice in the bottles when they come home.
anonamama says
have not! i love this. having just bought an “investment” stanley cup like an influencer would, i like this approach for littles. will investigate!
Mary Moo Cow says
I liked Inchbug because I could slip them off and on water bottles for cleaning, new bottle, etc.
Anon. says
Our daycare got us Inchbugs for marking bottles in the infant room. They’re great.
Casts in snow says
Help! For those of you in snowy climes, what do you do with a kid in an arm cast?
DD just fractured her elbow and we have a trip to Colorado planned in a week. Doctor wasn’t sure about skiing, going to learn more from him next week (it’s in a hard cast and very stable and we could put it in a bag, but skiing is dangerous… but also she’s seven and it wouldn’t be aggressive? IDK, leaning towards leaving her home with a sitter). But sledding definitely out as far as I’m concerned. Can’t ice skate. Those are kind of the three things she was looking forward to.
This is also complicated by the fact that she has siblings who will want to ski and sled and such. I’d plan a different trip but since we’re seven days out it feels too late!
Anonymous says
I would assume a 7-year-old would ski very aggressively, especially after the first day. I wouldn’t let her ski.
Spirograph says
I also wouldn’t let her ski. Not because she might mess with her arm healing, but because I think the limited arm mobility would be an issue for balance, etc. make it more likely to fall and and also more likely to get injured differently if she falls. To me balance and impact are much less of an issue for sledding or ice skating (assuming she’ll just skate in lazy circles, not figure skating), I would still let her do both of those!
OP, if you don’t want to ruin everyone’s trip because one daughter is injured, especially since it’s near the end of the season and you can’t reschedule for after the cast is off… I’d start researching/brainstorming some off-mountain activities.
NYCer says
To be honest, I cannot believe that you or the doctor would consider letting a kid ski with a broken elbow! That sounds like a recipe for disaster. I feel like the calculation is no different than allowing her to sled. YMMV.
I kind of think this will just be a “bummer” trip for her as far as physical activities go. I would plan on just walking around town with her, hanging at the hotel/house, playing indoor games, etc.
Anon says
This may be because we’re in Texas so it’s pretty hypothetical! Also apparently kids elbow fractures of this sort are “incredibly stable” so we don’t have to worry about her falling on it or messing it up more according to her friend’s adult orthopedics surgeon dad. But I’m worried she’d hurt herself another way skiing with it so I don’t think we’re going to let her. This is such a bummer!
I’m not hearing many good ideas here so may just go for canceling. I’m also looking into kid sized snow shoes!
Anon says
my FIL is an adult orthopedic surgeon. while he is very good with my kids, he is the stereotypical orthopedist in that he has an ego and thinks he is an expert on everything. i’d consult with a pediatric orthopedist rather than just taking the friend’s dad at his word
Anon says
I don’t think seven days out is too late to cancel and get your money back, especially with pandemic era refund policies. It seems pretty crappy to take a trip to a ski destination when one of your kids can’t ski and is just going to have to sit in a hotel room with a babysitter.
Anonymous says
Canceling isn’t fair to the other kids, though, and by the time the arm is healed ski season will be over. I’d have the parents alternate taking the kid to do fun non-skiing things in town while the rest of the family skis.
Anonymous says
I would go somewhere else instead. Sledding is out but skiing is okay? That seems crazy.
FWIW, when I was 8 I broke my arm and distinctly remember doing a handstand on it while it was in a cast. I’m sure my mother would have stopped me if she witnessed this, but she wasn’t there. My point being, you cannot trust your 7 year old to be cautious if he is not in pain.
Anonymous says
The other kids are going to be very angry if you take away their ski trip because their sister is injured. It will cause lingering resentment. Go and find something else fun for the injured kid and one parent to do.
Anonymous says
If the other kids love skiing they might care, but kid me would have preferred to do most anything else on vacation. I broke my leg the first time I ever skied, when I was about 7. I was not aggressive, just uncoordinated. It is really not that easy!
Mary Moo Cow says
I would definitely not let her ski. I would bring her along but split babysitting duties with your partner, if you have one. Part of being in a family is compromise between catering to the oldest/highest common denominator and the youngest/lowest common denominator. Sometimes you sit with her in the lodge while the other kids sled, sometimes the whole family takes a break to play a card game or something, and sometimes you get to ski with the other kids. She’s probably already furious and sad that she has a broken arm and leaving her in the hotel while everyone else gets to have fun would build serious resentment, I suspect. But, one child’s misfortune is not a reason for everyone to be miserable. Parents and siblings deserve to have fun on the trip, too.
anonM says
Where in CO are you going? There are lots of hot springs still open in winter (I know of one in steamboat springs that is like a big pool, and apparently still has kids swim lessons in winter! Then, you’re just putting her arm in a bag or whatever), which could be a nice thing for her to get to do with just one parent to take the sting out of not skiing! Snowshoeing would also be a lot safer but still get her outdoors.
Anonymous says
Going swimming with a cast is also a bad idea. It will itch like crazy while it dries.
anonM says
Parts of it are like a hot tub – she could sit on the side with her arm out. Also, don’t kids often swim with casts? I get they can’t do laps but I’ve def seen kids at splash pads and such with a cast.
Anonymous says
With the LARGE caveat that I am 45 and cast technology has probably advanced since I was 7, I had a fiberglass cast when I was a kid and got it wet in the shower one day. It totally didn’t hurt the cast but it is hard for the skin inside the cast to dry and it was very uncomfortable and itchy. I think my cast had a first layer of something absorbent, similar to cotton gauze. A quick google indicates that both plaster and fiberglass are used now, and fiberglass can have a waterproof or non-waterproof lining. So it depends. OP probably was given instructions on this so I will shut up now.
Anonymous says
Any doctor who tells you skiing is OK has clearly never skiied. How would she balance and move properly with her arm in a cast?
Anonymous says
I would not let her ski. I have a 6 and 8 year old that ski. My 8 year old is super conservative. Still, no way she could do a chair lift or even take a basic fall with an arm cast! Maybe, MAYBE, depending on the break/cast situation I’d consider letting her snow tube. I actually see skiing as far, far more dangerous than ice skating or sledding with a cast.
I would recommend a hot tub (does she have a waterproof cast?) and lots of netflix and cocoa in the lodges.
Anon says
+1 I don’t have much skiing experience but I generally think of it as waaay more dangerous than sledding or ice skating. No way I would let her ski if those other activities are off limits.
Anonymous says
Omg cancel. Do not drag her on a fun trip she can’t participate in. You cannot ski with a cast that’s insane.
Anonymous says
Can you send her to grandma’s to get spoiled while the rest of the family goes on the trip?
anon says
Send her to grandma or to see cousins. Don’t make her sit in a hotel room and be bored with a sitter.
Anonymous says
Maybe I am heartless, but no way would I cancel my ski vacation because one of three kids was injured. The probability that one kid will be injured or sick during any given vacation is very high. If you wait until everyone is healthy, you’ll never go anywhere or do anything. Go and don’t let her ski. Next vacation, she will get to go waterskiing while one of her siblings watches from the dock because they are in a cast.
Spirograph says
This
anon says
Same here. It sucks, but that’s how things go sometimes.
Anonymous says
This.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
Quick weekday breakfasts for a 14 month old self-feeding? He can’t exactly 100% eat what 4-year-old brother eats. I need some alternatives to banana + waffles, toast, or cheerios. Things I can make ahead are great (egg muffins, no-sugar banana bread, baked oatmeal cups), but bonus points for things I can buy. Don’t want to give anything where I have to help (e.g. oatmeal). TIA!
Anon says
Soft granola bar / breakfast bar. Frozen Gogurt. Belvita crackers.
anon says
My kids liked the Earths Best cereal bars.
Anon says
Yogurt. Small cups of cottage cheese, maybe the kind with fruit added
Pogo says
+1 our youngest started using a spoon and eating his own yogurt around 14 mos.
AIMS says
My kids were obsessed with yogurt pouches (one still is). Not the tube kind that become a mess but the kind that are like the fruit/veggie pouch with the screw on top. Stonyfield and TJ both make. They saved my sanity on early mornings where they woke up at some unholy hour – I’d give them a pouch on the couch with Sesame Street while I snoozed next to them for 15-20 min.
I think you can also buy frozen egg cups, so that’s another idea.
Also, your tolerance for mess may vary but a friend of mine would just put scrambled eggs and avocado for her kid on the high chair lunch tray and her daughter ate that by herself with just her hands, no issue (other than a slight mess).
OP says
I have a high mess tolerance if they’re self feeding (DH does not, neat), but it’s more the time to clean up doesn’t exist as well in the AM. In the evenings, I just reached the point where I’m happy to dump food on the tray and let him figure it out – it makes about the same mess as me trying to feed him!
Will look into the pouches, thank you! I grew up eating plain yogurt with food so I sometimes forget flavored yogurt exists…
AnonATL says
We have refillable silicone pouches from hakaa that we use for mornings to prevent applesauce and yogurt from getting everywhere. Evenings I don’t care, but too much of a pain in the morning to clean up self feeding with a spoon.
They do have a minor design flaw where the very bottom of the pouch can get moldy, but I just get in there with a bottle brush and clean it out.
Anonymous says
We do give oatmeal and yogurt and don’t help, at least until the end… our 16 mo has learned to kind of shovel it in with his hands and he wears a smock. Also, microwaveable sausage, berries, leftover roasted potatoes.
Anon says
Scrambled egg + other fruit (strawberries, raspberries, etc)
Anonymous says
We do a LOT of cheerios or toaster waffles with banana. What about cereal that’s a similar size to cheerios? Thankfully our daycare does breakfast – they mix things up with life, chex, the tiny frosted mini wheats (soaked in milk).
Muffin pan frittatas have been hit or miss with my kid, but scrambled eggs (or rejected frittata) in a quesadilla have been a hit.
OP says
Oh good call on gasp, other cereals! DS #1’s daycare from 4 months-2 years had breakfast and it was SO fantastic!
Pogo says
Our 18mo LOVES Puffins.
AwayEmily says
Many protein/granola/etc bars are too hard for my kids but if I cut them up into tiny squares they are easier to eat. Costco sells a good “no grain” one that is reasonably low in sugar and has lots of nuts.
FP says
Whole Foods has frozen dutch style pancakes in the frozen section that are great for this age.
What about smoothies? I buy the pre-packaged mixes at Costco with kale/spinach/fruit, and mix in yogurt and milk.
Anonymous says
Not the OP, but I just added those pancakes to my shopping list for my 18-mo. Thank you!
Anon says
If your kid hasn’t tried all the nuts yet, watch out for allergies as you try bars. We were relieved not to have a peanut allergy, but had a very scary experience discovering a less common allergy after kiddo tried a breakfast bar.
Anon says
Is something weird with the comments today? They keep disappearing for me.
Anonymous says
Me too.
NYCer says
I am also having that issue.
Anonymous says
One of the comments about disappearing comments has just disappeared.
Anonymous says
lol.
for me, they seem to be posting in batches. the # of comments link below the main post will update, but the comments don’t actually show up. This morning it kept saying there were 13+ comments, but only 2 were actually visible
Anonymous says
That happened for me, but I am also seeing comments that were previously there vanish.
Anon says
Yeah, that’s what’s happening for me too, but then periodically it seems to reset and comments I saw earlier have disappeared. Then they come back.
Anonymous says
Our youngest’s preschool has a weekly “mystery reader” program where parents sign up to come in and read a book to the class. The signups went out in September and we had a spot in January. The program temporarily paused due to COVID, so we swapped our Jan spot for a random week in April.
We just found out that my MIL will be in town two weeks before the slot we have in April. How weird would it be for me to reach out to the parent (mom) that has the spot and ask if she’d be open to swapping? If it were one of the families I knew well from school, I would text them with 0 hesitation. This is just a family I haven’t gotten to know well and I don’t want it to sound like ANYTHING other than “if it happens that you picked this random day and any other day would be just fine, would you consider swapping? If not it’s not a big deal *at all* and don’t give it a second thought.” If anyone asked me to swap days, I’d do it without a second thought. We just picked a random day.
How do I convey that in an email?
Mary Moo Cow says
We have the same program, and a parent just offered me her spot when I told her I couldn’t find one that worked for me. I wasn’t asking; she just volunteered! So there’s hope! I would not be put off by someone asking me to switch, especially in the circumstance of grandparents being in town. I think a polite and friendly email laying out the situation is fine.
Anon says
I think it’s totally normal to make this request. If it were me, I’d be happy to switch with you.
octagon says
Gently, I think you’re overthinking this. I’d email and just say essentially what you did here – we just found out kid’s grandmother will be in town, if you are open to trading days, we thought it would be fun if she could be the mystery reader so she could see him at school, if not I understand. Unless she needs that day for a specific reason, she’ll probably say yes. Good luck!
test run says
“Hi So-and-So! I saw that you’re on the schedule as a “mystery reader” on 4/xx. We just found out my MIL will be in town that day and were wondering if by any chance you could swap your date with ours on 4/xx so she could read that day? If not, no worries at all – just thought I’d ask! Hope you have a great weekend!”
Anonymous says
Simply from reading your post, I can’t find an landmine issue here that needs to be finessed so it doesn’t go wrong. Can’t you just say what you said here? Is there a reason you’re concerned that the other parent will get offended or react badly?
Anon says
Not weird at all. Just explain and say no pressure at all but thought I’d ask. Normal people wouldn’t be bothered or feel pressured and if someone does, you can’t control that.
You could also just ask the teacher if they’d be up for multiple mystery readers that week.
Anon says
I think you say exactly that. No worries if they can’t switch, but you wanted to ask since your MIL will be in town that week. I would happily switch in that situation
Anonymous says
Thanks, all. I was 95% sure this is NBD but I wanted a couple of working moms to vet it before I sent it out (half the reason I don’t know this mom is that she works in person downtown; her nanny, mother, and husband do the pickups. The signup isn’t even her specifically, but I can tell by the email that she did it. for all I know the dad or nanny or whatever will be popping in).
Anonymous says
Just explain the situation and don’t overthink it. Or ask the school if they can add an extra mystery reader spot for Grandma while she is in town. Our preschool would have been happy to do that.
anonM says
Paging past posters!
Hair Gel for little Boys: Hip Peas Hair Styling Balm – it’s pretty thick so you don’t use much and I wet my hands first so there are no goops, plus it is supposedly safe for kids. I don’t use it on DS daily but when I do it’s so cute.
Reima coats for kids – question on sizing. I just got the 3T coat I ordered on sale for next winter and put it on my 2T, just over 2 yo, daughter. The sleeves and length were long and it was definitely big on her, but it does look like it will fit next year. Fingers crossed. I love the print and looks well-made, nice details like reflective strips on sleeves. While it is fairly heavy, it is not very puffy, which I appreciate for this age range so they can still walk! Still on sale: Girls Winter Reimatec Jacket with Shaped Cut, Waterproof Seams, and Faux Fur Hood – Muhvi
anon says
That was me! Thanks!!
Pogo says
Going back to the office part time has me thinking…
Has anyone tried the oversized blazer trend? Madewall and Everlane have a couple I have my eye on. Am I too old to pull that off? Will I look frumpy rather than chic if I am not a size 2?
Mary Moo Cow says
I have not. I know I would look silly. I stick with the J. Crew Regeant blazer, but at my age and general style sensibility, I skip trends and stick with classics.
test run says
This is my go to blazer style (except when wearing a fully formal matching suit) – I’m a tall 8/10. I say go for it!
Anonymous says
I love the look on a tall 8/10. On me, a not-tall 0/2, it looks like I am playing dress-up with Grandpa’s old clothes from the attic.
Spirograph says
Same and same. I think this is a style that’s height-dependent more than age or overall size. Size 8 and 5’9 would work in a way that size 8 and 5’2 probably wouldn’t.
Anonymous says
The trend looks ridiculous on size 2 me, so if you are not <= size 2 I say you have a better chance of looking chic.
Cornellian says
My impression is that it’s not so much your size/weight/age that matter but your height or legginess. I’m a 0/2 but too short to pull it off, I think.
FP says
A quick PSA now that kids birthday parties seem to be coming back! In our school/circle it’s very “no gifts please” which makes me want to bring a cute card to parties. Rifle Paper Company has their buy 5 cards get 5 free and they have some great cards, usually blank inside so kiddo can write his message. I stock up on this sale annually.
Anonymous says
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this suggestion. I do want to throw out there that for “no gifts, please” parties, I always have my kid make a card. These are kids that are 3,5,7, though, not toddlers :).
Yes, half the time it’s a white piece of paper folded in half with scribbles, but the b’day kid’s name is there!
AwayEmily says
Thanks! I don’t need birthday cards but am using it to stock up on thank-you cards.
Anonymous says
Oh thank you for this – it is really a great deal! It is birthday season in my family, plus mother’s day, father’s day, etc.