u/harmlesslandsquid

My kids absolutely love sleepovers at granny and granddad's house and at their other nanny's house, they've stayed with them since my oldest was a baby, they're 7(nearly 8), 5 and 20 months now. My parents and MIL seem to love having them over too. That being said I'm one of the few people I know who seems to actually have their kids stay at relatives houses. Some of my friends would but their parents are either uninterested or unavailable, but a decent amount don't because they don't trust their parents to be able to handle their children or that their parents will do everything correctly or simply don't want to be away from their children for prolonged periods. I do get some of that, but at the same time, as much as I adore my children's and they are the most important thing in my life, they aren't the only thing. My husband and I need time to do things ourselves, I have hobbies and interests that I don't want to completely give up even if I've willingly cut back on them to have a family. As I said the kids love it too, they have great relationships with their grandparents (much better than I did) and I hope that they're forming really fond memories of them.

Am I in a minority of letting grandparent sleepovers happen? Or is it just the people I happen to know? How do you guys feel about it?

Mine is that my 7 year old son is currently sobbing because he can't play his kazoo right now. The reason he can't play? Because it's in the dishwasher after he dropped it in the toilet while trying to play it and pee at the same time 💀💀💀 I swear this is a sentence I'd never dream of saying about 8 years ago but nowadays I'm like....yeah that's fairly standard tbf 😂😭

My 7 year old son has been taking methylphenidate for about 3ish weeks now, he started at 5mg for 2 weeks, no changes, he's now taking 10mg and we've still seen no changes. He'll have a medication review soon but I'm curious about where we go from here? Will he keep going up in dose? Or does this not work for him? Do people have any stories of it kicking in at higher doses with their kids, or else where they went if methylphenidate wasn't helping?

My 7 year old son has been taking methylphenidate for about 3ish weeks now, he started at 5mg for 2 weeks, no changes, he's now taking 10mg and we've still seen no changes. He'll have a medication review soon but I'm curious about where we go from here? Will he keep going up in dose? Or does this not work for him? Do people have any stories of it kicking in at higher doses with their kids, or else where they went if methylphenidate wasn't helping?

People get angry about the twist in Morning Star with Servo's fake death, saying that Darrow suddenly becoming an unreliable narrator and lying to the reader is really strange and out of character. But it's not the first time he's done, it's the same thing he does the first time he meets the Jackal, he leads the reader to believe he has no idea who Lucian is and that his army are drunk and acting stupid but all the while he has a plan and he reveals it to the reader at the right moment. If anything it's exactly in character for Darrow where Adruis is concerned.