My 3 year old is the exact same way. She’s my oldest, so we are pretty uncertain of how this all works still too. She will hold her pee for hours to wait for a diaper to be put on. She asks to go to the potty but doesn’t pee when on it.
Our ~3.5 year old just started peeing consistently in the toilet with in the last month or so but pooping is still a work in progress The youngest (20months) is cueing us when she’s went in her diaper pee or poop with a pee wee herman like pointing at her crotch and butt for each one that’s quite funny.
No matter how many times I read stories like this, it’s always helpful and reassuring that we aren’t crazy behind the power curve. Appreciate it.
Our 4 year old with special needs took his diaper off and peed on our couch while my wife was showering.
We bought a new Lovesac couch this summer. It is a sectional/modular so each piece comes apart and everything can be washed in the washing machine. So far we've had at least one cover in the washing machine per month and in this case there were 5 covers washed.
How long did it sit in piss? This was fortunately just the length of a shower at most because our 6 year old came up and told my wife right after it happened. Unfortunately she couldn't be bothered to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Uh weeks of being used probably. It was in a part of the house we don’t go often and it did a pretty good job of holding in the smell. It was absolutely disgusting.
I can confirm my wife doesn’t know how to take apart sections and broke two of the feet on the couch.
My 6 yo and 3 yo now refer to their dick as a “worm”. My 3 year old was proud to declare at dinner that girls do not have worms.
Daughter is at that age now where it's clicking on how to write simple words that she may not have learned for a spelling test, or something like that before, but is missing consonants. She was trying to write flag down but wrote f-a-a-g and I explained to her that sounded like a bad word and probably shouldn't have said it outloud. "No honey, that sounds like *BEEEP* which isn't a good word. FL-A-G!"
Bringing a tik tok debate ITT. Kid gets invited to a party where the venue charges per child. Is it fair to bring siblings and expect the host family to pay for them? If so, how many before it becomes too many and you should offer to pay? IMO the only kid who you should assume is paid for is the kid listed on the invite. If the invite is for the XYZ family, the sibling should only be assumed to be part of the invite if they are within the age range of the birthday kid AND have participated in play dates with that kid. Ex. sibling who is a year or 2 older/younger than the birthday kid but they all play together when the families get together or if its a situation where birthday kid has an older sibling who is friends with your kid's older sibling. Any more than one sibling, should result in a phone call asking the host family for clarification on who is invited, followed by asking if siblings can come along, and an automatic offer to pay for anyone other than the kid who is in the class/friends with birthday kid. Only exception for this rule is family. You pay for the 12 year old cousin even though it's a party for 4 year olds. Am I way off base here?
agree here. Not every family has the ability to split up and only show up with the invited kid, but if you are in that situation, you need to pay for the extra kids you showed up with. Don't care if they come eat pizza/cake in the room, but go pay for access to the venue.
You listed a flowchart to determine which child, if any, is invited or allowed to the party and who is responsible for paying for them
100% inviting family is paying for invitee Anything extra is on the parent of the extra Now, I have been known to pass out the package paid wristbands to little brothers, etc at parties when it was obvious the full number of invitees wasn't showing/hadn't rsvpd either before passing them out to cousins, etc that didn't really get an invite in the first place their parents just saw it on Facebook and decided to tag along. Yall can get pizza, but yea....
I’ve always invited siblings to my kids’ birthdays. The only reason not to would be if there were physical space limitations, not because I’m trying to save $18.
Do you think it is tacky not to pay for your kids friend's siblings not "offering to pay for you kids siblings if they weren't invited"
I think it’s tacky not to invite siblings if there’s room, and tacky to assume that the reason why siblings were not invited was because of the marginal cost
I'm not going to make judgment on anyone's situation but these parties can be absurdly expensive. If you invite 20 kids from lil Usernane's class and it is $25 a pop then they all bring 0-2 siblings shit is now a grand vs $500 I can understand some guardrails
Thing is, party room is set up for 10 kids and parents, seats and size wise I've done these things where I didn't pay for any extra than the 10, but bought extra pizza and such to have food for everyone and I got out of there with a final bill just short of $1000 That doesn't include cake, presents, invitations, etc. I have no qualms about saving $18 because your second kid wasn't 'invited'
Birthday parties add up. You have to have guardrails. We invited the whole kindergarten class to the blowing alley and it was nearly a grand. Never again. We do parties at home or at a public park until it becomes socially acceptable to only invite a handful of friends.
I did get a kick out of the uppity notion that $18 per kid is not a significant expense lol. That shit adds up.
10 year old has already started 'planning ' his 11th birthday in dec He wants to have a fishing birthday We live at the lake, have a community hall that was just renovated last year and is free for us to use, and it overlooks the lake so it's pretty much ideal
BTW, we learned it is totally acceptable at elementary age to only invite a few Befriend the child's teacher and they will hook you up with the contact list, especially if they have kids of their own they will understand that you don't want to have to do the kid handing out invitations at school thing
I would never bring a sibling to a party like skyzone. Flow chart ends there. Asking/expecting the host to pay for additional uninvited children is insane.
In my experience this is why I see a lot of birthday invites only come through on E-vite (we get the email addresses of all the parents in our kids class) so you can emphasize to RSVP and indicate how many kids you're bringing.
There's no greater feeling as a dad than getting through the final solo bedtime during a wife trip. Goodness
My daughter broke her foot at dance yesterday. She was supposed to have a featured number in the Nutcracker in December that she had been rehearsing for months. She's devastated
Ugh. My son's school is having a fall festival and the invitation was really ambiguous if parents were invited. The last event didn't include parents. Now they are saying we can come, but my wife and I are away at work and can't make it back to school by lunch time. Shit kills me. My son, for as aggressive he is, is very sensitive and I think of all those videos of kids lighting up when they see their parents during a play or something. Very annoyed right now
It's so different these days with kid events 1. There are way too many 2. Unless it was a major function my parents weren't there growing up cause they worked full time in office jobs. I don't recall them coming to eat lunch with me once in elementary school. It was what it was though. It wasn't like I was the only one, it was much more a rarity then. WFH and work flexibility has changed so much. I love being there for my son, but damn, it can be a lot, and the pressure to be at every single one is wild.
At urgent care for our first broken bone. It's my son, which with how wild he is, we've been on borrowed time before something like this happened