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Does maternal guilt really exist?

I don’t know if I’m a bit of a heartless cow or just good at compartmentalising but I don’t get the whole maternal guilt thing.

 

There I’ve said it.

 

I don’t get that mothers feel guilty when they leave their children and obsess over every choice they have made and beat themselves . . . → Read More: Does maternal guilt really exist?

Enough with the judgemental claptrap

I’ve always thought that one of the benefits of having gone back to work into my male ghetto so quickly after the girls was born was that I missed out on an awful lot of Mummy interaction.  Yes I missed the opportunity to make friends, to share experiences but I also missed a whole . . . → Read More: Enough with the judgemental claptrap

Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts?

pile of books

Walk into any bookshop, have a browse around Amazon or a quick search on the internet and you’ll find a long queue of people ready and willing to tell you the correct way to raise your child.  They can solve any ‘problem’ in a week and each has their own set of rules and . . . → Read More: Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts?

The Chicken Pox survival guide

Not an ideal way to start the year but hey, they have to have it at some point…  That said I’m not convinced that vaccinating isn’t the way to go, it may be a mild childhood disease but it has been hard work for all us, not least the spotty one.

 

So just . . . → Read More: The Chicken Pox survival guide

Nativity plays for the uninitiated parent

tinsel

Honestly, you start parenthood thinking that pregnancy and labour plus perhaps the early days are going to be the tricky bit and that once you’ve got that sussed it’s all going to be a breeze from that point on.

Or perhaps that is just me?

At no point did I realise that the older they . . . → Read More: Nativity plays for the uninitiated parent

The Friday Rant Club – just a mother?

The Friday Rant Club

Really?  Just a mother?  Do you even know what stupidity you are displaying by calling someone ‘just’ a mother?

Have you any idea what the job description involves?  What a mother actually does?  Have you?

Tsk. 

Ok so to clear up any confusion, here is a list of what just a mother will do . . . → Read More: The Friday Rant Club – just a mother?

Is 2 the magic number?

best friends

How do you know how many children are the right number of children for your family?

How do you know when your family is complete?

I just don’t know if this trying for a third baby is the right thing to carry on doing.

I don’t know when, or if, we should be stopping . . . → Read More: Is 2 the magic number?

Are we really raising narcissists who eat like Alsatians?

walking with book on head

Really must stop reading the paper over the shoulder of fellow commuters on my way into work.  Not just because people get upset when they realise what you’re doing but mostly because I find myself reading things I’d usually cross the road to avoid.

I read in the Telegraph one parent’s use of an . . . → Read More: Are we really raising narcissists who eat like Alsatians?

Babywearing rocks (or how to survive man flu)

baby wearing rocks

Although given that Littler is now 2 it probably isn’t babywearing…

This last week Littler has had man flu – the type of man flu where she wants to be held all the time.  As in all the time.   As in screaming, wailing and shouting when she isn’t held all the time.  Yes, when . . . → Read More: Babywearing rocks (or how to survive man flu)

2 years old! Happy birthday Littler

Littler - lots of pictures

It is incredible how life has changed in the last 2 years.  In fact wind back 2 years and one day and we weren’t even sure if she’d survive being born.

But she did and she’s carved out a unique Littler-shaped space in our lives. 

Our little two finger sucking, determined, won’t be left . . . → Read More: 2 years old! Happy birthday Littler

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