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Not Exactly Parent of the Year …

I’M THE FIRST to admit that I’m not a perfect parent (just check out this post!). I yell sometimes. I lose my temper. Some nights I can’t be bothered to cook dinner, and let the family fend for themselves (we call them D-I-Y nights!). Like most parents I’ve done my best. I tried to breastfeed (that’s [...]

I wish I’d had more kids

April
20

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The Friday Files continue … I NEVER thought that I would say this, but lately I’ve been thinking that I wish we’d had more children. Perhaps this is one of the side effects of being raised by a mad mother. I watched her have four children (I’m the eldest) and gradually lose the plot. Whereas she was [...]

Witch Hunt!

March
20

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When my daughter was small she just loved to watch Barney videos. For those who have not had the pleasure of meeting Barney, he is a purple dinosaur toy who comes to life whenever children play with him. The show has quite an educational focus, introducing tiny tots to concepts such as the weather, [...]

Precious Comfort

March
13

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When she was a little girl, my daughter had a cuddly. She couldn’t quite say the word “cuddly” so she called it her “kardia*”. Her “kardia” started off as the quilt on her cot (see photo), but she grew so attached to it that she dragged it around with her long after she’d been moved from [...]

What it’s like to be judged …

March
2

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The Friday Files continue … When I was in my early twenties, one of my work colleagues took exception to one of my bitter comments about my family. “I think it’s disgusting the way you talk about your parents,” he said. I was devastated into speechlessness. Only later did my blood boil. How dare he – [...]

Swimming Lessons

February
21

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“You should have seen what we had to do at swimming today, Mum!” My son (Mr 10 at the time – now Mr 17 - how time flies!) had a grin a mile-wide, before collapsing dramatically into the passenger seat of the car. “First, we had to swim two laps of freestyle, then two laps of backstroke, then [...]

Which one’s worse – teens or their parents?

November
27

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Lately I’ve been pondering which one is worse – the teens, or the parents?! It’s been a week of milestones for our two teens. Last week I posted about Mr 17’s graduation from high school. Since then he’s dyed his hair to celebrate his freedom – it’s half green, half black (inspired by a certain [...]