It must suck to be an alpha mom. That is what I thought when my friend tearfully told me she had a 20-minute row with her daughter over clothing.
“She has a closet full of clothes and this week she wo...
Mommy, I have to go to the bathroom.
It never fails; you can wait 20 minutes for a meal, and when it arrives kiddie wants to go to the bathroom. I haven’t had a hot meal in a restaurant since the day...
You’re just using me to win stuff.
That’s what my daughter said the first time I suggested she enter an art competition. She was six.
She was spending every waking minute cutting, drawing and taping t...
“By the way, I need a brown shirt for school today.”
My daughter said this ever so casually as we were walking out the door, five minutes before school started.
“You what?” I asked incredulously. “Rem...
Snap. Snap. Zip. Unzip. Shove. Squeeze. Sit. Squash. Zip again. That’s the sound of a student packing for college for the first time.
This Slacker Mom is an open letter to those who are going off to s...
Here’s a pop quiz.
Your child has lost their school sweater on the coldest day of the year, only weeks after recovering from walking pneumonia.
Do you:
A. Send them in a trendy Gap sweater. It’s navy...
Fifty-eight — that’s how many pairs of shoes I have in my house.
I don’t so much step out in these shoes, as step on them at 2am on the way to the bathroom.
They all belong to Barbie and her 24 frie...
There’s a giant gulf between those who have children and those who don’t.
You can see this in the way people without children often confuse babies with puppies. I call this Mistaken Puppy Syndrome (MP...
Motherhood makes you develop skills you never thought you’d have.
Certainly, it’s done wonders for my coordination. I used to push my daughter in the pram in the park while walking the dog at the sa...
On the morning of my first sports day my mother took a very cute photo of me in a pink floppy hat, clutching my favourite teddy bear.
That was pretty much the highlight of that day for me — my new sn...
