Hi all.  I'm a stay-at-home mum with 3 kids (3+, 2+ & 9mth old). I need some advices on how to occupy my kids.  Anyone can share what do you normally do with your preschooler/toddler/infant?  Any good website with craft ideas to recommend?

Thanks!

Thank you so much for praying for us.  I'm feeling uplifted in my spirit.  Thank you for all your encouragements.  I will certainly put God 1st & hang on to Him real tight, trusting Him to teach me & to change me all of the way.  I want to finish this race that the Lord has set before me & to fight a good fight of faith.

Just want to let you guys know that I really appreciate your friendships & you're so wonderful.  Let's encourage one another ok!

Take care & God bless you richly!

Hi all! So glad to have found this forum for Christians.

I'm from Singapore. I'm a stay-at-home mum with 3 kids. Since the birth of my 1st kid more than 3 years ago, my husband & I have encountered major problems in our marriage. Being 1st time parents, we struggle & had a lot of disagreements with child-rearing. Plus, added financial burdens after I quit my job to take care of baby. It's also at this time, both my parents-in-law had just retired so they had been interfering with the ways we (or mainly me) want to raise our kids. There's a lot of crashes in our moral values since they're not Christians.  Worst of all, my husband had not been understanding & in particular, even pit against me & said that "I'm the PROBLEM!"  Daily, I lived in torments & constantly thinking of divorce & suicide.

After 1 year (after I had my 2nd kid), we went for counselling.  Things did improved a bit.  We ended the counselling sessions slightly more than 1 year later (just before I gave birth to my 3rd kid).  But we have been very lax in spending time to pray together & to communicate.

Lately, I've been feeling very discouraged to the point of giving up.  The burdens of taking care of 3 very young kids, shouldering my husband's work stress & midlife crisis, parents-in-laws' aging & marital problems (father-in-law had adultery with aunt-in-law & just last year, had gone out secretly with my maid), sister-in-law's family problems & constant criticisms/jealousy.

I find it so hard to encourage myself.  The church that we're attending is not at all relational.  They placed great emphasis on ministry & giving.  I find that this is tearing my family apart.  My husband's heart/mind is always trying to help others & is NOT with the family.  He even find me very "unspiritual" because I'm not serving in the church ministry.  The church leaders advocate priorities in this order - God, ministry, then family, career.  I feel so isolated - from my husband, the church, & the outside world.

Please pray for my marriage, God's protection over my children & particularly, please pray for me.

Thanks!