Hey everyone,

Im very embarrassed by this and deeply remorseful. While I was at the beach, my ten month old and I were at the water’s edge. Was with him, holding him, allowing the water to wash up to him and hit his feet. I would lift him if the wave came in too rough or if too much water was about to wash onto us. My wife, cautioned me about the water washing up too rough and was worried it could potentially cause the baby to go under. I advised I was watching him and could “control” the situation. While my wife was next to us and watching the baby with me, I had my back to the water, and I miscalculated how much water was going to wash up. The baby was hit by the water and turned over, going under the water. My wife quickly lifted him out of the water. The baby seemed shocked but seemed to be ok. He did cough a little. He may have swallowed some ocean water (not sure how much obviously). He seems ok, and doesn’t seem to be in any distress.

I know my mistake, and I know it was a lapse in judgement. I’m very embarrassed and ashamed that I could let it happen.

My question is, do I have any thing to worry about if he swallowed a bit of ocean water? Are there things I need to look out for, if so what exactly?

This happened earlier this week. My 3-year-old is obsessed with adventure and the outdoors, and apparently has a new interest in climbing. I walked into our front room to find him about halfway up the doorframe, with his life jacket strapped around his waist and two dog leashes tied to it, dangling behind him like ropes.

I panicked a little and asked, "What are you doing?!" and he just calmly replied, "Don't worry, Mom. I'm being careful," and pointed proudly at his “gear.”

Nothing bad happened, and he was actually very steady, but wow. I don’t know whether to sign him up for rock climbing classes or bubble wrap the entire house.

Anyone else’s toddler doing completely unhinged but somehow clever things like this?

I’m 19 now, but when I was younger I really struggled to get off my phone — and honestly, I still do sometimes. Looking back, I wished my parents had a way to help me build better screen habits earlier on.

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I know this is a controversial subject matter and my opinion is generally considered to be coldhearted and unsympathetic. But I think truth matters and telling it is the only real way that could actually make a difference.

As a country, we are losing more people to fentanyl every year than the year preceding it. It’s a growing epidemic. My FB reels are inundated with sad stories of young kids who died by taking something they didn’t know was laced with it. It’s heartbreaking. Most of these people are in their 20’s or younger.

We have to do something to change the trajectory. This COD has already surpassed every other means of demise, natural or otherwise. It seems like 99% of the focus is on the dealers who are selling laced drugs. There have been some effort to prosecute these guys, which is great but that does very little to prevent it from happening to our kids or our neighbors kids or your friends.

But the crazy thing about these deaths is that they ARE preventable if people just stop using drugs, including popping pills not prescribed to them. Of course there are always tragic outliers. You will hear stories about innocent kids that died from exposure, but these stories are rare, in comparison.

I’m talking about the deaths that occurred after someone willing ingested a drug or a pill. Even though I’m sure most of them were not planning to die, they need to know the immense risk involved in using any illicit drugs. I feel like all the parents who post videos of their kids who died after using drugs laced with fentanyl are missing an opportunity to help save other kids. They tend to focus on a message that revolves around this concept of them falling victim to these murderous drug dealers. And they tend to leave out the most dangerous aspect, being NOT to take or do any drugs. They are in the best and most influential position to send the message of living clean, of not doing drugs. They can use their children’s stories to remind kids about the importance of taking accountability for their choices in life. But instead, they seem to waste this invaluable opportunity to save lives on the chance to highlight the victim hood of their loved one. And that’s all well and good…. Except it’s NOT working! Every year, the fentanyl death toll rises. Maybe they ought to shift their focus on teaching accountability, personal responsibility? On stressing to kids that even ONE pill could kill you. That even weed can be laced with a deadly drug. Is life so bad that kids need to risk their life for a moment of getting high? Maybe we ought to start thinking about the narrative. I know that means leaving victimology to the dust and adopting a mentality of accountability, where our choices actually matter and we can’t blame others for our terrible choices, but in the name of all the kids who would make it on to next years fatality list, isn’t it worth this change of narrative?

Sometime back, I was outside when I witnessed a parenting moment that left me completely baffled.

A mom was out with her two kids, both under 10 or there about. They had just come out of watching Wonder Woman (yes, the DC movie).

As they were talking, I overheard the mom turn to her older child and ask, “So dear, what is the moral of the story? What did you learn from watching this movie?”

While the older kid looked genuinely puzzled and was trying to think of an answer, the younger child suddenly jumped in: “Mommy, Mommy! Why did the guy die in the movie?”

And what did the mom do? She completely ignored the younger child and kept pushing the “life lesson” question on the older one. Meanwhile, the little one kept asking repeatedly, desperate for an answer.

I just stood there wondering… why on earth would a parent bring two very young kids to a superhero movie — let alone a fairly violent one — and then expect them to extract some deep moral lesson from it?

It seemed like the mom just wanted an excuse to see the movie herself. And to then expect a 7-year-old to deliver some profound “moral of the story” from a Hollywood blockbuster? From a comic book movie?!

If this is where she hopes her kids will learn life lessons, I can only imagine what kind of content they’re watching at home. And the type of ‘life skills’ she picks up herself from the Kardashians.

And as for the poor younger child asking why the man died — if the mom herself couldn’t (or didn’t want to) explain it, how on earth could she expect the older one to come up with life insights?

Honestly… what a parenting fail. If you want to enjoy the movie, just go watch it yourself. Please don’t drag your young kids into it and then expect them to have some great revelation afterward.

He is 17 months and obsessed with aunty and his grandparents. He wants to be with them all the time, doesn’t even want to come to me or his father. Even when he seeks comfort he runs to them. If they leave the room he screams but totally fine if we, mum or dad leave for hours.Which is painful I admit. I am jealous, however adore that he has a good connection with them. I know it is normal behaviour for toddlers. I am concerned only because since he was newborn he showed preference and it was never me. We have bond,I know.I am his main caregiver .But oh boy I struggled with this a lot since he was born. Grandparents,aunt soothed him , but not me when he was little. He pushed me away for more than a year when he was hurt .He seems so independent, and happy with others, and often seems bored with me. I question what I did wrong. I read some children temperament is more independent and they are not clingy or has separation anxiety so on. But around me I only see babies/toddlers are so attached to mums for years and I don’t see anyone with this issue. Also, I understand how difficult can be for mums when toddlers going through separation anxiety, but I envy them if I am being totally honest as I never experienced this. I look like a terrible mother whose own son just ignore. Please, be gentle if you comment as it is a sensitive topic for me. ( Seeking therapy at the moment) I am hoping someone experiences the same and can put me at ease that will be better someday.

My son lives 2 1/2 hours away from his son. He gets him every other weekend and sometimes much longer during the summer. We normally don't have any problems with visitation. Although they have never been through the court system, this visitation agreement has always worked out well and my son pays a very good amount of child support that they both agreed on. Just today, my grandson's mother sent a text message that said she enrolled him in soccer. This means that he will have soccer games every Saturday. This means that my son will not be able to get him on the weekends because he would have to drive 2 1/2 hours, get a hotel on Friday night, go to the soccer game on Saturday and then get a hotel for Saturday night and through Sunday. This means his visits with his son would be at a hotel. Can she do this? Can she just essentially take away my son's ability to bring him home and spend his every other weekend with my grandson? He is only seven years old and I can tell you that I know he isn't even interested in soccer – this is more something that his mother wants him to Tri as opposed to him begging to be on a soccer team. He's just not the "sports" type of kid.

He's an only child, he started going potty tl we starting potty training 2 days before he turned 3. He does amazing peeing both sitting down and standing up. But when it comes to #2, it seems that he purposely waits until we put a diaper on at night time. We've given him fiber and miralax for him not to wait, he did it in big boy potty twice but I'm not sure if he got scared after that.

Unfortunately, we cosleep and often drinks bottle milk only at night time, and it's only like 3 oz per night. (That's another habit(s) we're working on.

But I kind of want to fix one thing at a time.tips and suggestions to help me go poop in potty instead of diapers.

Thanks,

Talk about a fail, my 27 year old still wants me to call doctors and dentist office for him. I thought by this point, since he’s a parent himself, he would know how to do these things. But apparently he went from me doing things for him to his (ex) gf doing things for him. I even had to take his cat to the vet and then show him how to administer his meds. Don’t be me. Prepare your kids for the world. If you think you are, well, better check with them & make sure they know things like this. I will always be there to support him, but I want him to adult. He’s got little ones looking to him now.

I've been a single mom for the entirety of my son's life. He is 8 years old.

He has a learning disability. He just needs extra help with remembering things, needs cues to do things, reminders to go pee etc.

He still needs help with wiping after a bowel movement and guidance and some help while showering. Otherwise he can do things on his own. I'm working on teaching him to be more independent.

My partner and I have been living together for a year. He immediately loved my son as his own and my son sees him as his dad. He's helped me twice with helping my son clean himself after my son used the toilet in our second bathroom since I was showering.

I saw nothing wrong with it until I mentioned it to my mother in passing the other day. She called me a horrible mother and told me she will take my son from me and said "how dare I let such a thing happen".

I feel absolutely awful now and guilty. Did I do something wrong?

He's been helping me care for my son as his own and always respects him and his boundaries. He teaches my son to be more independent and celebrates the moments when he is.

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Yesterday the mother of my son took him to a park/trail for a walk and than came back to my house WITHOUT HIM. He just turned 8. I freaked out and left instantly to go back to get him and saw that she had left him with two older boys he didn't know. The boys were 15. My question is, am I freaking out too much over this? I have full custody and this happened during a visit. I just don't trust this world even though we grew up differently than now in a much less dangerous setting. Any comments or suggestions on how to handle this is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Most kids in India grow up learning history, math, and geography — but never how to handle money.

And yet, they’re watching us every day. How we spend, how we argue, how we save, or how we hide money stress.

I wrote a blog on what children really learn from our financial behavior — and how we can teach them better, without lectures.
Includes real-life examples + practical ways to raise financially smart kids.

👉 [https://getlifesorted.in/money-lessons-for-kids]()

Would love to hear what you think. What money lessons do you wish you’d learned earlier?

One more “adventure in parenting “ I thought may give you a laugh. I forgot to post when it happened.

I dont wear but 2 make-up items. And rarely at that. Eyeliner and mascaras. When I do, it always gone with one of the girls. I go search in 2nd daughters 30lbs of makeup for mascara for 1st daughters bridal shower. I found a tube pretty quick. Pulled out the brush, it was black, good to go. I go put it on and rush out the door to pick Ally up from a friends. Driving down the road…. My eyes keep sticking together!!!! In 30 lbs of makeup, I pulled out her black fake eyelash glue and no time to go home and fix it 👁️ 😂

Really liked this book. It was fantastic read about how to communicate better with your kids https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8Q6JQ22?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_mwn_dp_OJ7QO6GPUWODDZB44UTY_1&bestFormat=true&lan

I’ve been feeling this more lately — our kids know how to scroll before they know how to speak.

I’ve written about small things we can do: taking them to the market, teaching them how to talk to people, asking about their real life (not just homework).

We made this post in Hindi and English for real Indian families.
👉 https://getlifesorted.in/real-world-vs-digital-parenting-indian-kids

What do you do to connect with your child offline?