As I experience the last few weeks of my final pregnancy, I feel a mixture of excitement and sadness. This has been the last time I will experience the joy of seeing those two lines on a pregnancy test, a squirming jellybean on an ultrasound…
My husband recently travelled to the Philippines to a poor remote village community. He spent two weeks without TV, newspapers, his iphone and internet connection (mostly). He came back a changed man, convinced that our lives are unnecessarily busy, stressful and we are losing our…
This has always my perception of the home-schooled family. But here is the modern homeschooling family! Look! They seem almost….normal! In the last few years I have come across mums who homeschool or who were homeschooled. What was once a foreign concept full of harsh…
Over the years, I’ve realised so many of the perceptions and beliefs we have about motherhood are heavily influenced by our popular culture which is founded on the media and advertising.This is the inspiration behind my blog! MUMmedia about learning to filter through all the…
The media have become the mainstream culture in children’s lives. Parents have become the alternative. Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Today they are expected to raise their children in opposition to it – Ellen Goodman…
3 kids + 2 kids = 5 kids. Prior to my five child experiment, I thought 5 sounded like a good number and had secretly fantasised about ‘accidentally’ falling pregnant with twins to complete my ideal family. Now, much to my husband’s delight I’ve decided…
What does foster care have to do with the theme of this website? A lot actually! Choosing to be a foster carer has been one of the biggest decisions we have made as a family that has warranted criticism and judgement. In fact, I can…