<p>BOTW - outside of safety-related issues (e.g., no Legos for your infant!), please also don’t be one of those parents who gets all worked up over a toy that is plastic versus wooden. I know people like that, and they are just insufferable. They really place adherence to their “rule” that their kids’ toys be all-natural / wooden over adherence to the principle that if grandma meant well by buying a plastic toy, that’s what’s most important.</p>
<p>Is the wooden toy thing new?</p>
<p>Remember when ours were little and nobody could figure out if it was more responsible to use disposable or cloth diapers. On the one hand, there were the landfills. On the other hand, there was the harm to the environment because of the detergent.</p>
<p>On the other other hand, there was the diaper pail. :eek: I lasted a month with the cloth. :p</p>
<p>I used a diaper service with my first. It was a long time until she was big enough to use them, until then I had to use premie pampers that we got from the hospital and even then we had to fold them down. I was not about to wash diapers, but the diaper service was great. It was also nice to have plenty of diapers on hand & have extras for wiping runny noses.
With youngest, her tactile sensitivity made cloth diapers impossible. She couldn’t even stand to wear clothes and the heavy bulkiness of cloth diapers was torture. I kept cutting my order of cloth until we were hardly getting the minimum.</p>
<p>So we used paper- it helped that the tapes took just a second or two
( although biobottoms & cloth was also fast) and even then she was running through the house yelling " Don’t change my diapers! Change your mind!"
;)</p>
<p>*Smoking no. Helmets always. ALWAYS eat at the table…ever hear of a picnic or a tea party outside or in the den…or in the child’s room? Crumbs happen…cleaning ensues…fun in the meantime. *</p>
<p>This reminds me of when I ran into a woman who had been D’s 1st & 2nd gd teacher. On field trips, the kids were not allowed to touch anything unless directed to do so, even outdoors. Which included sticks or loose twigs on the ground because they “might” be used to hurt someone.
Anyway years later, I saw her at the grocery with her son who was probably 4 & who had a * nerf sword*, that he hit me with repeatedly while I was talking to her.
pretty funny.;)</p>
<p>^^^
Parenting is the great equalizer, isn’t it?!!! Haha. I love it.</p>
<p>Makes me wonder how it is coaching lacrosse…</p>