Let’s face it, by Friday, most parents feel like they’ve just had a 12 day week. On Saturday, I relax… I don’t set an alarm, I spend time with my family and let the routine fade. By Monday, I make…
Motherhood and Mental Health: A Toolkit
If there is one great favour that social networking has done us as women, it’s removing the stigma connecting motherhood and mental health issues. Let me assure you, if you were a mother a decade ago and you were struggling…
Be More Present With Your Child: 7 Tips
Learning to be more present with your child is the same as learning anything else: It takes practice. I have found that there are two things in life that really matter to me, but that I’m not naturally really very…
5 Things I Never Wrote In Your Baby Book: Finding Motherhood Difficult
‘The days are long, but the years are short.’ We’ve all heard this one, but I never truly understood it until I held my last baby, and was still finding motherhood difficult. I never thought about having a big family…
15 Lessons Of Motherhood Nobody Ever Tells You
Motherhood has been the most difficult, wonderful, painful and unexpected learning curve for me – and I can’t imagine it ever stopping. There is not a part of my being that thinks I will reach either an age or level…