I feel like such a bad mom

are you near any public transportation? could you take a bus to library story times or swim classes, etc?

there’s social groups at community centres for all ages. start making calls and if there isn’t anything then you should start something! print out flyers or post something on your fb groups. i get you feel guilty but i think you should put it to good use, because the older he gets the more the mom guilt will set in. he deserves to have friends to play with and you deserve to feel like a good mom, even have some mom friends to hangout with also. everyone benefits

Libraries are god sends. Reach out to your local librarian and see if they can help you utilize public transportation to access groups.

Could you drop off and pick up your partner from work a couple days a week so that way you have access to the car during the day?

@Brittany brilliant

Where do you live?

Whoever voted “bad mom” you’re an asshole. @ Mama who posted, you’re doing the best you can with the resources you have.

You re not being. A bad mum and I don’t think at this age they know what friends means .. perhaps you can take transport and move around depend which country you are in In the UK there are plenty of things to do with toddlers where he can meet kids his age

I wouldnt beat yourself up about it, he will socialize and make friends when he starts school. As long as he’s socializing even if its with mom and dad only. He should be fine. You cant make friends appear lol

@Ema outside of Knoxville tn

@Samantha I want to give him a sibling soo bad but we just can’t afford a second right now

@C he LOVES chase we play all the time and he just started going down the big slide all alone. Doesn’t even want me at the bottom anymore. He tries to do the fire poll too but can’t quite hang on yet. The lion thing is such a good idea!

I also just learned there a library near me that does story time on Wednesdays so I think I’m going to try to get the car at least once a week it’s just harder cause my husband works so early

I’ve been researching about child socialisation and apprently all this ‘your child needs to be socialised so they’re ready for school’ is nonsense. Children play alongside eachother until the age of 3/4, they don’t know how to play together and all play solo even if they’re together. Therefore, you have nothing to worry about. As long as he’s happy, keep doing what you’re doing and enjoy your time with him. What a blessing to have a mum that cares enough to write this post xx

Keep going to the park. Sometimes if you go to the park at the same time every day, you’ll see the same people and you can make friends. Even bigger kids can play with little kids sometimes. Figure out how to get to a library story time. Maybe you can meet folks at story time who wanna meet up. If you ho every week, you can meet people.

I live in Oak Ridge, TN and my daughter is also 2. We live in apartments and are a one car family. I’m 7 months pregnant and have a really hard time waking up at 6am to drop my husband at work and then need to pick him up as he works in Knoxville. I suck at reading messages on here so forgive me if I don’t respond right away but please reach out! Maybe we live close to each other and can get our littles together some time. Neither of us have friends out here because it’s hard to meet up with folks. We just got a library card and hopefully we’ll be spending a little more time out of our home on my doctor appointment days (when I actually have our car).

@Tay I live on the other side of Knox then oak ridge but have you heard of the new in door play place in Knox? I’ll message you

I didn’t think they even make friends at that age they just play around each other and fight over toys no? Lol don’t worry he will make friends when he goes to school he’ll be fine

Local libraries have reading groups three times a week and other events !! Do you have any friends or family?