Every mother I know (myself most definitely included) spends a good proportion of her day trying to guess the future. What might happen is sometimes even more of a preoccupation than what is actually happening. This is because we will do everything in our (super)power to stop bad things happening to our kids. In effect, …
Advice
I need to stop being so available to my kids. It’s driving me crazy and it’s stripping them of their independence. They don’t actually need me to think for them, do for them or live for them, so I need to stop being so available. Maybe you do too? I feel like my kids withdraw …
I’ve spent the last year or so in trepidation, wondering what it’s like when your daughter gets her first period. Well, suddenly now I know. Yup, it happened here on the weekend. If I am honest I was hoping my twin daughters would get their first period much later than this. Though at just shy …
With school holidays in full swing around Australia, it’s tempting for working parents to leave kids home alone for part or all of the day. Actually, it’s tempting for any parent to leave kids unsupervised at some stage at any time of year – even if it’s just for an hour to do the grocery …
I was an angry mum for way too long. It actually felt like my set-point was Angry Mum – I was just constantly going mental about something and the little respites of not being angry started to get further and further apart. I regularly yelled and felt justified in the yelling. I felt hard-done-by, martyrish, …
“How to raise a feminist” seems like a silly topic to discuss in 2018. But I’m well aware that not every kid is lucky enough to be raised feminist. Max, who is 13, was loving being in an all-boys class for Design Tech at school. But not for the reasons you might think. A week …