As we are now into the final few weeks of the school year, whilst on the surface we may be thinking about summer holidays, no school runs, less club runs and how we are going to juggle work and children over the summer holidays – really, we are also thinking about the massive amount of […]
Sleep deprivation is a killer isn’t it? I mean actual torture! Being sleep deprived is not just about feeling a bit tired, it’s way more than that as any parent will well know. New parents will steal just four hours and 44 minutes of sleep in an average night during the first year of their […]
Do you have any budding little artists? I love to watch children draw and to see what they create. I also love that moment when you ask what it is and they respond with something really complex. You need to perfect that thing when you tilt the paper to one side, close one eye and […]
Thinking back to your childhood, which books did you enjoy so much you’d quite happily re-read them as an adult? For me, it would have to be some of the Roald Dahl titles. My favourites were always George’s Marvellous Medicine (my mum was especially good at reading that one), Danny the Champion of the World […]
Being a parent is wonderful — but it occasionally feels like a thankless task with a never ending to-do list. Really, it’s not just being a parent that creates this, it’s life in general. Everyone is so busy all of the time with family, work and the general ‘stuff’ that has to be done everyday, […]
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.
Fairytales – which are your favourite ones from childhood? Do you read them to your own children? Will you read them to your grandchildren? Millions of parents are changing the endings of classic fairytales – because they are politically incorrect, a study has found. More than one in four admit to altering parts of a […]
Parenting is hard work. We know that don’t we. In fact, be wary of any parent who won’t admit to that – they are lying! Yes of course it is ridiculously rewarding and heaps of fun too, but you can’t escape the brutality of it at times.