I currently live in a two bed flat with my partner and son. The flat is a reasonable ish size, well everything but the kitchen (which is tiny) but it is not the space that is really getting me but the lack of outside space for our son to play in, dig in, get dirty and generally be a child in.
It is really getting to me a lot; it has been for the past 2 years since we moved here and its only getting worse.
I was lucky when I was a child as I grow up on a farm which is another reason why I hate the flat so much from never being indoors to have no outdoors is hard.
I feel like by not being able to teach my son about nature and plants (which is a very very big thing to me) and that I?m failing him. I do my best with a tiny balcony we have but it so small that one person can fit out there at a time and it not safe for children really.
I don?t know what to do anymore? I can?t afford to save up a deposit to move back it no private rented (nor can we afford the rent)and no one will swap 1st floor flat with noisy neighbors no outside space for a house with a garden?
Me and my partner work hard to pay the bills and keep a roof over our heads but I can't help feeling we are failing our son being able to give him a garden to enjoy?
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To not want to bring up our son in flat only a tiny balcony for outside space?
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byanymeans · 17/03/2010 11:49
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