Our little one Miss A is a toddler now. I can hardly believe she is turning 2 soon. We are going through that phase where she says no to everything and tantrums about everything that doesn’t go her way. I remember this phase well with the other two as well. And I remember other Mom friends and how they handled…
Category: Issues
Happy Parents…
Happy parents make for happy kids – you’ve heard that before right? I totally agree. So what do you do if you’re unhappy in your relationship? What really is the best way for you and your children? I’ve know many folks of my parents’ generation that stuck together even though the love was long gone. Whether because of the children,…
Privacy or Paranoia…
“It’s not the same as it was in the old days”. You, like me, probably heard this growing up time and time again. What you probably didn’t expect is that you would be thinking it, if not saying it, now that you have kids. I was born in the seventies. There were no devices and the TV was black and…
Mommy, there are bugs in my hair!
They certainly don’t mention this stuff in the baby manual. I have a vague memory of having my hair cut really short, like a boy, when I was about 4… or maybe I was 7… I hated it and I got mocked in school about it. I resented my Mom for having cut my hair so short for ages. Of…
Expectations and assumptions… the Mother of all f*** ups
Pardon my French, but I couldn’t find a better title. You probably know what I’m talking about. We go through our lives having expectations of people and making assumptions about people. And generally that ends is disaster. We are supposedly adults. We grew up, we found partners, we have jobs, we found a place to live, we had kids, we…
Awwww, come here my baby…
I am sure this happens mostly with the first born. That moment when they are starting to toddle and they bump into something that makes them fall on their bum and start crying. It’s just so easy to pick her up and say “awww. come here baby, Mommy will fix it”. There is nothing wrong in principle with doing this (unless…
There’s life after reflux…
As a first time mother, I had very little preparation for handling babies. Prior to motherhood, I wasn’t exactly the mumsy type (well, I still don’t think I am). I did a lot of reading about pregnancy. I did the NCT and NHS courses in preparation for labour and breastfeeding. But actually preparing for the bundle of joy, nothing. It…
Don’t downplay loss
When I was pregnant with Mr A (and to some extent with Miss A) and found out I had a 1 in 5 chance of Downs syndrome I was devastated. I think nothing prepares you for that kind of situation. Whilst I know that life is not a bed of roses and bad stuff happens, when you’re faced with this…
When frustration takes over…
Intention to be a PC parent (patient and consistent) is what I wake up with every morning. But of late, this evades me as quickly as a snooze cycle on the alarm clock. I have 3 kids to get ready in the morning. The nanny only arrives at 8 and they should already be dressed and be eating breakfast. I…
Sins of the father
My Dad was a strict and controlling Dad to us. He shouted and he was aggressive. And we (my sister and I) got smacks when we were naughty (amongst other things). Let me just say, I was naughty all the time, so I have vivid memories of punishments. Not surprisingly, I was always against smacking children (not least because of…