motherhood

Criticism and Everything Else

Often I don’t take criticism well. Part of it is my nature. I’m self critical enough, anything more can seem like too much. But the other part, the bigger part is that the vast majority of information I receive as a parent is negative. People are constantly giving you their advice or their opinions, telling [...]

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You Know You’re a Parent When . . .

There I was flying solo with a three year old and a 6 month old. Something that sends shivers down my spine at the best of times. The big one had just had an epic tantrum at the departure gate and without having time to do anything but tolerate it and move her in the [...]

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Motherhood. Enjoy.

I don’t know where I read it (I’m sorry. I’m a bad blog reader), but I was reading a post somewhere (if it was you let me know and I’ll link up), that although she absolutely loved her children, she didn’t enjoy being a mother. I didn’t comment because (for the most part) I do [...]

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It’s Complicated

People are bored with the never-ending conversation about parenting styles. Except it’s not a conversation. It’s a competition. But there aren’t any winners or losers. People who compete just end up looking like idiots. But really, people are far too complicated to be contained by a parenting style. And far too human to be a [...]

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Were You Born to Be a Mother?

This was the rather intimidating question posed to me by the receptionist at the pathology office were I was having my glucose tolerance test done over the weekend. She was talking about her own daughter who is 30 weeks pregnant with her first child and her very proud mum was telling me how she was [...]

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Moments in Time

This blog post was sponsored by Kidspot’s Baby Club. It’s a lovely space for mums and mums-to-be to get together, chat, share, relate and even win some goodies. The best thing is that you can visit at any time of day or night, and if you haven’t had time to shower or do your hair, [...]

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Selfishness Thy Name is Motherhood

They incomparable @indydreaming shared this article a while ago, and it’s been rattling around in my brain. It’s an interesting read. Although it’s directed at the UK election and a particular Parenting forum, I think it actually says a lot about mothers in general, or at the very least how they are perceived. And is [...]

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Childhood is a Bad Bet

That’s the assertion made by Elisabeth Badlinter in her new book, discussed in this article. The idea being that it’s a bit of a waste for a parent to sacrifice every part of their life for a child, given that we live for an average of 85 years and childhood is temporary. Her theory is [...]

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