Children's Activities

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Ironing

My daughter is in a daycare that has a uniform. I iron it every week. Starch it too. BD was over the other day and I asked him to do it, and he said he has never iron ever in his life. He legit didn’t know how. And I had to show him. We are 34. I just thought that was crazy. To not use it nowadays, sure, but...

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Christmas ideas

I have a 3 year old who is obsessed with putting things in and out repeatedly. Any chance she gets she will find a way to transfer things into pots and empty them and repeat. I thought she was too old for things like shape sorters and nesting cups but i am thinking I should bring these back . She doesn’t play with t...

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Outings

Where have you guys gone on outings with LO?? Do you plan on taking to Christmas lights? My LO is 10 weeks and we have yet to gone out except around neighborhood. I dont know how some moms take their babies to all these different places and take pics… wish I could but my baby is so sensitive to sleep dislike car sea...

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Stocking filler ideas

Anyone have any stocking filler ideas for a 2 year old girl please?

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Holiday

I’m taking my 1 year old on holiday to Turkey the end of the month. I am stressing about what to take ? And what do I take in a bag for the plane ?? Helpppppp

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Am I being unreasonable?

Just need some honesty here (without being mean 😂) So my friend of over 20 years moved down to Devon when she had her baby about 5 years ago. I am in the midlands. She has family that are still here and up in Blackpool who she comes to see occasionally and when she comes here I meet up with her. Her parents are…

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Christmas/Holiday Gifts for 5 Month Old?

Hi everyone, with Christmas coming up I’m drawing a blank on what to get my baby for Christmas/I need a list of things to give to family members for her, as they’ve asked for one. What toys would be good to ask for? She will be 6 months in January, and I’d like recommendations for anything 6-12 month appropriate tha...

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Household items

Looking for some household items I can get my 5 month old to play with. We’ve done spaghetti, she got some hoops for a present so I put them in water for her to play with, we play with fabrics etc. anything else please? Xx

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Moving advice

So I and mii husband has talked numerous of times on moving out of Jacksonville so fast forward last nite we were talking about it again and agreed on Orlando being our move due to it not being to far from Jacksonville or st.Augustine still close to family nd everything else but the part that has us questioning is t...

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Child-free time.

What sort of things do you do with the time you have child-free. I want to make the most of it but no idea what hobbies to do? I’m not working so don’t have lots of money unfortunately.

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Flying with 3 month old

Any advice around flying with a 3 month old? Would you do it? My husband and I would love to go to Spain in January but we don’t know if it’s too soon to take our son. Would love to hear other people’s experiences or tips!

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TV / YouTube show recommendations please!

We need more variety! What are you little ones loving at the moment? We have several car themed shows he loves and blippi and now all the recommendations that pop up are car related 😂 we need a little more variety!

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WFH mums - how do you keep Your child occupied?

I’ve started to see my daughter become occupied with some activities for at least 10 mins. I’d like to have an array of these so I can at least answer an email without a typo!

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Is your child screen free?

If yes - please drop tips on how you keep them occupied at home.

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best activities for almost 1 year old

i seem to have issues with entertaining my little girl, she seems to have lost interest in all her toys and just wants to eat her stuffies.. one on one time is great until i have to go clean something or use the bathroom, i hate to see her bored but ive had 0 experiences with children her age, and im just really los...

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Social media is ruining our kids

That and giving kids their first phone at like 5🥴

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