The other day I was scrolling through my social feed, randomly double tapping pics of coffee dates and beach sunsets, when I stopped to watch a video of a friend’s baby who had learned to crawl. I immediately got a sinking feeling in my stomach and my pulse quickened. I glanced up nervously. Did it matter if her baby could crawl, and mine couldn’t yet? Was my baby normal, or - more likely - was it my fault he somehow hadn’t even started learning crawling yet?
Read MoreHave you ever heard the saying, “all babies are different”? I was expecting my second child to be different from my first, but what I wasn’t expecting was that I would be different second time round.
Read More"So you rock your baby to sleep?!" she zeroed in with extreme interest. I hesitated to answer…
Read MoreBelieve it or not, the judgement isn’t just from random mature-aged men. It even comes from other mums. It’s time our society stopped judging women and being prejudice towards women who choose to have a period of their working life as a stay-at-home mother.
Read MoreIf you've got a young family, you've got more work ahead than others to achieve your goals. However, you've also got more motivation AND in some ways, more opportunities to be healthy! Don’t believe me? Here are some tips on making exercise achievable with a young family.
Read MoreThere is so so so much pressure and judgement on parents these days. Let’s name and shame the judgemental and hurtful comments people say and leave them unsaid forevermore!
Read MoreThese days mums who choose to 'stay home' instead of seeking paid employment are often seen as an anomaly. I've been asked the same question in various ways:
This Mother's Day: I hope you know every little thing you do matters…I hope you know how much your laughter brightens the room…
Read More"Waste not, want not." The more I think about it, the more I realise wastefulness is really a modern attitude and way of life. It's a problem we mamas have been thrown into, and are contributing to without even being aware of it. So let's start educating ourselves around why this stuff matters, and what we can do about it in our own lives.
Read MoreWith so many other challenges out there putting pressure on us be a different, better person (e.g. "you need to have a bikini body!"), we wanted to try something a little different: A challenge you set for yourself, based on what matters most to you.
Read MoreWe all have dreams. Maybe you have little dreams or big dreams, maybe you dream of an achievement, milestone, big purchase, holiday, lifestyle, or special moment. Today my dream has become real - my first book has been published! And it has everything to do with you.
Read MoreIf we want to live our best life, we have to take steps and actually make it happen. Join the Modern Day Mama community challenge.
Read More“My job as a mother is ___________ .” What’s the first phrase that came to mind?
Read MoreSomething we seem to forget in the conversation about travelling with kids is the fact that there are heaps of benefits for parents who brave the adventure.
Read MoreOne of the biggest challenges I face as a stay-at-home mum is the unceasing inner drive to be achieving things. If you’re internally motivated and always writing to-do lists and pursuing goals, then I’m sure you can relate. At first I really struggled with this as a stay-at-home mum, but now, I love this new lifestyle because of the opportunities it gives me to achieve more than I could have without my baby. Here’s how.
Read MoreThere's so much pressure on parents these days to be doing so much stuff for our kids.
Read MoreRecently I read a newspaper article by an elderly man about how ‘parents these days’ are basically stupid, screwing up their kids and doing a disservice to the country by raising ‘entitled’ children.
Read MoreThere are so many rules, pressures and expectations put on mothers these days to do the 'right' thing, but it's so hard to know what that is exactly (and despite our best efforts, sometimes nothing seems to work anyway!) So what's a mama to do?
Read MoreWhen others around us are achieving big things, it's easy to feel down about life as a mama, especially when our biggest win for the day is just getting our baby down for a nap. But here's why being a mama is actually the biggest thing we can achieve in our lives.
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