Headed to Camp Bestival with the kids and not sure what to pack? As a seasoned single mum festival-goer, I’ve survived many summer festivals on my own with Jack, in all sorts of weather. Here’s what to take to a festival with kids. Going To A Festival As A Single […]
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Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato With Avocado Salad
If you, like me, run out of dinner ideas pretty quickly in days and weeks filled with working and mumming, you’ll always be on the lookout for a quick and healthy dinner recipe. This baked sweet potato with avocado salad one from The Detox Kitchen is a real winner. Easy-peasy […]
Dear Single Mums, In Case You Need to Read This Right Now
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a pretty shit day. I know, without a shadow of a doubt, a lot of you will have had a worse one. These are strange and unprecedented times. Dark, scary and unsettling times. As a single mum, the thought of further isolation […]
CBeebies is my Co-Parent: Don’t Break Up Our Family
It’s the top trump card for BBC chairman Sir David Clementi. His ‘OK kids, if this behaviour doesn’t stop, I’m cancelling Christmas’. Every time the license fee is under threat or the BBC is rattled, we’re reminded that it could mean the end for CBeebies. Forget BBC One, sod the […]
Free (& Very Cheap) Summer Holidays Activities for Families
Free (& very cheap) summer holidays activities for kids & families National Play Days From street parties to group woodland explorations, National Play Days happen on Wednesday 7 August, with a host of free family activities to join in with across the country. Check out www.playday.org.uk for your nearest event […]
A Single Mum’s Guide to (Not) Dating
‘How do you date as a single mum?’ This is a question I not only get asked quite a lot, but also hear being discussed in online-single-mum-world. (Side note, online-single-mum-world deserves a much less tragic moniker because it’s actually a great place to hang out.) I’ve been listening to Alright […]
Surviving the School Holidays as a Single Parent
Today I received an email titled: ‘Single parents buckle under half-term pressure’. Something negative happening to single parents, you say? Shocking. The Equifax release detailed how the financial strain on single parent households is exacerbated during the school holidays with 1 in 5 single parents reportedly calling in sick to […]
Q: Can a Woman ‘Have it All?’
A: Some of them don’t have a choice. Earlier this week I went on Eddie Nestor’s BBC Radio London call-in show to talk about ‘supermums’ and whether women were under too much pressure to ‘have it all’. The image of a ‘supermum’ who has a successful career, a marriage, and […]
The Single Mother Project
When you hear the phrase ‘single mother’, what do you think of? (I’m not making you say it out loud, you over-sensitive lefty, you can be honest.) It’s not good, is it? Despite the fact that 25% of all families in the UK are single parent families (yes, that’s 1 […]
At What Point do we Stop Calling it a ‘Sleep Regression’?
Some kids just don’t like going to bed. Jack is now two and a bit. And in those two short years, I’ve done ‘sleep training’ of some kind with him on eight separate occasions. That’s roughly every three months, except that I didn’t do it until he was 10 months, […]