I keep hearing the lyrics of that Avicii song in my head… “So wake me up when it’s all over When I’m wiser and I’m older All this time I was finding myself And I didn’t know I was lost” I didn’t know I was lost until I found myself with a moment of silence that I […]
Put Yourself On The List
A while ago, a friend of mine told me about some advice she’d been given. Someone wise commiserated with her about how hard it is to make time to look after yourself when you already have so many other things to do. That same wise someone also noticed that she was very good at making […]
Why Do We Say it to Our Children?
“Because I said so” “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit” “Suck it up princess” “If you don’t eat it I’ll serve it up for breakfast” Would we say it to our best friends? Would we say it to our boss? Would we say it to our grandmothers? Would we like […]
23 Truths about Kids and Parenting.
I was chatting with friends the other day, and we were swapping stories about all the crazy things our kids had been up to. After laughing and commiserating with each other, one friend wondered if any of us could sum up all the things we know about kids and parenting in one sentence. Once sentence? […]
How to help kids stop biting their nails
I do it, and so does my daughter. It’s a terrible, unsightly, and often painful habit, and something I wish I had never passed on to her. We are both nail biters. By around age 6 we realised my girl was a full on nail biter, just like I used to be. At around age […]
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 […]
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