SIL insists on bringing her menace ‘child’ to Xmas
“How do I keep my kids safe without upsetting her again? What can I say to her? How do I even phrase it?”
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‘He got home minutes after I found the camera’
“It’s not enough for the whole situation I’ve been through these three years. I was angry because the damage that he caused me is irreversible.”
I ‘underparent’ – but no need to call the cops, the kids are fine
“The opposite of over-parenting (being a helicopter parent) is not neglect – it’s something much more useful for us all.”
My fiance wants us to take a break – I’m 36 weeks pregnant
“I am feeling increasingly more isolated and almost ‘playing pretend’ that it will all be fine when the baby is here.”
‘My 11yo won’t stop sneaking toys into our house’
“I think it’s a bit cruel … She needs a place where she can feel OK being a young girl and feel some autonomy over her belongings.”
‘You never did that’: Why do our parents forget what we were like as kids?
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