I’m devastated, but I think I’ve actually been raising my kids to feel ‘not enough’. Are you doing it too? Let me explain. 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 …
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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 years. At each stage, there I was, frantically …
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 at my kids’ school. It amused …
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 times we will fail miserably. Every person …
It’s so nice to take a ‘mum break’ from your everyday life isn’t it? Sometimes you don’t know you are suffocating until it’s too late. It’s so hard trying to find the balance in life, but often getting away from those that you can’t bear to be parted from is exactly what you need. A mum …
I’ve spent years researching and writing about the ‘perfect age’ to have kids (spoiler: there isn’t one), but there is one angle that has only just become apparent to me. As someone who ‘delayed’ children, having my first at 32 — an age I have learned that many still consider quite young to start having …