It is funny how toddlers develop in fits and starts so you feel like one day you have a baby and the next a threenager is staring back at you with their hands firmly planted on their hips as they wag their finger at you and say ‘NO’. It’s like they wait until they have […]
Tomorrow is back to school day after the holidays and apart from not jumping for joy at the thought of getting 4 littles up and out by 8:40am for the school run. I have often said that I love the school holidays and now that they are coming to an end I feel a bit
OK I have cracked it! I have got the only parenting tip you will ever need! If you have this in your parenting arsenal you are all set. Your sanity can be saved so what is this amazing parenting tip? Drum roll please…………………………………. What? I hear you cry… I am serious excuses are your best
Last week was a parenting minefield for us and really has been a mother of a challenge. It was challenging for both of us, but because I am the one at home most of the time I bore the brunt of dealing with some bad behaviour from all of the kids. It was a long
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I must must must remember to think before I speak. This is a lesson my parents have been trying to teach me since I was a child myself and it is one I clearly have not learnt… I consistently forget that there are little ears listening and copying everything I say. So now I have
At some point all children seem to go through an ‘I hate vegetable phase’. If you are responsible for cooking for kids, are in that place and need a solution this easy hidden vegetable tomato sauce is the answer. One of my son’s has a ‘hate’ food list and it gets longer, seemingly, by the
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Before I had children of my own I would watch other parents, including my own, and be entirely convinced that there were things I would never say to my children. Yesterday as I told one of the twins to eat because there were children starving in the world I realised I have blown it! I
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An open letter from a Double Buggy User To my fellow humans I confess I am a double buggy user and this is an open letter to you all to apologise for the amount of space it takes up. This is the lament of a double buggy user and a plea to you, my fellow