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Mixed signals we are sending our kids

Mixed Signals We Are Sending Our Kids | HarassedMom

Yesterday we went for a fun walk, it was just over 5km and pretty adventurous, considering we had Emma with us. The rain at the beginning of the week meant there was a lot of mud and a few nerve-wracking moments crossing rivers and mud puddles. After the walk we went for lunch and coffee, […]

Why you need to consider becoming a foster family.

Why you need to become a foster family | HarassedMom

How many of you know about the foster care system in South Africa? I will admit until very recently I knew nothing. I knew what fostering meant but I knew very little about the system and what happens behind the scene. I also had absolutely no idea just how great the need is for Foster […]

I am leaning in

Leaning In | HarassedMom

I have just finished listening to Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. I have avoided reading it because I thought it was more of a memoir but I am sorry now I didn’t add it to my list earlier. I found it fascinating, insightful and inspirational. When people have money their perceptions are often through money […]

Reasons My Kids Have Thrown Tantrums

Maz, from Caffeine and Fairydust recently did a bit of a makeover on her blog and I was over there checking it out (go look, it’s so pretty) and stumbled across this post about 60 reasons my toddler had a bad day. It got me thinking about all the irrational things my kids have thrown […]

ZOOM IN: Morning vibes

Our afternoons are as chaotic as our mornings are smooth, calm (mostly) and organised. We had to be a little bit more organised in the mornings because Cameron’s bus leaves at 6h30 and if he misses the bus then its a LOOOOOOONG drive to his school in some revolting traffic. I have done it once […]

Zoom In: What do our afternoons look like?

One of the questions I get asked a lot – like daily, is “how do you do it?”. I generally smile and shrug but I thought it might be fun to share with you guys what it really looks like to do what I do. It might be fun to look back at it one […]

Star Chart Success But Now What?

As a parent, I have had a bit of a love/hate relationship with star charts, they have worked and then they haven’t and some kids respond but others have removed stars and handed them back to me so that they can misbehave. About a month ago Jack just refused to get ready for school. We […]

How to survive Grade 4

I have said this before but I feel quite strongly about it so I will say it again. No one really prepares you for what happens after you kid is potty trained, sleeping through, can wipe their own bum and eat on their own. The literature kinda all just stops there! My reasoning is that […]

Who has been stealing MY bandwidth

Who has been stealing my bandwidth | HarassedMom

In our home we have 2 laptops, 4 phones, 3 tablets and an xbox that we use to watch Netflix through. This means that potentially at any one time 10 devices can (and often are) be linked to the wifi downloading/using precious bandwidth. During the school term this isn’t really an issue but during the […]

Perfection is in the chaos!

Have you ever wondered who decided what the perfect family would look like? Was it actually a mother? Or a father? Or an ad agency? Where did it start? It seems to me it is actually a pretty new desire we have, to want to be the perfect parents and have everyone know how perfect […]