10 Parenting Regrets You Don’t Really Want To Regret!
Written By School Mum Contributor Carla Being a parent and a blogger means I spend a bit of time researching ideas for new blogs, reading other people’s blogs, watching family interactions for potential blogs or simply analysing myself as a parent. And I’ve noticed something…my kids are teaching me things and I could be learning […]
12 Clever and Cute School Shoe Storage Ideas
School shoes are one of those things that make me a bit cray cray when I see them lying around the house day in and day out. We have come up with a school shoe storage solution that works for our family and helps me stay sane. Below are 12 shoe storage ideas that we […]
eyeSlices – A little slice of heaven
I was recently given a product to try and see what I thought. The product was called eyeSlices and it was intended to reduce puffiness, dark circles, wrinkles etc around my eyes. I am forever having eye issues but mine are mostly due to allergies. I suffer quite badly from hayfever and itchy eyes so […]
The Messy Shoe Dilemma
Love your family, but don’t love tripping over their shoes all the time? Does is seem like no matter what you do the shoe pile just grows, looks terrible and makes you want to pull your hair out? You have been searching for a solution, and nothing has worked. Many Mums have had the same […]
Mums Matter Too – Looking After You
Mothers today are raising children under circumstances never experienced before in history. In a very short time frame – the past two decades – daily life has undergone significant and profound changes, most notably an increase in time pressure, a constant connection to technology, and a reliance on packaged and processed food products, all of […]
Conflict With Your Child’s Teacher – How Do I Navigate That?
I was fuming. Mr 5 had come home from school, again, and dissented all over the lounge room. School is no fun Mummy, he says. All I do is work work work. He tells me his teacher tells him he is silly, naughty, not good at school. I boiled. Mr 5 is not silly, he […]
I’m Screwing Up My Kids
Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try as a parent it’s never good enough. I feel like that!! When I was at school if I studied and studied and studied there was a pretty good chance I could get an A but with parenting I can study and study and study […]
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 […]
Parking At School – Tips you NEED to know
What does A Cactus, A Watch and A Hole in my pocket have in common? My Child’s School (ba, ba, boom!) Parking at school like a cactus; prickly, painful and downright ugly at times. Often you are getting to the school early in order to get a park at which point you can sit and […]
Everyone Can Run Fast Down Hill
I am a great advocate for kids in sport and all kinds of physical activity. I think there is so many skills and benefits to be gained. One thing I didn’t anticipate as a child is the life long lessons I would learn. I was still quite young when I pushed and pushed my dad […]