I am a Lazy Parent. Yes, it’s true. It’s taken me some time to come to terms with this fact, but there it is. I’m a lazy parent because all I ever dream about are high-entertainment, low-cost, no-mess, boredom-free, minimal- supervision, highly-stimulating but guilt-free activities that require limited adult involvement for me to do with [...]
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14 Aug
A second bite of the cherry
A few weeks ago, my dad called me up for a quick chat. In the course of our short conversation he casually stated that he was looking forward to seeing how I would teach my daughter (let’s call her Boo), her letters. She is 20 months old. Some time after that, he and my mum came for [...]
10 Aug
Dads do things differently
In the first few months after my daughter was born, I became quite convinced that my husband was doing things all wrong. Which means, in short, that he wasn’t doing things My Way. I wasn’t the anxious mother hovering around the bathtub watching to see that Daddy got the water temperature exactly right. On the [...]
7 Aug
Doing it for myself
It’s World Breastfeeding Week and we are celebrating at Fusion Parenting. Thank you for celebrating with us! It’s a comment designed to hurt, embarrass and shame. It’s a comment that is both ignorant and absurd. It’s a comment that also seems fairly ubiquitous – I’ve seen it on blogs, forums, newspaper columns, magazines and from [...]
5 Jul
Blogging on…blogging off
Over the past few weeks since I last made an appearance on here, I’ve written some really brilliant posts. No, seriously, I have. I wrote one about the disapproving comments I’ve been receiving as I made the decision to find a job that fit around my husband and daughter’s needs (i.e. a casual evening job), [...]
11 May
Mother’s Day musings
My Mother’s Day fell somewhere between being mildly hilarious and exceedingly ordinary. It’s probably what happens to us all… The day didn’t get off to the best start when I was the one who got out of bed before my husband to attend to the wide-awake and very wriggly 18 month old who sleeps between us. After a [...]
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