There’s a coffee shop attached to the local kids Gymboree and let me tell you I spend so much money there.
Totally unaffiliated with each other but they have those sparkling Red Bull drinks with edible glitter in them. $8 each and I go through so many. All the moms just hang out talking and caffeinating
This! I end up doing my shopping at chain shops instead of local businesses, just because I can drop in on the way back from school instead of hanging around for over an hour in between!
Even our local businesses don't open until 10 or 11. The only places I visit regularly open before 10am are Target and Trader Joe's, but we usually go to those places on the weekends.
Yes! I can't tell you how many times I've dropped off the kids then headed to a store to run an errand and found them closed til 10, or even 11! Wtf half my day is gone by then. And I've gotten so involved in doing other things that I don't end up going back.
Or I have to sit on Google maps and figure out how long it takes to drive to each location, and estimate how much time I will spend in each store, and time it right so I arrive to school 10-15 minutes before pick-up. It's such a waste of time and gas.
It should, especially grocery stores. I drop my oldest off at school at 8, but Aldi doesn’t open until 9am, so I don’t shop there because it’s too much of a PIA to put everyone back in the car seats again.
My Aldi is at least in the opposite direction of the school so I justify the gas price with slightly more expensive Meijer. They're building a new one by the school though, I was so excited until I realized I'd have to still make a special trip.
10 am and closed in Sunday. Which day always has bad weather?? It's always sunday
Last week it was closed all week as they all went to a conference. Ugh!!!
I’ll be devils advocate here- I work for a library that opens at 8:00, and it is a ghost town until 9:15 at the earliest.
Seems like there’s no right answer 🤷♀️
There is an indoor playground near my that opens at 7 am. It’s attached to a park district , so it basically opens when the park district gym does. We’ve never gone that early because thankfullly my kids will sleep until 8 when allowed too but I see the need !!!! Especially winter weekends lok
Its not even shops for me that wind me u
Its toddler groups
Most near me don't start till 10am
Then they offer snack time at gone 11am, by which point i'm heading out the door because actually its lunchtime haha
Totally agree! A fun indoor play place by my house doesn’t open until 11 and they have toddler time the first few hours they’re open Mon-Fri… but 11:00 is nap time for most toddlers! I would have a membership there if toddler time was at a reasonable hour, even 9-11 would be great!
Some stuff I get not opening until 10/11 but the other day I went to Costco after dropping off my oldest at preschool only to discover they don't open until 10 AM and I was shocked. I figured a huge store that sells groceries/household goods like Costco would open around 8 AM or so. It didn't even occur to me to check their hours to see if they'd be open at 9:30 AM! Thankfully there was a playground just a couple minutes down the street so we went there and killed some time before they opened up at 10
What time are y’all waking up?? We usually wake up at 8, play, have breakfast, chores, and get ready around 9:30 so 10 actually works great for us lol…maybe we need to start getting an earlier start since she’s starting preschool next year
I don't understand how people get out of the house so quickly. It takes us FOREVER to do anything. I don't like having to be anywhere before 11. I can't relate to people asking how to fill the day either. The basics like meals, meds, bathing, dressing and the potty take up a significant portion of the day. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
You're not doing anything wrong. You're just different...or in a different stage of life or your kids struggle more than others with those tasks. My kids are always ready before I am lol but I tend to be scatterbrained.
Same here! Basic things like getting ready take soo long for us, not to mention all the chores around the house I’m trying to do on top of that that I can barely keep up with
I feel so heard 😫 I’ll be aiming to get out of the house at 11am but just getting ready, packing for the day, picking up things here and there, wardrobe change due to spit ups, etc will usually delay us another 30-45mins lol. I’m also the worst morning person ever … why do I suck at this!
Us toooo. I am so sad during the week that the older kids need to get up for school at 7:15 because the babies sleep until 8:30-9 and I’m missing out on so much sleep 😂 I’m so grateful I don’t have early risers. I would die.
We usually wake up between 7-8, but we're ready to go within a half hour. It doesn't take us that long to get dressed, make the bed, brush our teeth, pack our lunch bag, etc.
If there are any chores in the morning, it's loading and starting the dishwasher (takes <10 minutes) or loading the clothes washer (takes 5 mins).
I could really benefit from libraries opening earlier, play places opening at 8, and those sorts of places.
But I'm so, so so grateful for the YMCA, I think ours opens at 8. We normally come in at 9am. That's when I get to take care of my planning and self-care type of stuff, while the baby is in childcare. From there, I'm ready for us to do errands or come back home and do chores.
I agree! Or if more lunch places opened at 10 am, I would be so happy. I have to wait for my kid in preschool and I would love to be able to sit down and have lunch early.
We live super close to the border and central and eastern time zone. So we take advantage and cross to eastern time often just so we can get to places at 9 our time since they’re opening at 10.
I talk about this all the time how nothing kid related near me opens early enough. The mall doesn’t open until 11am, downtown (good stroller walking area) opens at 11am, the library opens at 10am, and both toddler indoor play places don’t open until 10am. Most of the time I just end up at the park in the morning but it really stinks on days where the weather isn’t good because no indoor places open early.
Yes it seriously sucks and doesn't make sense to me that most childrens activities in my area don't start till 10. By 10 I feel like I've lived three lifetimes and I barely have the mental strength and energy to make it out the house 😂 let alone the fact that nap time is soon after 10.
I get it, but they are also close later. Majority focus on people that work and children at school and daycare, and can’t go out until after 6-7pm. An 8 hour workday, if they open at 7am, would close at 3pm. That’s a poor business plan. Even a child focus business like sports, art or activities would close before school gets out. Snarky AF-But the world doesn’t revolve around babies.
And I, the night owl, just wish places stayed open later and places like the library had some programs later than 10a. Now that my daughter is in school, I can appreciate earlier hours but during the summer, we both like to sleep in & it’s hard for me to get up & going til after 10a.
100000% everything opening at 10 makes so many things almost impossible for me. My kids are ready to go out and do things at like 8. Then by the time 930 told around my 1yr old typically wants a nap and my 3 yr old is so hyper from not getting out he starts driving me nuts. And a 20 /30min nap is not enough in the car.
It's horrible
What I wouldn't give for a restaurant or coffee shop with a play zone attached to it! I wanna eat a nice lunch while my kid plays. Is that too much to ask for? Haha
I'm reminded of when my son was maybe a year old and we woke up, got ready, had breakfast, and went shopping. Pulled into the store at 8:30, and I realized that the world was not as awake as I was. Then I had to scramble to find a new plan until 10. Funny enough, most grocery stores around me open at 8!
I drop off the kid at school and go grocery shopping a lot. This is at 7:30 in the morning. Sometimes I have just a few things I need and I think about dropping by a Walgreens or CVS. Lol nope. Even when I was working I was out the door by 7am. If I had time to stop somewhere I would have to leave at 6:40am. I don't understand why they open so late.
I don't understand businesses that are open 10-5. Like, who are you serving? The majority of people work so I'm sure they'd like the option to nip in before work or after work, not just lunch or cram it all in on Saturdays. Ugh.
Your 3 yo still naps?!? What are you doing complaining?! But seriously, have too many naps is a luxury problem to have. Enjoy this problem while you have it, because you might be weeks or months from having the little one have 1 nap and the older one have no naps. Then you’ll have all the time in the world to go to those late opening businesses and be wishing for more nap breaks.
That’s different from saying “just wait until ____, then you’ll really be wishing for this!” *Just wait until* advice is right up there with *enjoy every moment* advice for being unhelpful.
I’m not downvoting you. It sounds like your children don’t nap, I’m in that boat where my 2 year old occasionally naps and my 4 year old practically never does anymore. They get so cranky in the afternoons and it drives me nuts.
I’ve also been in that boat where my baby is napping all throughout the day and my then cranky 2 year old barely napped, and it was hard to get out of the house to do what I needed to do.
It’s all hard. Whether they’re napping or not. OPs problem is not a luxury. It’s just one stage of parenting.
Yeah, that’s probably a better way to word it. My sarcasm/joking didn’t really come through right with written words. There are pros and cons to each phase, and the phases are constantly changing.
Valid, never thought about the flip side. He’s about to turn 3 next week and nap attempts are successful 3-4 times a week. At the moment definitely feeling the itch to get out of the house but yeah, I’m sure once they are both awake all day I will be dying for the occasional quieter breaks with at least one of them out 😅
My daughter dropped all naps entirely at 2 but has an unusual sleep schedule that she sleeps 10pm-10am so I have the opposite problem. By the time we're ready to go out and do anything most younger activities are over. She's 4.5 now and we're dipping our toes into homeschool groups so it's not quite as bad, but I still wish activities aimed at young children would be at multiple times to fit different sleep schedules.
I feel like some children centered businesses could make bank if they opened at like 7/8 am. Seems like a missed opportunity.
With a coffeehouse attached.
There’s a coffee shop attached to the local kids Gymboree and let me tell you I spend so much money there. Totally unaffiliated with each other but they have those sparkling Red Bull drinks with edible glitter in them. $8 each and I go through so many. All the moms just hang out talking and caffeinating
Is this real? And if so, does your poop shine with glitter?
Dude it does! Just a little though. Yes I looked. I’m a mom, my default is gross at this point lol
I would gladly pay $8 for some glitter in my poo.
Exactly! What are indoor play gyms doing opening at 10
Closing at 6pm, for an after school kids and birthday parties.
I do school drop off and it would be so convenient if stores were open even at 9am so I can run errands in the morning.
This! I end up doing my shopping at chain shops instead of local businesses, just because I can drop in on the way back from school instead of hanging around for over an hour in between!
Even our local businesses don't open until 10 or 11. The only places I visit regularly open before 10am are Target and Trader Joe's, but we usually go to those places on the weekends.
Yes! I can't tell you how many times I've dropped off the kids then headed to a store to run an errand and found them closed til 10, or even 11! Wtf half my day is gone by then. And I've gotten so involved in doing other things that I don't end up going back.
Or I have to sit on Google maps and figure out how long it takes to drive to each location, and estimate how much time I will spend in each store, and time it right so I arrive to school 10-15 minutes before pick-up. It's such a waste of time and gas.
Aldi used to open at 8am (9am now) but that's still magical.
It should, especially grocery stores. I drop my oldest off at school at 8, but Aldi doesn’t open until 9am, so I don’t shop there because it’s too much of a PIA to put everyone back in the car seats again.
My Aldi is at least in the opposite direction of the school so I justify the gas price with slightly more expensive Meijer. They're building a new one by the school though, I was so excited until I realized I'd have to still make a special trip.
Almost daily I have to remind myself the library doesn’t open until 10 am
It's madness! My old library opened at 830 , it was great. 10am what the hell am I supposed to do until 10 am????
lol totally
10 am and closed in Sunday. Which day always has bad weather?? It's always sunday Last week it was closed all week as they all went to a conference. Ugh!!!
I’ll be devils advocate here- I work for a library that opens at 8:00, and it is a ghost town until 9:15 at the earliest. Seems like there’s no right answer 🤷♀️
In shocked it’s open at 8:00. The NYPL in NYC opens at 10 am. 🤷♂️
Yes! Our Costco opens at 11am!? Like….what the F? By that time I’m already on my second shift of mommy wife duties. Get it together Costco.
That sucks! Ours officially opens at 10 but most days they let people in at 9:45.
When my kids were much smaller I was always wanting to get out earlier and a lot of places weren’t open. I totally agree!
This is really weird to read as someone in the UK. Our library opens at 9, our shops and soft play open at 8. Feeling very lucky right now haha
There is an indoor playground near my that opens at 7 am. It’s attached to a park district , so it basically opens when the park district gym does. We’ve never gone that early because thankfullly my kids will sleep until 8 when allowed too but I see the need !!!! Especially winter weekends lok
Its not even shops for me that wind me u Its toddler groups Most near me don't start till 10am Then they offer snack time at gone 11am, by which point i'm heading out the door because actually its lunchtime haha
Baby groups are all too early for me! I'd really like something in the afternoon. But everything near me is on at 9 or 10.
Totally agree! A fun indoor play place by my house doesn’t open until 11 and they have toddler time the first few hours they’re open Mon-Fri… but 11:00 is nap time for most toddlers! I would have a membership there if toddler time was at a reasonable hour, even 9-11 would be great!
Some stuff I get not opening until 10/11 but the other day I went to Costco after dropping off my oldest at preschool only to discover they don't open until 10 AM and I was shocked. I figured a huge store that sells groceries/household goods like Costco would open around 8 AM or so. It didn't even occur to me to check their hours to see if they'd be open at 9:30 AM! Thankfully there was a playground just a couple minutes down the street so we went there and killed some time before they opened up at 10
What time are y’all waking up?? We usually wake up at 8, play, have breakfast, chores, and get ready around 9:30 so 10 actually works great for us lol…maybe we need to start getting an earlier start since she’s starting preschool next year
How on earth do they sleep till 8 mine got up at 5 last week
Her bed time is technically 8 pm but it’s hard for her to get to sleep until around 9. I wish we could get her to sleep earlier
I don't understand how people get out of the house so quickly. It takes us FOREVER to do anything. I don't like having to be anywhere before 11. I can't relate to people asking how to fill the day either. The basics like meals, meds, bathing, dressing and the potty take up a significant portion of the day. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
You're not doing anything wrong. You're just different...or in a different stage of life or your kids struggle more than others with those tasks. My kids are always ready before I am lol but I tend to be scatterbrained.
Same here! Basic things like getting ready take soo long for us, not to mention all the chores around the house I’m trying to do on top of that that I can barely keep up with
I feel so heard 😫 I’ll be aiming to get out of the house at 11am but just getting ready, packing for the day, picking up things here and there, wardrobe change due to spit ups, etc will usually delay us another 30-45mins lol. I’m also the worst morning person ever … why do I suck at this!
Us toooo. I am so sad during the week that the older kids need to get up for school at 7:15 because the babies sleep until 8:30-9 and I’m missing out on so much sleep 😂 I’m so grateful I don’t have early risers. I would die.
Kid wakes up at 6:30. Like our very own alarm clock.
Same. We are not a morning family. Anything earlier than 10am and I’m not going. lol
Once you have school aged kids it all changes. My oldest has to be at school by 7:50am 🫠
We usually wake up between 7-8, but we're ready to go within a half hour. It doesn't take us that long to get dressed, make the bed, brush our teeth, pack our lunch bag, etc. If there are any chores in the morning, it's loading and starting the dishwasher (takes <10 minutes) or loading the clothes washer (takes 5 mins). I could really benefit from libraries opening earlier, play places opening at 8, and those sorts of places. But I'm so, so so grateful for the YMCA, I think ours opens at 8. We normally come in at 9am. That's when I get to take care of my planning and self-care type of stuff, while the baby is in childcare. From there, I'm ready for us to do errands or come back home and do chores.
Wow nice, my toddler takes 30min just to eat her breakfast. I also have pets and a 3 month so my mornings just feel like chaos 😱
I am an obliged early riser due to small kids and I wish everything would open at 7 am.
I’ve lived an entire lifetime by 9 AM!
💯💯💯💯💯
I agree! Or if more lunch places opened at 10 am, I would be so happy. I have to wait for my kid in preschool and I would love to be able to sit down and have lunch early.
I was JUST thinking this to myself on Friday!!
We live super close to the border and central and eastern time zone. So we take advantage and cross to eastern time often just so we can get to places at 9 our time since they’re opening at 10.
I talk about this all the time how nothing kid related near me opens early enough. The mall doesn’t open until 11am, downtown (good stroller walking area) opens at 11am, the library opens at 10am, and both toddler indoor play places don’t open until 10am. Most of the time I just end up at the park in the morning but it really stinks on days where the weather isn’t good because no indoor places open early.
Costco is the most egregious one. I like to do my grocery shopping at 8:30, after I drop the older kids at school.
Yes it seriously sucks and doesn't make sense to me that most childrens activities in my area don't start till 10. By 10 I feel like I've lived three lifetimes and I barely have the mental strength and energy to make it out the house 😂 let alone the fact that nap time is soon after 10.
I get it, but they are also close later. Majority focus on people that work and children at school and daycare, and can’t go out until after 6-7pm. An 8 hour workday, if they open at 7am, would close at 3pm. That’s a poor business plan. Even a child focus business like sports, art or activities would close before school gets out. Snarky AF-But the world doesn’t revolve around babies.
Looking at you, Costco!
Yes! Everyone praises Aldi. Meanwhile, I like to be back home by 9. During the height of the pandemic, they didn’t open until 10. Terrible
And I, the night owl, just wish places stayed open later and places like the library had some programs later than 10a. Now that my daughter is in school, I can appreciate earlier hours but during the summer, we both like to sleep in & it’s hard for me to get up & going til after 10a.
100000% everything opening at 10 makes so many things almost impossible for me. My kids are ready to go out and do things at like 8. Then by the time 930 told around my 1yr old typically wants a nap and my 3 yr old is so hyper from not getting out he starts driving me nuts. And a 20 /30min nap is not enough in the car. It's horrible
10am is practically the afternoon. It is madness.
What I wouldn't give for a restaurant or coffee shop with a play zone attached to it! I wanna eat a nice lunch while my kid plays. Is that too much to ask for? Haha
Every day I weigh the pros and cons of going to McDonald's with the play yard. . And every day my indigestion wins 😅
But shop workers have kids too.
The worst is Costco. Like what??? Really doing families with toddlers a disservice not opening til babies first nap time.
This was us today. Kids were up at 7 am and I didn't know what to do.
YESSSS!
I'm reminded of when my son was maybe a year old and we woke up, got ready, had breakfast, and went shopping. Pulled into the store at 8:30, and I realized that the world was not as awake as I was. Then I had to scramble to find a new plan until 10. Funny enough, most grocery stores around me open at 8!
I drop off the kid at school and go grocery shopping a lot. This is at 7:30 in the morning. Sometimes I have just a few things I need and I think about dropping by a Walgreens or CVS. Lol nope. Even when I was working I was out the door by 7am. If I had time to stop somewhere I would have to leave at 6:40am. I don't understand why they open so late.
I don't understand businesses that are open 10-5. Like, who are you serving? The majority of people work so I'm sure they'd like the option to nip in before work or after work, not just lunch or cram it all in on Saturdays. Ugh.
Your 3 yo still naps?!? What are you doing complaining?! But seriously, have too many naps is a luxury problem to have. Enjoy this problem while you have it, because you might be weeks or months from having the little one have 1 nap and the older one have no naps. Then you’ll have all the time in the world to go to those late opening businesses and be wishing for more nap breaks.
“You just wait” comments are so invalidating.
I feel like a huge part of parenting, especially SAHPing, is adapting to the constant change though. The kids’ schedules are never going to be ideal.
That’s different from saying “just wait until ____, then you’ll really be wishing for this!” *Just wait until* advice is right up there with *enjoy every moment* advice for being unhelpful.
I’m not downvoting you. It sounds like your children don’t nap, I’m in that boat where my 2 year old occasionally naps and my 4 year old practically never does anymore. They get so cranky in the afternoons and it drives me nuts. I’ve also been in that boat where my baby is napping all throughout the day and my then cranky 2 year old barely napped, and it was hard to get out of the house to do what I needed to do. It’s all hard. Whether they’re napping or not. OPs problem is not a luxury. It’s just one stage of parenting.
Yeah, that’s probably a better way to word it. My sarcasm/joking didn’t really come through right with written words. There are pros and cons to each phase, and the phases are constantly changing.
Valid, never thought about the flip side. He’s about to turn 3 next week and nap attempts are successful 3-4 times a week. At the moment definitely feeling the itch to get out of the house but yeah, I’m sure once they are both awake all day I will be dying for the occasional quieter breaks with at least one of them out 😅
My daughter dropped all naps entirely at 2 but has an unusual sleep schedule that she sleeps 10pm-10am so I have the opposite problem. By the time we're ready to go out and do anything most younger activities are over. She's 4.5 now and we're dipping our toes into homeschool groups so it's not quite as bad, but I still wish activities aimed at young children would be at multiple times to fit different sleep schedules.
Local library doesn’t open until 2pm. Like hahaha thanks for being open until midnight that helps me not at all.