Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

🙄🙄 I'm not sure how to navigate. I remember my parents having sex and I ran away embarrassed. There was never any conversation about it. My daughter seems upset as if we need to tell her what was happening so it's tricky talking/not talking about it. My husband thinks we don't need to say anything. However she…

I know this is small but I’m absolutely disgusted and need a little vent. Last night my daughter was playing with an Elsa doll and she was lifting its dress and saying she was wearing underwear and tickling its belly. My SIL told her “Shame, Shame. This is shameful. It’s shameful to lift people’s dresses. Shame on...

It’s my MIL birthday on New Year’s Day and she’s asked us to go over and stay New Year’s Eve so she can wake up to us all there for her birthday. Now my MIL is in the process of selling her house so most of the furniture is gone, there’s no spare bed so we’d have to sleep on a blow up bed/ only one sofa that fits 2 ...

He is absolutely heartbroken, he can’t even look at her and smile without her looking like she dislikes him or getting upset-what can we do about this? It happens a lot and this morning he said he can’t take it anymore, he is so upset! He genuinely feels like she hates him. Obviously I reassure him, and said she’...

Last night after putting my little boy to bed i decided to put a film on downstairs and sit and soak the gel of my nails as they needed re doing, I stupidly left the bowl with acetone in on the footstool after and just went to bed. Anyway this morning i completely forgot i had left it there and got my little boy up...

I’ve been married for one year in a relationship one year and my bad fight with my husband and ask him if he wanted a divorce and he told me it was up to me. He hasn’t been home except once in a few weeks I don’t know what to do at this point. Any good advice I love him and all, but it’s breaking me down tearing me ...

I am so pissed right now. I think (know) my neighbor stole my Amazon package. I was in my living room waiting and tracking my package while feeding my baby. Ok, so while waiting I heard my neighbor’s daughter knock on her door to pick up her child (we live in an apartment). About 2 minutes after that my package sai...

Am I overreacting I have an almost 3 year old and a 9 week old baby my "partner" only ever wants to spend time with our three year old, this morning they went to the park, neither me nor our baby were invited. I made a comment saying "thanks for the invite" and all he said was "you can come if you want" but to me ...

Really don’t know how to deal with this at the moment - any help/advice would be much appreciated. My 4 year old was looking through old pictures and saw some of her grandad (my FIL) before he passed away. Now she is absolutely inconsolable crying and saying she wished he wasn’t dead and she loves him so much. I’...

My baby is 7 weeks old today and since 2 weeks he has struggled with suspected colic. We have had probably 2 days where he has been chilled out, the rest he screams during feeding, when not feeding and during nappy changes. I’m fed up with people telling us this is a phase and don’t understand how we are meant to ge...

My partner sings right. So he said he had a show yesterday with his friend yesterday. He left the house around 3pm yesterday and he said he should be back 11pm-12am I said alright. I messaged him around past 1am if he is coming home or not. He replied around past 3am saying his friend’s car broke down and they took ...

So my MIL have always had our issues however now that I have my own son I refuse to hold my tongue anymore. My partner was joking around with me on thanksgiving around his family saying that he can’t wait until our son is a bit older so he can go for rides on his stepdads Harley to which I had laughed about saying y...

So my boyfriend’s bm calls about 3-4 times a day for him to talk to their son(1yo). (NO I DONT HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT) but my issue is the excessive calling and when she does call, it’ll be something like she puts their son in the camera for the first 5 minutes or so then faces it to her and just talks and rambles ...

I’m a sahm have been for the past almost 2 years now, my husband works a pretty demanding job which entails a lot of driving, early mornings 430-5am and getting home late 5-8 pm. So I am at home alone with my child basically all day, I’ve recently just been feeling pretty alone and isolated given it’s also winter ti...

I've been back at work in quite a demanding job 6 months now and it was going surprisingly well until the cold and flu season started. We've been plagued by illness back to back since October, and I've muddled through despite being ill myself and heavily sleep deprived. I approached my boss and told him I was strugg...

I am currently up with my one year old cos she keeps being sick on a night think she has a bug. She seems to be fine on a day. I been up nearly two days mostly with her like this. I went to bed tonight and she ended up in bed with me with her not feeling great where she was sick. Clean her up ect. She went bk to sle...

Im going back to work in 8 days... my twins will be 12 weeks old. It breaks my heart that they are going to full time daycare. Most of their days will be spent with strangers. We can't afford for me not to work. I just dont know what to do.. its breaking my heart.

He’s been rude to me lately and then pretends like everything is fine when he’s done being a jerk. Yesterday I left to spend the night at my mom’s house with our baby and before we left I told him bye and he said bye “inserts our baby name” instead of saying bye to both of us. Now that I’m back home… I still don’t w...

Would ya’ll be mad at your husband for leaving you alone with your 2.5yr old and 3mo old to go to a party 2 hours away overnight? I do have a my best friend/roommate living with us so she is available to help but obviously they’re not let kids so it’s not her responsibility. Story time: Our 2 yr old daughter cam...

my baby turned 7 weeks old today. the past couple of days i’ve been really struggling with settling him/getting him to sleep he just cries. i burp him, change him, feed him, entertain him but it doesn’t seem to last. my partner works 12+ hours a day 5 days a week so i pretty much have him 24/7 i have no family or fr...