Does anyone else here have children?

I was just wondering if anyone else here had kids, and how this has affected them being a parent.

I have a 18 month daughter, and I feel horrible and worry about "scarring her for life" over my problems.

I am a stay at home mom, and she does't get to interact with other children often, and I'm scared that I will make her really shy also...

Does anyone else have this problem?

i have a 3 year old and i make myself do things for him such as take him to the park and swimming etc i feel guilty to im a single parent r u?

No, I'm not a single parent. Me and her father live together, though we aren't married. He's always working though, and when he gets home he never wants to leave the house because, "he's worked all day, and just wants to stay home..." :roll:

I try to take my daughter to the park and stuff too, but I end up just getting so bored because I really don't have any friends to go with me...
Nobody I know has kids, so it's hard to find anyone to relate to.

I would like to take my daughter to classes or something, but I can't stomach the thought of trying to talk to all the other mothers because I'm so shy.

Does it get any easier when they get older, like your son? Maybe with them being able to talk to people themselves and stuff?

Makayla

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the problem i have is im not shy, i just hate talking to people bcause i get a lip tremor and i get nervous about it happening im not so bad if people stand well away from me!

but i cant go to groups with my child i would just get so nrvous.
im dreading when i have to take him to childrens parties,
does ur child go 2 nurserie or playgroup. i really struggle even waiting to pick him up i make sure i go at the lst min so i dnt hav 2 speak 2 anyone.
it really upsets me but i make myself take him and pik him up.

i dnt hav any friends as such cause i stopped going out with them,they dnt bother wiv me anymore!

i feel your lucky ,you can overcome shyness but i simply dnt think my tremor will eva go away,have u tried giving yourself small tasks each day i find this really helps!

my son is 14 and seems fine, my daughter is 12 but is showing signs of shyness already, get the feeling she may be abit SA but isnt half as bad as I was at her age.

I have 3 children, a daughter, 14 and 2 sons 12 and 2 and i would love to take my 2 year old to toddler playgroups and i have tried on several occasions but can never make it through the door. I'm a stay at home mum too mainly because i want to stay at home and raise him until he goes to school but also because i haven't got the courage to go out and get a job either. I'm really worried that i will pass this on to my kids but fingers crossed the eldest 2 seem ok and show no signs, they are both really out going and confident and both have a lot of friends. I dread the day when my youngest goes to school and i have to go out and get a job but hopefully i will be better by then or at least slightly improved anyway as i'm currently looking for a therapist. My fiance is fantastic and is very supportive and life is so much easier with him in my life.

hello, I have two children, a girl who is three and a boy who is 19 months, I get a lip tremmor when im talking to people sometimes usually when i laugh, i find it really embarrasing so i find play groups and things really difficult. I too worry about the effect this will have on my children, my partner doesnt know i have social phobia I would feel really embarressed to tell him, i have a friend who has two young children too, though i see her once a week I even find this really nervracking! stupid eh ive known her for 9 years!! anyway i have recently started to make myself go to toddler groups with my children no matter how bad i feel, over the weeks sometimes i felt nervouse but now when i go im starting to feel a bit better, though I wish i knew someone that felt like me, it would make these things so much easier, when im out i tend to sit away from people incase they realise how nervouse I am.

lip tremor

i cant believe ive found somebody else who suffers from a lip tremor like me. i have a little boy who is three i also find it difficult to take him groups etc i have emailed you blue but it didnt show in my sent messages so i dont no whether it got to you so if it didnt let me no

Yes ,Ive got 3 kids , eldest girl 18 , full of confidence , totally unlike me ,thank god
boy of 7 lacks confidence a bit ,Ill keep an eye on that ,
girl 3 , early days yet , but shes not backwards at coming forwards , hope she stays like that .
Ive never taken my kids to playgroups etc , would have liked to give them a try but never plucked up courage , the fact that these groups tend to be rather cliquey doesnt help.