It’s 3 am and I am awake. Lying here in the dark I’m trying to switch my brain off so I can go back to sleep, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t do it. I try thinking happy thoughts. I try imaging what I’d do if I won a million dollars. I […]
Parenting and Family.
Being a parent is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also just plain hard!
These parenting tips and ideas can help you find ways to make life with kids a little easier, and the real life stories from parents just like you might make you feel a little less alone.
Why I’m Never Giving My Kids the ‘Sex Talk’.
My tweens were watching a TV show the other day and there was a girl around their age who was totally mortified and trying very hard to avoid having ‘the talk’ with her parents. My kids were confused at first, they had no idea what that term referred to, but they figured out pretty quickly […]
Five Things to Remember When Your Day is Going to Hell in a Hand Basket.
It’s only 4pm, there is still another four hours till bed time, and things couldn’t get much worse. You bite your lip and try not to lose it (again), but the yoghurt dripped all over the floor, and the whining about it being ‘not fair’, and the fighting over who sits where on the couch […]
Planning Ahead: What to do if your child gets hurt.
This post is sponsored by Healthdirect Australia. He walked over to me so calmly that I didn’t even look up from the book I was reading. “I hurt my hand” he said… “uhuh” I murmured thinking it couldn’t be that bad since he wasn’t howling, but then something caught my eye and I looked down […]
What Happens When a Child Doesn’t Grow out of Picky Eating?
When she was little my child was a classic ‘picky eater.’ At around two and a half years old she suddenly started ‘going off’ food she’d previously eaten, so did her sister, and her little brother at the same age. All of a sudden the children who used to eat a huge variety of healthy […]
Ten Things I Know about Parenting Right Now.
This is a photo of my four, awesome children. They are currently aged 5, 8, 12 and 12 (that is not a typo, the girl ones are twins). And these are the things I know about parenting right now, in this moment…. 1. If all your kids have shoes on both their feet five minutes […]
Dear Mum of Twin Babies… It Gets Better.
Dear Mum of twin babies, I see you. I see you searching for the twin trolley at the supermarket, and I see the defeat in your eyes when you spy it being pushed by a woman cradling her precious loaves of bread where you need to put your babies. I see you cringe when someone […]
Eight Awesome Podcasts for Parents
Ever since my very lovely mobile phone company decided they should gift with me with some extra data I’ve been podcast obsessed. I can’t hang the laundry unless I have a decent podcast to list to, and I have started making up excused to drive somewhere on my own so I can crank out another […]
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