Date night with Mum…

I sometimes feel that in the madness of life, and also with the little bit of extra input her brother needs, that my tweenager occasionally feels a bit left out, or neglected. She’s generally quite easy going (well, except when those tweenage hormones flare, but we are learning to cope with those) and we have […]

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10 things motherhood has taught me…

Motherhood. The only job in the world that you land in with no experience, pay, no holidays or days off, and sometimes it feels like the only time you get feedback, is when people feel you aren’t doing a good job. This post is sharing 1o things that motherhood has taught me.  Before you have […]

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The guilt still remains…

If you follow us on social media at all you would have seen these posts from this past weekend where I shared about how my small boy was struggling with an ear infection then a perforated ear drum.  It was not a fun thing to watch him in so much pain, knowing there was very […]

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Finding my confidence as a parent.

It’s funny, because even though I was a nanny, then a pediatric nurse, and having worked with many families and children over the  years, when I was handed my own baby, my first born, all of my knowledge and experience went out of the window. My husband and I literally looked at each other, over […]

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Can you parent without shouting?

I shout too much. I seem to find myself in the position of Army Major, where I am barking (shouting) at my family, mainly my kids, a lot. I have plenty of  what seem like reasonable excuses. I am tired, I am busy,  I am under a lot of pressure, I am juggling many things […]

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When you get it right as a parent

This weekend, my boy let someone else babysit him and put him to bed, with no fuss, and no tears. Most people would read that and think “wow, what is so exciting about that, do these people not have a life?” But if you read on, you will find out why that is a big […]

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