Tag: Columns
My Stomach & Me: Marks of a multiple mum
This week, Emily waxes lyrical about the ravages of two pregnancies on her stomach with hilarious honesty… Yet another celebrity mum is snapped stretching out on a beach in a skimpy bikini, three months after having a baby. I groan and push the offending magazine back into the rack, slinking out of the newsagent in [...]
Er, Can I get an adverb around here?
This week, Mothership, our Brit mum based in the US highlights the grammar divide… I am on a mission. I have accepted by now that my children are not the same nationality as me and are more likely to play soccer than football, eat fries than chips, and hit the surf than go to the [...]
Legacy of a Lifetime: If we’re not here, who do we want to take the kids?
This week Emily ponders the suitability of prospective guardians for her three children and comes up blank… My husband and I recently adopted the survival strategy historically favoured by the Royal Family; travel separately, never sit in the same railway carriage, take two cars on long journeys… Have we been arguing? Have we a surplus [...]
Playdate, American Style – The complicated world of social success for preschoolers
We have another new columnist, ‘Mothership’ who is our Brit mum based in the USA raising ‘foreign’ kids, and this week she takes us through the agony and the surprise of the ‘playdate’… ‘Four’ recently invited a friend over for a playdate. The other child was going to spend a weekday afternoon with us and [...]
Botany & Biology: Garden Centre Heaven with Twins Question Hell
In another column from our new contributor Emily Carlisle, we journey through an inane trip to her garden centre. My children and I spend an inordinate amount of time at garden centres. If you were to follow our weekly round-up of nurseries you would be forgiven for labelling me an aficionado of horticulture, when in [...]
Poo-Nami: Why my kids can’t be left alone for five minutes
Generally speaking, the children all sleep for a solid twelve hour night, but sometimes one of them will wake. Occasionally two of them will stir. From time to time all three will summon my attendance. How I live for those nights; to be afforded an audience with the smallest members of the household, to break [...]
