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A Letter To My Family: You are amazing, and I love you all so much, but sometimes it's just not enough. Sometimes I need more from you, and you can do it!
Motherhood

A Letter To My Family: Sometimes It’s Just Not Enough

Hello Boys, Your Mom and Wife here. I hope you know I love you guys more than anything on this planet. And I hope you know I would go to the ends of this earth to help you. But something’s gotta change.  And it’s gotta change fast. What do you mean, you ask? I know you…

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Use these tips to learn how you can be a successful work at home mum - giving you the option of not having to return to the office after having children.
Career | Motherhood

5 Tips You Need To Know To Be a Successful Work at Home Mum

There’s no arguing that returning to work after having kids is no easy feat. The balance of work hours, commuting, child care and running a household present more challenges than are necessary for some families, which is why we are seeing a massive rise in work at home mums. Mothers who negotiate with their employers…

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It can be difficult to decide whether or not to return to work after having a baby. As a stay at home mother, I bet you've had these things said to you too!
Motherhood

5 Things Every Stay At Home Mother Is Tired Of Hearing

We already know, as mother’s, working out what is and isn’t right to do is tough. You have to weigh up all of the options, ignore the people who are trying to tell you what you’re doing is right/wrong/ruining your child, and then work out what is actually best for you and your family. It’s…

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It can be difficult to decide whether or not to return to work after having a baby. As a working mother, I guarantee you've heard these things said to you! They are not helpful and you don't need to hear them. Build each other up as mothers instead of tearing each other down.
Motherhood | Career

5 Things Every Working Mother Is Tired of Hearing

One thing is abundantly clear when you become a mother – no matter what you do, or what choices you make, there will be people out there who tell you you’re wrong and people out there who tell you you’re right. Confusing hey? The choice of returning to work after you have a baby isn’t…

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When you're a new mom, people start giving you advice. Some of it is so bad. This is some of the worst advice I was given as a new mother.
Motherhood

The Worst Advice I Was Given as a New Mother

This funny thing happens when you’re pregnant for the first time… everyone you come into contact with takes this as a cue to give you advice. And what’s better is that you don’t even have to ask for it (that was sarcasm by the way). Now I’m about to have baby #2, I’ve realized even…

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Before I became a parent, I knew a whole lot about parenting. Now I am a parent I realise how wrong I was and all the stupid things I said, it's amusing.
Motherhood

10 Stupid Things I Said Before I Became A Parent

With the upcoming birth of my second child, it made me think back to all the stupid things I said before I became a parent. Oh, how I wish I knew as much as I knew back then… because back then I knew everything. Right? It’s okay, I’m not going to deny it, I thought…

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Being a first time mother means you're going to get a lot of advice - some good, some not so good. But this advice is for all the things I want to remember.
Motherhood

Beautiful Advice This First Time Mother Was Given

The early days of parenthood are such a blur.  There are things that would be nice to remember for functional purposes, like when did I last give this baby a bath or which breast did he feed on most recently? But in the scheme of things, who really cares if he’s one day dirtier or…

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As adults, we are the ones who are supposed to be teaching our children about the world and life, but there are life lessons we can learn from children too.
Motherhood

5 Important Life Lessons We Can Learn From Children

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it’s our job as parents and as adults to teach our children everything they need to know about the world. But the truth is, there is a lot of lessons we can learn from children too. Their innocence and untainted view of the world gives…

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Should kids really be doing homework every day? Is that what's best for them? This is what happened when one mother announced her kids wouldn't do homework.
Motherhood

What Happened When I Announced My Kids Wouldn’t Do Homework

I’ve been overwhelmed with a lot of things for a lot of years. Last year I realized I’d had enough of the chaos and decided to take control of my life. I began taking steps to eliminate anything and everything that I deemed unnecessary. This included scaling back on items in my home, things on…

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Parenting is hard. I literally stay awake at night thinking I'm probably messing up my child. What some say is right others say is wrong. It's a tough job! There's probably a million ways to mess up a child, these are the ones I stress about.
Motherhood

12 Ways I’m Probably Messing Up My Child

I’ve realised something recently. I mean, I’ve always known it, but it wasn’t until recently that I really realised it. Like a big smack in the face. I may or may not have been rocking back and forth in the corner too… What I’ve realised is that there are about a million ways you can…

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