I am new here, and don't know exactly what my problem is, but I am SO stressed out. It seems like everything is making me stress out more.

my daughter is 3 and FINALLY after 1 1/2 years got fully potty-trained. Then 2 weeks later she regressed and never goes. For some reason that is really annoying me. Nothing helps. I have tried nagging, punishing, rewarding, ignoring it, but it's been going on for 2 months.

I am a full time student and have finals for the 1st time in 5 years.

After finals, we will be staying at my father's house for 2 weeks for christmas. I don't really want to stay there, but we don't have any where else to stay and we can't negotiate the 2 weeks for transportation reasons. He and I have had issues when I was younger (borderline physical abuse), but my relationship with my mom has completely deteriorated to the point where I am dreading Christmas. Everytime we visit her (usually twice a month) she takes over everything with my daughter, I have no authority, and she akes me feel like the worst mother in the world.

My daughter's father doesn't see her except when we are in his County. I don't even know if he will ask to see her, or what I should allow if he does (we don't have a court order) he's not around enough for her to remember him so I don't want to send her unsupervised, and he always asks to see her THAT DAY even though I have asked to give us 3 days notice. I also know that if he asks to see her, that his family will want to see her too, and while I've never kept them from seeing her his mother and I also don't get along because of verbal abuse issues, so I REALLY don't want my daughter around her without me (her father thinks of the way that she acts/talks as normal.)

If anyone has any ideas, I will gladly take them. I pretty much don't have a support system
my mom used to be it until this mess got so bad. I have one girl down the hall who I can talk to (sort of, she gets VERY defensive if we have differeing views onparenting etc.) and a so-called boyfriend (that's not working out either since we started dating in september and only saw each other once then and twice in october) but that's not stressing me out too much, because he was my best friend before so that will sort itself out.

Hello,

I don't have any ideas but want to let you know you are not alone. My oldest is 4 and just started using the potty. I tried and tried but I stopped because I didn't want to push her but one day in August I was really tired of buying diapers for 2 kids, after the last one I told her that I wasn't going to buy anymore and she started using the potty. She has had a few accidents but we get through it. As far as not having a support system I totally hear you, both my parents died when I was young and my sister lives not near me but has her own issues. My ex lives in a fantasy world and his mother and I do'nt get along. Back in May/June I got really sick and ended up in the hospital and then I was out of work for 2 months and I did find a very good friend from work. I lost a lot of my friends from my past. I am suffering from depression and aniexty and I am working on this everyday. I force myself to do fun things with my kids and try to make new friends. Somedays I come home and want to crawl in a ball and other days I feel great.
I just want to let you know you are not alone.
Good Luck on your finals...

thanks, that actually helped a lot