Stress Free Toilet Training – make "accidents" history
So, as you have prolly already established, I am no expert on parenting. I dont claim to know everything and I am very much open to suggestions or new information. In fact I disagree entirely with the premise of the phrase Toilet Training. I think its wrong. I think that if you need to train your toddlers to use the toilet then they just aren’t ready. Here is my biggest non-expert but tried and true tip for you…… They need to want to do it. Toddlers are all a bit like Men; you need to suggest to them...
Daddy Day Care – you CAN do it :)
I had this post perfectly written in my head at 2am this morning and now I am all tongue tied, with words flying around everywhere in my head. About how men and women are different and therefore the inevitable comparison into Mums and Dads too. I was thinking about this post, which I wrote about resentment and how it can rob us of our motherhood joy. One of my suggested solutions was to hand over the parenting reigns to your husband/partner for an afternoon and go get your hair cut, a facial, catch up with a girlfriend for a...
I want a pink one so badly it hurts.
Today is Thursday. This means I have 4 days to contemplate a family of five before starting another cycle. Then there are three more cycles before my 40th birthday which for some reason is when the deadline in my head is to stop contemplating it any further and just accept we are complete as a family of four. And we are complete. At least I thought so. I would have driven hubby down to get the snip myself a few months ago I was so sure. Having been an only child myself, I was always set on the idea...
A Drama Queen lives here – my birth stories.
I have experienced two births and both were total shit. I agreed to the second bub with the hubby thinking that “they” (you know as in “they say that….”) were right in that the second one was quicker and less painful than the first, which was excruciating. If someone had handed me a loaded gun I would have pulled the trigger to stop the pain. Both times. Did I mention the midwife called me a drama queen?? Birth One. Birth Plan: a) to get through it with as little pain relief as possible. I was very open to gas, a...