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This toy is the MVP of our playroom right now. My son is solidly in the firetruck/firefighter phase, and every vehicle he owns is on its way to fight a fire. This truck is the one that leads them all.
The truck has a lot of wheels and has buttons that make noises, and my son can pick it up and raise it so that it’s chest high on him. It also has disks of “water” that he loves to shoot out and then collect. (We’ve lost two already, of course.)
We got this as a gift, and I think I would also gift it to a kid who is as obsessed with vehicles and firefighting as my son.
The truck is $29.82 at Walmart. Rescue Heroes Transforming Fire Truck with Lights and Sounds
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Catty says
Happy Friday! My five-year-old and I danced around the kitchen last night to Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen and it was the most fun I had in weeks. What is your put-me-in-a-good mood song? I need a bunch of them!
Clementine says
Lately, my kids have really enjoyed Sly and The Family Stone ‘Dance to the Music’, Aretha Franklin’s “RESPECT”, “Yellow Submarine” (which is also a favorite lullaby around here?), and Katy Perry “Roar” as their morning ‘psych out to get my shoes on” music.
My personal good mood songs are Pink “So What”, Kelly Clarkson “Stronger”, and my beloved “You’re so Vain” by Carly Simon.
Also, not what you’re looking for, but when I need the kids to do a turbo speed pick up with me, I play the song “The Final Countdown” by Europe at an absurd volume and everybody has to pick up as much as they can before it’s over.
AnotherAnon says
Yellow Submarine is one of my “screensavers” (a song I sing without realizing it). I sang it to kiddo so often during midnight feeds because I couldn’t think of the lyrics to any other song. We love to dance to Parliament, ABBA and Steve Earle.
My personal favorite is “She’s a Revolution” by Kutiman.
Boston Legal Eagle says
Our latest soundtrack on repeat has been the songs from the Netflix Will Ferrell/Rachel McAdams movie “Eurovision” – if you haven’t seen it, highly recommend for something ridiculous yet entertaining. Their favorites are “Double Trouble” and “Lion of Love.”
Anonymous says
I have a whole playlist that I have titled “Kid Favorites,” for car trips and dance parties. Don’t Stop Me Now is on it, along with a bunch of other Queen also
Shake it Off
(Say) Geronimo
All About That Bass
Thunder (Imagine Dragons)
Uptown Funk
Proud Mary
Eye of the Tiger, Final Countdown and other “jock jams”
Lollipop (Mika)
various Blink 182
various Katy Perry
various Brittany Spears
various KPop (Black Pink’s Boombayah is a good start)
newest addition: (Do you have the) Antibodies by Nicholas Braun
Anon says
Rockin’ Robin features heavily on our playlist
Anonymous says
We recently introduced kiddo to Love Shack including the video on YouTube for a dance party. That was fun.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
Recent hit artists have included Shakira, Beyonce, JLo, Buena Vista Social Club, and because I’m a Texan, of course: SELENA! When my son came home singing a few lines of Biddi Biddi
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
Sorry – thought I finished typing *Biddi Biddi Bom Bom post-daycare one day I almost had a tear in my eye.
Anonymous says
Meghan Trainer “Me Too”, anything by Lizzo. The Spotify playlist US Summer Hits of the 10s is really good too.
Anon says
My toddler is a huge fan of Jolene – obviously lyrics aren’t happy but you feel really powerful when you sing it
Anonymous says
My toddler loves Dolly too! And Taylor Swift.
BB says
This is sort of terrible, but we had on a ’90s playlist station while working in the kitchen the other day, and it played “Baby Got Back,” and our 5 year old just came running into the kitchen to dance her little heart out to it. She was rocking out.
Anon says
There was definitely a Friends episode about this :) Rachel first got her baby to smile by rapping and dancing to that song.
lsw says
My son (just turned 4) is obsessed with Lizzo. He loves Juice and Truth Hurts especially. And bonus, he sings BEEP! with us when we say “beep” over the b word (which is even on the clean version).
Anonymous says
If your daycare sends bedding home every day to be laundered, do you do laundry every day? Buy multiple sets of sheets and blankets so you can send fresh bedding without doing laundry every day? Just send the same bedding back again without washing it?
Anonymous says
Multiple sets. We were able to use old crib sheets and baby blankets so we didn’t have to buy anything new.
anon says
Yep, this is exactly how we’ve handled daycare bedding.
Clementine says
They don’t send it home every day, but if they did, I would 100% buy 5 sets. Ain’t nobody got time to wash that every night. I would wash 1x/week, put each set into a gallon ziplock bag, and send all 5 in on Monday.
Redux says
^ this.
anon says
No way would I wash it every day! I’d have 5 sets of stuff and do one load of laundry at the end of the week.
Anon says
I would be tempted to send it back without washing it… or put in the dryer using the steam option. Maybe I’m terrible but every day seems excessive.
Anonymous says
+1 we put it in the dryer on high heat for a few minutes every night, which is much easier and less wasteful than a full wash and dry. I feel zero guilt about this because the dryer actually kills viruses better than the washing machine.
TheElms says
I thought for Covid you need soap to break down the fatty outer layer of the virus so that the proteins in the virus would be exposed to air and denatured. Is that not right? Or does heat also work?
Anon says
High heat is extremely effective at killing viruses. I think the advice about soap was probably in the context of hand-washing, since you presumably don’t wash your hands with scalding water. Influenza dies around 160F and the coronavirus that causes SARS has an even lower threshold, 133F (https://www.who.int/csr/sars/survival_2003_05_04/en/) and people think the novel coronavirus is probably the same as SARS. That said, home dryers appear to top out around 140-150F so it’s a little iffy whether it gets hot enough. Probably more effective for COVID than the flu.
Anon says
We have a steam sanitize option, I think it may depend on your dryer.
AnotherAnon says
I would start by asking them if you can use the same sheet for a week, unless it gets soiled. If they insist on sending it home each day, then buy multiples or send the same one back until it’s sufficiently dirty.
Anonymous says
A lot of places are requiring daily washing for Covid right now.
Anne says
This. That’s really unfair to to the teachers who are already taking on a meaningful risk. The least you can do is follow the rules.
Anonymous says
I would probably buy 2-3 sets. I’d make an effort to fully launder each time, but I’m 100% positive that some days we’d run through the steam cycle on the drier for 20 minutes and call it good.
Anne says
We invested a small fortune in daily sheets and blankets with back ups if we forget to do laundry. Just chalking it up to a COVID expense that we’re lucky we can afford and moving on. Same with the hundred million sippy cups and pacifiers we now own due to the same system.
Spirograph says
This is when those bajillion baby blankets that someone complained about a few weeks back come in really handy!
Plus, we have several fitted toddler bed sheets, and no toddler beds in our house anymore, so those are all fair game for daycare.
I have enough bedding sets to last the whole week, the problem is remembering to swap them every day. I love Clementine’s suggestion to send them all in individual ziplocks on Monday.
H13 says
I posted yesterday about the challenges of transitioning back to daycare. My three-year-old didn’t cry at drop off today! Unfortunately his older brother did cry at camp drop off. One small victory at a time…
Thanks for the replies yesterday!
Anon says
Aw I’m glad! I hope it continues getting better for them. Kids are resilient and if they’re happy once they’re at school (which it sounds like they do) you’re not doing any damage to them, even if they’re sad at drop off.
lsw says
Aw. It will get better! Yesterday my kid cried when I picked him up because he wanted to stay at school and sleep there, so… (I posted yesterday about him having a tough time transitioning back too)
Zoom Birthday says
Kiddo’s 6th birthday is coming up and he has requested to have a few out of state friends “attend” (we just moved last year and he misses them!)
If we were going to do a zoom birthday with those other 2 families, is there something special I can do to “tie it all together”? Maybe one or two games that work over zoom (4 kids total, ages 4-6)? I was thinking about buying some party hats and mailing them to the friends out of state. Ideas? I have a month to organize! Kiddo hasn’t picked a theme, but did ask for an erupting volcano cake, so maybe dinosaurs?
lsw says
This might skew a little young for that crowd, but my son’s favorite activity during preschool zooms was “OK, everyone go find something green/round/small/smelly” and bring it to the camera. If you have the Roll and Play game that could be fun, too. The birthday kid could be the dice roller and everyone could play along.
avocado says
My husband and his co-workers enjoyed the scavenger hunt game, so I’d say it’s fine for 6-year-olds.
Katarina says
My 6 year old has enjoyed scavenger hunts. A small art project (drawing, play doh, legos, paper airplane, or maybe a small science experiment) could also be good. My 6 year old loves to share his creations over zoom. You could send some materials to incorporate.
SC says
My kid’s preschool class did this on one of their weekly social Zoom calls. We participated in maybe half a dozen Zooms, and that was the only one that my kid actually liked. He had so much fun, and I think all the other kids did too!
It could be fun to mix in a few birthday themed items that would probably still be around someone’s house in some form or another–a candle, a bow, a box, a hat, something that makes noise. Or items that are tied to the theme of the party (if dinosaurs–an egg, a feather, a leaf, something that roars, a shovel).
Zoom Birthday says
Oh, thanks for the specific ideas for scavenger hunt re: birthdays and dinosaurs! This is great!
Clementine says
SO this is a know your kid thing, but my kid is OBSESSED with those weird clay dino eggs where you crack them open (excavate)? Them and see what the toy inside is. He also wants to watch YouTube videos of other people opening toys. I would consider just ordering them on amazon (the ones I’m thinking of aren’t expensive at all) to be shipped straight to the 2 other families and having each kid get to open theirs while the other kids watch.
Another big hit is straight up show and tell. Favorite toy show and tell.
I would also do the baking soda and vinegar volcano at your house and have the other kids watch – they’ll think it’s really cool.
Zoom Birthday says
I haven’t seen the clay eggs before but just found them on Amazon -thank you! They sound great.
Anonymous says
So not for the Zoom party, but can I recommend this as a gift if kiddo likes donosaurs?
https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Kids-Interlocking-Construction-Kindergarten/dp/B07C8JF5YG/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=kids+stem+dinosaur&qid=1596817074&sr=8-14
My kiddo has it at almost 5 and is really getting into it. When her cousins who are just a bit older visited, they really enjoyed taking them apart and putting them back together.
I mean, you could do it for the Zoom party, but it seems a little too independent for that.
Anon says
I like the idea of mailing something to the other families. If kiddo is really into volcanos you could do something with baking soda and white vinegar. I know in usual times i wouldn’t ask someone to buy something for my party, but if someone asked me to go buy some for a zoom party these days i wouldn’t mind. Some kind of Pictionary game? Scategories game?
Anonymous says
If you’re planning to mail party hats, you could make up some Taboo cards and mail them too. The paper plate drawing game would also work. Everyone puts a plain white paper plate on top of their head and tries to draw the same thing, then shares the results.
Anonymous says
Nerdy Nummies does a volcano cake with dry ice. It’s on her YouTube channel and in the cookbook. All of her recipes I’ve tried have turned out well.
A volcano cake could work with lots of party themes. Dinosaurs, “mad science” (slime!), Hawaii.
Anon says
Paging ANONANONANON – I read your post yesterday about trying to set up child care arrangements for your work. I volunteer with a low income health care clinic and they did the same thing at the start of the pandemic for their workers. They were able to get the state to waive licensing requirements under the State of Emergency.
Anonanonanon says
Thank you! Our state code allows for the requirements to be waived in emergencies but technically only for childcare that is directly operated by the healthcare facility, and even most of the hospitals contract theirs out. I need to touch base with them because the last time I talked to them about it was actually trying to plan for this pre-emergency, and I’d imagine now that the emergency is here, they’re ready to be more lenient! I hope it worked out well for the clinic!
Anon says
It’s not even 1:00 yet and I’ve already thrown my child (3) out of my office at least 30 times. DH has tried every activity he (and I) can think of, and nothing will hold her attention for more than a minute or two. If she didn’t get carsick (even medicated) I’d send them joyriding, but I don’t need to clean up vomit today (DH is a sympathetic vomiter, so I do vomit, he does blood). My last nerve frazzled approximately one week ago, and I just cannot handle her sitting and touching me (or screeching) or trying to beat down the glass paned door or anything in the same room as me while trying to do extremely complex drafting on a tight deadline today from a surprise project. If didn’t need my dual monitor setup I would go lock myself in the closet upstairs (putting 3 locked doors between us), but that doesn’t seem to be an option given the hardware needs of today. If I survive today without completely losing my s*it, it will be a miracle.
Anonymous says
That is rough. Is DH a SAHD? Is the weather decent? If so, I’d have him strap her in the jogging stroller and take a looooooong walk.
Anon says
DH is, but he has physical limitations that prevent him from walking any meaningful distance. Also kiddo can undo her stroller straps and has refused to get in it for the last year, so it’s now in the basement…. I would not normally condone watching the simpsons for a 3YO, but she picked that out on the TV and is actually sitting in one spot in the living room, so I have been able to make progress!
anon says
No! That sounds awful, commiseration! Can you send DH and kiddo out on a joy walk (or non-joyful forced stroller ride)? Do you live near fast food restaurants? I would drive/walk to fast food (or donuts, or candy shop, whatever!), take it to an open area, and let them play/putter outside so you can work.
Anon says
Her carsickness is so bad she barfs (yes she’s FF) before we can get to a restaurant! We’re talking to the ped about it next week to see if there is something stronger than Dramamine, which is not cutting it. It didn’t used to be this bad, but quarantine is exasperating it.
Anon says
*exacerbating
TheElms says
Please get her eyesight tested by a pediatric ophthalmologist.
Anon says
Interesting, tell me more. I was the same way as a kid (except I projectile vomited, she fortunately does not have the projectile aspect) so we haven’t really thought anything of it.
AnotherAnon says
Right there with you. Kiddo is home while day care is closed, DH is watching him but he just wants his mom. And work wants me to work this weekend (for free, of course). LOL eff that. If they’re lucky I’ll log on Monday instead of turning in my notice.
luluaj says
I think water play/turning on the hose always helps in these situations
Anon says
Hah – that was one of the rejected activities.
Anon says
How about a lego bath or a popsicle bath? Or an outdoor picnic
Anonymous says
I’m mean, but I’d cover the glass doors somehow so babe doesn’t see me. If DH is in charge than he should act like it. He shouldn’t be letting that happen. Agree with other posters that a bath (with or without bubbles or wash some toys) can suck up a chunk of time.
Anon says
Thanks, I will suggest an early bath (we usually save that as a nighttime thing – hadn’t thought to do it earlier) when she next barges in.
As for “not letting that happen”, short of physically holding her down in one spot, given our open floor plan, unless we installed a lock on the outside of a bedroom door and physically locked her in her room (which seems problematic to me for a whole host of reasons), there is no way to keep her from having free run of the house. This is the same child that climbed out of the crib and PNP at 18 months and can open every door we have (also why the entry and exit doors are deadbolted with a key we keep on a top shelf out of her (climbing) reach. This morning I caught her opening an upper cabinet because in the 30 seconds I was making toast while DH was making coffee and our backs were to her, she had brought over a kids chair, climbed up and was fishing candy out of the open upper kitchen cabinet….
SC says
Apparently, my 5 year old spent over 3 hours in the bath tub this morning. He was getting in when I left and was still there when I called during lunch. He played with Legos and his Green Toys ferry and helicopter and the foam bath toys he’s had since he was 1 and hasn’t thought about in a year. DH has a cold (tested negative for Covid Wednesday night) and was thrilled that Kiddo was willing to entertain himself in one place for so long.
Anonymous says
I don’t understand why kids don’t freeze when they do this!
Anon says
Ew.
Anonymous says
Where do you find vacation rental homes that are actually nice? I’m thinking of renting a lakefront home in our state for a week this fall as a change of scenery. I’ve looked on VRBO and all I can find is giant sprawling houses that sleep 8 – 12 and seem to have been decorated in the 1990s. What I want is a sparkling clean cabin with two bedrooms. Does such a thing exist?
Anon says
Modern cabin is kind of an oxymoron, imo. Most lake cabins or cottages tend toward the rustic side unless you’re talking about the million dollar palatial lakefront homes, and those are 1) large and 2) expensive. If you could afford it, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with renting more space than you need, especially in these pandemic times. We got a beautiful three story house on the beach in Florida for the winter for about $250/night. It’s definitely way more space than my family of three needs, but it’s cheaper than the hotels we normally stay in, and it will be nice to have the space especially if it rains and outdoor activities are limited.
OP says
I suppose I don’t mind paying for extra space, but it seems kind of creepy to be a small family alone in a gigantic empty house that isn’t yours, and everything just looks so icky that I don’t feel like I’d be able to relax. It doesn’t have to be modern or fancy, just clean and not run-down and full of tchotchkes. I guess this is why we always end up staying in hotels.
Paging Anon with Narc mother says
I’m catching up from yesterday’s post and wanted to comment on the Anon asking about having children but having issues with her mother’s behavior (both from childhood and present). I came to realize my father had major narcissistic issues before I had my child, but I want to note that becoming a parent myself actually triggered a lot of bad memories from my childhood, to the point where I’d wake up in the middle of the night and verbal abuse would replay in my head. And to the person who said “becoming a parent makes you realize how hard raising a family really is, and you gain more appreciation for what your parents did for you,” I’ve had the opposite reaction of what kind of monster are you to have treated your wife and children that way?
Anyway, being aware of the issues is great and I certainly wouldn’t let it stop you from having a child. If you can go to therapy great, but if not do a lot of reading on dealing with NPD and setting boundaries.
I live about an hour from my parents and wish it were further! Just try to see them as little as possible and research the grey rock method. For awhile I was able to keep the dealings with my father to polite interactions at holidays etc, then he started to work his way back into our lives more and the same problems arose. Their behavior will never change. That being said I will let my parents have a relationship with their grandchild unless or until my child doesn’t want to. I will not subject him to the devaluing and demeaning behavior I was subjected to.
anonamommy says
I know this is the definition of borrowing trouble, but I can’t help thinking that our decision to hold our son back from K this year is going to harm him in the long run for extrinsic reasons and would love some help thinking about it. We decided back in spring that we were going to repeat pre-K in the fall — he’s on the young and small side for K (just turned 5 last month) and his social development would benefit from another year of pre-K.
And now with the pandemic, I keep hearing of family after family who are delaying K because school is a clusterF this year (which it is). But I am worried that next year the schools are going to be bursting with 40-student kindergarten classrooms and for the rest of my kid’s life he’s going to be in this swell of kids — harder to stand out, tougher competition for sports teams, tougher cohort for college. Are these valid concerns? I don’t know what our alternative is, though — I don’t want to send him this fall, and it won’t be possible to hold him out another year.
Anon says
One alternative is to homeschool K (really should only be doing 45 min max of formal work each day at that age, so might be manageable) and choose to put him straight into first grade grade next year. Maybe find some extracurriculars he could do this year to work on the socialization aspect.
Point being, you don’t have to decide now. Do what feels right for this year. Kindergarten is not required in most (all?) states.
Anon says
And I have a small son who turned 5 at the end of July, so I am wrestling with this, too. Honestly, I am leaning toward the homeschool option myself… but here in NY age/grade cutoffs are pretty strict (you go to first grade when you are 6!), so it’s either problematic K this year, or homeschool. I think this year is going to be another wash for socialization and academics country-wide, so trying to stay in the moment and make the best decision as the choice arises.
Anonymous says
This. Do some K homeschool curriculum and then decide whether to enroll him in K or 1st next fall. Nobody is getting any socialization in K this year anyway.
Anonymous says
Yes. Provided kindergarten isn’t required in your state, Take the year to do whatever home education you feel is Best for your kid and evaluate next summer whether to go straight to first grade. The only reason we aren’t doing that is that school is mandatory starting at age 6 here, which is midway through the year for us. (Maybe it means the school year starting after you turn 6, but I don’t feel confident in my research on that.)
SC says
If there’s no real alternative, does it really matter? I mean, the pandemic is going to make things weird for a lot of kids in a lot of different ways. I believe it will probably shake out over the long run. States have mandated ratios, so if there are extra kindergarten students, they’ll have to create another kindergarten class or have a blended K/1 class for kids like yours who were on the bubble or whatever. When he’s in high school, maybe there will be a freshman and a JV sports team when normally there’d just be a JV team. For college, maybe it’ll be common by then for kids to take a gap year or two before college (which I think many kids would benefit from). Basically, he may be in a different or special year growing up, but it’ll probably be more of a conversation topic later in life than any real detriment to him.
Anonymous says
Our elementary school adjusts the number of classes and reassigns teachers every year based on the student population. If many parents are holding kids out of K this fall, that translates to fewer kids in grade 1 next fall. The school will have fewer first-grade classes and more K classes next year. They also seem to prioritize small class sizes at the lowest grade levels. Your son won’t be in a class of 40 next year unless there are catastrophic budget cuts and massive teacher shortages.
Anonymous says
I’d red shirt 100%. If the classes are huge they will need to tweak the staffing. In our elem there are usually 4 sections. Next year incoming K will only be 3 and I assume the year after will be 5. They just move teachers around to adjust.
Our max class size is 22. My oldest has had 19-21 kids per class since she started K. So many kids are being held they won’t have 4 sections of 22 in our school.
layered bob says
I’m mildly pro-homeschool ordinarily, and strongly pro-homeschool in this scenario. K is relatively easy to homeschool because, as anon said, so little formal instructional time is required.
I basically replaced my commute with homeschool this spring – 45 minutes right after breakfast was more than enough time, and I could be at my desk by 8:15. DH is a SAHD but to minimize the familiarity-breeds-contempt effect we decided that I would do the more formal instruction so kids didn’t get too sick of Dad. I did need to spend an additional 60-75 minutes once a week in the evenings to plan the lessons, make sure we had the math manipulatives, refresh my memory of phonics rules, and so on, but it was pretty fun and the kids enjoyed it so much we kept right on going through the summer, and in five months we covered almost a whole grade level of material so probably could have taken a little slower pace.
Try homeschooling this year. Maybe it goes so great you feel he’s completely ready for 1st next fall. Maybe he’s not so ready yet and by next summer you decide enrolling him in K would be best, but he goes in with a really strong foundation so he has more capacity for the parts that are more challenging to him. I don’t think there’s any harm in the long run.