Category Archives: New Parents

How parents can feel shut down and left without a voice Being heard and understood is vitally important for parents.  Let us give you an example.  A parent on CosyChats shared her mother in law saying ‘well you wanted the child’ after s Read more...

Inherited Parenting: What to Keep, What to Let Go, What to Improve. Inherited Parenting “Parenting how you were parented?” Its natural and just happens before we realise it. As parents – it happens, even to the best of us. That moment you d Read more...

Is My Child Really Too Anxious to Go to School Children’s welfare and anxiety support. Signs of anxiety in primary school children? Is My Child Too Anxious to go to School? This was the question I asked myself this week.  It hadn’t b Read more...

Parental Loneliness is real even surrounded by friends and family. Parenthood is often described as one of the most rewarding journeys a person can take. Yet, there is a silent side to it that many are afraid to voice: the deep, overwhelming loneline Read more...

Why I chose CosyChats.com.  What is Cosychats? A groundbreaking and innovative new service, run for parents, by parents, Cosychats.com is a new online support service website for families. Created from the ground up to be a safe space for parents, b Read more...

Am I a good or bad parent? How many times have you asked yourself this? A 1,000 times or more? CosyChats is a parenting community and this is a question parents ask themselves. We’re parents to and we’ve asked it ourselves far too many ti Read more...

Why does parenting feel lonely and isolating?  “Parenting can be the loneliest job in the world—surrounded by little voices all day, yet craving to be truly seen, heard, and understood.” Isolation happens and everybody feels lonely at times bu Read more...

Is Your child a picky eater? Mine was and still is but read what took away the stress and guilt for us as parents and helped my daughter eat more. How I Turned Mealtimes from Stressful to Blissful As I scraped yet another full dinner into the bin I f Read more...

Why Are We Bickering So Much? You promised yourselves you’d never argue in front of the kids, but suddenly you’re bickering about little things and your children’s ears are picking up every word. Do We FIGHT More As PARENTS Now Than Before Read more...

I Secretly Feared I Wouldn’t Love My Adopted Child I think every adoptive parent thinks  What if adopt a child but can’t love them? This nagging fear that sits in the dark corner of your mind, usually in your most vulnerable moments.  I Read more...