My partner and I are trying to conceive. I have always wanted to be a Mum and I particularly want to have children with my partner.

But since we’ve been TTC I have been noticing more horrible things that children and parents are faced with and I am terrified for my future children and really concerned about the struggles we will face as parents...

• Predators hacking into baby monitors to watch our children.

• People putting my kids at risk by choosing not to vaccinate their own children.

• Young children been faced with confronting images while watching YouTube.

• Predators contacting children through social media and getting them to send compromising photos.

• Bullying which seems to be so much worse than when I was a kid.

• Body image issues that put so much pressure on them to be ‘perfect’.

• Drugs!! The ICE epidemic in particular which is destroying lives left, right and centre.

• Unhealthy food that is causing so many health and behavioural issues.

• Kids wanting to be popular and fit in with the in-crowd.

• Terrorism!!!

• Global Warming!!

• Over-population.

• Mental Health Issues which no kid seems to be safe from these days.

• Pressures to be smart, be active, be beautiful, be funny, be social, be technology savvy, have heaps of likes on social media, have money, be perfect but be humble.

It all just seems too much. My sister is facing an uphill battle with her 12-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. My sister and niece seem to be unhappy so much of the time.

Parenting just seems so hard. How do you all do it?????????