Showing posts with label sons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sons. Show all posts
Saturday, 3 October 2015

Dear Mother of All Boys

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Dear Mother of All Boys, I see you there, with your tired eyes and heart bursting with love. You are a mix of...
Saturday, 20 September 2014

What it's like to love a 9 year old boy

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My 9 year old, Nathan, has been doing my head in lately. And by doing my head in I mean sending me batshit crazy. He has taken defian...
Friday, 20 June 2014

Home Alone

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My 9 year old is not well. Sore throat, sniffles, flat. He’s the type of kid that will be outside kicking a ball from the moment he...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

already

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So no big deal but my 8 year old walked home from school by himself today. Except it feels like a big deal. It feels really momentous and...
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

What got you talking in 2013

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I didn't intend to take a break from blogging. I had every intention to keep on writing through the festive season. I really did. It...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Love Rush

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Do you ever look at your child and hurt with love? It’s Sunday night. Hair night. So the boys are showered and gleaming and smell...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

A lesson I didn’t teach my son

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My eldest boy, Nathan, cried himself to sleep tonight. And when I say cried, I mean he sobbed. Loudly. With big tears rolling down his chee...
Thursday, 18 April 2013

ding, ding, ding....

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"MUM!!!!!!! He hit me!!" "MUM!!!!!!! He's annoying me!!" "MUM!!!!!!! I'm bored!!" "MUM!!!!!...
Thursday, 28 February 2013

Raising Men

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It’s not so easy to be a man today. What is a good man these days? Do you know? Do you think your son knows? I have always had m...
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Sunday, 3 February 2013

10 Parenting Rules – and I broke them all

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Confession.  I was one self-righteous, know-it-all bitch Before Children [BC]. It’s true. I knew it ALL. Anything wrong with a kid? It’s...
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