Other than cashews (which you can't bring), I have been snacking on dates and dried plums. Other dried fruit would probably work, too. I also always brought some fresh fruit with me to work, like a banana or apple (currently on maternity leave, due date in May).
I'm still on my first village, so most of my farm plots are awkward at best. But when I start a new village, I plan to try this. I just want to try how the whole heir taking over process works first.
Doesn't TikTok's algorithms feed on misery? The worse the content might make people feel, the better traction it seems to get. I would consider at least taking a break from the app while newly postpartum for your own wellbeing. I have to use TikTok for work, but I don't have a personal account on my personal phone. I just find that the less time I'm on that app and similar social media, the more confident I feel in my own parenting decisions.
We taught my 3 year old how food works, simplified obviously, food goes in your mouth and down to your stomach then through your intestines to be turned into energy then through your butt. One day I was eating apples and peanut butter and my 3 year old looks me dead in the eyes and says “That peanut butter goes in your mouth and down to your tummy then in your vagina, and dad will be sad” and then carried on with his day. LIKE WHAT! You have no idea what you just said and it took everything to not die of laughter.
I would get some books that showed the internal body parts. Then you can show her inside the tummy baby's go in the uterus and food goes in the stomach and intestines. Also there is a Melissa and Doug magnet set that has different layers of the body.
I bet it would be great as decor. Glows in the dark and everything. Maybe decorate rock walls and fences with uranium, line the path with uranium so you see it without a torch, decorate the outside of the house with it, etc.
That’s terrible. We get six weeks before, eight weeks after of “maternity leave”. Then we get one year of “parental leave” if we want it. First six months is 67% of our pay, second six months is 50%.
I've told this story in here before but that nearly happened to my nephew when he was 9. Now, granted it's because he saw blood and passed out, fell face first into a puddle on his driveway but still. Luckily his sister started screaming and he was pulled out in time.
I fell through the ice as a toddler (I might have been 3 or 4?). I have a fuzzy memory of just seeing the hole in the ice from under the water. It was really pretty. Then I was pulled up (no clue about time passed). I really doubt I made any effort to get up on my own, but then again, my only memory is of the view from under the water and that I wore red wool socks.
Yep, it's definitely something that can happen and, unfortunately, happens. I forget the measurement being used to caution parents, but it's a ridiculously low depth needed for a toddler (and certainly a baby) to drown.
We had to spell B A T H around my daughter for about a year because as soon as she heard the word she would strip down and run to the bathroom. The water calls to her like Moana. It's still about 75% that she'll want to get a bath as soon as it's mentioned, but she has figured out the spelling too. After cycling through many creative ways to say it, we've just given up. She's too smart for us.
My hunters are a little too effective for my villagers' appetite, too. I have 3, and they are all level 10. I don't want more feathers, fur, or leather either. I have more than what I need for producing clothes to sell (and bags for farming).
Wearing a hat became easier after we let our toddler pick out a hat she loved in the store (this was when she was around 2). Right now, it's still barely above freezing temperatures here, so I haven't brought out the summer hats yet.
My brother was a daredevil as a kid and would always figure out how to undo every childproofing item my parents installed (he's a mechanic now; go figure!). At one point, they had to install a lock on the outside of his door to lock him in at night. So he did what any enterprising toddler would do. He opened the window and jumped out. Thankfully, we lived in a ranch, so the window was only about 7 feet off the ground. I do sympathize with parents who are trying to do all the right things and still have to deal with stuff like this.
My sister was like this. The first time she escaped at night, my mum saw her through the window while watching TV. She was out playing in the snow, wearing my wool sweater and rain boots. All the doors had been locked, and she was still sleeping in a crib. I think she was around 2 then.
yes! we do that or "it's time to brush your teeth! do you want mama/dada or [stuffed animal] to brush your teeth?" (he loves having his toys brush his teeth) or "do you want to use the blue toothbrush or the red toothbrush?" or "do you want to lie on a blanket or sit in a chair?"
The stuffed animal worked great for us for a long time. Choosing which stuffed animal could do the brushing was fun for her. But it stopped being exciting for unknown reasons, and now choosing between two tubes of toothpaste is what works (they are pretty much the same, just different picture). We have changed the "choise" a few times since she started having an opinion about things, but the result is always that either my husband or I brush her teeth.
The best advice I’ve heard about asking your toddler vs. telling your toddler something is to only ask them something if they actually have a choice. Don’t ask questions about something they will have to do regardless of what answer they say (i.e. it’s time to brush your teeth vs. do you want to brush your teeth?)
I am a woman and I have only used that for cleaning myself if I had had diarrhea or ran out of toilet paper. Am I have talked with other women and most have not used it either. The apartments I have lived in the sink its in the opposite side of the toilet and it won’t torn in if you don’t turn on the faucet. So you I would need to get up to get it if you wanted to use it. Which I am not interested with a poopy butt if I don’t really have to.
That sounds like you have had bad luck with apartments with really bad bathroom design. Every apartment I have lived in/visited has had both sink and handheld bidet right next to the toilet. There has been no need to stand up (that seems unpractical).
Jumping on board to 100% vote up the "have fun" factor. This is a brilliant time waster of a game. I've played a few variations, with both maps, single player and co-op, co-op with 4 people, co-op map but by myself etc etc, altering all manner of the aspects you can, and just generally mucking around with different layouts of the town you make. The game I'm in at present, I've made it be the easiest possible, with myself and the villagers having zero food and water demands, me taking zero damage from anything, not affected by stamina, weight or temperature, extremely low taxes, ramped up XP etc, and I had a ball doing it. I've made over a million bucks and rising. My production is so high I can't possibly sell everything even when I make endless runs to all the other towns to sell stuff off. This isn't the way for everyone I'm sure, but I'm having fun so that's all that matters. Even if you didn't want to play it this easy yourself, you could alter some settings for a short while to acquire some funds more easily, then go back to "normal".
It's fun to see how different people like to play. I am just on my first village, so I'm still making a lot of mistakes. But I definitely overproduce meat, fish, and crops! So I'm considering making the food demand higher so my people will eat some of the surplus I can't sell on time.
Leftover food is a great way to make fertiliser for crops too even if you have animals to collect manure from. I have a large number of compost bins and several times I've loaded them up with thousands of nearly expired, (or simply excess) cabbages and carrots. They turn to rot at the turn of a season, or if you have the setting "active", just leave them lying on the ground but I think this takes longer than 1 turn of season.
I like this idea of using a separate area, hopefully this will help “reset” things a bit and allow them their special time while also setting better boundaries.
Definitely try that! A part of his bedtime routine sounded more like quality play time, which is also great, but maybe before the whole bedtime routine.
It's apparently just fancier/heavier/more creative make-up than you wear everyday, for when you want to look special for an event/activity. I don't know why that needs a dumb name, that's pretty much been a thing since make-up was first invented. God forbid anyone ever want to dress up!
Ah, so whenever I wear make-up, I wear birthday make-up. I used to be too lazy to wear make-up every day. Now, with a toddler, I prioritise sleep too much to assign time for make-up in the morning. I figure everyone is just used to seeing me without that it's nothing special by now.
I live in Finland, and since we won't be able to see it here, I guess the world isn't ending here either. Funny how "local" the end of the world can be.
Not the same thing as the baby actually being here, but I've had quite badly interrupted sleep and sleeping issues while pregnant and I found it quite stressful to begin with but now I'm just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hope it's similar when the baby arrives!
From experience of my first pregnancy, I'd say it's a little different. When I experienced sleep issues while pregnant, it wasn't just waking up that was the problem. It was hard to get comfortable to get back to sleep.
Well, breastfeeding started hurting when my toddler was a little over 2 since I became pregnant. So I told her that it hurt for mommy, and she was understanding during the day. She would talk a lot about it and also tell random strangers that mommy's boobs hurt (thanks).
Could it be that in level 1, all is done in one place. But at level 2, it's spread out on two different stations? I don't remember what the level 1 workbench is like, though. I am still on my first playthrough, and it's been a while since anything ugradeable was at level 1.
Other than cashews (which you can't bring), I have been snacking on dates and dried plums. Other dried fruit would probably work, too. I also always brought some fresh fruit with me to work, like a banana or apple (currently on maternity leave, due date in May).
Agreed, that's why I restarted my town and built an entire village around the farm lands.
I'm still on my first village, so most of my farm plots are awkward at best. But when I start a new village, I plan to try this. I just want to try how the whole heir taking over process works first.
Doesn't TikTok's algorithms feed on misery? The worse the content might make people feel, the better traction it seems to get. I would consider at least taking a break from the app while newly postpartum for your own wellbeing. I have to use TikTok for work, but I don't have a personal account on my personal phone. I just find that the less time I'm on that app and similar social media, the more confident I feel in my own parenting decisions.
We taught my 3 year old how food works, simplified obviously, food goes in your mouth and down to your stomach then through your intestines to be turned into energy then through your butt. One day I was eating apples and peanut butter and my 3 year old looks me dead in the eyes and says “That peanut butter goes in your mouth and down to your tummy then in your vagina, and dad will be sad” and then carried on with his day. LIKE WHAT! You have no idea what you just said and it took everything to not die of laughter.
That's a very thought-out process there, ha ha.
I would get some books that showed the internal body parts. Then you can show her inside the tummy baby's go in the uterus and food goes in the stomach and intestines. Also there is a Melissa and Doug magnet set that has different layers of the body.
Definitely. I will see what we find on our next library trip.
Girl due in May 🥰
Me too! I'm due May 13th, so the probability of her being a May baby is quite high, even if she is early or late.
I bet it would be great as decor. Glows in the dark and everything. Maybe decorate rock walls and fences with uranium, line the path with uranium so you see it without a torch, decorate the outside of the house with it, etc.
That’s terrible. We get six weeks before, eight weeks after of “maternity leave”. Then we get one year of “parental leave” if we want it. First six months is 67% of our pay, second six months is 50%.
Agreed! I couldn't imagine working in late pregnancy (although I'm sure that depend on the pregnancy).
I know a 2 year old who fell in a puddle in the backyard and drowned. Not a pool, not a pond, a PUDDLE
I've told this story in here before but that nearly happened to my nephew when he was 9. Now, granted it's because he saw blood and passed out, fell face first into a puddle on his driveway but still. Luckily his sister started screaming and he was pulled out in time.
I fell through the ice as a toddler (I might have been 3 or 4?). I have a fuzzy memory of just seeing the hole in the ice from under the water. It was really pretty. Then I was pulled up (no clue about time passed). I really doubt I made any effort to get up on my own, but then again, my only memory is of the view from under the water and that I wore red wool socks.
Yep, it's definitely something that can happen and, unfortunately, happens. I forget the measurement being used to caution parents, but it's a ridiculously low depth needed for a toddler (and certainly a baby) to drown.
We had to spell B A T H around my daughter for about a year because as soon as she heard the word she would strip down and run to the bathroom. The water calls to her like Moana. It's still about 75% that she'll want to get a bath as soon as it's mentioned, but she has figured out the spelling too. After cycling through many creative ways to say it, we've just given up. She's too smart for us.
Same here. We also say bath in different languages, but I suspect she is learning all our different ways to say it.
I’m sitting on over 40,000 coin right now. My big money maker is iron knives. I’ve been at it a while.
My hunters are a little too effective for my villagers' appetite, too. I have 3, and they are all level 10. I don't want more feathers, fur, or leather either. I have more than what I need for producing clothes to sell (and bags for farming).
It’s very difficult to enforce this. If I didn’t let him play outside if he refused a hat, then we would very rarely play outside at all.
Wearing a hat became easier after we let our toddler pick out a hat she loved in the store (this was when she was around 2). Right now, it's still barely above freezing temperatures here, so I haven't brought out the summer hats yet.
My brother was a daredevil as a kid and would always figure out how to undo every childproofing item my parents installed (he's a mechanic now; go figure!). At one point, they had to install a lock on the outside of his door to lock him in at night. So he did what any enterprising toddler would do. He opened the window and jumped out. Thankfully, we lived in a ranch, so the window was only about 7 feet off the ground. I do sympathize with parents who are trying to do all the right things and still have to deal with stuff like this.
My sister was like this. The first time she escaped at night, my mum saw her through the window while watching TV. She was out playing in the snow, wearing my wool sweater and rain boots. All the doors had been locked, and she was still sleeping in a crib. I think she was around 2 then.
yes! we do that or "it's time to brush your teeth! do you want mama/dada or [stuffed animal] to brush your teeth?" (he loves having his toys brush his teeth) or "do you want to use the blue toothbrush or the red toothbrush?" or "do you want to lie on a blanket or sit in a chair?"
The stuffed animal worked great for us for a long time. Choosing which stuffed animal could do the brushing was fun for her. But it stopped being exciting for unknown reasons, and now choosing between two tubes of toothpaste is what works (they are pretty much the same, just different picture). We have changed the "choise" a few times since she started having an opinion about things, but the result is always that either my husband or I brush her teeth.
The best advice I’ve heard about asking your toddler vs. telling your toddler something is to only ask them something if they actually have a choice. Don’t ask questions about something they will have to do regardless of what answer they say (i.e. it’s time to brush your teeth vs. do you want to brush your teeth?)
Yep, that is the advice we got, and it works well.
I am a woman and I have only used that for cleaning myself if I had had diarrhea or ran out of toilet paper. Am I have talked with other women and most have not used it either. The apartments I have lived in the sink its in the opposite side of the toilet and it won’t torn in if you don’t turn on the faucet. So you I would need to get up to get it if you wanted to use it. Which I am not interested with a poopy butt if I don’t really have to.
That sounds like you have had bad luck with apartments with really bad bathroom design. Every apartment I have lived in/visited has had both sink and handheld bidet right next to the toilet. There has been no need to stand up (that seems unpractical).
"Did you eat too much toast?" followed by a quick congratulations.
I felt like I had to poo, and the midwife checked how dilated I was and gave thumbs up to pushing.
Jumping on board to 100% vote up the "have fun" factor. This is a brilliant time waster of a game. I've played a few variations, with both maps, single player and co-op, co-op with 4 people, co-op map but by myself etc etc, altering all manner of the aspects you can, and just generally mucking around with different layouts of the town you make. The game I'm in at present, I've made it be the easiest possible, with myself and the villagers having zero food and water demands, me taking zero damage from anything, not affected by stamina, weight or temperature, extremely low taxes, ramped up XP etc, and I had a ball doing it. I've made over a million bucks and rising. My production is so high I can't possibly sell everything even when I make endless runs to all the other towns to sell stuff off. This isn't the way for everyone I'm sure, but I'm having fun so that's all that matters. Even if you didn't want to play it this easy yourself, you could alter some settings for a short while to acquire some funds more easily, then go back to "normal".
It's fun to see how different people like to play. I am just on my first village, so I'm still making a lot of mistakes. But I definitely overproduce meat, fish, and crops! So I'm considering making the food demand higher so my people will eat some of the surplus I can't sell on time.
Leftover food is a great way to make fertiliser for crops too even if you have animals to collect manure from. I have a large number of compost bins and several times I've loaded them up with thousands of nearly expired, (or simply excess) cabbages and carrots. They turn to rot at the turn of a season, or if you have the setting "active", just leave them lying on the ground but I think this takes longer than 1 turn of season.
I just have more manure than I need too, ha ha. But yes, if I didn't have five pigs... I started with two, but they did reproduce.
I like this idea of using a separate area, hopefully this will help “reset” things a bit and allow them their special time while also setting better boundaries.
Definitely try that! A part of his bedtime routine sounded more like quality play time, which is also great, but maybe before the whole bedtime routine.
Maybe you would feel better if you brought your baby for a checkup? That way, you get another professional's reassurance.
It's apparently just fancier/heavier/more creative make-up than you wear everyday, for when you want to look special for an event/activity. I don't know why that needs a dumb name, that's pretty much been a thing since make-up was first invented. God forbid anyone ever want to dress up!
Ah, so whenever I wear make-up, I wear birthday make-up. I used to be too lazy to wear make-up every day. Now, with a toddler, I prioritise sleep too much to assign time for make-up in the morning. I figure everyone is just used to seeing me without that it's nothing special by now.
What’s weird about this to me is that we JUST had an eclipse in 2017 and the world very much did not end.
Another weird thing is that the world ending seems to be very limited to just a part of the world, too.
I live in Finland, and since we won't be able to see it here, I guess the world isn't ending here either. Funny how "local" the end of the world can be.
Not the same thing as the baby actually being here, but I've had quite badly interrupted sleep and sleeping issues while pregnant and I found it quite stressful to begin with but now I'm just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hope it's similar when the baby arrives!
From experience of my first pregnancy, I'd say it's a little different. When I experienced sleep issues while pregnant, it wasn't just waking up that was the problem. It was hard to get comfortable to get back to sleep.
I like the thought of being able to show the pictures to my child later on what it looked like when they were growing in me.
Well, breastfeeding started hurting when my toddler was a little over 2 since I became pregnant. So I told her that it hurt for mommy, and she was understanding during the day. She would talk a lot about it and also tell random strangers that mommy's boobs hurt (thanks).
What workbench are you talking about?
Could it be that in level 1, all is done in one place. But at level 2, it's spread out on two different stations? I don't remember what the level 1 workbench is like, though. I am still on my first playthrough, and it's been a while since anything ugradeable was at level 1.
I think you get the clay turning wheel at level 2. But don't think you could do any of those recipes at level 1. So bit confused...
That would make sense, that you get the class wheel then.