Parenting
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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…
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5 Reasons I Don’t Think I’ll Have Any More Children (and Why I’m Okay With That)
Last month I turned 30. I still can’t believe I’ve been alive for three decades if i’m perfectly honest, I still 100% behave like a child and still like all the same things I did as a child. I may have even had a slight crisis in the run up to it, and I definitely had a few moments where I considered all the things I would have done differently over the last 15 or so years. However, one thing I am completely proud of is how I’ve raised LM all by myself over the last 6 years. I’ve built us a life on the back of Post Traumatic Stress…
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Exciting Things To Do With Kids This Summer*
When the kids go back to school next week, they’ll only have one term left before the summer holidays, which means it’s time to get planning! Well for me any way. I live for the summer holidays when I get LM home every day for 6 weeks! Not only that but I’m not tied to school runs! These days you can’t just open your door and send your kids out to play all day, it’s just not safe, so it’s important to have some structured fun planned especially if you’re going to be around, you have to keep your sanity after all! If you’re lucky, you can search for Summer…
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Easter Party 2018*
Wow, can you believe Easter is over already? I know it was super early this year but it’s still a big mile stone point to pass. It’s also apparently Spring but I’m not sure where that’s at given we had snow the other day and today is thick mist and rain. Thankfully Easter Sunday was a beautiful spring like day and we managed to have our annual Easter party. Our family are notorious for throwing parties, Halloween parties, birthday parties and our Easter party, which is my personal favourite as we get to eat brunch and the sun is usually shining. It was my mum’s turn to organise it so…
