Do you feel you need a break from your kids?

Life is stressful but my kids I absolutely love spending every minute with. It’s everything else I need a break from (mostly my ex).

Obviously they are only 1&2 I’m sure by the time they are teens and back chatting I will be grateful for a break 😅.

My ex and his family always seem to make the comments. Example I felt pressured to put my 2 year old in nursery so she started last week for 2 mornings and although I know it will do her so much good and she has loved it. However it’s not a break for me. My ex’s mum made a comment yesterday when she came to see them oh I bet it’s been nice just having the one. Well no because now I’m running around early 2 mornings then usually disturbing my youngest for her naps because we have to go get my eldest so really it’s a bit more stress for me 😅. However because she has had the best time it is worth it.

Then when she was leaving they always follow whoever saying bye and she kept going oh look they want to escape the prison and come with nanny. I know she says it joking but I honestly think she thinks we literally sit at home all day every day when we go somewhere pretty much every day. I also know my ex thinks the same (he’s only allowed supervised visits and has never had them on his own) but he said yesterday I don’t want them missing out. I quite often have to bite my tongue as he honestly had no idea what we do every day and they will never miss out on anything trust me. Just because he would rather put his money into other things than his kids that isn’t me.

Ok now I’ve just gone on to a bit of a rant but anyways, do you feel like you need time away from your kids?

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Losing my mind

Now I love my partner I really do but my god he is doing my head in! So recently he has this thing where he keeps accidentally taking things I need to work with him, so far 3 times he’s taken my car keys with him so he’s had to come all the way back to drop them off so he ends up late for work (20 minute drive each way) but today he took my phone to work with him, after he left I was trying to find it as he messages me when he gets to work so I know he gets there all good but I couldn’t find it anywhere and I don’t have a spare working phone or a landline to be able to call it or contact someone to call it for me to find it, about 40 minutes after he left he turns up with it! But he’s just so unorganised when getting sorted for work and his things are just everywhere! I’m just ranting really but has anyone else had this with their partners?

Feeling so down

I’m a single mom, my son is 1.5 yo. I left BD when I was like 3 months pregnant so I pretty much been on my own with this over 2 years now. No family, friends faded away one by one.no partner. Just me. Isolation is killer.

I have been ugly crying for weeks, so angry I can’t control it and I yell at my son for the smallest things then I feel like crap.

Last night sent me in a downhill spiral. A social media influencer just had her 2nd baby, and had an at home wedding. It was so sweet, I hate being jealous truly but after seeing that I can’t keep it together, because I will never have that. She’s so pretty, she has a nice house, family, friends, 2 ,children with a good man. Ya I’m sure it’s not as perfect as it looks and they have issues too. But they have all that . Ya. I guess I am jealous. I don’t have a scale that tips, I have my son of course the only thing I’m thankful for in life but now I have to watch him live the lonely life I lived, and that’s my own personal torture and guilt.

Idk. I just can’t go on anymore, sometimes I feel he is better off without me. I fight so hard to keep the little we have, down to our tiny as apt. By the time I’m finished with work and school I no longer have strangers to be there for him….

Any motivation? Is there really a light at this end of this tunnel. I am so fat and ugky I’m so repulsed by myself, I don’t even want a man anywhere near me out of shame.

Is your child’s school allowed to administer Tylenol/calpol/other meds to your children if they believe they need them?

Didn’t even think this was a thing until I read some comments on another post.
My child is not school aged yet but as someone who does not medicate, I would lose my mind if I find out they were given something without my consent.

Is it time to be a single mom?

Ok so recently me and my child’s father got back in contact after he said he broke his phone, not important right now.
However, I work night shift at a children’s hospital, full time at that and when I get home or even a day off, I’m sleeping that whole day.
So yesterday I wasn’t able to text him because I was sleep most of the day and when I did go out to the store and back home, I fell right back to sleep.
In his eyes, I’m doing something I’m not supposed to and he’s practically threatening to show up to my moms house and cause trouble because I can’t give him attention when he wants it and that is almost all the time.
I’m scared to even tell him how I feel because I don’t want to stress myself out to the point where I lose my baby and then lose my mind as well.
What do I do?

Food you never thought your child would like, but they absolutely LOVE!

I'll start:

Son (3yrs): squid (he calls it tentacles)
Daughter (10 months): white onions raw

Hard decision

I’m torn! I got a job offer for a really good position that is part time , term time only and flexible, even though I’m taking a pay cut but I’m willing to move from a highly stressed environment to the new role. The only thing is they do not allow Fridays off. My little one currently goes to nursery Mondays to thursdays. Nursery has checked they can only offer a swap to Wednesdays. So my little one has to split the week in half (with Wednesday off)- would she be okay with this adjustment? I’m worry this will interrupt her routine and hesitating in accepting the job offer.