Last week I was here talking about the importance of having friends when you are a parent… this week I want to share something else that is so important to me, but that can also so easily be lost along the way of motherhood… Creativity. I am a creative person, my studies to post grad […]
Right before I fell pregnant with Jake I had just finished my masters degree, had 3 jobs and lived in a busy town, surrounded by people – adults – all …
This article has been shared through our submissions page, where you can share your own features too. From Thread and Ladle: I have gotten good at the polite nod as other mothers tell me what has worked for them when trying to get their children to sleep, eat, have just a teeny bit of their own space. Put […]
We’re very happy to be hosting this guest post from Lauren Wayne. Explore your parenting through poetry: By Lauren Wayne What I love about poetry is how it allows us to view our lives through a different prism: one that breaks apart the pieces of our experience into rainbow colors and then focuses them with […]
This article has been shared through our submissions page, where you can share your own features too. From Just for Daisy: A collection of 50 things that make you know you’re a mum! To make you laugh and to make you cry! : If you’re a mum – you’ll relate! What makes you know that you’re a […]
Controlled crying featured heavily in another book I bought when Sonny was a little baby. It was something that I was desperate to try; not because I was desperate for order and structure and routine and normality, but because I was getting a bit disheartened by the number of conversations I seemed to have which […]
During my pregnancy, if there was one thing I was sure of, it was the absolute concrete fact that I would be completely immune to post natal depression. Although we hadn’t conscientiously planned to make human life, and the discovery thereof was a massive shock, all throughout my pregnancy I couldn’t believe my luck, couldn’t […]
If you are a parent you undoubtedly will have had days where you feel like your ears might bleed, head may explode, eyes are going to fall out… when you’re so tired from another sleepless night, so exasperated with tantrums, so frustrated with teething troubles, just so………. These days can spiral into a miserable day […]
Being a parent is an absolutely amazing thing. It’s simultaneously wonderful and terrifying, energizing and exhausting, and in my own personal experience has made me generally a better, calmer and all-round nicer person. Giving birth to your own baby is also amazing and terrifying. Because it’s so other-worldly weird, painful and in my experience, hallucinogenic, […]
So, cometh the hour…. i have purchased every size and shape of easy to open tupperware available, i have ironed / sewed and stuck name labels into everything in sight in fact, i am surprised i haven’t actually labelled Bea herself! I have read and re read the uniform list endeavouring to ensure that MY […]