Parenting
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Meet “The Hengelings”*
As a parent it’s easy to get bogged down with mindless kids tv shows. I used to be THAT mother who didn’t want my little one to watch much TV, but after parenting for 7 years, it’s inevitable even if it’s just to give yourself 5 minutes peace (and trust me, you’ll be craving it!) I have to admit that I actually credit LM’s speech from a young age to watching TV while I tried to work in the background. I also think it helped with her development emotionally and I have some fond memories of shows we used to watch together when she was young that are no longer…
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What We Did for Summer 2018
This week summer officially ends for me, as Little Miss goes back to school. It’s not the weather, or the light nights, days at the beach or barbecues that define summer for me, it’s having LM off for six whole weeks. At time they feel like they stretch for years, but then it’s over in the blink of an eye and I wonder why I was so worried about them. This was the first summer I truly struggled. I’d always heard mothers in the school yard saying how difficult summer was, filling the long days on little budget but I wasn’t one of those. I love having LM at home,…
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3 Important Things to Think About as a Parent*
Parenting is hard. That’s the first thing that always comes to mind when I’m asked about it. Hard but rewarding. For me, one of the hardest parts is thinking about the “what ifs“, I swear my life feels like a constant health and safety analysis. Before I had Little Miss and it was only just me I used to do things without thinking of consequences, and I definitely had a wild patch in my early 20s. Becoming a mother, and a single mother at that encouraged me to start considering the future and be careful with my money. Of course I’m still a little reckless, we do holiday a lot…
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How My Parents are Preparing for Their Future*
In March, I turned 30. To my parents, this is me a fully fledged adult (not the fact I don’t live at home, manage my own finances and have a child) and they felt it was time for us to sit down and talk about the future. In particular, their future. I’m blessed in that I don’t have elderly parents just yet but after a few health scares with my dad, they wanted to make sure I was prepared, that we were all prepared should anything happen. Not only that, but since my parents are still young and the average life expectancy is increasing each year, there is a chance,…
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10 Cheap Activities to Do With Your Child This Summer
If you follow my personal Instagram account you may have caught my moan about how hard I was finding this summer. I have to admit it’s the first summer I’ve really struggled, usually I can’t wait to have time with LM. I have to admit, this year although I’m not bored of her and she isn’t driving me up the wall, I am feeling incredibly unfulfilled that I’m not giving her the time of her life. I do think, like with everything, social media has a part to play in this. I see all these families doing amazing things and we’re doing the same routine every day and I feel…
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4 Things to Do to Encourage Your Child to Be a Good Person*
As I mentioned in my post about Why I Don’t Think I’ll Have Any More Kids, I had an idea in my head of how I was going to raise my daughter. Personally, I feel like part of my job as a parent is to ensure she grows up to be a good person, which if I’m perfectly honest, is hard in today’s society, but I’m trying. I wan’t nothing more than LM to grow up to be a good person, to be kind, polite and helpful. I don’t care what job she does, where she lives or what her sexual orientation is, as long as she can have courage…
