Category: Expectations

Why lasagne is better than a baby grow

18/11/2019

When I had my first baby, I was clueless about what babies really needed and also clueless about what I would really need. I ended up with an emergency caesarean birth and when I got home from the hospital, I was a mess. I was in love with my tiny baby but also reeling from the shock of it all, in pain daily, struggling with breastfeeding, not sleeping and unable to get about much.

I had people wanting to come and meet my new baby and see me and I agreed in a haze. Most people just came over, sat on the sofa and chatted, drank tea and had a cuddle with the baby. They brought cute outfits and toys as gifts for my daughter. These were all appreciated but piled up in the unused nursery whilst baby slept on my chest each night as I laid awake stressing about why she wasn’t sleeping.

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Can I Help, Mum?

14/10/2019

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“Can I help, mum?”

How many times have we heard this from our toddlers? When we're making dinner, hanging up the washing, cleaning the windows.

My daughter asks this as I am about to make some pizza dough for dinner tonight.

I hesitate. It would be so much easier, cleaner, and quicker on my own - but can I say yes?

This time I can (sometimes we can't).

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5 Things to consider before trusting a parenting 'expert'

16/9/2019

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There are many self-proclaimed parenting ‘experts’ out there. A wealth of books, TV programmes and podcasts you can choose from. A veritable cornucopia of parenting styles. How do you possibly begin to choose what’s right for you? How on earth do you weed out the ‘experts’ who are just in it to make money or achieve fame? How do you find the parenting advice that actually has your best interests at heart?

Nowadays, with knowledge literally at our fingertips, it can feel like wading through jelly, with no idea who to listen to – is it the person who is most famous? The person who shouts loudest? The person who has an excellent marketing manager?

You may not think it matters too much… parenting is just parenting, right? But, when you’re putting raising your children into someone else’s hands, when you’re trusting that the advice they’re giving is sound, it matters. A lot.

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Can you see the perfection in your child?

3/6/2019

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I’ve just been to the cinema with my husband (a very rare treat these days!), and we saw the film Lady Bird. Have any of you seen it?

It is basically a story of a teenager’s relationship with her mother as they go through her last year of school and applications to college.

There is a scene in the film that really struck me. Lady Bird is asking her mother for approval, and her mother comes out with “I just want you to be the most perfect version of yourself you can possibly be.”

And Lady Bird replies “What if this IS the most perfect version of me?”

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The truth about snow days

1/3/2018

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Now I know that it is pretty treacherous in some places, it can be dangerous, that it’s inconvenient, and it can cost people money. Today it has been inconvenient to me, tomorrow it will be, and this weekend it’s likely to mean I have to cancel training some wonderful new consultants which costs me and the business money. That part sucks BUT I am excited and inspired. I know there are lots of haters of snow out there and earlier in the week when they said it would snow I was both skeptical and a bit frustrated. However today I feel differently.

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