Gentle parenting sounds lovely… until someone’s screaming, the cereal is on the floor, and you’re holding back tears in the loo. Let’s talk about it. You want to raise emotionally secure, kind-hearted, respectful humans. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, maybe even cried at a Janet Lansbury quote.But real life? Real life is messy.…

It’s not toddlers, and it’s not teens – it’s somewhere in between. And it’s weirdly emotional. The Quiet Shift No One Mentions When your kids are little, motherhood is loud. Chaotic. Sticky. You collapse into bed covered in jam and glitter and think, “Surely it gets easier?” And it does… sort of. But no one talks…

I used to say it all the time. Be careful. Be careful. Be careful. And I thought I was helping. But I started to notice something. They would freeze. Or ignore me. Or worst of all, they would get nervous. Not safe. Not aware. Just anxious. So I stopped saying it. And this is what I say…

I have said "put your shoes on" at least 700 times this week. And yet... silence. Blank stares. A sudden inability to hear my voice unless snacks are involved. Getting kids to listen without shouting is basically the gold standard of parenting. But it is possible. Not perfect, but possible. Here is what works, what flops,…

What I Am Still Learning as a Mum of Tweens I thought the hard part was the newborn stage. The nappies. The night feeds. The chaos. But here I am, parenting two funny fierce complex girls and realising… I am still learning. Every single day. Motherhood did not stop evolving when they learned to tie their…

You know that moment when your child drops their toast butter side down and your brain immediately spirals into "we are going to be late, everything is going wrong, why cannot I hold it together?" That is anxiety talking, and darling, it is louder than you think. Especially when little eyes are watching. Welcome to the…

Somewhere between the last Barbie phase and their first eye-roll lies the mysterious realm of the tween years - that emotionally chaotic no man’s land between childhood and teenagehood. If you’re a mum staring down the barrel of a 10th birthday candle, grab a cuppa, because I’m about to spill the tea on everything I…

Mum, It’s Not Just You There’s a fresh new wave of parenting crashing through the mum-sphere right now. It’s bold, it’s slightly sweary, and frankly, it’s bloody brilliant. Say hello to FAFO Parenting – short for “F**k Around and Find Out”. Yes, really. Before you clutch your pearls or draft a letter to Ofsted, let…

It starts with a single skipped commute. Then another. Before you know it, you have Marie Kondo’d the school run straight out of your life and are sipping oat lattes in your dressing gown at 9.03am. Welcome to the quiet quitting revolution - mum edition. And no, it is not laziness. It is liberation. In…