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 […]
Tag: toddlers
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 […]
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 […]
Guest Post: Single Parent Stigma & Why It Shouldn’t Exist
Thanks so much to Jude Peppis-Clay (@gluingcheese) for this guest post on single parent stigma, and why we need to turn this negative stereotype on its head… When I decided to leave my husband in 2017, one thing was on my mind. I would become a single parent. We cobbled […]
The Single Mother Project: SMILF
In The Single Mother Project I am trying to get to the bottom of the negative connotations associated with single parents, by analysing (ish) films, TV shows and books that feature single parents. The good, the bad, and the ugly will all be discussed. SMILF (2017) I started this Single Mother Project […]
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, […]
How to be a Mindful Mother, (Without Making Everyone Want to Vomit)
Big news folks, I’ve converted to ‘carenting’. I know, I know, I’ve made up a (vaguely rude-sounding) word there. But I stand by it. Over the last few months I have made the shift from mildly-panicked, pessimistic, battle-ready war-mum to a (I’ll say this quickly and hope you don’t immediately […]
How to Stop Your Toddler Having a Tantrum
A choose your own adventure guide to dealing with the terrible twos… Trying to find ways to stop your toddler having a tantrum? Not to be unfeeling, but, HAHA. Good luck. I recently ordered a few books on the toddler years as I realised I hadn’t read anything since I […]
#KitchenKaraoke: Rolling in the Deep (& a Love Letter to Adele)
Our latest Kitchen Karaoke is one of our all-time favourites and a sure-fire pick me up; Adele’s Rolling in the Deep. And I just want to say this… Thank you Adele for providing a song for every occasion; this song is guaranteed to make my boy dance and giggle no […]
7 Things in my H&M Kids Shopping Basket
To buy or not to buy? The Mother Edit shops the best of the high street, so you don’t have to… The best kidswear clothes in H&M right now… 2-pack T-shirts, £9.99 These natty Jungle Book prints are fierce and fun. Bomber jacket, £17.99 I can just imagine Jack bombing […]