9 really sound pieces of advice I would have given myself before I had a baby
Oh, hindsight!
6 years ago
This is Parenthood
Last night I crawled across my bedroom floor and performed ‘operation duvet’
Parents of toddlers will relate. I spent most of last night sneaking around my bedroom trying to covertly get into bed. This was all while my toddler kept jumping up from her crib like a pop-up book from hell yelling at me to let her out. It’s an experience that most parents have had and […]
6 years ago
Bedtime by Percentages: The Breakdown Every Tired Parent Knows
As the cheerful (read mildly insane due to prolonged sleep-deprivation) parent of a non-sleeper, for the past two years, I have attempted to stick rigidly to a bedtime routine more convoluted and detailed than NASA’s procedures for landing spacecraft on the moon in a bid to put The Child to bed. My efforts in this […]
10 years ago
This Shows What Parenting Is Really Like, Warts And All
When anyone asks me how the kids are, and how everyone is doing, I tend to always answer with one word: ‘Crazy’. I, of course, back it up with ‘I mean, they’re great, I love them, but our house is crazy, like a ZOO-crazy’ – and we all have a good ho-ho-ho laugh. And I […]
10 years ago