Parenting

With some jurisdictions categorically recommending that children under a certain age (in the case of Denmark under 13) should not have a tablet or smartphone, what is your opinion on the appropriate age/way to introduce these devices to your children's life? Do you use your own devices together with your children? If so, how and when?

While my own children are still unquestionably too young for tablets or smartphones, I'm already afraid of the social pressure that is likely to arise at an ever younger age when their friends start getting devices.

I think I handled it well.
I told them yes in a longx50 time. While I was wiping their butt. Then they asked if they were going to die. I told them maybe, when they are an old old old lady like Grandma.
That seemed to go well enough.

Hi there! Hope this is not against the rules, but given I made the app exactly to help parents (especially privacy-conscious ones), I hope it's okay.

I made an educational open source game for small kids (2-6 yo) where they can match cute animals (currently sea creatures, dinosaurs, colours and fruit theme packs).

Features:

• cute pictures
• works on both a phone and a tablet
• multiple theme packs
• fully free, no tracking or anything
• there are multiple flavours, one of which bundles all of the assets and doesn't even have the permission to access the internet <- great if you're extra cautious
• big buttons, no reading necessary, small kids friendly

It can be downloaded both from GitHub and the Play Store.

Some screenshots

Let me know what you think!

On behalf of all the dads, sons, or daughters; if you are a mom, thank you!

Moms are a miracle. My kids remind of that. I just spent an hour wrestling with the kids at the dinner table because they wouldn’t eat the Mother’s Day lunch I prepared them. Thank you to all the moms who put up with us as kids because we are getting it back now. And thank you to the wives’ who this is their daily reality.

My children have two nationalities - luckily both of them are EU nationalities. However, since we live in the home country of my wife, my children have little to nothing in terms of contact with their second nationality of my home country. Both passports for them are largely interchangeable in terms of power and freedom of travel. My children also will never need to decide whether to give up either nationality, making it easier for them to just have a "passive nationality" in the back pocket.

Do your children also have more than one nationality? How does this impact your and their life? How do you manage to retain ties with both countries - if at all? I'd love to hear different perspectives on this topic.

Hello everyone. My little brother is starting pre k in a few months and a lot of people said I should try to get him time to socialize with other kids before then because he hasnt really had the chance to spend a lot of time with other kids.

Now he is very very shy and doesnt talk to anyone but me really. I tried to set up some playdates with some other parents with kids the same age and he is just way to shy to really intract with them. He just stays quiet and keeps to himself mostly. He just doesnt seem willing to want to do anything with the other kids.

So I was just wondering from anyone else with shy kids, what can I do with him that helps him practice socializing with others? I don’t want him to think it’s bad or wrong to be shy because its totally okay that he is. But I dont want him to get too overwhelmed when he goes to school with a bunch of kids for the first time and im not there.

Came like this, they absolutely knew:

Before we became parents the concept of "Mental Load" was largely theoretical as both of us were easily able to manage the everyday logistics of our own lives. With children coming into the equation everything suddenly becomes a juggling exercise - at least that was our experience.

I've read in several publications that the mental load or, to use a different wording, the organisation of everyday logistics is often predominantly done by women/mothers.

We try to share all tasks as evenly as possible. We both work approximately the same amount of time. We both earn similar wages. We share costs on a 50:50 basis. We both took the exact same amount of parental leave. However, the logistics of everyday life have, without even trying to aim for that, drifted more towards my wife.

How do you go about sharing this task? What kind of technical/IT solutions do you use to remain on the same page? Is it even necessary to share this task or are there others ways to "specialise" in certain areas of being a parent?

Them: Knock knock!
Me: Who's there?
Them: Boo!
Me: Boo who?
Them: Boo! I'm a ghost!

This article really struck a chord with me, since I'm increasingly worried about my children growing up in a world that is fundamentally different from the one I grew up in. It's incredibly hard to make sure that children are not confronted with disturbing imagery and all the propaganda that is circulating online without the fully developed critical thinking of an educated adult. How do you go about making sure your children become responsible adults online?

Hello everyone. My little brother is going to be going to pre-k before too long and I want to make sure he is prepared. We have the whole summer coming up so I was wondering if anyone knew about anything good to do before he starts pre-k.

He loves to color and draw and he loves being read stories. He hasn’t really spent much time around other kids alot tho. How do I make sure he’s ready for a classroom? Thanks.

On Monday, Health Canada issued the recall for the Babyjoy Baby High Chair and Style Life Eleven Baby Loungers because of the safety risks and is warning caregivers to stop using them immediately.

Links:

• https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/costway-babyjoy-baby-high-chair-recalled-due-entrapment-suffocation-and-fall-hazards

• https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/style-life-eleven-baby-loungers-recalled-due-fall-and-entrapment-hazards

I remember my father telling me (probably slightly after my first son was born, great timing indeed!), it would have been a pity to gave birth to someone in this timeline.

Period was around 2010/11, I thought he was just extreme and depressed. Today I can't really say he was wrong. We western people are just going to see a colossal crash and I feel bad having my kids as a spectator for that.

Hey parents! Dad of a 2.5 year old girl and having some struggles with potty training and curious to know if others have experienced this issue and what tricks/tips helped.

We started potty training in January and it was going well, we made it part of her nightly routine to go #1 on the potty before bed and would get a sticker reward (some tracker chart that pampers/huggies offers). She even started to say she wanted to go on the potty during the day and even made a couple #2's, which we were excited for and told her how great it was she did this.

Then suddenly overnight she became incredibly afraid of the potty and is now actively trying to hold it in. We know she needs to go because she strains, yells "No" repeatedly and holds her bum as if she is trying to keep it in. We try to encourage her and tell her it's ok and that she can go in her diaper if she needs to but the act of going #2 seems to really scare her and we are concerned of any side effects of her constantly trying to hold it in.

She seems to go at daycare with no issue (in her diaper, they aren't actively trying to potty train her yet).

I understand people might not know the cause but curious to know if you went through this and what helped your toddler?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40801931

Infants be like that rule

Source: Severance S2 E2

I'm one. It's hard work but well worth it.

I wouldn't let him eat dog food 🤷‍♀️

If you run into a paywall, here is the link since this information is important: https://web.archive.org/web/20250314114401/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-measles-cases-ontario-what-to-do/