Mums are amazing! In a single day, the average mum will perform the role of many. She’ll be a cook, cleaner, chauffeur, teacher, bookkeeper, waitress, event organiser, counsellor, hairdresser, tutor, dog walker… you get the drift. We can’t make all our responsibilities disappear, but we can do something to ease our daily stresses and reduce […]
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My daughter is currently happy at school and enjoying her friendships. There was a time though when this wasn’t the case. She had experienced ongoing bullying by a child at her previous school and it impacted her immensely. When it was at its worst, I’d find myself tearing up in private because I felt
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Before I became a mum, I thought I knew what kind of parent I’d be. I’d spend time daydreaming about all the lovely playtime I’d share with my child. I’d imagine us giggling and having so much fun together. Then my daughter came along, the “Brady Bunch” daydreaming stopped and reality kicked in. I quickly
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I’m an avid reader and have loved to read since I was a teenager. You’ll always find a book (or two) on my bedside table. Throughout my life, reading has helped me in so many ways. Not only has it educated me, but it’s also allowed me to forget my troubles. When I read, I’m
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Here is a great quote about motherhood by author and blogger Gretchen Rubin. “The days are long, but the years are short”. How true this is. Every day is long, busy, and tiring. Yet the years pass us by so quickly. Our daughters are growing up so fast. With that in mind, here are 13
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A mother is very good at prioritising the needs of others. So good, that she sometimes put her own needs on the back burner, like keeping up to date with her routine health checks. Are you up to date with all of yours? Importance of regular health checks Motherhood is challenging and days can be
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Here’s a post with some useful strategies to make your ‘mum life’ a little easier. The purpose of the strategies is to help you manage your time more efficiently and to get your daughter to do what you ask her to do… now what mum wouldn’t like that! I think we can all agree, there
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If you have a daughter in primary school, then you’ll probably agree that friendships play a very important role. Every day when my daughter comes home from school, what she talks about the most are her friends. Her friendships are what consume her, and it’s been like this since the very first day she started
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Each year in primary schools around Australia, thousands of little kids start school for the very first time. For many mums, it’s a first-time experience too, because they have just become new school mums. Little do our kids understand just how much work has been done behind the scenes, over many months, to get them
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Note: This post is a guide on how to move a primary school child from one public (state) school to another. It does not cover private schools, although a lot of the advice given will still apply. If you’re considering or are in the process of moving your child to a new school, then this
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