Oh, The Emotional Rollercoaster Of Sending Your Children To School… Are you sending your children to school for the first time this month? It’s really emotional, isn’t it? As in, feeling-all-the-feelings, emotional-rollercoaster type of emotions. Whichever ones they are. I spied our school’s new Reception starters in the playground this week, and even that made…
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Boring things I love now I’m a parent
Read moreDoes being a parent make you boring? I don’t know, possibly. Probably. What was I saying again? I’m not sure. Parenting itself is brilliant but it can also be mundane, repetitive and exhausting and leave you tired, baby-brained and sleep-deprived and unable to form a coherent sentence, and also unable to make riveting and sparkly…
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At what age do you stop using a pram?
Read moreParents, tell me – at what age do you stop using a pram? At what age do you stop using a pram with your child, for good, and… What do you do with all your STUFF when you do stop using a pram? Our pram days are numbered… It appears that our pram days are…
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Six parenting skills I have yet to master
Read moreParenting, to coin a phrase from Liam Neeson in Taken, requires a very particular set of skills, ones you hone over your long parenting career. And although it’s less about hunting down the baddies at gunpoint and more about snack fetching and toddler grappling, the skill syllabus for mum life is constantly changing. As soon…
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To my friend the new mum, 12 things I want to tell you
Read moreA couple of my friends are having babies, which is lovely in the way it always is when your friends have babies (Look, it’s a new baby! All of the new baby excitement and loveliness! That new baby smell!). But it also means there’s none of the mind-melding brain-fog of ecstatic sleeplessness overlayed by the…
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The nap snack delivery company and other fantasy parenting inventions
Read moreWhat invention would have the potential to completely change your life as a parent? I was thinking about this very topic of fantasy parenting inventions earlier this week, while pinned to the sofa by my sleeping toddler. Picture this scene, parents of toddlers; it might be familiar… We’d already left the house that morning –…
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Things you’ll know if your child is a really early riser
Read moreThey say the days are long but the years are short when you’re a parent, but when you’re the parent of a really early riser, the days start at the dawn of time and stretch out before you like a marathon.
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