Competitive Parents It starts from the moment new Mummies get together. There seems to be this compelling need to ‘win’ amongst some parents. Whether it is how many hours of sleep they got last night, how early their baby smiles [...]
We do a pretty amazing job us mums really don’t we? We carry our little bundles of joy to be around for nine months, nurturing them, feeling pretty rotten at times, making sacrifices for the sake of their well-being and [...]
Having a baby is amazing, and I think that my 17 month old is the most wonderful little thing in the world. But it wasn’t always like that; when she was born I didn’t love her, and I’m not really [...]
Is it me or have changing bags become the new handbags. Back in the day, when I had my first baby erm quite a few years ago now, I just had a changing bag that came free from somewhere. Second [...]
So the weather lately has been a bit mixed to say the least and we are seeing some good old fashioned April showers. If toddlers in general are anything like mine, they love spending time outside, so what kind of [...]
If you are anything like me, once the initial excitement of finding out that you are expecting a baby has died down, you do go into a frenzy of excitement about buying baby things. Even if you’re not a hardened [...]
According to the Money Advice Service, parents spend on average £10,300 (inc child care) on their baby in the first year alone. This is obviously a huge amount of money, which would scare any new parent! So in this article [...]
My little girl turned two at the end of last year and during the months leading up to it, lots of people asked me if I would be sending her to playgroup or nursery the term following her second birthday. [...]
The school run – its only a 10 minute walk for us. We have to leave the house by 8.30 to get her into school gates at 8.40. Its the most stressful manoeuvre a parent can muster. I shall tell [...]
“Friends are like family we choose for ourselves” is a quote I’ve always loved. For me, my friends are the people I love with all my heart, people who know me and love me regardless of my faults and who [...]
