Community Posts, Tips & Support on Parenting

I know this is small but I’m absolutely disgusted and need a little vent. Last night my daughter was playing with an Elsa doll and she was lifting its dress and saying she was wearing underwear and tickling its belly. My SIL told her “Shame, Shame. This is shameful. It’s shameful to lift people’s dresses. Shame on...

So my MIL and SIL came for a visit, and both my little girls had a rash. Now I told both of them that the girls had been seen to and I had been told it was a viral as they was asking. Now they decide to take it upon themselves to take both girls to a pharmacist without my permission or prior knowledge that they were...

It’s my MIL birthday on New Year’s Day and she’s asked us to go over and stay New Year’s Eve so she can wake up to us all there for her birthday. Now my MIL is in the process of selling her house so most of the furniture is gone, there’s no spare bed so we’d have to sleep on a blow up bed/ only one sofa that fits 2 ...

My partner told me creepy when I try to igniate (I’ve tried too once when we are on the couch by climbing on top and he pushed me off telling me to get off) then he tried to say he didn’t mean it like that and said I’m just rapey and look like I want another kid in situations when I want to go a second round or th...

He said he would love to buy me a ring and propose again, but we never really manage to save up. He got his bonus, I feel like spending 1/5th of it on a nice present for me is fair? Given I don’t work so I can’t save up for it myself. Thoughts? The rest will go towards home improvement and savings for our child.

Am I overreacting I have an almost 3 year old and a 9 week old baby my "partner" only ever wants to spend time with our three year old, this morning they went to the park, neither me nor our baby were invited. I made a comment saying "thanks for the invite" and all he said was "you can come if you want" but to me ...

Has anyone else lost all motivation to get prepared for baby?! I’m 36weeks5days I feel like a few weeks ago I had everything under control and was on top of everything, the nursery was all set up literally ready for baby’s arrival and then I’ve had an influx of gifts etc from family now piling up and sitting there t...

Really don’t know how to deal with this at the moment - any help/advice would be much appreciated. My 4 year old was looking through old pictures and saw some of her grandad (my FIL) before he passed away. Now she is absolutely inconsolable crying and saying she wished he wasn’t dead and she loves him so much. I’...

My partner sings right. So he said he had a show yesterday with his friend yesterday. He left the house around 3pm yesterday and he said he should be back 11pm-12am I said alright. I messaged him around past 1am if he is coming home or not. He replied around past 3am saying his friend’s car broke down and they took ...

So my husband thinks I have a "boss" syndrome, where I'm more authoritative in my parenting. He is super laissez-faire, jokes around a lot and unless- he is the definition if a "fun dad" & I love that, he's a wonderful father. BUT he lets a looot of things go with our 5yr old. She's our oldest (we have a 3 yr old, ...

So my boyfriend’s bm calls about 3-4 times a day for him to talk to their son(1yo). (NO I DONT HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT) but my issue is the excessive calling and when she does call, it’ll be something like she puts their son in the camera for the first 5 minutes or so then faces it to her and just talks and rambles ...

So we are taking our son on a cruise for his bday. We offered to take my husband’s parents as a thank you for helping take care of Karlton every now and then when we need them. My MIL gave a bunch of excuses one of them being that my SIL needs their help during the week. My FIL picks up SILs kids every day from scho...

I’m currently 2 months post partum. Had a huge argument with husband they other day as he recently has become extremely disconnected with me more than he was when I was pregnant (which we used to have issues about) his reasoning when i confronted his lack of consideration to make time for me show me love and care wa...

Anyone else feel like they’re constantly stressed. Like wether or not his hitting his milestones on time or making sure he has enough tummy time. I’m stressed because my he’s not yet sleeping through the night (multiple wake ups min10) like has never slept through longer then 3hrs block. Stressed because he won’t sl...

So me and my partner have been together 6 years, we have a daughter together and we live together however he’s not really affectionate with me, sexually yes he is but cuddling/kissing or any other kind of affection he isn’t, I understand that people aren’t affectionate I get that but I’ve spoken to him about this an...

He is absolutely heartbroken, he can’t even look at her and smile without her looking like she dislikes him or getting upset-what can we do about this? It happens a lot and this morning he said he can’t take it anymore, he is so upset! He genuinely feels like she hates him. Obviously I reassure him, and said she’...

Last night after putting my little boy to bed i decided to put a film on downstairs and sit and soak the gel of my nails as they needed re doing, I stupidly left the bowl with acetone in on the footstool after and just went to bed. Anyway this morning i completely forgot i had left it there and got my little boy up...

I’m a sahm have been for the past almost 2 years now, my husband works a pretty demanding job which entails a lot of driving, early mornings 430-5am and getting home late 5-8 pm. So I am at home alone with my child basically all day, I’ve recently just been feeling pretty alone and isolated given it’s also winter ti...

I’ve been married for one year in a relationship one year and my bad fight with my husband and ask him if he wanted a divorce and he told me it was up to me. He hasn’t been home except once in a few weeks I don’t know what to do at this point. Any good advice I love him and all, but it’s breaking me down tearing me ...

So my MIL have always had our issues however now that I have my own son I refuse to hold my tongue anymore. My partner was joking around with me on thanksgiving around his family saying that he can’t wait until our son is a bit older so he can go for rides on his stepdads Harley to which I had laughed about saying y...