Loneliest deployment

Just as simple as that. I have no one.

They say deployment is when you find your village and mine sucks.

I don’t want to blame my parents because in all honestly it’s my sisters fault why they aren’t around much.

She’s in her 30’s. Can’t get her shit together. So my parents have her kids. Pretty much starting over again for them.

And I get it. But it’s still the fact that I can’t rely on them for help.

MIL? Forget it. She lives 10 min away. Never comes by. Sure we talk. But that’s about it. She refuses to come over if the kids are sick and I get not wanting to get sick…. But I’m one person and when all 3 of my kids are sick I need help. And can’t rely on her. She just says “let me knew when they’re better I can’t afford to get sick”

Like yeah me either? Regardless if I do or not because who else is gonna do this?

FIL? Forget that too. He’s always in an out of town and never reliable either.

BIL? Never been alone with a kid. Much less doubt he could change a diaper. And lives far anyways.

Friends? Barely.

One friend has 6 or her own kids so I would never put that on her especially since she has a new baby at home.

And my other friend is also a wife of deployment and she’s the only one who initiates plans with me and me with her, but we’ve all been sick. And she also lives almost 2 hrs away.

My kids have been puking on and off since Friday. I haven’t showered in literally days. Sleep is next to nothing because even when they nap someone manages to throw up and I have to clean up. And when that’s done the other kids throw up. It’s just constant all day.

Then when they go to bed. My son is puking randomly throughout the night. And then my middle child throws up and everytime I shut my eyes something happens 😭😭

Went to walk in the kitchen to discover my son puked all over the floor and I stepped in it.

I feel defeated. I’m exhausted and I have no one to help me try to recoup over here. I’m being pulled in every direction and I think I’m starting to become delirious.

Anywho that’s my vent. Please pray for me and that my kids get over whatever this is 😭

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Need some advice

Every morning, he calls our son to tell him to have a good day in school. Our son is currently just turned 5, in Pre-K and is going to speech and OT every day afterschool. For the last month his tablet doesn’t work so I got him a new which is still in its box and haven’t set it up. So he been using my phone to watch his shows or do some learning activities on it. I havent seen a change in his behavior. I dont see a problem with him having a break from school and he watching some of his shows. How would I go about this whenever I try to reason with him he takes it out of portions and an argument is started. Thank you

I don't know what to do! Advice needed

My son (just turned 4) has bad social anxiety around other children. Particularly ones his age. We pulled him out of a nursery as he was incredibly unhappy and distressed there. He goes to preschool and he is happier there. That social anxiety still stands and just as he was becoming confident. A little girl started after Christmas, she has been pulling his hair, dragging him out of the quiet corner and even pulling him off his potty. He has his own toilet area as he doesn't like the preschool toilets. He used to use them until this girl started and we've had a massive stetback with everything. He once came home with scratches all across his stomach from one of her 'episodes' the teacher called it.

They have three teachers in the preschool setting so why is a little girl bullying my son? They will go to the same school in September.

My question is how can I help my son build on this social anxiety if he is a victim of this aggressive behaviour at preschool?

We take him to parks, play centres and such. He seems happy enough once he is settled there.

Is this early teething??

My son has started sucking and chewing on his fists - does this mean his gums are sore and he is soon to start teething or is this too early? It’s different to when he is hungry! Have you experienced this by three months?

Teletubbies

Is teletubbies a good program to watch for toddlers my friend said it isn’t lol?

Please tell me it gets better 🤣🤣

My 10 month old is the most inconsistent eater on the planet. Sometimes she wants to eat on her own, sometimes not, some times she wants pieces of food, sometimes purée, and a lot of times she just refuses anything… today the mood was for playing with food and throwing it on the floor 🥲

So mamas of older kids/toddlers.. please tell me they eventually eat because I’m all out of options

Government funding hours

Can I ask, does anyone know much regarding this?
I’ve been told I’m allowed the hours for nursery but a friend has said that even if one week (say we are on holiday) we are still charged/using some of those hours? Even tho she’s not going to be in nursery?!

They have said I can have the hours over 32 weeks, I thought it was 42 weeks?