Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

How is everyone dealing with in laws, especially when they live further away? 🫠. I just feel like my body is the vessel for their grandchild at this stage. I’m trying to be as accommodating as possible, but I absolutely don’t want people staying with us for multiple nights a week or two after I’ve given birth, and…

So I’ve booked two days of annual leave next week.. for the two days my baby is in nursery… and my plant was to still take him so I can be ✨alone✨ I generally get an evening a maybe a few hours on the weekend to myself, apart from that I am either working, looking after the baby, working WHILST looking after the ba...

I’m not sure what to do anymore my husband doesn’t seem to notice when I am struggling and stressed and with our daughter until I started getting upset and frustrated. He waits until he can physically see that I’m upset to ask if I need any help knowing that being 30 weeks pregnant I get irritated very easy! I need ...

We have a 3 yr old and a 3 month old Life is crazy stressful right now we are both working full-time and I take care of the kids the majority of the time but he does help me a lot. He is amazing when it comes to cleaning the dishes helping me put our toddler down but drinks every single night and takes gummies (...

I realize that I often treat my partner like he’s my fourth son. I love and support him, and I’m always there for him. He contributes to paying the bills and helps with disciplining the children, but when it comes to self-care, he seems indifferent. Since I got injured at work, I’ve been feeling particularly down, a...

Background my LO is a confident headstrong 2 years and 1 month old. He is an only child, and goes to nursery twice a week, so he can learn to interact with children his own age. Today we got some negative feedback from nursery and I’m really conflicted about it. Any advice would be grateful/ different view point? ...

I have a 13 month old and am 16 weeks pregnant. I currently work over 45 hours a week in a pretty high stress environment. I love my job and we need my job to cover our bills. So leaving my job isn’t an option. I have a husband who works from home and all of our childcare budget goes to making sure he’s got help for...

I don’t know what to think! I’ve been called home on my first night out in ages by my lg dad we are together and all, I’m enjoying myself while he’s got bubba and he’s called me to come home cause she’s to much to handle Apprently. It’s 2am and she’s not sleeping in her crib, bearing in mind she does have a cough t...

I absolutely hate to do this but I don’t get paid until the 30th. Yes I know it’s hard times for everyone. I recently just became a single mom of 3 working P/T from home with my Kiddos. I’m mentally and physically exhausted and as this journey of getting out of a 8 year relationship ended without a warning. I just w...

I am to that point were I feel miserable and ashamed of myself as a parent First and foremost my LO is speech delayed he barely talks and on top of it he doesn’t listen to me or communicate at all ( I am not talking about daily talks my concerns are small commands like wait ,come to mama Because when we goes to ...

Last year we decided I needed to stay home with our son because the cost of childcare was more than I made in a month, so we’d be losing money on me having a job. Now I do all the chores, childcare, pet-care, and I run a small business from home to try and supplement our income. My husband occasionally helps out, bu...

Hi all, My baby is nearly 8 months and i am returning to work in about 3 weeks but i don’t want to go back. Even just writing this i feel like crying and i don’t know what to do. My partner doesn’t understand and i feel like i am being forced. I am not going back to my original role and i get anxiety when I don’t ...

I just wanna know if any of yall have heard about or seen this before me. But apparently, there’s a “famous” TikTok family that does OF together? Like the mom posted a video of her and her 19 yr old daughter hooking up while the dad was in the car driving… and the crazy part is the woman says it’s not sexual exploit...

I know it’s more of a me thing but, does anyone else feel empty. My husband has his own business that he loves and I just live off of it. I want my own passion, my own income, something I can be proud of on my own while caring for our baby. What do you guys do or suggest?

Hello, I'd appreciate a mom's insight. I'm struggling with my in-laws' actions. We're renting their basement, and they've twice taken my 3-month-old without asking if its ok. They're just coming down the basement to get my baby. They initiate a conversation, greet the baby, and then leave with her. I'm hesitant to o...

Is it a gender thing? Being the oldest vs the youngest? Personality? My 5yro daughter is such a kind, easy child. Enjoys doing the right thing, being helpful, eating healthy, extremely social, makes friends with everyone. Has never spoken a bad word, even when I've offered her the space to do so. She makes it easy ...

While using my husbands phone to search something- he handed it to me to use, I typed P into search bar and before I could finish the search the first thing that came up was pornhub. Intrigued I checked history to see how recently/how often/when he was watching. We’ve just soent a few weeks travelling together and ...

Advice on this relationship, My partner gets home from work every single day he has dinner done for him , he then dumps his plate on side I’m expected to wash everything up daily and cook , he leaves rubbish all on the side for me to put in the bin , I do the washing his ironing , he then just sits on his pho...

We are purchasing a 3 bedroom house and the current owners have 5 pets and the house smells of animals. Due to the fact that am allergic to dog fur, we would need the house deep cleaned before I can even move in. I just want a rough idea of how much that might cost.

My LG has been going to nursery since July they have recently had a change in room leadership, a young lady who was in the toddler room is now the baby room team leader. When I picked my LG up tonight the new room leader said "This was my first full day with ## and wow she is exhausting, she is fast and everywhere" ...