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How does one cope with feeling inadequate. I am a student and unemployed but do support them in many ways. I live at parents as well she, the mom. I really get sick in so many ways when I am told I am basically nothing but also told she wants to be with me in future
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My eight year old daughter is in precocious puberty. We have been talking with a specialist and our pediatrician and we are going ahead with treatment to halt the puberty process.
If you have a girl who has gone through precocious puberty or the treatment to put puberty to a halt can you please share your experiences with me?
Here is my main question:
1. How painful are the three month shots for the child? Obviously every child will react differently but was your experience.
I am worried that getting the shots could be as traumatic as going through puberty early, especially when the child does not understand why are mommy and daddy making me get this really frightening and painful shot when I am not even sick.
Thanks for any information that you think would be helpful.View Thread
I looked up the man he recommended and found awful reviews/comments about him.
So I have three questions:
What experiences have you all had with custody evaluations?
How did you know that the person you hired would be impartial?
Does anyone know anything about Dr. Robert Loveland in West Linn, OR?View Thread
And just a little backround so nobody thinks that i got pregnant by just any guy. we were together for over 2 yrs before our first baby; she is now 2yrs 9 months old. 2 months after I had our little girl, he proposed to me and i said yes. About a year later I was pregnant again with another girl who is now 9 months old. we ended splitting up during that pregnancy and he ended up getting his now girlfriend pregnant 3 months later.
Now our 2.5 yr old is starting to notice that all the other kids around her have a mommy AND a daddy, so she has been asking me non-stop "where is my daddy?" She even called out for daddy when she was upset with me the other day. I know not to talk bad about him to her or in front of her, but seriously i wish we could just act like he doesn't even exist. Like he said, we are "out of sight, out of mind." He needs to be too.View Thread
My name is Karrina and I`m a single mom to a preschooler named Delilah. I`m also 32 weeks pregnant with my 2nd daughter. we live in Ohio and I am 25 years old.
I would always refer to this site for health tips and stuff, but I just learned that they have a community. Hope to make some friends on here and get some good health tips.
have a nice weekend!View Thread
To make a super long story, as short as possible, I made this mistake of watching Stepmom last night, and can't help but wonder if maybe my kid would be better off without me. I am in fact very sick, not something anyone can catch, but sick. I've died on an operating table in the last year, and know for a fact I'm lucky to still be here, and to have the miracle child I was never supposed to have (per doctors). With my illness comes alot of down time and not alot of up being a super mom (like her stepmother). I feel like I'm screwing her up. Her school seems to be suffering this week, not bad, just enough I'm concerned, and she seems alot sadder lately, than is normal for my more uppity bright sided 8 year old. I've made her cry alot lately being in so much pain and instead of talking things out with her I yell which isn't her fault, it's mine.
I suck at being a parent, I know for a fact I do. I just want to know how some divorced parents handle not being around your child, but in the same sense, knowing you really aren't the best parent for them to be with. I know she loves me, and tells me all the time I'm the best mommy ever...just can't help but think that it isn't fair to her to have to survive me as a mother.View Thread
Did anybody else's child act out during or after the divorce and if so how did you handle it? I need help I am so tired of yelling at him by the end of the night I just cry once I get him to bed. Any advise would be greeat!View Thread
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I have met a wonderful man...we emailed back and forth for 9 months before we met...as friends only. I was so hesitant to get involved with anyone because I didnt want my children to go thru a break up again.
We have now been dating for 6 months...we live an hour apart and travel back and forth when we can. My kids love him and he loves them.
Problem? Hes having problems adjusting because hes not their father. He doesnt want to screw them up if things dont work out between us, and he doesnt know where his boundries lie. Ive told him that parenting is natural and no one has all the answers. I learn on a daily basis what im supposed to do. Unfortunately he feels like he needs to fit into this mold of being the perfect person for them. I have just reassured him that right now he needs to be a friend to start,..
Hes putting too much pressure on himself. THe relationship is perfect except for his insecurities with being in that role. And because of that would like to end things.....
Anyone have any advice on how to handle this?View Thread
However, she also guilts him and tells him he is a bad father is he doesn't spend every minute he's not working with his kids, which means after work, every day that they are with her, he goes to her house until 8:30 at night, so we don't see each other until late at night, and don't each other when HE has the kids, because the kids are there and she doesn't want me around them
She yells in front of the kids all the time, and talks dirty in front of them and belittles Dad and calls him stupid and calls him a liar and makes up accusations and tells him she can break us up any minute that she wants to... all in front of the kids.
She often won't go home from Dad's house at night and gets in bed with him and the oldest son.
She makes him feel guilty like he is taking time away from the kids if I call him, so on the rare occasion that I do call, he won't answer because he doesn't want her to yell in front of the boys.
If she does throw a fit and he tells her to leave, she threatens to take the boys and not let him see them, because he "doesn't care about them" .... The custody arrangement is not final, so he lets her do whatever she wants.
Their 4 year old son was recently diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, so they are both on leave from work to "adjust". I understand, and have told him I know they have a lot to deal with. However, he says they are pretty used to things now. It's been a few weeks and either mom goes to dad's house EVERY DAY ALLLLLL day, or he goes to her house and they spend the day with the boys until bed time. They go out to eat and to the park, and he mows her lawn and weeds the yard and cooks and cleans up - they are basically playing "family", but only temporarily. He tries to make me feel guilty for telling him our relationship still needs to have some amount of quality time invested in it, especially being with his ex so often, but he tells me he wants to be with his kids as much as he can, and asks if I am saying I don't want him to be with his kids. Well, if I had my way, dad would have the kids all the time because of mom's instability. And I babysat the kids for months and have a great relationship with them, so there's no reason he and I should not be able to hang out with them and my daughter together.
Anyway, I said all of that to ask this - am I crazy, or, now that they are both individually capable of functioning with the diabetes issue on their own, is it emotionally, mentally unhealthy for the kids to suddenly have a mom and dad all day long, when that arrangement is going to go back to separate mom and dad in a few weeks?View Thread
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I'm seeing this really nice guy and I was wondering at what point do I introduct him to my kids. Me to his kids -- our kids to each other. Is there any time frame or is it "go with your gut?"
Thanks for any advice...
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So what is your story? What circumstances, life obstacles brought you where you are at?
Well Ill make this short lol Im 22 now, been on my own since I was 19years old. I was with my bf of 4 years, been through everything, and of course had our daughter. DB was in and out of jail from the start of our relationship, but life was just too complicated for him to handle..He was in and out of jail a total of 4 times now, he even missed the birth of our daughter. The fourth time came this past Feb(which seems like so long ago now) he got arrested again, and just got sentenced in June to prison for technically 8years, but will most likely be 5 1/2 to 6 years. It was quite a shock, and Im still coming to terms with it and all aspects..including I really am going to be a single parent to our daughter. Im scared because I want to give her the world, and everyday there is something in the way I must fight through.
You see DB may sound like a bad person, but there was more to our relationship than what seemed. He really was a good daddy when he was around and I miss him like crazy. I feel for him missing out on his daughters life, and I feel for my baby, not going to know her daddy.
So anyway thats my short story, I really did not anticipate any of this for me or my daughter, but this is where life has taken me. I wake up everyday, get baby girl to daycare get myself to work all day and then again at the end of the day. I do things I dont want to do, I cry, I scream sometimes, I get lonely, frustrated, but after all of that I remind myself Im not doing any of this for me, Im doing it for her. I cannot fall weak, i cannot say "I cant" Im tired I give up" when I know Im going to go to bed pray that same prayer and wake up and do it all over again. To show my daughter, anything is possible. You are your own worst enemy, I find my strength through God. This is by far one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do and it doesnt get any easier does it...well maybe when they are out of the house...lol I dunno....sorry this got way long....View Thread
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