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How To Help Your Kids Understand Your Mental Health
Hey guys! It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. This means that around the country, conversations are happening about mental illness, mental health, and what to do to get from one to the other. This is obviously great! As a society, we’re learning to talk to each other about the hard stuff. The stigma and silence that previously isolated those of us struggling is starting to shift. Now, say what you want about social media, but I honestly feel that it’s played a major role in helping this movement. Yes, it has contributed to the increase in mental illness as well. Feeling that everyone else is doing better than you can definitely…
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Things My Toddler Has Cried About Recently (and why they’re totally valid points)
No toddlers were harmed in the making of this post. With his ever increasing desire for independence, Hunter has recently developed Sudden Onset Toddler Tantrum Syndrome (SOTTS) where he will suddenly throw himself on the ground in frustration at his current situation. I feel for him, I really do, and so I thought I better explain why his tantrums are actually completely reasonable responses. I wouldn’t put a pair of shoes on him without first taking the pair he was wearing off. This is completely reasonable because as his mother I should be supporting him in his quest for fashion-forwardness rather than being yet another naysayer in the fashion industry.…
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How To Find Your Inner Strength
I was lying awake in bed the other night with a phrase stuck in my head: “It’s no coincidence the words ‘struggle’ and ‘strength’ have the same beginning but completely different endings” – so I thought we should explore that further. It’s easy to look at “strong” people and think “wow, I wish I had it easy like them” or “I wish I had their confidence” or “they’re so brave, I could never be like that”. But actually, strong people have struggles, they have insecurities, they have anxiety. We only see other people’s outer selves. I remember once when I wasn’t in a good headspace someone said to me “I…
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Why I Blog
Hello from the other side! I’m sorry it’s been a while lovelies. I’m not actually why I stopped writing proper posts – I just sort of got caught up in life. I struggled a bit mentally towards the end of last year, so thought I’d take a break over the festive season to spend time with my family and just regroup but then never really picked the ball back up. Writing is like any art or exercise – it’s easier to do if it’s a habit, if it’s done regularly. You need to be in the right head space, and I started getting blank page syndrome – then started doubting…
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Sleep & The City
Ah, sleep. Where for bloody art thou?! I knew that when I posted recently that Littlest Man had started to fall asleep with a cuddle instead of a boob that I’d jinxed it; the few nights following felt like he was attached more than not. It’s easy to stress about sleep. Too little, too much, at what time, for how long, in what position, with what help… There’s just so much to worry about and lose sleep over (Pun alert!! Sorry… I must be overtired 😉). It doesn’t help that sleep seems to be one of the first things you’re questioned (or warned) about as a parent. “Does he sleep?”…
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MUMLIFE RAW TAG
The lovely Analesha over at More Than Makeup tagged me to do the #mumlife raw post from the blog From Bump To Baby – so what a great opportunity to give you all a little sneak peek into my #mumlife! If you’d like to do this too (it’s fun!) let me know below and I’ll add a link to your blog 😊 Or if you don’t have a blog, you could always do a guest post here! 😉 My #mumlife Describe your day as a mum today in one word. Busy… which is how 90% of mums of young kids would describe their days I’m pretty sure! What’s the most challenging part about connecting with other…
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MUM GUILT: PART ONE
Piggy-backing on my post about the struggle – but super-importance – of being kind to yourself, I feel it’s equally as important to address another issue that mothers face more regularly than nits, grass stains, undie accidents, wet towels left on the floor, toilet audiences, and tantrums, combined. Mum guilt, I’m looking at you. Mum guilt is incredibly invasive and can become quite defeating. Mum guilt tells you you’re not doing this parenting thing good enough, and that your poor children will suffer greatly for your inadequacy. Mum guilt has a rather skewed idea of what really matters in the long run, and scrutinises every parenting decision you make.…
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THE GAP
No, I’m not talking about the infamous thigh gap. Having been blessed with strong legs that are simultaneously helpful for delivering a semi-decent roundhouse kick and also incredibly unhelpful for finding jeans that fit well, my thighs have always met in the middle, although when the big thigh gap craze of 2013 was raging, I was most excited to discover I sort of had one if I tried to squeeze my knees outwards while standing straight (insider tip, glow mamas, this is not a comfortable way to stand and a brief thigh gap is not worth the extra brain cells it takes to hold yourself in such an awkward position).…
