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1. Not feeling guilty

2. Not feeling guilty

3. Not feeling guilty

It really seems everything I don't do impacts something else which impacts someone else......how did I get to be this important???

1. Looking after my 7 month old baby when i was really sick with a tummy bug

2. Keeping time for me to be me. I tend to spend so much time organising things for my baby and my partner, i forget that i need attention.

3. Keeping the house clean, ahhhhh its a mess and i clean it, in half a day its a mess again.

1.  Time sharing/organising - Work, Family, hubby and Me time (I've forgotten what me time is, I think it's when I'm in the shower maybe or getting ready for bed?)

2. Discipline and consintency - enough, not enough am I being too hard or too soft etc..

3. Relaxing and being stress free - trying to teach hubby to relax a lot more and not stress.

I work full time and hubby has switched with me and stays at home with the kids. (6, 4, 18mths)

 

Hi all. I guess mine are

1. Spending alone time with each of the kids and hubby time. The kids are 16, 9, 3, and 1 years of age.
2. Housework etc
3. Finding time for me and reminding myself it is ok to do that.

I am a full time stay at home mom.

I just joined and wanted to jump in:

My biggest challenges are:
1. Not to have too high expectations (I think it's been passed down from my mom)
2. Learn to be patient (especially since my daughter is approaching age 2, though I think the terribleness has started at 13 months
3.  I too am struggling to find a balance between being a mom, the provider for all cats-dog-kid-DH, and a wife.

wow those r great. my top 3 would have to be:

1 trying not to feel guilty that my kids dont have a live in dad

2 trying my best to keep a friendship with their dad, and

3 hoping im going to be able to give them what they need, emotionally and material things

my kids are 5 and 3

I would say

1. Spending quality time with my baby during the weeknights (fulltime working mum)

2. Housework

3. Balancing a budget!

My partner and I always spend at least half an hour together once our boy is asleep talking before bed during the week just to see how their day went! this was a promise we made when i fell pregnant-and we've stuck to it. it 's not the same as going out together, but we're not mum & dad at this time, we're our own people again!

I would say:
1. balancing life between being a mother, a wife and myself (which I always be a mother first then a wife then myself)
2. balancing quality times between 2 kids and myself (although they always come first)
3. going out by myself without feeling bad or miss the kids and hubby

1. Struggling with keeping my identity as wife & a woman, as of now I am 90% mom and who knows what the other 10% is.

2. Spending quality time with my husband.

3. Watching what I do around my son (as in displaying frustration toward the dog, etc. ) as he is copying everything!

My son is 16 1/2 months.

1 spending time with my husband (he finishes work at 11 pm)

2. staying on top of the hosuework (have a day off, get a month behind....)

3. studying instead of procrastinating on minti!

okay so they aren't really parenting related. that sbecause my little one is so demanding and an angel at the same time. and at the moment he sleeps literally allll day.

Mine are fairly close to the above mentioned as well as;

1 - Trying to remember what a newborn is like!

2 - Juggling said newborn and toddler at unfortunate same dinner time ( earlier than hubby gets home )

3 - haircut and eyebrows don't get done,( Hard to schedule at this early stage I need organisational tips)

Maybe the third point is irrelevant but I feel the need to keep my morale up trying to look at least decent!

My top 3 Challenges are also very similar

1. Balance between work, family & "me" time (unfortunatly work is winning)
2. Consistant disapline! I just love giving into him wiping his tears and putting a cheeky little smile on his dial
3. Effective communication in the household by all members.

I'm a father of one (with another on the way) and your top 3 are very close to what I think mine are.

1. Balance between work and family life
2. Spending time with my wife (and time to relax)
3. Always coming up with new ways to play and learn with the little one