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Saturday, 16 March 2024 - 15:49
**not for Facebook** Hoping to get actual helpful comments on this. My teenage son has been charged with indecent assualt. He was at a shopping centre and squeezed a girl on the bum while walking past (she made a complaint and it was caught on camera). He has to attend court. Son is a young teen...
Monday, 11 March 2024 - 14:42
TW Child loss First time poster, long time lurker. I am wanting to know if there is anyone out here in the similar situation…. Has anyone lost a child, (4years old from a known illness) After a few years of living a childless life, had another then regretted it? Or did you find it healing? Note I...
Sunday, 10 March 2024 - 18:05
I'm at a loss with my child. She is 8.5 She is diagnosed ADHD, ASD, ODD and Hearing Impaired She is also a trauma baby. She has ALOT going on I'm a solo parent. I do it all on my own. I do have wonderful parents but they can only do so much. My child lives in fight or flight mode. I don't know how...
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Submitted by The Imperfect Mum on Mon, 12/01/2015 - 14:09.
Perfection does not exist – yet as mothers so many of us are all striving for it. We’re all putting so much pressure on ourselves and placing so much emphasis on the “shoulds”... We should always enjoy motherhood. We should always want to ‘give’ to our kids even when there’s nothing left to give. We should be present and ready to engage, play and be there for our kids 100% of the time. We should...
Submitted by The Imperfect Mum on Tue, 09/12/2014 - 13:30.
Do you find your eyes watching other mothers and hear a little voice in your head saying, “She is so, so much better at this whole motherhood thing than me.” I do. All. The. Time. I know we shouldn’t compare. But we do, right? As sad and embarrassing as it is to admit... But why, I wonder? Why do we compare and judge ourselves so much? I mean... I’m a confident, generally self-assured person so...
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 14/09/2013 - 19:01.
This is a FAQ post. These are the most popular answers to a real question asked on The Imperfect Mum. A bit of a hard question to put into words. Lately I’m feeling like i’m now just “his wife” and “her mother” – I’m feeling like I’ve lost who I used to be. I used to be a fairly social independant woman and now I feel as though I have somehow been robbed of my independance. I have an 8 month old...