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Raising children is not about you, it’s all about them

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Funny how you wait ages for something to irritate you enough to blog about it and then a whole raft of them come floating past in quick succession…

The latest is the number of parents who bleat on about how unhappy it makes them to have to tell little Archibald off for pinching other [...]

Worried

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Actually that isn’t quite the right word – hang on a second whilst I check a thesaurus – it is scared but with dread and worry overlaid and the odd feeling of doubt.  So we’ll go with worried for the moment

I’m worried about going into hospital on Thursday – worried that when given the [...]

Do you feel like a failure?

The Muddling Family Summer 2012

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The delectable Nigella Lawson has a new TV series out so has decided to publicise it by telling the world that she is convinced that “it’s impossible to be a mother without a huge sense of failure”

I mean really? 

Are there mothers sat out there each evening, going through the day and working [...]

Gratitude

Girls on swing

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Right – after the most recent misery-fest I have brushed myself off, given myself a bit of a talking to and decided that I have got to stop this thing being the only be-all and end-all of my life.  It has been a year and there needs to be an end to all of this [...]

Could someone please find me a wife

job-search

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No I’m not divorcing Mr Muddling and announcing that my preference has changed gender.  Although that would probably send my page views rocketing through the roof momentarily, must make a mental note of that for next time inspiration flags.

No, I’m still me but I have realised that I am lacking something all my [...]

Is 2 the magic number?

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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 [...]

The Friday Rant Club – a torrent of previously hidden, unspoken thoughts

The Friday Rant Club

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Today Lucy, who blogs at thatwoman is guest ranting for us – over to Lucky

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I was thinking about what to write all day, and several of my bugbears had a similar theme.

 

This is namely, the desire in me, the shrieking desire to say, once or twice, loudly and without an [...]

The Friday Rant Club – stop force feeding my child

The Friday Rant Club

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Happy Friday everyone (is it me or has this been a particularly long week?) – today’s rant is brought to you by Cat who has come over for a bit of a get-it-off-her-chest.

 

Over to Cat…

 

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Hi everyone, my name is Cat and I’m a ranter

I’m here [...]

Do your children help out at home?

Littler doing the laundry

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Let’s be clear, I don’t have a  lot of free time – the job and silly little things like sleeping get in the way - and to be honest I don’t reckon there’s any risk of me being one of those people who fret that they do too much in the way of chores

Saturday [...]

How to improve a walk? Add in puddles & sticks

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