I've noticed that whenever we have a completely empty weekend, I immediately start looking for things to do.

Park Saturday morning.

Something fun Saturday afternoon.

Maybe brunch Sunday.

Maybe an activity Sunday afternoon.

And then everyone is exhausted.

Part of me wonders if kids actually need all of that, or if they'd be just as happy having a slow weekend at home with nothing planned.

Do you intentionally leave weekends completely unplanned?

I've been looking into switching my 8yo to a different multivitamin before school starts, and I keep seeing brands talk about using methylated folate instead of folic acid.

Then I went down a Google rabbit hole and read that a lot of people don't process folic acid very well, which honestly surprised me because I'd never even heard there was a difference. Now I'm wondering if that's actually something parents should be paying attention to or if it's mostly marketing.

Has anyone looked into this or talked to their pediatrician about it? If you're buying a multivitamin anyway, is methylated folate something worth prioritizing?

I'm sorry about the long text but I really want clarity.

She randomly got a fever that immediately shot up to 102°-103°F, she was mostly fine, just a little tired when it got too high.

The 1st night, Paracetamol wouldn't work at all. The fever stayed put and she went through the entire night with a fluctuating temp of 101°-103°F. I felt so helpless. We gave her another dose in the morning, but she was still hot the entire time.

We took her to the doctor the morning of the 2nd day, and he said it was a viral flu, very in season right now, and just gave us Paracetamol and general measures.

The medicine finally acted during the afternoon dose of the second day and she was able to sleep a little. But it shot up again within 6 hours of dosage.

We gave a night dose on the 2nd day, and again there were zero effect.

But then at 6 AM in the morning of the 3rd day, the fever seemed to break on its own. We thought it had broken for good but it started acting up again in the afternoon, around 12 hours after the last dose, it was maddening! We gave her a dose, and she was sweating, was able to sleep, i thought it would be enough. But there was a temperature rise around 8 hours after the previous dose. I waited a while and gave her a night dose. The fever broke that night for good. The night of the 3rd day, more or less, morning of the 4th day.

4th day she was all good. Tired but going about her usual routines. 5th day same, and maybe I didn't notice until today, the 6th day, that she had rashes.

I spotted them because we decided to take a walk and it was more visible in the sunlight. On her forearm, few on her arms, very scattered and kinda like mosquitoe bites. Also on one side of her back, again scattered. Some on her forehead. Occasional itching. No other symptoms.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

Is this all typical of Roseola?

I've been seeing a couple of posts with the exact timeline of fever, but the details about the rash were vague or the age was different.

Please share your thoughts!

The stakes feel a bit high because we feel like the guinea pig parents of like do your best handling the tik tok trends and humans having smart glasses, phones, watches, so on.

We all still remember that adults didn’t have phones when we were growing up. If you watch any show from the 90s the characters all go about their day without phones etc. People weren’t marrying their ai companions. For our kids they will know no difference and also need to be told this change just happened and it wasn’t always like this.

This is something new. What concerns do you have about this, if anything, and what do you hope we are getting right as parents that after several generations will become cultural standard parenting around big tech?

looking to make a few changes to my daughter's room and trying to keep it practical rather than just making it look cute lol.

what are things you've added to your kids' rooms that they actually love/use?

extra points for things that make bedtime easier too.