I am struggling with the idea of telling my 5 year old about her 9 year old cousin dying in an accident. She loved him and was pretty close to him. We have had the death discussion before when her great great grandfather died, and she has asked questions here and there about it ever since.

My main worry is that I don’t want her thinking that it can or will happen to her right now. She understands that with her grandfather, he died because he was old and it’s a natural part of life. But the circumstances are different and this was not natural.

Lying to her doesn’t feel like the right move either. What do I do?

I'm sorry if I used the wrong flair, but I need to know how to get my son to stop breaking my eggs!!! As the title says, he's 4 and has a learning disability. He struggles with communication both ways, he has trouble understanding what people say and he has trouble talking. Anyway, he really likes eggs. He thinks all eggs are easter eggs and will have a treat inside, and no matter how many eggs he breaks he will check every single one. I have tried sitting him down and explaining that's the eggs in the fridge aren't for him to break, Ive tried time outs for breaking them, I even put child locks on my fridge and he figured those out in 3 days, We had a metal baby gate blocking off our kitchen and he broke the gate after a month of us having it, and I am not able to keep eggs in the house.

Also want to note we do watch him, but he wakes up at 4AM almost every day (still trying to get him to stay in his room if he wakes up before us and no matter what we try he's always up at 4) and sneaks into the fridge while were asleep and breaks them. I just want to have eggs and not have to clean yolk off my floor all the time. Any tips are appreciated!!

ETA: Thank you guys for all the suggestions! I'm going to contact my landlord and let her know I'm installing alarms and locks on my front door, and I'm looking at the egg that's already beat up to start using those instead. I'm also working on a visual aid for the fridge today and see how he responds to that. I'm grateful for all the tips and constructive criticism, I don't have mom friends to ask for advice and have no family so me and my bf have been sort of winging it tbh

My daughter, 5, is non-stop. It is exhausting. She constantly makes a noise whether it is talking, singing, shouting, whistling, screeching.

She does not sit still and it’s not an exaggeration. She cannot eat without moving about, watching TV she is upside down. Bedtime, she is flipping herself on the bed, climbing where she shouldn’t be. We have her out of the house A LOT for this reason as she obviously needs to move her body constantly.

I am so overstimulated by it all. I have a 7mo baby (I know that some of this is to do with attention seeking due to new baby) and she decides to shout or sing top of her lungs when he is crying. If I am feeding him or changing him, she is climbing on top of me. If he is in his highchair eating, she is in his face, when he wakes up she is in his face (she is always kind to him, never shown any nastiness)

She repeats herself constantly, more so if she is told no. I.e ‘no you can’t have another story’. She will ask and ask and ask and sometimes can go on for over an hour. I have tried ignoring it, I have tried being stern and saying ‘I will not change my mind, please don’t ask me again’. She just replies with ‘but can I have a story?’. It makes me want to rip my hair out 😭

When she comes home from school we get meltdowns. She has occasionally lashed out at me when I’ve told her no (example, no you can’t have another snack your dinner is almost ready). Teachers have no concerns and they said her concentration is good and she isn’t fidgety!!! She listens and is a model pupil.

I snap far too much. I do not know what to do and I worry about how it is affecting her. Her behaviour has become difficult to be around because I am EXHAUSTED. She now refuses to sleep in her own bed (this is ever since baby was born) and she will cry & cry, could be hours. Once she made herself sick from crying and I felt so bad because I was trying so hard to hold the boundary. Again, this means the baby cannot get to sleep because she disrupts the whole house. And I feel myself bubbling inside. I do very well not to actually raise my voice (have a few times can’t lie), but I sometimes have to leave the house (their Dad is there obviously). She will not see her Dad for anything, she will not go to bed with him, she won’t ask him to do anything for her it is all on me. I dont know how much more I can take before I feel like I have a breakdown. I feel like I’ve failed at being her parent and I’ve ruined everything.

I love her so much she is my whole world, so why can I not cope?? Where am I going wrong???

Please allow me to preface this by saying that I am endlessly grateful to the mother of my daughters. She is their rock. She has done all of the hard work. I was her first husband but now that she’s on husband #4, I feel like we have a very good co-parenting relationship.

We all get along. He’s a good dude and we can go golfing together, borrow tools from each other, host bbqs together, etc. I treat his kids like my own (but, side note, there’s no word for the step siblings of your own kids when you’re the divorced dad! I joke with my daughters’ step sister that she’s my “spider daughter” because I’m not a god father, less than a Thor father, but maybe a spider father.)

My daughters are now 19 and 21 - the only thing I’ve wanted to do was help them make the move to adulthood and feel independent. They are both humble, grateful, and always willing to work!

However, I recently got chewed out by my ex wife because I’ve given them “too much money.”

I decided to check the account of my older daughter to see how much I’ve given her and between transfers, her insurance, and her car payments, it added up to around $55k during the last 3 years.

My younger daughter is ready to move into a new apartment and I paid for her car in cash, paid for her hair school, and helped her with $5k when she moved out to get her business started.

For context, I’m not an extremely wealthy man by any means. I don’t buy new clothes for myself. I got most of my appliances from the landfill and then fixed them up. I drive an old truck and I eat a lot of ramen.

But, helping my daughters is the thing that brings me joy and makes me feel like I’m still a valid part of their lives.

I realize now that perhaps that is a co-dependency of my own to validate myself as a divorced dad, but I’ve kept most of that money to myself and never tried to use it as a reason to become a “favorite” or anything like that.

It stings a bit when my girls refer to their mom and stepdad as their “parents” but I know that they have a half brother and multiple step siblings. They always treat me with respect and gratitude.

I’ve gradually lowered the amount of money I give them every month when they hit certain milestones. My goal has always been to give them enough to support their dreams but never enough to become entitled, spoiled, or lazy.

At this point, I’m just surprised to find myself getting yelled at. My ex tells me it is because the step kids don’t get the same advantages as my biological daughters, but I also let the step kids work at my house for money when they need it.

What am I doing wrong??

**Edit** - thanks for everyone’s inputs on best practices when one parent is away and the other is solo parenting. What makes me sad is the number of downvotes and accusations I received for “spying” “not trusting my husband”. I still stand by me looking at my kid on the camera (and not my husband. I literally wanted to see my child!!!) . My husband knows I do this. We both do it! It’s easier to check in than text each other “hey is he asleep”. We have nothing to hide and I don’t doubt my husband for a second. We’re both obsessed with our kid and when we are away we have major FOMO so we like to watch him get ready for sleep since it’s such a special time! I just wanted the group’s opinion on if I should suggest a different approach to my husband but I totally get how he’d be annoyed by it. I’m upset that so many people make me seem like a villain in this story.

My husband is a very present father and we both love spending time with our kid. He does work longer hours so I try to give him a rest from night time duties most nights.

Well last night was my first night away from both my 3 year old and husband. They video chat me me to say goodnight and I can see my son is already upset and asking for me as soon as he sees me.

Fast forward 15 minutes where I get a notification from my Nanit that there is motion so I connect to see my kid getting ready for bedtime. Instead I hear loud crying “I went mommy I want mommy” and he’s facedown on his room floor. My husband is saying “look at me. Look at me let’s go take a shower and get ready”.

My son’s screaming escalates so then my husband screams back at him “LOOK AT ME!” then walks away. My heart breaks watching my son cry on the floor. But I’ve also been in those high stress tantrum situations where he’s just inconsolable. But somehow my husband screaming didn’t sit well with me. I just wished he had held our son and comforted him because he was clearly having a hard time with me not being there.

Should I say something to my husband? I don’t want to micromanage his parenting but I also don’t want him to yell at our kid if he’s (frankly both of them) are deregulated. I’m not perfect and get irritated in such situations but I always try to comfort and save the loud voice for when I need to enforce discipline. Thoughts?

Since becoming a mom I stay up as late as humanly possible even though I’m exhausted. Night time is the only time that I am completely alone and can watch my shows, scroll on my phone etc. I wish I could be one of those people who values sleep more than that time.

Don't get me wrong, I love my kids more than life itself and I have a great relationship with them. We do hobbies together, we talk about anything and everything, we share interests, we spend so much time together, and I love it.

HOWEVER. I find that the most energy draining thing about being a parent is forcing kids to do stuff they don't want to do. It can be small or big things, but they happen every day and it's one of the biggest energy drains for me personally. Of course, it's worse with young kids, but even older ones (tweens or slightly younger) can be very stubborn sometimes.

Endless debates! They just won't stop talking. They know they're wrong, but of course, it's about emotions, and those can't be debated away. And often, not doing the thing isn't really an option. Repetition works in some cases (chores), but of course that means reminding them every time, because even if they're willing to do the thing, they will forget unless reminded.

Do you agree that this is draining, how do you handle it, and do you wish you handled some of these situations differently than you do?

Examples of things kids might not want to do:

- Go outside

- Brush their teeth

- Move slightly to the left so they don't start a fight with their sibling because they're in each others' space

- Wear shoes outside

- Clean up after they made a mess

- Eat food they usually love but absolutely NOT today

- Lower their voice

and so on

So right now we have the whole row except one seat, so I’m trying to figure out how to configure it so that it makes the most sense (and not end up with a random person in the middle of our family where we will be passing toddlers around).

We have 3 kids, one of them will be in a car seat. The other 2 will both want to look out the window for takeoff and landing because this is only their second flight ever and they will be very excited. It’s only a 3 hour flight so it really isn’t the end of the world either way, but I figured others have done this before and might have good ideas.

I have an 18 month old daughter, she has super fine silky hair that’s wavy in the back.

It’s gotten so long and she’s started to actually look like a girl which elated me after everyone always thinking she was a boy.
It had grown so long that it kept getting in her eyes and she didn’t really like wearing clips or having her hair up. I figured I’d cut some bangs only up to her eyebrows.

FML.

I cut it but she was looking down when I did it, so it ended up being WAY too short. Like mini bangs.
She looks like she has a mullet now.

I genuinely felt so sick to my stomach and was fighting back tears when I saw the hack job I did. That was the first time her hair has ever been cut at all, so I felt a million times worse because that was the hair that has been there since she was in my belly.

Obviously I’m just going to have to wait until it grows out again, and accept the situation, but I seriously am kicking myself for this.

Praying that her hair grows quickly, but not so sure about that lol

I’m afraid we are about to shoot ourselves in the foot. My son is 4.5 yrs, will start kindergarten in fall 2027. He has been in a very nice, educational (pricey) daycare for the past two years. But now my husband is losing his job, and it will take a while to find a new one due to his field of work. So we are going to cancel daycare next month and my husband will watch him most days of the week while he works on getting situated with his next form of income.

Our current daycare doesn’t offer part time, so that’s not an option to cut cost. I’m hoping in a few months we’ll be back in our feet and can start looking for a part time daycare/preschool, but seems like everywhere near us has already closed applications for 2026-2027 year.

So there’s a good chance my son will end up going from no daycare/preK directly into starting kindergarten.

We’re going to utilize all the learning opportunities we can like library story time, weekly play dates with friends, workbooks and educational time at home.

But I’m worried my son will be really behind come next fall. Are we totally screwed?

I have a 15mo daughter and she is the love of my life.
But every night I just cry bc I feel like I’m doing such a shit job at being a mom. I’m a SAHM mom so she is quite literally my only priority but I still catch myself prioritizing chores and myself over her. I get so over stimulated so quickly and I don’t know why. My husband works a lot (50-60 hour weeks) but when he’s home he’s so patient and loving towards her and seems to truly enjoy playing with her. Why do I get so frustrated after a few min? Why is every spill a big deal for me. Why am I not letting her be a kid and scream and explore and make a mess. I was raised in a way where I would be getting yelled at for everything and my emotions were suppressed so why am I doing the same to my own baby.
she throws tantrums now and I find myself yelling at her a few times a day and I hate it so bad.

Why can’t I dive into this role of a mother why do I still feel like I’m losing myself and need to find myself when I have a little girl looking up to me all day long. Why can’t I be happy and cheerful and fall in love with motherhood. I feel like I’m always looking for a life savor or helping hand to come and save me from dealing with the hard parts of motherhood when it’s been over a year and I should know by know that this is my life. She is my baby no one will come and do my job for me.

So my partner and I work full time in an onsite very demanding jobs (on call, emergency type, rotating schedules, 24 hour operation, 16 hour shifts common). Usually we have 40 hour weeks but It’s not uncommon to have an 80 plus hour week and 16 hour shifts back to back happen if we have to cover, which about once maybe twice a week sounds right. Our schedules always rotate so we never have days off together and often times I will be working different schedules as I am relief for other shifts. (Example: Half the week on afternoons, half midnights, some day shifts or a full week of day shifts or two months of nights shifts depending on conditions). We have a 7 month old baby boy who has been in and out of the hospital due to severe colic, sandifer syndrome (reflux from hell), bottle aversion, and refusal to feed….we have doctors appointment atleast twice a week, aside from a hospital stay here and there. Plus I exclusively pump (every 3 hours even at work) as he refuses to eat anything but breast milk since he was born we tried multiple times and failed due to sensitivities and CMPA (diary, soy, corn, gluten, eggs, nuts, shellfish) Goodluck trying to eat anything but chicken and rice. Life’s been brutal.

He has never ever stopped crying since his first day on earth. Day and night. For 6 months I worked and pumped with only 1 hour of sleep every 24 hours 2 if I was lucky. Now luckily I get about 4 or 5 hours a night on a good day. Preeclampsia and gestational diabetes with emergency c section and a ton of bleeding during my the procedure, had another major surgery a month after giving birth. I became anemic and very ill, very sleep deprived and nutrient depleted. Aside from this somehow we hung on. My relationship is on the verge of collapse due to not spending any time with the baby. Worst of all is if the baby eats, he only does so for the nanny. It’s been constant stress and fights over dehydration the minute the nanny leaves. Constant crying as he’s attached to her and not us (we are never home so it’s understandable). I’ve considered being a stay at home mom, but seeing as I may be a single mom in the near future I keep holding onto my career (which pays well). This is only one VERY VERY difficult child. Mothers! Help! What do you do or would do in my shoes?

I want to have a beautiful and enjoyable family but it’s been feeling so out of reach and impossible.

I have a babygirl who just turned 4, and a newborn who is 5 months. Both girls, both the light of my life and the joy of my days. 

My 4 year old is my firstborn, we love her to pieces, sometimes so much I can’t fathom how a heart can hold in so much emotion and love. She is very close to me and for almost all of our relationship, that love and trust has felt so rewarding, and validating and ego-boosting if I’m being honest. I’m an only child and grew up quite alone, so having a mini bestie has been the most incredible, joyful and healing experience for me.

But I guess like the saying goes, too much of a good thing is a bad thing - her need to be so close to me and my husband has metamorphasized from cute and loving —> a little annoying but still quirky —> overbearing and becoming stressful, and to where we are now —> suffocation. She will.not.leave.me.alone. Not to pee, not to poo, not to shower, not to step away and make food, not to change clothes, not to walk over to the laundry and throw clothes in the wash. It’s happened over the last 6-8 months and now causes so much anxiety and stress. I am at my wit’s end, overwhelmed and touched out, and her constant shadowing me has resulted in screaming matches and worst of all, resentment and irritation on my part at her. 

I have no idea where this crippling tension has come from. She is beloved, she is given so much attention but is/was well adjusted and socialized. She has been in a daycare since age 1, a full-time schedule so it’s not like she isn’t socialized or used to being away from us.

Also, it’s not necessarily only me - she just needs to be close to someone. If she’s with my parents, it’s one of them. She is constantly freaking out needing multiple reassurances that she won’t be left alone, someone will take her out of the carseat.

She has never been left alone, so I don’t know where this fear is coming from. It’s stressing me and also frightening me, making me wonder if something harmful has happened to her that I don’t know of - or if I’ve done something to her to stoke this irrational fear. 

I know the obvious answer feels like it’s her newborn sister and feeling left behind or passed over, but she doesn’t have any animosity or negative feelings/behavior toward her sister— and this started before she was even born, so I don’t think it’s quite that. I’ve just restarted at my job after my maternity leave and so I really don’t have the physical time to devote every second to her. 

I’m at my wit’s end and unfortunately we don’t have the financial means to get a professional for her at this time, so I’m hoping I may get some constructive advice from parents here. Willing to try anything, my priority is her happiness, safety and sense of security but also our own. 

Parenting is staying absolutely still in a contorted position for 9 hours while thinking “I want to sleep but not as badly as I want YOU to sleep.”

That’s all.

Not sure on the flair. But, my girl is 18mo and we are at our neighborhood playground basically every day. And she hasn’t had a ton of social interaction with children yet, but that is going to change very soon and she’ll be in a 2 day a week program.

Anywho, it’s like I’m sitting on my hands watching her learn to interact with other kids and just people in general. She watches and observes a lot and other kids find it off putting which, valid. But, I just want my girl to make friends and not even that it’s just hard to see other kids not be like super welcoming to her.

She is all personality at home and then totally clams up when we’re around other people and it’s just hard for me to like watch other kids not give her a chance if that makes sense. And I’ve sat on my hands and let her learn and just include herself how she sees fit, but dang it’s still just hard to watch.

Does it get easier?

Edit: Ok yall are saying exactly what I needed to hear! She’s our first and it’s hard to know what’s normal and what is unique to your kid I guess. Thank you for talking some sense into me!

I have an upcoming LONG journey to take alone with my kids. I will be traveling from Singapore to New York with my 2 year old and 5 year old sons. The 5 year old is pretty chill and easily contained with TV and snacks. The 2 year old on the other hand....he's a friendly menace. He's cute and happy but he's got boundless energy. "chill" is not a word one would use. He's also been screen free so TV doesn't really get him occupied for long.

My options are:
1) Fly direct (Singapore Airlines): Strap in for a non-stop 19 hour flight and pray for the best.
2) Fly with a layover (Emirates): Flight broken up with 7 hours on first leg, layover, and 14 hours after that. The layover would be in Dubai which is an amazing airport. I imagine the break could potentially help both kids not go stir crazy in the airplane.

Thankfully I expect to be able to fly business. So I'll have some comfort on the flight.

If you were me - which option would you choose and why?

Please help, I'm losing my mind.

My three year old is in the why phase. Why are you doing that? If its a science or education related question like "Why is it raining outside?" that doesn't bother me because I see it as an opportunity to learn about weather patterns (as an example).

The thing thats driving me nuts is: Why are you doing that?

Why are you cleaning? Why are you brushing your teeth? Why are you eating? Why are you driving the car? I tried flipping it around and saying Why do you think i would need to do that? It kind of helps but not a lot.

I don't love doing this but I've been telling her that "I don't need to explain or justify anything to you" and that adults dont need to explain things to kids. Again, I'm not proud of it but it is getting to a point where its overstimulating and I'm going to cry if it doesn't stop.

I have an eight (almost nine) month old. He been on purées for quite a while and we’ve been trying to get him started on some solids in the last month or two and he’s just not showing much interest. He likes plain pasta, he likes rice, he likes fruits and veggies but won’t really eat them if they’re not pureed. I don’t know what else to give him. Everything I try to think of just has way too much salt or sugar. Any help or suggestions would be so awesome

We've been thinking about checking out one of the local World Cup fan zones this weekend because it honestly looks like a fun atmosphere.The only thing I'm kind of on the fence about is how loud it's going to be. Between the giant screens, music, commentators, and a crowd of people all cheering at once, I imagine it could get pretty overwhelming for a little kid.Our 2 yr old usually does fine in busy places,I don't want to skip it if I'm just overthinking things, but I also don't want to get there and realize it's way too much for him. Has anyone taken a toddler to a fan zone before?

My baby is 9 months old! My husband and I said we thought we’d like 2 kids when we first started dating. Once we were married and talking about starting a family, we decided to be open to being “one and done” and talk about our family without the pressure of multiple children. We have now said that we think by the time our son is 3 we will know if we want another kid or not. People talk about “feeling complete.” What age was your (youngest?) kid when you felt this? I do not have the urge for another kid right now, I have worked hard to be present in my baby’s early life and not wish for more already. I feel like our income will provide the best life for us and him if he’s our only, I don’t miss post partum, I won’t miss daycare sick season again, or sleeplessness.
I love my son and our little life! I struggle because as adults we love our relationship with our siblings and I worry about not providing that, even tho it’s not a guarantee. Are other people wanting and imagining their other children? I am not sure what it feels like to feel complete. I don’t feel a rush to have it figured out, but I’m just curious to hear other parents line of thinking.

My 6m baby just started daycare this week and I’m not sure if I’m being too much of a helicopter parent. He is struggling quite a bit which is to be expected, it’s a new much louder/busier environment for him. But he is coming home so exhausted that it’s really concerning to me. He normally does 2 naps that result in 3-4 hours of sleep between the two. He wakes up at 7 and is usually ready for his first nap around 9:30. He usually sleeps an hour then is ready for his next nap around 1:30 and this is usually his longer nap that gets him through to bedtime at 7.

The daycare however has a scheduled nap at noon that they are sticking to for even my 6 month old. They are only getting him 20 minutes of sleep at 10 then putting him down again at 12 where he usually gets another 1.5 hours of sleep. When I expressed that maybe he would need a 3rd if they were going to go with this schedule they sort of just said this is the schedule and we let them nap when they need to nap.

Am I expecting too much? I feel like 6 months is too young to be held to a rigid schedule but maybe I’m wrong. It’s also compounded by the fact that he has come home really hungry so I asked them to let me know how many oz he is drinking, but they only let me know for 1 of the 4 days he’s gone. Now today he came home in a poopy diaper, this is on me I didn’t check before leaving the daycare so he could’ve pooped during the car ride.

I just don’t know if this is just the nature of daycare or if I really need to find another option. It just feels as though I have no power, if I leave they have a million other infants waiting to take his place, it doesn’t feel like they need to earn my business. I pay them the same price as my mortgage every month and I feel like I have to be grateful for what I get.

I have a 15 yo boy who I coparent with his dad who lives about an hour away. My kid’s school, friends and activities are close to our home so he is mostly here during school but mostly with his dad during summer. He got into a summer leadership program recently and was very excited, but he hasn’t been going while he’s at his dad’s. He has been with his dad for three weeks now. He had summer activities and stuff, but my kid didn’t even attempt to organize going to any leadership group events. We’ve had a trip planned for months that is coming up and now he’s saying how is he going to go to the leadership event when we’re away? I said well you have known you wouldn’t be here during those dates, and you could’ve asked your dad to take you over the past three weeks but you didn’t, so I’m sorry but all I can do is take you if there is an event on while we are in town. He got pissed and snapped at me.

Edit: I do try to communicate stuff like this to his dad where possible, but I feel my kid should be taking at least some responsibility at this age for his own extracurriculars.

I know how this sounds but my kid really isn’t entitled. He is not materialistic or whiny. He is reasonable about going out with friends and doing chores, and does well in school and does what I ask of him. This is part of a pattern where when anything goes wrong, it is my responsibility, never dad’s. He never blames his dad for anything and has zero expectations of him. Whereas I’m the one who is expected to always be there, take him places, help him with you name it, etc. I get it that this is “safe parent” stuff. There has been past trauma between my kid and his dad. However in the past 3-4 years his dad has legitimately been listening to him better and is trying hard. While there was past shitty behaviour on his dad’s part, there has never been abuse.

Is it a realistic expectation that by 15 my teen should start to understand that it isn’t fair to hold me to these kids of standards while not doing so with his dad? I love my kid so much and love being his safe harbour. But it’s exhausting being blamed for things that aren’t my fault and aren’t entirely even my responsibility. How do I balance these things? I also want to be aware of the gender dynamic of my male child expecting more of me as a woman than his dad.

My sons(5) close neighborhood friend (7) recently started being a real AH towards him. He has a group of friends who he usually is close with, and more recently 2 out of 5 have been not so nice. Calling him names and purposely excluding him. Just today they did a lemonade stand without him and told him when we came to the park that he specifically wasnt invited. Im not sure where the animosity came from, but apparently he said a bunch more mean things my child told me after we left. Bordering on the line of bullying. How do I navigate this especially bc i am friends with the parents? Im thinking the age gap is separating them , i told my son to not play with him for a few days. Should i get invovled?

My 2 year old recently started spitting up his water and food whenever he feels like it. He’ll be enjoying his food and suddenly spit it all to the floor. Or end up soaked with water, since he just spits his water directly on himself. My dogs are living their best lives ATM.

I’m doing my best not to react too much to this behavior, because he’ll start laughing and do it more, at times it feels like he’s being defiant. I try explaining that we don’t do this, because it’s disrespectful and not OK. But this behavior REALLY triggers me, and when overstimulated I just end up with a flat tone and neutral face.

Do you guys have any recommendations to discourage this behavior? Any advice on how to react? It’s driving me nuts! He’s a very easygoing and obedient kid otherwise.

My 10.5 month old still needs us to bounce him on a yoga ball to sleep for every nap and every night. It’s usually 15-20 minutes each time. How do I get him to fall asleep on his own and stop doing this?? My back is breaking. If I put him down drowsy he just wakes up, stands up and will scream for 30+ minutes and I don’t feel comfortable letting him scream like that. Also he’s 25 pounds (a chungus I know) so it’s getting to the point where I physically am unable to do so. 😫new to this because my first baby was and still is an ANGEL sleeper. Send help!!