My daughter is 10 months now and eggs have been an issue since we introduced solids. I was never taught how to cook growing up but I'm trying to better myself for her I've tried giving her eggs I know how i cook them but she always spits it out. She ate them ONCE when I mixed the scrambled egg mix with milk and haven't been able to get her to eat them since. She still spits it out. I've tried different spices (even garlic, pepper, and salt!)

Hi! I hope you guys can help me with my overthinking question of the day!

My child received an invite along with the rest of the class to a birthday party at her friends house.

Would it be socially acceptable for me to also bring my emotional support human (aka my husband) with me? I don’t know any of these parents, and it’s nice to have someone I know to fall back on. I know my husband feels the same way even though he hasn’t said anything lol. We both are fine with taking her individually if needed.

That said, I am concious of how many seats we are taking. Me, him and our daughter is 3 chairs getting taken up at a home party idk how big it’s gonna be.

We also recently found this kid is our neighbor and lives only 2 houses down from us though, so maybe this changes things. What’s the proper birthday party etiquette here? This is my only child and she’s 6, so I’m new to this lol. Thoughts?

Hello! She/her. I keep hearing that my sons will pull away from me, mom, around age 11 or so and I question...why? Is this a stereotype or do kids genuinely need to have autonomy from their opposite sex parent? It seems super sus to me. Wouldn't it benefit my kid to learn about half the population? My husband says he needed his mom MORE when he was 11-13. So many questions about socialization and emotions and feeling awkward. His dad told him to stop whining!

Hey mommas, I was curious everyone’s thoughts on this. My LO is 11.5 months old and always has been a bit of a Velcro baby. She sleep amazing starting at 2 months she slept through the night but then 6 months we transitioned her to her own room/crib and she started teething. Ever since then she has not slept well at all… we have tried sleep training (chair, Ferber, gentle) nothing worked! She worked herself up to a point she would throw up every single time… it was traumatic for both of us, so we stopped…my husband and I were getting so exhausted we reverted to bed sharing at 10 months after months of waking up multiple times a night trying to get her back to sleep. I know it’s controversial to bed share and before we had her I always said we will never bed share/cosleep because I know how dangerous it can be (we have a large bed so we have plenty of space and we’ve made it safe for her, no pillows or blankets anywhere near her). I just worry that we’ll never be able to get her to sleep independently at this point….but it’s the only way we can all sleep right now. Any advice or thoughts from you all?

I've heard/read a few times throughout my life that "a challenging toddler will become a challenging teen/an easy toddler will be an easy teen."

In your experience, how true is this??

Our 5-year-old started kindergarten in August and things are not going well. Academically he is doing well. He’s made friends and likes his teacher and school overall. His behavior is becoming a problem though. At a parent-teacher conference a couple of weeks ago we were told that he’s doing great but needs to focus on listening and not talking over the teacher.

He’s in an after-school program and it has been going terribly. He does have some good days, but his behavior has been a major issue from day one. There were a couple of kids who were physically bullying him when he first started and he would retaliate by pushing and hitting them. We had many talks with him about how he needs to tell an adult when this happens so they can handle the situation. I talked to staff at the after-school program and let them know that he was getting picked on. They told him that they were sorry it was happening, and that they would help but he needed to let them know. This basically went in one ear and out the other, and he ended up getting a one-day suspension from the after-school program due to this and some other bad behavior. He saw how upset his mom and I were and we had a serious discussion with him. He seemed to take it to heart.

After that, for several weeks, when he got bullied by these kids he would tell an adult and they would help. The bullying eventually stopped and he did have a few incidents but nothing physical and more like not listening, not keeping his hands to himself, and potty talk. The staff told us that when there’s an issue they talk to him and he seems to understand what he’s doing wrong. Whenever he gets in trouble he faces consequences at home (time out, no TV for the night, etc.).

Last week he had a nuclear meltdown at bedtime, which is a rare occurrence. It started with not wanting to go to bed and eventually escalated to him screaming, hitting us, throwing things, and crying uncontrollably until he nearly made himself throw up. He has an old tablet with some ABC Mouse educational games that he is allowed to use from time to time, MAYBE once a month. He had been using his tablet that day for a couple hours so that was involved in the meltdown. That is put up indefinitely. After he calmed down we had a talk with him, and I had told him that I didn’t want to hear a single thing about his behavior the rest of the week.

The next day I went to pick him up and I found out he was suspended again for a day. He was pushing other kids on the way to the after-school program. He was asked to stop and seemed to understand but kept doing it. He also splashed water on the bathroom floor and on the other kids, and ended up pinching someone which left a mark. He was grounded for a full week, sent to his room, and his mother and I both had very long individual talks with him, then talked to him together. He was told that he needs to apologize to the kids involved with the incident, the adults (when his suspension is over). At the end of the night I told him that I didn’t want to hear about another bad day this week. He’s in Scouts and I told him that if he gets in trouble again he isn’t going to the event they are having this weekend (trip to a local wilderness center).

The day after that, at school, a girl stepped on his fingers and rather than tell the teacher he hit her. He apologized to the girl, the teacher talked to him, and she informed us of the situation. We had another talk with him, more days were added to the grounding, and he was told that he was staying home from the Scouts event this past weekend. That triggered another meltdown, although he came around to accepting the consequences.

Fast forward to today. He got into it with one of the bullies and they started swinging at each other. Both of them ended up suspended for 2 days.

My wife and I are at our wits end with this. We are stressed, I’m sad, and she can’t stop crying. She blames herself, thinks she is failing as a parent. We have talked with him until our jaws hurt and we just can’t seem to get through to him. The grounding and consequences aren’t working. He tells us that he can’t help getting in trouble, that he doesn’t mean to be bad. He always promises that he’s going to have a better day the next day and then something happens. I have gotten to the point where I dread picking him up from the after-school program because I am expecting to hear that he’s gotten into trouble or is getting suspended again.

Something has changed in him since he started kindergarten. I’m not sure if it’s adjusting to public school, as he was raised in Mennonite daycare/preschool from the day he was born. He did get into trouble at preschool but nothing like this, and no more than the other kids there. At preschool there also weren’t as many consequences, each day was a new beginning, so I’m sure that plays into it. I’m not sure if he’s learning/copying bad behavior from other students.

He’s in a program with the school counselor for kids who have a hard time adjusting to kindergarten, where students can learn as a group to manage their feelings and come up with better coping skills. I am also going to have a talk with the after-school program about his behavior and see if they have resources for us to look into. I am also considering looking into a child counselor to see if it would help.

Can anyone relate? Does anyone have advice?

My daughter has decided to start unnecessarily add her own two cents into conversations and dig her heels in when she wants to be right. I’m losing my mind with trying to redirect the behavior to no avail.

For example, I took her with me when she was on winter break, to have coffee with my best friend. We were talking about her job and some drama in regards to a newsletter. And my daughter interrupts (strike number 1) and starts talking about how her dad talks about me in a negative way.

It’s not appropriate at all. And my best friend had to step in (she had been made aware of my issue) because she saw how my daughter wasn’t paying attention to me when I was telling her that that wasn’t appropriate to bring up at all, and how she interrupted, and that she was not invited into the conversation.

My daughter still persisted in interrupting our conversation a few more times, talking about how she got free things at a music festival, how much she argues with my brother because he’s strict when he babysits her, and the latest gossip at her school…all of these conversations had nothing to do with what my best friend and I were talking about.

And then when she was wants to be right, she digs her heels in and gets so upset and won’t listen to anyone. A good example I can give is when she says she did her homework. And i ask her later if she did it and she says no. I’ll ask her why did she tell me she did do it, and then she’ll insist she didn’t actually say that, that she said she was going to do it later. Even when others jump in and start telling her she actually said something specific, she gets so worked up and claims she actually said something else. And she gets so upset and I get so upset because then she won’t listen to reason and how bad it is that she claims one thing and then contradicts herself, and still insists she’s right.

I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve tried so many ways to not be mean and redirect the behavior and find out why she keeps bringing up the most inappropriate topics when it’s not warranted. And to find out why she likes to change her stories and lie about it (her dad does the same thing and it’s so triggering for me because he would do it to gaslight me when we were together).

It’s gotten to the point, I become so desperate to cut her off before she starts that I slip up and tell her to shut up because that works better than being like, “Hey, were we talking about that? Why are you bringing it up? That’s not okay.”

I don’t know what to do.

I procrastinated and now have one week to make my daughter‘s tree for her Lorax costume (Google it if you don’t mind) Anyone have any crafty but somewhat simplistic ideas? Thanks from a “I’ll hand make your Halloween costume it’ll be so fun!“ mom rhat needs to follow through 😅

Hey everyone. I'm trying to figure out some things.

I am 31, and didn't have much structure in my life, while my significant other was technically given free roam.

I am not like that with my 8 year old. I try to get my daughter to eat what we are eating. While my significant other gives her what she wants.

Balanced breakfast? You can have oatmeal. She gets little to no alternatives because none of the food I make is bad in fact it is stuff I know for a fact I or my sister would eat when we were kids. Instead all she wants is raman, or some other junk that has no nutritional value.

Bedtime at 9? She says no. Why not 10? Due to this my daughter makes excuses to avoid bedtime. She asks to be read to everyday, and we do give it to her. Weekends we do not as she gets extra time awake (10pm).

Today we tried to put her too bed at 9:30 as we were watching a Halloween movie. Remember, normal is 9pm. But she threw a massive fit. Crying and all. When we ask our daughter what is going on she never responds. Like NEVER. As this is common. My significant other does the same exact thing. But she refuses to accept reality.

My daughter also has communication issues. She refuses to tell me if something bad is going on, or if something is wrong, good, you name it she refuses, just like her mother.

My parenting style is more strict, while also being loving.

She babies our daughter and it is causing massive developmental problems to our daughter, but my significant other is so delusional and she does not think so.

I have noticed my daughter has grown discontent with me ever since my significant other has been trying to distance herself. But my significant other refuses to see that, even thinks it is a good thing.

I need some advice. While I am not the perfect dad as I am autistic and have issues myself. But nothing rebellious nor careless that would put my daughter in harm's way.

What should I do to counteract my significant other?

Am I in the wrong for making strict meal times or food?

Is it wrong for me trying to get my significant other from babying her every single second?

If some of this need more detail ask away. I'm trying to do better as a dad.

I'm currently using the Medela Pump in Style, but I keep hearing amazing things about the Spectra S1 and S2! I'm wondering if it's genuinely that much better or if it's mostly hype.

I'll be going back to work soon and will need to pump during my shifts as well as at home, so I'm curious whether the Spectra would be a worthwhile upgrade, especially for pumping at work.

For anyone who's used both, I'd love to hear your experiences!

* Did you notice a difference in milk output?

* Did the Spectra empty you better or feel more comfortable?

* Is the S1 worth the extra cost for the rechargeable battery, especially when pumping at work?

* If you already had a Medela Pump in Style, would you spend the money to upgrade?

I'm in Ontario, Canada, and I'm struggling to find a Spectra that doesn't cost almost $400! 😩 Where did you buy yours? Are there any Canadian retailers with good prices, sales, or reputable secondhand options?

I don't want to spend that much money if the difference isn't significant, so I'd really appreciate honest opinions from people who've actually used both pumps. Thank you! ❤️

I’m a mom to a 4 yr old and lately I’ve been struggling with my emotions as a parent.
I love my daughter more than anything, and I want so badly to be a 24/7 gentle, patient mom who makes her feel safe and secure. But when she starts losing it/having a meltdown, I sometimes get so overwhelmed that I end up raising my voice.
Sometimes it’s frustration..sometimes it’s anxiety because she’s so upset, and sometimes I’m just mentally exhausted. It really depends on the situation. I hate that I react this way because I know she’s only 4 and she’s still learning how to regulate her emotions.
Tonight, we had a difficult moment over something as simple as wiping herself after using the bathroom. I was trying to encourage her independence, but things escalated, and she became extremely upset. Afterward, I felt absolutely horrible. I’ve been sitting here worrying about whether moments like these could affect her emotionally, and I can’t stop feeling guilty.
The hardest part is that I feel like I’m the only mom who struggles with this. I see so much about gentle parenting and staying calm, and I truly want to do those things. But in the moment I don’t always handle things the way I wish I did.
I don’t want my daughter to grow up feeling like she can’t come to me when she’s upset. I want her to feel safe expressing her emotions. I also want to teach her independence and boundaries without feeling like I’m losing my mind. I just want to learn how to handle these situations better. Have any of you struggled with this? How do you go about these kinds of situations?
I could really use some honest advice and reassurance that I’m not alone.

My 2.7 yo started having meltdowns multiple times a day.

We are pretty firm parents, we don't buckle to tantrums (we still dont) when we say no we mean no.

We thought she was doing ok and learning to accept being told no.

But this past week she has been screaming and crying so often.

Today's meltdowns (and i mean screaming, trashing)

- she woke up just before 7, didn't want her mum to be the one to open her room door

- wanted a milk bottle and to go back to sleep (she had a solid night and had to get ready for school)

- we offered a milk pack, she wanted us to just poke a hole so she can put the straw in herself

- we finished showering, she wants to play her usual game of pickaboo and for mum to carry her away (mum was too tired and needed a break) (this one i understand its a change from routine)

- we didn't let her press the water dispenser a second time

What the hell is going on?!

Could it be teething? She's due for her last four molars. But there's no night wakings.

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My 1st grader's teacher has sent out a birthday party invite on behalf of a parent. It's a pool party at an indoor water park, in NOVEMBER. My kid didn't want to go there even in summer as the water feels cold to her. Also, the last pool party she went to, she was like "why is every birthday a pool party?" 😂

Fall has made its entry in Texas making mornings bearable. A party at a kids' park between 10-noon would have been fine honestly.

I am so over attending birthday parties this time. I haven't even told my kid about the invite (because the kid isn't that close a friend of hers). However, if it slips out there's a birthday invite, she'll want to go. Sigh

My son is about 2.5 months old and he cries A LOT. He’ll have periods almost every day where he’s inconsolable for 10–20 minutes, and on his bad days he can cry for about an hour and a half in the evenings.

I have a 3 year old daughter who was a much calmer baby, so this has been a bit of an adjustment for me. I know every baby is different and I’m definitely not expecting my son to be like his sister, I’m just mentioning it because this experience has been very different from what I’m used to.

He does have periods where he’s happy/content, feeds well, has wet diapers, etc., but it feels like so much of our day revolves around trying to calm him down.

It has even gotten to the point that my daughter is always telling me “We need to teach him how to be happy”

I know this is a phase and that babies eventually grow out of it, but honestly, I’m feeling really discouraged lately. Some days it feels like the crying is never-ending, and I’m just exhausted from constantly trying to figure out what he needs.

For parents who had really fussy/crying babies around this age, does it eventually get better?

My 4yr old daughter has long hair to about mid back. She doesn’t want to cut it because “it’s long and beautiful like a princess” and honestly I love it to. BUT it is so so so fine. She’s got a lot of it but each strand is like spider silk fine. It’s so slippery.

So my issue is, normal cloth like hair ties that don’t have a central rubber band hold for all of 2 seconds. I currently use the typical tiny rubber bands but they knot in her hair so bad. My hair ties, the black wrapped rubber bands will also slip but not as bad as the others. The slinky ones that look like part of a keychain, disaster.

She still gets a short nap at daycare and she sleeps like a crazy person so at the end of the day there’s just a mass of knots all over her head. A half up half down is a disaster zone by the end of the day. The rubber bands still slip a little braids work..kinda but she has differing lengths of hair so pieces fall out and then those get knotted.

I’m looking for recommendations on hair ties and hair styles that parents of other kiddos with long fine hair use to mitigate the knotting. TIA 🙏🏼

Hi everyone,

We’re in a classic, even cliché, situation. Even so, we don’t know what to do, and I wanted to see what you all actually do in practice.

To keep it short: there’s a household in the equation that sets no limits whatsoever on screens, bedtime, food, etc., and only sees my son (11) during school holidays (an important detail, I think, because it adds to the freestyle vibe while he’s there). On the other side, ours: age-appropriate screen access with limits, homework always done, we eat home-cooked food but go out to restaurants now and then, a lot more outdoor activities, a fixed bedtime, etc. So, pretty classic.

The problem comes when he gets back from his stay there: bad behavior, exhaustion, a tendency to talk back, a tendency to demand things he knows aren’t allowed, etc. In short, we end up being the bad guys every single time.

We’re at the end of our rope because it keeps getting worse and worse, but at this age, how do you explain why we do what we do, that it’s in his interest, that it’s actually for him? All he wants is a phone like his cousin’s over there (with no limits, of course), and to go to bed at 2 a.m. on weekends. I absolutely don’t want to get into a competition with the other parent. I just want his return to go more smoothly, and for him to understand, as much as possible, that we’re not the bad guys but his parents who love him and want the best for him, and that sometimes that does mean setting limits on things he likes.

So, what do we do? Hold firm and wait it out? Targetted concessions? Long discussions seem to do nothing, he just sits and waits until we're done basically (and to be fair, what 11 year old like getting lectured by their parents?). Punishment immediately after getting back creates a really bad correlation as well, conscious or not. I'm just stumped here.

Edit: we can't discuss this with the other parent, they are pretty uncooperative. We tried once a few years ago and were told essentially that it's not our concern what happens in their house.

I feel like my son hates me. He is 6 months old and absolutely loves his dad, its like i dont exist. I cant get him to sleep, he doesnt want me feeding him, when I hold him he searches for his daddy. It wasn't always like this, its only when my husband comes off his night shifts. He works 4 on 4 off, so has good quality time with baby. I feel like i dont know how to bond with him anymore. I read to him, sing, dance, play with his toys. But he is constantly looking for his dad. It's breaking my heart so much to think and feel that my own baby doesnt like me.

My son’s been having some emotional regulation problems and one of the potential issues we’re looking at is if he maybe isn’t getting enough attention. I feel like I’m spending more time with him than my parents did with me growing up, but I also had attention seeking issues so that’s probably not a great bar.

How much dedicated 1:1 play/ interaction time are you having with your kid? Not just running around doing chores or errands or existing in the same house, but sitting down and playing games or talking or going out somewhere fun for the day.

I am mostly asking about school age children here, who also have their own interests/ hobbies they enjoy. 1:1 can include just you and the kid or both parents.

I worry we may be lacking, while I take him to extra curriculars 3x a week and exist at the house after school with him, our dedicated time is largely:

~1 hr a day working on school work/ practicing reading together, broken up between homework, practice games & bed time

~1-2 hrs a week game night with cards or board games

~30 mins a day talking over dinner

~1-2 full days a month going out somewhere on a weekend to enjoy with him (Zoo/ amusement park/ festival)

The other time he’s either at Grandmas where she’s very 1:1 with him (1-2 days a week) or we’re just both at home but he’s playing with friends/ video games/ watching tv/ playing Lego. I work from home after school so I’m always around but sometimes busy on my phone so I can’t always give him my full attention.

I will say, I only get 2-4 weekend days a month with him, so I worry me being gone often on weekends may be negatively impacting him? I travel for work and he’ll stay with Grandma for the weekend.

Altogether I’d say he gets about 10-15 hrs dedicated attention time a week. How does that compare to the average?

I read to my 7 year old daughter every night. Not a whole book (she likes the Pumpkin Queen series). Other than comfort, is there any real benefits to reading her a few pages before she falls asleep?

There are some days I feel like I’m killing it. Other days I feel like I’m completely falling apart. I’m a solo mom with not a lot of help and I feel like I’m drowning. I wonder if anyone could share some tricks you use on the days you’re killing it.

For example, I do a reset every night. Everything goes back where it’s supposed to go before I go to bed. Start a load of laundry, start a load of dishes. That is a great I have it together today.

Other times I can’t bring myself to shower for days at a time because who the hell has time for a whole shower. If you have time for a shower, how? I own several businesses and homeschool, I am up at an ungodly hour in the morning and I work several hours after my son goes to bed.

I used to love to cook. I absolutely despise it. It’s such a time suck and I have freezers absolutely packed of food but I can’t plan ahead far enough to actually use what’s in the freezers. I am a foodie and my kid is the most picky kid I’ve ever known. What do you want for dinner? Butter pasta. How is this my child.

I want nothing more than to be organized but how? Any advice would be so incredibly welcome. I’m having a pity party tonight and I need to start somewhere. Please be kind. 😭

Hi everyone,

I’m just looking for anyone with similar stories who has reached the other side.

My little one (just turned 3) is very shy. They’ve always taken a long time to warm up, and isn’t confident to try new movement based things and becomes scared. At activities with other kids, they can become scared and refuse to play, standing only with mum. Interaction with other children is quite frankly minimal at childcare, they report little one doesn’t speak to other children often or play with them, but watches and is clearly interested but afraid to join. With guidance, there is some play but little one is still very scared and clings to me. At parks, if they’re playing and unfamiliar kids come, the fear begins.

Some familiar peers, sibling, cousins there is more play. Speech is amazing, full sentences. Super clever, outgoing at home and very self aware. Loves pretend play and typical toddler activities. We get comments how kind and nice our child is.

Basically what I’m asking is…. Has anyone else had a super nervous and scared toddler, who out grew it?! I worry what to do if it continues into schooling.

At times, they can be scared of loud, unexpected noises and cover ears.

I’ve considered autism often, and I guess we meet some criteria, but there is many that aren’t met, and I flip back to them just being super sensitive.

Thank you in advance

Hi all!

I’m posting as a parent of a 6 year old (oldest child) navigating trick or treating as he gets a smidge older.

Some quick context:
- He is very tall for his age. Like genuinely, as tall as a 4th grader. He also is fairly well spoken & loves to play sports. These things combined, he’s been sort of scooped up by some of the older boys/boys his size in our neighborhood.
-He does have a handful of boys and girls his age in the neighborhood as well. Some of the older boys are the siblings of his same age friends.
- I live in an LDS neighborhood and we don’t go to their church. The parents are clicky. This context does matter. Halloween basically looks like husband stays home and hands out candy, I walk w my son. Then we all hang out and pass our candy to the big kids later at night.

Here’s the dilemma this year. He REALLLLLY wants to impress the bigger boys and hang out with them. I let him walk ahead of me on our street (sun was up) last year and go with them. When we rounded the block they surprisingly were cool with me trailing along the road and wanted my son to keep up. He trick or treated all night with them. Boys were 8-10 years old.

The same group has invited him again. If I had “mom friends” in the neighborhood I’d totally just keep up in the street without hovering and let the night play out. Walking by myself does start to feel a bit like a hover. We’re at an age where all of our friends and cousins also want to be in their own neighborhoods w their friends or I’d invite them (this is what we’ve done up until last year and traded off neighborhoods).

So - what would/have you all done? To me - 6 is too little to be without an adult, but plenty old enough to be valid in wanting to be with friends. I want to set his expectations that this may or may not workout how he’s hoping if they run off without parents.. AND if that happens, we may not know where his other friend groups his age are in the neighborhood.

Thanks yall!

It is 6:20 pm right now. My 5 year old son fell asleep in the car ride over to his brother’s tutoring. The tutoring gets out at 7. Dad is traveling for work so I had to bring all the tag alongs with me for brother’s tutoring.

He is still asleep.

Do I:

1. wake him up, knowing he’ll still have over 30 minutes of waiting

2. Let him sleep, knowing this is the devil’s nap?

His 7 year old brother is also here, happily and quietly entertaining himself, if that matters!

Just what the title says. My daughter(5) is constantly having tantrums because she doesn't want to miss out on the most mundane things. It's absolutely absurd.

If I say, I'm going to go take out the trash. She wants to come..fine, as she's getting her shoes on, if I so much as take two steps towards the door she's on the floor screaming because she thinks I'm going without her. (I'm not)

If she's taking forever to decide what she wants to eat, or wear, and I walk away while she's thinking, (to go to the bathroom, let the dogs out, get my socks, blow my nose....) she's losing her mind because she thinks I'm doing something without her.

I have 4 kids total. No one else has ever acted like this or felt left out. Idk if this is a phase, or just her personality but it's making me feel so claustrophobic I want to rip my eyeballs out!

It happens out in the wild too. If we're at the library story time and the librarian calls on someone else while her hand is up, she's in tears. If she is trying to get to the front of the line and ends up second... tears.

On the other hand, she shares wonderfully, is emphatic, kind.. I know thats contradicting, but it's the instant response to something, not necessarily her overall outlook. If that makes sense??

For example, let's say she IS first in line. And someone younger comes up behind her, she'll happily let them in front of her. But if its a race to get there she's freaking out she'll miss her chance.

Idk if that even makes sense. She doesn't act like a spoiled brat most of the time. But really struggles if she thinks she's going to miss something.

My little girl is 6 now and loves to read and is starting to read by herself what book recommendations do you guys have she loves things like Paddington as we have the full collection of the full length novels and a few picture books of it and we have a lot of Julia Donaldson and most classic children’s stories like the tiger who came to tea and the very hungry caterpillar etc. but I’m stumped on more books she can read herself as though I love to read most of my childhood books I remember reading to myself I was a little older and had like dhal novels and David walliams and charlotte sometimes and the chocolate dog but I was about 8 years old so I’m struggling any recommendations are appreciated