Category: * Parenting, Attachment, Home Ed*

The importance of one-on-one time for kiddos & 5 tips for special time

Kiddos thrive on connection and attention. With only one child, that’s easy to figure out – when I had just one, we had so much time just the two of...

Ways to support a friend who’s had a baby

6 baby items that you actually need!

If you look at baby magazines or websites, you’ll end up with a huge list of ‘essentials’… things that supposedly you can’t live without once you have a newborn. The...

10 Ways to bond with your baby

Whether you are a first time Mama, or you’ve done this gig once {or more} before, it’s still important to factor in some bonding time with your new baby. Mama and...

Parenting without a village

Rasising a family without a village can be an incredibly challenging part of parenthood

Cloth Nappies – a Q & A

I’ve used cloth nappies for my last three children, and it’s always been something that people have asked about. It’s also something that I’ve noticed becoming more and more mainstream...

Top 5 Benefits of Homeschooling you Need to Know

According to Forbes, over 50% of millennials are already parents, and most of them are choosing to home school their kids. Their main reason is they want to have control...

Be kind to yourself Mama

One thing I’ve learned over my sixteen years of parenting is that I have to remember to be kinder to myself. Especially when I’m pregnant and have just had a...

5 Learning Activities to Help Parents Teach Recycling to Kids

With news of global warming and climate change being more prevalent in all forms of media, it’s time to rethink what can be done to help mother nature heal. Waste...

This season

This season right now is busy. A baby, a four-year-old, a tween, two teenagers. A single Mama, working from home. Home educating. There is not much breathing space, not much...

The fourth trimester

Just like that, we’re out of the fourth trimester. These three months have flown by, yet at the same time some days have felt like twenty, and there have been...

This is {my} postpartum

I’m now ten weeks postpartum with my fifth baby. Thankfully, I’ve had a super easy recovery, and have felt pretty fantastic right since he was born. I’ve been lucky in...

Seven weeks of single parenting with a newborn

Single parenting is hard. It’s a fact. There is no one to share the load with – physically or mentally. It’s down to you 24/7. There are no lie-ins. No...

Postpartum Essentials

Almost three weeks postpartum, and physically this has been the easiest recovery I have ever had after a birth. For the fifth time, I was super lucky not to have...

Feeling all the feelings

One thing that I had kind of forgotten about the postpartum period is just how much of an emotional rollercoaster it is. Hormones are all over the place, add in...