My intuition told me that I was having a girl. I was so sure of it. Truth be told, I wasn’t really in touch with my intuition 22 years ago. I was wrong about the sex of my child, and I got a jolt of shock when my friend Wendy…

How many homeschoolers HAVEN’T been asked “But what about socialisation?” by extended family, friends or random strangers? Zero. Exactly none. We’ve ALL been grilled on this topic. Which makes some of us a bit jumpy and defensive. Hence the repetition of this question: “Will my children get enough socialisation if…

How speaking respectfully to my children changed my life. I learned through harsh experience that some of the things my parents said to me were toxic. They left scars. I thought that I would never speak that way to my own two sons, but the words leaked out anyway. When…

How to cook for your kids for years without resentment or burnout. — I’ve cooked for my family almost every day for the last 21 years. My husband doesn’t like cooking and isn’t interested in it. My two sons were never interested in cooking either. It wasn’t something they were drawn towards. We had some fun times cooking a few batches of biscuits and pancakes when they were young, but they never wanted to explore further.

When you’re raising a child, society expects you to take on a certain role as a parent. I found many of the expectations and responsibilities that came with being a conventional “good mother” extremely stressful. Especially since my eldest child just wouldn’t cooperate with the role of “good boy.” He…

I used it as an opportunity to unlearn the power of words. — “You f**king b!tch.” These were the words I heard multiple times a day from one of my dear sons. I can laugh about it now. I wasn’t laughing at the start. When these words first started coming from his lips I was challenged. Very challenged. I got upset. …

When we fight with them in the toy store, we don’t stop to think what we’re really teaching our children — Money is a big, scary topic for so many of us. It can be confronting to notice our beliefs around money and resources (and the lack thereof) and how we are passing these on to the next generation. At a certain point when my two sons were young I became…

Are you sitting on the fence, not knowing which way to go in your parenting journey? Maybe you’ve been doing all the “attachment parenting” things with your young child, but it’s all become much harder now that they’ve grown a will of their own and are asserting it? …

It’s the evening of Mother’s Day, I’ve got two grown sons and neither of them have spoken to me today. My eldest son who is 21 lives in a nearby city and my youngest, now 17 still lives at home, although mostly in his bedroom. It’s clear that they either…