Mummy Curriculum vitae PERSONAL STATEMENT Dedicated, hard-working and supremely adaptable individual seeks more credit for doing a bloody hard job seven days a week. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Leadership: skilled in growing, educating, nurturing, managing and caring for two small human…
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Boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry. Any boy-mama knows this isn’t true. My 5-year-old son cries with the best of them. And I’m cool with that. But does it stop being OK for your boy to cry as he gets older? And if…
Happy New Year already!
Happy 2018! I know I’m a couple of days early but, truly, we’re done with 2017. Really done. So much so that it already feels like 2018 in our house. So I’m saying it now, while I’m still feeling the…
Who’s your fictional doppelganger?
It turns out that Clarice Bean’s mum and I were separated at birth. Spiritually, at least. If you don’t know who Clarice Bean is, she’s the hero of a series of picture books by Lauren Child (of Charlie and Lola…
How tickling can teach your toddlers about sexual consent.
It’s International Day of the Girl. Hoorah! Wait. What does that mean? Well, it’s something the UN started five years ago: “The day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls’ empowerment and the…
Is it possible to be a good mother and be creative?
This is a rare moment. I have the house to myself. I have no overdue work nagging at me. Sure there’s housework to do, but when isn’t there? I have some time. I feel like writing. And I have about…
Motherhood: Five things I now can’t do and five random things I now can do
Five things I can no longer do since becoming a mother 1) Enjoy a long, carefree, morning shower (fat chance) 2) Wallow (there’s too much sh*t to do) 3) Get anyway near enough sleep (it’s going to take decades to…
Back to school (sniff)
My lovelies went back to school this morning. Yes, it’s still August. Yes, that is really, really early. But that’s how things are. With a stoicism that would have impressed any Ancient Athenian, there was not one single tear and…
4 undeniable truths about long car journeys with children
586 miles in a Nissan Almera. That’s the long, long round trip recently achieved by me, husband and two young kids. Note the use of ‘achieve’ in that last sentence: achieve [verb] Successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective…