Emergency assistance.
Animated version here! https://youtube.com/shorts/Axhu0VqFAHo
parenting
![[A robot approaches a person while a child is sitting on the ground crying.]
Robot: Oh my goodness, do you need help?
Person: With what?
Robot: Your child is crying.
Person: Yes, I know.
Robot: Are they injured or...?
Person: No, she’s just mad I wouldn't let her play in dog poop.
Robot: Аh, it's hard to want things.
Person: Life is full of disappointments.](/proxy/post_attachment/152514/7c30e24c67.png "[A robot approaches a person while a child is sitting on the ground crying.]
Robot: Oh my goodness, do you need help?
Person: With what?
Robot: Your child is crying.
Person: Yes, I know.
Robot: Are they injured or...?
Person: No, she’s just mad I wouldn't let her play in dog poop.
Robot: Аh, it's hard to want things.
Person: Life is full of disappointments.")
Going through a phase of encouraging our son to be more self reliant at home.
This morning’s self-prepared breakfast was *drumroll*…
Pineapple on toast.
Me - *Staring in curiosity*
Son - “I made a big mistake”
Parents can be better advocates and avoid common missteps when a child identifies as trans or nonbinary by first recognizing the child’s bravery and explicitly reminding them they’re loved
#PRIDE 🏳️🌈 #PrideMonth #Parenting
COMIC: Covered
Paper is a lover, not a fighter.
#parenting #rockpaperscissors #comics #webcomic #alarminglybad
Edited 303d ago
Spoiler:
Being punished for things doesn't make kids behave better.
😳
In a State With #School #Vouchers For All, Low-Income Families Aren’t Choosing to Use Them
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Working-class parents often express interest in vouchers. But in #Arizona, the nation’s school choice capital, these families aren’t using them due to the inaccessibility of private schools and the costs of #transportation, meals and uniforms.
#News #Education #Parenting #Students #PrivateSchools #Learning #Family #WorkingClass #Teachers #Kids
Some nonbinary parent labels include:
Dami (“daddy” and “mami” combined)
Ren, Renny, or Renna (short for parent)
Zaza, ZeZe, or Zari (from the gender-inclusive pronouns "ze/zir")
Nom or Nomy
Mapa, Moddy, Dama, or Pama ("papa" and "mama" combined)
Noddy (nonbinary daddy)
Nari, Nibi, Nobi, or Nini (nonbinary abbreviated)
Mada or Maddy ("mama" and "dada" combined)
Nopa (nonbinary parent)
Nommie ("nonbinary" and "mommy" combined)
Opie ("other parent")
It was at this point I realized she was probably smarter than me.
Many Southern California residents currently have no access to basic necessities such as clothing, toiletries, diapers, baby food and tampons. @TeenVogue has created a list of places you can donate to or support.
EVERY SINGLE DAY in parenting groups, I see posts that say "[family member] knowingly exposed us to an illness! What do I do?"
We literally learned AN ENTIRE SET OF SKILLS FOR HOW TO HANDLE THIS DURING A MULTI-YEAR PANDEMIC THAT NEVER ENDED.
But now that everyone is "back to normal," I guess they have amnesia about masks, pods, and explicit conversations about illness and exposures?
Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities:
You can find out more at https://dads.cool/about and https://cooler.mom/about or contact the admins @alex & @sydney
#FeaturedServer #Parenting #Parents #Kids #Children #Families #Hometown #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
The White House has some plans to incentivize women to get pregnant — and we're not talking affordable healthcare, paid parental leave or better childcare. Lyz Lenz writes for her newsletter, Men Yell At Me, about incentives such as $5,000 baby bonuses, menstrual cycle charting and Fulbright scholarships. Then there's the fact that Donald Trump is styling himself as the "fertilization president." "Just the phrase 'fertilization president' made millions and millions of embryos in the bodies of women yeet themselves themselves right on out of their respective uteruses," Lenz says.
#Lifestyle #FertilityPresident #Parenting #Pregnancy #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration
What a terrible country we have here in the US. A young black dad needed to go to a job interview and couldn't afford a baby sitter for his 3 kids and didn't have time to take them home before his meeting bc he also can't afford a car.
So they walked to McDonald's next to his job interview to let them play while he went to the interview.
When he returned he was arrested and may still be in jail rn.
#Georgia #ChrisLouis #AntonioBrown #Parenting #ParentingWhileBlack
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Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
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“Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Somedays she'd wished she had just stayed in the Poké Ball. #grickledoodle #mothers #children #parenting #pokemon #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
Education. #grickledoodle #birdsandbees #sex #parenting #cartoon #drawing #art #funny
Alien parenting. #grickledoodle #ettheextraterrestrial #parenting #aliens #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
Providing children (and ourselves) with tools to manage anxiety is important. Our executive director Jennifer Fischer shares the books and tools that work for her family at Multicultural Kid Blogs.
#Anxiety #MentalHealth #MentalWellness #MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #Education #Homeschooling #Parenting #Families @education @edutooters @bookstodon
Every time you vent about parenting someone bursts in like the Kool-Aid man with "Have you tried..."
No.
Just stop.
So if you are on the struggle bus, let me bust in:
NO amount of gentle parenting, advice, regulation, meditation mindfulness, psychology, or any kind of mojo will make you a "good enough" parent to prevent your toddler completely losing the entirety of their shit about getting the wrong color cup.
Not your fault. There. Not. Your. Fault.