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Anon Imperfect Mum
To all the mumma’s out there with teen daughters I need help My 14 year old won’t clean her room won’t help with housework is rude talks back swears calls me a bitch tells everyone to kill Themselves calls her dad a ashore just very angry I can’t get her to help around the house and recently if I...
Anon Imperfect Mum
I am so fed up lately. The country city I live in is now a city city and I hate it. I hate the traffic and I really dislike all the big city people moving here and making it worse. I'm unsettled and stressed with my teens as they just take take take and I'm constantly trying to help them to get...
Anon Imperfect Mum
My mum is a text book narc. Loads of childhood trauma, she passed on as a young mum to her children. My dad is a flying monkey/ enables the bevaiour sadly. We always say if she murdered someone, he would just grab a shovel & join her. Married for 57 years, nothing is going to change. Now they...

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Separation anxiety is fairly normal occurrence and most children will experience this at some stage. And it's something they will eventually grow out of. My daughter suffered from it when she started prep so i've learnt some things along the way so I thought I would share them with you all. 1) Make sure tell them what is happening. Explain using direct language what will be happening try to do...
This is a FAQ post. These are the most popular answers to a real question asked on The Imperfect Mum. I’m needing advise on how to stop my 3.5 year old from swearing! She constantly swears when angry/frustrated or when she simply doesn’t get what she wants. I admit I’m guilty of dropping the F bomb on occasion. How do I make her understand these words are not appropriate or acceptable? Emma: We’...
I wonder when is it appropriate to turn the other cheek. Are we too busy with our own life that we either walk past or something we shouldn’t? The other morning I was driving my kids to school I noticed two boys in the car in front taunting another kid who was walking along beside their car (we were going very slow due to congestion). You could tell the boys in front were the “popular” boys. They...
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