Parenthood is having children. It includes raising them. These can be biological or adopted children. They can even be stepchildren.
Parenthood adds to your social life because you always have your children for company. Raising them is rewarding and can make you happy. You can also make friends with other parents when you have play dates, and there are parent/child play groups you can join.
My best advice where parenthood is concerned is to be consistent at all times. Children really do need boundaries and they will test them. Never make empty threats because that will teach your children that you don’t need to be respected or listened to.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with parenthood. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Parenthood
- My five-year old son thinks that we don’t love him just because we don’t agree whit him in every questin. It’s frustrating because i feel that i cant reach him in this moment, nothing that i say helps.
- I had to teach my son a math problem it was frustrating because I thought he wasn’t focusing.
- Trying to keep my son in school. This test is a piece of cake compared to that. He is pig headed, and deaf to anyone other than his friends.
- Wait to talk to my son because I was in a meeting
- Be patient with my son when he is whining for no apparant reason.
- I couldn’t help my son do his homework without shouting at him or that i wasn’t able to motivate him in doing his homework although i know it was extremely difficult for him
- Try and persuade my son to learn to drive – he’s 22 and just isn’t interested. There is a car sat waiting for him. It would also mean I didn’t have to run about after him so much!
- Well trying to get my son to give me the birthday of all my grandchildren it is so frustrating
- Having to decide if my son would be better off living with his father than me. It was frustrating because I am his mother, but he needs a male role model in his life.
- Taking care of my mother and son is the most stressful situation for me. I work 2 jobs and go to school full time
- Having to babysit a colleague’s son when at an event. Frustrating because I wasn’t asked beforehand and was forced to neglect aspects of my job to care for her child because she didn’t plan ahead.
- Interacting with my mentally ill son temporarily living at home .
- I was on the golf course with my son ,there were people in front of us larking about.this fustrated me as it broke my concentration,i feel wee could have had a better round had this not been the case
- As of late it’s getting my oldest son to eat. There are times I have to bribe him to eat. It’s especially frustrating because when he doesn’t eat his mood dramatically impacted. After a meal, it’s a night and day difference.
- Explain to my mum why she should let my son make his own choices. She is trying to help but doesn’t realize that she actually isn’t.
- The most frustrating I have to do is asking my son to help me with the household shores since I am in full time employment and do not have time or energy to do it all.
- Trying to fathom the best way to support my 11 year old son with perceived/weight issues. Don’t know where to turn and feeling guilty, is this my fault in numerous ways?
- Studying, because i hate studying. i $@ing hate studying you son of a $@
- Im a new solo mom and don’t know how to go about a career and take care of my son at the same time so that i will be successful at doing both.
- Live with a spouse who seems to have no moral compass. And raise my 2 1/2 year old son around him.
- My father in law has been hiding things it’s very upsetting because he is hurting his son and doesn’t seem to care.
- Being asked, “So what to do want to do now?” I drove a school bus for 12 years, the schedule fit when my son was in regular school. Now I just can’t do it anymore. Never had a choice of a career, too busy being mom since I was 19.
- Figure out how I’m going to support myself. With my learning disabilities, I’m unable to do a POS system, anything with counting/numbers, remember short-term instructions and want a day job during weekdays only to be available for my son when he visits.
- My daughter is struggling in school and I feel it is my fault in some ways.
- My daughter’s anger issues and trying to find a group for her to join for counseling.
- My daughter has moved home and my house is in chaos, I have no control over the situation.
- My daughter has been having some behavioural issues and dealing with her has been challenging to say the least :)
- My daughter is quite frustrating right now. She is only 4 mind you. She is very smart and seems to be deliberately misbehaving.
- My daughter was taking a long time doing her homework, procrastinating and had to stay up late to complete her assignment. This was frustrating because it will effect our morning routine.
- Help daughter with home work and have different ways of solving problems to the way school teachers
- Have my daughter listen to what I was saying to her. I was trying to multi task and she was making the situation worse and would not follow direction.
- Getting my daughters drivers license. And getting her to do her taxes.
- Helping my daughter with her homework. It is frustrating because they teach a different method from what I learned.
- Getting my daughter to cooperate during mealtimes, getting her ready for bed, getting her to do something she doesn’t want to do or to stop doing something she is doing. It’s frustrating because she is very sensitive and can throw a tantrum and/or given to prolonged whining during these times.
- Explaining to daughter the ins and outs of buying her first home.
- Explain to my daughter about boys….it was hard because I do t want my daughter to grow up
- When l tell my daughter to do something over and over and she doesnot listen all at once.it feels as if Iam not saying it right or iam using a wrong tone.
- I had to get my daughter to bathe, it was. Of challenging but frustrating as she can be very head strong but I know she likes the water so I used something she liked, like cleaning he bathroom to get her to bathe as well
- I had to help me daughter get her car out of car pound due to her boyfriend driving without a license. I left me in financial hardship with helping her.
- Trying to get my daughter to understand why she couldnt stay overnight at her boyfriends. She couldnt see my rational until I explained I didnt want her to get hurt.
- I had to assist my daughter with her science experiment. It was a new process with several challenging steps to set-up the experiment. I had to re-read the directions several times.
- Convince my teenage daughter that studying is as important as having a social life.
- My 11 year old step-daughter’s attitude. It’s frustrating to deal with an ungrateful child when you’ve done all you can do to provide her with everything she needs and most of what she wants.
- Getting my now e and daughter to their schools on time in different cities. I miscalculated the time needed for them to get ready for school and the commute time.
- A school project for my daughter, I was frustrated by the fact that I didn’t the proper material.
- Dealing with my teenage daughter and her school work. It was frustrating try to explain why things needed to be done. We were not on the same level.
- Deal with my 18 year old daughter – she is making bad life choices
- Explaining to my teenage daughter that she cannot date a 20 year old boy because i feel that is too old for her at age 16. It was difficult because he was a nice boy and also because teenagers feel that they know best.
- Having to take care of my daughter ,managing going to school. stressing on how im going to get around and get things I need to get done.
- Helping with homework, my daughter hates doing homework and gives me a hard time while helping her, so thats a bit on the challenging side for me.
- After collecting youngest daughter had to collect oldest one (who wasn’t ready) to collect middle one so I could give older one lift to her dance lessons( she wants to be a dancer) times are ok for driving as long as each child ready to go
- Hunting for head lice in my daughters hair…just when i thought we were almost done, there seems to have been another infestation
- Looking after my 5 month old daughter friday til sunday as she is teething and has been quite irratic.
- I have had to deal with teaching my daughter how to drive. I’m not made for this. I don’t have the temperament for this.
- I sat in the emergency room with my daughter for over 7 hours. This was frustrating because I was very concerned about my daughter
- Would have to be potty trainning my Daughter, she knows what its for, and when she has the feeling to go but refuses to sit on the toilet would rather pee in her underwear or pull-up.
- I’ve had to explain to my 10 year old daughter why she has to start her period. It doesn’t get much tougher than telling a child she has to grow up.
- I had to stay home during spring break with my daughter who has special needs. I felt trapped in the house and that caused a lot of frustration because I so wanted to leave on a trip !
- Most frustrating thing is trying to understand my daughter’s reasoning with her children. It was frustrating to me because she punishes her daughter who violates a rule occasionally but doesn’t punish her daughter who violates rules constantly.
- Go on holiday with my mother and my sisters little daughter. Everything must go their way.
- Trying to find a white maxi dress for my teenage stepdaughter. This was frustrating since it was a last minute request from her, but she’s known that she’s needed the dress for several months.
- Finding a proper discipline route for my four year old daughter who is bad as hell!!!!
- Not being able to help or know how to help my alcoholic daughter.
- Trying to find a white maxi dress for my 17 year old stepdaughter who needs the dress next week. She has known for months the date of the event and just told me. Trying to find a white dress at the beginning of the spring is almost impossible.
- To fediate between my three year old and my seven year old daughters. what frustrates me really is their mom. you call children to order , you are wrong. you keep quiet, you are wrong. shat do i do?
- The most frustrating thing I’ve dealt with is trying to get my daughter to use the bathroom and her accidentally peeing in her pants.
- Deal with hospital staff who don’t understand significance in my daughters overall health and how their piece of the puzzle is not the only factor.
- The most frustrating thing that I had to go through was getting my daughter back into preschool. It was frustrating because she was used to going and all of a sudden it stopped and had no explanation to give her.
- The most frustrating thing I have dealt with this week is coaching my daughters teacher on how she should teach her student (My daughter). This is frustrating because she is the teacher but yet she is not focusing on the true aspects of teaching.
- The most frustrating experience in the last few days is dealing with my daughters who procrastinate their school work and need help cramming for tests that they were told to study for daily.
- Time management has been hard. I am a full time student, full time father of two young daughters and i work full time. Finding time to study or homework is hard.
- Explaining to my husband my parenting choices. He does not agree with the strategies I use to help our daughter understand boundaries. He feels like she is so young that there is lots of time to set boundaries.