Beware: This book will make you laugh out loud and you’ll want to read excerpts from every second page to anyone standing near you. You might want to warn your nearest and dearest. I bought Katie Kirby’s second book, The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams (aged 2 1/4), while we were in the middle of renovating […]
Parenting skills
Ditching mother guilt and having it all
by Kylie Krackenbacken I am trying to have it all. I am utterly, absolutely besotted with our adorable little boy. He loves us desperately and is mad keen for cuddles. The feeling of his skinny little arms around me squeezing me tight makes my heart sing. I am also trying to maintain my career while […]
Funny questions kids ask about having babies (and how to answer them!)
When my kids were little it was easy to answer their questions about where babies come from: ME: They grow in the Mum’s tummy and then the Mum goes to hospital and then there’s a baby. Simple. Then the boys started to get older, and wiser… KID: But if a baby grows in your tummy, […]
Dinosaur snap fail
I tried to teach my 4-year-old son how to play Dinosaur Snap. It was a massive fail. Like many parents in a digital world I try to limit the amount of time my kids spend on screens. We currently have a rule of 1 hour per day for computers (iPad / XBox). Things are a little […]
Is a lack of privacy just a new kind of ‘normal’ for our kids?
Yesterday I shared an article about the invasion of kids’ privacy on my Facebook page. Kerri Sackville posed the argument that ‘there is a huge difference between being a proud parent and denying your child the right to live a private life’. Privacy is something I think about fairly constantly, which may sound strange coming from […]
Home Cooking is a Shameful Waste of My Valuable Time
by Kylie Krackenbacken Cooking relaxes me and I cook with love! At a lunch I went to recently I discovered that this is the way to do the cooking properly because people can TASTE the love. I have a lot of time and love for these people because they probably have some left overs I […]