Tag Archives: EXASPERATION

Teaching the Little Things, Like Swallowing Peas?

Teaching the Little Things, Like Swallowing Peas?

Unsurprisingly, it’s the little things that take you by surprise. Too late you discover the things you didn’t teach your kids. This is one area where it’s easy to feel like you need parenting help! Like when you realize in the middle of a wedding ceremony your son doesn’t know how to whisper, and suddenly everyone knows he […]

How to Beat Motherhood Regret

How to Beat Motherhood Regret

Last year, the Sydney Morning Herald came up with this interesting question: “What if a mother suspects she has made a horrible mistake having children?” As a result, the popular news-current affairs TV show The Project screened a similar piece about “motherhood regret” a few days later.

The Motherhood Dilemma of Keeping Up Appearances

Sometimes there are things we mothers keep very quiet. Like when we have a parenting fail. It’s so hard to admit our mistakes, and yet it happens. Like it or not, keeping up appearances is instinctive. And usually wrong. Here’s one incident which I never confessed to any of my motherly friends. I was so […]

The Paradox of Motherhood Statements

The Paradox of Motherhood Statements

Have you heard of the term “A Motherhood Statement”? In essence, it’s a is a sweeping declaration or generalization, often about important things. Here’s a definition of the term motherhood statement from Wiktionary: Noun: A vague, feel-good platitude, especially one made by a politician, that few people would disagree with. For example: “Our country must contribute to world peace.”

17 Tips to Get your Mojo Back!

17 Tips to Get your Mojo Back

Overtiredness. It sucks the life out of every mother, every so often. The busy-ness all adds up, and one day you wake up thinking you can’t move a muscle. The constant day-after-day grind of chucking food together, demanding children, work commitments, disturbed sleep, housework, care of family, and more. These are the normal myriad of […]

8 Steps to Reclaim Your Inner HAPPY

8 Steps to Reclaim Your Inner HAPPY

Ever feel like you’ve lost that deep happy feeling? I have. Here’s what happened to me, what I learnt, and how you too can reclaim your “inner happy”. Checkout this radio interview I recorded about “how to get your happy back”. The bright early-morning springtime light filtered in through the window. My jangled brain struggled to […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [6]: Offering Forgiveness

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother Offering Forgiveness

Offering forgiveness is crucial to maintaining healthy relationships, and critical to being a mother who rocks.  As you think about your teen years, you will almost certainly think of things you did that your mother forgave you for. Or maybe she didn’t forgive you, and she still holds resentment! My mother had a very short time to […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [15]: Let Go of Shame

Let Go of Shame

Shame? What does it mean to  let go of shame? And what’s that got to do with being a mother? Go back to 20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [14]: Live Beyond Your Comfort Zone “Shame has got everything to do with being a mother!” Brené Brown says. She’s spent years researching shame and vulnerability, and has […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [9]: Building in Margins

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother

It’s taken me a while to get my head around this concept of building in margins. And it’s something I still struggle with. But read on to find out why it’s a good space to push into . . .  GO BACK >>> 20 WAYS TO ROCK AT BEING A MOTHER [8]: CHOOSE JOY As with […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [10]: Being Responsible

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother

Is that being responsible? OR, Being response-able? We mothers are very familiar with the concept of “feeling responsible” for something. Like, when you have the daily challenge of getting children to school. Or being the one to transfer money into a bank account. Or even dealing with all the laundry before bed! These are part […]