Category: Motherhood
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Sometimes It Feels Good To Coast
For those of you who read my posts for my input on ADHD, I discovered the most fantastic read on ADDitude magazine last weekend by Frank South, aka ADHD Dad. It just so happens his post was about his twenty-three year old son, who sounds suspiciously like he is carving a similarly dodgy career to…
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The 8 Best Mother’s Day Gifts
As the excitement builds up in the commercial world for Mother’s Day, the suspense of how well my progeny will repay me for another year of self-sacrifice and doormat behaviour is almost killing me. Actually…not so much. Because the thing about Mother’s Day, if you have normal kids, is there’s only the tiniest glimmer of…
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The True Meaning of Charlotte: We Can Get Back To Our Lives Now
Princess 1 Taken by Chrissy and found on http://www.flickr.com Forgive my withering cynicism, for believe it or not, I am as clucky as the next person at the sight and smell of a cute newborn, but do we really have to dissect the origins of the name Charlotte from every historical angle for the next…
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A Mother’s Pride
Too many faces of grief-stricken mothers have haunted us in the media this week. It’s hard to remember another time when we’ve borne witness to such rawness of despair from so many mothers in the face of tragedy, as vividly as we have this week. We’ve watched the pain of loss etched visibly on the…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 