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Cake day: Jun 17, 2023

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All I know is that English, for one, is a bit of a pain in the ass to teach because you just have to do drills until you remember specific words. You can get into a pattern for words like cow, bow, now, and plow. Then you get tripped up with words like mow, show, know, and tow (which sounds like toe, rhymes with go, but not to). 🤦


When I ask my kid to clean it seems to work well (minimal complaining) to focus on getting small sections totally clean instead of saying something like, “Clean up your Lego,” which might be everywhere.


Hope they have fun. I thought about it but now that I’m a parent it gives me a lot of anxiety to have my kids away so long. Also both my kids have special needs so that’s a factor.


5yo waking us up in the middle of the night
When he was still in diapers but old enough to sleep in a normal bed we had a child lock on his door to keep him out of trouble. We took off the safety knob soon after he started using the potty (that was over a year ago). It didn't happen immediately but slowly and moreso over the last few weeks he's coming into our room at 10p, 12a, or even 3a. It's usually stuff like a "monster in the closet", "I'm out of water", "I can't find my stuffed animal", or "my music box turned off". Telling him things like "turn on your light and see what's there", "monsters don't exist", or "the bathroom is open and you can refill your cup" he'll eventually have the same problem and wake us up again. Is this just a phase he'll grow out of or is there a better way to help him solve more of these problems on his own?
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