Kindergarten drama?!

I need to rant.
During school morning drop off my heart broke a bit for my 6 year old.
She is such an outgoing, all out kind of kid & I know for some, it can be a lot. Even for adults.
Today she shouted a classmates name to walk in with her and the girl turned around, gave the nastiest look & started to walk away faster. The look on my daughter’s face is what did it for me.
Has anything like this happened to your kid and how did it make you feel?
This is all new to me- having a child in school. I just don’t remember kindergartners being like that.
I wanted to turn around and take her home lol.
Thankfully summer is right around the corner for us!

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Bin there. I told my daughter don’t let that get to her there are many more kids in her class that want to walk with her.
I explained that that’s how the world is sometimes. I am up front with her and she is only 5 and understands well.

Awww I’m so sorry🥺

Omg, since my daughter’s 1st day of kindergarten she’s been straight up BULLIED by one girl. Who has become the leader of the whole class. It’s been SO much drama and heartache all year. She has been counting down the days til 1st grade when they promised me they would get split up. Her school has been (somewhat) great dealing with it. (I still feel they should have taken it WAY more serious and moved the girl (or my daughter) to the other class.) But yeah, never thought I would be dealing with all that cattiness in KINDER already. 💔

When that happens (my son can also be a lot) I tell him “they’re missing out on your friendship, you don’t need to be friends with people that don’t like you for you, remember how it feels and don’t do that to others.” A big hug and he’s off to find a new friend 💕 it’s so hard to watch rejection when it’s the people you love most in the whole world, letting them know they’re loved is the best we can do.

Something similar has happened to my 6 year old, but at the beginning of the year. when i picked him up later that day i simply told him. don’t let it upset you, that person could of had a hard morning, told him some people are just simply ugly cause they think it’s funny, etc gave him all the reason’s why the person could of did it, he understood told me how it made him felt we acknowledged how he felt on that morning when it happen. i simply tell my kids how it is,from maybe 3 i started telling my kids how it is, & they understand what im saying. it definitely can hurt your mom heart cause that’s your baby but unfortunately things like this do happen, i wish we could protect their feelings but we can’t🥺. i’m sorry your little girl had to go through this. she will have plenty of friends old & new who will want to walk with her next year and not give her ugly looks🥰

That hurt! Poor baby 🥺

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vent pregnancy announcement

so im a little annoyed and maybe being a little sensitive (which ok yeah probably, but my feelings are valid & I feel like I was right)

my husband and I announced to his extended family that we were expecting in a group chat, especially since we had a family party coming up that weekend and the week before when we met with a few cousins, apparently some already knew and were congratulating us before we had even officially announced it, so that pmo. 🥊

I just felt like no one in the chat gaf. yes they congratulated us but then they started joking that this upcoming party was gonna be a cross between a baby shower, grad party & kid bday party. that comment annoyed me.

I felt like people were boasting more about my husbands brother&sister graduations (my husband is the eldest child) then our baby on the way??? I just lowkey dislike his family.

yes I might be sensitive and its really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it bothered me.

THEN at the party they were looking at me sideways for not giving any solid information about the baby’s due date, gender (we genuinely dont know atm) like I owed them something???? 🙃

vent over, thank you for coming to my ted talk

Dad going back to work

First time mum to a baby girl who was born end of April at 36 weeks. My husband is going back to work today and I honestly feel like I’m not going to cope at all. He has been off work for four weeks and with me every single day, he was off and with me the whole week before I had an emergency c section because I was quite poorly and the first three weeks of baby as he extended his paternity by one more week. I have honestly been dreading this day SO much since we came home from hospital with baby, and now it’s here, I feel incredible anxiety.

I am pretty much exclusively breastfeeding baby girl, she has one formula bottle in the evening before bed generally or middle of the night but I give that feed to. My husband does every nappy change, outfit change, settled her when I’m tapped out and constantly makes sure I have food and a drink whilst doing all the house work as I seem to constantly be sat down feeding as we are going in and out of cluster feeding every few days. How am I going to cope without that constant support? 😩

I do have some support from family but a lot of them work full time/during the day so can’t help too much when he is in work. My mum doesn’t work but unfortunately our family dog gets too over excited when I am there with the baby and it’s a bit of a nightmare so it’s not like I can even pop there when I am overwhelmed because of that situation.

I have found the entrance into motherhood really up and down. Some days we have good days, she feeds well, naps well, goes down well at night, we can manage to get out for a small walk or a small outing and I feel like we have archived something then the next day things can all go to shit and I feel like I haven’t got an absolute clue how to look after her or settle her. We seem to be going through a few days of cluster feeding where she’s really unsettled and doesn’t sleep then after a day or two it gets better then we go into it again. I don’t do well in general with lack of sleep, never have!, but I’m trying my best to push on. This heatwave is also NOT helping.

I don’t exactly know what I’m looking for out of this post, maybe some advice on how you coped, tips on how to be organised and make the days easier when you only have one pair of hands, some support and encouragement because at the moment, I just feel like the future is hopeless, I won’t be happy again and I just feel like I’ll be trapped in the house every day of my maternity leave just trying to survive.

Whilst I feel all these emotions, I’m sat here crying because of the guilt of feeling like this because I know I am SO lucky to have a supportive husband and to have a beautiful baby girl.

Thank you if you’ve made it this far 💕