Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Long story short I had my first baby this year, he is the first grandbaby and first great grandbaby. My husband and I both have jobs, our son is in daycare for that reason. The weekends we like to enjoy relaxing as a family unless we have made plans. Note* all holidays have been split between my family and my husba...

My mil told my husband he married the wrong person a couple weeks ago since we had a baby 5 months ago. He only goes to work and hold our daughter maybe one hour out of each day. He does not help clean and barely help cooks. I am tired at the end of the day taking care of my daughter and being 6 weeks pregnant. My m...

Honestly this lady is on my 🥜sack harassing me and being very aggressive. Today I put up a divider since we share the balcony space. Reason being she's nosy. She came out and started shoving my stuff, I was ready for her ass though. I ignored her while she talked. She went back in and came out for more…

Tw - mentions social services Hi, I'm really am scared and worried. Had a social worker come round and when she spoke with the kids one of her question to him was " what does mummy do that you don't like" and he said when " when mummy shouts sometimes" and she ask my other son " how can you make your family bett...

So me & my LO have not had any contact with Mil for about 3 months. Mil said she didn't want to bother having a relationship with our daughter after DH explained we're were not comfortable with Mil being unsupervised with our 2 year old. Mil contacted DH a few weeks back asking what our LO wanted for Xmas & he r...

My nearly 3yo can’t keep her attention on anything for more than 2 seconds. It’s becoming quite problematic. She would take a toy, pick just one part up and move to the next toy. I would ask her to clean her room and to play with just 1 toy at a time but she would pick 1 toy up and start to play with the next one an...

He won't save money, He won't get life insurance He doesn't want to buy a house for stable living condition We've got 500 in the bank right now and that's going to pay bills. I talk to him about it and he says we'll be ok, God will provide. We been married 11 years and it's not getting better.

My child’s father and I had a domestic violence relationship for almost 3 years. Our daughter is one. We are currently in mediation through the child support agency and so far we have had three zoom chats. I have a protection order against him until next year in August. This is our only way of talking directly. I...

Baby is 9 months and has always been a bad sleeper and since having her I realized I have severe untreated ADHD (I’m a therapist and have talked to others and we all agree I just had great coping mechanisms before and didn’t realize it). I don’t have the ability to get on meds right now. The reason that is importan...

So I'm not sure if I should stay with my man because he's not emotionally intelligent, conflict avoidance, emotionally stonewalls tf out of me , he doesn't like when I use big words , he is mad sarcastic when we argue ; triangulates me with his friends, puts me down . He makes me feel like I'm a roommate rather than...

I need to know everyone’s response to said situation. Haven’t said anything to him yet. Last night I decided it would be a good idea for me to mop the floor like I was down there on my knees cleaning it real good, not that it was that dirty but I like to keep things clean. Now…when I woke up today, walked out of ...

Any one have any recommendations on books for helping a preschooler regulate emotions?

Husband pays for the apartment while we live in NJ, the house above our MIL, for the time being. MIL stated she never liked me from the beginning. We are first-time parents. He knows she is evil, controlling, manipulating, and b-word! She was trying to break up the entire time, blame my PPD, and stated and quoted on...

Does anyone else get frustrated by the co parent? Our daughter is on soya milk, he won’t provide it for her whilst she’s there . He doesn’t provide the correct diet ( no dairy diet completely ) . Recently she had a 72hr long reaction & I had to do the best I could do to help her feel better . He won’t do anything as...

Not sure if anyone else has been in a similar situation who can give their input. I’m English, and my partner in Nigerian (Tiv tribe). In their culture, it’s tradition for the grandparents to name their grandchild when born. Him and I have had numerous conversations about this as I’m just not too keen. I’m happy t...

Had a baby went through and I’m finally ready to have sex but what’s holding me back is my husband is refusing to wear a condom??? He would rather never have sex if he has to wear that according to him. He’s also against me getting toys and doing the job myself I can’t even sneak one because we have a doorbell came...

My son is 1yr 2mnths and he has just started going to the daycare. I took the initiative not because I am a working mom but because of my situation at home isn’t that great. My husband will pick up fights before him and yell around at me or my mother in law. Then most of the times the television would be on and they...

hey mamas, so i’d like to know if anyone has gone through this or something similar and what they did to work through it, because i feel like it’s making me crazy at this point. i have a 3 month old baby and two toddlers (1&2) and i come from quite a large family, however as we live quite far out we rarely see them...

I feel like such a terrible mother. I'm due my second baby in 2 weeks times and my son desperately wants me to play with him on the floor but I just can't get down there without being in so much pain. He doesn't want to play somewhere more comfortable for me (eg sofa) and throws a tantrum Everytime I suggest playing...

My twins are 11 months and life just feels relentless at times. Struggling with my partner, he’s tired and moody all the time. I just feel like I’m cooking/cleaning/baby rearing/ general dogsbody and he can’t even be bothered to ask how my day was/show any interest in me generally . I snapped last night and huge row...