Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Hi, I want to share this situation because I need some outside validation. I’m a SAHM, and my husband works Monday through Friday, he’s off on Saturdays, and works again on Sundays. We’ve had some really tough moments because I’ve been taking care of our baby alone, day and night, since she was born. I have no famil...

Hi, My daughter is nearly 2 and is such a sociable child. Shes an only child with hardly any children around her and her speech is getting fairly good. I feel like she would really benefit from going to nursery even if it's once a week (if that's a thing?) maybe towards the end of the year when her speech is more ...

I don’t react normally all day am chill whatever my son I never yell or say no but at night I loose my mind I try to stay calm but then want to yellllll shout cry sooooooooooooo loud I try can’t control more than an hour is it depression then I slam door leave room for 2,3 min but again he won’t sleep sometimes I ye...

I am shook. I’m home alone with my kids. I had to use the bathroom and while I was in there maintenance walks in my house. Knocked once (barely my oldest came and told me and at the 2 nd knock I was walking down the hall and he’s unlocking my door)and bc no one answered just walked in. I have a few maintenance orde...

I feel like we have a boring marriage he comes home plays video games and I clean the house or take care of the kids non stop I take the time when my kids are in school and he’s at work to myself to have a little time for me since I don’t get enough time for myself what can me and my husband do that doesn’t cost mon...

I genuinely can’t stop crying. I thought he was going to step up and do the right thing for once but he doesn’t. He always pretends he never wanted our son but I swear to god last year we tried and tried for him. We moved into a four bedroom home and got married to HAVE kids. Now we have our baby he blames me for ev...

So my baby boy is 7 weeks old and his dad and I are trying to co parent. I find it really difficult as during our relationship (which ended about 9 months ago and was pretty brief) he was emotionally abusive / manipulative and what made me leave was when he got physical out of anger. I can’t trust him and I am so an...

My toddler is 16 months old and I’m a stay at home mum feeling very overwhelmed currently. She is a lovely child but recently everything is hard, she used to eat really well but now will only eat fruit and frozen food, she fights sleep badly and transitioning to one nap has been hard but needed as she wouldn’t do he...

I’m convinced I’m married to a covert narcissist. The marriage has been very rocky since I got pregnant. I feel all he cares about is just himself, he never asks me how I feel & dismisses me when I share the pain I’m going through. I’m 32 weeks pregnant & it’s been rough these past two weeks. He never has time to go...

Has anyone has the same exeprience as me? I lose my patience now everytime my baby cries. Hes already 15 months and still cries every freaking nap time and sleeping time at night. Even in the middle of the night upto 4-5x a night he cries everytime he stirs. Im so tired of his cries and I just cant help but be mad a...

Hello. I know there aren't many members here, and it doesn't look like there's recent activity... but hoping someone is out there. I had two children when I was young. After an "intermission" I had two more. Then I eventually gained a daughter-in-law who then birthed my first grandchild. She and my son lived 1/2 wa...

I feel like I really don’t like my partner at the moment. He is always tense and I feel like I walk on egg shells and have to like keep our daughter quiet and controlled to stop him from getting frustrated. He never used to be this way and I do think his temper is coming as a side effect from his antidepressants. He...

He works 10-14 hour days over half the week and I feel like I’m only married on the weekend, on top of this I’m practically a single parent at this point. This was supposed to be the end of a year of tenuous employment and near homelessness since we both got laid off when I was four months pregnant. That was a who...

So my sister invites me to go to a concert i guess. We talked about it for weeks. When the concert finally comes around she kind of ditches me with our other sister and goes to another side of the concert where we keep missing each other . So i pretty much attend the concert alone contacting her through text and als...

So after 14 months my baby started day care and I went back to work. And we are all happier? Why do I feel bad about that. Baby gets so much stimulation from day care and naps so well there. I have time to myself (I work from home 100% of the time) and can get back into my career and have adult conversations. I pick...

My daughter has been bitten today at nursery on the face, I have been told it was unprovoked and happened earlier on in the day, she needed an ice pack and it has bruised quite badly, the child that bit her is known to the nursery for doing this and apparently they had their attention off of him “for all of 30 secon...

My MIL has my son 2 sometimes three days a week while i work, this is her third grandchild, one she don’t see at all they live abroad, one she sees almost daily ( my SIL kid) and then my son, when she has him she never tells me where they go our what they do in the day, so at any given point I don’t acc know where m...

I recently enrolled my daughter in hula and Tahitian dance . Husbands family basically said it’s inappropriate . I think they’re so uncultured and naive . I don’t appreciate their comments and sexualizing a child . Am I being unreasonable ?

Anyone elses toddler super emotional about everything like if I say no / doesnt get his way he cries or if my husband gets out of the car to go in the store he cries or if I have to leave and he stays home with his dad he cries? Does this sound like separation anxiety disorder or is this normal for this age?

my 3 year old has told her nursery that her dad has thrown her out of the window (he most definitely hasn’t) and I’ve got a social worker calling me tomorrow to check in with us a family. She has been stripped down and checked for bruising, and nursery have said that they have no reason to believe this is true and t...