Tag: parenting

  • Friday 5: Top Parenting Quotes

    I’m not normally a huge fan of quotes, especially when people tweet inspirational quotes on my timeline.  However, over the years I’ve come across a few parenting quotes that either resonated with me or made me laugh and thought I’d share them with you.  ‘Toddlers are like airports without control towers’. ~ Dr Christopher Green…

  • Things you shouldn’t say to your kids

    I was walking to Sainsbury’s the other day, it’s just around the corner, and came across a mum, possibly a 2-3 year old in the stroller and their dog, suitably on a lead.  The dog was whimpering a bit, nothing really.  But then I heard the child from the pram say ‘shut up’ to the…

  • Smothering not Mothering!

    I’m convinced some mums secretly enjoy their children being clingy. *runs for cover* On the weekend I took my daughter to a children’s production.  It was a lovely story of a dad, with a wild imagination who got up to all kinds of mischief. At the beginning of the play, the father is asleep on…

  • Maybe being a perfect parent isn’t such a good idea….

    Do I take my daughter to see her daddy in hospital? This was a question I struggled with recently.  As many of you are aware my husband was involved in a road traffic accident and sustained substantial head injuries; not a phone call any loved one ever wants to receive late on a Friday night. …

  • Lies we tell our kids!

    As parents we’re not always perfect and at times are pushed to be creative with the truth; eg. Telling them the park’s closed, sheep are wooly pigs and that wine is ‘Mummy’s Brain Juice’.  What’s the worst/best thing you have ever told your kids?  Feel free to add them to the comments section. Here are…