u/rosysredrhinoceros

Okay idk if I’m just getting old or it’s my ADHD or what, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to do this. I’m trying to create a routine that will make an announcement at specific times in the morning warning my kids that they have 30, then 15, then 10, then 5 minutes to be ready to go. I want it to play on about half the echos in the house without creating a permanent group that I’ll then have to take apart for the rest of the day and put back together every morning. Can anybody ELI5 this for me? And I mean like a REALLY slow 5yo, not one of the clever ones.

My daughter and I want to embroider the atarah for her bat mitzvah tallit together, but most of the tallitot I can find without one are like the really basic Chabad or Sephardic beige ones. Does anyone know where I can buy a pretty one for a young girl without it?

Okay I fully realize this post is just me managing my ADHD/anxiety/insecurities by trying to control the little things, but I feel like a robot in a skin suit rn and I need some advice. I haven’t had a kid in brick and mortar school in seven years, as my first kid was halfway through kindergarten when Covid hit and we’ve been homeschooling ever since, which has worked great for my older two. My third kid has decided she wants to try regular kindergarten, so we are ramping up to that in three weeks. I have very distinct and cringey memories of my oldest starting kindergarten and me not knowing all of the “mom things” that all the other kids got. Like WDYM I’m supposed to be putting little encouraging love notes in her lunchbox? My mom was absolutely not that kind of mom, and I know it’s not necessary, but I also really want to be that mom. So please hit me with all of your June Cleaver advice for how to send a kid off to kindergarten who has never been away from me for more than 3 hours at a time for a very forest school/ Waldorfy preschool twice a week. She’s fine with like hanging up her backpack and opening her lunchbox, and she can read, so it’s not her skills I’m worried about, it’s me feeling like I have no idea what I’m doing and not wanting her to feel like she’s just been kicked out of the nest.

EDIT: I realize my use of the word anxiety is misleading some people. I’m not anxious about her going to kindergarten; I’m not going to cry at drop off and traumatize her. I’m worried about the fact that I was a total weirdo who didn’t have any friends in school in part because my mom didn’t participate in the community so I didn’t fit in at all.

Is there anywhere reasonably local to purchase snake gaiters? I am starting to do some landscaping and will be needing to work in some knee-high brush. Thanks!

💫💫THIS IS MEANT TO BE LIGHTHEARTED KEEP IT COOL💫💫

Inspired by my realization that I’m going to be going from 0.44 to 0.88 tomorrow right before I get in the car to drive to Disneyland, what’s the worst time you can think of to increase your dose?