Category: Parenting

  • Is ‘neglect’ a good parenting skill?

    Do you ever see or hear something that really ‘clicks’ with your ideals of parenting?  This happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I was watching Desperate Housewives.  If you’re not a fan don’t run away as it’ll still make sense. Gabby was deemed a bad parent by the neighbourhood mums after one…

  • I look like sh*t but…….

    This is what I looked like the year before my daughter was born. This is me two years on…… I look like sh*t but I’m HAPPY!

  • Selling Babies on E-bay!

    When I was pregnant people were always asking if I knew if it was a boy or a girl.  My stock answer was always ‘if it’s a girl she’s going on E-bay’, which got a mixed response.  Please don’t jump down my throat and I do apologize if it comes across insensitive, especially to those…

  • Tired of deciding what to cook for dinner?

    I am! This is where the inspiration came from.  I tend to do my shopping on a Monday and find myself trolling recipe books on Sunday night or Monday morning before I head to Morrison’s (yes, we slum it) and not being a natural in the kitchen doesn’t help. It won’t generate recipes or create…

  • How did you tell your other half you were pregnant?

    Parts of this may horrify some of you.  I never planned on having children and believed that the batteries in my biological clock were well and truly dead.  However, on Christmas Day 2006, after we drank our way through everything in the house including the duty free cupboard we got a bit carried away! Late…