Musings

Babysitting is usually one of your first jobs Whether it’s looking after your little cousins or your neighbour’s kids often it involves making sure nothing breaks while babysitting until their parents get home. So what would you do if they didn’t come home on time and weren’t returning any of your phone calls? Well, this […]

“We made these tiny humans our priority without missing a beat” How many times have you comforted a fellow parent at their wits’ end? Probably as often as you’ve told someone that their gorgeous child was a credit to them. Weekly, if not daily, I heap praise on to my friends and feel pride and […]

From concerns about predators, fraudsters and consent, sharing pictures of kids has never been so easy yet so complex. In the age of social media, there’s little that goes undocumented. As anyone who owns a Facebook or Instagram account will know, this also applies to parenting. From announcing the beginnings of a parenthood journey with […]

It’s a game-changer. For my own personal parenting style, I like to think that most of the time, I find a nice balance between chill and flexible but also being strict and able to do some disciplining when I need to be. However, I always found the issue of disciplining my children a difficult one. […]

“My motto is, when it comes to periods, let it flow” We’ve gotten to that wonderful stage in my house where we’re naming body parts. Each morning in bed, my son clutches my ears and nose, working his way through the various parts of my head, naming them aloud and waiting for praise after each […]

I spent most of the day in tears I’ve never been a big birthday person. It seems a funny thing to celebrate… ‘Congratulations on staying alive for another year! Here’s your parade…’ That is until I had a baby. Now the words ‘birth day’ carry much more weight. So much so that I was, emotionally, […]