My kids tell me everything in the car but nothing at home. I learned more about my son's day on the 15 minute drive to soccer practice than I have in the last 3 months. Apparently there's some girl who sits next to him in math. His face got all red when he told me. This is happening isn't it. They'r...
Been using it for 8 months now since things got rough with my ex's communication (she'd "forget" texts about pickup times). The app changed everything. It's all documented, she can't pretend she didn't agree to something, and I'm not spiraling anymore wondering if I missed a message. Yeah it costs ...
My 4yo has watched Bluey like 800 times. I can literally recite episodes. Is this normal? Should I be worried? He doesn't seem interested in anything else anymore but he's still learning stuff from it I guess?
Been using Calm for anxiety but some of the dad-specific breathing exercises feel kind of corny. Does Headspace have better stuff? Or should I just lean into the corniness? Looking for something I can do during nap time that's like 5-10 min max.
Currently in software engineering (good money, flexible employer, burnout is real). Been thinking about transitioning to something lower-stress like teaching or government work. Would be pay cut of like 40%, but would probably have actual boundaries. Kids are 6, 4, and 1. Wife works too but wants m...
Quick question - are the angled bottles actually better or is that marketing? We're combination feeding and I want to make sure we're not doing anything that could cause issues.
I live in Minnesota and my mood/anxiety gets noticeably worse November through February. It's March now and I'm already dreading next winter. Have folks dealt with seasonal stuff and found anything helpful?
Got two kids, ages 7 and 11. Wife wants to limit it to 1 hour per day total but ngl that seems insane on weekends when we're trying to get stuff done around the house. What's actually reasonable here? And how do you guys enforce it without constant battles? I'm not trying to raise them glued to a ta...
Idk why but I'm counting. Every pickup and dropoff smooth, no arguments, scheduling is easy, exes in civil mode. My therapist says this is what "healthy co-parenting" actually looks like and I should recognize the win instead of waiting for the other shoe to drop. So yeah. 47 times. That's pretty g...
Do your kids actually groan at your jokes or do they just not laugh? Mine don't even acknowledge them anymore. Like I'll say something objectively hilarious and my 8 year old just stares at me with zero emotion. Is this what my future holds? Total comedic irrelevance?
Quick tip for card days: four concrete lines beat a long generic poem. Name + one habit + one wish works well. Disclosure: we are the RhymeU team, independent developers. Free multilingual poem helper for family occasions: https://rhymeu.com If New Dad HQ is the wrong room for this, say the word a...
Looking for something where I can actually talk to other dads about the mental health side of parenting. Not really a "dad jokes and golf" group, more like actual conversations about depression, anxiety, loneliness, etc. Does anyone know if there's anything like that in Portland? Or is it all just o...
This is embarrassing but my 8yo spilled juice and I literally yelled at him like he'd done something terrible. It wasn't even that much juice. He looked terrified. I feel like garbage. This is the third time this month I've blown up over something small and I can't figure out why I'm like this now. ...
8yo starting 3rd grade and I'm weirdly stressed about it. Not about his adjustment—he's excited and outgoing. But I'm having these intrusive thoughts about something bad happening during the day and I won't be there. School shooter stuff, accidents, whatever. I KNOW the stats and I KNOW I'm being ir...
We live in Seattle and paying $2,100/month for my 2-year-old to go to daycare 3 days a week. THREE DAYS. My wife makes more so it made sense for me to cut back, but holy crap, at what point does it make more financial sense for one of us to just quit? We're not rich, we're normal middle-class people...