Ah nice, will see how the kids like the animals, though they get to see plenty of real life animals.

Awesome, thanks! I’ve been through this list and added a bunch to my list.

Thanks, will check it out!

Great, thanks, I’ll check it out!

Oh nice! I have quite the list of things to work through now.

I’m imagining your little kid saying “How It’s Made fucking slaps” 🤣

I’ve got the first season downloading 🙂

Ooh I’ll see what I can find, thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks I’ll check it out!

There are Bluey shorts?! We’ve watched a fair amount of Bluey episodes, didn’t know there were shorts. I’ll look into it, thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions!

Ooh I like that suggestion. They would probably love the OK Go ones. I’ll have a look at They Might Be Giants music videos too. Thanks!

Not sure if it meets your hygeine standards, but we actually take the toothbrushes out of the bathroom.

Ooh great suggestion!

“I’m causing some music”

To be fair, it did not sound like the music wanted to be played.

I’d argue this change has a lot to do with women entering the workforce, to the point most families have (need to have) two working parents to get by. Now what used to be man has factory job woman looks after house and kids is now two parents each have jobs, so who looks after house and kids? Much of housework has been reduced with washing machines, dishwashers, etc.

It’s pretty common knowledge (I think?) that in most nuclear households women took on a job and still do most of the housework including child care (especially the mental load - I.e. Keeping track of what needs to be done and making sure it gets done - project manager) Over time men have a started to pick up some of the slack but there’s still a long way to go. The article from this post talks about how it’s improving for college educated but getting worse for those not college educated.

TBH I have no idea how you count who is doing the childcare at any particular point. If the kids are off playing and both parents are scrolling on their phones, do you both count that time or do neither of you count it, or is there some method of determining who is the primary person at that point? Working out these hours of childcare would be much easier for separated parents 😆

100% of the time? No. But similar to this, holding them so they were lying face down on my arm instead of on their back worked a lot. I presume gas or some other reason that changing positions helped.

My youngest keeps saying they can’t believe it. Rice for tea, I can’t believe it. Found their water bottle on the table, I can’t believe it. It’s cold outside, I can’t believe it.

I’m here. Have been wondering about a place to post the stuff my youngest has been saying lately, they are at the perfect age.

Questions like “Dad, how do giraffes draw pictures?”

And statements like “I’m going to get married. To myself. Because I want to”.

When my eldest was about that age I got “Dad, why do we only have one sun?” and so I had to explain orbital dynamics to a preschooler.

Is it good for kids? Equally important: Is it good for parents? In my opinion, the well-being of one’s children, who one brought into this world without their consent, will always come first.

One interesting thing in this space is that parental well being often leads to better child outcomes, so it’s important not to ignore the impact on parents.

Though the article does have pretty loose definitions on “gentle parenting” (since they asked participants for their definitions), so hard to say where the line is.

And a bit of a tangent but the research also wasn’t trying to look into whether gentle parenting is hard on parents (they said it was information given un-prompted), so there isn’t a comparison against the alternative. Maybe all parenting is hard on parents?

We haven’t used bin liners in years, it was really a pretty easy thing to stop. We try not to put liquids in, and in general don’t have any issue with smell. But the bins are plastic, if they smell we just wash them.