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How to feel more positive

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SaIll · 14/04/2026 23:20

How to be more positive? For those of you that like or enjoy lone parenting can I have some tips on how?! Particularly those with multiple children please as when I’m only with one it feels a lot more easier (not saying it’s easy just hoping to hear from those in similar situations) I feel like all I do all day is cook clean work or take care of kids. Life feels so boring and mundane and tbh im struggling with it all. They don’t see their dad so I don’t get time off. Im crumbling, struggling to keep on top of the house work (im not trying to be perfect my house is a tip) someone said something to me the other day and it was just like wow wouldnt that be nice. I was stating how hard im finding things and wish my ex would take some responsibility for the kids he also created and how id love a night to myself and they just said “but then you wouldn’t get to see your kids every day” and I just thought… is that a BAD thing?! At least then I wouldn’t spend every single day cooking, cleaning and running around after kids. Yes they can “help” but honestly their help makes things harder and they are only helping to clean the mess they make anyway. I get a few hours when they are at school some days when im not working but thats spent cleaning and running errands that it doesn’t even feel like a break. So those of you that enjoy lone parenting, do you have any tips to make it easier? Or is it just down to personality? Also it hasnt got easier as they’ve got older, if I had a penny for every time someone said that 😅

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shellyleppard · 14/04/2026 23:25

@SaIll regards the cleaning.... focus on one small area at a time. Might be just a shelf or a corner of a room. Instead of looking round and going aggghhh overwhelming!! This is how I tackled my house. Its nowhere near spotless but you can walk around the room without tripping over stuff!! Allocate the kids jobs to do. So one might pick up the books/toys/ run the hoover round? Mum to two late teens so I know what are going through x

SaIll · 14/04/2026 23:28

Thanks, they do help but it just never stays clean as the next day or so it’s back to being a mess. They need constant reminders and prompts to clean up after themselves

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