By the time Joshua was a few months old I was so used to him being advanced in all of his development milestones. Whether it was weaning, crawling, walking, sitting up… Joshua seemed to be doing it way before other babies. So, I just assumed that this would be how it would continue, but when […]
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It seems that wherever you go, parents are being judged one way or the other. In the news and on social media, all you hear is what we should be feeding our children, whether formula milk is okay to use and why it’s bad for your baby to cuddle them. When my son was just […]
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Recently, a friend of mine openly admitted that they don’t own a television, any computers or any other type of technology, apart from one single smart phone. Their home has one parent and two children, and I was shocked to hear that her children never watch TV or spend time online. The Mum spends a […]
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You may not have realised, but Dads are parents too! We are working our bums off to give our children the best life. We are doing one of the hardest but rewarding jobs in the world. We put ourselves last and it’s difficult enough without hilariously annoying comments. Dads are parents, not accessories to parenting. […]
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My son, Joshua, has now been going to preschool for 4 weeks. Before he started going I planned on getting back into my work on a much larger scale, which I have successfully done! The time he spends away from home now gives me more of a balance to work, home life and being a […]
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A few days after Joshua was born my partner Jamie hoped that our newborn would eventually get attached to the Winnie the Pooh teddy blanket we bought him. Jamie would give it to Joshua wherever we went and have it near him most of the time. But Joshua had different ideas for what would be […]
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I’m 24 years old and growing up in the 90s, depression just wasn’t a ‘thing’ I heard about. It was never, ever a topic of discussion. I never knew what depression was or that it even existed, let alone any other form of mental illness. I suppose I was only aware that you could be […]
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