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[Sandra 🌸🌷 @Sandra726111]

Dear life, please allow me to stay long enough to watch my children grow. To see who they become, to witness their dreams come true, and to be there whenever they still need their mama.

[omoge. @KhloeUmoh]

Another cheat code is to elevate the mundane and make good habits accessible.

Buy a pretty water bottle with a straw, a self squeezing mop, a robe and some cleansing cuffs, nice sheets, etc.

Make the most basic things enjoyable.

[nine⁷ @tensosea]

I don’t blame Ciara one bit. If I found a partner that made me feel this safe and calm during one of the scariest and even deadliest times in a woman’s life? I too will give you more than 3….

[Timothy @fwtimini]

Car insurance needs to be paid back at the end of the year if you didn’t get into an accident

[Mufti Menk @muftimenk]

Say this prayer. "Almighty. Grant me contentment. Don’t let my mind believe that everyone seems to have a better life than I do. Teach me to be grateful for all that You have given me and all that You took away. Aameen."

[Bolanle sells ready to wear♥️ @_Nursepreneur]

You will tell an elderly British woman you are pregnant, she will ask when you are due and you think she is not going to remember
Then close to when baby is due, she shows up with hand woven blankets and clothes that she started netting ever since she found out 🥹

[K. @Kumms_]

I derive so much joy from pressing “No Tip” 😩😩

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

PUMPING IS WAY HARDER THAN NURSING.
there I said it.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

Tbh, dating someone who naturally keeps you updated on everything they do without having to be asked is such a beautiful thing.

[Nathan ✰ @Just1Nathann_]

Growing up, I once overheard our neighbour telling his daughter, who was about to get married:

“There are depths in a relationship you will never experience if your partner isn’t your friend. Two people can be in love and not be friends.”

[G. Ritzer @myth_coder]

Sexual adventures every couple should experience at least once:

Here are the lists:

[Bree @breann_b_]

The last few days of pregnancy feel like an eternity😭

[Corper Peperenpe 👻 @abys_era]

some parents don’t want a relationship with their adult children. they want the AUTHORITY they had when those children were 12.🙂‍↔️

[Thee Comfort O.🌸 @comfortomovre]

My own hot take is that hitting children is lazy parenting. You don’t want to do the work required to regulate your own emotions, reason with them, and find alternatives for effective discipline. Carrying a cane to inflict pain because, “that would teach them to behave” just feels so much easier. And if you really took some time to introspect, you’d realize that’s what it is.

Can children be overwhelming? Yes. Can parenting be frustrating? Yes! (I’ve worked with kids and helped raised kids within my community, it’s hard work! There’s no disputing that). But at the end of the day, they’re childreeennn! If at your big adult age, you still misbehave, struggle to get things right, make mistakes, get upset, throw tantrums, “snap” when you’re overwhelmed, how much more CHILDRENNNNN!

The problem is we automatically view them as stubborn, as they know exactly what they’re doing but are being willfully errant. And maybe, sometimes, that’s the case. But you also have to consider that they’re over stimulated, they’re overwhelmed. They’re confused. They’re sad. Upset, temperamental, hurt, insecure, etc. And they don’t have effective tools yet for dealing with all of these emotions without acting out.

Yes, kids need discipline, but your only or most common form of discipline cannot be beating. You shouldn’t even be hitting children at all. All the beating you received, what did it do but instil fear in you? Sometimes, hatred. Sometimes, a sense of worthlessness and brokenness. Sometimes, silence. Sometimes, a reinforcement of the very behaviour you were beaten for.

Think back carefully to all the times you were beaten as a kid for a behaviour, was it the beating that made you change that behaviour (if you did), or was it fear and pain? Is that what you want to teach your kids? Especially if that behaviour can be corrected through other means of discipline that won’t leave them emotionally and physically scarred?

Hian.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

MOTHERHOOD has really TAUGHT me that you really do just have to do it tired.

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

Nobody talks enough about how genuinely FUN toddlers are. The random conversations, the dancing, the excitement over the smallest things. It's such a sweet age. 🤍

[T. @topelawall]

@aBikeDada 😂

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Can we talk about how exciting it is when your toddler starts actually having little conversations with you?! Like hello??? When did you become a whole person with opinions?? 🥹

[Beyoncé follows her @MsAdaO]

Nothing as satisfying as a hungry baby with the perfect latch emptying engorged boobs.

The relief on both sides >>>>>