#confessionsofaparentingexpert

I’ve let things slip. Without a doubt, I haven’t been living according to my mothering values. I think my Mother Manifesto must be hiding under a pile of work because it would seem I have forgotten what’s important to me. Yes. I can’t remember the last time I consistently (as in, most nights) went to
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Confessions of a Parenting Expert

#confessionsofaparentingexpert #overscheduledmother I have a confession. I’m an overscheduled mother! This week on Channel 9’s Perth Live, I was asked to chat about overscheduled children’. Now this is quite a controversial area where there are many divergent opinions. So, I ask you to just, you know, be kind. Firstly, there ARE many benefits to getting
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A really really hard day …

I have a confession and this is probably the hardest, most exposing one that I’ve written so far. I’m so nervous to be putting this out there. Not because it demonstrates my most awful parenting but because I’m about to talk about an issue that is SO hard for me to talk about. This ‘issue’
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#confessions about my #confessionsofaparentingexpert

Someone messaged me the other day saying that she enjoyed reading my #confessions but that she felt bad because clearly she stuffed up way more than I did. Somehow she’d concluded that the frequency with which I’d written my blog matched the frequency of my stuff ups. Oh my goodness beautiful mama. How wrong you
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Confessions of a parenting expert

‪#‎confessionsofaparentingexpert So I had a flash of inspiration after I saw a client today. Now this beautiful lady who is a wonderful mother, doubts that she’s a wonderful mother ALL. THE. TIME. I care for her deeply but sometimes I want to smack (figuratively) some sense into her so that she realises SHE’S AMAZING. Anyway,
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