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Tweet I do wonder if part of the working mother / stay at home mother angst has to do with either side thinking that the other has a better time of motherhood As a working mum is rushing around feeling dragged in hundreds of directions, isolated from their child’s life and not managing to give [...] 
Tweet I feel a little bit like King Canute trying to force back the sea – despite my best efforts at keeping my children locked up in tower and insulated from the insidious pressures of the outside world there are distinct signs that the outside world is forcing its way in and making them grow [...] 
Tweet To whoever is in charge of time and space and all that sort of stuff,
We the undersigned are petitioning for the creation of an extra hour in the day Please note that this hour is only to be created AFTER the children have gone to bed (and stayed in their bed) we [...] 
Tweet … or rather how we broke Littler 10 days ago she fell off a slide in the small person bit of soft play and we found out she had broken her arm – they tried to set it but left us with the less than comforting words ‘we may not have got it straight’. [...] 
Tweet A week off over half term has had me musing rather more about how we do tend to set ourselves up for a fall when it comes to parenting In my head half term was going to be walks through the woods, afternoons doing jigsaws infront of the fire and family time together enjoying having to [...] Tweet I do wonder if the column inches dedicated to blaming mothers for just about everything from global warming, obesity, the nation’s drink problem and goodness only knows what else are a sign that actually the traditional world is feeling a bit threatened by us – why else spend so much time obsessing about how [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet I’d always wondered if being a mother would confer any super powers – you know like actually being able to have eyes in the back of my head or super sensitive hearing. Actually come to think of that I did have that for a while but sheer exhaustion and Mr M taking the night [...] 
Tweet Today Emily is guest ranting – you can find her over at Babyrambles normally
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I hardly ever visited the doctor’s surgery before I had children. And then I became very familiar with the place as my children picked up strange viruses I’d never heard of such as Slapped Cheek and Hand, Foot [...] Tweet 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 [...]  |
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