Tag: guilt

Happy people raise happy kids

Happy people raise happy kids

After almost a decade of writing about parenting, and 16 years as a parent myself, there’s only one thing I know for sure: happy people raise happy kids. It makes sense, of…

It's time to banish mum guilt once and for all

It’s time to banish ‘mum guilt’ once and for all

Confession time: I’m over the whole ‘mum guilt‘ thing. Yes, mothering is a b*tch of a thing because we love those little terrors so deeply and utterly that we want everything to…

How not to worry about what others think - a guide for mums

How to stop worrying about what other people think

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…

Change the way I do things

7 things I’ve changed to give me better mum life balance

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…

Why mums stop talking about parenting

10 reasons why mums stop talking about parenting

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…

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