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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

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We capture the firsts, but what about the lasts?

November 24, 2020 By Tracey 2 Comments

Anchored in what felt the baby and toddler time warp,  I would think ahead to the future, because you know, ‘this to shall pass’ is the obligatory mother manta, and I would wonder what it would be like when there would be no more anxiety around sleeping, napping and wake times. No more smooshed sultanas…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: milestones, motherhood, parenting, parenting milestones, raising boys, this too shall pass

Lounge pants and other good things we need right now

April 17, 2020 By Tracey Leave a Comment

I wish I could be the type of person who had something truly profound to say. To be knowledgeable enough to speak with insight and wise enough to speak with reason. Amidst an ocean of content, information, graphs and curves there is already so much being said and much of it is not something I…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: Bluey, covid 19, family, frontline workers, good news, nurses, pandemic, parenting, quarantine, teachers, working from home

Consent and the six year old

August 29, 2019 By Tracey 2 Comments

It was Charlie’s birthday party, there were 20 something mini Ninjas in our backyard. Loud and free they are screaming, jumping and laughing. So much wild laughter and the sound is like balm to the soul. Children’s laughter is pure joy and comes as a gentle reminder that innocence is not always lost. There were tears…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings, Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: consent, lessons, life, motherhood, parenting, Social Media

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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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Raising a feminist son when the T shirt says “The future is female”

April 15, 2018 By Tracey 8 Comments

Last week Charlie and I were walking along Southbank when I saw three women pushing strollers walking towards us.  Three mums, three strollers and three little girls. One of the mothers was wearing a T shirt that said “The Future is Female”. They were talking animatedly and laughing at one another and they looked the…

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Filed Under: Daily Musings Tagged With: equality, feminism, feminist, motherhood, parenting

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