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🤹 Parenting
experiences
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Teddy W
28 January 2021
Parenting and lock time. This time has become really stressful...
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🤹 Parenting
🧒 Children
🏫 School
Georgie O
23 January 2021
Hi, how's my baby? Parenting been affected by covid my daughter's off at school for two weeks and that wasn't great and the score is now marked as vulnerable...
🤹 Parenting
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🧒 Children
Children's wellbeing
Nellie K
13 July 2021
‘Getting out’ has actually been a hot topic in our house the last few weeks. We are both facing change within the system...
🤹 Parenting
🚧 Work
🗳 Benefits
🍳 Getting by
Charlotte P
03 July 2021
Stressful and hard and exhausting. I felt so alone in the world and that’s a heavy load mentally...
🏢 Housing
🍳 Getting by
🏫 School
🧒 Children
🤹 Parenting
Angie K
08 June 2021
To lift the last lockdown or not? To have a Plan A and a Plan B…with the older one having his graduation at nursery hanging by the thread of the government’s decision, I have to look further into the future of things my Boy used to be able to do, but is limited to now and still be grateful as they say...
🧒 Children
🕰 Lockdown, rules, and social distancing
🤹 Parenting
Fiona T
18 May 2021
Both of my daughters were born extremely prematurely and with chronic lung disease. We went into the pandemic with oxygen cannisters for them, and now they have been removed I still feel extremely anxious about what may happen if they catch covid...
🔮 Hopes + fears
Children's wellbeing
😷 Covid-19
💛 Health + disability
🤹 Parenting
Lola P
05 May 2021
I’m glad I had the family time and I am thankful for that as it was scarce before.undefined...
🤹 Parenting
🥰 Lovely moments
Lola P
05 May 2021
Constant ups and downs mentally. Worried and exhausted most days...
🤹 Parenting
💸 Money + debt
🌦 Mental health
Lola P
05 May 2021
Yes I’m being pressured to do courses even though I’m not fit to work and have 3 children under 7, 2 of which are toddlers.undefined...
🗳 Benefits
🚧 Work
🤹 Parenting
Nellie K
01 May 2021
Our biggest change amidst the pandemic has been my eldest daughter starting school. It broke my heart...
🏫 School
Children's wellbeing
🤹 Parenting
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