Parenting
Mummy Burnout!
With a nursing baby and three other schooling kids, it is safe to say that I definitely have my hands full. My newborn who sleeps like a
Walk the talk
Women tend to be extremely complicated beings and quite often act rather erratic too, nowhere else is the enigma of a woman more obvious than when
Curvy is “in”
Come the end of the first month in a brand new year most of us have successfully trashed our new year’s resolutions and are well on our ways
MUM, can’t be CLONED!!!
With four kids at home, it is safe to say that I am the Queen of multitasking. I can cook a whole roast dinner with trimmings whilst burping a baby
Baby Banter
Well isn’t someone in trouble and it’s not Dad for a change. Big Sister has apparently penciled someone in Nursery class today.
Baby Banter
So since Mum’s had the cold last week, Dad- the martyr, phisssh, has taken upon himself to give me a bath. If you call being squirted a coupl
Breast is BEST
With the return of the kids back to school means, along comes ‘the back to school’ colds that spreads like wildfire throughout t
Worst Case Date Saves
It’s happened to all of us. If all your dates go smooth as silk, this really isn’t the article for you and we envy you with
Where are the children?
As parents, we have all experienced that gut wrenching, cold sweat moment where you are out in public and you loose sight of your little loved one
COLD be gone ye!
Woke Mum up early to watch the Golden Globes, c’mon Mum get your glamour face on its time to meet some stars, obviously I h
A player's top conquests: Part 2
Continuing from the previous article about type of women that players are attracted to, let’s continue along the same lines dealing wi
What’s in your child’s lunchbox?
One good thing about the start of the year is that the kids have to go back to school, and as much as I love them, with a new baby at ho
Baby Banter
I was doing some light reading the other day, well maybe Mum was on her laptop and she had me bouncing up and down on her knee. Despite feeling lik
Parenting regrets
Well parents, 2013 has dawned with a bang and once again we have another whole year stretched out before us in which we can give &l
Is it as easy to teach your toddler?
‘What’s this letter?, It’s ‘N’’, I say to my three year old. ‘N for nose, N for nangi, N, N,N’
Baby Banter
Mum came back from grocery shopping in a strop today. She had ran into her old friend from school, Michelle Margolis who
Baby Banter
YAY, we’re going on a field trip. Mum’s packing my bag, a couple of changes, my toys, extra bottles, umpteen
Baby Banter : It wasn’t me!
Woke up to find my mum in tears, what’s a baby got to do to get some sleep around here anyways.
What’s in your baby’s bag?
Is your baby due soon? Have you spent marathon rounds of shopping till you drop?...Despite being such a tiny little person, newborns need a lo
Baby Banter: The everyday perils of NORMAL life
(Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HONEST’ observations fr
Baby Banter: My Home, My Palace, My Kingdom
Well have been home for nearly a week now, am slowly breaking the new parents in. But found out that they are not really new parent
The Disappointed Child
My older daughter, having made the transition from infant school to middle school was now faced with a brand new set of dilemmas. For once she
Baby Banter
(Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HONEST’ observations fr
Too many activities, no free time. The dilemma of OVER-SCHEDULED kids?
So we’ve got tennis on Monday, swimming Wednesday, Ballet Thursday, voice training Tuesday…. I was pain-stakingly trying to updat
Baby Banter: The first day
For those of you who missed out, last week I was born. Spent nine months in a warm comforting room, though after gaining seven pounds sp
Pregnancy Q & A's
Pregnancy is indeed a beautiful time in a woman’s life. As your child grows you want to do what is best for baby, from what you eat to c
Baby Banter
(Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HONEST’ obse
The ‘MORNING’ battles with your children
Tick tock, tick tock, the school day morning begins..rush rush, lunch boxes, raincoats, OH NO! someone is wearing sandals and not shoes. "
The truth about stuttering
Stuttering which is also known as stammering is a speech disorder where a person’s speech is disrupted by repetition of words, prolongat