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 course. While there’s no doubt that happy people can and do raise unhappy kids (we have all been there, some more than others), …
Guilt
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 be absolutely perfect for them. We often sacrifice our own happiness to make that happen (newsflash, kids, nobody actually likes wiping someone else’s …
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 burden as the kids get …
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, the household managing, the bill paying and the lunch making. Phew! Why do …
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 exclusively in hindsight. The kids and I had moved …
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 I don’t get …