Why we may never know our child is a Picasso………. Me – 4 years old Technology is changing childhood as we know it and as parents, we need to be vigilant to ensure our children don’t miss their childhood by being too busy playing with…
Look how much grandma loves playing video games! Upon seeing this advertisement you may be fooled into believing that the purchase of a new gaming console will result in the creation of happy family memories and togetherness. Unfortunately, it’s quite the opposite! Over the weekend…
I recently stumbled across this blog called hands free mama. I read this article and wanted to cry. I thoughtfully considered how many times my kids had been ignored, told to go away or their request forgotten while I sat on the computer, laptop, mobile phone…
Last week I watched a story on ‘the smack’. 60 minutes placed cameras into the home of a single mother with 3 children and filmed her smacking her children. She was a loving, functional parent with happy kids. She was using the smack as part of her…
The Australian recently published an article advising that breastfeeding can help reduce the risk of SIDS. Unfortunately, it has been met with the anti-breastfeeder brigade that implies that breastfeeding mothers are on a mission to make non-breastfeeding mothers feel guilty. These women who accuse advocates of…
This provocative magazine cover has caused quite a stir! The accompanying article in TIME magazine states that attachment parenting is on the rise as more parents feel drawn to a more natural parenting style. There are two sides to this story. Some believe this philosophy places pressure…
Mother guilt. Is this merely a term to describe mothers with perfectionist tendencies? Or does this term impact ALL mothers regardless of race, religion or parenting style? Is the perfect or good mother a myth? Where does our guilt come from? Does it stem from pressure…
The New York times recently produced this article in response to the claim of feminist Erica Jong that alternative parenting imprisons mothers who are trapped by their roles and choices. There was also this article inspired by Elisabeth Badinter’s new book that discussed why attachment parenting is joyless.…
Picture yourself walking through your local shopping mall. You are surrounded by billboards, signs, shop fronts, people trying to smother you in hand lotion or convince you to stop and ‘try’ something. It’s bright, loud and busy. You decide to pop into Roger David to…
I used to want to be a yummy mummy. Now, I cringe when I hear the term. The yummy mummy idea is nothing more than a creation of the mass media designed to target women’s insecurities in order to make us better consumers. What do I mean?…