May 24, 2018 | Parenting is Haaaaard
I’ve been working on an assignment most nights this past week. When I haven’t been working on it, I’ve been feeling guilty for putting it off, and there’s been this little voice saying, “we need to do the assignment.” It’s not...
May 21, 2018 | Parenting is Haaaaard
Merging onto Row Highway last week, my nine-year-old glances over her right shoulder and with casual condescension says, “feel free to change lanes any time now, Mum.” It makes me so cross I almost pop a vein in my neck. A few days later I’m driving...
Jul 12, 2017 | Parenting is Haaaaard
Yesterday my eight-year-old tiptoed into my room and said in her smallest voice, “Mum, I’ve been too scared to tell you this…” She had my attention. It turns out that a little girl from up the road stole some of Georgia’s pocket money when she was helping her...
Feb 15, 2017 | Parenting is Haaaaard
“I wish I was allowed to say swear words because I really want to call you the ‘F word’ right now!” That’s my eldest, bright red in the face and screaming at me from her room while I stand in the kitchen taping up her little sister’s fingers. She was supposed to be in...
Oct 23, 2016 | Parenting is Haaaaard
I was doing a puzzle with my five-year-old Amelia before her Pre Primary class started. Another child had plopped down beside her and made a game of snatching the puzzle pieces from her hand. She looked at me and sighed. I asked the boy to please stop. He’d been...
