I usually just share, because my 4yo daughter is a logical little imp and since I’m like 6x her size, I tell her I’ll give her a little but I still get most cause I’m bigger and that always works.

My two year old, though, I’ll just say no more and let them cry. Gotta learn early, I guess. Lol

Entirely relatable right down to the sheer (temporary) hatred for everyone involved. Like, literally right now that’s how I’m feeling, because my two year old is an asshole who also caused water damage last week under similar circumstances and today, just the terror of them messing up the house and breaking shit while being “watched” by my partner who is on their phone instead of doing stuff.

The crying, the insane decision making, the lack of support, the draining weekday work, and even just not getting fulfilment in life; you shouldn’t beat yourself up over it since I think everyone goes through it and at least you didn’t get physically violent.

It’s only guilty because the kids are innocent, but they can learn that people lose their temper, have bad days, etc. We literally teach them to express their emotions and to be understanding when people are stressed; so as long as you do that for them in return, I’m sure they’ll get over your outburst

I’ve a four year old and a two year old, both expected at daycare tomorrow. I kind of managed by just shifting everything earlier, as they mostly recognized the sequence of events more than the absolute time… it was a little harder to get them to actually sleep, but they were in bed at the right time and putting in the effort.

It helps that my daughter is a stickler for rigid order. The boy just follows her lead. She’s so rigid that she’ll overcome her own desires to fulfill the series of events she expects, forgoing food, fun, whatever. It’s kinda spooky, lol.

That said, fuck daylight savings time.

I managed to get mine to comply by singing a song each time. My oldest loves numbers so we sang-song counting to 20 (she was about to do that as early as 11 months, which was neat). Number two mostly cares about monster trucks so we sing about that, except with an interrupt to spread his legs for the last wipes.

He is this meme with his daycare, though, and is weirdly strong. He just started daycare and I’m told they need two people to restrain him during changes, which I’m kinda proud of in a way, lol.

I literally have to go by feel (and smell, we ain’t risking a pitch black poop change). None the less, weird they haven’t bothered making contrasting sides.

Some Japanese diapers we had at least had consistently different characters front vs back but in low light that’s still iffy.

The not knowing it’s a sanctuary city reminds me that it might not be; their list includes a lot of errors (as always). For instance, someone in Huntington Beach told me it was on the list even though that is one extremely conservative city in So. Cal… It’s probably about as well researched as their tarrifs were.

It is certainly terrible in general being alive in America in 2025, though, and doubly true with kids. I’m not even sure if homeschooling is going to fix that, though. My kids aren’t old enough for K-12, but my family always gets into trouble with authority so it’ll be a bit tricky teaching them how to navigate it all.

Two year old, she hasn’t watched Paw Patrol but oddly enough she has a golden book with three Paw Patrol stories in it. I hate reading it and she gets bored of it easily but still like to go back to it for whatever reason-- I’ve come to spice things to by reading it with overly dramatic voice and pacing (with dramatic… Pauses). She tends to prefer books, so I’m lucky.

I haven’t had to ban anything, but she mostly likes kids songs (e.g. Simple Songs). My mom likes to show her Ukrainian show Masha and the Bear, and since my kids half Japanese, we often do a show called Shinapushu. All on YouTube.

But, I even have her around when I’m watching stuff I want to watch, like Last Week Tonight. She repeats the occasional swear word but I’m pretty indifferent about that, I’m much more worried about her shouting “Clock” because she doesn’t pronounce the “l” and has a tendency to point and shout it excitedly. I often have to quickly say, loudly, “yes V, it’s a CLOCK.”