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We just covered British imperialism in NZ, Australia, South Africa, and Canada in our homeschool history class last week. I’m always impressed at how the kids engage with and respond to this stuff. We talked about self-determination, who got that right and who was denied it, dividing and conquering native populations, all that stuff that kids love.
Our oldest will probably need to go back to public school next year (in NC which is trying its damnedest to kill public schools), so I have to cram in the rest of modern history this year.
So what’s the potty training strat? My kid’s totally defiant, refuses to even entertain the idea of using the toilet. They’ve got their own special one with a pretend flusher and a special seat to sit on the big toilet. We’re closing in on 3 years old here and I’m sick of changing poop
We got a potty watch and awarded with treats. A potty watch is basically just an alarm they wear on their wrist that goes off every hour or so to remind them to go try.
We are ramping up to start doing this with our second actually.
We kept our little potty in the living room and that helped a lot. We switched to pull ups for a time. I also had a rolling 20min timer so I could check in with kiddo about going. We would put a movie on so they could sit and watch. We eventually moved to special thick underwear that could handle a little leak.
We would have her sit, and we’d pull up entertaining videos on tiktok, just anything to distract while she sat. The constant check ins helped too.
Last weekend I did a foolish thing and attempted to unstuck our riding lawn mower after a wheel came off the ramp into the shed and the mower couldn’t back up.
I managed to move it using wood I had laying around like a lever, but in doing so I fucked up my shoulders and neck. On top of that I have been sick, low apatite and a cough. Yet on top of THAT, kid 2 gave us about 4 hours of sleep last night.
I’m dogging it. No fevers at all, so not sure what I have, but probably something from either daycare or work (students are back, with all their summer germs).
Here is hoping for better sleep tonight.
May you find the one position that doesn’t hurt while you’re getting to sleep and also doesn’t cause you to hurt when you wake up
Sounds rough comrade, hope you recover soon and your kid catches up on sleep tonight!
Thanks! I’ve been doing stretches all week and I think most of my neck and shoulder pain has subsided. It doesn’t help I sit for most of the day. I’ve been trying to do some light walking too. Seems to help.
Sounds like the right approach. My wife is a PTA if you want me to ask her for any exercises/stretches that might help, though I know it’s harder for her without seeing the injury in person.
There is a stomach bug that seems to be going around where you get either a low grade fever or none at all but you are basically in and out of the bathroom doing the number 2 and vomiting for the next 48 hours. We all got it last weekend and had to just let it ride.
Hope you get well soon.
Ironically enough, I had a 102.2 fever last night, and woke up with a 101.4 fever this morning… Took some Tylenol, and it knocked the fever right out, though. I was sweating like a pig when the fever broke, really gross. Turns out a co-worker is also sick too, we’re both out today.
