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Why we need to talk about the mother guilt load

May 18, 2022 By Tracey Leave a Comment

There is a universal law that exists that states that the end of a school term pretty much sucks. The level of suckiness depends on whether it is term one or term four, but overall, the week leading up to school holidays is long and exhausting and, in my case, rarely my finest work. At…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: guilt, motherhood, mum guilt, working mothers, working parents

My seven year old called me an idiot and I feel like I’m failing as a parent

February 16, 2021 By Tracey 1 Comment

Last week my sweet, kind, spirited and funny little boy called me an idiot. And I felt my heart crack. As he has grown from toddlerhood to boyhood we’ve had our standard supply of tantrums and meltdowns.  Typical and normal, a manifestation of big emotions, tiredness, hanger and expected patterns of behaviour for his age…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: childhood, motherhood, parenting, raising boys, seven year old boys

A friendship manifesto (the revised edition)

February 19, 2020 By Tracey Leave a Comment

Quite a few years ago I wrote a friendship manifesto.  I had been thinking of friendships a bit at the time and had just gone to my 30 year school reunion and so I was reflecting on life long friendships and those that I had that were more recent and those that had evolved. Today…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood, Uncategorized Tagged With: friendship, friendship manifesto, school mums

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The milestones keep coming, telling me to slow down.

February 1, 2019 By Tracey Leave a Comment

There was never any doubt that today would result in tears.  Mine were a certainty, Charlie’s less so and MM kept it cool. Proud but cool.  I justified my tears by telling Charlie that they were happy tears, because it was an exciting day and a special time.  We are trying to teach him that all…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: first day of school, joy, lessons, life, love, milestones, motherhood, school, time

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I was emotionally derailed by a Kindy concert

December 11, 2018 By Tracey Leave a Comment

I am watching Charlie  doing the moves to “Santa wear your shorts” it is the night of his Kindy concert, I’m smiling and laughing and then suddenly I am holding back tears I didn’t even realise I was holding on to. I hold my breath and suddenly I am remembering when he was a newborn, a time when advice, solicited…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: end of year, joy, Kindergarten, lessons, life, love, motherhood, parenting, prep

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Don’t tell me “boys will be boys”

July 3, 2018 By Tracey 4 Comments

I have been back and forth trying to decide to write this post or not because I’m not sure if I’m looking for advice or trying to give it and trust me, I am not the parent who should be dishing out parenting advice.  Right now my son should be sleeping but instead he is playing in…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Motherhood Tagged With: boyhood, boys, bullying, mean kids, motherhood, park, play, raising boys, Wonder the Movie

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