Mums, our kids aren’t doing well. 😞 The Beyond Blue statistics on youth mental health…
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It’s World Mental Health Day, an important time to reflect on our own mental wellbeing…
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I know it’s a bit silly and I should have better things to worry about…
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Do you feel like your mind freezes during exams? Do you find yourself thinking “I…
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Getting my tween and teens off screens and into other things is a well-known preoccupation…
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It’s true, we don’t track our kids. There’s no GPS attached to their phones. We…
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The date for an important exam is looming. You know you have to study for it. Suddenly, it’s the evening before the dreaded date, and you feel like you haven’t studied enough,…
My Italian mother-in-law Maria (FYI 99% of Italian mothers-in-law are called Maria), makes a mighty…
I had a 15-year-old write to me and ask about figuring out ‘what to do…
Even the word ‘apple teacake’ makes me feel warm and fuzzy. There’s just something about cooked apples that speaks to the child within. And ‘tea time’ is pretty much my favourite time…
How many of us have sat through assemblies where the announcement is made at the beginning: please hold your applause until the end because there are so many awards! Well, there might…
A storyline on UK TV soap Hollyoaks in late 2017 was praised as a “masterpiece…
This unbelievably good date loaf is one of the quickest cakes you’ll ever make. If…
While impatiently sitting in my car at a set of lights, after rushing from the supermarket, to pick the kids up from school and then off again to someone’s sports practise, I…
Recently, I was searching for something to watch on Netflix and came across The Otherhood about three mothers who met in the school playground many years ago who get together to try…
