This article is also being featured over at Mamamia. One of my kids is a fussy eater. Meal times at my house are emotionally-charged events with striking similarities to the narrative arc of Ancient Greek tragedies, with melodrama, conflict, miscommunication … Continue reading
This post is also featured on The Motherish. My five year old started kindergarten this year. In a lot of ways it felt like I was the one starting school again: getting lost on the way to the office, wondering … Continue reading
So, it’s Hearing Awareness Week. Yawn, right? Another bloody awareness week. Last week was Earworms Have Feelings Too Awareness Week, next week is Ice Bucket Challenge Injuries Awareness Week and the week after that is Awareness of Another ‘Awareness Week’ Awareness … Continue reading
If there is one thing guaranteed to get your day started off on the right foot, it’s being woken up by your kids at some obscene hour of the morning, dragging your bleary-eyed self into the bathroom for your … Continue reading
I have a threenager. He is about a month shy of turning four years old. We’ve done the “terrible twos”, we’re almost at the end of “threenagerdom” and in my head once the clock ticks over on his fourth … Continue reading
So we’ve come through the hard, thankless slog of early infant/toddlerhood and now my oldest kid is finally at the age where I find him kind of interesting. He is almost four years old and full of curiosity about the … Continue reading
My son won the world’s lamest lucky dip prize today. Unfortunately for him he seems to have already inherited his parents’ stupendously poor fortune at games of luck and skill. We were at the local fete today and Mr Zilla … Continue reading
I don’t think there is anyone more devastated about the 2013 election result than my three year old son. We finally got around to voting this afternoon after being out and about all morning doing a few chores. Mr 3.5 … Continue reading
The great thing about kids is that sometimes they will up and say something so incredibly surprising and funny that you forgive them for annoying the shit out of you the other 23.95 hours of the day. My three year … Continue reading
My 13 month old woke up ready to party at 10pm last night. I was ready to go to sleep. No points for guessing who won. And just in case you missed the last time my kids tore up Facebook. … Continue reading
