Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

I was on FaceTime with my dad the other day and my son was playing and dropped his cereal on the living room floor and I had vacuumed early so really didn’t mind it. But the face on my dad was of disgust and he told him no but my toddler kept going. I feel STRONGLY about his face reaction as it’s not that serious. (...

My partner is currently off work due to his mental heath has been for 4 months now … How ever he’s laying in bed till 12pm sometimes 1pm and I’m left with a 5 year old and 8 month old on my own every morning plus house work to do Am I selfish for nagging him to get up and help me because he makes me feel that wa...

I can't seem to get over being upset when strangers touch my 18 m.o. and I'm not talking about random grannies overstepping. I'm talking about service people I.e check out staff and wait staff. I'm all for them interacting but I find it highly inappropriate for them to tickle or kiss her and it sets off a fight or f...

Is anyone else finding their toddlers to be a particularly hard time atm? I feel like the tantrums are happening 10x more than usual, she’s very demanding every 3 seconds she’s wanting something and she’s also learnt “no like it” which I hear about 100 times a day! Normal tactics don’t seem to be working either she’...

Has anyone cut contact with there child’s father because he constantly tries to gaslight you or shift the blame to always make you look like the “bad guy”? Everytime he msgs me I don’t even want to open it. My jaws goes all clinched and my mood changes from happy to shit within seconds of him msging. It is so exhau...

I'm struggling..we just moved from Pennsylvania back to Vegas and keep getting denied for our own place. My husband is working but we don't have enough proof of income. Living with my mom is hard. I feel like I've let my kids down. I try to make things seem alright but they don't like it... It's hard and I have no o...

My baby has become so fussy (always has been) but is extra fussy, constant feeding, crying, just wants to be held (which is fine) will only sleep on me in the nights - but it’s half term and have my 5 year old home with me and feel so guilty I’m not being present for him or doing anything other than staying in becau...

I just wanted to let this out of my system and hoping to feel a little more encouraged about the whole experience... I feel like I'm really struggling since the emergency C-section... the hospital stay and breastfeeding pressure from midwives and everyone including a ton of blood loss left me traumatised and I'm a...

Having terrible guilt for leaving’s my toddler behind and going on an adult vacation with my in-laws! Although all his favourite cousins will be staying over and there’s ‘no limit’ to how much fun he would be having without “mummy rules” especially during the day - I think I’m mostly dreading the nights he’ll be wi...

They’re constantly on about their baby - whenever I put pics on my socials of my baby my MIL or SIL never like it but I can see they see it. Makes me feel like my babies left out?

Do you ever feel like a failure to your kids? I have a almost 18 month old and she kinda says some worlds or tries to and I’m trying to help her but she is in a stage she doesn’t eat and is picky, she whines more and needs more attention from me and I feel I’m doing something wrong. She is smart and is learning and ...

I’m so mentally tired of my relationship with my boyfriend all he does is call me the b word and has my son calling me that. I get no respect at all. I try to tell him how I feel he just says it’s my fault that our son calls me the b word. I never use that word in front of my kids, he just laughs every time I have t...

I was 1 month pp when I found his secret Snapchat dating back half a year. I’m nearly 5 months pp and I’m still with him for a million reasons under the sun (baby & house mainly) but I’m so so miserable. I don’t feel loved. I don’t feel wanted. He lies to my face says it wasn’t him all that shit like I’m some sort o...

Hey ladies, I am very upset my daughter has come home crying multiple times telling me that this one little girl is making fun of her in class. I have spoken to the owner of the place, which happens to be my boss bc I work in this specific preschool. I'm not sure how to handle this situation anymore since I've broug...

So I love my husband a lot and we don't usually have any real problems, only bickering from being tired. But I can't help but get sooooo annoyed at him when he stays awake playing video games on a night (tbh he only does it maybe twice a week) because then he doesn't want to wake In the night with the baby or wake e...

Ahh I’m pulling my hair out.. So we decided to get our little boy into nursery three weeks ago.. we did the whole induction/taster sessions and he LOVED it. For a whole week he was going. Started 1 hour (fine), 2 hours (fine) and then 2.5 hours (fine but asked for mummy about 10mins before pick up). Then on that Fri...

Just so y’all know I was patient through it all I never yelled or raised my voice and tried to talk her through it. We went to a museum today just to get out since it’s winter and we were bored. It was just me and my toddler. It went good at the start but then I let her walk on her own holding my hand. She got obse...

When my daughter is with her dad he never puts clothes on her. She’s 9 months and he just has her in a diaper. I tell him to dress her and he says “my kids don’t wear clothes in the house it’s more comfortable”. also my baby is really fussy and when she has crying fits he tells her to shut up and calls her “a fuck...

My son is behind in thinking he is 15 months old very quite and independent I never really played with him because I guess I’m just a dradbeat mom and I am a stay at home mom feeling sick to my stomach from guilt can’t stop crying he doesn’t talk he doesn’t walk and I fear we won’t catch up I’m ashamed I’m having su...

My MIL is overbearing - to the point where I don’t want to be around her. She has my child 1 and a half days (he’s at nursery the other half day) a week whilst I work. My mum also has the same. Since I got pregnant (first time round) -‘d gave birth here’s a list of all of the things she did that annoyed me - -...