Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Hi all. I could really do with some advice. I live abroad and my husband’s brother, his wife and two kids (10 & 13 years old) travelled over this week to visit us and baby. Thankfully, they’re staying in an AirBnB, but when they came to visit their 13 year old has a bad cold/cough, and was coughing & sneezing up a s...

Like unless they’re working they’re sitting on the couch. No cleaning or home improvements. Couch barnacle.

Just put my three year old in daycare for the first time i’m already super nervous about the idea of her in someone else’s care. It didn’t help when I went online to do some further research on the daycare and there was an incident three months ago a teacher abused a kid and ended up in jail, but in the footage, the...

I can't sleep because I'm so upset at my brother and his girlfriend. To make a long story short, my husband and I invited him to stay in our home (flying from America) to meet our baby and he happily accepted the invite and months later, let us know last minute that his girlfriend would be joining him. Now I hadn't ...

I want to know all ages since mine is little and I will likely need ideas in the future. My child is 7. When I was younger, I was disciplined with a belt, hand, switch, whatever was available. I don’t want to whoop my child, but I have before, not super bad but its always bad to a child. And I didn’t feel good abou...

My significant other came from work and got upset because the bed was a mess, since i was putting our clothes away , but I had errands i had to do and i had lunch and fed our son isn’t it rude to be treated that way like not understanding? and referring to things i had to do with the word “ task “? how i couldn’t co...

checked my BD phone as his mum messaged during the process came across my name along side complaint messages about me and a message regarding one incident where me and my friend took the kids to a certain park he apparently asked to to go to a few weeks before and i apparently said ‘No’ despite loving coming here? a...

I go back to work tomorrow morning and I am DREADING it... I'm in tears because I don't want to leave my baby. (9 months) She's going to my mums, where she's been so many times while I have gone out. I will be on the other side of London, like 1 1/2 hours away max via public transport, I've been further from her bef...

I just want to have a little moan and seek some reassurance from people who may understand at a similar stage in post partum to me. Not sure if it’s my hormones or if I’m valid in what I feel. I am 2 weeks pp today and have been to the in laws for tea (as we always did prior to babies arrival on a Monday). I have ...

I don’t know if I love my baby daddy anymore, I wanna say I do but lately I just don’t know it feels like I’m doing everything alone. The only thing he does is go to work. He doesn’t help me with the baby. He doesn’t help me with house chores he can’t even clean up after himself when he gets home from work and I thi...

My hubby has 2 daughters from a previous relationship (10 & 12) and we have 2 little boys (2 and 8 months). We have the girls 3 nights a week and he pays £280 to their mum in an agreement outside of CMS, so with child benefit she gets roughly £450 a month even though she only has them roughly 4 extra nights! He's be...

1st time mother and a single mother at that. My son is 10 months and I still have anxiety leaving him anywhere without me. I’ve tried leaving my son in Daycare and all it does is stress us both out, the daycare center says he literally cry’s all day ( he cry’s like someone is beating him 🥺) and several times I had…

I feel awful even writing this post but I shouted loudly in my 16 month old daughter’s face. Long story short she’s been having trouble at bed time for the past week since the clocks have gone forward. I’ve tried shortening her nap waking her up earlier etc… I’m a single mum who is doing the job of 2 people and I’m...

I don't know what situation I'm in. What do I do? I'm married. Been together since teens (24 years). Have a 3 year old together. I feel lost. I have had mental health struggles since pregnancy. Anxiety and depression. I love my child to death. I think I might have changed a lot. I want sunshine, silliness, to f...

I am so upset and worried. I have been crying so much since our childminder told us that she simply had found another family that want more hours than us meaning more money for her… conveniently she had not signed the contract yet so she is covered ! This was last Friday and since then I have sent out so many emails...

I'm just sick of feeling shit about my own life being a single mum with little freedom and seeing him doing better and getting the opportunity to do what he likes whilst I do the heavy lifting looking after our child without any support from him he is not on the birth certificate. He's doing everything I asked for w...

I feel so often these days that I'm about to explode with how immature and unreasonable he is. He works full time so is tired on days off, I get that, but there is no "day off" from kids. He makes subtle digs about how I only work part time so I don't understand how it feels to be busy and tired. I'm the one that do...

Has anyone with a clingy baby enrolled their lo in school/daycare.. if so how long did it take for her/him to warm up. My baby is crying the whole times she’s there but she has only been with me all 18 months of her life and she’s having a really hard time adjusting and I feel so bad and hurt.

I feel like my baby is never happy. He's go grumpy all the time and we only get about 5 Min of content time during wake hours. I try playing to cheer him up but he's just not interested. At my wits end now, not sure what I'm doing wrong.

quick background info I recently went out of town for 5days on a girls trip and left our 1 year old daughter in the care of her father (my boyfriend) and was not worried he wasn’t capable of being alone with her that long. the plan was for her to attend daycare Wednesday and Thursday and my mom to watch her Friday w...