Parenting: Gaining Perspective and Getting Out of the Moment
This is a selfish post. I am writing this for myself so that in a few weeks time when I am learning to manage being a mum to my 2 big girls and to my new baby who will have joined us, that I can regain my perspective and reason. I have found that when parenting, [...]
Dearest Baby . . .
Dear Baby, Each evening as I put your big sisters to bed, you are getting hugs and kisses from them and they are singing you the lullabies that me and daddy used to sing to them. Separately they have both told me that they are so excited to see you that they can hardly wait. [...]
An Invitation For You
On Tuesday 26th July, Tuesday 2nd August and Tuesday the 9th August I am running a small series of one hour workshops. The venue is Beanies Cafe in central Croydon The cost of each workshop is just £6 per person. The title and content of each talk is as follows: 26th July- Family relationships: improving [...]
Mission Complete: Another Academic Year Comes to an End
The end of another academic year is here and my heartstrings are being tugged and my emotions are running high. I have built such strong attachments to the people who have helped me to care-for, educate and nurture my children all year. I did not cry at my own wedding, I did not cry when [...]
Savouring the Sublime Moments in Ordinary Days
I was striding home from the school run this morning. I had two hours to myself before I was due to collect my youngest daughter from nursery. In my head and on a very long piece of paper at home was my to-do list. I decided to take the route through the park rather than [...]
Triumphs and Disaster
I am a very ordinary parent. In almost every day I experience both good and bad mother moments. I’m a proponent of the good-enough parenting approach. This means that I have chucked out the notion of perfection and adhere to the idea that I will always be attempting to be the best parent that I [...]
Make a Choice. What Kind of Parent Do You Want to Be?
What kind of parent are you choosing to be today? Some of the parents I work with feel that their parenting life is slog, a trudge, an endless series of chores and battles. And they are battle-weary and so disillusioned that they can’t remember ever being illusioned! They go through the motions of their parenting [...]
Second-Time Mums Need You!
I’m going to ask for your help in supporting a cause today. It will require no money to do so. It will just require a little of your thought from time to time. There are a group of people out there who need us. They are doing a very important job but have been forgotten. [...]
Putting Myself Down Is Putting My Children Down
Until recent years I had a bad habit of putting myself down. I would look at my fine, straight brown and wish that it was long, thick, wavy auborn hair instead. Even as a little girl I would wish for hair like Charlene Tilton who played Lucy in Dallas. I have suffered from acne since [...]
Children Often Tell Us What They Think We Want To Hear
My day job is working as a coach in a primary school. Therefore, my clients are 5-11 year old girls and boys who attend the school I work at. Only once in almost 7 years has a parent turned down the offer for their child to work with me, and the children regularly accost me [...]