Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

Anyone else feel guilty that the MIL doesn’t spend as much one on one time as your own parents? I really struggle with anxiety and I can feel resentment towards me because of it. She does get to see him once a fortnight but keeps hinting at opportunities. It doesn’t help my parents look after him once a week buts th...

So we have been in all day due to the bad weather, I got up with our son gave him breakfast, even cooked us all lunch, I then fell asleep on the couch around 4:30pm because I was exhausted as my pregnancy really is getting to me. I woke up about 45 mins later and I went straight upstairs to get ready for work and to...

I’m really struggling with my mother-in-law and not sure if I’m just being sensitive since being pregnant. My mother-in-law had a very difficult relationship with my partner’s ex when they were together and my ex rarely saw his family. Now his ex and his mum are like best friends, chatting every day. Over the last 1...

Hey, I could do with some advice because my social skills are rubbish so I have no chance managing someone else's! 🤦‍♀️ Basically, the school I chose for my daughter (age 5) was influenced by the fact that some of her nursery friends were going to the same school but she has since told me several times now that she…

A slightly odd one, I’ve been with my bf for 6years & now we have our own little boy- the odd begins NOW. I have never been into his parents home. They are odd and hoarders - he never had friends over when he was at school or anything. Now his brothers ex has been in a couple times when she was expecting their first...

I think my mother in law will give a whole bunch of other mother in laws a run for their money boy oh boy that woman is delusional 😂

Anyone else feeling the same? My little boy has become a handful over the last few weeks, as though he knows something is going on. I’m really struggling with it.. he’s such a good baby and I cannot fault him but lately he’s really testing the waters, and testing me🥲. I find myself no longer being that gentle…

How many times did you get back with your BD? Did it ever work out? We’ve broken up twice and now he wants to get back together and I’m on the fence about it. I’m due in 5 weeks, we’ve broken up twice during my pregnancy. And I have been spending time with him but as a friend. I hangout with his 4 year old daughter ...

So I’m in a bit of a situation because I’m looking in to sending my LO to nursery once he turns 2 but my partner is adamant he doesn’t want him to go. The main reason I want him to go is because I want him to interact with other toddlers and make friends and he will learn a lot more at nursery than he would at home....

So yesterday my little girl woke up completely out of the blue with a swollen eye! With it being a Saturday, we took her to the chemist, and he wasn't too concerned, feeling it was a minor skin infection on her eyelid. We weren't either at this stage because she was well within herself and it didn't seem to bother h...

There’s loads of reasons why I want to leave him, after marriage he has allowed his mum to make us argue, he has spoke crap about my to his parents. He dislikes my family, my parents and siblings and they have never done anything to him, they hardly see each other. He has no time for me, he’s always on his phone and...

I’m really struggling and don’t know what to do. My partner has two daughters who stay for a couple of nights a week and who he massively privileges in the house. He has double standards over what he expects from me and them, for example he expects me to run around after them and will not ask them to do a thing. He ...

My husband doesn’t help me with my almost 2 year old. He works a lot but when he isn’t he is just doing things for himself (playing video games, working out, being on the phone) not ever has he said “hey take some time for yourself I’ll watch him” or something along those lines. He doesn’t give our toddler his undiv...

Does anyone resent their husband since having children!? I just feel my husband has it so easy in comparison with other dads but takes it for granted and still doesn’t use his initiative to help out where I need him. It’s making me resent him and tired of constantly asking him to do things. We have a toddler and...

Feeling so alone and empty right now.. in February I kicked my then partner of 5 years out.. he'd become addicted to drugs and was being verbally abusive to me, putting drugs 1st, was basically ignoring me and our daughter and my son from previous relationship..I'd tried for months to help him but he just got worse....

So my partner works full time so I get he is tired and wants to unwind and have his time on his days off but he is still a dad and still needs to put the effort and time in for our daughter and for me. I do literally everything, basically all childcare, meals, cleaning, food shop. I don’t want my daughter exposed to...

Anyone have tips or suggestions for a first time vegetable gardener?

This is more an offload of how sad I feel about a lack of help from my parents. They live 15 mins away and I’m a FTM. My sister also lives 10mins from me, and has two kids. When my sister had her babies my mum moved in to help - she covered night shifts and helped round the house. When my mum went back home both she...

Tell me if I’m crazy or if this seems plausible lol. I’ve been with my boyfriend for a year come this June. I’ve just introduced him to my little girl (3 y.o) and we’ve been talking more long term (places we want to live, children etc) This week we’ve spoken a total of maybe 2-3x, and those were just to check in or...

So my partner decided he couldn’t stop himself from drinking for yet another weekend - I resulted in kicking him out my house and he decided the appropriate response to this was to kick my front door down. He’s now in police custody for criminal damage. I don’t want sympathy just to offload on private mode I guess...