There's a theme that keeps coming up the more I talk to my fellow mums about parenting: we worry way too much about being judged. In fact, while we talk a lot about mums of newborns feeling judged, worrying about what other people think seems to become more of a...
By the end of last year, I felt totally depleted and fatigued by doing all the things that we mothers do. The mothering, the schooling, the working, the cooking, the washing, the emotional caring, the disciplining, the routine making, the routine keeping,...
There's a very clear reason why we launched Mumlyfe in February 2018: mums stop talking about parenting. There's just not a lot being said about parenting the over fives out there. It was really clear to me as a parenting writer because I found myself writing...
Listen up! I was part of Kinderling Kids Radio show this morning, on their The Parent Panel podcast. It was such a blast! We talked about the value of work and why I don't want my kids seeing work as interfering with 'real life' (more on this later). I don't know why...
The #1 parenting issue I get asked for advice about is "how to balance work and family". How do I balance my work and family life? How do I balance being a working mother? How do I balance work and kids? Except for three lots of maternity leave (each a little...
When my kids were little, I never felt the need to banish working mum guilt. I felt it, I gave it some space, I let working mum guilt just be. I think I realised quite early on that I was a mother who needed to work. There's a good chance that I didn't have to work,...
I was an angry mum for way too long. It actually felt like my set-point was angry mum - I was just constantly angry 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...
At some stage (usually day #11 of the newborn stage), at some time (anytime), every mother - no matter how much she wanted to be a mother, no matter how much she loves being a mother, no matter - will regret having kids. I mean, she might not want to admit that out...
Here’s a treat – the Mars Bar slice. Take a Mars Bar and add butter to it then stir in some puffed rice and then coat the lot in chocolate. Oh lordy, it’s like taking a murmur and turning it into a heart attack, but in a totally fine way. This is quite simply the...
used to be the kind of school swimming carnival mum who says, "go and support others, even if you don't participate", but not anymore. I don't make my kids go to the school swimming carnival anymore. I did for years, but I'm done with it. Even though I'm really...
It's no doubt the #1 response parents make when they ask what they want for their kids in life: "I just want my child to be happy." “I just want my child to be happy.” We mean it wholeheartedly when we say it. Then we leave that happiness to chance. We talk to our...
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