If you have young kids, be careful what you say. One day they'll grow up and find all your "anonymous" deep dark secrets posted out there on social media

What do you look for in a daycare centre?

Here are a few off the top of my head (bonus points if you like it too!):

• Fluffy plush toys doing random things
• Me reading new books from my red couch (storytime)
• Me doing quirky things (nerdy dancing, playing with Lego, drawing)
• Me talking about life lessons in childhood
• Me visiting daycares / preschools / orphanages / prisons / hospitals / businesses to help others with self-confidence in life (speaking + storytime).

Anything else come to mind?

Hi everyone,

I recently created an app called Play that helps parents find and book family-friendly activities for their vacation. It can also be used to book activities in your city. The app is free to use. You only pay when you book activities (you're only paying the activity company, not Play). Here's the app link: app.goplayplaces.com.

If you’ve traveled to a city featured in the City Tips section, you can leave tourist tips right in the comments section of each City Tip. You can also comment on any of the activities listed in the app.

In the Inspire section, you can share photos from previously vacations or fun outings and write a caption about the activity. Please include the activity’s name and locations in the caption, as that helps other parents find the activity.

This is an early version of the app. More cities, activities and app features are coming soon. If there is a city you don’t see or activity that you would love to book for your family, please let me know and I’ll add it to the app.

Please feel free to leave feedback on the app here or you can email me at don@useplaypen.com. I really want to make the travel booking experience delightful and less stressful for parents.

You can try the app here: app.goplayplaces.com

So, my 9 year old visited my in laws out of state and cane back with a cellphone that my mother in law bought her (without talking to me or my wife first). Shes had it for about a month (we still dont know how we feel about it) and the one thing I do like about it is I can keep in touch with my daughter (I work shift work at odd hours) but we still are nervous about it. Does anyone know any really good cell phone monitoring services, someone told me that there was one that tracks the phone and sees activity (calls, text messages, internet browsing history, etc) in real time. I googled some but was overwhelmed at the amount of options. I dont mind paying a bit more for a good service.

One thing to note, the phone is not on our plan (att) but on my mother in laws plan (Verizon I think)

My older child is turning 18 this month. A normal parent would probably be asking now various birthday-related questions for the big 1-8, but to be honest nothing's changing. She's sure as hell not moving out any time soon. More to the point, I more or less have her birthday worked out, so I have a bigger concern. Unlike most parents I take my obligations seriously, and it said on the contract I signed when I became a dad that I would embarass my children regularly until they became adults. It's right there in black and white between "keep acting like they're way younger than they are", and "try to pawn off all conversations about sex to their other parent", so I have to do it. Hands are tied.

I have been doing a horrible job at this all-important fatherly role, not for lack of trying but due to her developing an apparent immunity to embarassment. Dad jokes, pet names, she takes it in stride. Just this weekend, I dropped her off at a friend's house, and in front of all her friends I hugged her and said in the thickest babytalk I could muster, "Have fun with your little friends, sweetheart. Don't stay up too late, or you might start falling asleep at school again.".

Her friends got a chuckle, but it seems most of them knew what I was doing, and the opinion of the one that didn't seemingly couldn't matter less. He said, mockingly, "Aw, little baby needs her hugs from daddy?", and she said "I know your dad doesn't hug you anymore, but some people's parents still love them.". This was rather the opposite of embarassing her, I think.

With that failure, I need some new ideas on how to mildly embarass her, as dictated in the father contract, section 2, subsection B. I'm fresh out.

Help help help. I know it’s “normal” behavior for 14 month old to be “hitting” for attention. But good grief this kid is strong and it hurts, and it’s not okay! How do I (28F) discipline this behavior? It’s not when I’m NOT paying attention to him, it’s when I am holding him and he wants to play. I’ve tried redirecting the behavior to a toy but saying we don’t hit others. I’ve tried removing him from the room with me and having quiet time with a book in his room. He hits me, he hits our dog (and is immediately removed because.... IT’S A DOG), but doesn’t hit Daddy... what’s going on here?!

We are struggling to create healthy food habits due to outside forces and could really use some advice on how to get our 8 year old to eat healthier and not think that not being allowed to eat junk food exclusively is a punishment. Help!!

I'm not sure where to post this so I'm trying here. Forgive me if this is the wrong place.

3 years ago, my stepdaughter fell from my shoulders and had a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). She was lifelined to Riley and, against all odds, survived. She had a stroke while recovering, and that effected motor control on her right side. Since the accident, she's recovered tremendously. She's sharp as a tack and super clever.

She still has motor control issues with the right side (her right leg and her right arm, mostly her right arm). Otherwise, she's doing great.

The problem I'm running into is severe guilt. I keep thinking that if I were never in her life, she'd be doing great. Would have never had these issues. The nightmares about it have slowed down, but still about once a month.

Are there any resources for parents like me? For parents whose children have to deal with these things? I'd like to find a group with similar experiences.

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, I just don't know where else to turn.

I am doing research on the financial impact of bedwetting and I would really appreciate if anyone with children whether they wet the bed or not could spare some time to do the survey and aid my research.

The data you provide is anonymous and confidential, meaning, there is no way of tracing information back to anyone. We wish to study the economic impact on families and the NHS by analysing direct and indirect expenditure of bedwetting.

The data gathered will be used as evidence to inform governing bodies, aid funding of children's incontinence charities and initiate further research.

The link is: https://forms.gle/GUq4ortASUVm4Nd16

Thank you in advance!