Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

I had my second child (boy) nearly 3 weeks ago, and I feel like my 6 year old daughter has been slightly neglected by us as we are so busy with the little one. I am bf in the daytime, so I’m stuck with him. I have not able to be with her in the mornings to help her get ready for school and I know she’s missing our o...

My MIL thinks I cuddle , smooch , and caress my 18 month old too much? She’s already decided I spoil her now this. Granted, I do give her a lot of affection because she is my first baby.. If she gets annoyed with me i respect my daughter’s boundaries and give her space.. she felt like seeing my daughter get annoyed...

So me and my boyfriend have been together for five years. I have two kids by someone else and we have a child together who just turned 2. Since the beginning, I have always let him know that I am a very sexual person, and I’ve never turned him down. I also told him in the beginning that I am really against porn beca...

I feel like I’m failing as a mum, my little boy has just turned 8 months now, he’s not sleeping through the night and currently has very disrupted sleep. He naps in his pushchair currently because every sleep is a fight even though he is tired and I follow his wake windows. He’s on purrees and will refuse chunky pur...

We went out shopping over the weekend and it's been playing on my mind. We took the kids mini golf and then we followed it with shopping now my 14 Yr old ss was moping,rolling his eyes and moaning to which my partner made a joke with him about all us girls want to do is shop and about how much he hates shopping. Now...

Ok so I didn’t really know what title to give it but basically, my son is with my mum for 2 days a week and we pay her (more than we pay for his nursery) as she cut down her work hours for this. She said to me yesterday that it would be great if he could make more use of his funded hours so that he can go for one o...

Since starting to crawl less then a week ago, my baby has been much more clingy to me. I’m exhausted and really drained because he will hardly play and just cries to be picked up constantly or pulls himself up on me. If I move slightly away from him, he will just burst into tears and crawl to be near me. It’s reall...

Im overworked as a sahm. My husband is studying and working and helps at home aswell but for the past 2 years straight i havent had any ME time or alone time or any sleep at night. I feel disconnected with my husband as well. Last night we got into a fight because my love language is words of affirmation and even th...

My friend is lovely, very soft- perhaps a bit too much. Her first son studies at university and has a part time job . The middle one stays up all night playing video games and she doesn’t say anything (literally till 4am) He failed all of his GCSES and because he was too late to apply to do an entry level college c...

Long rant This mumma is fully fed up I only have one friend and yes she has been there for me a lot over the last 10 years not so much the last 7 tho but my lord she has always been “if you need anything give me a yell and I’ll help” but as soon as I do it’s always a no I am tired of her always using her arthritis...

Normally my 15 month old ralrey watches tv, if he does it's low stimulating a couple times a week maybe, but he's been so ill constantly at the moment, teething, cold, chciken pox, ear infection and my only solution is tv. Why do I have awful mum guilt, I see him sat there watching it with his dummy (which he usuall...

As the title says, we are really struggling with our child’s behaviour recently. Anything we say or do doesn’t work, he doesn’t seem to care about any punishments, doesn’t listen, does what he wants even after being told no, swearing, shouting, the list goes on.. it’s really upsetting as I haven’t brought him up to ...

I bring in income (maternity leave, same amount of money if I were to work), I clean, do laundry with the baby on me (at the laundry mat), cook, breastfeed, and have the baby from the time my husband goes to work to the time he gets home around 5pm ish (he comes home for lunch for about an hour), I also take his mom...

I would like to say I'm a decent wife. Whenever he needs to relax/ take a nap, no worries. Whenever he wants to go out or play video games, you got it. I'll rarely ask for him to watch his own child. Today we had an argument and he started that I'm insecure and need to get a life. I'm to the point where I want to di...

My husband has been very irritated lately and when I do something to annoy him he starts these arguments that I just can’t win/deescalate regardless of what I say so I usually just say nothing and let him be upset and go to the other room for a hour or so. But lately he’s been talking about us not being together an...

There are many posts and videos of people regretting their support of Trump this election. I spoke with a fellow mom tonight at gymnastics who voiced to me how much she regretted her vote. We were discussing IEPs and she told me she actually did not realize (until a family member showed her) that getting rid of ...

My daycare is okay.. I live in a small town with few options and no family to help. Today I noticed my son was in the same diaper all day almost 9 hours. They had a birthday party for one of the kids, so I know it was a busy day and this is the first time this has happened. What would you do or say? I don’t know how...

Anyone else struggling with being a working mom? This is my 3rd week back in the office and I’m so drained. The first two weeks back were kind of nice. It was a little fun to get back into the world and speak to adults again but it’s starting to really wear on me. Motherhood has overall been great but now it’s been ...

My daughter is a nightmare. Her attitude sucks. She’s mean, bossy and rude. Everything with this child is a problem and I’m extremely exhausted dealing with her. Her dad isn’t around basically and I’m the primary caregiver for her. She is just combative and gives me a problem at every step getting easy for school c...

So I currently have a 3 almost 4yr old at end of month & prego with my #2 currently i found out when there father moved out from an argument. We talked and i thought things were getting better he came over today & i had asked him to watch his daughter while i go to er having bad stomach pains. He got really upset an...