Mediocre Mum

Category: Parenting

  • Top 7 Things to Take on a Long Haul Flight for Kids

    There is actually only a certain length of time a child is capable of sitting still. Constrain that child by putting them on a plane for 10 hours and then expect them not to complain about it, is a big ask. Being from Canada, once a year I fly ‘home’ with my husband and our…

  • Do you read to your kid’s every night?

    ‘83.6% of Mums spend time reading to their children at bed time, despite studies showing a growing number of Mums returning to work’ As a working mum, I’m often tired after being on the motorway and fairly stressed by the time I get home, but the one thing I make sure I do every night…

  • The perfect thank you gift for teachers

    Where has the time gone!  First year of school done! It’s almost the end of my daughters 1st year at school, where has the time gone.  It seems like  yesterday that we were walking to school for the first time!  Now the conversation in the play ground has turned to ‘what to buy the teacher…

  • Pure Genius! Personalized Cup Bands for Kid’s Drinking Bottles

      Do you ever see something and think why the h*ll didn’t I think of that.  I don’t know how many of my daughter’s drinking cups we have lost through the years.  When she was younger, if I had two the same Sippy cups but different colours, I’d switch the tops so they would stand…

  • Happy Canada Day Quiz!

    [slickquiz id=1] So how did you do? Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends and family!