Ella Mennopy

@AlexCfromTN @TheLaurenChen Thats fine. I certainly hope you dont rsvp and leave your kids poor friends hanging. I also hope you dont expect your kids friends to show up to any parties you may throw.

Disagree. Most working-class families don’t have the time or energy to spend their weekends attending birthday parties for their kids’ classmates. My wife and I choose not to do that ourselves because we know our schedule is already packed, and we assume a lot of other families feel the same way. We keep birthdays limited to immediate family, and we always end up having a great time.

If your kid is invited to another kid's birthday party, YOU GO. I don't care. Drag your kid. Bribe them if you have to.

@HakureiRyan @kenzietuff @tradwifetoday Ask dr. Google.

@EllaMennopy @kenzietuff @tradwifetoday Source? I don't see how a bulb would do that but this device wouldn't.

Oh boy. Most people don't truly know what this is. It's a cope device made for American parents too squeamish and germophobic to snot-suck their own babies, Nordic-style, and don't know how it was accomplished in the pre-plastic era. And before everyone loses their minds, this has a purpose. If a breastfeeding mom snot-sucks her own infant, she gets a large dose of the germs that are making it hard for baby to breathe and can make the antibodies in the breastmilk. And no, you don't have to ingest the product, it can be promptly disposed of in the sink or wastebasket. File it under: "Things we think are gross and impossible until the infant is struggling." And yes, I know a lot of Scandinavians don't do this anymore or they also use a plastic gadget. My mother got one for my baby sister back in the 90s and my grandmother laughed at it.

@MomKrill @HakureiRyan @kenzietuff @tradwifetoday Which is much easier to do with a bulb syringes as you have far less control over the pressure of suction.

It's only if you're over using it or creating toi strong a suction. You could absolutely cause the same issues with a snot sucker. Best way to avoid is to clear mucus only a couple times a day, use saline to loosen mucus first, and other things like humidifiers that help mucus stay loose.

@kenzietuff @tradwifetoday Bulb syringes often cause swelling of the nasal mucosa and rebound congestion.

@tradwifetoday Everyone swore up and down we’d need this, but all children hated it and old fashioned bulb suction works much better + isn’t from a company that puts sex jokes on their baby products.

@CanaryNightjar @yayfor1a 🤣ok

@EllaMennopy @yayfor1a Girl this is completely over your head

Idk if this makes me a helicopter mom but my kid is only freshly 22m and so I hang out with him the whole time at the park and other kids flock to him but the parents don’t join us so I go from watching 1 kid to like 3 or 4 and it’s a lot

@CanaryNightjar @yayfor1a ...exactly....that's the point dear.

@EllaMennopy @yayfor1a All the things you described are things you can let your kid do and also supervise based on age appropriateness. But what you described is supervising so I don’t know why you aren’t calling it that.

@TheEcho13 Well..this is traditionally why men were responsible for caring for their women. The massive changes associated with matrescence necessitate a provider for healthy development of the mother and child.

Wanting kids and wanting to be a father are not the same thing. It’s easy for men to say they want children when their lives change so little after kids arrive, compared to the massive shift women experience. If men gave women trust that they wanted fatherhood, not just children who slot into his life with minimal disruption, women would be reporting the same level of desire for kids as men.

@CanaryNightjar @yayfor1a 😆 just like all of the other parents at the park. Its a rare occurrence that a child at the park would run toward traffic. In that instance, its all hands on deck obv. Otherwise let the kids eat dirt, climb tall things, run up the slide, get in small arguments, etc. Chill yo.

@EllaMennopy @yayfor1a So then supervised

@CanaryNightjar @yayfor1a Absolutely. With supervision from a distance. You can watch your kid from a bench and allow them some independence. You might even make a mom friend.

@EllaMennopy @yayfor1a She’s talking about a 22 month old. You let a 22 month old play unsupervised??

@bonykneesxx @yayfor1a Girl...

Uh….. no lol. Children under probably like 3 shouldn’t be playing unsupervised at a park especially around older children or playground equipment designed for such a wide variety of ages. Her child is 22m old, of course she is going to be making sure her kid is safe and clearly the other children needed supervision if she was having to chase them away from the road.

@yayfor1a 2, 7, and 11. The 2 year old climbs all over the playground, by herself, with me watching from a distance. You should research the importance of risky play to kids development.

@EllaMennopy How old are your kids?

@kenzietuff Lmao. I have pmdd. Twitter is my therapy. Good to get aggression out somewhere.

See an account become even more unhinged than usual, find out she is pregnant and posting. Many such cases.

Talking to lib neighbor Him: u actually approve of those Nazis deporting people Me: yup, a country's borders must be defended Him: calls me the standard isms, ists & demands I get off his property Me: ok, can you show me ur property's border line you'd like me to respect 💋

@wife2sirhusband Grass allergy? Eczema? I would recommend against borax. Colloidal oatmeal is really great.

So my son has a persistant rash on his legs, sometimes it creeps up onto his chest. It's not a diaper rash bc it's not where his diaper is. I have tried rinsing his clothes with vinegar (worked for me when I was a baby) with no succees. My mom just recommended borax in his bath?

@dis_courses @thecavemommy Yeah, but sometimes you need to shower. Even if its stressful.

@thecavemommy how do you train your nervous system to tolerate this though? my stress skyrockets when I hear the baby crying, my going to soothe her is just as much a relief for me as it is for her

Toddler woke up from his 20 minute nap that was already delayed because we were at the zoo, right as I was about to shower He woke up in a terrible mood(obvious), decided he wanted to sit in the hallway and cry I put baby in the bouncer to take a shower, he started crying like after 2 minutes You know what I did? Nothing. I let them cry and I finished my shower. They won’t die crying for 5 minutes. Take the shower.

@CivicNatalist @meatypepper @wife2sirhusband ....do your kids not like strollers? Walk run and take them to the park. Its a win win. Also, the ymca offers 2 hours childcare so you can work out. Pretty great.

@meatypepper @wife2sirhusband well that's great that you had no kids who would suicide bomb the bike if you tried to be on it for 2 hours straight, which is a more typical momsperience

this is how i lost 40 lbs. i would burn 600-800 in my daily workout, and then eat 2,000. minus the 600-800 burned, that made my net each day 1,200-1,400. a cookie is 200 cals. if i wanted a cookie id just fit it in my allotment somehow or go burn an extra 200 in my workout. idk my metabolic rate or what my hormones are up to or anything, i just know that this worked for me really well. i got to eat whatever i wanted as long as it fit in my calorie budget, and i felt amazing working out everyday,

@BrunetteLifts @TiffaniMarie483 So this is a classic example of scapegoating, not a typical middle child scenario. Absolutely awful for you though. Sorry about your family.

Is “middle child syndrome” really a thing?

@TiffaniMarie483 Only if your middle child isn't your favorite. Lol jk. Oldest, youngest, middle all have different dynamics. Love your kids equally and all will be well.