Just a rant really, hmmm I’m so fed up right now. I live with my parents, so does my 18 month old and my partner and I feel so suffocated by it all. 7 people in a small 3 bed house and it’s really draining me now. My parents don’t know or won’t accept the limitations when it comes to my daughter.

The teaching, discipline, and major decisions are mine and no one else’s but i get overridden! I say no sweets and they give them to her. Talia has a paddy and I chose to ignore her and they smother her with attention which makes her worse.

I know that they are trying to help but it’s making me feel less like the parent and not in control. I’m very sensitive and I know that I am but this is most certainly not me being too sensitive.

I can see the future and in it, my child has no respect for me or my authority because someone else is always undermining me. Fair dos’, my mother has raised 3 children and knows her stuff but I also know how to raise my child and am doing a pretty dam good job I think!

My daughter is hardly a walking dictionary and refers to a few things with the same word but when she shouts for mammy or daddy, my parents go running before me and my partner have a chance to move. its like they actually think they are the parents sometimes and to be honest it is slightly freaky.

There are also the subtle hints of us finding our own place (with this credit crunch, its not so easy) but we are trying and they invited us to move in because our house was damp.

I feel a little out of control of my own life and everything at the minute. i just needed to rant a bit randomly. Even if no one reads this, it still has made me feel better as if I have just stood up and screamed lol x