How do you deal with a very bossy toddler?

My toddler wants me to play with her, that’s perfectly fine but the issues is, I can’t do anything. As an example, we were painting together, which was her idea but I didn’t know I wasn’t allowed to use the red paint because it was her favourite colour and only she can use it! We were colouring today (again her idea), we started out fine… I chose my colours and she chose hers. That was all fine until half way through where I wasn’t allowed to pick my own colour anyway and she controlled what colour I got and how long I was allowed to use it for. This happens with every activity we do, she controls everything and gets upset when I don’t do it exactly how she wants even when I don’t know that she wanted things done that way. It’s getting to the point where I don’t enjoy playing with her and it makes me so sad because I used to love doing activities with her.

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Ideas wake windows

My little girl is 3 months I’m running out of ideas to do while she’s awake she’s very aware can grab toys put in mouth so she’s got a mat - I do tummy time for 5 mins here and there - I show her books and teddies 😂 I’m slowly losing the will to live 😂 anything else we can add? 😂 I’ve shown her the house enough times too 😂 just gimme some cool ideas!!!! Thank you ladies

20 month old tantrums are killing me off...

I've done something I very rarely do and dropped my toddler off at my mum's for an hour to go and have a coffee alone. Sleep regression and teething and my periods due is turning me into a pressure cooker of anger atm. It's at the point where we're having 5+ tantrums before breakfast nowadays. One because he doesn't want his morning nappy changed and dressed for the day. Then he doesn't want daddy to go for a shower, he wants him to read books with him. Then because he wants to go downstairs while I'm trying to get dressed and quickly do my hair...then because I wouldn't let him watch teletubbies...then because I said he can't go outside into the wet garden with no jumper or shoes and socks...😭😭
I am... exhausted....
I use half an hour of teletubbies most mornings to allow myself peace to get the cleaning up and prep for the day done but I think I'll have to just say no TV at all anymore because of his behaviour over it. When does it get a tiny bit easier or have I just got an angry little boy....

Overwhelmed

At this point I feel like a single parent. My significant other helps very little. I’m the one who clothes her, change her diaper, feeds her, puts her to bed…he complains he works 10 hours a day to support us and I understand that but I’m screaming for freaking help sometimes. I’m 18 weeks pregnant with our second baby and I handle our daughter 24/7 while he gets to sleep, play his game and go freaking smoke MJ. I feel so stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated and exhausted. Am I a horrible person to ask for a little help from him??? He makes me feel horrible for even asking him for help or to even watch her for 20 minutes so I can get a damn shower…..I’m so so freaking lost and tired….i feel like nothing is going to change when I have our next baby in August…..

Husband is upset I won’t support his career change

My husband hates his job, and it’s back breaking work for very low pay. I’ve been encouraging him to change his careers, but he says he has no dreams. I told him to really think about what he likes and what he’s good at, and he finally came up with a career he’d like to explore. The issue is that this specific career is not something I am willing to support. He brought it up and I was immediately appalled, so he shut down and told me nevermind and that he’s sorry he brought it up. He said he just thought about what he’s very good at, and I said he’s good at lots of other things. I never thought this was the direction he would turn, and it’s probably the one job I am putting my foot down on. Now he won’t talk to me about new careers at all.

I honestly feel stupid even saying what the job he wants is. Just know it’s not a respectable job I want the father of my children having, in my opinion.

Dentist Question

I have a white filling in my front tooth that broke this morning - it's very obvious, looks terrible and I'm devastated.

It's very sharp where it's broken and feels sensitive but not painful. I phoned my dentist and I've managed to get an urgent appointment with them for 10:45 tomorrow morning.

I'm really hoping they'll be able to replace it for me, but am worried they'll refuse to do anything because I'm 8 months pregnant. Has anyone else had anything happen, or have any kind of experience that might inform on what they'll likely do tomorrow? I know it probably sounds really superficial, but this is such an insecurity for me and I don't want to look like this for long 😭

Help !!!!!

My bay is 6 months old in the beginning he would eat really well. In January he stopped eating like for the past 2/3 months he only drinks about 12 oz in a 24 hour period. He refuses solids so we are really worried. We have talked to his dr and he seems to think this is normal. Keeps telling me give it a couple more days and it’s been going on since January. He won’t eat barley drinks his bottle and cries all the time. His dr said 12 oz a day is enough to keep him alive but he won’t grow and then sent us home. The emergency room won’t do anything because “they don’t want to bother him with test if there’s nothing wrong but I feel it in my gut there’s something wrong with my baby and no one is listening 😭