Last week Josh Spector* shared an article by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang from Thrive Global called Work-Life Balance Is About Years, Not Days. This is basically a fresh take on the ’tilting’ theory of finding balance, something I first read on Planning with Kids years ago and was recently reminded of by Brooke at Slow Your Home. I…
We can STOP the mum shaming
There’s not a single element of parenting that isn’t a target for mum shaming and it doesn’t matter what you do: they will find you and they will hate you. Birthing – how you gave birth, where you gave birth, if you gave birth. Breastfeeding – whether you do it, how long you do it for, where you…
Weekend Rewind | Mantra for mothers
A short one this week, because a Teddy Roosevelt quote that I found on Kelly’s wrap up of the excellent Tropical Think Tank she just attended nicely concludes this whole week for me. If we could just make this our mantra, I believe we mothers would be far more forgiving of ourselves. Other things that had me…
Is a good mother a guilty mother?
Guilt and I have a very dull history together, which is to say that I’ve largely ignored it. I don’t like it. It’s a cruel, unkind emotion that overstays its purpose and robs us of other emotions. That’s not to say that I never feel it, just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist….