I know you're busy. I know you probably don't have time to read this. But indulge me. Indulge yourself. What if you didn't have to be busy? What if the most exhausted person you know, wasn't you? What if you slowed down. Stopped? What would happen? Would your world fall apart or would the fun, [...]
Category: Motherhood
Things You Didn’t Know About Plastic That Could Be Harming Your Children
I was walking to the shops the other day, without a reusable bag in my hand, as I often do and I thought to myself - the Government should really ban plastic bags or at least enforce a law that means we have to pay for them to discourage people from using them. Like at [...]
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How To Create A Life You Love
Today I am reflecting on my life and how it came to be. Today is the first day in seven and a half years that I am on my own, during a weekday. My two eldest are back to school and my littlest Elijah has started his little pre-kindy program. I was a very different [...]
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The Benefits of Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness to Children
I am currently undertaking my yoga teacher training at Tamara Yoga in Perth and as part of my course we are asked to complete a research assignment on a suggested topic or a topic of our own choosing. I decided to choose my own, going with the area I was most interested in. Having three [...]
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Building Resilience In Our Kids
If I could build a bomb shelter to protect my kids from getting hurt in this big, bad world - I want to say that I would throw them in there and not let anyone in near them. But even if I had that option I think I would still throw them to the wolves. [...]
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Parenting is…..
I thought about this question and whether I had the courage to truly answer it. Whether I was brave enough to write it down. If my wins were outweighing my sense that I am just never quite the parent I want to be. Parenting is: scary wanting to be perfect never feeling quite [...]
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Travelling With Your Tribe (Part 2)
How do you manage the long-haul flights with children? How do you take three kids under the age of 7 and make them sit nicely and sleep? As I discussed in Travelling With Your Tribe (Part 1) it's all about managing your expectations. Or, in essence, setting them aside. They might scream. They might get [...]
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Travelling With Your Tribe (Part 1)
You need the normal to appreciate the extraordinary. The extraordinary to appreciate the normal. Travel takes you out of your routine. Out of your zone. Puts you in learning situations. Puts life in your face.
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The Parent I Want To Be
I am always learning. Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable when you realise the chasm between who you are now and where you want to go. I'm reading a book called Conscious Parenting by Dr Shefali Tsabary at the moment. I don't read parenting books that tell me when my children should go to bed [...]
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Mums Just Want To Be Appreciated
Did you read that hilarious post by Brad Kearns about being Mum for the day? It was so well written, hilarious and right on the money, but you know what I, and probably most of the Mums out there, loved the most about it? The perspective it gave him to appreciate how hard his wife works. [...]
