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[Bernadine]

My 3 yo dd told me last night, when she grows up, she wants to vote for Elizabeth Warren. I really hope there's an amazing female candidate for her to vote for then.  It made me tear up thinking about it.

It also reminded me how much kids hear, even when we're not talking directly to them, lol. 

[wesleycrusher]

My 7 year olds learned on President's Day at school that you have to be 35 to be President. I turned 35 a few days later and they have been begging me to president ever since.

[candreco]

DH and I took the kids with us to vote yesterday, and they were kind of hanging back while we checked in. I finished check in, and the poll worker tried to call DD up to sign in. She's almost as tall as me, but she's 11! DD very politely told her that she would like to but wasn't allowed yet. We asked her who she would vote for and her pick was Warren. Maybe we should have let her try....

[CloudBee]

In karate the other day, my 6 year old's instructor circled the kids up at the end of class and sat down to chat with them as he always does. He asked them "if you could know anything in the entire world, what would it be?" He then went around the circle and let every child answer.

My kid said: "I want to know what China's not telling us!"

I died.

[Deleted]

I think my kid has entered the WHY phase. Send prayers. And whiskey.

Also, she is too smart. She winds up turning everything we say back on her. In an attempt to say no less and to frame things more positively, last week I started telling her to “be patient” if she asked me to do something for her while I was busy. Within four days, she started turning it back on us.
“You need to get your coat on so we can leave.”
“Mama, you have to be patient.”
WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!

[pugz]

My 3 year old STTN for only the 4th time since last fall 🙌🏻 i pray the iron supplement is starting to work. Also next week we may drop the nap. It may kill me, but I think it is worth trying again to see if it helps at night.

Have no idea what daylight savings will so to her sleep.

She is currently screaming at me because I didn’t save any of MY breakfast for her.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Mar 4, 2020 8:51:53 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

I think my kid has entered the WHY phase. Send prayers. And whiskey.

Also, she is too smart. She winds up turning everything we say back on her. In an attempt to say no less and to frame things more positively, last week I started telling her to “be patient” if she asked me to do something for her while I was busy. Within four days, she started turning it back on us.
“You need to get your coat on so we can leave.”
“Mama, you have to be patient.”
WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!

Mine says "mommy, you know I'm not patient."

[redheadbaker]

My aunt has three kids, ages 21, 15, and 13. The 15-year-old was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 6.

Just got a text that my aunt took the youngest to the hospital last night -- she just got diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, too.

[mrssandro]

DD#1 is so sick of us talking about politics. She is trying to ignore us but I am hoping that makes her realize how important it is. We also had a pro life/pro choice discussion and she has some misconceptions and inconsistencies about how she felt. But I think she came out of it being pro choice and understanding it should be up to the individual women to decide what is best for her and the circumstances. I really want her to decide her feelings on topics on her own and not swing her either way. But of course I want her to be liberal like me.

[macmars45]

@angryharpy , I'm still in the why phase and my DS is almost 4. I'll let you know when it ends.... if it ends. It must end at some point. Right?

DS (almost 4) is reverting back to his hitting, pulling hair and generally unkind behavior phase of about 1.5 years ago. Plus screaming no at H and me. I know he's dealing with the transition of us getting ready to make a big move away from all he knows as home (but near family in a city he's visited 4+/year since he was born). But man it's hard. 

[cville]

My son, 6, got a diary with a lock at the school book fair. He writes in it every night, locks it, and hides the key. He said it's for his private thoughts and I am not allowed to know them so don't ask.

[Waffles]

DD has not pooped at daycare for almost 2 weeks. Not only that but she does it either in the morning when we're trying to leave or at night, just before bath or bedtime.

I tried to bribe her to go on the toilet last night when she said she had to go (she hasn't pooped on the potty/toilet at home yet) and she was following me to the bathroom until I told her she would get stickers and she just stopped walking and crouched to poop in the hall instead. Clearly stickers aren't good enough...

Then after she was finished and I had changed her diaper, she kept telling me she would now go on the toilet to poop and get a gift.

Not sure the bribe thing was a good idea?

[Velar Fricative]

DD2 will be 3 in June and aside from an attempt to potty train her last summer when she showed tons of signs of readiness, we haven't bothered trying to PT her since I feel like we missed our window because she no longer shows interest. But, I'm super lazy about this. DD1 was hard to PT and I think I'm just hoping DD2 is a unicorn child who will just wake up one day and PT herself because I just don't want to do this.

[Deleted]

Mar 6, 2020 9:18:50 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

DD2 will be 3 in June and aside from an attempt to potty train her last summer when she showed tons of signs of readiness, we haven't bothered trying to PT her since I feel like we missed our window because she no longer shows interest. But, I'm super lazy about this. DD1 was hard to PT and I think I'm just hoping DD2 is a unicorn child who will just wake up one day and PT herself because I just don't want to do this.

harpytot will often go but is also content to go in her pull up. Poop is still a battle too. I’m hoping it just clicks with her soon. If it doesn’t by early May, I think we’re going to have to put in actual effort because she needs to be fully toilet trained to start K3 in August.

[mbcdefg]

Another one here with an almost 3YO who isn’t quite getting potty training. She’s pretty good at telling us when she needs to pee, but she’s only pooped once at home and refuses to try it again.

Peeing outside of home can be hit or miss ... she usually tries up to four times a day at daycare and will just sit on the potty but not pee. One or two successful attempts a week at daycare is lucky for us. And when we’re at a restaurant she just keeps asking me to go back-to-back and doesn’t actually do anything - I don’t know if she’s scared or just wants to pretend she has to pee so she can go play in the bathroom sink, but I have a hard time keeping my patience. We went out for pizza a few weeks ago after being cooped up inside for several days, and I spent the entire meal in the bathroom with her and got about three bites of ice cold pizza.

At home she literally just wants to play in the bathroom and climb on and off the toilet multiple times by herself.

And if she doesn’t get the specially requested parent to take her to the bathroom, forget it.