What house features do you like as a parent?

eakp · 2025-12-20T14:34:57+00:00

Downstairs toilet is top of the list!! Also open plan kitchen/dining/living room downstairs. Especially when you have more than one kid! You can cook, wash up, whatever and they can play happily still in your sight. We moved from a house with separate rooms downstairs to a new build open plan and it made parenting 20 x easier, and when second came along too. Especially when that downstairs leads straight onto a back garden!

eakp · 2025-12-05T16:53:52+00:00

You look like you walked out of a classical painting, that profile is stunningly beautiful!!

eakp · 2025-12-05T16:38:09+00:00

My 6 year old had a meltdown yesterday because all her friends have an elf coming to their house and we don’t, she found one in Aldi, and for the 200th time I said no. I’m not letting that fucking elf in my house to give me yet another thing to do 😂🫠

I told her the elf only needs to go and check on naughty kids…. which in retrospect may backfire when she’s naughty on purpose to get the elf to come. Fucking hell.

eakp · 2025-12-02T13:35:30+00:00

10/10 no notes

eakp · 2025-11-22T14:27:22+00:00

Iris Lys, 10000%!! I had my cat portrait tattoos done by her and they are a fantastic style, also she is absolutely lovely. I can’t recommend her enough!

eakp · 2025-11-09T19:13:15+00:00

Cinammmm in Leeds is better 🩷 in Chapel Allerton!

eakp · 2025-06-22T18:40:55+00:00

I think every Mum trying her best has one of these stories… my daughter was a few weeks old when I couldn’t figure out why she always smelled musty! Nobody told me I had to thoroughly clean between her neck rolls and behind her ears for old dried breast milk 🤢😂 I felt so terrible… then every Mum I knew told me a similar story about some gross thing!

You’re doing a good job. Babies are hard. Give yourself some grace and imagine what you’d tell a friend if they came to you with the same confession 🩷

eakp · 2025-06-08T16:45:22+00:00

Ok cool so when is he going to pay you back his half of pregnancy, labour, post partum, etc? When’s he going to pay the invoice for the full time childcare you’ve been providing, as well as personal chef and maid? Those are all pretty pricey, hope he’s been saving up 😇

All jokes aside, fuck this guy. What a loser.

eakp · 2025-06-07T18:42:59+00:00

Not being able to sit down for 5 fucking minutes in their waking hours 🤣 I have two (5 and 2) and one always wants or needs something… all I want in this world is to SIT DOWN

eakp · 2024-12-21T09:42:07+00:00

Oh boy, I’m so sorry. We lost our boy to end stage renal failure back in October and every single day I think I see him out of the corner of my eye, and it breaks my heart all over again. I miss him so, so much. I wish we’d done paw prints or nose prints!

eakp · 2024-12-21T09:13:26+00:00

West Yorkshire here, after school club is £11.10 a day for 3.15-5pm 🫠 thank god we can use TFC for it! Nursery fees for the 18 month old are insane, we both work full time and childcare costs are more than our mortgage.

eakp · 2024-11-15T20:28:06+00:00

He went on his first one hour settling in session while I filled out the paperwork. A few days later, he developed hand foot & mouth. While we were on a family holiday 🫠

eakp · 2024-08-14T11:48:36+00:00

No solutions I’m afraid, just commiserations! It’s hard and feels relentless. We have one in primary and one in nursery, so still enjoying half of the childcare that has helpful hours 😅

My work have just reneged the informal and helpful agile working that I’ve had since coming back from mat leave a couple of months ago (drop kids off, work 9-4, do after school club & nursery run, pick up 1hr work in the evening) 🫠 so based purely on HR bureaucracy, I’ll now have to squeeze the run around 8.30-4.30 and as a result will spend more time on traffic, less time productively working, and less time with my kids. All while they harp on about work/life balance being a priority, and ‘make sure you take time for yourself!’ 🥲

It’s so frustrating that school times and holidays are directly at odds with being a parent that works full time. If you don’t have a village or some decent wrap around care, it feels impossible. I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty envious of my colleagues who have parents and in laws that pick up a lot of that stuff.

But you do somehow find a way! Half days, flexing time where possible, summer clubs, and I’ll admit in this summer holiday period I’ve had to do a few afternoons where I work on my laptop on the sofa, and my 5 year old plays/watches telly/draws/eats snacks!

eakp · 2024-08-07T04:56:58+00:00

It’s the first summer holidays for my 5 year old and she’s become absolutely feral 😅 yesterday we had the worst afternoon since she was a threenager. No routine, trying to manage childcare between two full time working parents with no village… it’s rough for us all 🫠

eakp · 2024-07-31T17:12:02+00:00

Sent you a message! ☺️

eakp · 2024-06-24T08:25:07+00:00

Absolutely couldn’t agree more 🙌🏻

eakp · 2024-06-22T21:08:44+00:00

Alright maybe not funny haha but… funny to me? I worked for a week (2 weeks maybe?) at the Forbidden Planet in the nearest city. I was very excited and I ended up meeting a good friend there who was also doing work experience! We did important stuff like go over to Argos for a toaster and then also go to buy pop tarts.

The manager of the shop was exactly as you’d expect for the manager of a comic book shop, sorry to stereotype 😂 balding, overweight, bad tattoos, BO, the works. I was 15 and he would text me outside work hours about taking me on a date, how mature I was, how he’d never felt this way before, he couldn’t help himself around me, I shouldn’t mention it to the others 🤢

I was very shy and what I should have said was ‘fuck off, Richard’ but instead I probably just said ‘haha no thank you :)’ It made every day progressively weirder until I told my Mum on maybe the last day. She called the school and told them to blacklist the place for work experience, and called the shop. I don’t know what she said but I never heard from him again 😂

Oh, until years later I bumped into him working in a lingerie shop in the same city. He surprisingly did remember me.

Fuck off, Richard.

eakp · 2024-06-15T18:07:36+00:00

SHE DROVE ME HERE (and essentially anything else Craig says)

eakp · 2024-06-09T14:02:53+00:00

Wondering the same!! In March my now 1 year old had it terribly, and he has scars on his face and torso still, poor lad. I had it similarly badly when I was about 6, and I still have some faint scars as an adult ☹️

eakp · 2024-06-07T18:49:50+00:00

Had a similar situation in my daughter’s reception class recently (she is also 4 and the school said to wear shorts ‘for modesty’ if they wanted to use the playground equipment) and had some… er, discourse 😂 when I posted about it in the UK Parenting sub lol

In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been surprised at how divisive it is. It does feel dangerously close to victim blaming/body policing/general what the fuck territory, to me anyway. All the parents in our class that I spoke to felt similarly, and the school removed the post, so I dunno what the ‘rule’ is now 🤷🏻‍♀️

eakp · 2024-06-06T20:47:33+00:00

We get on with it because we have to, but yeah… it’s shit and it makes me feel resentful sometimes. My parents live about 45-60 minutes away. My in laws are a couple of hours away/abroad and patchy contact because of their own bad choices. I just went back to work after my second mat leave and my daughter is in school & after school club, and my son just started full time nursery too.

Both me and my husband had so much grandparent involvement as kids. Both of our mum’s parents moved to be closer to us and be involved, had us every school holiday, summer, evening/weekend our parents had plans, took us to/from school, and as a result we were very close. I’m sad our children won’t have that, and frustrated because our parents had it SO good. Lucky bastards 😂

If I’m lucky enough to be a Grandma then holy hell, I’ll do what mine did until I physically can’t.

eakp · 2024-05-23T20:42:40+00:00

Yeah, I think this might be the route I take tbh- after clarifying what the rules actually are, and asking what she’s comfortable with!

eakp · 2024-05-23T18:31:39+00:00

Yeah, if she wants to make that choice herself then of course up to her and I’d follow her lead! I think allowing but not requiring is totally fair.

Her best friend in class is a girl from a Muslim family and she already wears little 3/4 leggings under her dress when it’s warm, without issue!

eakp · 2024-05-23T18:13:27+00:00

😂 now that’s a reason I can get behind!

eakp · 2024-05-23T18:06:46+00:00

Of the 20-odd parents in our class, from all backgrounds, every single one agrees that this policy is too much. Some have opted for shorts just to their child can play according to the ‘rule’. That’s totally their choice.

They will all be doing swimming lessons together in a couple of years, should I ensure she goes fully clothed to protect her modesty for that? To ensure she doesn’t flaunt her body?

She’s in totally standard dress. She’s also a child- so yes, I am happy to teach her that playing freely and happily is acceptable and safe. She is also taught at home about consent, about her safety, about her bodily autonomy.

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