Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

The kids and I travelled abroad last Thursday as I have something important to attend to. We are not due to be back until next month. Since then my partner either takes hours to reply me, doesnt pick calls or even responds initiate text messages. I tell him about my day when we get to talk and he doesn’t even tell m...

Hey mummies I hope you’re all having a good day 🥰 please help a girl out! I am in desperate need of a new vacuum as our last one packed in and I foolishly sent my fiancé to buy a new one so he came home with a car vacuum that is slowly destroying my back 🥲. What vacuums are we all using to keep up with our crazy…

so… i’m not hating on my baby’s father because he does take care of our daughter and i am very grateful for that by all means. but there’s been one thing that bothers the absolute HELL out of me and it’s that he doesn’t acknowledge my daughter or his other 2 sons. he doesn’t post them, doesn’t proudly talk about the...

So my 7 month old boy is on the bigger percentile and always has been since birth We currently have him in size 4 nappies, but recently I think we need to move up to size 5 I got talking to another mum with a little one the same age, and they shamed me on having a bigger baby and that he shouldn't be in size 5 nap...

I've had a message this morning "Please can you let me know when I can see you?" ....which might seem harmless, but it really gets my back up because I know her tone, and it's like this entitled/offended demand rather than saying something like "I'd love to see you, is there a good time this weekend?" Or god forbid ...

I have a stepdaughter, a 15 year old but we finally had a baby January this year after taking 3 years to conceive we have been together 9 years. We missed out going to the pumpkin patch because the weekend we planned to go his daughter desperately needed him to get her new leggings so they went into town. I was up...

Me and my partner split everything down the middle. Rent, bills, food - everything. His job is shift work and one week is never the same in regards to his shift patterns and days off, so I can't rely on him for childcare help. Because of this I'm having to reduce my hours to both work to pay my half of things, plus...

How much does everyone spend a week on shopping & for how many family members?

my husband and I have a beautiful 15 month old daughter. She deserves the best in the world. My husband was earning the most and I was at home. He was doing really well and eventually got complacent and stopped making any money. This was all when I had just given birth. Basically in a nutshell, I realised I was in a...

This is the second time that my wife has gone to a work event and came home super late drunk, since my baby was born. The first time she did it, my baby was 5 months. Now she’s 18 months. She promised me that she would be more responsible. She apologized but I’m still so upset. I don’t know what to do. How can she b...

My partner made a comment about not having a good nights sleep all week. And I just gave him a look (like really?! But smiling) Which started an argument. He works long hours and I have it easy He does yeah, but he gets to chill when he's home which is every evening and weekend from Friday lunch time I am at home...

I dont want to talk to anyone in my life about this. But my almost two year old spends two days while im working with her grandparents. They are so close, have so much fun together and she seems to learn more from them then me. Im worried she will see them as her parents, and that she will have a closer relationship...

I asked my husband if he would allow me to remarry if he left this earth before I did. He very quickly replied “yes, my life insurance would go straight to the kids only anyway”. I didn’t say anything after that. I felt like he had just poured a bucket full of ice on me. I felt like a) he doesn’t know who I really a...

Am I exaggerating? So, my in-laws come to visit pretty often out of the 7 days of the week they are in house 3 to 4 or sometimes five days. They stay 2 hrs then leave. They cook and half clean the house when they come and when they leave i have to clean the rest. And sometimes they come 3 times in a day. I understa...

I found out a few days ago that my partner has been searching up local escorts / “massage” services / local meet ups with women online to fulfil one of his fantasies. He has also turned on disappearing messages on WhatsApp for these women which I didn’t even know was a thing! I happened to see on his laptop he had s...

So I am not going to allow sleepovers. It’s possible as they mature, maybe in late middle school or high school there could be some more flexibility there - but until then, we won’t be doing it. Tbh, I and just about every other person I know, was molested at a damn sleepover - to include “safe” homes with cousins...

Like I can’t believe he just said this to me lmfao am I tripping ? All because I won’t give him money🤣🤣🤣 ( same man that does not take care his child ) but I’m a horrible mother for not helping him get on his feet 🤔😭

He admitted to it and still doesn’t work on it.. makes me wonder who else does he stare at when I’m not around

For those who believe in time out as a discipline when will you or did you start? My son is very very smart and I feel like time outs will be good for him since he gets over whelmed very fast so it’ll work for us but I don’t know if he understands the concept of bad behavior to time time out yet. We tried tonight he...

I need someone to come help me clean my house, kids have been sick & I want this house clean. I meant I know what I do when I deep clean buttttt are there any restrictions when ppl just do a regular clean? I’m trying to hire someone but how would they clean if it’s a regular clean?