Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

I keep seeing things about attachment. Sometimes I do worry that my attachment with my toddler is not good enough because she needs to spend a lot of time at daycare. We are a two income household since we live in a very expensive city. Working part-time or stopping working is not an option for me.

I am a SAHM and my fiance and I are staying with my mom until we can get out on our own. Lately it seems like ANYTHING I do isn't good enough for her. She thinks all I do is sit at home on my phone and take care of my son. I am constantly cleaning and I am so done feeling underappreciated 😔😔😔

We are moving back down to Ayr, which is our home town so things will be a bit better and more homely and I was wondering if it’s a good idea to put my 16 month old into nursery for 1 day a week but really on the fence about it . I was really against it (don’t even know why) but he would go to my mums when I was wor...

My partner and I have been fighting a lot lately cause of very different ways of parenting our 3 years old son. He even told me that I don’t use the right voice to shout at my kid. I told him that I hate shouting and how important is for me to calm down in moments of tantrum and simple offer our kid a positive exa...

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of posts from Mums about how their husbands/partners don’t seem to be pulling their weight in helping with baby duties, mostly night feeds but also other tasks that involve their child like nappy changes etc. My LO is 16 months old and I personally have never asked my husband to do a night f...

My husband hit his head while helping me bring groccery bags in. and since then has constantly been talking about this. He had a panic attack, and now has ‘health issues’ that resembles health anxiety symptoms, but for him it’s real pain and spinal issues. Anyway, I have been trying to support him religiously afte...

For those who also have a partner that works during the week… do you also find the weekends SO stressful? During the week me and baby have a lovely little fairly loose routine, but still a routine. Then the weekend hits and with my husband here it all goes out the window. He tries to help but I’m constantly having ...

My baby doesn’t clap hands, crawl, wave and will only sit if I put him in the sitting position (will sit for a few minutes). I’m getting worried. If I put food in front of him - like a plate of pasta, he will just pick it up and throw it on the floor - he will pick up things like toast and cucumber though. Feel like...

I was served my notice from my flat & I've got a house sorted, with a garden etc. It's a fresh start. I've slowly been doing the house up over the 28 days I had to leave the flat like when my daughters been at nursery/at her dads. We moved in Monday. She absolutely loves her new big girl room (she's 2 & a half), lo...

Sorry for such a long post, just want some perspective. I’ve been working on a book for nearly 4 years. I’d get a lot of writer’s block so it was never a daily thing, but when I got pregnant I completely lost interest in all my hobbies and stopped writing. For the past few months, I’ve been very occasionally writi...

My finance has asked his mom 3/4 times does she want our Lb overnight do we can have a date night, she just ignores the convo and changes the subject, it’s really awkward! I’d rather her just say no!

So a little bit of background (sorry it’s a long one!!!) I have a sister who is 3 years younger than me (aged 30). We have never been close as we’ve always been worlds apart, she was kicked out of school for doing drugs, got pregnant at 16 and has since had 3 kids with 3 different men (no judgement on that, but it’...

But looking for a hoover recommendation not to expensive and needs to be lightweight I have hard floors and carpet

My partner doesn’t care about his medical health so I do it for him like making him go to the doctors and stuff. I have health conditions and when eve I am sick and need to go to urgent care centre he gets upset and gives attitude. For a while now our toddler has been experiencing nose bleeds. Today own was worse. B...

Wondered if anyone else is having nursery problems? My child still hasn’t settled and she’s 3 months in, they have no outdoor play and it’s the same four walls constantly and my baby just so isn’t used to this. They’re always very negative when I pick up about how her day has been as she is always upset, they often...

Last week, my sister called to ask if I could go to a shop for her. I said I couldn’t go because I have severe PGP that causes a very dramatic limp and limits me greatly. I also suffer with HG and medicate myself several times a day, meaning I sleep a lot or am constantly drowsy if awake . I did go to this specific...

Is it selfish of me to have my parents watch my baby while his dad and I are really sick? We have horrible cold/flu symptoms and my baby had a fever 5 days ago so I think we got something from him. He’s 8 months old and he’s really congested but otherwise he is playing and acting normal. He’s not eating as much as h...

Send help lol. My 3 yr old and I are both crying 😭 lmao. I’m seriously at my wits end with this kid. It’s fight over everything, no matter how firm I am on boundaries and consistency. The melt downs are extreme. He’s on his last strike at daycare and here I am barely hanging on. Like how did my whole life end up…

so i've been having problems with my partner (bit of background info - there's something on his mind but when i try to speak to him about it he says he doesn't know how he's feeling. i've convinced him to get a doctors appointment to speak about his mental health which he has done but the appointments next thursday...

So my mil was nice to us (so I thought?) before we had a baby. We basically had to pull teeth to get her and my fil to the wedding bc they don’t like to fly. When we gave birth we had a no visitor rule at the hospital for both sides of the family but they saw my daughter within a week of coming home. She made a stin...