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Anon says
Is there anyone out there who actually has older toddlers (3+) or school-age kids who go to bed without drama? That link from a recent news round-up about parents using tons of melatonin led me to another one from the same website about “parents who dread bedtime,” which honestly seems to mirror a lot of what I see around me. It seems like a calm, on-time bedtime with two books and a sweet goodnight kiss is some sort of crazy pipe dream and that you’ll be lucky if your kid sleeps at all and it’s probably going to be in your bed. Was it always like this??
Anonymous says
My son (4.5) is autistic and has issues in other areas, but he loves our bedtime routine and usually will do it with no drama. He has never slept in our bed and stays in his own room all night. Sure, sometimes he’s sad that a particular pajama set is in the laundry or something, but once we get into the routine he’s totally on board.
Anonymous says
Sorry for the double post! I’ve obviously never had reason to write about it, but my kids (age 5 and 7) go to bed without drama, and pretty much always have. We’ve always had a defined bedtime routine that ends at a certain time no matter how much has been accomplished, although it is slowly creeping later as they get older. I will say that one aspect that I think helps us is they share a room- so if they’re still wound up and want to talk, they have each other and don’t bother us.
Seafinch says
Pretty much the same for us. We have five kids. The four big kids range from age 5-13 and have always been okay at bedtime. Three of them share a room and have since about age 22 months. They sometimes are a bit wired or whatever and i just stick my head in and hush them. They all coslept with me as babies for 8-12 mos. and have varying sleep temperaments but are consistent in this regard.
anon says
exactly the same for us. Four kids, all co-slept for a year+ initially, different sleep temperaments, three of them share a room. Defined bedtime routine (which has shifted over time) with a hard stop at a certain time. Bedtime is lovely and my favorite time of day. And one child has AuDHD with sleep-onset insomnia and takes a tiny (.25mg) dose of melatonin.
Seafinch says
Yes. I am not militant about the routine. If we have time, I am happy to drag it out with special hair braiding and extra books etc. We aim for 8:30, which is technically late for little kids but mine sleep in and always get significantly more sleep than recommended by age. If we are entertaining or out we just shoo them up and they are in bed in less than five minutes. The 13 year old is shut down at 10:00 or 10:30 in summer and the 10 year old is moving that way but even a few months ago was with the little ones. He will go back to their schedule in the Fall. No melatonin here but some of mine are light sensitive so I have double, curved Umbra rods with two sets of black out blinds on every window.
Anon2 says
I have kids who are 8, 6, 3 and newborn. Bedtime is inherently a little chaotic (kids tend to go off the rails a little during transition times and when they are tired), but mostly because we are trying to get everyone through the shower, through the teeth brushing, etc. But I definitely don’t dread it; in fact, reading with my older boys is one of the highlights of my day.
A lot is mindset. I expect it’s going to take a solid hour from start to finish for all those bigger kids, and we have a late enough bedtime that I’m not stressed if it’s 7:30 and they are still dawdling. But instead of being another “chore”, it’s a part of life and a point of connection, and there’s good and challenging aspects.
I’ve also never given melatonin. I’m sure it can be helpful for some kids, but I also think it’s a symptom of our cultural tendency to view everything that’s slightly difficult as a problem to be fixed. Kids need different things, and some kids have longer wind-down than others.
(And as another example, my sister’s three kids ASK to go to bed and are so used to routine that bedtime is quick and smooth. They are pretty docile kids, though)
AwayEmily says
Yeah, I think there are lots of people with drama-free bedtimes who just don’t talk about it much because there’s no need to ask for advice, etc. We have plenty of kid-related issues but bedtime is not one of them. The older kids (6 and 8) share a room, and have since they were 3 and 5. The bedtime routine has evolved as they’ve gotten older, but generally it takes around 30 minutes from “going upstairs to brush teeth” to “lights out, leaving the room.” Most of that time is taken up by reading to them.
There are of course times when one of them struggles (bad dreams, trouble falling asleep, etc) but those are fairly rare.
TheElms says
5 year old’s bedtime is pretty smooth as long as she isn’t too excited about something that happened that day or is planned for the next day so smooth 4 or 5 days out of 7 and a kinda crazy the other days. It starts at about 7/7:15pm and is generally over by 7:45pm or 8pm at the latest. We do give a small dose of melatonin but without it she doesn’t naturally fall asleep until between 10 and 11pm and she wakes up naturally around 7:15am (so that isn’t really enough sleep for her). Even without the melatonin though she stays in her room and generally draws or builds while listening to a story. Having a Yoto player so she can listen to audiobooks has been a game changer. We definitely have also had rough patches before and all of 3-4 years old was not great while we worked out moving bedtime earlier, figuring out that she needed melatonin to sleep at a normal kid bedtime, getting a Yoto player.
Anonymous says
My son is younger but I’ve actually spoken about this with my friends with older kids at length at a BBQ recently because I see a lot of the same content you do. Between the 4 of them, they have 8 neurotypical kids all over the age of 3 (ranging from 3-7) and only 1 has issues with going to sleep/sleep. They’ve never given melatonin. The 1 with issues just sleeps in their parents bed so they can all get some sleep and my friend is fine with that as a temporary solution.
The other 7 go to bed without any real issues. The kids who are 5 and up manage their own bed time routine (e.g., parents say – let’s start bedtime and they do it without issue). It doesn’t take 5 minutes – I think the “2 books and a kiss” is the END of most bed typical bed time routines that usually include a bath/shower, brushing teeth, putting pajamas on, cleaning up toys, etc.
They said there are still temporary disruptions in sleep the same way there are during the newborn phase – they cited the biggest disruptors as new routine (e.g., starting daycare or kindergarten or school year ends and summer starts), dropping the final nap, and transitioning out of the crib. But they don’t last forever and they just figure out ways to manage them.
In terms of whether it was always like this, I think kids have always had trouble sleeping but people didn’t talk about it as much because it was viewed as more normal. I do think the rise of instagram baby sleep culture contributes. Also anecdotally, I live in a VHCOLA area and it seems to help when kids share rooms (which is common here) – because instead of looking around for a parent when they wake up scared they teach them to check to see their sibling is there and go back to sleep.
Also, kids are people too – sometimes I have a hard time falling asleep or skip steps of my normal bed time routine. My best friend regularly talks about how she can’t fall asleep without her husband in bed. Another friend regularly wakes up at 3am and can’t fall back asleep. I sometimes feel like we have unrealistic expectations of kids who are still learning/growing up that we don’t hold ourselves too.
Anonymous says
My kid is 12 and goes to bed without drama usually, and I think he’s been pretty reliable since he dropped his nap. He would wake up in the middle of the night and want to be walked back to his bed a lot when he was 4ish? (vague memories) but it passed. I would say he’s been pretty solid unless he’s sick, too hot, or dealing with some stress since he was about 5 or so. I think this board just has a lot of people with really young kids on it who post when they are at their whit’s end. My son has always been a pretty decent sleeper, but even so, it was still somewhat unpredictable for the first few years.
Anon says
Me. My 6 year old is not an “easy” kid in general (she’s sensitive, very strong-willed and still has pretty intense tantrums) but we’ve never had any drama around bedtime. She’s high sleep needs like her mom and goes to bed easily. I can count on one hand the number of times she wasn’t asleep within 10 minutes of getting into the bed, and they pretty much all involve travel across multiple timezones. We did have a short stretch around age 3.5 when we brought her into our bed when she was waking up in the middle of the night because it was less disruptive to our sleep than trying to resettle her in her own room. But it was brief (<3 months) and ended without any drama or effort on our parts.
Anonymous says
(Very tentatively raises hand for fear of being yelled at or being told “things that never happened.”) Yes, my 5 year old has always gone to bed without issue. He’s just a good sleeper. He was one of those kids that we had to wake to feed up every two hours at first because he was full term but born reallllllly tiny. Then when he was gaining enough weight/consistently gaining weight (at 7 weeks) and we could “feed him on demand”, he slept for 8 hours straight, and honestly he hasn’t looked back.
I will say we had the snoo bassinet and used that from the moment he was brought home, and 3-4 years ago I might have said it was because of the snoo that he’s a really good sleeper. But now, honestly, I think he just likes sleep and just genuinely likes his bed/liked his crib. He never tried to climb out of his crib and really doesn’t get out of bed now unless he has to go to the bathroom. He has never once climbed into our bed in the middle of the night. He happily gets in his bed at 7:30 after a bath, two books, and one song and sleeps until 7:15 the following morning. Per my in-laws, my husband was also like this. I don’t talk about it because bedtime seems stressful for everyone else I know.
Clementine says
2 of 3 of my kiddos go to bed with no drama. The other one we did have some major drama and then slowly transitioned her from ‘you lay with me until I fall asleep’ to we sit in a chair across the room for 5 minutes and then leave.
I don’t personally love bedtime, but we have used melatonin to get us over some humps of not sleeping. Husband is much better at bedtime generally, so he tends to do it more often.
Anonymous says
I think a lot of the issues come from parents’ refusing to respect their kids’ natural sleep schedules and trying to put them to bed too early.
Anon says
I think it’s more just that people who don’t have an issue generally don’t talk about it, so it seems like everyone has sleep problems when really it’s just a vocal minority.
Anon says
Instead of blaming the parents, you could also say society doesn’t respect kids’ natural sleep schedules. Maybe my kid’s natural tendency is to go to bed at 9pm and sleep until 9am but I have to work so she has to go to daycare at 7:30am, and she still needs 12 hours. What would you suggest I do here?
Anonymous says
I had this kid. She went to bed at 9. We got her up right before leaving for day care and she ate breakfast there. Day care’s excessively long naptime is where they can make up the extra sleep hours. It is futile to try to put a kid to bed before they are ready.
Anon says
Some kids don’t nap at daycare. Mine never did, but napped at home like a champ. I think she had FOMO and didn’t want to sleep if other kids were awake and playing.
Anonymous says
I feel like baby sleep books always push for really early bedtimes. Parents cannot win. And working parents often don’t have control over when and for how long young children nap.
Anonymous says
Exactly. Baby sleep books claim that you can and should put kids to bed at a time that’s much too early for some, and also claim that you if you can’t get a kid on a nap schedule then you are just lazy and ineffective as a parent. Following this advice is a sure route to failure with most kids. All you can really do is to try to figure out your child’s own unique sleep patterns and then accommodate those as best you can. Our day care was extremely rigid about nap time for kids 12 months and up, but even they allowed infants to nap whenever they wanted and gave up on trying to force our non-napper to nap in the infant room.
anon says
My high sleep-needs 7-year-olds have basically always gone to bed without drama, despite being neurodivergent and chaotic much of their waking hours. We do occasionally get nights where they’re wired and won’t stop talking to each other long enough to fall asleep, but if we send one to go fall asleep in our room they’re typically both out shortly.
We also never really had much of a bedtime routine beyond pjs and brushing teeth. We read them bedtime stories through age 4ish, but once they got proficient at reading they started just heading upstairs with a book and putting themselves to bed.
Fallen says
Both of my kids (6 and 11) go to bed without drama (we do have other issues.. it’s always something with kids). What works for us is to have a reward for them getting ready for bed/in their bed, which is a bit of time to watch TV.. this leads them to be very compliant with their bedtime routine. They know if they give me drama once TV time is over, there will be no more TV before bed.
Anonymous says
I think people don’t talk about easy bedtimes or good sleepers because they don’t want to be accused of being POOPCUPS. Add to that the fact that parents with poor sleepers tend to be quite vocal and make it sound absolutely terrible, which is accurate because sleep deprivation is a form of torture.
Anon says
This. My kid has been a great sleeper since birth, but I know it’s just luck and not anything I did and I tend not to talk about it because I don’t want to come across as smug.
Anonymous says
Our 7yo has been an excellent sleeper since 18 months when we did Ferber. She sleeps 11-12hrs every night, literally always goes to bed easily. Downside is she cannot stay up late for fun stuff like fireworks or lightening bugs etc..but she’s almost always asleep by 7:30pm. Our 5yo needs a little less sleep than her, and I have to lie down with him, but it’s usually not a ton of drama. To be fair, I exercise the HECK out of my kids (which they enjoy). Hiking, swimming, biking, we have a backyard swingset. I think they’re frankly just tired. We have never used melatonin and I probably wouldn’t. I frankly think the bigger issue is lack of recess and exercise for most kids and obviously too much screen time. I’ve never met a kid who plays all morning, swims all afternoon, and then needs melatonin.
Anon says
My kids are old now, but we never had big bedtime issues. Bedtime routine / getting into bed was always smooth. My one kid was never a great sleeper (which, neither am I!) so there’s be nights she took a while to call asleep but she was good at staying in bed until she fell asleep.
Maybe once a month (or even less often) we’d have a kid end up in our bed after a nightmare or because they had a tummy ache. But that was pretty much it.
Also, plenty of complaints about not wanting to get ready for bed yet or asking to keep playing and the like, but it was normal kid whining, not tantrums or tears. Occasionally one would stall in their routine, but usually we’d just pick them up and literally move them along.
Anonymous says
I’ve obviously never had reason to write about it, but my kids (age 5 and 7) go to bed without drama, and pretty much always have. We’ve always had a defined bedtime routine that ends at a certain time no matter how much has been accomplished, although it is slowly creeping later as they get older. I will say that one aspect that I think helps us is they share a room- so if they’re still wound up and want to talk, they have each other and don’t bother us.
Extra says
Any divorced moms on here willing to share your story? How old were your kids when you divorced? I have just one preschool aged kid. I’ve been thinking a lot about what life would be like on the other side if I was to leave my husband. There isn’t any abuse, just a grating pattern of untruths and inequality, and I just don’t think I love him anymore. Kind of like that viral story about the husband who left the dishes in the sink one too many times. I hate the idea of not being with my kid every day though, and there are other realities like money and health insurance that I don’t know how I’d negotiate. Any advice or stories welcome.
Anonymous says
That sounds really hard Extra. My sister separated about 2 years ago. Financially it was pretty tough (she actually earns more). Her kids were 7 and 10 at the time. The first year was pretty hard, but 2 years out – everyone seems to be doing better. They are 7 days on 7 days off with the kids.
anon says
Just bear in mind that getting divorced is like having kids – very few people will admit that they regret it. So the response you’re likely to get from most people is that it was absolutely the right decision and everyone is better off now.
I am married to a man who was a single dad of two. From my observation, I can say that divorce is very hard on children in most cases – even in situations where the relationship between the parents was pretty toxic, children often still experience it as a loss. My husband and his ex had a pretty cold, unaffectionate relationship before their divorce, and their children still struggled with the separation for years. It took 5-6 years before his son stopped wishing on his birthday candles for his mom and dad to get back together, for example.
The best you can do to mitigate the harm is to really dedicate yourself to making the best decisions for your children post-divorce, not the decisions you prefer. Which includes doing the work to make sure you’re able to distinguish your desires from what is right for them. The best thing for them, absent a parent who is abusive to them, will be a close, engaged relationship with both parents, very frequent parenting time with both (doesn’t have to be 50/50 in all cases, but dad only having the kids every other weekend is generally not great) and low conflict between the parents. Both parents have to be committed to being positive about each other in front of the kids and try to resolve disagreements out of their view.
People don’t like to hear this, but there will be situations where divorce is the best decision for you, the parent, and your individual happiness, but it is not the decision that will maximize your childrens’ happiness. My husband was cleareyed about the fact that he had to divorce to save his mental health, but that his kids have struggles now that they likely would not have if he had just stayed quietly unhappily married to their mom. It doesn’t mean it was the wrong decision – he was miserable, despite years of couples’ therapy – but he did have to make a choice between their happiness and his own to some extent.
anon says
I have a family member going through a very high-conflict divorce, and I can see how rough it is on the kids. I don’t have much hope for an amicable co-parenting relationship. My family member is trying, HARD, to take the high road but her STBX is not letting go easily and is purposely stirring the pot. I don’t even know what to tell her. It’s like he read the handbook for how to have a good coparenting relationship and has chosen to do the opposite out of spite.
AwayEmily says
I am not a divorced mom but can say that my life became a lot better after my parents divorced when I was a kid. They were deeply unhappy in their marriage. In particular, my dad really held my mom back in a lot of ways and constantly belittled her. The difference post-divorce was incredible. It’s like our house had all the windows covered for years and then suddenly the shutters opened and light streamed in. Yes, there were hard parts, but overall it was much healthier for all of us.
Anonymous says
OTOH, as a kid I always wished my parents would divorce, but as an adult who did some work in this area I came to understand the many reasons why my mother had felt she had no choice but to wait until we were out of the house. It’s a nice fantasy to think of mom having the kids full-time and dad paying child support, but that’s not how it actually works.
Anonymous says
Have you told him how serious your dissatisfaction with the marriage is? Have you gone to couples counseling? “I just don’t think I love him anymore” isn’t enough of a reason to me to complete upend your child’s life (and also give them a greater risk of also going through divorce!). I’d be realistic about the HUGE financial hit you’ll both take, the animosity from your spouse you’ll have to deal with (and then co-parent with), and the upheaval for your child. Also, I’d be truthful with myself about your age and attraction level and what you bring to the table. Are you truely ok if you never marry again? Or do you think you’ll meet a new love? Love is a choice. We can choose to love our spouses even if they act like jerks for a season.
anon says
+1 to all this. Also – it is pretty common to assume that the custody and parenting arrangements will look the way that you want them to, but that is not guaranteed. Be realistic about how you would feel about only seeing your kids every other week, celebrating “mom’s Christmas” on December 15 and “dad’s Christmas” on December 25 and having to come up with an explanation about how Santa Claus visits twice, never hosting your kid’s birthday party (or potentially never even being invited to your kid’s birthday party) if it’s not on “your weekend”, etc. Think through how you would feel about potentially being excluded from decisionmaking about what doctor your kids will see or where they’ll go to school (the court always has to appoint one parent as the ultimate decisionmaking authority).
Anonymous says
Another consideration is relocation. When you consult with a lawyer, ask whether you will have the freedom to move away without losing parenting time, whether you will be able to move the kids with you, whether the other parent will be able to move the kids away, etc.
Waffles says
How did you celebrate your 40th birthday?
Mary Moo Cow says
I invited neighborhood families and a few other families to have popsicles and cupcakes poolside and then to our house for pizza. It did not go as planned: my kids are older and independent, so I expected to be able to hang with friends and I forgot they would be glued to their non-swimmer preschoolers, several families bailed on dinner at the last minute, the cooler with the cupcakes tipped over and we lost quite a few, etc. So… not great. I was jealous of an acquittance who had an adults-only bash called her “Eras” party a few months later.
41 was super fun, though! On the actual day, our family went out to dinner (and no one complained! and I had a drink!) and a few days later, I took a day off work and we did a guided tour of local bakeries. I realized in the year between 40 and 41 that I need to be honest with myself about how I wanted to celebrate, communicate that, and make it happen.
Cb says
Yep, I realised I needed a formula. I want a bookshop trip, a yoga class, sushi, and vegan chocolate cake.
NLD in NYC says
Had a picnic in the park with friends and family. Very low key and enjoyable with my then 2 year old.
Cb says
I’m a Christmas baby and we fly to my parents for the holidays. This year, they are going to meet us at the airport, take kiddo, and we’ll head to a nice hotel in Lisbon for 2 nights.
We also host a cinnamon bun and hot chocolate party the weekend before Christmas and this year, I’m going to add some nice champagne for those who partake for a birthday toast.
Anon says
Every time you mention this party I think how lovely it sounds! I might want to try doing something similar this year, if you have any tips.
Anon says
Mine is next year, and I’m going big and taking my mom and 7 year old on safari in South Africa, which has been at the top of my bucket list for a long time. That trip will be several months after my actual birthday though, due to school and work schedules. I’m hoping my husband and I can do a local-ish getaway on my actual birthday, although it may tough because my birthday is right near Mother’s Day and all the associated end-of-year stuff.
Anonymous says
Mine is in two years, which gives me two years to figure out a babysitting situation so I can go to Paris with my husband for a long weekend (we’ve never been!). Alternatively I might try to convince some family friends to go in with us on a villa in Tuscany. I’m with you on going big!
Anon says
Either of those sounds awesome! We took our daughter to Tuscany a few years ago, and would love to go back for a longer period of time with friends.
AwayEmily says
My 40th was during COVID, but we had a belated celebration a year later while vacationing in the Adirondacks. My best friend and her wife came up to stay at our cabin and we had a very me-focused day — I got to go on a long hike with my friend, do some standup paddleboarding, and we let the kids stay up late for s’mores and stargazing. It’s one of my favorite memories.
Anonymous says
I really wanted to include my toddler but make it as easy as possible (i.e. not waiting for patience to run out at a restaurant), so I hired a chef to make dinner at our house, just our family and a few very close friends. It was so much fun! We wore fancy clothes but cozy slippers, had cocktails with hors d’oeurves and a delicious dinner, and had the ability to break out the train set so we could linger at the table.
An.On. says
I’m trying to get a group of friends together for a long weekend type of girls’ trip for our collective 40ths next year but it’s like herding cats so far. I’m pretty sure we all want to go, and we’ve done these trips before, but it’s like the momentum and timing have to be just right to get everyone signed up.
Anon says
I am a big fan of the Troupe app to organize these kinds of trips with friends
Anon says
My husband and I went on a kids free trip to a bucket list hotel in France for my 40th. I was about to give birth with our second when he turned 40, so we said the trip was for both of our 40th bdays (4.5 years late for him, oops!).
SC says
DH and I took a weekend trip to St. Francisville, LA. My parents stayed with our son. St. Francisville is about a 2-hour drive from our house. I took Friday off. We stayed at a very nice BNB, shopped on their Main Street, had a fancy dinner Saturday night, and got massages on Sunday morning before heading home. I had a cold, so we spent a lot of time in our room playing a video game and reading, vs hiking or biking or even going to the pool, but that was fine.
I threw a big party for DH’s 40th the year before. When my birthday came around, I didn’t want to spend the time or money to throw another party for essentially the same people.
Anon says
Kids-free long weekend in Napa with my husband and another couple. It was perfect!
avocado says
I am old. My 40th was a few days after the 2016 election. We had plans to go to a winery in the mountains with beautiful views and eat a cheese plate on the lawn while playing card games. I spent the days between the election and my birthday at a conference where everyone was flipping out about the consequences of the election for our field. I came home too tired and grouchy to celebrate so we ended up doing nothing.
For my 50th in a few years I want to go to a women’s surf retreat.
Anon says
We ordered take-out and had cake with the kids and my MIL who was in town and staying with us. It was fine, but I wish I could have gotten some kid-free time (MIL is older and doesn’t feel able to babysit our little kids, which I get—they’re a handful). I’m mildly resentful of the whole thing when I think about it but I think I brought it on myself by not more directly planning something.
Spirograph says
I didn’t on the actual day other than cake with immediate family, but we took a bucket list family trip of my husband’s choosing for his 40th, and we’re taking one of my choosing next year as a delayed birthday present to me.
Anon says
DS is turning 8 next month. He just got a new bike but I want a couple presents for him to open. Ideas for this age? He’d love video games but we’re continuing to resist so anything there is out. No legos. Has a billion books and is a great reader already… pretty sporty but doesn’t really need new equipment…
Momofthree says
Tickets to a sporting event & you buy a jersey so you can open a gift.
If board games are of interest- My son started playing chess when he was 8 & loves it. My kids also love the junior ticket to ride, although they can also play the adult version.
Does he have any interest in Pokemon cards? Although that might be a bridge you don’t want to cross. They have a battle pack you can buy to encourage them to actually play the game instead of just collecting the cards.
Anon says
Things I’m getting/suggesting to grandparents for my 9yo, who also got a bike this year: a Star Wars beach towel, Hot Wheels finger skateboards, a pogo stick, character T-shirts
Mary Moo Cow says
Pool toys, a new float, or splash game, if you have a pool; a team jersey, water bottle, special souvenir if he has a favorite team (my nephew got a Brady jersey around that age); gift certificates for experiences you can have together, like the movies or mini golf; fun candy or weird food; a Tinker or Atlas crate, if he doesn’t already have a subscription; an instax or cheap digital camera (both DD and my nephew love theirs); a 3d printer pen or Toybox (if you want to splurge.)
octagon says
Tickets for him and a friend to go to an amusement park for the day?
Stomp rockets? Roller blades? Pogo stick?
The pre-teen boys in my ‘hood all are obsessed with their small drones.
Anonymous says
We often wrap tickets up like a gift.
Anon says
How about a few small jumps/ramps for his new bike? They sell nice ones these days – nothing too crazy but they’re good for skill-building.
anon says
Anybody else use the long weekend for intensive potty training? I’m sending good thoughts over to daycare, and really hoping they don’t put him back in a diaper!
Clementine says
Okay, it’s not perfect, but I’m a big fan of having daycare put the diaper OVER the underpants… If they insist on a pull-up (some do until they’re 100% which… I have my annoyances with but I get it) the kid will immediately feel VERY wet and uncomfortable.
Just a backup plan in case you need it.
Anonymous says
This is what we did during potty training.
Anonymous says
Honestly, we found pullup over undies to be more effective than going completely pantsless during our weekend of intensive potty training. It really emphasizes the wet/uncomfortable more than the puddle on the floor (also a much easier cleanup…)
Mom and Baby Yoga in Atlanta says
This is a long-shot question, but does anyone have a recommendation for a mom and baby yoga class in the Atlanta area? I have had a really hard time finding something. Thank you!
Anon says
Any other Houston area moms without power? Hope you’re surviving!