When you have a child that reaches driving age, you might be feeling a lot of mixed emotions. While you won’t have to be the one shuttling them around all the time now, you also have to give up some of the control and trust in their ability to be safe driving a car on […]
Category: Parenting
Top Tips For Organising Your Mum Schedule
Find time for yourself This might seem like the last step in organising your busy schedule, but it ought to be the first. You’re most likely struggling to find time for all your essential tasks – but you should remember this is one of them! If you burn the candle at both ends, you’ll […]
Life Lessons Learned from Travelling Abroad
It only really takes one proper trip to learn a whole lot more about yourself as an individual in addition to learning so much about life in general, but the more you travel you learn just how much of a never-ending learning journey this life is. Here are some life lessons I’ve learned personally from […]
Dealing with an Exceptionally Gifted Child
It’s all good and well going along and discovering quite early on that you have an exceptionally gifted child on your hands to deal with here and I’m talking about the type of exceptionalism that can be seen by people beyond those who care the most about the children. As a parent, your child is […]
Travelling with the Whole Family
I suppose the title of this post sort of suggests that travelling with the whole family is indeed quite the chore, but if you’ve had to endure a few hours in the car with family members of different generations, interests and patience-levels then you’ll know that that’s exactly what it is – a chore. Now […]
We Trust Total Strangers More than We Know
A conversation with an international traveller who operates as an Uber driver back in his native land set my mind into motion and had me thinking about quite a few things, one of which is just how much we actually trust total strangers. It’s not a matter of being naive or gullible, but we in […]
Getting the Kids to Play Outside Again
Isn’t it just scary how a mere three-year-old toddler can take your tablet PC, go online and download some games which they subsequently enjoy playing and yet they probably can’t even speak properly as yet and don’t quite fully know what the names of all the different basic shapes are? It appears as if this […]
How to Save Money on School Sports Equipment
I hope it’s still the same in this day and age across all learning institutions, that being how children are encouraged to take part in as many extracurricular activities as possible so that they’re in with a good chance of perhaps discovering a special talent they may not have even known they had. That’s how […]
A Disturbing Kids’ Fashion Trend I’m Glad Died Out
One day I logged in to my Facebook account and, to my horror, my timeline was bombed with what appears to have been a hot new trend in kids’ fashion, but one which I’m so glad was nipped in the bud and died out very soon after its apparent advent. Of course I’m talking about […]