Feeling guilty?

Worried

There will never be a shortage of well-meaning relatives, neighbours, and people in the next aisle at the supermarket to tell you what you are doing wrong as a parent. There are so many different ways to approach the challenges of parenting that you can simply never please everyone, so it’s best not to try! But what can you do when the critical voice is coming from inside your own head? Feelings of guilt are very common for parents. For some, the huge range of parenting books and TV programmes don’t provide helpful options but an endless source of confusion, back-tracking and inconsistency. It’s … [Read more...]

Work/Life balance…yeah right!

We can do it

It is the ever elusive "concept" as a mother is it not?  I hate to say "working mother" because you tell me one mother who is not working!  It could more aptly be called the "how to squeeze everything into one life" concept.  Or the "superwoman syndrome" that has become so catch phrasey these days.  I myself prefer to call it life.  And I don't know that there ever is any balance to the equation as there is always one area (of the many that we juggle) requiring a little more attention than others at any given time. Anyone who has the job description of a mother is being unrealistic if they … [Read more...]