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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlJust relax!!
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    4 hours ago

    Well I will agree with you in principle, and stick to showers at home. The most enjoyable bath of my life was when I was about 8 months pregnant and we took a weekend at a very swanky hotel, our room had such a big closet our toddler set up the foldout bed in it as her own room. The bathtub was enormous, the hot water constant, the suds delightful, and I floated blissfully free of gravity. And yes, being able to just drain and rinse and refill so the toddler could swim in it, and know someone else would clean it for pay was a big part of the enjoyment.







  • Does his talking exhaust you or is it the need for you to come up with responses? Or is it that you just want to be alone?

    Depending on the answer,

    “I love being with you but I’m too tired for talking. How about you tell me stuff you’re learning/a story while we do Lego and I’ll just keep quiet.”

    “I love you but I’m feeling peopled out, I need to be alone today.”

    “I would love to spend some time with you but my ears have had a hard day and I’m going to put some cotton in and rest them. Do you think you want to just be quiet together, or would you rather go where you can be noisy?”

    In the last one, the cotton balls are a visual reminder to him not to talk, because he’s going to keep feeling the impulse. It’s good if he learns to resist it, but it can be hard to learn. It also indicates that it’s not just him you don’t want to listen to.









  • As in the image, the parents are right there, kids on their laps in the rubble. And for wee toddlers, it’s not that anyone expects them to read all or any of the words in the dialogue. It’s making the initial connection between the spoken (or sung) words and those groups of letters on the screen. A little further along it’s associating the sounds of the letters rather than just their names.

    And then they’ll start to recognize the basic sight words, even when they’re not phonetic. Similar to reading a book along with a preschooler and having them do all the "the"s as you point to them.