Females are often hardwired to nurture, give advice, and at times judge. We are all human at the end of the day and we each have our flaws, and our preferred ways of doing things, but sometimes the advice we get, or maybe a comment we have overheard really gets to us. There is no […]
Post-baby body shaming: what many mums are enduring
Body shaming mothers after the birth of their baby and a continued amount of time afterwards – not something I ever thought I would be writing about but having seen a number of things of social media recently, this is clearly quite an issue. The definition of body shaming is the practice of making critical, potentially humiliating […]
Raw motherhood: the moments you can’t prepare for and those that bring you to your knees
There is no doubt that motherhood is hard, but some moments are really hard. Social media is a wash with beautiful family photos of days out and the fun tasks we do with our children. Of course those moments happen, they are real, but motherhood is way more than that. There will be times you […]
Occasion wear after children: getting it right ‘underneath’
When you’ve had a baby or babies, getting ready for a special occasion can be seriously hard work. You don’t have the time to shop like maybe you did in the past, you don’t have the same kind of disposable income you perhaps had in the past, and quite frankly the thought of having to […]
Share With Me #70
Welcome to the Share With Me Linky. I want to thank all of you who link every week, it is very much appreciated. Lots of you follow the rules, linking, adding the badge or a link, commenting on the HOST post and commenting on each others. There are also quite a few people who don’t […]
Shapewear: always, sometimes, never in a million years?
A minefield Shapewear can be a bit of a minefield area don’t you think? There literally seem like millions of garments from full body type affairs, all the way down to small knickers, that claim to shape, tuck and tighten you up in all the right places. I have to say I’m always a tad […]
Kazoops on CBeebies
Have your children seen Kazoops before? Monty Kazoops, the little boy with a vivid imagination and a loyal pet pig, is back with brand new animated adventures in Kazoops, transmitting daily on CBeebies from Monday 17th April. Monty Kazoop is a spirited boy of six, whose best friend is a pig called Jimmy Jones. In […]
The problem with the modern day mummy
Motherhood is complex. Insanely rewarding, yet exceptionally hard work at the same time. It isn’t just the actual mothering that is complex though, it is the way we are perceived as mums as well. There is no longer a ‘typical mum’, or a simple definition of a mother. We are expected to be everything to […]