Do you feel guilty all the time about the way you have raised your children? I have always felt so guilty from day one: I didn't give my kids enough of my time and I escaped to work as soon as I could, because mothering was so hard. Now my daughter is self harming,...
My name is Rebecca, and I'm the mum of one of "those kids". The ones who don't ever seem to fit in with all the other kids at school. My daughter has no friends, and gets picked on and belittled every day by the other children. Despite what all the anti-bullying...
Stop the presses: I'm a mum home alone. I'm not even kidding, for the past 24 hours not one person has asked me for anything. Actually, that’s not quite accurate, yesterday afternoon my massage therapist asked if the pressure was okay. Not even kidding about the...
It can be hard to accept as an adult parenting teens that perhaps you are part of the problem. The ‘problem’ being the repetitive arguments that start with a niggle (bedroom a bombsite, clean laundry chucked into the bottom of the wardrobe), and escalate to a...
I'm sorry, kids, for being cranky. I'm sorry for being frustrated and swearing under my breath (more than usual). I'm sorry for snapping at you for little things and yelling at you for big things. I'm sorry I haven't got much to say that's pleasant, and I'm sorry I'm...
It's that time of year. The time of year I heat up by nagging my kids to put a @%#&(! jumper on. Drop off this morning, 7ºC: my son in short sleeves, shorts, light cotton. "I'm not cold!" he insists. "Why aren't you cold?" I say. Why don't kids get cold!?! He's...
After another loud fight with the eldest last week (I really need to learn to keep my cool better), I had an Oprah-aha moment. A sudden thought that has changed everything for me: "The person you are is different to the child I thought I was raising." You could say...
It feels like I've been having the conversation about whether parenting gets easier or not since my first baby was about six weeks old. The answer to this question was a preoccupation of mine from that moment on right through the toddler years and into the preschool...
What kids think is cool and what adults think is cool are not the same thing. We know this already (fidget spinner, anyone?), but it still amuses when I see a bunch of 'cool kids' doing the least cool thing imaginable (bottle flipping, anyone?). I used to teach Ethics...
There's a reason that parenting books all feel like a crock after a while. See, they tend to forget that parents are human beings. As much as we might wish to discipline our children with consistency, kindness and patience at all times, the fact is that many, many...
Many of us are (rightfully) focused on taking care of our health, eating nourishing whole foods and trying to be active … while meditating and flossing and taking some time of disconnection, away from devices. These are each a wonderful act of self-care, and they...
My middle child is a shy one. She's full of beans and very outgoing when she is comfortable, but struggles when she doesn't know people well. In fact, I'd go so far to say that being asked to be more assertive with people she doesn't know is the very, very worst thing...
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...
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