u/Bubble-Master96

My 2 year old in 10 days has entered her biting phase. Late to the game for it, unexpected and catches me off guard when she does it. Today has been a very testing day, including a 1 hr long full on tantrum. Right as I’m taking her to bed when I’m at my tipping point; she bites my shoulder hard.

I reacted without thinking and shouted OW NO! And put her down. Immediately I did my own emotional regulation which is I close my eyes, take a deep breath and count to five on my index and thumb meeting at a circle. Like meditating fingers 👌🏻when I opened my eyes my daughter was doing the same thing. I took her hands and apologised, and she also said “sorry mummy” and then we moved on to bath time.

I am so freaking proud of her, I did tell her what brilliant emotional regulation she was showcasing and how proud I was. It’s so rewarding to see my hard work pay off. Whilst I’m not proud of my reaction to shout, at least we can repair and move on together. Ah I love being a mum!

My 2 year old in 10 days has entered her biting phase. Late to the game for it, unexpected and catches me off guard when she does it. Today has been a very testing day, including a 1 hr long full on tantrum. Right as I’m taking her to bed when I’m at my tipping point; she bites my shoulder hard.

I reacted without thinking and shouted OW NO! And put her down. Immediately I did my own emotional regulation which is I close my eyes, take a deep breath and count to five on my index and thumb meeting at a circle. Like meditating fingers 👌🏻when I opened my eyes my daughter was doing the same thing. I took her hands and apologised, and she also said “sorry mummy” and then we moved on to bath time.

I am so freaking proud of her, I did tell her what brilliant emotional regulation she was showcasing and how proud I was. It’s so rewarding to see my hard work pay off. Whilst I’m not proud of my reaction to shout, at least we can repair and move on together. Ah I love being a mum!

Whilst her cig smoke drifts into my house because smokes right next to the fence 🥲

So funny how one is so extremely stigmatised yet has medical benefits, and one is accepted but a disgusting damaging habit with absolutely no benefit.

And by moaning I mean I hear her saying “ugh that stinks it always stinks of weed here”

I’ve not bothered to tell her it’s medical, but I will if she ever says something to my face

About start potting training, daughter is going unprompted for wee’s on potty when naked but not in a nappy (obvs) but they all cost like £20??? Am I just tight or is that expensive

Also should I just skip and go for normal pants? I just want to give her another option to learn to go other than naked or nappy?

Okay a resounding YES to going straight to normal pants! She also just did a poo on the potty unprompted so I need to get my shimmy on and dedicate some time to this!

I watched them so much as a kid myself, but now I’m rewatching them with my toddler and they’re breaking my heart???

Especially lion king 2, He lives in you and We are one is genuinely making me sob

And it’s really starting to become annoying. I’m mum and I am the primary parent and boy does it show.

She’s 23 months, 2 at the end of July and she is quite literally obsessed. Especially in the mornings, I can’t even have my morning poo in peace as she wants to sit on my knee. Honestly sometimes it feels like she wants to climb back up inside me.

My husband really really tries, he spends a lot of time with her doing their own thing but if I’m around she wants nothing to do with him. And I feel really bad for him. She has never changed parental preference once, she always cries for me and always chooses me. The only thing he does that annoys me is he doesn’t stop her coming to find me and then she gets in a huge state when she gets taken away.

I do understand why, my husband works shifts so his routine is not consistent or predictable but mine is. I work the same 3 days and she goes to my mums for childcare. So I’m always the consistent, morning and night. So it makes sense but it’s sooooo draining.

I don’t even know what I’m looking for in writing this. I love the bond me and her have and I love that I’m her safe place but I would just like to do a poo in peace???

Something that's been bothering me lately is how often I see parents talk about wanting a daughter who isn't "girly" and how much discomfort there seems to be when a girl genuinely loves traditionally feminine things or actively discouraging their daughters away from feminine likes and activities. I mean I saw a comment “I refused to buy any pink for my daughter”. It’s just a colour guys, chill out.

Of course girls should be free to be sporty, adventurous, academic, messy, loud, quiet, or anything else they want to be. The problem is that this freedom often seems to work in only one direction.

A girl who rejects pink, princesses, dolls, makeup, or dresses is often celebrated as independent and strong. But a girl who genuinely loves those things is frequently treated as if she's somehow less interesting, less intelligent, or less empowered.

We like to think we've moved past misogyny, but I wonder how much of this attitude comes from the lingering belief that anything associated with women and girls is inherently less valuable.

We encourage girls to embrace traditionally masculine interests because we see those interests as worthwhile. Yet when girls embrace traditionally feminine interests, people often seem to have an issue with it. I mean there was a thread just yesterday of people advising not to let a girl do “girly” sports and instead “do sports that’ll make her strong”. Ballet is “girly” and let me tell you those girls are STRONG.

Real equality means respecting girls' choices even when those choices look traditionally feminine. It means recognising that strength and intelligence aren't determined by whether a girl prefers football boots or ballet shoes, dinosaurs or dolls, blue or pink.
A girly girl doesn't need fixing. She doesn't need rescuing from femininity. She deserves the same respect and encouragement as any other.

Girly girls are valid and there’s nothing wrong with a pink, princess, baby loving little girl.

My very independent 22 month old sleeper is having a sleep regression. We’ve been incredibly lucky with sleep, she loves to nap and often takes herself off for her lunch time nap or will openly ask for it. She has had a 6pm bedtime consistently up until 3 nights ago. I know we’ve been incredibly lucky. Normally just put her down and she goes to sleep in a matter of minutes.

She suddenly on Sunday night decided nah, not going bed tonight. I tried lots of different tactics, realised after a while it was delay tactics from her and to stop. Eventually I put her tonies on and she fell asleep, but at that point it was nearly 9pm.

Yesterday, tired a half 6 bedtime and pretty much same thing. What I did different was went in once, lay her back down, told her go to sleep and went out. She stayed laying down, whinged a lot but fell asleep at 7pm.

So tried the same tonight but pushed bedtime back to 6:45pm, I know it’s only been 15 minutes but she’s sitting up just whinging over and over. I’ve gone in and laid her down like last night but she’s not relenting. I feel paralysed on whether I should go in or if this is just delay tactics, pushing boundaries???? Am I right?? she won’t sleep if I rock or hang about in the room but talking over the monitors seems to rile her up more.

Pls help 🥲 for context she has had a language and gesture explosion this week

I’ve had a terrible time since returning to work from mat leave, I’ve had to fight hard for myself and my rights constantly and I’m so exhausted and done I just want an outside perspective on how all this has gone.

January 2025, I put in my flexible work request for my return in July. It took over 3 months and my bounding before it was accepted, and I feel it was only accepted because they missed all the deadlines. It was accepted under the condition that I still had my full territory a full time equivalent sales target. I thought it was unfair, but I went with it. It was on a trial period of 3 months. Salary is for the part time hours.

I return the very end of August after having used holidays, so I requested the trial be extended until end of Nov to give the full 3 months. Agreed by manager and HR. End of Nov comes and goes with no mention of trial finishing or approved. I continue working the house, I continue to be paid for it and no one says anything. Mid Feb I email my manager and HR to ask for a permanent change to my contract to be made, which then triggered my manager (who I have long standing issues with) to request the trial to be extended or my working days be changed or increased. When I challenged it, on the basis nothing has been raised my manager was livid over it and we got into a bit of an argument on a team meeting that was luckily recorded and went in my favour. After HR involvement I was granted the permanent change. But it took a month of stress and fighting hard for myself.

Now we have our commission plans (6 months late may I add) and a threshold for presidents club has been set. It’s 110%, but the minimum must be $600k (American company works in dollars), for me that is 136% of my target. I raised that this threshold means that I have to stretch even further on the part time hours and asked it be looked at and lowered and the request escalated to the comp plan team,(as I am already a lower cost to the company) and I was told “they’re tired of comp plan issues, the route of escalation is not there. This is a rule for everyone, no exceptions”

Is this fair? I know bonuses fall into an odd place with flexible work requests and discrimination but it feels like I’m being held to the full time standard but compensated as a part time worker. I’m fed up of constant fighting for myself and I’m not sure if this is a time where I should still be fighting or just give it up.

I drove 3 hours last night in the UK to stay at a hotel for a customer meeting the next day, at 1am norovirus kicked in and takes hold of me. Have to cancel the meeting obvs and I’m thinking how tf am I going to drive home with no sleep and feeling weak as anything.

My darling hero wonderful husband is taking a 4 hour train so he can drive me and the car back whilst I sleep. I am genuinely tearing up about how grateful I am and how well he looks after me. He’s my absolutely hero.

Starts to heavily feature in season 3 and 4 and it always scratches my brain. I can never find examples of it online but it’s always just the most perfect sad song to set the scene.