To ask for your little parenting wins that you're proud of

[Flamingogirl08]

I'm just sat here feeling proud of myself because my 13 month old had been absolutely refusing to let me brush her teeth. Clamping mouth shut, crying, holding her breath.

She loves it when I sing to her so I made up a teeth brushing song and sang it while I did my teeth and when doing hers. For the past week she has let me brush her teeth absolutely no problem, even laughing and being all cute about it.

Sometimes a little win like that can make everything seem that bit easier.

So what are your little wins?

I remember once when DD was about 3/4 I was in the queue in the local Tesco, DD got away from me (undiagnosed ADHD), and managed to knock down a small display near the counters. I did what I thought was the standard response of getting to her level and saying something along the lines of "right, if we knock something down, we pick it up - I'll help you though" and continued to set it all back along with DD.

A youngish (late 20s I guess) guy caught up with me at the crossing outside and said that he saw how I'd handled it and hoped that he was as good a parent as I when it came to his turn. Bloody hell I was proud of myself. DD was super-difficult due to said ADHD, and I spent most of my time wondering why the fuck I was failing when all other parents around me seem to be so in control. That guy doesn't know how much his kind words meant (and still mean) to me.

My 15 year old DC is doing their homework regularly because they're so fed up of my nagging apparently.

Well...it worked! #winning 😂

I have toddler twins. It’s hard going sometimes. So often when I’m out with them a mum with one toddler will look at me and I can see her thinking “Fuck me, imagine two!” . And I feel better.

There is an Aquafresh app which has a 2 minute toothbrushing song. Thank me later

"Brush, brush, brush, brush, brush your mouth - every lash bit of food is gonna be found!"

I just booked us a holiday abroad for October and told DD (6). She's not allowed to scream but she's so excited that she did. And I let her.

Our first holiday abroad since her dad left. I'm proud of that.

Both of my young adult children enjoy coming back for the weekend. Makes me so happy.

When people in public tell me that my son is a lovely boy or well behaved!

we also potty trained entirely by accident, 2 accidents later and he’s been totally dry throughout the day since

Ah I love all of these 🥰

My 10yo, after SO many hours of us trying to encourage her, has been standing up to her bullies and telling the teacher when they have been unkind to her. This may seem quite small but honestly it’s really knocked her confidence, she wouldn’t dare say a word back to anyone and it was getting impossible to build her confidence back up. But we are finally there, and they are now leaving her alone! I was at the school today for an assembly for my son and saw my DD in the playground having a fantastic time with her mates and it made me so happy as I’d imagined playtimes to be horrible bitchfests.

With my 6yo son - he’s just so wonderfully polite. He holds doors open for people and says “after you” and always tells me what a great mummy he thinks I am and always thanks me for anything I do. He can also apologise when the time calls for it.

When ds was a toddler and we used to meet up with friends at each other’s houses for lunch I invented a game called “how loud can you crunch your carrot”. We used to have competitions about it. I then diversified into cucumbers. The kids all ate the vegetables whilst we pretended to put our hands over our ears about the loudness of the crunching.