by Guest | Sep 25, 2018 | Parenting, Points Of View
As I walked down the road with my teenage daughter and 15-month-old son in his buggy, we were met with several graphic images. Mistreated animals, women in lingerie in provocative poses, ads for quick loans, gambling promotions, products claiming to give you ‘ideal’...
by Guest | Sep 10, 2018 | Parenting, Points Of View
I have three siblings. The Photographer (that’s what I call my husband) also has three siblings. So, why should my daughters not have three siblings? Surely that’s their birthright, right? Actually, wrong. I can already hear the “but, why?” chorus. Well, basically...
by Guest | Aug 23, 2018 | Mental Health, Parenting, Points Of View
If you know us, you probably didn’t even realise that there was an issue. There have been numerous things that haven’t added up over the years, delayed speech, terrible tantrums, obsessive behaviour and so much more. But the real problems were family...
by Guest | Aug 17, 2018 | Parenting, Points Of View
Exactly 365 days ago, my husband, our nearly two-year-old toddler and I handed over the keys to the place we had called home to go our separate ways. It had been a long time coming – our marriage had actually ended a few months earlier following a decade...
by Guest | Jul 25, 2018 | Parenting, Points Of View
Like many mothers, I had a positive pregnancy test and smiled ear to ear. I was happy, excited, the whole shebang. I announced it to my (then) fiancé by taking him to the Ice Bar London on New Year’s Eve and presenting him with a box at midnight containing the test, a...
by Guest | May 22, 2018 | Parenting, Points Of View
A couple of days ago, I got the worst text message I have ever received. “Hi mate, the baby has died.” I reread the message three or four times to try and make sense of it and to be sure that it wasn’t some sort of hideous autocorrect fail. It wasn’t. My best friend’s...
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