A lot of parents work. Parenting takes a lot of work. ‘Hurry Mummy!’ shouts Leo, ‘Put your speedy shoes on little man’, I yell back. How is it that even…
Tired parents
I read the parenting sleep books! But I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in five years, one month and nineteen days. Since the dawn of time parents have been sitting…
Motherhood. Whilst it stumbles along slowly in those first few exhausted weeks time has flown by for me in a haze of being. Being patient, being tired, being proud, being…
Yesterday was my son’s first gym class. I was both excited and nervous. Why? Although he has just turned five, he has separation anxiety. It is an expected stage in…
Who else has power battles with their children? It was bedtime, no actually it was 45 minutes past bedtime and Leo and I were in a Wild West type standoff.…
Watching children sleep every parent feels a profound upsurge of pure love. They look angelic, they are quiet. You remember that you like being a parent; savour the memory,…