Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Is it just me? Literally Ick. I guess everyone’s situation is different.

Help! I don’t like my step kids. I love them of course but honestly I don’t want to spend any time with them. At all. I’ve been their bonus mom for 4 years now. They are 5 and 7 years old. My husband and I just had our own son and I’m on Mat leave. I pick them up from the bus stop everyday after school and spend 2.5...

I never really had a problem with my unlaws. They're very different to my family however there where never any arguments until i had my baby then it changed. I'm very protective of my baby as anybody would be, i don't want anybody else to have him. I trust my mum to have him however i live with her so it's different...

I had a “surprise” pregnancy with my partner of 6 months. I’m now 16 weeks pregnant and I can honestly say that we argue most days and I’m in tears most days. He’s already made comments which makes me think that he doesn’t see us as a team and is likely to try and get the child to take sides. Is this normal in pregn...

My partner goes to work every day and I’m currently at home with our 2 month old while on maternity leave. When he comes home he thinks it should be 50/50 looking after our son before he goes to sleep for the night. How does everyone else split the evenings if their partner goes to work during the day. Obviously...

Has anyone found a stair gate that their toddlers cannot open? 🫣🫣 I’ve tried two different ones on my girls bedroom now and she can just push them open. I’ve moved her into a toddler bed now so could really do with having a more secure stairgate for when she gets up in the night. Unless I’m doing something…

I have 5 kids aged between 15 and 4 months old. I have a partner but I still feel so lonely, I do everything for the kids yes my partner works 6 hours a day Monday to Friday in a warehouse so I shouldn’t complain.. but am starting to really hate him, he can go out whenever he wants, do whatever he wants, plan days w...

Hello Mamas! We are family of 4, soon to be 5 this upcoming November. Long story short, we live in California, and rent has gotten ridiculous! I'm a SAHM, homeschooler family, and it had been working pretty well for us for the past 5 years with my husband as the sole income provider. Rent is going up, AGAIN, and we ...

Me and my partner have been together nearly 7 years and we’ve just had our first baby a few months ago. I’m not sure if I had set too high expectations of him though. He just doesn’t ever seem to know what the baby needs and I have to tell him everything and what to do! Is that normal? For example: Like I have ...

Firstly I love my little girl she’s the light of my life, she recently turned 1. But she’s been so difficult at night. She never slept well and she’s not getting better even after a year. She’s waking up multiple times and drinking so much milk at night we make 2-3 bottles in total and she will cry and cry till give...

When my husband goes to work. I can't seem to be able.to sleep and get soooo anxious and when he wakes up to leave I feel anxious or scared . Don't know why. I can look after my baby . I just feel lonely and abandoned mayb . Like I.dont have a life or something l. Anyone what to share their experience and am I the o...

2 & 4 yr old calls my name out all the time. Whatever the needs is, they call me. Baby dad doesn’t like the boys doesn’t call his name. The 4 year old told him “mommy does better than you.” (Meaning I take care of them better and more) dad doesn’t have or has never contributed to the nurturing of his sons.

I've been seeing a lot of videos and Facebook posts of people upset that their children are not learning in school. Or that the behavior in school is so bad, etc etc. I'm sure some of you have seen these too. I was an education major. I went to school to be a teacher and I graduated in 2020. Everything was so bad th...

My daughter, 18mo, started daycare about two weeks ago. We did half days for the first two weeks to get her used to it but she only went maybe 4 days as she got roseola and then a cold back to back. We had been picking her up at 12:30 which is nap time for her. Yesterday she started full days and it has been going t...

My husband travels about 1.5 hours each way commuting to work. Sometimes 2 hours if there are delays (which are often) there and back a day. It means I am often with our baby 8.15am to 7.15pm or 7.15am to 6.15pm 5 days a week. Is this normal for people? I feel like a single parent and burnt out. I do all the ho...

OK, I am not sure if I’m the only one with this issue but every time my child spends time with their grandparents on my side so my parents once we get back home it’s like my son has no home training at all and then that whole evening I’m struggling to kind of get him back into his way of doing things that we normall...

Me and my husband has had a rocky 8 months, pretty much since I gave birth. And we agreed to go to therapy. I never go through his phone but I realized he changed the password to his phone about a month ago when he told me to look for something in his phone. He gave me a bs answer idk if I want to believe but I let ...

I’ve only ever slept with my husband so I’m not sure how normal this is- I find him a little selfish in the bedroom and not on my behalf either. It’s like all he really cares about is me enjoying myself and he gets a bit carried away with this (it’s almost like an obsession) we’ll sometimes use toys and any clit st...

As a stay-at-home mom, do you receive a weekly or monthly allowance from your husband, or do you need to request funds as needed, potentially leading to financial discussions, or disagreements/argument?

So it’s my daughters first birthday today and I had to be in university this morning (i’m doing a professional degree where I can’t have time off) so i got her up and changed (she’d leaked out her nappy in the night and into her sleeping bag) I put the sleeping bag and vest on the side and said to my husband that ne...