Jen Ish

queer mama to littles. coffee enthusiast. bourbon drinker. social psych PhD. public health nerd. vaxxed & boosted. she/her.

[Jen Ish @JenIsh512]

You know you’re in your 30s when nothing gets you out of bed faster than remembering you forgot to roll out your cart on recycling week

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@kristinnoeline This fucking movie 😭

[Inna Kanevsky @Dr_Inna]

When I start thinking, “I’ve seen all the fake psychology there is on TikTok,” something new always shows up.

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Whenever I restart my laptop, the Edge browser finds its way back to my taskbar. With each unpin I shake my head in pity. Oh honey, it’s never gonna happen.

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Toddler parent training is successful when you reach *for* the unknown item on the floor that might be poop. (It was not. This time.)

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My 3.5yo just told me our walk on an unusually balmy Feb day was “getting old.” 👀 ☠️Scuuuuse me?

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@kristinnoeline @avanthigovender Ahhhh congratulations!! You deserve all the happiness!! 🌈🌈

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Ahh Friday. Another weekend to think about posting my box of unwanted items on the local Buy-Sell-Trade

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Did you know you could be bullied into riding a scooter by a 22mo?

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@CameronHopkin 😆🤘🏼🤘🏼

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Coparent (CP) playing store w/ 3yo:
3yo: i need these things for my children.
CP: that’s a lot of soups! how many children do you have?
3yo: a lot. and i also need some wipes.
CP: sure but there aren’t many left is that ok?
3yo: yeah. some of my children died.
💀💀

[Jen Ish @JenIsh512]

🙋🏼‍♀️. Yes! Always on a healing journey from this

[Cara Lisette @CaraLisette]

Lots of people have ‘disordered eating’, who don’t meet the threshold or criteria for a diagnosable eating disorder, but those people deserve freedom and space to heal too. Disordered eating might look like: 🧵

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Me, shamelessly bribing* my children to cooperate more smoothly: hey, I thought after we [insert undesired errand], we could maybe get a donut?
3yo: yeah. Im always up for donuts.

*the key here is to appear incredibly nonchalant and uninvested

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My 3yo, 1yo, & I are equally mesmerized by Blippi & Meekah. Has anyone else had this experience? Should I be concerned?

[Jen Ish @JenIsh512]

Did you know? After food, the next biggest waste in the under-5 crowd is bandaids.

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@CameronHopkin I think I’m there already - I don’t even bother closing the door when I use the bathroom 😂🙃

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You ever take a shower with your 1.5yo standing next to you, driving a car over your bare ass while you rinse the shampoo from your hair? Parenting is a trip.

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Tip #878: to get a toddler to eat a specific food, place it on his sibling’s plate.

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Will I ever remember how to make a line break in Excel without googling it? STAY TUNED.

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As I was saying…

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Watch your 3yo play with playdoh if you’d like a meditation on how your perfectionist recovery is going 🫠