You Find What You Look For – Changing the way I see my family
Yesterday (Saturday) was a tough day. Nothing too crazy happened but I had a 2 month old who didn’t want to go to sleep properly and a 4 and 6 year old who both for some reason really wanted my attention ALL DAY. By 5pm I was at freaking out point. There is something about […]
How One Small Decision Turned My Evening from A Disaster to a Success
At 5:30pm yesterday afternoon our day was going as normal. Mr 7 weeks old was getting grissly so I was in the bathroom getting ready for our nightly shower (yes we shower our bubbas instead of bath them as I find it easier and more efficient AND they have all loved it AND it means […]
Dealing with a Child that is Lying
Lying is a stage that every child goes through. With this in mind, how do we deal with our little story tellers and help them understand that lying is unacceptable? Should there be a harsh punishment? Yelling? Privileges taken away? The truth is you have to find what works for you and and your child. […]
Dealing with Jealously and Rejection From your Kids
For some reason I have never been the jealous type. Never jealous of my husband’s relationship with other women, never jealous of other people’s houses, cars or stuff and never jealous of my kids relationships with their grandparents or other people. Somewhere along the line my parents taught me to be happy with who I […]
Getting Organised In the Mornings
I don’t know about you but whenever ours morning involve rushing, stress and yelling I often find myself driving away after drop off with an awful sickly guilty feeling in the bottom of my stomach. “Hurry up!” “we are gonna be late” “can you move any slower!?” Does any of this sound familiar? Is this […]
Finding Employment that Works for You!!
*THIS POST IS SPONSORED BY AVON Finding employment that fits around being a School Mum can be quite tricky. I don’t know about you but I love being able to do the daily School drop off and pick up. I know this is not possible for everyone but I have personally tried to keep this as […]
I’ve Got A Secret
I’ve got a secret …. can you guess?? YEP we are having another baby!!! FAR OUT don’t quite know what we were thinking hahaha AND I am only 8 weeks pregnant which means yes, I broke the 12 week rule …. you know the one that says you shouldn’t tell anyone until you are 12 […]
Reward Charts – How to Make them Work for your Kids
If you have never used charts for behaviour change in your family, or you’ve used them and they’ve not worked as you had hoped, I encourage you to read on. Charts can transform your family life, your child’s behaviour and even your morning chaos if they are used correctly. Charts aren’t just for the little […]
Difficult conversations – How the heck do I explain that?
Here are some things that are damn near impossible to explain to a 5 year old without getting lost in your own cornfield. Smoking We drove past a notorious footpath smoking spot (at a bus stop near a major hospital) where patients, doctors and nurses gather to get their nicotine fix. What’s that thing they are […]
I’ll Have What She’s Having
This morning hubby and I decided to take our kidlets out on a morning family scooter ride. We are all scootered up in this family so off we went on our adventure. Hubby and I love the idea of getting outside with the kids for some weekend mid morning fun. Some of my favourite family […]