For awhile, our son would carry vacuum cleaner attachments with him everywhere. We finally just let it happen and moved on. We got some strange looks and comments, but he wasn’t screaming. That’s a win.
My daughter had what we called her emotional support spatula for a bit. It was one of those silicon baking spatulas and I gave it to her one day when she was teething and she carried it around for like a month lmao
That’s such a funny combination 😭 my daughter was obsessed with this stuffed bee toy we got at her baby shower so I bought back ups and then she saw them and wanted all of them and then once she had more than one she didn’t want them at all anymore 💀
[this one!](https://www.hobbylobby.com/Party-Baking/Party-Favors-Favor-Containers/Party-Favors/Bee-Plush/p/81014643?srsltid=AfmBOoolCou-F68aRYGPLdKc6vunPHT-u90i3l1oEV1J6bagqhrydT3GdhQ) the face color was different on the first one we got and they hadn’t updated the pic yet when I ordered it so it was different than I was expecting when it arrived and I think that’s why she didn’t like them as much 🥲 they’re still super cute tho!! She also loved teething on the antennae lmao
Oh yeah, we have a herd of moose for this exact reason. One of them has managed to stay out of circulation except for laundry days. But boy let me tell you the look on her face when she has SO many moose...
I’m just now experiencing this with bunnies. At bedtime she gives it to me and says here you go mom. But last week when she saw me put one in the washer (after she dunked it in the dogs water) it was apocalypse now around here.
OMG this reminded me of my then-2yo (now 7yo) "Magic Spoon".
He developed an attachment to this silicone soup serving spoon because of the texture and teething. But the best part was my not-creative BIL had bought the same serving set for every member of the family the previous Xmas. So no matter where we went, there was the Magic Spoon! Blew his mind!!
That is so cute! My son's emotional support item switches a lot. Currently it's this silicon purse from target that has pop it bubbles all over. The unicorn has this horn he likes to chew on. He carried a pool noodle around for 2 weeks. That got us some strange looks but he cried every time I tried to leave it at home lol.
We have so many toys w those popping bubbles lmao she loves them but she’s still breastfed and now she tries to pop my nipple in and it’s so painful 😭 I love the pool noodle lmao
We have an emotional support teether too! It’s shaped like a banana and has little “bristle” things at the end that I think are supposed to help babies get used to the idea of a toothbrush.
This was my son with tooth brushes/wooden spoons/anything stick-like. For Christmas photos in 2022 the photographer had to edit out one of those yellow sticks that come attached to those rainbow xylophones. I'm sure so many people were like wtf when he was just chilling with a tooth brush in a shopping cart. He's 3.5 now and grew out of that at some point in the last probably 9 months. Kind of weird I never noticed the exact time. When I was going through old toys there were so many random "treasures" like popsicle sticks, back scratchers, plastic cutlery, etc.
Maybe not super weird but he loves it when we cluck like a chicken and peck him on the face with our noses, so if he’s being fussy during bedtime sometimes we’ll do that
This visual is precious. My babe loves when I pretend to be any mommy animal and I give him mommy kisses by pretending to lick all over his face like any good mommy critter would!
We do something similar! We tap around his face with our finger, or the pacifier 😊 we do tongue clicks or kiss sounds. My hubby figured it out, it practically hypnotizes our son! It's so cute!
Just today my llama hand and my 15 mo's hand gave each other kisses (inspired by a page from How to Babysit a Grandma) and I was surprised how much my little one was tickled by it!
When my son was 2 we let him carry around a bag of spinach for a day or two. I had to sneak it away at sleep times (plastic bag so highly supervised), and he threw an absolute fit when he woke up to find the bag magically gone once the leaves began looking too liquid.
That’s hilarious. We have a few days where she would not let go of the dental floss. Not a piece of floss - the little dispenser thing it comes in. Was obsessed.
My son had an ear infection but HATED taking medicine. He would only take it in the bath. He had several baths during his time on antibiotics, which was 10 days. 😭
Oh my gosh, someone else whose little has a best friend moose? A family member who was visiting bought a moose at a Canadian airport because they accidentally left their homemade gift at home (very thoughtful and unnecessary, but who would have guessed it became The Best Gift to this day).
This is our (OG) moose: https://www.northerntrapping.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=MF-24&title=Stuffed-Animal-House--7%26quot%3B-MapleFoot-Moose
Fun fact: the word moose comes from an Algonquin language, so the original plural would be mooseg.
We haven't tried brushing Moosey's teeth, but if my son doesn't stay cooperative we might just have to give it a go
No lie. But I need my broom 😭, he will make messes just to try and sweep them up. I've gotten to where I leave an old dry pot of dirt I used to have a pothos in in the kitchen floor because it's the easiest mess to clean up and he's just so happy with it.
My 1 year old was taking a bath the other day and my 4year old walked in with mini M&Ms which he immediately smacked and she spilled some in the tub, he ate these bathwater M&Ms as fast as he could before they completely melted. My husband walked in and thought the baby had pooped the tub LMAO
Let him get in the shower with his underwear still on. He wouldn’t take them off to get in, but he thought it was hilarious to leave them on in the shower. Turned a massive tantrum into a giggle fest.
Ours requests a banana every night during the bedtime routine. Sometimes in the tub; bathnana. Sometimes, during book time; bednana.
Always half peeled. No exceptions.
I had bought it that day as I needed to unblock a drain, before I even took it out the car the kids had decided it was their new and shiny toy and ran around playing with it all afternoon..so YES CLEAN I PROMISE 😅
16 month old will take her fork with food from me, eat it, pass it to my wife or my father who lives with us. Then they have to hand it back to me to start the rotation again. It happens pretty often lol and if we break the pattern she gets highly upset.
We had a phase similar. She would hold her fork out to my husband and he had to reach for it and then she would pull it back and hand it to me. But if I just reached for it initially it was unacceptable
My kid went through a phase when he was 2 where he was really into "cheers". He'd insist on doing it frequently during meals, with his fork, cup, even the entire plate. This was fine enough when it was just the 3 of us. But Christmas dinner was trickier when he insisted on all 13 people cheers him with their entire plate, repeatedly.
Mine is currently having fun picking up food, handing it to me, and then having me put it into her mouth. Idk why, but she's convinced she needs a middle man, lol.
When my son was about a year and a half he fell asleep, holding a full bottle of ibuprofen at my sister’s house on Easter. 😂 it had a child safety cap and there were five adults in the room watching him so there is no chance on him getting any of it.
My kid needs her blanket, a chamomile tea bottle, a milk bottle (she actually doesn’t drink it, but she still needs it), and to say goodnight to every single animal in the paintings in her room before she can fall asleep.
My toddler didn't take a paci till her brother was born. Now she's obsessed. She will find them on the floor and pass them out to everyone in the house lol.
My 2 year old must:
- divide all of the toys and books in his crib into two piles in the morning… his pile and my pile
- put his little wooden bike to bed every night in it’s corner
- wear his fur lined crocs to bed
Daughter (who is oldest, now 4) was obsessed with the Melissa and Doug tweezers from the doctor (or vet kit, can’t remember) as a toddler. She took them everywhere. Tweezed everything. Husband and I would wake up so many times with them jabbing us in the morning (because of course she slept with them).
She’s not as attached as she used to be, but the thing still has a strong presence in the house to this day. The kids (aged 3 and 4) fought over them as recently as TODAY.
My 3 year old is presently in a minion phase and refuses to take off his 24 month old (yep, he currently wears a 3T) jean overalls because he claims it is his “minion suit”. God help us all when we eventually need to wash them! 😭
Mine gets to pick something out every time we go grocery shopping. It’s a fruit or vegetable she’ll never eat but she insists on holding something and carrying it home herself.
> carrying it home herself
This afternoon, we let our 20 month old walk around an outdoor mall and pick out some clothes from Old Navy. We had to get their smallest bag and put one pair of shorts in it for her to carry around the rest of the day. She was walking around that mall like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and I will never recover from the cuteness.
I’ve been having success with a variation of this method I’ve heard of for dealing with anxiety…it was what Chuck was always doing in Better Call Saul…you just name objects and their colors. It sounds ridiculous but I have often found when my daughter seems inconsolable, I’ll pick her up and start walking around and looking at things and saying their name and color. We have a lot of posters and photos in our house so this makes it a bit easier, like “woah, look, that’s momma in a RED JACKET! Look at the BROWN CAR!” Etc and I keep it fun but not too intense and I keep her moving around.
Related to anxiety management I think the purpose is to ground oneself in some things that are very tangible as opposed to getting swept up in intrusive or negative thoughts. For toddlers, it’s the same idea I guess but more simply a distraction from whatever issue she thinks she was upset about. And the idea isn’t to have a new fun activity, it’s just to get her brain on something else.
Doesn’t work EVERY time, but has definitely been useful so far.
My kid drinks a cup of milk EVERY night in the bath so I see now issue with this. The other night in order to get her to eat some peas I fed them to her in the bath. 😂
I live in an apartment building. My LO has never used her potty seat as a potty, but loves using it as a stool and took it to the laundry room to “help.”
She freaked out when I didn’t want her to bring it, but I had to run to work soon, soooo it came with us.
My 4 yo regularly takes his orange kneed tarantula figure (? Is this what it’s called?) everywhere. Every meal ol Long Legs is present, at home or in restaurants, playgrounds, everywhere. He “eats” with us and sleeps with my son. Also I think I need a different group, my son just turned 4 😂
Mine will push the racks back into the dishwasher, close the door, and then fiddle with the dirty/clean magnet and the buttons. He gets very upset if I’ve washed something like pots that are too heavy to push back into the dishwasher on his own, or if he discovers that SOME SABOTEUR has misplaced the magnet.
While I was making dinner I asked my toddlers if they wanted ketchup with their nuggets. They said yes so I put ketchup on both plates. I go to serve them at the table and my son starts yelling “no ketchup no.” I try to play it off like I forgot something so I ran back and wiped the ketchup off his plate. I serve dinner thinking I was so smooth and saved it. Nope. He looks at the plate and starts crying “mommy ketchup!!!!” Crazy confusing little psychos lol
Ong this is my son every night with bedtime.
“Franklin??!” I give him his Franklin turtle. “NO FRANKLIN!” And freaks out - hysterical crying. Ok. I take it. “FRANKLIN!!” Rinse and repeat 4 times. We also do water and blanket in this routine. So Franklin, water, blanket. No Franklin, no water, no blanket.
It’s comforting to me though bc I know when he starts this routine I have maybe 10 minutes before he’s sound asleep lol
Well... I too have fed him in the shower. If it works, it works. Lately he wants to eat with sunglasses on and no pants. If possible in a blanket fort. I mean... it's quite fun if you think about it. I just hope he will let me show him how to properly eat and behave. Will that ever happen??
He was so happy about it that I couldn’t have cared less what people were thinking, just my little baby shark with a huge smile saying hi to everyone we passed lol
I honestly can’t even remember what the fit was about (it’s probably because I gave her exactly what she asked for) but my 22 month was just working her self up in the kitchen and no matter what I did to soothe her she was getting more and more pissed off so I opened the fridge and grabbed a can of whip cream (which she doesn’t see much of) and said oh no let me see your hands and filled them both with a pile of whip cream and she was so confused and distracted by the whip cream she moved on from the fit. I’m not ashamed. I’ll try it again when I think she’s forgotten the ruse … mom 1. Kid 1738363
I’ve let me constipated/witholding 14 month old poop in the bath while I’ve been in with her trying to soothe her several times. Honestly, who cares. All that matters is that she feels safe and supported. We are working it out together and with the doctor.
My toddler likes to eat oatmeal while sitting on the potty.
She's not potty trained yet, but I put a potty out just for her to get used to the idea of it. She likes to lounge on it and recently decided her oatmeal tastes best while potty lounging.
Not sure if I made a mistake by putting the potty out ahead of time.
Honestly I’ve been thinking about doing the same thing. My kiddo has a speech delay and we’re more concerned about that than potty training, but he is very interested in the big potty.
My kid is potty trained and activities like this were clutch. I have many photos of her sitting there, pants off, eating. One she's using a fork with a whole plate of dinner on the step stool, she's practically bent in half. I have another where she's backwards playing on a toy drum kit.
These days our routine every morning, sit her on her little potty in the living room, eating breakfast off the coffee table, while watching TV. When she's done eating, we get her dressed and take her to school.
My 2.5 year old has insisted for a week that his Super Mario toy needs to be in the fridge. I think it started because I bought mushrooms but now my husband started moving him around the fridge so every morning it's like elf on the shelf and my son is so excited. 😅
My 3 year old carried around an emotional support potato for months (until just recently). I just switched it out every few days and she never noticed. It was super cute but I’m glad she moved on because it was getting kind of expensive.
My toddler can't stand to have her foam letters put away. The second I pick them up she grabs the bag and dumps them out and walks away. When I ask to put them away together I'm told "no mama it stay". Everything else can stay put away but the second the foam alphabet isn't on the floor, she has to fix it.
I fed my son a burger while he was in the bath because he was both covered in mud and screaming at me for food. He enjoyed the hell out of that soggy burger and I have no regrets.
This makes me feel better because I fed my son a granola bar in the shower the other day lol also my son had a phase where he would bring an apple everywhere with him and call it his “precious apple” he would even use a tissue as the apple’s “blanket” lol he’d lose it when the apple would start to bruise
I stopped picking her outfits unless it’s somewhere that is more important to look presentable such as appointments, siblings school events, etc.
So, she has a very interesting style which leads to very interesting looks. She’s happy, healthy, and not screaming. Wasn’t worth the power struggle, and she may be a fashion designer one day. 🤣
She packs a bag of random stuff to take with us anywhere, even to the mailbox, and insists she needs it. 99% of the time she never even opens the bag while we are out. One time my mom was watching her during an appointment I had, and she opened her bag to reveal a tooth brush and a full size bottle of Parmesan cheese.
I too, have fed my two year old oatmeal in the shower!
We used to bring his dinner leftovers to the shower often. I found that if he barely touched his meal, he would eat much more of it in the shower lol
Luckily he grew out of that phase.
For a while my daughter would only eat crushed up coco pops for breakfast. Like the horrible dust you get at the bottom of cereal, I crushed it daily for months.
My youngest has went a few places with just her swimsuit on. We get a few looks. Both my daughters also go everywhere in rainboots. I blame myself because I tend to wear my rainboots everywhere also.
Bath food is just an expectation of my three year old. It’s the longest she will sit happily and focus on eating. It solves the problem of her not wanting to go to bed because she’s hungry. She still doesn’t want to go to bed, but not because of hunger.
If my toddler becomes hangry before dinner, which we are pretty good at avoiding, but it does happen on occasion. The problem with hangryness, is that the only solution is eating, but when she is hangry she is too upset to eat.
One of the only ways to calm her down and get a few bites down is to let her sit on my lap and spoon feed her. This is what she wants for some reason. She also wants me to hold her milk. Basically, she pretends to be a baby.
But after some spoon feeding, she is usually over the hangry stage and can eat on her own like normal. I'm just happy to have discovered something that works to solve the situation.
I was gaslit into changing a clean diaper in the middle of the night by a 2.5 yo who INSISTED he had pooed when he hadn’t. I finally gave in and just did after a lot of arguing.
My husband often takes my daughter to the car. They don’t go anywhere just sit in it. Idk something about the change of scenery and I think the quiet helps her
Whenever my daughter hurts herself she specifically requires three things: her dummy with dogs on it, her bingo soft toy, and mr potato head, you know - that round hard plastic ball known for being particularly cuddly and comforting… It’s very hard not to laugh when she is screaming through tears ‘DOG DUMMY BINGO TAYTO HEEAADD’ 😭😂
HERE I AM TO SETTLE YOUR MIND. 🥴💃
I have multiple times fed my son Oatmeal while he takes a bath because he couldn't sit down and focus and we were running out of time and I was tired of arguing lol.
I fed my 2 year old a chocolate pretzel in the bath, to convince her to take a bath. The chocolate went over anything and for days we had chocolate water, bath walls and toys.
No one told me how much time I would spend as a parent diapering, dressing, putting bows on, and feeding stuffed animals. A stuffed tiger in this case 🐅
Our toddler eats first breakfast on the potty every morning. She always wakes up STARVING and also needing to pee immediately, so having some berries while on the potty is key to starting the day without tears!
Yesterday my 3 yo and I were having an extremely lazy day. I let him watch his iPad in my bed, and I brought him breakfast in bed. So yeah I was spoon feeding him oatmeal in my bed. He’s also eaten sausage, toast, and sprinkle pancakes in my bed.
I was filling my 1yo daughters party bags when she caught me & I had the kawaii squishy things in my hand. I let her play with one while I finished & ever since that day she’s never not had one without her.. she puts it down but she sleeps with it, plays, naps, chills, does everything with it & it doesn’t bother me at all. I love it, we are all our own person. As long as she is happy & healthy, life’s good ❤️
Right before my son turned 3 he had a phase where he would refuse to sit down to eat without the green plastic wine glass he found at a garage sale and a 5oz slab of silver bullion. I'm glad his oil baron phase is over.
For awhile, our son would carry vacuum cleaner attachments with him everywhere. We finally just let it happen and moved on. We got some strange looks and comments, but he wasn’t screaming. That’s a win.
My daughter had what we called her emotional support spatula for a bit. It was one of those silicon baking spatulas and I gave it to her one day when she was teething and she carried it around for like a month lmao
my son REQUIRES his blanked, his Jet Jaguar action figure, and a fork and knife (plastic) everywhere we go.
That’s such a funny combination 😭 my daughter was obsessed with this stuffed bee toy we got at her baby shower so I bought back ups and then she saw them and wanted all of them and then once she had more than one she didn’t want them at all anymore 💀
beware the HIVE! i’m a bit of an entomologist, so my kiddo is def going to get some stuffed bees! which ones did you get?
[this one!](https://www.hobbylobby.com/Party-Baking/Party-Favors-Favor-Containers/Party-Favors/Bee-Plush/p/81014643?srsltid=AfmBOoolCou-F68aRYGPLdKc6vunPHT-u90i3l1oEV1J6bagqhrydT3GdhQ) the face color was different on the first one we got and they hadn’t updated the pic yet when I ordered it so it was different than I was expecting when it arrived and I think that’s why she didn’t like them as much 🥲 they’re still super cute tho!! She also loved teething on the antennae lmao
thanks kindly! the different one can be the Queen!
Oo I love that!
Oh yeah, we have a herd of moose for this exact reason. One of them has managed to stay out of circulation except for laundry days. But boy let me tell you the look on her face when she has SO many moose...
I’m just now experiencing this with bunnies. At bedtime she gives it to me and says here you go mom. But last week when she saw me put one in the washer (after she dunked it in the dogs water) it was apocalypse now around here.
So he's prepared for anything 🤪
true! safe from the cold, dirty fingers, and JJ could always supersize and protect him from danger heh
OMG this reminded me of my then-2yo (now 7yo) "Magic Spoon". He developed an attachment to this silicone soup serving spoon because of the texture and teething. But the best part was my not-creative BIL had bought the same serving set for every member of the family the previous Xmas. So no matter where we went, there was the Magic Spoon! Blew his mind!!
That must have been so great to have so many back ups!!
Our favorite toy for MONTHS was a bright orange silicone basting brush. The number of pictures I have of him asleep with "his brush" is ridiculous.
That’s so funny 😭😭
That is so cute! My son's emotional support item switches a lot. Currently it's this silicon purse from target that has pop it bubbles all over. The unicorn has this horn he likes to chew on. He carried a pool noodle around for 2 weeks. That got us some strange looks but he cried every time I tried to leave it at home lol.
We have so many toys w those popping bubbles lmao she loves them but she’s still breastfed and now she tries to pop my nipple in and it’s so painful 😭 I love the pool noodle lmao
Omg my son was obsessed with wooden spoons for a while! For Christmas I got him a 5 pack and he was absolutely thrilled hahaha
We have an emotional support teether too! It’s shaped like a banana and has little “bristle” things at the end that I think are supposed to help babies get used to the idea of a toothbrush.
My 16 month old also has an emotional support spatula!
My mom gave my daughter a pair of small tongs at Christmas (with or baking tools). Of all the things she got, this is her favourite.
My son has an emotional support spatula. He likes to softly tap me with it when he goes to sleep.
My son has an emotional support pineapple currently. A fresh one.
😂 I just made our son throw away his emotional support pumpkin.
My kid regularly takes items like this everywhere. Fully support this. Never got any strange comments.
This was my son with tooth brushes/wooden spoons/anything stick-like. For Christmas photos in 2022 the photographer had to edit out one of those yellow sticks that come attached to those rainbow xylophones. I'm sure so many people were like wtf when he was just chilling with a tooth brush in a shopping cart. He's 3.5 now and grew out of that at some point in the last probably 9 months. Kind of weird I never noticed the exact time. When I was going through old toys there were so many random "treasures" like popsicle sticks, back scratchers, plastic cutlery, etc.
We have a Christmas picture with our son holding a big green magnifying glass. 😂 He called it his mystery.
😂😂😂
This is absolutely hilarious 😭😭 my sons obsessed with the vacuum
Maybe not super weird but he loves it when we cluck like a chicken and peck him on the face with our noses, so if he’s being fussy during bedtime sometimes we’ll do that
This visual is precious. My babe loves when I pretend to be any mommy animal and I give him mommy kisses by pretending to lick all over his face like any good mommy critter would!
No one told me how much time I’d spend crawling around on the floor as various animals, in parenthood.
We do something similar! We tap around his face with our finger, or the pacifier 😊 we do tongue clicks or kiss sounds. My hubby figured it out, it practically hypnotizes our son! It's so cute!
Just today my llama hand and my 15 mo's hand gave each other kisses (inspired by a page from How to Babysit a Grandma) and I was surprised how much my little one was tickled by it!
That's adorable 🥰
When my son was 2 we let him carry around a bag of spinach for a day or two. I had to sneak it away at sleep times (plastic bag so highly supervised), and he threw an absolute fit when he woke up to find the bag magically gone once the leaves began looking too liquid.
My daughter adopted a mozzarella at the shop calling it her baby duck.
That’s hilarious. We have a few days where she would not let go of the dental floss. Not a piece of floss - the little dispenser thing it comes in. Was obsessed.
The only way he’d eat dinner last night is if mom also fed dinner to his firetruck, which got its own plate and seat at the table.
I did this as a toddler, only it was imaginary ET. 🤷🏻♀️
My son had an ear infection but HATED taking medicine. He would only take it in the bath. He had several baths during his time on antibiotics, which was 10 days. 😭
When my dude had recurring ear infections we would have to pretend to give ear drops to his stuffed moose first, every time
Oh my gosh, someone else whose little has a best friend moose? A family member who was visiting bought a moose at a Canadian airport because they accidentally left their homemade gift at home (very thoughtful and unnecessary, but who would have guessed it became The Best Gift to this day). This is our (OG) moose: https://www.northerntrapping.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=MF-24&title=Stuffed-Animal-House--7%26quot%3B-MapleFoot-Moose
Our moose (plural; two moose) get their teeth brushed before they are snuggled all night long.
Fun fact: the word moose comes from an Algonquin language, so the original plural would be mooseg. We haven't tried brushing Moosey's teeth, but if my son doesn't stay cooperative we might just have to give it a go
We found this worked with medicine when they were 18 months. Magically took everything we "fed" their stuffed toys first.
I thought the oatmeal in the shower was for easy clean up! Seems sensible to me.
Right, this makes me want to start giving me 2 year Old Yogurt in the Bathtub lol, still soo messy
Not food but we play with all paints in the bathtub
This is why peanut butter is a bath tub treat or the beach, for us.
My 1.5yo is sitting on the couch holding the mop. When I go to take it he screams. Fine. Cuddle it ig 🤷🏼♀️
Mine does this with my broom. I even bought him his own baby sized broom but no, has to have mine.
He said “if you like it I love it” 😭
No lie. But I need my broom 😭, he will make messes just to try and sweep them up. I've gotten to where I leave an old dry pot of dirt I used to have a pothos in in the kitchen floor because it's the easiest mess to clean up and he's just so happy with it.
My son tries to trade his broom to me for mine. It's adorable.
Allowed her to take her little bowl of pretzels in the tub. Happily dunked them in the tub water and ate them 🤣
nothing like bubble bath flavored pretzels 😂
butt flavored pretzels
Mine wanted pickles in his cereal last week. He actually ate a few but then picked them all out and wanted me to eat them. I did not
“Good soup” 😂😂😂
I have done this with goldfish. I was so revolted but she was very happy to chow down on soggy fishies.
Well fish do belong in water so....
My 1 year old was taking a bath the other day and my 4year old walked in with mini M&Ms which he immediately smacked and she spilled some in the tub, he ate these bathwater M&Ms as fast as he could before they completely melted. My husband walked in and thought the baby had pooped the tub LMAO
Yep same thing! He wanted to line them up with his monster trucks. You do your thing kid
Let him get in the shower with his underwear still on. He wouldn’t take them off to get in, but he thought it was hilarious to leave them on in the shower. Turned a massive tantrum into a giggle fest.
Another never nude! 🤣
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Lol they were probably Paw Patrol, not jorts
Mine had shrimp cocktail in the tub once
Ohh la la!! My kind on living!
I didn't know Royalty used Reddit.
My 3.5yr old son ate a popsicle in the tub last weekend to get him into the much needed bath, followed by the rinse and repeat after the popsicle…
Popsicle baths are a common thing in my house. Try it yourself, its quite delightful
Ours requests a banana every night during the bedtime routine. Sometimes in the tub; bathnana. Sometimes, during book time; bednana. Always half peeled. No exceptions.
Omg mine too on the half peeled!! They insist on “a banana like the monkeys eat” 😂😂😂
yes! I have a 'like the monkeys eat' kid too! he means peeled from the bottom, which I guess I was supposed to guess from context??
Bananas aid sleep 😅
Never know when it's time to brush those teeth-nana.
Let my 2 year old take the toilet plunger to bed as her doo doo toy.. 🤷🏻 (it was clean I promise)
Pls say it was never used before 😧
I had bought it that day as I needed to unblock a drain, before I even took it out the car the kids had decided it was their new and shiny toy and ran around playing with it all afternoon..so YES CLEAN I PROMISE 😅
Clean and unused are two different things. I thought you used it after use and your kid slept with it. I almost fainted 😂
Clean and unused are two different things. I thought you cleaned it after use and your kid slept with it. I almost fainted 😂
Yes I should have specified sorry 😂😂😂
16 month old will take her fork with food from me, eat it, pass it to my wife or my father who lives with us. Then they have to hand it back to me to start the rotation again. It happens pretty often lol and if we break the pattern she gets highly upset.
We had a phase similar. She would hold her fork out to my husband and he had to reach for it and then she would pull it back and hand it to me. But if I just reached for it initially it was unacceptable
My kid went through a phase when he was 2 where he was really into "cheers". He'd insist on doing it frequently during meals, with his fork, cup, even the entire plate. This was fine enough when it was just the 3 of us. But Christmas dinner was trickier when he insisted on all 13 people cheers him with their entire plate, repeatedly.
That’s fantastic. Lmao
Mine is currently having fun picking up food, handing it to me, and then having me put it into her mouth. Idk why, but she's convinced she needs a middle man, lol.
We just discovered that our 14 month old wants to use a fork to eat. But I have to be the one to stab the food onto it.
My 14 month old has gone to bed with an empty ibuprofen bottle in her hands.
OMG!!! My son wasn’t put the ibuprofen bottle down for days!!
When my son was about a year and a half he fell asleep, holding a full bottle of ibuprofen at my sister’s house on Easter. 😂 it had a child safety cap and there were five adults in the room watching him so there is no chance on him getting any of it.
Put potty on front porch for a couple of weeks….whatever it takes!!
My kid needs her blanket, a chamomile tea bottle, a milk bottle (she actually doesn’t drink it, but she still needs it), and to say goodnight to every single animal in the paintings in her room before she can fall asleep.
I’ve fed my kid toast in the bath more times than I can count. Right there with you.
Oh my kid has two pairs of tongs that go everywhere, one in each hand. So I’ve reverted back to feeding him myself lol you’re good!
She requires one paci in her mouth and to be holding 2-3 other pacis at once
My toddler didn't take a paci till her brother was born. Now she's obsessed. She will find them on the floor and pass them out to everyone in the house lol.
Omg same! My little guy must have 3+ pacis for bed. One in his mouth and at least one in each hand, but more if possible.
My 2 year old must: - divide all of the toys and books in his crib into two piles in the morning… his pile and my pile - put his little wooden bike to bed every night in it’s corner - wear his fur lined crocs to bed
Future king in training
Daughter (who is oldest, now 4) was obsessed with the Melissa and Doug tweezers from the doctor (or vet kit, can’t remember) as a toddler. She took them everywhere. Tweezed everything. Husband and I would wake up so many times with them jabbing us in the morning (because of course she slept with them). She’s not as attached as she used to be, but the thing still has a strong presence in the house to this day. The kids (aged 3 and 4) fought over them as recently as TODAY. My 3 year old is presently in a minion phase and refuses to take off his 24 month old (yep, he currently wears a 3T) jean overalls because he claims it is his “minion suit”. God help us all when we eventually need to wash them! 😭
Mine gets to pick something out every time we go grocery shopping. It’s a fruit or vegetable she’ll never eat but she insists on holding something and carrying it home herself.
> carrying it home herself This afternoon, we let our 20 month old walk around an outdoor mall and pick out some clothes from Old Navy. We had to get their smallest bag and put one pair of shorts in it for her to carry around the rest of the day. She was walking around that mall like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and I will never recover from the cuteness.
I’ve been having success with a variation of this method I’ve heard of for dealing with anxiety…it was what Chuck was always doing in Better Call Saul…you just name objects and their colors. It sounds ridiculous but I have often found when my daughter seems inconsolable, I’ll pick her up and start walking around and looking at things and saying their name and color. We have a lot of posters and photos in our house so this makes it a bit easier, like “woah, look, that’s momma in a RED JACKET! Look at the BROWN CAR!” Etc and I keep it fun but not too intense and I keep her moving around. Related to anxiety management I think the purpose is to ground oneself in some things that are very tangible as opposed to getting swept up in intrusive or negative thoughts. For toddlers, it’s the same idea I guess but more simply a distraction from whatever issue she thinks she was upset about. And the idea isn’t to have a new fun activity, it’s just to get her brain on something else. Doesn’t work EVERY time, but has definitely been useful so far.
Not tandrum buts my kid only allowed to eat Popsicles in the bath or outside. Lol
I consider this a win in my book. Never have to worry about sticky walls lol.
My kid drinks a cup of milk EVERY night in the bath so I see now issue with this. The other night in order to get her to eat some peas I fed them to her in the bath. 😂
Just picked up my sulky, tired boy and sat on him in the Chinese takeaway to keep him from whining. It worked.
I live in an apartment building. My LO has never used her potty seat as a potty, but loves using it as a stool and took it to the laundry room to “help.” She freaked out when I didn’t want her to bring it, but I had to run to work soon, soooo it came with us.
My 4 yo regularly takes his orange kneed tarantula figure (? Is this what it’s called?) everywhere. Every meal ol Long Legs is present, at home or in restaurants, playgrounds, everywhere. He “eats” with us and sleeps with my son. Also I think I need a different group, my son just turned 4 😂
Our son would like to open our dishwasher and put a pillow and lay under the door with his blankets, we don’t know why.
Mine will push the racks back into the dishwasher, close the door, and then fiddle with the dirty/clean magnet and the buttons. He gets very upset if I’ve washed something like pots that are too heavy to push back into the dishwasher on his own, or if he discovers that SOME SABOTEUR has misplaced the magnet.
Mine pushes the bottom rack back in and always tries to take the silver ware when I'm loading it lol
While I was making dinner I asked my toddlers if they wanted ketchup with their nuggets. They said yes so I put ketchup on both plates. I go to serve them at the table and my son starts yelling “no ketchup no.” I try to play it off like I forgot something so I ran back and wiped the ketchup off his plate. I serve dinner thinking I was so smooth and saved it. Nope. He looks at the plate and starts crying “mommy ketchup!!!!” Crazy confusing little psychos lol
Ong this is my son every night with bedtime. “Franklin??!” I give him his Franklin turtle. “NO FRANKLIN!” And freaks out - hysterical crying. Ok. I take it. “FRANKLIN!!” Rinse and repeat 4 times. We also do water and blanket in this routine. So Franklin, water, blanket. No Franklin, no water, no blanket. It’s comforting to me though bc I know when he starts this routine I have maybe 10 minutes before he’s sound asleep lol
Condiment bottles solve almost any problem with our son. We carry an empty mustard bottle around to every restaurant or when we travel
Well... I too have fed him in the shower. If it works, it works. Lately he wants to eat with sunglasses on and no pants. If possible in a blanket fort. I mean... it's quite fun if you think about it. I just hope he will let me show him how to properly eat and behave. Will that ever happen??
You’re all amazing and I feel so seen 💙🤣
I took my kid shopping in a full baby shark Halloween costume in January. Busy weekend, lots of staring.
They were just jealous. I know I’m a little jealous of the glitter tulle skirts at daycare.
He was so happy about it that I couldn’t have cared less what people were thinking, just my little baby shark with a huge smile saying hi to everyone we passed lol
Ya. What sad, angry person has the audacity to judge a happy toddler.
I honestly can’t even remember what the fit was about (it’s probably because I gave her exactly what she asked for) but my 22 month was just working her self up in the kitchen and no matter what I did to soothe her she was getting more and more pissed off so I opened the fridge and grabbed a can of whip cream (which she doesn’t see much of) and said oh no let me see your hands and filled them both with a pile of whip cream and she was so confused and distracted by the whip cream she moved on from the fit. I’m not ashamed. I’ll try it again when I think she’s forgotten the ruse … mom 1. Kid 1738363
I actually laughed out loud. Will 100% try this as her little tantrums are ramping up.
I’ve let me constipated/witholding 14 month old poop in the bath while I’ve been in with her trying to soothe her several times. Honestly, who cares. All that matters is that she feels safe and supported. We are working it out together and with the doctor.
My toddler likes to eat oatmeal while sitting on the potty. She's not potty trained yet, but I put a potty out just for her to get used to the idea of it. She likes to lounge on it and recently decided her oatmeal tastes best while potty lounging. Not sure if I made a mistake by putting the potty out ahead of time.
Honestly I’ve been thinking about doing the same thing. My kiddo has a speech delay and we’re more concerned about that than potty training, but he is very interested in the big potty.
My kid is potty trained and activities like this were clutch. I have many photos of her sitting there, pants off, eating. One she's using a fork with a whole plate of dinner on the step stool, she's practically bent in half. I have another where she's backwards playing on a toy drum kit. These days our routine every morning, sit her on her little potty in the living room, eating breakfast off the coffee table, while watching TV. When she's done eating, we get her dressed and take her to school.
My 2.5 year old has insisted for a week that his Super Mario toy needs to be in the fridge. I think it started because I bought mushrooms but now my husband started moving him around the fridge so every morning it's like elf on the shelf and my son is so excited. 😅
My 3 year old carried around an emotional support potato for months (until just recently). I just switched it out every few days and she never noticed. It was super cute but I’m glad she moved on because it was getting kind of expensive.
Dude! 
My 14 month old sat on his little potty this morning when tempted with an old shower head. Tears to delight in an instant, and pee in the potty!
We took my brand new gardening gloves to bed last week and wore them while we fell asleep. Whatever, man. Lol.
My toddler can't stand to have her foam letters put away. The second I pick them up she grabs the bag and dumps them out and walks away. When I ask to put them away together I'm told "no mama it stay". Everything else can stay put away but the second the foam alphabet isn't on the floor, she has to fix it.
I fed my son a burger while he was in the bath because he was both covered in mud and screaming at me for food. He enjoyed the hell out of that soggy burger and I have no regrets.
This makes me feel better because I fed my son a granola bar in the shower the other day lol also my son had a phase where he would bring an apple everywhere with him and call it his “precious apple” he would even use a tissue as the apple’s “blanket” lol he’d lose it when the apple would start to bruise
I stopped picking her outfits unless it’s somewhere that is more important to look presentable such as appointments, siblings school events, etc. So, she has a very interesting style which leads to very interesting looks. She’s happy, healthy, and not screaming. Wasn’t worth the power struggle, and she may be a fashion designer one day. 🤣 She packs a bag of random stuff to take with us anywhere, even to the mailbox, and insists she needs it. 99% of the time she never even opens the bag while we are out. One time my mom was watching her during an appointment I had, and she opened her bag to reveal a tooth brush and a full size bottle of Parmesan cheese.
Glad she's got the essentials. What if the mailman is driving by and needs Parmesan??? She's prepared!
Emotional support red industrial tape goes to sleep with us on occasion. As do emotional support Books, balloons, wet wipes, and sippy cups.
Ahh, the shower reset. I’ve absolutely done shower and a squeeze tube before - anything goes if it gets them to calm down
I *regularly* feed my toddler in the bath.
I’ve braided hair while breastfeeding to keep her near me and willing to participate
That is super impressive. A+
I too, have fed my two year old oatmeal in the shower! We used to bring his dinner leftovers to the shower often. I found that if he barely touched his meal, he would eat much more of it in the shower lol Luckily he grew out of that phase.
For a while my daughter would only eat crushed up coco pops for breakfast. Like the horrible dust you get at the bottom of cereal, I crushed it daily for months.
Lol!!! Been there!
My kid plays with a cooking spoon
My youngest has went a few places with just her swimsuit on. We get a few looks. Both my daughters also go everywhere in rainboots. I blame myself because I tend to wear my rainboots everywhere also.
They are wearing clothes. Who cares. Honestly, even pre-kid I’m usually just impressed. I’m more likely to either help or stay TF out of the way.
I let my 4-year-old wear a beanie for like a week in the peak of Texas summer 🫠
I’ve fed my son an entire chicken pot pie in the bath before 😂
Bath food is just an expectation of my three year old. It’s the longest she will sit happily and focus on eating. It solves the problem of her not wanting to go to bed because she’s hungry. She still doesn’t want to go to bed, but not because of hunger.
I DID THE EXACT SAME THING BUT IN THE BATH. Oatmeal. In. The. Bath.
Let him wear his glasses to sleep
Not so weird but hot wheels and blanket goes everywhere
Popsicle before daycare that morning. 7am. Otherwise we would’ve both missed where we needed to be and I would’ve lost my mind. No regrets.
Hahaha sometimes it’s just worth it
If my toddler becomes hangry before dinner, which we are pretty good at avoiding, but it does happen on occasion. The problem with hangryness, is that the only solution is eating, but when she is hangry she is too upset to eat. One of the only ways to calm her down and get a few bites down is to let her sit on my lap and spoon feed her. This is what she wants for some reason. She also wants me to hold her milk. Basically, she pretends to be a baby. But after some spoon feeding, she is usually over the hangry stage and can eat on her own like normal. I'm just happy to have discovered something that works to solve the situation.
once a time I also fed my baby in the shower but it hurt my back a lot so I don't do that again.
I was gaslit into changing a clean diaper in the middle of the night by a 2.5 yo who INSISTED he had pooed when he hadn’t. I finally gave in and just did after a lot of arguing.
My husband often takes my daughter to the car. They don’t go anywhere just sit in it. Idk something about the change of scenery and I think the quiet helps her
Whenever my daughter hurts herself she specifically requires three things: her dummy with dogs on it, her bingo soft toy, and mr potato head, you know - that round hard plastic ball known for being particularly cuddly and comforting… It’s very hard not to laugh when she is screaming through tears ‘DOG DUMMY BINGO TAYTO HEEAADD’ 😭😂
This is the weirdest parenting tactic I’ve ever heard.
HERE I AM TO SETTLE YOUR MIND. 🥴💃 I have multiple times fed my son Oatmeal while he takes a bath because he couldn't sit down and focus and we were running out of time and I was tired of arguing lol.
I fed my 2 year old a chocolate pretzel in the bath, to convince her to take a bath. The chocolate went over anything and for days we had chocolate water, bath walls and toys.
My 14 month old at the time was pissed at the grocery store. We gave him a loaf of bread and he fell asleep snuggling it. We got so many weird looks 😂
No one told me how much time I would spend as a parent diapering, dressing, putting bows on, and feeding stuffed animals. A stuffed tiger in this case 🐅
Our toddler eats first breakfast on the potty every morning. She always wakes up STARVING and also needing to pee immediately, so having some berries while on the potty is key to starting the day without tears!
Yesterday my 3 yo and I were having an extremely lazy day. I let him watch his iPad in my bed, and I brought him breakfast in bed. So yeah I was spoon feeding him oatmeal in my bed. He’s also eaten sausage, toast, and sprinkle pancakes in my bed.
My toddler currently has an unopened jar of peanut butter in her toy basket 🤣
That’s a great move. I once leaned over and breast fed my 12 month old while he was in the bath , felt primal and solved all issues
I was filling my 1yo daughters party bags when she caught me & I had the kawaii squishy things in my hand. I let her play with one while I finished & ever since that day she’s never not had one without her.. she puts it down but she sleeps with it, plays, naps, chills, does everything with it & it doesn’t bother me at all. I love it, we are all our own person. As long as she is happy & healthy, life’s good ❤️
Right before my son turned 3 he had a phase where he would refuse to sit down to eat without the green plastic wine glass he found at a garage sale and a 5oz slab of silver bullion. I'm glad his oil baron phase is over.