Even though it is currently summer school holidays here, my youngest daughter has been doing homework almost daily for the past month. I...

My youngest daughter is severely dyslexic. We noticed a difference between her and her peers a couple of years ago, and the older she get...

I had filled one side of my notepad with dot points, each detailing a single point in time of the night: Taking a photo of the puppy w...

‘I have a scratchy bottom,’ my four year old told the bemused girl behind the counter. She leaned forward to emphasis her point. ‘Ever...

‘I don’t want to go to school. I hate school!’ came the voice from under the blanket. My husband and I exchanged looks. ‘It’s booo...

We took our family to see Angry Birds – the Movie the other day. I wasn’t overly impressed, there were probably too many gay-dance-clu...

My (almost) four year old and I were playing. Normally I don’t do this type of thing, but every now and then I put my ‘good mum’ hat ...

It was easy to tell the first timers from the old hats. The new parents shuffled in cautiously, unsure what to expect, their children’...

‘Let’s play mermaids’. My heart sank. My intense dislike of playing with kids is well documented. This was Number Three, just shy...

‘I go to Gammas. By my own!’ Angry because we had told her she couldn’t have dessert if she didn’t eat her dinner, Number Three had de...

It’s becoming increasingly painful trying to drop Number Three off at day-care in the mornings. There are days when I slink back to th...

‘Where are you going,’ my husband asked groggily. ‘She’s calling out she’s done a poo, I’d better go and see’ I replied. It was 2....

‘Mum.’ ‘MUUUUUMMMMMA’ It is the early morning call of the native species Three-Year-Oldus-Crazy-Makus. She has woken and now needs...

We make all sorts of allowances and break all sorts of rules for our Third Child. Despite being three years old, she is – and always will ...