How would you feel?

If you were spending money on yourself for the first time in 2 years (I just went back to work after 2 years of being a sahm) and your husband made comments about ‘just cause you have it doesn’t mean you have to spend it’ or ‘there’s more important things’ would you be upset? Or?

in our community

Would you trust your 3 year old to wake up, go downstairs and play with his toys alone before you wake up?

He either has figured out his stair gate or my partner forgot to fully shut it after him so the last couple of mornings he has been going downstairs to his favourite toys and playing with them for a short time before coming to wake one of us up for his breakfast.

This is at like 545am and our alarms don’t start going off till 6/630am so it’s not the longest of times that he’s unsupervised, but I don’t know how I feel about it. He is trusted to be alone and play downstairs during the day if I need to tidy upstairs, as he isn’t the type to climb or jump of stuff.

Advice

Hi everyone,

I’m just looking for some advice or to hear from other parents who have been through something similar.

My little boy has just turned 2. He babbles a lot but isn’t saying any words yet. He responds to his name most of the time at home, gives good eye contact with me, and can follow some simple instructions. However, he doesn’t really play with toys in the typical way and often just carries one around.

I really struggle taking him out to places like the park, the farm or soft play. He doesn’t seem interested in the activities like other children are and would much rather push his pram around. Today I noticed he didn’t really seem interested in the other children either. They were running around and playing together, but he just wanted to do his own thing. I often come home feeling upset because I see other children enjoying everything while he doesn’t seem interested. Lately I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed, and sometimes I wonder if there’s any point in taking him out because he never seems to enjoy it.

He gets frustrated quite easily, especially with toys like shape sorters, even though I’ve shown him lots of times how to use them. Recently he’s also started putting his fingers in his ears even when there’s no loud noise.

We’re already under Speech and Language Therapy and are waiting for our next appointment, but I’d really appreciate hearing from parents who’ve experienced something similar. Did your child go on to talk? Did they become more interested in other children and activities as they got older? What helped?

Thank you ❤️

Homeschooling? Uk 💛

Hey ladies!!

I’d love to hear from some mummas currently homeschooling their little ones 🤗
I’m thinking it’s the best course of action for me & my boys for a little.

We have a big move coming up that will involve moving schools, I don’t want them to start a school year in one school, and then a couple weeks later do a huge move & have to start another. I’m looking into homeschool for a short period to ease the big transition for them. Any advice is soooo welcomed 🩷

Ladies help…

I feel so broken & confused… I have been told by a few people that my fiancé had an outside child on me, while we are together. I have not mentioned it to him as of yet because I don’t know how. Then what it’s not true but what if it is… We have a child together and this would crush me if it’s true. Especially with us talking about having another child after we get married next summer. I can’t see myself marrying him if he cheated. To make it even worse it suppose to be from his baby momma who he say he despise and always bad mouthing. But sitting here thinking I don’t feel that he really does, it’s starting to look like a show to put on so it doesn’t look so suspicious. How do I bring this topic up? What if it’s true? I really have to walk away from a man I built and poured into, the family we’ve created and memories that was made.

Baby rice

When is everyone starting to feed their babies baby rice it’s all changed now from when I had my older kids

Feel like im drowning

I know it is just a phase and things will get better but I honestly am struggling so much! My baby is 3 months old. I always wanted to be a mum but I have been finding it so much more challenging than I thought it would be. I love my baby so much and when he smiles, I forget how hard things have been but whenever he is crying or I finally get him to sleep and have a moment to think, I can honestly say I am not enjoying motherhood.

Baby is having problems with feeding and I have had to go private to get the support I need as I was not gwtting any help from the NHS. He is bottle fed but has a tongue tie (recently diagnosed). This has caused alot of colic symptoms which have been a real struggle. Going private now is also an unforseen expense which is going to be a challenge to work around but for my baby to feel better, I will make it work.

I dont have family in the country and have very few friends. I have struggled to make mum friends through antenatal classes or baby groups so I feel very alone. Also, everyone around me with babies dont seem to be having the same experience.

I feel so isolated and alone and just dont know if it will get better.

I dont really know why I am posting this.. probably just to get it off my chest.