February 2024 Babies 🇺🇸

Is anyone else having trouble with their two year-old wanting to dictate everything? I try to give choice as much as possible to give him that need for control but some times he is so unreasonable- like demanding that I hold my four month old and not my husband to the point he will sit and cry and say it over and over for 30 minutes. Or not eating dinner and crying because he didn’t get the plate he wanted which was my plate of dinner. I feel like my patience is gone all the time and I don’t know what to do to get him to stop.

Any moms put their toddles in little sports yet ? My baby just turned two in early February & I signed him up for soccer. He’s been in it for about a month & thriving 😩 plus it’s the cutest thing! He’s very advanced for his age so me & hubby figured it was a good idea. It wasn’t necessarily for progression in the sport which is a plus & he is for sure progressing sooo well! It had a lot to do with providing space for him to create some independence (he is a Velcro baby to me in particular) like glued to my hip ! So wanted him to learn to interact with others smaller than him & other adults outside of immediate family. Also coordination as well as taking direction well from others, burning off some energy & opening up his mind to something new. There are some other factors but that kind of sums up my thought process.

Okay guys, I have a two year old as of February. He hardly talks. He says a few words, like: mama, dad, ruck(truck), wow, yeah, woah, duck. He understands everything you tell him or ask him. I will ask him to say * Insert word* and he will just look at me and smile. Almost like he’s shy to try. My husband isn’t too concerned with it saying that he and his dad didnt talk until after they were 2-3 yrs old.

Any advice?

For those who don’t know early Headstart is a federal program for kids 0-3, they come to the house on a weekly basis to provide developmental activities and educational services. They also do monthly playgroups to provide more educational activities and chance to socialize and get ready for pre-k/ school.

My child has been in the program for about half a year now. They host playgroup twice a month and we have tried going to playgroup however we have had to leave early every single time we’ve gone. My child has severe anaphylactic allergies, her worse being dairy, which I notified them of upon intake and have talked to them about every single time I’ve gone to playgroup and I’ve spoken to them various times outside of playgroup. We end up having to leave playgroup early every time because they serve pizza, every single time, which my daughter is deathly allergic to. Even if I were to pack her own lunch, which I have no issue doing, the other kids having pizza poses a huge risk to her safety. Even coming in contact with something that has touched the pizza, so any of the kids hands or anything they touch, can cause her to have a reaction. I can’t just trust that kids eating pizza won’t touch anything until they wash their hands and I can’t just trust they will wash their hands well enough to prevent a reaction. I mean these kids are all under 3.

Every single time before I leave I talk to them about this issue and they tell me the same thing, that they will talk to the nutritionalist and find out what she can do. This has been going on for months though and nothing has been done. I’m to the point I don’t even want to take her.

I’m definitely getting ahead of myself I think it’s just because ima proud mom, my daughter has been more interested in the potty lately so we got her a potty chair. We didn’t really force her to go on it we just kinda let her decide when she wanted to try it. Last week she pooed in the big girl toilet for the first time, since then she’s been telling me when she needs to pee pee or poo poo 90% of the time. But hasn’t actually peed. ( we almost made it to the potty the other day. I turned into the potty). Well this morning she wakes up and waits for me to get done in the bathroom and then asks to go pee pee. I take her diaper off and see that she held her pee the entire night. She did her entire morning pee on the big girl toilet. We’ve been going naked the past couple of days So my question is should I get her a pack of undies for during the day and then keep her in pull ups at night for accidents?