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Motherhood Life Hack 3: PRAY

Motherhood Life Hack 3: PRAY

For Life Hack 3 it has to be said: Sometimes all you can do is PRAY. Alice and I walked in to the high-end shoe shop, with a tinkle of the bell echoing through the store. “Can I help you?” The attendant was keen. “We’re looking for some shoes for a school formal,” my request […]

Good Times! 3 Steps to Fun with Your Kids.

Good Times! 3 Steps to Fun with Your Kids.

Jenny spoke to Scottie Haas on Hobart’s ultra106five about good times with your kids – listen HERE. Or read on… Woosh! Time seems to fly when you look back. Remember? It hardly seems any time since your little bundle of crumpled flesh arrived. Even with different coloured fluids escaping from just about every opening, you and your baby received […]

Planning a Trip? 6 Strategies When Leaving Your Children

Planning a Trip? 6 Strategies When Leaving Your Children

Heading away for a holiday or trip, and leaving your children with friends or family? Sounds exciting! But it’s good to be aware there may be long-term outcomes, even with your very best intentions. This blog explains some of the strategies you can use to ensure your children manage the separation with as few adverse effects […]

How to Get Your Kids Talking

How to Get Your Kids Talking

Have you noticed that every mother teaches her children how to talk? That’s why the language you grow up with is called your “mother-tongue“. The challenge of how to get your kids talking – from birth until they can speak fluently – is primarily a mother’s task. It’s quite a big thing to do! One […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [17]: Let Go of Your Children

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother Let Go of Your Children

One morning at our kindergarten, when it was my turn to be a volunteer helper, I watched with fascination as a mother and son, “Billy”, went through their farewell ritual. If you struggle to let go of your children, this story might sound familiar! “Is it okay if I go now Billy?” this mother asked […]

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 [16]: Build Relational Resilience

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother

To work on the next Way to Rock, to build relational resilience, it’s important you have at least had some time to grapple with earlier concepts. As you get through the 20 Ways to Rock series, you will see a gradual progression of self-understanding, and development. With every new Way to Rock you become aware […]

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [14]: Live Beyond Your Comfort Zone

20 Ways to Rock at Being a Mother [14]: Live Beyond Your Comfort Zone

As a mother you have to get used to the idea that you frequently live beyond your comfort zone. And often. No doubt you remember that groggy realization as a first-time mother. That moment when, even though you were sleeping, you realize someone else needs you. And not in the morning, or next Wednesday at […]

A Mother’s Sacrificial Love and a Lifetime of Birthdays

A Mother’s Sacrificial Love and a Lifetime of Birthdays

Perhaps it has never occurred to you. On the other hand, maybe you are aware of it every day. But a mother is a sacrificial being. In addition to many other things, she sacrifices her sleep, her time, her career, her thin body, and her sense of “self” for her children. This doesn’t stop after the […]

Stuck? 9 Tools to become a Problem-Solving Mother

Stuck in a rut? No idea where to turn next to fix something or someone? Feel as though you are going around in circles, and not sure how to get out of the cycle? Every mother faces uncertain days, and it’s the reason you eventually become an excellent problem-solving mother. The truth is, your problem-solving […]