Happy birthday Bernito!
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Anyone have favorite toddler-age parenting books? I read a lot about infants but now we have a toddler and I’m like… What happens now? Is this a tantrum or is she not old enough for tantrums? Should we be like, doing specific enrichment things?
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Whole brain child
How to talk so little kids will listen
Dr Becky good inside
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And then ones I liked “lifestyle” wise,
Last child in the woods
Grow wild
How to raise a wild child
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OH and “how to raise a reader”
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The “when he was 2 years old page in Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
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“How to talk so little kids will listen” I bought early on—18 months? Before two for sure. Some of it won’t be applicable right away (like make a collaborative list of ideas), so it’s kind of an annual read for new strategies. I read one that was really good a few months back, very just lots of different strategies and why, without much fluff or philosophy. I need to find it again.
ETA: found it! https://www.amazon.com/What-Great-Parents-Do-Strategies/dp/0399176691
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I am now getting Yoto player Instagram ads, but the family in the ads has Nugget pieces lying around their house 
I can’t decide what else they need to make a trifecta - a Nugget chunk? A Tripp Trapp high chair?
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I’m both insulted and seen 
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100% a Tripp trapp
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Not a book but I’ve found the podcast “Unruffled” by Janet Lansbury really helpful. She specializes in the toddler years I think.
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What have people’s experience been with accessing the Covid vaccine for young children (under 3)? Our pediatrician’s office doesn’t have it and advised us to ask a pharmacy. But the pharmacy says they don’t give shots to kids under 3. I know that the CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get the vaccine, so it seems weird to me that it’s relatively hard to get.
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It’s a fucking shit show 
exactly your experience. It’s gotten even worse after the first dose, because then you have to match brand each time you get it for kids. Basically, you have to call around and find a pharmacy that will do little kids, or a pediatrics clinic or similar that will do nonpatient nurse visit appointments to give shots. Or look for a Covid shot clinic specifically, there are pop-ups like that seasonally here, and see if they give to little kids.
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Thank you–this is helpful (and unfortunate!!).
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Same - basically pediatrician (need to make appt with nurse clinic) is the only option. We’re with a big system (Kaiser) so they’re fairly well stocked.
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In Australia we can’t get it for kids under 5 and kids over 5 are super hard to get hold of. So. My kids continue, unvaccinated.
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I’m sorry about that! I’m also fielding a lot of attitudes from others about how it’s “not really necessary”… which is new for me. Ugh.
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I will say, if I had to fight for a vaccine for a baby, I’d fight for RSV over Covid. RSV → flu → Covid for sub 1 year is the hospitalization risk level there. RSV then being less risky as soon as you’re past 1 or 2. Then until older adulthood flu is riskier than Covid. This assumes no relevant underlying conditions that could shift that picture.
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My kid is almost 2 and a flu shot is on the books. Ashamed to say I didn’t know that RSV vaccine was an option for the young; I thought it was just for 65+. She did have RSV last winter. 
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Rsv vax for littles was super hard to find last fall, at least in my area.
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