u/Beneficial-Lemon-213

Hi!! What do you all do for lunch meal prep? What do you make? When? Bonus points if it is stuff that you pack in a lunchbox for yourself and the kiddos 🙏🏽

I will WFH most days of the week, but either way, I have a tricky schedule between late preschool drop off for my oldest and shuffling myself and our infant back home or into the office two days of the week. I’m trying to figure out the best way to account for a packed lunch for me and sometimes my oldest and my infant (he just started baby led weaning).

Hi! I am new to teaching in an immersion Montessori classroom in an Indigenous language in an English-dominant country. I have a new Children's House student (almost 4 YO) who I have presented many 3-Period Lessons with. Each time, he does the 2nd Period in our Indigenous language really well right away with maybe only 1-2 errors if that. However, when we get to the 3rd Period, he only names them in English and really struggles to name them in our Indigenous language (even ones that I had heard him use before in other contexts). Overall, he is also showing really strong receptive language (listening, comprehension, etc.), but does not speak in our Indigenous language often.

What has other bilingual/immersion school Montessori guides done when students cannot seem to make it through the 3rd Period? Any supports or modifications you put in place? Also, if you have any hopeful stories, I am getting worried about how to move this student into active bilingualism versus "passive"/receptive bilingualism.

Thank you in advance!

Hi! I’m trying to find some kind of reassurance or hope or idk. I’m a little over 2 months postpartum after my second son.

With my first (~4 years ago), I breastfed and lost weight but then gained a ton of weight due to some hormonal changes that happened when he started solids. It was absolutely awful (because I gained about 30 lbs over two months and had other symptoms) and they couldn’t really figure out why. Then, I got pregnant with my second and dropped all the weight within a couple months of being pregnant.

Now, with my second, I’m breastfeeding again. He’s huge and cute; over 16 lbs at his 2 month appt. We’re rarely doing a bottle. But, I have gained 10 lbs in the last month. My doctors don’t really know what’s going on. My thyroid looks great and my A1C looks great (despite that being bad when I gained with my first). I’m eating decently well and getting some exercise. My sleep is rough because we’re cosleeping but I’m still getting between 6-9 hours total (just with lots of wake ups).

Did anyone have similar weight gain happen? Did the weight gain stop? Did anything help?