I remember running into a friend who was pregnant with her first child. I had to look twice at her neat bump, as it looked a lot like my ...

Last night my middle daughter, who is halfway through Grade 3, decided that when she is in Grade 6 (her final year of primary school), sh...

As the enormous summer holidays loomed before us last year I thought to myself ‘what can we do as a family that keeps us out of the sun an...

Because I am easily susceptible to flattery I found myself saying yes to taking on a special art project for my middle daughter’s class, a...

I did one of those things today that parenting books and experts always tell you not to – I got over-involved in my daughter’s school proj...

‘Can you put this in the bin?’ I asked my seven year old daughter, holding out a wet wipe her sister had just used to eradicate the half b...

I can’t even recall how the conversation started. I think she had been complaining about her youngest sister, upset that the little on...

‘But how does the man’s sperm actually get inside the woman?’ I hesitated. This was the most direct, specific question she had ask...

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...

Sitting at the traffic lights this morning, we sat across from the University where three flags were fluttering in the wind. Usually it...

I am falling I love with my middle child. I should clarify for anyone who is concerned – but I already love her very much. I would do...

‘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....

One from the vaults when the Bombshell was four. In 1637 Ren é  Descartes made his brilliant statement ‘Cogito, ergo sum’ or ‘I think, t...