The other day a friend of mine asked me this question, “Do you ever lose it with your kids? “As an initial response, I had a quick sarcastic internal dialogue that went something like this. “Um you mean with those two boys who can make an instruction like ‘go brush your teeth’ seem like the […]
‘They’ say that change is as good as a holiday. But when the holiday is over and change is going back to work, school and routine, ‘They’ don’t really say much. So here we go into the beginning of another year. Whether we are the parents who are breathing a collective sigh of relief in […]
My children’s school community has been left reeling. It’s been a particularly hard year in terms of grief and loss at this school. Of course, the cycle of life is inevitable and loss of any kind is hard to bare and grief is a long and painful journey. But in this year alone, there have […]
“I love homework” said no child ever. Ok maybe there are a couple of exceptions, like that brief period where a younger sibling strives to emulate their older sibling and actually hankers after a homework assignment or when a child has just started school and is all gung ho. But in reality this enthusiasm wanes […]
Back in my day, the children’s party game, Pass-the-Parcel was a pretty simple game for the parcel passers and the parcel wrapper. One child received the one prize after various layers of paper were unwrapped by various children to upbeat party beats. It would seem that the present day Pass-the-Parcel rules have changed. Now it […]
My mom has always wanted to visit India and asked if she could take me with, not as in “Ill pack you in my suitcase” but proper the two of us off to India. I said “Hell yeah” or something to that effect. We would be away for 19 days, leaving at the end of […]
I vividly remember as the mother of a 10 dayish old baby being sent off for a rest by an older family friend while she kindly took care of my son. From the room next door within earshot, I heard her saying something to him in that voice, you know the voice, the “ I […]
I have been known to mutter or sometimes shout to anyone who will listen as I walk out the front door in the mornings to get the kids to school, “It feels like I am herding cattle.” Now being quite an urban girl with some lovely weekends spent on farms where other people are doing […]
We are so hooked up to potentially knowing so much of what is happening in the world. In times gone by we might have known about what our neighbours were up to but we wouldn’t know about some distant happening because it was so distant. Now we know a lot and we know it pretty […]
I was invited to a friend’s birthday drinks on the weekend. I just knew in every inch of my body that I didn’t feel like going. I had just come off a two week stint of a major family visitation session with family visiting from Australia, America and Switzerland – all at the same time. […]