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Being Clucky, Parenting Newborns and Coveting Their Toys
No, I wasn’t breastfeeding my niece! It was strange to travel back to the newborn stage when I visited my sister and her 8-week old baby for the first time last weekend. I could cluck on an on about the complete gorgeousness and super-intelligence of my niece – understandable really considering her gene pool –…
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New Babies, Flying And ADHD
Bubba courtesy of crakerk69 at http://www.flickr.com Kurt and I are going on a mini break together to meet his newborn cousin today. He is very excited. I have some concerns. My son has never met a real, live baby before. I am trying to put the concerns I have about his preconceptions about them to…
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Parenting Strategies For Your Dog
We’ve had a complaint about the behaviour of the Princess from the building management company of Dysfunctionality Box. The shame of it. Don’t they know who she is? Apparently, when we were away she made some noise that resembled a bark each time a resident breathed within a radius of 5kms from the block and…
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Woman Seeking GENUINE Work/Life Balance
Gordon Ramsay (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On a scale of one to ten, my stress levels are at a Gordon Ramsay ‘ten’ at the moment. Work has gone into overdrive recently and once I’ve done my duties as a mother, domestic slave and family therapist, there is no time left for ME. And I resent it.…
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Success, The Law Of Attraction and Making Your Own Luck
Via http://www.ewomennetwork.com on Pinterest.com For many of us it can take almost a lifetime to understand that we are in control of our destiny for the most part. It has taken me nearly fifty years to realize that the word ‘can’t’ is (as my mother warned me) often a feeble excuse provoked by fear. We…
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How Do You Keep Your Relationship Alive?
Texting… (Photo credit: j0sh (www.pixael.com)) It was our 21-year anniversary last week. We didn’t forget the date exactly but the old man was away at some conference pretending to be a very important international executive while I was working my butt off from Dysfunctionality House. So aside from a couple of pathetically grovelling texts to…
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My Latest Clothes Shopping Tips for Middle-Aged Women
It was uncharacteristically magnanimous of the old man to allow me to abuse the credit card at Pitt St Mall yesterday. It felt strangely odd to be actually GIVEN PERMISSION to spend, although equally as enjoyable as my usual furtive credit card abuse. I’m sure he had his reasons and his moment of generosity had absolutely nothing…
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How To Screw Up Your Kids: Parenting Faux Pas Number 839
Warner Bros. publicity poster for the Sex Pistols’ album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. The poster text is composed of selected lyrics from the band’s song “God Save the Queen”. On the left: Johnny Rotten. Inset, left to right: Paul Cook, Sid Vicious, Rotten, Steve Jones. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There’s a fantastic…
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Middle-Aged Sexual Food Fantasies
In the thick of a texting argument with my much-loved son this morning – he was in his Ancient History class and I was attempting to work from home – I’m not sure why, but my mind kept wandering to French toast, cream, maple syrup and raspberries. Picture of french toast (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Because…
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How To House Train Your Teenagers
bringing my towel along (Photo credit: hufse) So the adjustment to apartment-living might have been a little more painful than I envisaged, although it’s not necessarily the reduced square metreage that is affecting my usually joyful disposition, but having teenagers 24/7 in my face. My timing has never been great. NC is still on uni…
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