I just need to vent a little....

Some days I just feel like I'm not doing anything right. It's so hard being a parent! I just want to do everything right by DJ. But, I don't know. I'm having a rough time because he's still giving me a hard time with eating. And I don't know what to do. He needs to move on to stage 3 and more real people food. But most of the time he won't eat it- minus fruits, cheese, crackers, yogart etc. Occasionally he'll try a meat. No veggies. He won't even eat rice or noodles any more. I want him to get a balanced diet....do I give in at meal time and give him stage 2 stuff, and regress? Do I just keep feeding him fruit and cheese? Or do I keep trying the other stuff and if he won't eat it then let him not eat?? I just don't know how he'll ever eat the food if I keep giving him the "baby stuff". But I don't want to be mean either, I want him to eat!!

Ugh, it's so frustrating. And then it's just like some days I worry that I don't do enough with him or I don't work with him enough to teach him stuff. I sit and play with his toys with him every day for a bit. We sing some songs. I help him walk around. I read him a couple of books a day. We usually go outside and play/ sit in the sun. But, then I hear someone doing this or that and I'm like, ohh, I should do that with him. Or I read you should, for instance, start saying, where's your nose, and geez, I thought it was way too early for that. I just feel like I suck at being a mom sometimes. What if he could learn so much more or quicker if I knew the right things to do??

Also, I've been trying to gradually get him onto sippys. He'll drink his juice in one, but he only does well with the beginner ones. The other ones where more juice comes out I guess, he'll dribble. Well, I try putting milk in the sippy and he just won't have it. What am I supposed to do? I want him to start taking a sippy more than once or twice a day- up until it's all the time. Do I just keep giving him the milk in a sippy until he gets so thirsty he'll drink? God, I just wish I knew how I was supposed to handle this stuff. And I feel like it's my fault, I should have progressed sooner on the sippys, maybe if I did he would have taken right to them. But, I was breastfeeding and then I just had so much else going on, I put it off.

Well, any advice would be great. I just needed to come here and vent.