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10 things to do when your toddler is stressing you out
Let’s face it – toddlers sure know how to push our buttons. My little one, probably much like yours, is like that classic subject of that nursery rhyme – There Was a Little Girl. You know, when she...
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15 ways to pass the day with a sick toddler apart from TV!
We have had months of illness after illness in our household, and literally just coming off the back of a double whammy of Flu and Hand Foot and Mouth – gah! Sick days can seem very, very long indeed,...
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The New Mummy Manifesto
Being a new mum can be the most magical, confusing, exhausting, contradicting and down right other-wordly experience out. The first year of being a mum can feel like enough challenges were squeezed in...
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A two fingers up at unwanted advice
Inspired by the various attempts by those “well-meaning” at saddling us mums with advice that actually, we really really don’t want to hear from baby to beyond, here is a cheeky little poem I penned...
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10 things you need to not lose you mind on a road trip with a toddler
A road trip with a toddler – like many things in the world of parenting – is no walk in the park. And like with most things in parenting – it’s the end result which keeps you going – namely in this...
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OMG! 10 WTF moments in the first 24 hours of potty training
I hadn’t planned potty training. In fact I hadn’t even read one thing about it. My 2 year old seemed to be ready, the sun was shining and bang! Something clicked in my head and I whipped the nappies...
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21 ways to outsmart a picky eater
About a month after she started on solids, my little girl became the pickiest of picky eaters. From that time up until the age of almost 2, having such a picky eater in a house of foodies has been one...
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The bossy brigade: 7 ways to survive a bossy boots toddler
The 2s are an incredible age in many ways – just imagine, not being able to express yourself properly for the best part of 2 years and then BAM! you have language, you have power, you have influence!...
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20 things I would tell my former self about being a mum
I had never really thought about what it would mean to be a mum. Sure, I wanted to be a mum, I knew that much. But I never really thought about the incredible sacrifices, challenges, and emotions it...
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Being a parent – does it ever get easier?
I write this off the back of a morning of crying into my coffee. I love being a mum. But at other times, I probably hate it just as much. I’m going through a particularly tricksy time with my 2 year...
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Does being a parent ever get easier? The truth revealed…
Many of you read with trepidation my recent post Being a parent – does it ever get easier – where I called for you, my readers, to cast the bullshit into the wind (hopefully for it not to fly back in...
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Why is it so important to teach our children empathy?
Empathy, or the ability to understand and share the feelings of other, seems to have become one of the buzzwords of the 21st century. But with a big long list of things you already need to do as a...
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Amazing toddler hack #2: Three more magic words – who wants to?
They say there is a silver lining to every cloud, and I’m beginning to discover there is a silver lining to the most desperately testing toddler times – the birth and discovery of some ingenious...
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Mum guilt, the secret to happy toddlers, bad ass mums & the beauty marks of...
Why hello folks! It’s been a busy week over on Motherhood: The Real Deal with some of my writings making it onto LoveToKnow, BLUNTMoms and Mamalode. And so in case you missed any of those, I just...
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20 things I would go back and tell my pregnant self
I loved being pregnant – absolutely LOVED it. When in your first ever pregnancy the thing that is so gloriously wonderful about it is just how utterly and blissfully ignorant you are of what’s around...
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Sound asleep: 5 benefits of using a sleep sack
I am a BIG believer in sleep sacks. Ever since my little girl began channelling Houdini as a baby and started slithering out of her swaddle, we and sleep sacks have been firm friends. We have used one...
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6 reasons to keep the afternoon nap
As my little one’s fateful 2nd birthday passed, I started having this question flicked at me left, right and centre – “Is she still napping?”. Quite frankly, the thought of her dropping her nap fills...
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