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My family dog passed away today. She was with my parents at their house 2 hours away. I couldn’t say goodbye, I’m devastated, been crying all afternoon. I haven’t been hiding it from my daughter, she knows I’m sad and is offering comfort, but I haven’t told her why I am sad.

Shes got great language skills, but she’s only 2.5. She loved our dog, and we are going to see my parents next week. How do i approach this with her? I don’t want to lie, but I also don’t want to say the wrong thing. I want to be able to help her through this and make sure she understands that it’s okay to be sad and miss our dog etc

Families with two story houses with bedrooms upstairs: what age were your kids when you removed gates?

We have a gate on our 2.5yo room. She wakes up a lot at night and one of us will get her and she’ll sleep with us for the rest of the night, no problem. She’s good at going up and down the stairs by herself, but I still like to walk behind/in front of her, as she gets distracted a lot. I wouldn’t feel comfortable taking the gate away now for that reason, but what age do most people get rid of it?

ETA our stairs are designed in a way where they can’t be gated, unfortunately

Looking for advice regarding my blended family and parents will.

Important info: father has two kids to first marriage, my half brother and sister. After his divorce, he met my mother and had me. Father is older than my mother and has recently been diagnosed with early onset dementia, although he is still very coherent.

My father, mother and I have been estranged from my brother for over a decade due to an endless list of shitty things he has done. My sister was still taking to him up until last year until her and her family went no contact with him and their mum. We still have a close relationship with brothers ex wife, so thankfully can visit his kids regularly.

Parents will has always been this: mums 50% goes to me and dads 50% gets split 3 ways between his kids. Even though brother was estranged from my parents for so long, they didn’t change anything in the will as in the naivety they thought either a) they would reconcile or b) brother would use it towards bettering his family. However, it is now clear that this will never happen, and after the series of events that led to my sister going no contact last year, they want him off it completely. Problem is, my father can now not consent to changing his will due to his dementia diagnosis.

Providing nothing happens, it’s obvious to all of us that our dad will pass before my mum. Dad and mum sat me and my sister down to discuss what they wanted to do with the will if/when dad passes first. Their idea is to update the will to split dads 50% amongst the grandchildren instead, so they would roughly get 6% each. It means that sister wouldn’t get anything, and even though I offered to split my mums half with her, she declined and is 100% onboard with this idea. At the end of the day she is happy her kids will be looked after, and out of the 8 grandchildren 4 of them are hers, so her family unit will benefit the most anyway.

My question is, if dad passes first, mum changes the will, does my brother have any leg to stand on to contest once mum passes? I feel as though my parents think this will solve all the problems, but I feel like my sister and I are going to inherit a world of shit once this happens. I don’t care about what money goes where, I just want to honour my parents wishes, and I feel like no matter what happens my brother will ruin that to get his piece of the pie, because that’s all he cares about.

Legally, what can be done to make this as set in stone as possible?

New to the sub, long time SATC fan, watched multiple times.

Has anyone ever discussed/questioned why the hell Aidan was smoking a cigar on the opening night of Scout? Like, I get it’s a celebratory thing to do, but after alllll the shit he gave Carrie for smoking, ‘I can’t be with a smoker’ etc etc why in the hell would they have his character smoking a cigar? I feel like Carrie should have been like ‘the fuck bro?’. It’s always annoyed me

Hope I don’t get racked over the coals for a post like this in this sub, please be gentle. Also, apologies if this has been asked a million times before.

I’ve been vegan for 12 years, my partner is Omni, together for 8 years. I cook vegan food for the family, and if he wishes to cook his own meat to add to these meals, that’s up to him. He is very understanding and respectful of my morals and beliefs.

We have two kids, a toddler and infant who hasn’t started solids yet. After many many discussions around our toddler, we originally agreed to raise her vegetarian and introduced all non vegan allergens other than shellfish. However, she is now almost 100% vegan, bar the odd scrambled eggs her father will cook her, from our neighbours backyard chickens.

He’s never said it out loud, but I think originally he was worried about what raising a vegan child looked like: would she be getting enough nutrients? What would others thinks? Now that he can see how much she is thriving and literally no one in our lives care, he is way more

open to starting from the get go with our infant.

What I am now trying to figure out is, do we introduced those allergens to our infant? What have you done, if in a similar situation.