Be the Best You Can Be: Parenting

Paint the Sky

May 17, 2013

She had a pen.  It had rainbows all over it. And so she painted the sky with colour.  Sometimes, it’s good to stop, and watch.  To see how these little ones interact with the world around them.

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How I Became A More Confident Mum

May 3, 2013

Understatement coming up:  There are a lot of opinions out there when it comes to parenting, and not just from other parents.  There are experts, authors, doctors, advertising campaigns, people who aren’t parents, teachers, grandparents, blogs, and even the government — all setting some sort of invisible benchmarks for parents to attain. I discovered early [...]

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Love the Moment Song

April 18, 2013

“I’ve written a song,” she said. Miss 9 is always doing some sort of project, like drawing comics, sketching birds or doing craft. “Yeah? What is it about?”  I looked up from what I was doing. “It’s called Love the Moment,” she responded and I noticed the A4 piece of paper in her hand. I [...]

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When it comes out in a drawing

April 7, 2013

Don’t you love when good stuff from real life comes out in their drawings? Miss 7 came in from the backyard with a piece of bark covered in gems.  You see, we decorated a branch from the children’s favourite backyard tree, with jewels (you can spot the bling branch in the picture above). “What are [...]

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Sometimes, I think we are crazy

April 2, 2013

There was a point there, where I didn’t think I could do it: camping for the long weekend. You see, from the time Matt knew he had the Easter weekend off to when we had to leave was less than two days.   And when I say we weren’t organised, I mean the trailer had yard [...]

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I have a bad attitude

March 25, 2013

The feeling of discontentment wells up inside me.  It started with a seed of annoyance, instigated by weariness with an edge of disappointment. “When is Dad coming home?” from the kids changed to “IS Dad coming home?”.   The impact of changes, often comes out in the children, and as a mother, I can’t help but [...]

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