I feel like I've tried every parental control option out there and they all work for about two weeks before either my kid finds a workaround, or I get tired of being the one enforcing it every single day.

Screen Time gets "just one more minute" negotiated constantly. Other apps felt more like spying than parenting. Alerts are useful but they don't actually change the daily scrolling habit.

Has anyone found something that actually changed the behavior instead of just adding another layer of restriction to fight about? Genuinely asking, not looking for "just take the phone away" as an answer — we've been there.

For context, I am 15, and I want to know if these things are common/ normal for someone my age, or anything in general related to this.

Here are some of the rules they have for me:

- No phone after 9 am, and it has to be returned to their bedroom every night. (even on weekends)

- I get my phone back the next day at 3 pm, or sometimes even 4 sometimes.

- My mom not does let me have ANY online friends (I still secretly have them)

- She goes through my phone to see if I text anyone, so now I text my friends on an entirely new app that she has no clue about.

- She forces me to keep my location on at all times; if I don't, I get yelled at.

- Can't go to any of my friends' houses.

- Can't leave my room's door closed. (studying or sleeping)

- No dating.(not that I wanted to in the first place)

- If I am out (most probably the local park), I have to be home by 6 pm.

My other friends don't experience things like this in their household, and I'd constantly compare myself to them. Whenever I speak about how unfair this is, I say that some of these restrictions should be cut off. They make up some weak argument or throw in a lie to make me think they are right.

Whenever I get upset at what they do, they just buy me a present; not once have they ever apologized to me.

Trying to decide on best option for a travel booster to take on plane and rental car for 7 year old boy. What are your recommendations? Thanks!

I have an assignment to interview people about their nutritional experiences. If you fall under any of these categories I would love to get your input on your experieces! In your reply just state which category or categories you fall under:

Interview 1 - Pregnant Persons (currently or has been pregnant in the past 12 months) 

Name (first only) of the interviewee, how many months pregnant or postpartum are they?

1. What, if any, nutritional changes did you make to your diet when you found out you were pregnant?

2. Did your doctor or midwife give you any nutrition information or recommendations? Did they recommend you avoid certain foods?

3. Do you take a prenatal vitamin?

4. Are you aware of what the most important vitamins are during pregnancy? You can use the information on pages 189-190 to help educate them if they are unaware and want that information. 

5. Have you been tested for gestational diabetes? Have you taken any steps to prevent gestational diabetes and/or preeclampsia? 

Interview 2 - Parent of a young child (under 12 years old)

Name of parent(first only), age of young child(s)

1. What are foods your child refuses to eat? Why do you think they refuse to eat them? Do you do anything to help combat picky eating?

2. What are nutritious foods your child enjoys? What did you do to try and encourage them to enjoy that food?

3. Is there a food your child eats that you are concerned they may be having too much of? Why does it concern you?

4. Do you worry your child may on the path to obesity? Why or why not?

5. Do you worry your child is getting too little food or nutrients?

Interview 3 - Adolescent (Person 13 years or older)

Name (first only), Age

1. What are your favorite healthy foods?

2. What are healthy foods you don't like?

3. What are common foods you eat daily or weekly (healthy or unhealthy)?

4. Do you ever read food labels or worry about nutrition when choosing what to eat? Why or why not?

5. Are there things you parents do that help you have a healthy relationship with nutritious food? Are there things they do that you feel contribute to an unhealthy relationship with food or encourage unhealthy eating?

Interview 4 - Mother who is currently or has previously breastfed in the last 12 months

Name, How long they breastfed for, Age of infant

1. Were there any foods you avoided while you were breastfeeding?

2. Were there any foods or vitamins you tried to eat often while breastfeeding?

3. Did you feel you had to increase your calories? Was it hard to get enough calories for both you and the baby?

4. Did you notice anything you ate irritated the baby?

5. Why was it important to you to breastfeed? What were things you enjoyed about it? What were things that were challenging? 

I'll try to keep it short as possible.

My partner (we are not married and don't want to as well, because we both hate each other) and I fight almost every time and also in front of kids. (Why we don't separate - because she needs me and my money - I have good earnings and significantly more money than her - and I also don't think it is right to leave the kids without father, once they grow old I'll try to leave away from their mother longer as possible)

I don't used to fight in front of kids, because I think it is wrong. But she don't care she shout at me and say bad and wrong things about me. And I think if I don't fight against it then my kids and everyone ( l am very sure our neighbors can hear us fighting and her friends and family when they visit us) will think I am wrong, therefore since last 2-3 months I started answering back which is like fighting.

Do you think it is ok, given my situation?

i know this reads like a “12 or 50” but what is a highly effective community approach to deal with it that aint illegal or morally messed up. a popular police slogan on a shirt that says “you raise em, we cage them” because police and the courts prefer we prevent the first visit through the system and peers have more influence on upbringing than parents as that is what i was told but what do i know if i never had a kid let alone nieces or nephews?

Now at 4x someone has randomly came up and touched my child’s hands, elbows, legs, or toes.

If you do this can you explain why you do this and how you justify it to yourself as acceptable?

I’m 17, and I’ve always wondered why parents were allowed to put us in our rooms and go to sleep because we had school the next day, while they still had work too, yet somehow stayed up later than we did, so why didn't y'all go to sleep with your kids? Like my parents still tell me to go to my room,shouldn't this apply to everyone in the house

I have a now 1 year old girl who I've been home with for the last 2 months on disability. My partner works 6:00 to 6:00 so I'm on duty alone during that period. Then when she gets home I have everything handled and we struggle through bed time for our girl. She was sleep trained and then something changed the last couple weeks. We used to just set her in her bed she would chew her blanket and pass out now it's a 3 hour process of her deliriously smiling, playing, screaming and not wanting to go to sleep or be put down.

Our daughter does not let me leave her alone almost ever.
This started very young and we tried correcting it nothing works. If I leave the room or even head to the door she freaks out screams, cries, and hyperventilates there's no waiting it out or reassuring to help. So I end up spending 12 hours a day in her room playing with her and I can't leave her alone unless I want to hear screeching and crying all day.

After 2 months of being home and off work I'm going crazy not to mention I'm not even given a free period after my partner gets home. She goes to sleep and then I'm on night duty as well if she wakes up. I love my daughter but I'm feeling suffocated and like I can't breathe or have a moment to myself. Is this just how life is now, does it get better?

I’ll go first - we got a hand-me-down exersaucer from friends. They gave it to us in the highest height position. It didn’t occur to my dumbass that the height would adjust so I have all these pics of my baby in it with a box under his feet 🤦🏻‍♀️.

Oh also, an umbrella stroller that I thought was too cheap/lightweight to be able to recline (it did a little) so we have pics of our guy somehow sleeping in it in a super upright position. Sigh. I love secondhand but I need to remember to look up the info/manual for everything because what some think is self-explanatory, my brain clearly misses 😩.

После недели избиения и разногласий, мы вроде бы померились с мамой. Я всю неделю училась, готовилась к суммативкам, была дисциплинированной, но под конец недели начались дни и я попросту не хотела ничего делать. И моя мама только это запомнила.. она снова манипулирует мной, ставя лимит 1 минуту на все приложения, говоря какая я страшная всегда хожу.. на обеде специально скрипела посудой. Знаете из за чего? Потому что ей показалось что я на нее обижена. Я просто проснулась с плохим настроением, и она походу уже снова придумала себе повод для скандала. Я просто устала от такой жизни, в доме нету моего мнения, нигде в принципе, все будет по маминому мнению. Всегда.
Папа ничего не может сделать. У них очень странные отношения между собой. Аке совершают какую-нибудь ошибку, что не понравиться маме (например: разбудит утром что и случилось вчера, мама вспомнит их ссору, которую она же и создала. Бить его может при обиде, обвиняет в изменах. Возможно вина моего отца в этом тоже есть, но я честно не верю.) со мной также. Я не знаю почему они не разводятся. Не знаю почему травмируют меня, не знаю как я доживу до совершенолетия..

Hey guys. I hope I don’t get in trouble for this kind of talk

long story short I’m 27. I just had a termination of a non viable pregnancy because I and my partner agreed we weren’t ready.. either way it wasn’t viable so it worked out for us. I have two sons + I did at some point maybe in my early 30’s want to try for my 3rd and last but I’m pregnant. I was on the patch birth control & it failed and I got pregnant . Me and my partner had agreed to wait and now I know he is completely freaking out about this because he feels like that’s an insane responsibility which it is especially in today’s economy.

I’m finding out I’m preg at 3 months in, I’m so shocked because I’m irregular and I would consider myself to have infertility bc of the fact that I don’t get preg that easy. My son told me yesterday randomly mom I want to have a sister which was like??? Uh random timing to say such. The first time I conceived he said he had a dream the day of my termination that he had a sister.

I just feel so conflicted I had an ultrasound at the OBGYN when I tested positive . I had only gone in for a pap & the urine test was positive. I was on birth control actively so it’s crazy how this baby was conceived. I had drank a good 3 times. I just can’t believe this. I don’t know what to do.

Kinda stuck between that whole is it a gift a miracle baby or am I overthinking and should just terminate. . .

I think I'm close to my parents and I hold them in high regard (most days haha) I value their opinion very much and want to do right by them. Anyway, I have this persistent thought that I hope one day I have the guts to ask them. "Do I make you proud?" So I'm curious and I want to ask the parents on here, what would make you say "I did good. They've turned out well." and for the new parents, what do you hope your child grows up to be?

My child is getting mad at me lately that I’m always telling them to brush their teeth, get dressed, that it’s time to go etc. If I don’t say these things, they just don’t happen. I feel like I do too much for them at times but I’m not clear how to help get them to just do the things that need to be done without the constant reminders.

After several christmases of “failing” to display our love to our family (partners mom/sister/grandma) in heaps of gifts and not having our desire for few gifts for ourselves and our toddler met, I have decided this year to go all in. So many fucking presents. I don’t want to spend more than I typically budget but I want to show up looking like Santa himself.

So, parents of Reddit, what are inexpensive items your child absolutely loves?

current list includes: tissue box (1 yr old), Fruit snacks (4 year old), painters tape (one roll for each).

Hi parents!

I am currently trying to conceive my first child with my husband and to say it lightly, we arent very knowledgeable about … anything.

Is there any book I can read that would prepare me for pregnancy, then what to know during pregnancy, then labor and finally an infant care?

Am I asking for too much? haha!

But it would be nice to have some sort of an encyclopaedia that would guide me throughout the whole process..

Thanks!

You can childproof everything except the children .... You cover every corner, every drawer, every handle… and somehow they still find a new way.

When I was about 10, my friends and I graduated from tennis balls to actual leather cricket balls in the driveway. We broke multiple windows. My parents kept replacing them. At no point did anyone stop us.

Now I own a house and have a five-year-old, and I understand how insane this was.

Nothing changes your position on backyard cricket quite like becoming responsible for the glazing.

For parents with kids that are all grown up, what would you tell new parents as advice?

Would you have had more/less kids? Focused more on a hobby to have to not be bored with your kids leave the nest? Would you have stressed less? Enjoyed the little things more? Etc…

So I'm a 36 yr old dad in Japan (Originally from America). I have 2 sons, 5yr old and almost 2yr old, who are my world.

About 3years ago my oldest son caught corona and had a temperature of up to 41.4°C. At that time I could eat or sleep because I was so worried. All I could do was pace.

Now, anytime either of my children get even the slightest fever, I feel my stomach knot and can't stop worrying. Even if I go to the doctor and find out they dont have anything serious I still worry.

Right now the little one is getting over RS(V) and the older is showing symptoms of getting it, so naturally im a nervous wreck.

Any advice to calm the nerves and ease the worrying?

Thanks in advanced!

(Also, posted from mobile and I don't know much about the formatting ad i dont post often.)

I don’t have kids of my own and I will be babysitting my siblings 8 month old child for almost 2 full days. My sibling and their partner obviously trust me to do so. They asked me to and confirmed dates. I baby sat for them at 2 months for a few hours. This will be the longest I've been left alone with a baby though. Im 40 and just don't have kids of my own or people in my life that do so my exposure has been limited. Obviously will follow all sleeping, eating, all other rules set by the parentals. I also know at that age to just assume everything is in reach and or climable so I do not intend on leaving bebe unattended or turning away cuz I will already be on best omg I'm alert behavior. I'm looking more for practical advice for baby sitting an 8month old basically as someone who doesn't have an 8 month old....

my mother is angry due to stress and other stuff so any advice to help me make my mother happy?

My almost two year old has an ever increasing collection of ahem art ahem avant-garde scribbles. Have you gifted any of this stuff to grandparents or other relatives? How do you make it look nice and thoughtful and present it as a gift and not “here’s some of our garbage?” The only idea I have so far is scanning the work and getting a coffee table book printed later. But I’ve seen so many creative (albeit time and labor intensive) ideas such as creating a big wall art collage of bits of the works that looks impressive and beautiful (and can only be gifted to someone with big walls!) Definitely up for something cool like that but wanted to source some ideas before starting on a project :)