Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

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...

Im so tired of coming secound to a video game im tired of being told im not in the mood but he can watch porn to get off im tired of oh suck my dick when he knows i dont like it. I do it sometimes when im really in the mood but lately its all he wants andni cant stand it. Im tired of the lies and me being the proble...

I love my little man so much but man I am not enjoying motherhood that much. I find it sooo exhausting. I MISS my old life. I miss the freedom. I miss the sleep. I miss being able to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. Does anyone else feel this way. Every mum I talk to they’re like “oh I love motherhood so muc...

Does anyone feel like they never get a minute from their in laws since having a baby. My MIL works part time and her daughter was made redundant the same month my lo was born (great timing 🙄) anytime the mil is off work the two of them land round and want to see him. I'm sick of the sight of them. Ontop of that the…

So, I am currently a SAHM while I look for work. My partner and I have had issues with finances, up to an including him getting out a $17,000 loan without my knowledge of the amount and it being gone a month later. He has expressed that he is stressed about money and huffed a bit in the past when I asked for some...

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Hi in need of help I am new to all of this and we are at the start of our joinery 🥰 This what I’ve done so far: 1) Applied for an EHCP but was rejected and not enough evidence. 2)took my daughter to the GP to express my worries and try get reffer for an Paediatrician but got letter through post asking if they…

Can I legally stop my ex partner from seeing our 2 year old son? He has always been verbally and psychologically abusive to me, he does whatever he wants and decides when he wants to take the whole weekend off and not pick up his son (without talking to me about first). He’s utterly unreliable and overall a person I...

So I have a 6 month old and I have been watching a lot of tv recently. It's on basically 24/7 because I need the background noise or my brain just goes off. But I find myself not really interacting with my daughter as much because I of course get distracted. I feel like I'm stuck between having the TV off, being bor...

My son 5 months old 6 months in about 15 days or so , and My fiance doesn't help me much inless I'm crying n demanding help , his giving a married woman more emotional support then me the person he claims to love who he wants to marry I have to be crying so overwhelmed and so exhausted to the point I want to just le...

Hi, I’m really struggling with my 5 month old atm, he’s learnt to roll from back to belly but can’t roll back (ive been doing exercises to help him) so he’s just getting frustrated all of the time. All he wants to do is stand on his feet (assisted obviously) or roll over but then is crying/whinging straight away ca...