Family Friday: Wooden & Magnetic Hot Pot Toy Set
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Hot pot is the best meal on a cold winter’s day. If your kids love hot pot as much as mine do, this toy version is a fun addition to any play kitchen.
This set features 40 wooden and magnetic pieces, including a hot pot, stove, sauces, and foods like noodles, tofu, and bok choy. It’s also made with a water-based paint and other nontoxic finishes. The set is perfect for hours of imaginative play on a snowy day.
Bitty Bao’s Wooden and Magnetic Hot Pot set is $80. You can add a set of bilingual books for a little more.
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Is the main page leaking today? Some of you are being so weirdly hostile about carts.
Kudos to all the Covid parents. My off-the-walls Ker is home e-learning due to double digit negative temps in our city while DH and I have meetings and work. Luckily we could drop off our toddler with grandparents. Today is fine, but I can’t imagine dealing with this for an entire school year or longer, along with the quarantine and bubble requirements. I’m honestly in awe. Lifetime achievement awards to all of you!
Separate from the cart discussion below, but I have never seen double seater carts or any fun/racecar carts at a local grocery store. I’m in the DC/MD burbs. Is this a regional thing? Maybe I’m just not looking. I have seen the tiny carts and agree they are a menace.
Kind of a niche question but if you have a child who’s done academic tutoring, how did you decide when to stop? I have a daughter who is maybe dyslexic* and has been working with a reading tutor for almost a year now. Her reading has improved by leaps and bounds and she now seems to read as well or better than her bright neurotypical peers. Spelling is a comparative weakness relative to her strong reading skills and very strong math skills, but no longer seems as dramatically terrible as it once was. However, she’s only about a third of the way through her tutor’s standard curriculum (Barton, if anyone is familiar) and the tutor is encouraging us to finish the curriculum out, which will probably take another 2+ years. There is a lot of stuff you have to complete for each lesson and level, so while it does go faster for kids with good mastery of the material, it’s not something you can complete overnight no matter how well you read and spell. She likes her tutor and the financial cost is not a big issue for us, but going to tutoring twice a week is really impeding her ability to do extracurriculars because we don’t want to overschedule her and have activities every weeknight. I don’t want to bail on tutoring too early and leave her with an academic deficit down the road, but I also don’t want to deprive her of a normal childhood when she seems to have really caught up and is objectively doing very well academically. Any thoughts or experiences with a similar kid?
*tested as not technically dyslexic but she has a very high IQ and had already been in tutoring for several months at the time of the testing and the consensus from the testing experts was that without those two confounding variables she would have likely screened as dyslexic
Ok, question for my BFF.
Her second kid is 5 months and will not take a bottle. Only wants to nurse. They’ve tried all the things – different bottles, nanny and her DH giving bottles, talked to a IBCLC and bottle feeding consultant (did not know that was a thing!). When others give baby a bottle, she takes an oz at most and then gets mad/exhausted, and then won’t take it again.
BFF is going back to work and they’re letting her work remotely for the initial period, but not sure how long that will last. Her typical schedule is hybrid. She’s hoping by the time they start introducing solids at 6 months, this will be less of an issue.
Anyone else been through it? Want to give her some advice. I had other feeding stuff when my kids were newborns/infants but not this particular flavor, and the friend in our circle that had this issue worked very PT and could manage/had a nursing baby until ~3, the latter which BFF does not want.
If you’re at a grocery store with a limited number of double-seater carts, who gets priority?
1. The woman with one child who got there a few seconds first, or
2. The woman with two toddlers
Should woman 1 give it up to woman 2? Does it make a difference if her child really wanted it?
What’s everyone up to this weekend? East coast moms are battening down the hatches?
Waiting to hear if our house sale proceeds (apparently we needed planning permission for our solar panels?) – so if you’ve got good vibes to spare, send them our way. Otherwise we’re going to swim lessons, family swim, and the boardgame cafe, and then family forest school day on Sunday, which sounds cold and muddy, but hopefully will be fun.
Light Friday topic: biggest hits for a toddler dance party?
My kid’s favorites are any Danny Go, but especially Escape from Tiger Island. And I still live Baby Beluga.